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[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] phishie:
I'm on my 11th day with this phone and I'm beginning to think I either have a bad egg or this phone doesn't actually get great battery life.

I'm averaging 10-11 hours total battery life with 2 1/2 to 3 hours screen time. Phone is completely stock, haven't factory reset or disabled bloat apps, and I use auto brightness.

I've done two full charges and full discharges. The first one I did the fist day and my battery life grew from 8 hours to 11 hours, oh gee what an improvement. The second full discharge was yesterday - I was hoping a full calibration hadn't been achieved yet.

Additionally I left if off the charger over night once and only lost 5% over 7 hours so it doesn't seem to be some passive drain problem.

This morning I disabled the bloat apps, and have all mail sync'ing and Google Talk off. After just over 2 hours off the charger with 35 minutes screen on time I'm at 75% already. Are you ****ing kidding me - 25% in 2 hours??

How the hell is anyone getting 15+ hours with 4-5 hours screen time? Doesn't make any sense. The only thing I haven't done yet is a factory reset. Has everyone that is getting fantasy-good battery life done this? Seems unlikely.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Cole28:
I'm having the same problem. My battery with drop 25%+ in less than 2 hours I've used watchdog to see of it was an app but everything seems to be fine. I'm hoping I just got a dud. Unfortunately I have to return mine to Amazon.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] phishie:
For those who have exchanged their phones for a new one due to battery life how did this experience go @ AT&T? Did you simply tell them you've been getting awful battery life and you want a new one? Did the reps comply without much hassle?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] dimgl:
Okay so I was having some pretty horrendous battery life but I seemed to have fixed it today.

I updated to 1.82.502 and drained my battery all the way to 0% then charged it up to ~20% with the phone off, turned on the phone and left it charging when I went to sleep. I unplugged it at 100% and the battery life is loads better.

Unfortunately, it's still not as good as I would like it but it seems to be getting better. I honestly think many battery issues are related to apps installed on the phone. I will be posting pictures on my battery life and findings later today.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] phishie:
Have you disabled any apps/bloat (before or after the software update)? Any apps you're particularly suspicious of?

I'm guessing installing 1.82.502 counts as a factory reset.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] fobfusion:
30% brightness just reading document for 30 mins and whatsapp for 1 hour...already at 50% on LTE. The steep drop is solely from whatsapp..

Pretty bad battery life? Totally..
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] hduong22:
Here are my stats. Mostly web browsing, some youtube on lte, and listening to music. Sync are all off, auto brightness off, best wifi off. I wish I can turn off LTE and see if this improves.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] dimgl:
I've disabled almost all AT&T apps and some Google extras, like Books, Movies and Talk. Right now only Talk is showing up on my battery meter, and it wakes up the phone to do the ASYNC intent. Battery still has not run down, I've been unplugged for about an hour and a half and I'm still above 90%.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] McCadi:
Hmm alright, so I've been trying to figure out what exactly is causing that. I'm completely stock except for tapatalk, so it has to be one of the apps that comes with the phone...
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] dakalter:
Here is my stats. I've updated with the leaked ruu and have disabled all bloat. This shows me with lots of browsing reading and some gaming.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] McCadi:
Can anyone check to see if they are getting "suspend_backoff" in better battery stats? Factory reset does not help.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ViperXIV:
You still have half your battery. That's gonna be over 3 hours of screen on time with LTE. That's pretty good.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] phishie:
After about 12 days I've gotten no better than 12 hours battery life and 3 hours screen time (Wifi, LTE, Gmail & Exchange sync). While this may be pretty good for any other LTE phone it is clearly not what it should be for the S4 HOX with all the anecdotal evidence on the net for what it could be.

I just exchanged mine for a new one, hopefully this one will fare better. I'll update in a day or two.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mobilehavoc:
I am. Have we figured out what this is related to yet?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] eazyweazy3:
4% left.

10 hours 53 mins.

4 hours 18 mins. of screen time.

I'm thinking this is bad.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] McCadi:
That's pretty good, judging by your screen on.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] McCadi:
I'm beginning to think it can only be solved by an update after two factory resets and disabling most of the unnecessary apps.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] dimgl:
The simple fact of the matter is you can get 4+ hours of screen time with the proper settings regardless of how long you've unplugged the phone. You can get even more than four hours screen time with constant low brightness, debloat, and very lax processes like texting and using Twitter. I will be uploading pictures soon for my day.

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So, I simply wanted to break 4+ hours of screen time and I did. This is before debloat. I have root access and I used SMS, Facebook, Twitter, Play Store and did miscellaneous web browsing [which is when I had the most dips].

I'm currently debating uninstalling Facebook as it seems they never seem to get battery life correct.

Here's my lockscreen and homescreen, just because I think they look cool lol.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Crizthakidd:
Uhhhh wtf why does my phone battery last 16 hours and still at 33% charge left ?! What the lol I'm commuting to new work sites so I'm heavily using GPS and chrome beta all day so 2.3 hours on screen usage. this is rediculous I love it not a single night has it come home to less than 10% and I make mad calls/ texts. I'm not on atnt that may be a hint. my mom is and my speeds are faster lols straight talk prepaid unlimited for 45$ all day
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] dimgl:
You have 2.3 hours of screen usage. You said it all.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] phishie:
I did a factory reset, debloated, and logged out of Google Talk, disabled Gmail sync, and my Exchange account sync... still only got 11 hours and barely 3 hours screen time.

I exchanged that phone for a new one this afternoon - we'll see if it's any better.

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[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] jspidey:
Here's mine for today:

Crap cell signal no matter where I go...

Not too bad I guess. Pretty light usage though.

*edit - fixed links...
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] DJsCrIBbLe:
Had good stats yesterday but forgot screenshots so I guess it never happened right :rolleyes:

4 hours screen on, no WiFi, about 20 hours total time
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] phishie:
That's the battery performance I want every day.

Have you done any performance tweaking? E.g. disabling bloat apps, factory reset, disabling LTE, etc.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] DJsCrIBbLe:
I'm in non lte area so I would assume it's dormant ? Screen brightness is low like 30% maybe. Twitter , gmail, instagram sync. Debloated and that's it.

I switched to apex launcher. Otherwise nothing crazy. I think yesterday was my 4th or 5th charge cycle so hopefully my stats stay that good. I'll take shots tonight if I get it again :D
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Alcoholic:
Suddenly my battery life has gone to ****. Overnight idle is 30% drain. I just don't understand it. It's my first android phone so maybe I'm doing something wrong. But I can't figure it out.

Can someone tell me if it's a defective battery or this is the normal discharge.

HSpa+. WiFi off during sleep. Weather,Twitter,other widgets sync set to manual. One gmail account set to push.

Battery indicator widget in notification bar.

Auto brightness is off.

I haven't pushed the latest update as i'm waiting for the official AT&T release.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] dimgl:
Download BetterBatteryStats and see if something is keeping your phone awake. You will have to look at Partial Wakelock under Unplugged.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] niacin77:
Here are my battery usage stats. Brightness around 20%, wi-fi on, one email and whatsapp sync, around 20 mins of voice calls, some google music, youtube and lots of xda.. Once I turned off the auto-brightness, it improved the battery life immensely.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] jermzz:
Results for phones are always skewed, nobody posts exactly what they've done to their phone to get the results they're claiming when you see 4+ hours. I had an epic 4g touch on sprint when they came out an I was getting 4.5 screen on time with 22 hours between charges.

But I had everything off, sync, accessability, no brightness, clocked down to 800mhz and under volted. The phone still worked, and was fast, but it defeats the purpose of what the phone was designed to do.

People use their phones for different things, the more taxing people are gonna get worse life. At the end of the day, if you can get up, go to work, do your thing and get back home to your charger, you really can't ask for much else when you realize where the phone technology is compared to the battery technology.

I'd certainly like to get my hands on one to test though, I switched from Sprint to ATT because of LTE and I bought a Skyrocket and it's just terrible......
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] supercluver:
THIS. I mean, yeah I want my phone to last 2 or 3 days between charges while giving me 6-8 hrs of screen on time. But I sleep every night and charge my phone while I do that. So why do I need it to last for days. For the past week this phone has lasted from when I pick it up off the charger around 6:45 am until I go to bed around 11 pm and I still have between 20% and 50% depending on whether I have 3+ hrs of screen time or just 1.5 hrs. I never have to worry about it, and that is great to me.

I don't fiddle with things, things always sync, twitter & facebook, gtalk signed in, 1 work email account on imap idle push (kaiten mail is awesome), weather updating, google+ auto-uploading pictures whenever (not video though, that is wifi only), whatsapp, and I use auto-brightness. I'm in Houston, great signal, awesome LTE but I'm mostly on wifi (all but 3 hrs a day).
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] phishie:
That is awesome, I would assume this is after turning off auto brightness.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] BlueHawk:
Battery drain for today

Mostly on WiFi at the office today, but on the commute I was reading news in various apps such as Huffington Post and New York Times and News360 - about twenty minutes and also at lunch, about twenty minutes (they are the dips where I'm using screen and LTE). Got GMail sync with some email during the day, Google Talk, futzing about on the phone trying to get these photos. Otherwise just sitting on the desk.

I've got Juice Defender and SuperCharger running.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] phishie:
Yea, that is ideal. I also don't need it to last multiple days, although if I know I'm not going to be able to charge in more than a day I'd just turn off mobile data, wifi, sync'ing, etc and then be fine I'm sure. But my point is there's a huge difference, usability wise, between getting 8-11 hours of battery time and 12-16. The difference there leading to me having to find a charger before dinner vs. just plugging it in at bed time.

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I'm beginning to think that a full cycle (full charge then full discharge till dead) is actually a very bad idea.

There are tons of very good, very well informed articles on batteries and everything battery related here: http://batteryuniversity.com

It specifically calls out in many articles about Li-Ion batteries that a full discharge should be avoided at all costs. A good overview of how to treat various types of batteries is here: http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/do_and_dont_battery_table

On discharges it says:

How to prolong battery life:

One interesting point from the HTC One X manual is this quote:

I find it hard to believe that we should only use the one USB cable and charger that HTC supplied. Do you really think some other micro-usb charger or cable will damage the HTC One X?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] chewable:
+1

Who knows when they'll fix that wakelock. I uninstalled the updates to the app to see if the stock version has the same problem.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] robstunner:
Same problem here. Suspend_backoff is raping my phone all of a sudden.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] k6tcher:
my stats

Over two days!

My "typical" usage which is light to moderate.

Screen on time: little over 6 hours.

Two push mail accounts.

Charged about 20 minutes on my way to work on the 1st day.

No LTE. Leaked 1.82.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] McCadi:
Dude...I'm jealous. what is your screen brightness settings?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] robstunner:
Is it possible better battery stats is the suspend_backoff culprit? I removed it and restarted, now the phone is draining normally.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Hunt3r.j2:
Maybe, if the application believes that it has root privileges and is keeping the phone awake by constantly pinging for alarms.

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Try removing the battery indicator widget.

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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.elvison.batterywidget&hl=en

This looks to be a good battery widget that doesn't trash battery life. It is limited by the kernel/ROM though, if the phone doesn't want to display in anything but 10% increments, that's exactly what will get shown on the widget.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] robstunner:
Hmph. I'm not certain that was the problem. Anyone figure out what suspend backoff is?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Hunt3r.j2:
It's just a kernel indicator that it is unable to suspend for some reason, either the kernel is having issues trying to enter suspend mode due to a reaction set off by certain conditions, or an application is breaking it's ability to go to sleep somehow.

Apparently it happens when there are too many requests for wakelock. Try looking for partial wakelocks instead of kernel wakelocks, that may lead to your solution.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] robstunner:
Hmph. Here's mine with the suspend issue.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] fitchpuckman:
Updated

Alright, here's a solid day today. over 17 hours so far, still at 25% battery. brightness around 20%, Full LTE enabled all day, 3-4 bars of service in my office. wi-fi off during sleep. syncing 2 email accounts (gmail and corporate exchange). i've sent about 15 texts, sporadic FB and twitter use, and I spent about 2.5 hours listening to a live stream of a baseball game via wi-fi. and i'm over 3hrs screen-on with plenty of juice to go. stock ROM, disabled as much of the crapware as I could.

Edit: I do have a degree of the wi-fi issues that many are flashing the leaked 1.82 update in order to address. i'm not having enough problems (or switching networks enough during the day) to flash this right now, but i'm seeing disconnects/reconnects and intermittent outages, so i'm guessing that battery life will only get better once the OTA hits and this is officially fixed.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] k6tcher:
Set at about 25% which is plenty bright for this screen. As others have said, auto brightness seems to actually cause the battery to drain more.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] DJsCrIBbLe:
Close to my previous post. I could have gone longer or more screen time had I unplugged earlier.

Seems to be settling into decent stats
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] robstunner:
Same here, Kernel use has just jumped up along with this suspend_backoff, and battery life is just getting raped when the phone is not being used. I have almost the same setup as you accept auto brightness is on. I even factory reset the phone and its still having the issue.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] dak148:
Ok, I think there is something wrong with my battery too. Went to sleep last night at around 40% and woke up this morning to a dead phone. Completely drained. This is the second time it's happened. I don't know what is causing this.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/h62b20cosgw2z3g/2012-05-16 09.59.06.png

https://www.dropbox.com/s/z8slgk8s0ny26cs/2012-05-16 09.59.59.png

According to the battery page, it just drops to 0%. What's going on?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] tae_254:
Still going strong.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] relic120:
Thought I'd post some different usage screen shots. I didn't charge it over night like I usually do just to see what happens. See WiFi turned of which is fine I don't want notifications at night anyways. The phone also drops my 4g connection to edge overnight which I don't mind. Other times wen WiFi was off I was not at home. So I played some emulators, Pandora, mail,internet, etc. I think this is pretty good.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Alcoholic:
Okay, i found the problem and solution to my problem. It was Wifi.

Wifi was the thing that was causing my phone battery to drain excessively.

I turned wifi off last night before going to bed (77% battery). Woke up with 68%. Much better than the 30% drain with wifi on (and set to turn off during sleep).
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] robstunner:
my wifi is constantly disconnecting/reconnecting. is that what the 1.82 leak fixes?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Alcoholic:
Yeah. Along with not getting notifications for sms.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] robstunner:
i want to do it but no way back to stock 1.73 :(
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] phishie:
How did you disable LTE? Were you on Wifi most of the time?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] robstunner:
Im pretty sure hes just saying he doesn't have LTE in his area.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] phishie:
Ah, that makes too much sense.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] McCadi:
I found the problem! WiFi while sleeping. Turn it off or use juice defender and problem temporarily solved.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] robstunner:
Ah. See I found my culprit to actually be better battery stats. It wasn't letting the device sleep and eating 6% per half hour. I turned WiFi to always from only when plugged in. But I'm on the outskirts of 4g so it's constantly switching radio. If only WiFi wasn't so wonky.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] dominican2589:
My battery is dying really fast. I charged my phone to about 98-99% and then unplugged it and didn't use it till 1-2 hours later. During the time that I used it, I read email, did some browsing for about $5 and read my rss feeds using NewsRob by having NewsRob download the article and storing it on my phone. During that time, I had my brightness as low as possible (10%), had wifi off and was connected to hspa+. In less than an hour, I had gone down to 81%!

Is this normal? What am I doing wrong? I can see that the screen is taking up most of the battery but besides making it as low as possible. Any suggestions?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] McCadi:
That's actually pretty good for me...and hour of screen on drains 25 percent.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] niacin77:
That is correct.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] dominican2589:
Was this in response to me?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] McCadi:
Yeah, sorry for not quoting.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] dominican2589:
So we are pretty much on the same boat. Mine was close to being 25% in an hour
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mosesman86:
It sounds like you still have something else running. My One X only dips 2-3% overnight.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] robstunner:
Yep, mines still draining oddly. went from 14% to 5% without even using it (and that's within maybe a half hour). Maps jumped up in usage, as well as android OS.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mobilehavoc:
OK HTC you win. I'm impressed.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ECEXCURSION:
My phone sleeps, I sleep. Convenient. :thumbup:

Sent from my HTC One X
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] McCadi:
Impressive. Settings?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mobilehavoc:
Biggest thing I did is turn off auto brightness and set it to like 30-40%. Otherwise I used the **** out of the phone. LTE all the time and Wifi. Bluetooth streaming. Games. Browsing.

Oh I made sure Best Wifi Performance was not checked either. Phone was going into deep sleep perfectly
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] eazyweazy3:
From yesterday, overnight, to right now. Still have about 5% left. Didn't plug it in once since I took it off the charger yesterday morning.

A big factor is not the phone itself, but Diablo 3. Been on it nonstop and only used my phone for a few quick calls, text and whatsapp.

Sent from my HTC One X
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] bver100:
i'm having this exact problem. No idea what it is either.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] trp3383:
Pulled off charger yesterday morning at 7am.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ws2112:
Even though I posted on this thread about my satisfaction with the one x battery, but I'm not sure I can say that anymore. I replaced my first one x which had great battery life on the old rom for a new one with holds signal better. But this new one doesn't get close to a day of usage, battery always end up dead at around 2h40 min of screen time. :( I lost 11% just by leaving it overnight whereas my old one was constant at 100% through the night. Any of you have the setting that I can apply to this phone to make it last longer? Would appreciate any help.