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[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] supercluver:
Finally had to put my AT&T One X on the charger last night when I went to bed. Down to 2%. Started 35 hrs earlier at 95%, about 2 hrs listening to music over bluetooth (not streaming, locally stored music), 2.5 hrs total screen on time. Mostly on wifi, but some LTE (I'm in Houston, speeds are simply amazing, 30+ down and 10-20 up). Battery life, to me, is great and I'm now to the point that I'm contemplating selling my unlocked Galaxy Nexus simply because I don't see myself using it much anymore. Especially now that we have root and I'm hoping a method to unlock the bootloader soon....
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] vinuneuro:
I was under the impression auto brightness helps battery life.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] aimetti:
lol okay let me get something straight.

The new standard for testing real battery life is the following?

Be constantly in an LTE area

FULL BRIGHTNESS

syncing 4 email accounts.

Playing crysis on the phone for at minimum 1 hour.

and most definitey no wifi on.

This correct?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] msn0005:
Yes, I think we should all test constant WiFi and constant 4G separately.

And like someone else said this in the other forum, if you turn off SYNC. You don't need a smart phone. You need to start using something like a Nokia 2110 again.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] greyhulk:
I have the GSM version and it was much better on battery life. It was also more consistent with notifications and e-mail came in immediately.

With the power saver option on Wifi enabled, there seems to be a fairly significant delay on e-mail (smartsync is off) on this phone. Love the hardware and many of the Sense tweaks, but the battery life is not at all what I expected and it's the single thing that drives me to want to go back to my Nexus.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] supercluver:
Originally Posted by ArmanUV

Did anyone here had a galaxy nexus before they got their one xl? What are your battery impressions?

I too have the GSM galaxy nexus, have had it since December 10th. I'm really not finding the One X to be all that much worse on battery. I could go a more like 48 hrs on a charge on the nexus, maybe 60 even with very little screen time. But with similar screen time I'm only getting maybe 10-12 hrs less time off the charger (and I've only had a few battery cycles mind you) with the One X. And the LTE, camera, etc... with this phone to me is very much worth it.

I'm not seeing an issue with notification delays or email coming in slowly. Only wifi issue I see is that at night it shuts off after a period of time. Only ever does this at night. In fact it seems it is more than even just the wifi. It is like the whole phone is completely asleep. I get no notifications until I wake the phone up in the morning. This is of course if I am not charging it at night. Not a big deal, as I'm also asleep, and then the phone barely loses any charge the whole night. I kind of like it like that to be honest.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] fitchpuckman:
Here's one from a couple of days ago. Dont have the screen-on time from it, but if i recall i was around 2.5hrs. This is with constant full-LTE service and Wi-Fi not persistent (off when phone sleeps). I'd say moderate usage, but i think i was being a little battery conscious this day. Still, more than possible to get a day out of this puppy on AT&T's LTE...
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] daneren2005:
What is the starting voltage for you guys on a full charge? My phone started out at a voltage of only a little over 4 (like 4.02 or something) and I am down to 78% with 3 hours of battery time and 1 hour of on screen time. This so far is significantly worse than what I was getting with my Atrix, and I was expecting way better battery life...
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Hunt3r.j2:
Sounds like it's not actually fully charged. Try using the phone until it shuts off, then boot to bootloader until it shuts off in that mode, then do a full charge to at least 4.2v.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] daneren2005:
Yah alright I was figuring it was just a problem of not fully charging. It sucks that I'm going out camping for 2 nights without any way to charge my phone so I'm going to not have a phone for 99% of my trip :(
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] fitchpuckman:
Agreed. In my initial purchase excitement, i smoked through the 70% of battery it came initially charged with in about 5 hours. On it's first full charge, the next day, I only got about 8-9 hours though I was using it pretty intensively customizing and tweaking settings/ringers/screens/etc. But since then i've let it fully drain and charge a couple of times and I have no problem getting a full 22-28hrs out of a charge.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] johnl199:
still don't understand how some of you are getting over 4 hours screen time. I'm at 2 hours, 35 minutes with 25% left, and nothing syncing. Auto brightness. No 4g LTE.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] McCadi:
Same with me, bro. They must be witches.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] aimetti:
after I rooted and removed bloatwarw and start ups was much better
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] droidiac13:
Stupid question alert! How do you find the start ups? I've gotten rid of my bloat, but...
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] droidiac13:
Have you tried without auto brightness? I never use that. I know it's suppose to save battery, but in my experience it only ate up battery.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] lunercrab:
Yeah my battery stinks IMO. I'm at 19% in 9 hrs and 18 mins. Only 2.5 hours screen time. I cycled this battery three times. Thinking I may have to return it :(
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Artood2s:
5th day with the phone. Kept brightness around 15-30% with short stints in auto when I was outside. 1st stint was with wifi, then airplane mode at night, and finished it off with mobile data in the morning.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] vinuneuro:
Today's use was isolating LTE power consumption. At 10% left:

-No wifi was used.

-LTE on through the whole test.

-Almost exactly 13hrs in from 100%.

-Almost exactly 3.5hrs screen-on w/ auto-brightness.

-Most of screen-on time spent using LTE actively.

I think this is pretty decent given the unrealistic use of no wifi at all.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] x3phyr:
If you want to make sure you're charging all the way to 4.2v, search and download "Battery Right Now", very basic app to give you all of that info.

I get 12-15 hours usually, and I'm absolutely content with that even though it's not as good as some other peoples. Never more than 3 hours screen time though, honestly.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] louis.b:
Too bad "Decent" is not good enough for some people...
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] aimetti:
Cool app called ROM toolbox , quite a few good things in it.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] droidiac13:
I'd take that in a heartbeat! Especially with LTE.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] King Shady:
Think I have another defective HTC One X. First one had touch key light problems... now this one has severe battery issues. Phone was at 44% and then dropped to 13 percent within 2 minutes, as I heard the low battery warning. Within 10 seconds it then dropped to 2 percent, and as I opened the lockscreen it shut off. WTF . This is my 3rd day with the phone. All I've heard was good about the battery but not in my case. I was on LTE from 7 AM to about 1 PM, and then connected to wifi at home. I only have 42 minutes of screen time with the screen brightness at 30%. Should I be concerned or is this going to get better over a couple more days. So far this is unacceptable compared to my GSII. I'll post a screenshot once the phone gets enough juice to turn on.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ECEXCURSION:
No WiFi, but I've had mobile enabled all day. No LTE in the area. None of my apps are removed and everything is stock.Screen brightness on auto. Played a game for a little while too. Not sure why facebook was used so much. Might have to uninstall it.

Sent from my HTC One X
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ws2112:
I couldn't capture my usage because the phone turned itself off due to low battery. But mine lasted around 1 day and 13 hours with around 3 and a half hours of screen time, 2 hours of web surfing, around 40 mins of facebook. Wifi and HSPA+. This is after I disabled the bloatwares, before I could only get a round a day of usage. Really impressed with this phone :D
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] McCadi:
So, from what I'm gathering here, auto brightness is the most efficient?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ECEXCURSION:
I'd say no, setting it to something permanently low is probably better, but I have OCD and couldn't pick a good brightness level so I set it on auto. xD

Sent from my HTC One X
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] McCadi:
Haha ok I've been using that too. I think whenever I disable bloatware, the battery life actually gets worse. Or maybe it's just something I ate, I dunno.

:p
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Hunt3r.j2:
That sounds really quite broken. Try draining the battery completely (well, not enough to make the battery unable to charge, but just to set the minimum voltage of the fuel gauge properly, then do a full charge to 4.2v or more.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] tom_m:
Try a factory reset too if you're having weird issues like that. It should be great stock. Then root and remove bloat with titanium backup or don't root and just disable.

I'm at over an hour screen time, played flick golf a bit. WiFi. read some news. Auto brightness. And have been on battery all day 14hrs and still have 56% left.

The phone can last a good while. After tweaks its REALLY good.

Also, if you want even more, disabled auto sync.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] fobfusion:
Got the phone 1 week ago..went through at least 7 charge cycles and I have been experiencing poor battery life during use on my one xl (Hong kong ). Standby drain is very low 1% per 2 hours on LTE. The last 20% seem to get used very quickly.

Right off full charge I browse (30 mins), play with sense launcher (5 mins) and do several speed tests...I lost 20% already. 3 bars forced LTE only no WiFi.

My phone is rooted and bootloader unlocked using htcdev (started at factory fresh settings).

Disabled some system apps and bloat (google backup transport,qxdm2sd,Twitter,google+...)to free up ram (only 150mb free).

Auto sync for gmail, calendar and contacts only and using weather wall paper (disabled sync).

Tested battery using 3424 code only lose 1% per 9 minutes. Is the battery defective or what is causing this poor actual usage battery life.. based on the above stats I can barely get 2.5 hours of screen on time (browsing,reading and messaging). Should I return this unit?

Thanks for the help guys.

Update: other users of One XL are experiencing fast drainage when using, good standby times. Watching youtube for 45 mins on LTE uses up 1/3 of battery. This seems to be due to different software than the North America version.

Sent from my HTC One XL
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Reamer09:
I will be quite pleased with the battery life of this phone if it keeps this up!! I just got the phone yesterday and this was on the first full charge. Yes I'm using WiFi, but when it is almost everywhere I go, I don't see why not, and where I live it is literally less than a mile from LTE service, that part is frustrating.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] McCadi:
What was your brightness at?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Reamer09:
Not sure about the actual percent, but it is just a little above the lowest setting.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] McCadi:
Oh ok. I'm gonna try that for today and post my results tonight! 2/10 brightness, non rooted stock and disabled bloatware.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] angelofmusic:
Is this normal?

I am getting constantly about 11 hours and 30 minutes. My usage has been moderate...though I am usually a heavy user, I know this battery could not withstand my heavy use!

So moderate (for me) has been having

1 email constantly syncing

Several pictures and a few videos since I am a camera freak

No Games

Maybe an hour of web browsing...thats maybe, sometimes less

Full LTE area getting between 10-15 MBPS down

Screen set to near lowest brightness

Onscreen time 1:30-2 hours (60% of usage)

I'm clocking all of this at 9%

A few text messages here and there

My Galaxy Note gets a full 15 hours easily with the same use. OR MORE.

I have been almost nervous to use my phone. I thought that I would be getting better times than this.

I have cycled 5 times already
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] McCadi:
Hmm perhaps it's the LTE? I was getting similar results but on hspa 4g. A factory reset fixed it for me. If you're desperate enough, you might wanna try that! ;)

I also had a galaxy note, but I've had better battery life on the one x. Interesting...
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] johnl199:
Just a tip: Auto brightness kills battery.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Reamer09:
The screenshots I posted was under VERY heavy use. I was trying to kill the battery and it had those numbers. Though today isn't AS good, I still have about 20 hours with 5 hours on screen.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] McCadi:
Hmm do you have it rooted? I'm not sure if it's worth rooting for the battery life.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] dylando808:
Here's my battery stats. this is a few days after letting the phone sync and letting everything settle.

Unplugged the phone at about 6am before work. Light to fairly Moderate usage over the course of the work day. I usually use it during my breaks and on the commute to and from the job site and base.

Mostly Facebook/Twitter/SMS, didn't get too many phone calls that day. Ended up around 70 percent by the end of the work day (3pm). Went home and was on WiFi for the remainder of the time.

As you can see most of what contributed to the long times was when the phone was in standby over night. but i still managed to get JUST over 4 hours of screen time before i plugged it in (it was still at 9% when i plugged it in). So i can say i am satisfied with this. but i'll have to see what my heavy days are going to do to the battery.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Reamer09:
Nope, bone stock except I disabled most of the bloatware. I actually want to see how long I can last on only official software. I lasted a month with my captivate, but that was because I couldn't stand the touchwiz launcher anymore and it was slow, but I like Sense 4.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] cloudyphiz:
Just back from a week in Miami where there was LTE, my battery definitely suffered for it there.

So far today I got 13h30m on the battery with 2h40m of screen on and I'm at 49%. Not bad at all, this phone is a keeper so long as I find a way to disable LTE when it goes live here this fall.

Gary
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] relic120:
I restored to factory settings, rooted and have had my screen brightness at the lowest setting. I think overall my battery is doing a little better than before.

Though this is with only wifi which makes me think that the mobile data is a huge drain on the phone.

The little bit of charging is from plugging into usb.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Shaddy-Z.:
For all of you that are getting great battery life, do you use Gmail sync? That may be my problem. I consistently get 12 hours of battery life at 10% by the end of the day. Gmail active sync, auto brightness, all bloat removed with only 2.5 hours of screen time. I haven't really even started beating on the phone yet. Put my screen brightness at 20% for tomorrow and going to turn off Gmail sync to see what happens.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] kewlguru:
I was extremely happy with the battery performance for the first 4days.

I was getting really good numbers.

Then I did two things. One setup work email on HTC email app and disabled bloat wares.

Since that time my battery is pathetic. Phone gets hot all the time, while using or charging. It drains like anything. Thinking about returning the phone
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Reamer09:
Yes, I am using Gmail sync. I'm at about 85% battery with a little over 10 hours with a little over 1 hour with screen on (it sat overnight).
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Shaddy-Z.:
Are you in an LTE area as well? Damn I disabled gmail sync and I can still literally watch my battery % drop. I'm at 91% and its only been an hour of barely using it.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] rohan32:
For those of you like me who are experiencing the whole 2 and a half hour screen on thing, I did something today that I should have done on day one, and now I am getting the 4 and a half hours others were experiencing.

I am not in an LTE area, but before I had LTE enabled. I disabled LTE by adding the HSPA+ AT&T APN. If you want to do so as well, below are the settings:

Name: AT&T HSPA+

APN: phone

Everything else is the default values. Save and active it.

Then I switched Auto-brightness off and changed the brightness to like 33%ish.

I literally got 2 more hours of screen on time, just from that. Try it.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] McCadi:
So I think I found my problem...what is suspend backoff?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Reamer09:
No, that is one thing, I am not within LTE... though I am literally less than a mile from it. Sounds like that isn't such a bad thing. But today was the first day for me to go to the pool this summer, turns out my 4 day old One X wasn't as enthusiastic about swimming as much as I was..... I was one of the ones that had incredible battery life and now it's going to get replaced with one of the crappy ones that someone else returned. My battery would drop real close to about 1% an hour if it was just sitting there. I've never seen that from a smart phone before.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] tylerdurdin:
it is ridonkulous how many people still use auto brightness....this was a no no taught in android 101.

killing is my business, And business is good.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mesasone:
I use auto-brightness and get good battery life. It's amazing how many people can't accept that just because something doesn't suit them, it may suit somebody else just fine.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] fobfusion:
Is the battery defective? Right off the charge it drops from 100 to 96% in 2 mins and the back is very hot.

Also look at the screenshot..standby uses no battery but when I start using it it drains immediately..8% gone in 15 mins just browsing and xda.. brightness is at 11% manual..apps disabled etc.. on LTE throughout.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] splcfiya:
**** auto brightness, i keep my screen at 100%. **** is beautiful.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] tylerdurdin:
its not about what I think or cannot ACCEPT.....use the SEARCH and learn something ....

killing is my business, And business is good.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Bigjim1488:
I just want to point something out to the folks that aren't getting the awesome 15+ hours of battery life. I've been looking through the screen shots that have been posted and have noticed something. All the users with very nice battery life all have strong signal. The bar is green all the way across or mostly green and the people with less then amazing battery life have a lot of yellow (yellowish).

Just a observation
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] dimgl:
How did you get 7 hours of screen time?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Shaddy-Z.:
I have pretty strong LTE signal 24/7 and the most I can get is 2.5 hours of screen on time. Max for some reason.. I don't know what I'm doing. I turned off auto brightness and gmail sync. Didn't make a huge difference though my battery drained the same way maybe a little bit slower. I guess I'll just carry a spare charger with me until we get unlocked BL and I can make screen off profiles. That will make worlds of a difference!
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Hunt3r.j2:
I just did some searching.

Apparently your phone is trying to go to deep sleep, but it keeps failing, so the phone stays awake. CPU usage ramps up tremendously during that period of time, causing lots of drain.

Also: Autobrightness is fully capable of increasing battery life as long as it properly adjusts screen brightness with the ambient lighting. Usually stock settings are designed to stay brighter, community mods usually have proper settings that can give back 10-20% extra runtime: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1638559
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Reamer09:
I really wish I had an answer for you. I was using the phone the whole time. It was over wifi, but still, it was amazing. I had Gmail being pushed, auto brightness turned off, brightness set around 33%, streaming Pandora while web browsing/XDA app, watching Netflix, the phone was eating up everything I threw at it... but I killed it today and I feel horrible. Got in the pool with it in my pocket and realized it a couple minutes later. There's no way I'll get a replacement that was that good.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Shaddy-Z.:
I think I found my problem, I used betterbatterystats to find I had an app that was a wakelock and burning my battery life. It happened to be a battery notification display that was draining my battery life like crazy. I guess I'll see tomorrow if that was the problem! It'll be a good test since I'm off work.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mesasone:
I do not need to search for anything. The proof is in the pudding, as it were. I get great battery life with auto brightness on. Accept it, or don't. It's really not my problem.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] tylerdurdin:
Congratulations.....
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mbaran:
How do these stats look. Not as much Wi-Fi as 4g and I had the screen up for a while when outside?

I don't think they're great, but they're not awful.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Hunt3r.j2:
Guys, two of the main causes of not getting the battery life are as follows:

1. Rogue apps devouring battery. BetterBatteryStats will diagnose apps running amok.

2. Needing to calibrate the battery. This is just using the phone until it shuts off, then going to bootloader/hboot mode (volume down and power) and leaving it on until the phone shuts off again, then doing a full charge. I'd suggest not touching the phone for the last few percent as it does a full charge, and leaving it plugged in until the battery voltage reads 4.2v (might be 4.3v, I'm unsure of the battery inside the phone.), at which point you have fully calibrated the battery and you should definitely avoid doing this any more than once a month.

The first one is usually the big one. The second one is usually something you do when there are no rogue apps, but for some reason your battery is obviously dying incredibly fast, much faster than it should. Or you notice that when your phone is left off the charger overnight and there are no rogue apps, that the battery drains any more than 5%.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] cbasse:
I've seen people suggesting a factory reset ...could that really make a difference? Also, just to confirm, a factory reset will wipe any apps i've installed, but won't erase my files (pics, music, downloads, etc) - right?