Guest tgomas Posted September 27, 2010 Report Posted September 27, 2010 What are people finding the battery life like, I intend to swap my pulse for a san fran now the unlock codes have been found. How does the battery life compare? Can one listen to music for 2hours, browse a few websites and other mild phone activities (yay 3.5mm jack) within one charge?
Guest toge64 Posted September 28, 2010 Report Posted September 28, 2010 It is pretty bad, as long as you turn down the brightness and the optional settings like Wi-Fi I'm sure it'll cope with what you're looking for. Defo won't last 24 hours though!
Guest AndyCr15 Posted September 28, 2010 Report Posted September 28, 2010 Okay, but lets put it in context. 24+ hours is great 20-24 is pretty good 16-20 is expected 12-16 is not good 8-12 is terrible I guess it will take a week or so for enough battery cycles to give a decent show of what it can really do.
Guest Paul Posted September 28, 2010 Report Posted September 28, 2010 Not to mention, your usage in the first week or so is probably pretty extreme. :lol: P
Guest chris9181 Posted September 28, 2010 Report Posted September 28, 2010 What are people finding the battery life like, I intend to swap my pulse for a san fran now the unlock codes have been found. How does the battery life compare? Can one listen to music for 2hours, browse a few websites and other mild phone activities (yay 3.5mm jack) within one charge? I see the SF has a smaller capacity battery than the Pulse so the SF has to be worse performance right?
Guest robot1000 Posted September 28, 2010 Report Posted September 28, 2010 I see the SF has a smaller capacity battery than the Pulse so the SF has to be worse performance right? nope Depends on the hardware and software
Guest clivec Posted September 28, 2010 Report Posted September 28, 2010 Well, I've had mine for just under a week now, I think It's fairly typical. I've had a desire, legend, x10, x10 mini and a Motorola milestone to compare against. None of which would last a day with heavy use, but with moderate use would last the day out. I think the san fran is about the same, so I'm not disappointed at all. I tend to go for max usefulness and zero battery saving, I.e. screen on auto, WiFi permanently on, push email always connected etc.
Guest No Expert Posted October 28, 2010 Report Posted October 28, 2010 All, can you please help in case I'm going mad here? Firstly, great phone absolutely no question about it, apart from the battery life. I'm losing c. 30% of battery life overnight with the phone: (1) Task Killer kills everything on screen off (2) No Live wallpapers (3) 3g off (4) Wifi off (5) Dark background on the homescreen. Is this normal? Then in the morning after some light use, the phone loses c. 1% every 3mins or so... I'd really appreciate your view as at the moment I can't even use it as a phone...
Guest xeyaztian Posted October 28, 2010 Report Posted October 28, 2010 I've had mine for nearly a month (or more around that) and I've found that the battery life can last a day for me, even with quite a lot of use. Ive removed the Orange Apps and any apps I don't use and that seems to make battery last longer. No it wont last you for days without a charge, but you will be able to listen to music, use Gowalla/Foursquare, check the internet, send some texts easily for 2 hours and not need a charge!
Guest xeyaztian Posted October 28, 2010 Report Posted October 28, 2010 All, can you please help in case I'm going mad here? Firstly, great phone absolutely no question about it, apart from the battery life. I'm losing c. 30% of battery life overnight with the phone: (1) Task Killer kills everything on screen off (2) No Live wallpapers (3) 3g off (4) Wifi off (5) Dark background on the homescreen. Is this normal? Then in the morning after some light use, the phone loses c. 1% every 3mins or so... I'd really appreciate your view as at the moment I can't even use it as a phone... i would, factory reset your phone, remove apps you don't use (including inbuilt ones), turn down screen brightness if you can, use a task killer and then give it a full charge. Then see if this continues??
Guest goatee Posted October 28, 2010 Report Posted October 28, 2010 (edited) That's not normal. Since I've only just got my phone, I wanted to make sure I ran it down fully before recharging. I left it on overnight with wi-fi, data, and bluetooth on, and it went down from 24% down to 14%. It syncs GMail, Exchange mail & contacts, and twitter. All, can you please help in case I'm going mad here? Firstly, great phone absolutely no question about it, apart from the battery life. I'm losing c. 30% of battery life overnight with the phone: <snip /> I'd really appreciate your view as at the moment I can't even use it as a phone... Edited October 28, 2010 by goatee
Guest Stuart_f Posted October 30, 2010 Report Posted October 30, 2010 Just so we get some perspective on the people who claim terrible battery life - I've just had mine on for 3d 1h 22m 37s and it's still got 9% battery left. Total use is: Android system 45% Cell standby 34% Phone idle 21% Bluetooth 2% And before anyone says that's because I don't use it I've downloaded 45Mb of email, had the bluetooth on when I'm in the car (about 8 hours worth) made several phonecalls. I have not had the GPS or wifi on at all. I put the longer life down to reducing the amount of overhead that the Android system is taking up (I see other people with the Andriod system using up 90%+ of the battery). I've uninstalled everything I don't need, before I did that I was lucky to get just over a day. The principal culprit was the Orange email app I think. I'm now using stock gmail.
Guest deweylewie Posted October 31, 2010 Report Posted October 31, 2010 Just so we get some perspective on the people who claim terrible battery life - I've just had mine on for 3d 1h 22m 37s and it's still got 9% battery left. Total use is: Android system 45% Cell standby 34% Phone idle 21% Bluetooth 2% Which app are you using to measure that?
Guest Cobble Posted October 31, 2010 Report Posted October 31, 2010 Which app are you using to measure that? Probably Spare Parts.
Guest thomas01155 Posted October 31, 2010 Report Posted October 31, 2010 I find GPS eats the battery a lot. Wifi and 3G seem OK though. I barely lose any charge if its on standby all day.
Guest Samlock Posted October 31, 2010 Report Posted October 31, 2010 I don't understand how so many people are having poor battery life issues, my battery can last me 2-3 days at times...
Guest seekr Posted October 31, 2010 Report Posted October 31, 2010 I haven't seen people mentioning an important battery killing factor: long comutes in low signal areas. I do this on daily basis, 1h15min commute along a spoty 3G signal area. I noticed that disabling 3G during the commute extends battery life specially if I'm browsing.
Guest blauwal26 Posted October 31, 2010 Report Posted October 31, 2010 GPS drains it VERY quickly, heavy Wifi use isn't a great idea either, but I get well through a day, and on 2g with constant push mail and facebook in the background it lasts quite a good time, can't really complain. And thanks to micro usb you could always steal some juice off your computer at work
Guest Stuart_f Posted October 31, 2010 Report Posted October 31, 2010 Probably Spare Parts. Nope, just looking in settings, about phone, battery use
Guest Hedja Posted October 31, 2010 Report Posted October 31, 2010 I've managed to last 2 days without charging and it's still on around 25%. I haven't used any custom ROMs so it's still got all the Orange crap. It's probably because I'm using my regular phone to make calls and whenever I'm done using it, I switch off the WiFi, kill all the tasks and lock it :)
Guest Refi Posted October 31, 2010 Report Posted October 31, 2010 (edited) Mine lasts about a day, however I religiously spend my days on youtube, so maybe that's why. :) Edited October 31, 2010 by Refi
Guest revs Posted October 31, 2010 Report Posted October 31, 2010 I'm monitoring mine at the moment, on standby it's fine but soon as I start using the touchscreen for about 5-10 minutes its drops by 20%. Also under about phone, battery use it's showing: Android System 98% Cell Standby 2% Is that a good sign or is not even accurate?
Guest Seagull81 Posted October 31, 2010 Report Posted October 31, 2010 I have a HTC Desire and 'used' to have a Task Killer installed, I uninstalled it after reading the following. http://www.droid-den.com/android-guides/an...e-a-task-killer http://androidforums.com/htc-desire/161151...ask-killer.html
Guest booster22 Posted October 31, 2010 Report Posted October 31, 2010 I have a HTC Desire and 'used' to have a Task Killer installed, I uninstalled it after reading the following. http://www.droid-den.com/android-guides/an...e-a-task-killer http://androidforums.com/htc-desire/161151...ask-killer.html Good apps are fine without task killers. but theres a lot of bad coded apps running in the background useing battery, and not being used. the guides are under the assumption all your apps are written by programers with battery life as an important factor, when to many its not.
Guest Seagull81 Posted October 31, 2010 Report Posted October 31, 2010 Good apps are fine without task killers. but theres a lot of bad coded apps running in the background useing battery, and not being used. the guides are under the assumption all your apps are written by programers with battery life as an important factor, when to many its not. What bad coded apps in particular? Let us know which one's to avoid. :) My HTC runs just fine without a Task Killer app. By the way, a couple of apps that I find really useful and have helped me with battery life are:- Juicedefender NoBars (for when I don't have a phone network signal)
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