Yet another battery life post...

[Fokkerdmr]

Using standard battery - at 30% remaining after 6 hours. Using extended battery - down to 5% after 9 hours. The big user is TouchDown (25%) but it's not on push mode, and only sync's every 15 minutes. Sure seems like battery life is pretty poor - considering normal use is periodic throughout the day, and no streaming, or no continuous GPS/Maps, etc... I did just buy a factory new extended battery, and swap that out with the other batteries when it dies. I'm on JB. Is my battery life consistent with others? This seems worse than before - with extended battery, it's been as good as 16 hours with equivalent use. I'm about to bail on the phone for another one... It just seems like carrying around 3-4 batteries with me to get a day's usage is counter productive...

 

[vdubnut]

I don't know what touchdown is, but I can get through the work day on the stock battery... Nothing special, just JB. I keep the screen off when I'm not using it, ie I don't let it time out.

 

[aaf709]

I don't know what touchdown is... I keep the screen off when I'm not using it, ie I don't let it time out.

It's an email app. I use MailDroid myself. I also have Screebl, which turns off the screen when it's laid down.

The extended battery can last me a day, but depends on where I am. If it's a good 4G area, it lasts longer than when I'm home (I live in a valley) as the phone uses more power when it tries to get a good connection.

 

[hAHAha Halo]

Stock battery that came with the phone, and I use battery doctor to give me 1% increments that are true battery levels instead of guesses like other apps. But what I notice is that my phone will jump around with the battery. When it's charging, it'll stay for 30 minutes at 60%, then jump to fully charged. Same with discharging, from 70 to 50, 50 to 30, 30 to 15.

 

[hAHAha Halo]

Hopefully the pictures show up but these screenshots were taken seconds apart from each other. Went from 60 to 100.

 

[mattjenn]

I have same problem but only with charging

 

[jhom]

I turn off data when I'm using wifi. It saves a significant amount of battery use.

 

[DB_Tae]

i turn off data when i'm using wifi. It saves a significant amount of battery use.

......you don't say.

 

[hAHAha Halo]

I also find this funny.. It's been running at 1% for the past 2 hours

 

[deduct]

You need to calibrate your battery halo.

 

[ScottyDsntKnow]

I get great life on the extended battery and stock rooted JB. Got the extended battery in november, I can get over a day out of it on Wifi with all my stuff updating like normal.