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[Nexus 4 General] pspTP:
Just started using the N4 last week. Stock ROM non rooted. I disabled all Google apps that I dont use (magazine, library, earth, etc). Using Tmobile $30 service. Setup wifi calling with callcentric/pbxes. I am happy with my battery life as compared to my old Sprint Optimus V!
[Nexus 4 General] diegozz:
Yesterday I moved on from a MVNO (virgin mobile chile) to a real operator (claro) and my battery life seems to increase dramatically... will test for a few days and post results
[Nexus 4 General] republitarian:
Your most likely getting better data speeds. The better data speed the better battery life.
[Nexus 4 General] redandwhitearmy:
With all apps closed..wifi off..carrier signal reception on.... It still drains 8-10 % overnight... Why is this so? I have a tab which drops only 1% overnight and also sony phones with stamina mode hardly drops 2% overnight... There must be a battery saver tweak / app for this.

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[Nexus 4 General] DrunkFuX666:
Post a log in the better battery stats thread...the guys there will be able to pinpoint your problem only after seeing the Log... Not these screenshots...

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[Nexus 4 General] kyokeun1234:
Really nice battery life since I used LTE for an hour and a half and also played some games. Franco kernel and paranoid android ROM really effected my battery life positively.

I used my phone for mainly tapatalk, messaging, gaming, browsing, and I used it for presenting something today and I still got close to 4 hours which is insane imo
[Nexus 4 General] death_note_kira:
for my standart uses 12 Hours and charger it again
[Nexus 4 General] lopezk38:
I used to have the audioout_2 wakelock, what fixed it for me was disabling touch sounds, dialer sounds, etc. I did not have to disable keyboard sounds or haptic feedback
[Nexus 4 General] madmike413:
Loving my battery life.

Sent from my N4 running CM 10.1 M3 and Franco Kernel r134!
[Nexus 4 General] alen1901:
Use gemini autostart app and greenify. Be sure to remove maps from system and install it from playstore so you can surely do anything with it.

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[Nexus 4 General] vinsh3nt:
Having owned both the iPhone 5 and Nexus 4 I can safely say that the battery in the N4 may not stack up to the likes of the iPhone 5 but it's certainly good enough to get me through the day.
[Nexus 4 General] republitarian:
What is the biggest battery hog?

The display of course on ANY phone.

IPhone screen size = 4 inches

Nexus 4 = 4.7 inches

Need I say more? iPhone should get better battery life....it has a screen that is nearly 20% smaller.
[Nexus 4 General] Karlo666:
Then describe me how iPhone 5 gets 9 HRS on webbrowsing benchmarks whit that stupid little battery.

My Nexus 4 has Tapatalked.
[Nexus 4 General] saniyal:
The iPhone only has good battery life because of its software optimization. If you were to use only WiFi and no data you would get battery better than iphone. What kills the nexus's battery is the mobile data which is a really needed thing for many of us.
[Nexus 4 General] klvnhng:
Achievement Get!

7 hrs SOT

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[Nexus 4 General] saniyal:
Can you please upload stats
[Nexus 4 General] mpttrung:
This is crazy !!!! My phone even never riches to 5 hours screen on @@. Tried a lot of kernels and roms, but still same @@
[Nexus 4 General] klvnhng:
Setup is in my sig, if you're interested :thumbup:

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[Nexus 4 General] mpttrung:
I dont see anything m
[Nexus 4 General] leos0000:
Can u give me wich rom u use and kernel please and settings.thanks advances

Отправлено с моего Nexus 4 через Tapatalk
[Nexus 4 General] klvnhng:
It's in my XDA sig, not tapatalk. But latest rasbean + Franco kernel is my setup.

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[Nexus 4 General] drbrainsol:
I was 100% stock till friday when i flashed matrix kernel. Battery life was about 1 day with 2.5 - 3 hours of sot. Decent. After flashing matrix i got 54 hours with 4.5 hours sot. Astonishing :o
[Nexus 4 General] saniyal:
My Stats
[Nexus 4 General] saniyal:
Also can someone help me because I am not able to post more than one photo from my phone it gives me a message such as to such as the one I posted.
[Nexus 4 General] saniyal:
My Stats I think they are equivalent to 7 hour screen on time.
[Nexus 4 General] zakoo2:
guys, this is really starting to bug me...

i never achieved note than 3hrs of sot, and you guys are all talking about 7hrs. im on cm10.1 m3 and Franco kernel m2, stock voltages, and look at my screenshots.

ive hardly used my phone today, and im down 50%...

ive already tried reflashing stock images, but didnt help.

any ideas?

sent from my Nexus 4...
[Nexus 4 General] saniyal:
That's what helped me flashing the stock back plus I am using Ra's and am using Franco kernel 134. 1188 max 384 min 50 uv
[Nexus 4 General] mil0X:
What I really think needs to be clear about getting these ridiculous SOT (7 hrs) screen shots is that they are not an accurate measurement of a normal day's usage but more a test of how much battery life you can get if you only use the bare minimum.

I mean, getting 6,5 hrs of SOT on 3G with frequent sync, maybe 2 hrs of music listening and some gaming with 1,5 ghz max clock is something that I found not normal.

But getting 6,5 hrs of SOT on WiFi with no sync, no music listening and no gaming on 1,2 ghz max clock and eco mode on is something that definitely is doable.

The point I'm trying to get across is that most of us (including me) like using the device to it's fullest with gaming, music listening and that awesome push sync and when you do that, reaching even 4,5 hrs in a day is much.

Just my 50 cents though.

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[Nexus 4 General] m4r0v3r:
My main problem is that I listen to at least five hours of music a day, what a lovely wake lock that is
[Nexus 4 General] -sandro-:
How much SOT do you get being 100% of the time on 3G data doing the same things you do while on WI-Fi?
[Nexus 4 General] KCRic:
If I recall, a while back a dev (not for the Nexus 4) did a study on battery life improvement when you UV. The results were, to say the least, shocking to most and created some arguments. Hopefully I don't restart that here.

The result was that the act of UV-ing doesn't yield a real world measurable improvement in battery life. Heat was another thing but it wasn't much. So far as under clocking - its worthless, generally, for more battery life. Clock cycles and time to completion, bla, bla, bla. Simply put: it actually takes more energy for the processors to complete a task slowly than to hurry up and get it done. Partly because its awake longer than it would be otherwise. *not true in all cases obviously* you should only mess with clock cycles and voltage for heat/stability reasons. Not to gain much battery life. Want to gain better times? Use red or black backgrounds. Check your apps and what's they're doing when you're not watching. Tweak your brightness settings if your ROM allows it.

I only said that so people can stop expecting either of those two things to assist in battery life when time would be better spent sorting out the real issue causing their drain.
[Nexus 4 General] saniyal:
So I have another question if my phone heats up will it then use more battery or no.
[Nexus 4 General] KCRic:
When it comes to Li batteries, I really don't know. I know with standard alkaline batteries, yes, heat increases output but lowers lifespan even when you're not using them (that's why people put them in the fridge, not sure if that works though). Lithium ion gel batteries are different so maybe someone else knows. I would personally say yes since heat is generally detrimental to technology.

What I would do is find an app that will keep tabs on wake locks and GPS/data usage. The one mentioned in the op will do that. Then use something like CPUSpy+ to see if your phone deep sleeps or not. Wake locks are a fast killer on battery life.
[Nexus 4 General] PoisonWolf:
15% remaining.

2 days uptime.

3 hours total screen on time.
[Nexus 4 General] leos0000:
Wich rom and jernel man?
[Nexus 4 General] PoisonWolf:
Stock 4.2.2, reflashed completely using fastboot. Rooted (and installed CWM) using fastboot. Replaced stock kernel with motley's kernel. That's it. Initially put .27 radio, then was too lazy to get sound to work on T-Mobile and swapped back to .48 radio (stock with 4.2.2).
[Nexus 4 General] Sukhi:
which theme are you using ?
[Nexus 4 General] cobyman7035:
Well said! 3g and lte kill my battery

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[Nexus 4 General] ghettopops:
Just finished 3rd cycle with CM10 and Franco M1 and finally hit the 4 hr screen on and 17 hrs up time. Mainly usiing wifi?
[Nexus 4 General] saniyal:
Anybody know the best combination for data on always
[Nexus 4 General] saniyal:
Mine with data for about 7 hours during school it was on for most of the time. Using Franco and rasb.
[Nexus 4 General] Misledz:
How the **** is everyone getting 5hrs screen time?! Mines BARELY gets past 3
[Nexus 4 General] snak3ater:
Franco kernel :D
[Nexus 4 General] popophobia:
Anyone has problem with Gmail in the last few days? It keeps my device awake for hours (almost 2h). So annoying. And syncing is never done. This happen on all 3 nexii I have, 2 different accounts.
[Nexus 4 General] vikramkhalsa:
I've been in the same boat man, since day one. After reading these threads for months and trying a million things I've finally been able to get 4+ hrs. I'm not sure exactly what specifically helped me but I think it was a combination of multiple factors. I tried franco and matr1x kernels and was still not able to go past 3. Do you have better battery stats installed? See whats causing your wakelocks. I'm using matr1x kernel with aokp and I'me undervolted and uncerclocked, although I dont think those make that much a difference in battery life. I turned off my weather widgets which would update all the time, and I used greenify to hibernate some apps like family feud facebook, and maps. Also I turned off the "backup my apps and data to googles servers" option, since I always restore from titanium backup anyways. After doing these things and waiting a couple of cycles I've noticed at least another good hour of screen on time. I also did the "reflash to stock" method before trying all this, although i don't think that made much of a difference. So those are a few things you could try. Also be patient and wait like 2-3 cycles before changing a bunch of stuff. It takes a while to settle in. Now I get reallyy good standby time too. I'm going to slowly start adding some stuff back and see how much of a difference it makes.

Good luck!
[Nexus 4 General] DrunkFuX666:
I was also in the same boat as you guys... Not more than maxxxx 3 hours SOT with cm10 and stock kernel... But what majorly was the turning point for me was after I flashed stock, then changed kernel and ROM which improved to about 4 hours SOT... But then after hibernating apps with greenify... I'm getting a stable 5-5.5hr SOT with about 15hr standby... Tho I still don't get how ppl get 2 days standby with 6 hour SOT...

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[Nexus 4 General] illhangon:
With wifi usage and a bit of gaming.
[Nexus 4 General] lowtje:
Whole day use. Messaging and social apps. Stock unrooted 4.2.2
[Nexus 4 General] DrunkFuX666:
You really don't seem to understand the point of this thread do you...??

Your supposed to post ONE FULL CHARGE usage... From 100% to 1%... Not charge it 50 times in between and say "look this is what I do with my phone"... :banghead:

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[Nexus 4 General] saniyal:
Had data on all the time with Franco and RasSaber with data on all the time.
[Nexus 4 General] DrunkFuX666:
Pretty much my standard daily stats... Finally its plateaued ...

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[Nexus 4 General] Gokh:
I have flashed the .27 radio and I didn't got any improvements after more than 6 cycles, same battery life :(

Envoyé depuis mon Nexus 4 avec Tapatalk
[Nexus 4 General] Zainiak:
rom and kernal?
[Nexus 4 General] DrunkFuX666:
Using Pacman nightlies with Franco M2...

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[Nexus 4 General] :
Stock Nexus, used as my daily driver for the last couple months. The single worst battery life I have ever seen on a modern mobile. I'm hoping the today brings improvements. And a OEM battery for sale so I can switch it out.
[Nexus 4 General] Ümit:
I have 1day 12h total and 5h screen.
[Nexus 4 General] garth719:
Idk man I'm getting an easy two days.. Much better than my old gs2. Also running stock. Maybe you got a rogue app. Download wakelock detector in the market and see if you got an app keeping your device awake
[Nexus 4 General] andrew_stvn:
I'm using ParanoidAndroid v3.15 and Franco Kernel milestone 2.

What do you think about my battery? Is that normal?

Because I think since I installed custom ROM, my battery drains quite fast.
[Nexus 4 General] DrunkFuX666:
If you use GPS and maps a lot then its pretty much normal... If not then its a bit less... It really depends on what your doing with the phone... And considering the stand bye time is more than 1 day... And your signals are very bad... I'd say its kinda normal...

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[Nexus 4 General] nextelbuddy:
im on stock with franco kernel nightly 135 now not leaving it......

rooted only

got 1 day with 9% left

3 hours and 41 min of on screen time

this is with google syncing ON

Gmail

Contacts

Drive

Keep

Wallet

Google I/O

People Details

My Tracks

Sound Search

Chrome

App Data

ALL location data on and GPS enabled

Brightness set to AUTO the entire time

didn't watch movies but did stream spotify for a few hours, read Facebook, Pulse, Currents, Flipboard a lot especially last night.

so I'm satisfied i did NOT have to crippled my device like others here and I know that if i disabled everything like some others do such as turning OFF GPS and ALL syncing.

If i were to disable GPS, ALL syncing and set auto brightness to lowest brightness im sure I cold get the 5 hours on screen time if i wanted to but ill leave it be as is.
[Nexus 4 General] rjunraj:
as u can see less than 10 minutes of charge invetween

next time i will send without charging for even 1%

only whatsapp and youtube

stock everything

no sim only wifi

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[Nexus 4 General] DrunkFuX666:
Your not even using the phone as a phone... Hence your battery stats don't even count... At least in my opinion...

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[Nexus 4 General] klvnhng:
That's still some ridiculous SOT.

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[Nexus 4 General] DrunkFuX666:
I assure you, you will get the same if you use it under the same conditions... Give it a try... Only whatsapp and YouTube... No sync, airplane mode with WiFi on... You might even do better...

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[Nexus 4 General] motoridersd:
If you have no SIM card you are using this device as a tablet. There's no point in seeing stats like these in my opinion, but others might disagree with me.
[Nexus 4 General] cobyman7035:
Wtf that can't be real SOT...

PSd pic?

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[Nexus 4 General] rjunraj:
use one day like this

and u will get the answer

no sim card

auto brightness

stock everything

wifi 24 hour on

no sync

whatsapp ,youtube and skype

yes u can say m using like tablet .but i am not competing with anyone ,i mean this is just a thread for great battery impression and i just wanted to share mine .what's wrong with it ?

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[Nexus 4 General] DrunkFuX666:
What's wrong with it is that you paint a False Perception of real time phone usage and battery life... People see stats like yours and think there is something "wrong" with their phone or battery... Creating all types of confusion and searching for ways to improve a normal battery life...

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[Nexus 4 General] rjunraj:
thx for pointing i dint think that way sorry

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[Nexus 4 General] markdexter:
Stock rasjellybean, great Rom!
[Nexus 4 General] saniyal:
My ROM is rassaber and my kernel is Franco 134 and here are my stats with WiFi and DATA and 3/4 WiFi
[Nexus 4 General] 2.0:
Unimpressive. 11.5 Hours of wakelock
[Nexus 4 General] biggiestuff:
Anyone been experiencing worse battery life since Talk was updated to Hangouts? Google play services I believe was updated and now it is one of my top apps that take up battery life.
[Nexus 4 General] DrunkFuX666:
No such thing here... Pretty much normal battery here...

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[Nexus 4 General] CaptWildBillKelso:
People say TONS of things they do to improve battery life, and some help.. .but it all depends on what's happening on/around your phone. Bad cell service is a huge drain.
[Nexus 4 General] madmike413:
Liquid smooth ROM and franco r134r134
[Nexus 4 General] Qbsti:
Have you ever seen a battery charging from 100% to 15%? Check this out:

Notice how the phone was on an AC charge for ~40min. I have no idea what happend here..
[Nexus 4 General] Polv89:
Minco v7 record

Minco has franco kernel

Wifi on 3g off

Brightness auto

Total time of display on 5h30m

What do you think about? ;)

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[Nexus 4 General] taikoo:
stock rom + franco r134. UV -100, auto brightness.
[Nexus 4 General] DrunkFuX666:
Very strange...

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[Nexus 4 General] nyijedi:
Completely agree.
[Nexus 4 General] klvnhng:
Probably due to the instant battery charge glitch. Your phone instantly "charged" to 100% within a minute of plugging in and you thought you had been charging it for 40 minutes when you unplugged it (when in reality, it hadn't been charging at all).

More technical details can be found here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2109684

Instant Battery Charge Glitch

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[Nexus 4 General] andrew_stvn:
Woah! Thank you for the explanation. I didn't thought the mobile network signal has an effect to it :)
[Nexus 4 General] jose13683:
I'm using my nexus since 3 months (running CM10.1 with semaphore kernel ATM) and I'm pretty happy of the battery. I menage to get a mean of 3.5 hours of SOT, using always 3g connection (no wifi at work) and lot of notifications in push (gmail, whatsapp, hangouts).

I'm coming from a two years old galaxy s1 with an exhausted battery with barely 1 hour SOT so this is a greeeeat improvement for me!! :) :)

I have only disabled all the location updates of gmaps and latitude and the google+ notifications and instant upload.

However, the battery seems very dependent on the 3g connection quality. At work I have a pretty good signal and the battery is ok. In other places the signal is not so good, the 3g module performs a lot of 3g-h-h+ switches and the battery is definetely worst.
[Nexus 4 General] rjunraj:
to extend betterylife and perfomance " greenify app" really helps

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[Nexus 4 General] thomaswr:
Yeah. My Nexus 4's battery life too *feels* much shorter since I have upgraded.
[Nexus 4 General] toanau:
I don't how everyone get a day usage out of this phone. I have to charge at lease twice a day. I use every ROM and kernel out there imaginable.
[Nexus 4 General] Gokh:
Ahah same

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[Nexus 4 General] icemasta31:
Switched from Xylon to PA both with motley and there is a noticeable difference in decreased battery life in PA.

Had no problem getting 3-4.5hrs of SOT over 3G on Xylon but getting closer to max 3hrs on PA doing roughly the same things. I'll give it a couple more cycles and see if I switch back.
[Nexus 4 General] PoisonWolf:
Are you in an area of low signal where you work ? That kills my battery too.
[Nexus 4 General] toanau:
Great signal strength
[Nexus 4 General] toanau:
See what I mean. I am on Aokp ROM. I charge at least twice a day. People who get one day of battery life service probably dont use their phone
[Nexus 4 General] DrunkFuX666:
You really need to use BetterBatteryStats to find out whats draining your phone... That's terrible battery...

None of us get some kind of Pleasure by lying about our phone usage and battery life... Believe me... It doesn't give anyone bigger b*lls...

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[Nexus 4 General] ashishv:
Aokp rom does drian a lot of battery.
[Nexus 4 General] phositadc:
Folks, just for reference, here is my battery life on CM10 on gs3. Not sure I could handle the 3 hours screen-on time that seems to be average for the N4.

-Sent from my GS3 running CM10.-
[Nexus 4 General] lonz358:
I deleted chrome, news and weather, play magazine, play books, play movies, Google + and now my battery is a lot better. Before deleting those apps my phone would get very hot off charger and SUPER HOT on charger with screen on, battery would die fast too. Those problems are gone now. :)
[Nexus 4 General] düdldihüü:
That's what I've done, too. Additionally, I disabled some more apps. I didn't delete them, yet, though.

@phositadc: I think with less than 22 h of running time and 1 % charge before plugging it in, I'd also be able to reach nearly 6 h of screen-on time.
[Nexus 4 General] jeffreyng:
I have exact the same issue. On my Gnex I used to have 13-14 hrs operation time with approx 3 hours screen on time at auto. I have my company push email and gmail 24/7. On this N4 initially I only get like 1.5 hour screen time with auto brightness and the battery is already drained to 40%. The android os consumption was high. I then manually switch off the background sync on some apps and the battery life seems to be improved.
[Nexus 4 General] daern:
I think mine is improving. Today was 13 hours on battery, 1hr 10 mins screen on (yes, I know this isn't so much), nearly 2 hours of voice calls (quite unusual for me, TBH): 40% battery left.

According to battery stats, voice calls amount to 40% of the use which gives me > 60% left after a "normal" day's use.

Pretty happy here...still early days yet!
[Nexus 4 General] afbengochea:
I froze all those apps as well and tried to see just how much on screen time I can get but just surfing and reading here on xda. Not bad while being on Wi-Fi. Mind you it stayed on 1% fit about twenty minutes
[Nexus 4 General] lonz358:
Yea I think its one(or more) of those apps I deleted that was killing my battery...I charged my phone to 100%, then played Hill Climb Racing for 55 mins straight(about 5 text messages in between) and my phone dropped to 80%. I think that's pretty good for my second day with the phone. A good kernel would make this battery beast.
[Nexus 4 General] barondebxl:
All I need is 15 hours off charge and 3h + on screen time to be satisfied and the N4 delivers. Can't wait for the kernels.
[Nexus 4 General] stormtroopercs:
Custom kernels are going to be awesome! Just look at stock! Played angry birds, texted, some web browsing, and a couple of calls! Amazing battery life!
[Nexus 4 General] yfbc:
That is my exact issue with my n4, and I'll give that a whirl tomorrow I think :) I use google+ so ill try the others first.

Also do you think chrome could actually be causing that much drain?
[Nexus 4 General] barondebxl:
Got the same yesterday. I have to say that battery life is really decent. It really gets better after a few cycles. Can't wait for kernels!
[Nexus 4 General] Capt.PP:
So far, no one have try to play game straight from 100% to 4% with everything turn off (NFC, GPS, ect.) except wifi on because some game required online. Don't let your phone idle.
[Nexus 4 General] tgyberg:
Hill Climb rocks! :good:
[Nexus 4 General] HarbingerIV:
Definitely a great battery. I got my phone last night so all day today I was playing around with it after recharging it overnight. Here's how it did:

- Screen on auto-brightness w/syncing and location enabled (I did uninstall Google+ and the Google Play Magazine, Books & Movies Apps).

- Downloaded about 15 apps of varying sizes (a couple were about 1GB worth each) on Wi-Fi.

- About 30min spent browsing on Google Chrome on Wi-Fi.

- About 45 min of talk time and a lot of texts.

- Played Shadow Gun for about 40 min.

The Results:

11 hours on battery.

Almost 4 hours of screen time.

15% battery left.

Very impressed. I'll post screenshots next time but I hooked it up to my laptop to transfer some songs over before I realized I should've taken them. :p