Bad battery life?

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Here's my snapshot after waking up this morning. I'm at 26% after just over 24 hours. I'm stoked!

Usage:

• an hour or so of Spotify,
• some Facebook (which I FC'ed after a few hours because I didn't like the drain),
• voice dictation and typing into GTalk,
• light e-mail and browsing,
• about 45 minutes of phone calls,
• installing/playing with Light Flow,
• updating my apps
• installing new apps via the market.android.com site
• about 30 minutes of Solitaire Megapack

Conditions:

• standard battery
• 4G on
• WiFi on (so it's not actually using the 4G, I imagine)
• BT off (nothing paired to it, don't need it at the moment)
• NFC off (that's paranoia - I want to know when I'm using it)

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[scdown]

@dustinslee, Can you try doing a Force Close on Facebook, and not using it for the rest of this charge cycle? I'm curious to see if that improves your situation.

 

[x25064]

Bad? More like abysmal. I'm on wifi right now and chewing 1% every minute. Literally. Thats WITH the extended battery. If they dont fix this by the 15th, then back this battery pig goes.

 

[dustinslee]

@dustinslee, Can you try doing a Force Close on Facebook, and not using it for the rest of this charge cycle? I'm curious to see if that improves your situation.

I deleted the app I will just use the browser the next cycle and see what happens

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[dustinslee]

Bad? More like abysmal. I'm on wifi right now and chewing 1% every minute. Literally. Thats WITH the extended battery. If they dont fix this by the 15th, then back this battery pig goes.

I agree and if it don't get better I am returning as well... kinda disappointed

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[dustinslee]

@dustinslee, Can you try doing a Force Close on Facebook, and not using it for the rest of this charge cycle? I'm curious to see if that improves your situation.

I actually deleted every app that was running after being swiped off the tasks see what happens

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[dezymond]

I had 100% before I went to bed. This thing has almost as bad battery life on standby as my Inc. Android os was using 43%....very odd
Also I received a mms, words with friends notification, Facebook notification, and an email. Other than that I had no apps open and even did a restart before unplugging it completely. 17% percent drop in almost 8hrs on idle..not too good. I have live wallpaper but that shouldn't matter since the screen is off, its phase beam.
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[rubiksc00p]

I had 100% before I went to bed. This thing has almost as bad battery life on standby as my Inc. Android os was using 43%....very odd

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Yes, I an really surprised with the os using that much. I guess that's good though, as soon as they get some more optimizations! oh, and I hope someone starts on a kernel soon...

I figured the screen would be the one eating battery even though it's led, but after seeing the lists, the screen isn't really a major problem at all.
You can fix an OS but you can't fix a screen!

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[Chatchie]

After a full day yesterday I got 12 hours of moderate use from off the charger to low battery shutdown. This morning I turned off 4G and Im seeing better life already and its holding data MUCH better on just 3G. With 4G on I got no data service about 6 times yesterday.

 

[scdown]

almost 1 day 5 hours, wifi home and office, 4g outside, normal, moderate use for me, and I'm at 2%:

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[SSHGuru]

5 Hours Moderate Use 38% remaining - not too great.

How do you take pics of your screens and post them?

 

[Liderc]

Hold the power button and the volume down button together for like 1-2 seconds.

 

[dezymond]

Yes, I an really surprised with the os using that much. I guess that's good though, as soon as they get some more optimizations! oh, and I hope someone starts on a kernel soon...

I figured the screen would be the one eating battery even though it's led, but after seeing the lists, the screen isn't really a major problem at all.
You can fix an OS but you can't fix a screen!

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Well this is of course expected as we are all guinea pigs for ICS right now, and loving it might I add. However, to see such a different in Android OS use compared to 2.3 is pretty surprising. Hopefully an update can fix our battery issues. This is my first 4g phone so me comparing it to the inc is a bit unfair, so for a 4g device I've heard this is definitely one of the better ones.

 

[Liderc]

Yeah I think because all I ever read is how bad these past 4G phones batteries are on the forums, so when I got nearly 10 hours yesterday of heavy usage, I was actually surprised.

 

[xxpigxx]

My battery life is decent. I just ordered the extended battery as a backup. Just in case.