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[Nexus 4 General] Locksmith81:
Man do you guys purposely not use your phone just to post screen shots. ... do you guys ever leave Wi-Fi enabled places :confused:

Now this is how you use your phone!

None of this 2 days with 3 hour screen on time. Mine is 12 hours use.. Key word USE!

full sync... Kaokao... Gtalk... Gnow enabled with 7 cards... Weather data every hour... Hundreds of emails a day... Many more USAGE that is not accounted for

#splash#useyourphone#itsnotcoolcripplingyournexustogetcoolscreenshotsandbragtoyourxdaboyfriends
[Nexus 4 General] calanizzle:
Getting 6hs of screen with those settings, damn, that's amazing...
[Nexus 4 General] Locksmith81:
Consummate power user :D

I'm at work for 10 hours while streaming on tunein for about 3 hours on Wi-Fi
[Nexus 4 General] 3473:
Could the use of black through the menus be contributing to the poor battery life? Makes sense on amoled displays, but since this is an lcd... would white menus improve battery life?
[Nexus 4 General] GrendelJapan:
So my commute this morning absolutely devoured my battery. I had the phone docked, in car mode, plugged in and charging, on auto-brightness, playing on-device music via Google Music and here is the breakdown when I got in...
[Nexus 4 General] Locksmith81:
When does plug it doesn't look like it took a charge
[Nexus 4 General] paulbeattie:
The battery life on this phone sucks, it's going back. I would be lucky if I managed 2 hours screen time, an hour of music listening with 8 hours on battery. Such a shame as the phone itself is excellent, fast, light, well built, awesome design but the battery life completely ruins it. There's little point in having a great phone if it's constantly out of charge. The Android battery warning noise has driven me crazy I've heard it so much.

I have a iPhone 4S and a Nokia Lumia 920 and they both have excellent battery life, 16+ hours on battery with 5-6 hours usage is easy with either of them.
[Nexus 4 General] Stadsport:
Been without WiFi for the last couple of days and its made me recognize the difference. I get about 4.5 hours of screen on time through WiFi, but about 3 on HSPA.
[Nexus 4 General] jhericurls:
It's quite easy to get 5 hour screen time. But you need to be on Wi-Fi and have good reception.
[Nexus 4 General] jinjin12:
i got about 6 hours, with everything off, except some music and occasional very light web surfing....6 hours for a phone.:mad: that's ridiculous. i think i might just go back to my flip phone + ipod touch combo. if the phone don't have battery to last the whole day, then what's the point? if i try to be super conservative and not use any real functions like web surfing or music just to save battery life then what's also the point? i might as well get a normal if i don't use those features. but if use them, i get no battery life.....this is just bad.
[Nexus 4 General] mqguitar:
I have gotten pretty good battery life with average use myself. Checking twitter, in stage am, sending out quote a few texts, and some podcasting.
[Nexus 4 General] sotorious:
what are your settings?!
[Nexus 4 General] AKfortyseven:
Let's see screen time. That's looks like the phone is mostly on idle
[Nexus 4 General] jaZzyjeff818:
+1
[Nexus 4 General] jaZzyjeff818:
Just started charging 10-15 min ago.
[Nexus 4 General] sotorious:
If they at least have a case where its a case and a 2nd battery I'll be happy. I'm only getting by with moderate use
[Nexus 4 General] mgorman:
Screen on time
[Nexus 4 General] poweredbymugen:
wow... hmm just out of curiosity does anything think the nexus 4 will get a huge battery life increase with later kernels/roms being released?
[Nexus 4 General] resynx:
Dunno about huge but there should definitely be room for improvement.
[Nexus 4 General] sotorious:
i dont know if i can do bad battery life anymore. like right now im having to charge it before i go out because it died completely.
[Nexus 4 General] Anubis007:
i believe so yes and i will be buying the phone despite the sub par battery performance. 2100 mah + S4 pro + LCD should yield better results and i personally have faith in the community and Google.

i think the real final version will be 4.2.1 since i think it worked that way and by then we should major stability improvements.
[Nexus 4 General] Gavin S.:
For all the sound and fury being expressed here about abysmal battery life I'm surprised that when one does a google search there's not a great deal about it other than the initial comments by reviewers. It seems like there would some kind indignant uproar expressed by everyone who bought one of these devices.
[Nexus 4 General] barondebxl:
For those of us who came from a Note 2, you wont be impressed by the battery life.
[Nexus 4 General] itsalexaye90:
You'll only be impressed if you came from the Galaxy Nexus.
[Nexus 4 General] Gavin S.:
You guys are bumming me out. I hate this pos and I don't even have it yet.
[Nexus 4 General] theoneofgod:
I just checked old screenshots of my Xperia Play. 4 days 20 hours with 7 hours screen time...3% left...*Shudders

2/3 hours on this phone just sounds so terrible...
[Nexus 4 General] Adripeg:
Sorry for the offtopic but, GMD is working fine in your N4? Mine just went crazy... O.o

Enviado desde mi Nexus 7
[Nexus 4 General] chlehqls:
Huge isn't a word I'd use with custom ROMs/Kernels in terms of battery life.

The difference is fairly negligible at the very least and nothing mind-blowing. I've yet to see evidence suggesting otherwise, at least in terms of the Galaxy Nexus. For the most part, Google knows what they're doing.
[Nexus 4 General] neuty:
Im at 17h 22min 12 sec = 14 % battery left

1hr 7min call

Screen 2hr 45 min

2hr 30 min sms

17mins of navigation

Plus other stuff- been playing with it all day
[Nexus 4 General] versd:
Something is very wrong. Check what is using all that battery. People are getting four hours + screen on time alone
[Nexus 4 General] keda:
Really? 6 hrs? What provider do you have and how is your coverage?

Will be interesting to see your battery usage screenshot.
[Nexus 4 General] paulbeattie:
Just return it to Google. Eventually if they get enough returns they will do something about it :D

The battery life from the times you've said is poor. I thought mine was bad getting 8 hours on battery with an hour or two usage.
[Nexus 4 General] rttnpig]:
Happy with it
[Nexus 4 General] zsn1p3:
What should i do , do have excellent battery life but also use all functions that nexus 4 has?

maybe root it and try different kernels , maybe i should do battery calibration?

p.s. i got phone , discharge it fully put it on charger without turning it back on for a whole night and since then i been using it and charging when it's like 15- or less procents , maybe i did something wrong ?

i mean my battery is bearly getting trough the day, medium usage ...

any suggestions?

is this 4.2 update sofware problem , maybe missing some drivers or something ?
[Nexus 4 General] cobyman7035:
2.5hrs in. I'm down to 79% weak

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[Nexus 4 General] cobyman7035:
Test

2.5hrs use in down 21% . Must all my 100apps

So many variables to each phone settings

Screen brightness. Lte.3g on.off. rogue apps hogging cpu speed etc

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[Nexus 4 General] dwang:
huh? thats really good. You're screen on time is 1 hour 11 minutes.

You're on track for 5 hours of screen time.

Not sure what you're expecting, but this is excellent.
[Nexus 4 General] zsn1p3:
What should i do , do have excellent battery life but also use all functions that nexus 4 has?

maybe root it and try different kernels , maybe i should do battery calibration?

p.s. i got phone , discharge it fully put it on charger without turning it back on for a whole night and since then i been using it and charging when it's like 15- or less procents , maybe i did something wrong ?

i mean my battery is bearly getting trough the day, medium usage ...

any suggestions?

is this 4.2 update sofware problem , maybe missing some drivers or something ?:eek:
[Nexus 4 General] kgeissler:
I guess I am at the point where I am near a charger most of the day. I bought this phone to enjoy it with all of Google's goodness. I am not going to dumb down the phone to get an extra hour of on screen time. If on the other hand I need to save battery, at least I know what to do after reading this thread. ;)
[Nexus 4 General] cobyman7035:
67% after 5.4hrs,,,,not good. Not surfing much but 3g,H is on allthe time

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[Nexus 4 General] jinjin12:
how is the return process? is it easy? i just call them? also i have to pay for shipping?

i ask because i actually ordered another nexus 4 back then since my first one was too slow to come. but once i got my first nexus, i called them to try to cancel and they wouldn't let me. even though they did not even charge my card or anything, they still said they can't cancel it. seriously, all i did was just place an order and no card was charged and they can't cancel the order? they said i was would to wait for the second nexus to arrive then refuse the delivery and it would be delivered back to them and i can get refund that way.

so if something as simple as cancelling an order that has not even been charged is that difficult, idk how returning an item after i've used it would be like...
[Nexus 4 General] versd:
Charge cycles etc are a myth with lithium ion batteries. I took mine out of the box at 60% and used it straight away. No full charge until maybe 2 partial top ups. 4 hours plus screen time if I didn't stream music and push sync multiple mail accounts etc

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On matrix kernel I was on 97% after 6 hours mostly idle, 15 Min on screen time. Not on wifi
[Nexus 4 General] Bettz:
Here's mine already done a full battery cycle is this any good?
[Nexus 4 General] gagdude:
You got nearly 5 hours of screen on time. That's pretty good

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] ethoss:
Hi guys, is there a way to disable FAST DORMANCY on Nexus 4? I have secril-fd wakelock :)
[Nexus 4 General] versd:
Never heard of that wakelock. Try reflashing your ROM and kernel
[Nexus 4 General] Chad_Petree:
I don't get what's happening with the nexus 4 that the battery is so poor :confused: i mean the optimus G has better battery and IT HAS LTE, but it's on ice cream sandwich so maybe it's jellybean's fault ? i mean 2100 mah is a pretty leafy battery we should be okay with it but it's very poor , but the HTC DROID DNA gets similar battery life and it has a 5" screen with 1080? a lot more pixels to push and a bigger screen, what's going on google?
[Nexus 4 General] ethoss:
Sorry, I usually using Samsung devices and I'm confusing with this :)

Is a radio_interface wakelock. It occurs when I put a simcard of an operator that doesn't support fast dormancy, in other case I haven't this wakelock..

has anyone found a method to disable fast dormancy? :)
[Nexus 4 General] rttnpig]:
Aint it great?
[Nexus 4 General] Chad_Petree:
I don't know , one day of battery life is great, but you only kept the screen on for 3 hours, for me good battery life is 5 hours of on screen time
[Nexus 4 General] rttnpig]:
Its my second full charge.
[Nexus 4 General] thotwielder:
not very impressive

Just got my nexus 4 16G yesterday. I just found the battery is running out really quick. I used it for two hours surfing internet, chatting (by typing text) with my friends using an app, and read a bit of my novel. I have used mobile network in these two hours. I have unlimited data so I used my mobile network. After the two hours, I turned off the mobile network. And after 3 hours, now it has only 56% power left. I have already turned off sounds,vibration, blue tooth, WiFi, everything I can think of and the phone was fully charged this morning. Is this normal? How is your situation?
[Nexus 4 General] draugaz:
It depends on who you are listening to. And what they are actually doing with their phones. If you look around, you will certainly find as many Optimus G users *****ing about their battery performance. The same goes to the HTC DNA, there are plenty reports of 4-4.5h screen on time until dead battery.

As to me, I find N4 battery life is quite adequate given its capacity.

Yes, that huge and bright display will quickly suck the battery dry, plain old physics at work here. Sharp IGZO display would be a really nice touch here, but alas...

Otherwise it is quite frugal, my current battery time is 2d 2h, with 46% still left and 1:30h display time (not playing much with it at the moment). I have gmail and 2 other imap mailboxes set on push, wifi constantly on. Everything completely stock.

And yes, the radio is quite buggy, LG engineers still have some work to do here.
[Nexus 4 General] 3473:
My battery is acting weird... it dropped from 26% to 17% within five minutes

But now, it has been stuck on 17% for the last ten minutes. All with constant use, brightness 60%
[Nexus 4 General] draugaz:
It depends on lots of things like your display brightness, network performance and so on.

It looks like you are getting about 6hours display on time which sounds about right.
[Nexus 4 General] calanizzle:
MSM_HSIC_HOST is the problem on our phones.. If that's fixed, we would be great.
[Nexus 4 General] rascalz1504:
By your acounts your phone probably had around 2hrs of on screen time which if extrapolated would result in about 4hrs+ on screen till till dead. That pretty good for any phone and thats about what I get (4.5hrs) though about 90% of my data is used through wifi. With mobile data only, on screen times drops to around 3.5hrs.
[Nexus 4 General] trees247:
I've had my phone for 4 days now, batt life was a lil wack so I turned of NFC and its gotten a lot better..I'm on stock and no root
[Nexus 4 General] sidamos77:
I have tested the N4 vs the GNex GSM.

Same apps, same settings, same environment.

On WiFi and screen off: Both are excellent, <1% per hour.

On WiFi, screen on, idle: N4 wins. 6.5% vs 8.5% per hour. GNex on auto brightness, N4 on 10% brightness, N4 screen much brighter.

On cell radio and screen off: GNex wins. 1% vs 2% per hour.

On cell radio, screen off, and connected to car Bluetooth: GNex wins. 2% vs 3-4% per hour.

I noticed that on cell radio, the GNex has over 90% deep sleep, the N4 has 80%.

GSAM battery monitor says, the GNex has better cell reception overall.

Also, keep in mind that the N4 has a larger battery and the CPU is said to be more efficient...

Maybe Google can fix the deep sleep time (reduce wake locks) but probably not the signal quality.

One more thing I found out: If you use Battery Monitor Widget on the N4, then configure it to do estimated mA calculation, otherwise it will wake the N4 (does not happen with the GNex) every minute.
[Nexus 4 General] GrendelJapan:
Yeah, that is true, but the images in my earlier post show charging during the period where most of the drain occurred.

Also, anyone know what the deal is with Maps draining 30% of the battery? I didn't even have the Maps app running.
[Nexus 4 General] ksc6000:
Sounds about right. On 3G this phone sucks compared to the GSM galaxy nexus.
[Nexus 4 General] Josh98:
This is my 2nd day with the phone, and to be honest I've found the battery better than expected based on complaints here (esp if it improves after a number cycles).

Been light use all day had 9 hours since charge with 70% remaining. Mobile data permanently on, wifi on for a few hours (forgot it was on, rarely use it, mobile datas enough for me), screen auto brightness (though only been on for 1h30m) fully syncing with Google Now etc on.

I'm sure it'd drop a lot quicker with more screen time, but it's not too bad. Never noticed it get at all warm either as people have reported, though I haven't done anything too processor/GPU intensive.

Would still love to see a patch that improves it further, though I'm find it okay, still not amazing by any means, any improvement is always good.

Worth noting I'm also using quite a CPU heavy animated wallpaper at the moment too.
[Nexus 4 General] draugaz:
It seems that, that N4 radio needs some futher work from LG. While I found the overall reception is quite good, the cell selection algorithm seems to have serious bugs.

In less than optimal situations it often changes cells and often tends to hang on ones with not really best signal strength.

For example, once it connected to the cell some 5kms away and remained in it for the whole night (like 8 hours). It is an urban enviroment and there are plenty of cells several hundert meters away (3G, full bars).

At another location it often jumps on 3G (other phones don't even "see" it), then drops out (predictable, extremely weak signal) then for half of the minute or so completely loses network. Then gets back to Edge, sometimes full bars, sometimes jus 1 or 2. Rinse, repeat.

So it is not very surprising, that it sometimes gets worse radio reception and consumes more battery.
[Nexus 4 General] sidamos77:
But I have full signal where I did the tests.
[Nexus 4 General] zsn1p3:
Every day worse and worse
[Nexus 4 General] zsn1p3:
any ideas

my SPS and Blue tooth only on to completely drain my bettery now.

i have only sync and low brightness on and on mobile network i am , light use , some emails , some sms , some light browsing and about and hour total of listening to music while going to work and from it

p.s. HOW DO I COLE BERATE MY BATTERY , HOW DO I MAKE IT LAST LONGER , WORK BETTER ?
[Nexus 4 General] svengalis:
I had this weird problem happen to me today. I had the phone plugged in to usb charger while I was sleep and it had like 40% battery before I plugged it in, I wake up to find the battery at 0%? Anyone else have this issue?

This use to happen on my G2x all I had to do was unplug the battery and pop it back in and I would be at 100% battery. I just hate that a problem so simple as me pulling the battery out and popping it back in can't be fixed with this phone easily if that is the case but I think my battery really is at 0%.
[Nexus 4 General] Josh98:
So I've been pretty impressed with my battery for first full day. Actually trying to run the battery done right now to charge from flat.

Note the screen brightness has been on max for half the time it's been on.

I'm hoping the Beautiful Widgets drain includes the live wallpaper from it. Going to test that. You can see where it plummets where I've been purposely trying to drain it at full brightness watching HD Youtube etc at the end.
[Nexus 4 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
You can hold down your power button which is as good as a battery pull from what I understand. In not sure if this will work in this case though good luck
[Nexus 4 General] CaspaTheGhost:
CM10.1 and Franco after one battery cycle.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] movielover76:
Does anyone else notice quickly draining when in a low signal area? Unfortunately my house is a low signal area < 101db I'm only at an hour and a half and 30%

If I don't turn on WiFi my phone is dead in twelve hours no matter how much I use it.

Today was mostly sitting idle at work and then home partly on hspa till I noticed I didn't turn WiFi on.

Nothing very taxing, words with friends and some surfing.
[Nexus 4 General] svengalis:
Turned it off and replugged it into charger only to find out that the battery really had discharge while I had it plugged in while I slept. My only other issue with this phone is that it takes forever to charge. Other then that I love this phone. Battery seems to barely drain while playing music any thing else and it drops battery life so fast.
[Nexus 4 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
Yes it does take a while to charge. I'm glad u got it figured out that would have sucked to have a faulty battery or worse a faulty N4 the RMA process is back ordered.
[Nexus 4 General] manlisten:
An example of my typical daily usage. About 2 hours of local music. Location turned off, Google now turned on. All stock.
[Nexus 4 General] manlisten:
o_O
[Nexus 4 General] jinjin12:
two hours of screen time only and you get only that much battery life and you consider it impressive?
[Nexus 4 General] gagdude:
He says his screen brightness was on max for half the time it was on

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] versd:
Streaming music over h+ to max speaker volume and xda and whatsapp pulls at the battery pretty hard. 20 mins of that and I'm down 8 or 10% but that's expected I suppose.
[Nexus 4 General] Josh98:
Exactly, and not only that most the time it was on full brightness I was playing HD Youtube videos or similar. Fairly confident I could almost double the screen time on my normal use, will find out today. :) Plus had I left it going till it went flat it would have been close to 3 hours anyway not 2 (had 8% left still)
[Nexus 4 General] negroplasty:
I'm happy with mine...

Cyan 10.1 Nightlies:

Could be better could be worse.
[Nexus 4 General] Josh98:
Seems pretty great negroplasty.
[Nexus 4 General] jonmorris:
As I've put in a Three SIM with unlimited data, I disabled Wi-Fi. I know turning Wi-Fi off on some other handsets has had a negative effect, but this is ridiculous!

I am seriously wondering if I have a dodgy battery as it died really quick when I received the phone yesterday too, with the speed of giving the first battery warning to it dropping to 3%, 1% and then off seeming to be about 5 minutes!

All I can do now is wait for a full recharge and then turn Wi-Fi back on and see what happens.

The only app running was Skype, which can drain power for sure - but not at this speed!

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[Nexus 4 General] sd00:
Got N4 yesterday, fully charged last night.

Not impressed...

49% remaining

6h 21m 29s on battery

screen on: 34m (22% battery use)

Wifi-on 30 mins this morning

Most of my battery use is the Android OS 39%!

One weird thing - the drain seems to have leveled off at 49%

WTF?

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[Nexus 4 General] jinjin12:
and? the screen was off most of the time....not impressive at all

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SAME AS Mine. the android os is taking up too much battery, it has to be a bug.... god damn google. the battery life on the nexus 4 is horrible and i barely even use it!! just surfing internet for 30 mins greatly decrease battery life. tell me how my bro's iphone 3g which is MANY MANY years ago has better battery life than this nexus even though i surfed the internet longer on that device. also that device has an older bettery and still beats the nexus! google, step your game up!
[Nexus 4 General] kitch9:
Make sure you have signed into all the Google +, Play etc apps by starting them at least once otherwise they drain the battery. Disable Cell Broadcast in settings - more. If you don't use Now, open it and turn it off.

First full charge is always crap also.
[Nexus 4 General] calanizzle:
Low signal = battery drain

Happened with my s2, but my N4 gets very hot while searching for better reception...

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Exactly, on 3G wakelocks appear with huge impact, while on WiFi they are minimum,
[Nexus 4 General] Fille84:
Jesus christ! If ur not some noob you should know that theres nothing wrong with the phones battery, its some app keeping ur phone awake. People never learn...
[Nexus 4 General] meangreenie:
People who have only just got their phones should wait a few charge cycles before commenting.

and jfi, custom kernels and roms are giving people great results now.
[Nexus 4 General] kanay2000:
Not Happy

Sad :(

My One X did better :/