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[Vibrant General] SamsungVibrant:
Ya, I leave GPS toggled on, it shouldn't use battery unless it is actively being used.
[Vibrant General] dtxtellsit:
agreed- 12hrs based on my high usage Wifi,bt,gps all on screen brightest all time(i sell em so like bright screen to floss) stream espn radio thru bt 6+hrs a day. lil video watching and lil (30-45min each) web browsing constant texts and calls.-vibrant fact 2.1 update 1
[Vibrant General] henreeg:
I usually have to recharge after 2 days of normal use.

Internet, few games, web browsing, a lot of texting. Airplane mode when going to sleep. Hardly use it at work.

Id say about 30 hours at max.

15 hours over-using it.
[Vibrant General] lolcopter:
second this
[Vibrant General] pavvy:
Is there a way to track how much juice your active widgets may be draining? The System "Battery use" meter doesn't seem to track this... Thx
[Vibrant General] SamsungVibrant:
have you tried *#*#4636#*#* then you can see battery use bay programs I think, not totally sure though, try looking around there.
[Vibrant General] Goog1e Phone:
Turn off orientation in settings. Try it for a day and see how much your battery life increases.
[Vibrant General] SamsungVibrant:
how does that increase battery life? Ill trx it but i use landscape keyboard a lot
[Vibrant General] henreeg:
30 hours of battery life and counting!

So far I got 1 day and 6 hours.

AND I STILL GOT 30% BATTERY TO GO.

This is normal use. I've downloaded a few apps, texted a whole lot, browsed the internet.

That's 30 hours.
[Vibrant General] MacGuy2006:
Without info on actual use (how manu minutes of calls, how many minutes screen was on, etc.) this info is hardly useful. It seems like much lighter use than what most people do.
[Vibrant General] Kubernetes:
Yeah, I don't know how people are getting these times aside from simply not using their phones at all. Just browsing the web (over 3G, screen at 25%) can drain 15% of my battery in an hour. Listening to music (mixzing, screen off) takes anywhere from 5-10% an hour.

Normal use for me is probably 5+ hours of music, maybe an hour of web surfing, answering maybe 10-15 emails and twice that number of texts, maybe 10-15 minutes of calls. With that usage I'll be completely drained in 8 hours or so.

Just looking at HG!'s screenshot above, it looks like he did nothing but make a few calls and then let it sit idle otherwise (if you used the web, why is that not reflected in your usage?).
[Vibrant General] geocepe:
where do you put in the codes at?
[Vibrant General] SamsungVibrant:
Dial that code into dialer. ..Read the first post in this thread
[Vibrant General] MacGuy2006:
This needlessly large image tells us that you have barely used your phone, and have made virtually no calls during the last day and a bit. :)

Click on the Voice Calls bar and I bet it will say something like 2 minutes or less.

You know, if you set it to Flight Mode and then leave it in a draw, it may last two and a half days....
[Vibrant General] darkknight49:
thank you mr know-it-all for your advice, and it was a 20 minute call. That was my best time, i average about 20 hours.
[Vibrant General] geocepe:
I did read the first post in this thread. Im sorry that I didnt understand what you meant. Not all of us are masters at this yet.
[Vibrant General] henreeg:
15 min calls the most for me... and not counting the others. Plus trying to get 3 stars on all levels in "Angry Birds."

Also looking for system files using RootExplorer. That post was yesterday, so I got 1 day and 17 hours. Sure it's about to die...

but I think the Vibrant has an awesome battery life.

I also don't use it during working hours, while spending time with my girl, or while sleeping.

But I know I DO use my phone enough to get my girl pissed and telling me to put it away.
[Vibrant General] chronos7:
I wish there was an extended battery available that was the same size as the original battery.
[Vibrant General] swehes:
Usage of Vibrant

I get about 5-10 hours.

Use the phone as following.

Turn on Streaming Radio (Conservative talk radio) (it goes throughout the time)

Play some Pocket Empire throughout the day.

Send about 10 messages

talk at the most 30 minutes during this time.

Lowest brightness
[Vibrant General] SamsungVibrant:
lol I didn't mean that, I wasn't giving a command, I was trying to be helpful, and was simply saying, the first post explains it. thats all
[Vibrant General] geocepe:
Im sorry. I thought you were being rude. I apologize.
[Vibrant General] MasterColdSoul:
Unplugged my phone at 240pm PST yesterday, mainly checked tweetdeck every 15 min to read my messages, checked the market, read some emails (until idle for my sleep), read 200+ tweets/facebooks/foursquare posts, 1/2 dozen emails, check visual voicemail, send/rec a few txts, took a picture, make a few 5 min phone calls and played 10 minutes or so of FFII on SNES emu.

1d almost 2 hours (8 min away) and at 48% system, 42% estimated battery (batterywiz).

I will throw it on the charger tonight and post a few picks of the usage and usage times before I do.

I am running "True Stock" with black bar and black notify settings, tweet deck black, mostly black background, weather updated every hour and on refresh, tweet deck updates every 15min, a numbers of widgets but not on main home page. I have setcpu to lower cpu when screen off and battery is below 50%, 15 sec screen timeout and power saving mode off.
[Vibrant General] egrims:
15.5 hours with pretty moderate usage email pushing on two accounts for about half the time. Just got the phone so I'm still browsing the store quite a bit and playing with stuff. At the 15.5 mark I was just at 6% left. Better than I have been getting but I think the initial excitement is wearing off.

I get horrible coverage at work so I rely primarily on google voice over WIFI to stay in touch with the outside world and I leave my radio on with GPS off. My screen brightness is turned all the way down and the report is saying about 12% screen usage. Running percentage is 42% with the WIFI running usage at 68%.

First post here. Started browsing awhile ago when I was planning on getting the G2 but I got this free on a buy one get one deal and it's been great since. Looking forward to Froyo and doing some rooting once I get used to everything.
[Vibrant General] voghan:
I rarely see more than 16 hours. If I use the phone a lot its 12 to 14.
[Vibrant General] NoDataFound:
Pfft. You guys dont use your phones.

I dont get 6 hours a charge. If anything 5 hours is standard.
[Vibrant General] MasterColdSoul:
Ended up getting down to 31% by 1am when I am ready for bed.

So

34 hours, 8 min On 31% left

Display on 2 hour 27 min

Phone Idle 1d 7h 41min

Voice Calls 10 min

Besides the above did some more light web browsing, checked tweetdeck a lot

With 30% left I could have slept and woke up with about 10% still and had that last for another few hours of checking twitter and some light texting/phone calls but ehhh.
[Vibrant General] SamsungVibrant:
interesting results
[Vibrant General] vapotrini:
Interesting? That's putting it mildly.

What exactly are you people doing to get between 5 and 15 hours use? Playing games and watching movies non stop? Doesn't make sense to me.
[Vibrant General] MasterColdSoul:
They have to be or someones phones are defective or their battery is pretty simple to me.

If I can get 12 hours playing with my phone almost non-stop trying to run the battery out, and I can get about 2 days with almost no use it seems to me the phone battery life is in the range of the following

No to Light Usage 2-3 Days

Med usage 1-2 Days

Heavy usage 12 hours

But thats my phone and my battery but it seems odd that unless someone was watching the video "The Mist 2, Super White" or something that is really white and heavy CPU use they could get less than 10 hours out of this battery.
[Vibrant General] SamsungVibrant:
seems like 11-15 hrs is wining.

the person who said 41+ hrs must never use the phone.
[Vibrant General] iynfynity:
i can't believe the results. :) heavy usage for 12 hours? damn! i use the browser for 10 minutes and when i checked my battery status from 100% it's now down to 90-85%. maybe there's something wrong with my battery.
[Vibrant General] denny_1986:
You guys should try juice defender. It really did wonders for me
[Vibrant General] grabiarz:
Same here.

To people that are getting day/day+ of heavy use, are you running stock firmware/kernel and can you post your screen on time in addition to phone uptime? I think that'll be a more accurate usage indicator rather than uptime.
[Vibrant General] lralexl:
almost 12 hours unplugged with wifi on half the time and a dozen texts and facebook browsing for about 45 mins. at 70% battery atm. At this rate im looking at around 36 hours of battery time.
[Vibrant General] sheek360:
I lose about 20% an hour on light usuage. I dunno if its the lag fix or the overclock or what......
[Vibrant General] lolcopter:
low-usage

i've been unplugged for 8 hours today and i'm sitting at 81%. wifi always on, checking emails, a few txts, some twitter throughout the day

high-usage

i watched nfl redzone and checked out football stuff all day yesterday, and my battery didn't die until the night game... so i'm guestimating roughly 8 hours or so of constant use before a low battery warning
[Vibrant General] SamsungVibrant:
Just sharing my experience with juice defender, it doesn't do anything magical, and didn't give me any extended battery life. I already set my phone to be maximal in efficiency, juice defender did not add any benefit. I uninstalled.
[Vibrant General] axion68:
I'm sitting at 78% after 12 hours of being unplugged. 15 minutes of talk and 20 minutes of the screen on (web and text). WIFI has been on all day and connected 90% of the day. JAC kernel on JI5 release.

So far I'm satisfied with the battery. Today was light use but I typically have around 60% battery left after 12 hours and an hour of the screen being on.
[Vibrant General] oka1:
Depends

If i am using a lot it will last about 14-16 hrs before it is down below 10% if I am not using hardly at all then it willl last about 2-2.5 days
[Vibrant General] iynfynity:
how do you guys do that? making your phone last for a day or two with heavy usage. I'm doing my best to make my battery life last long (low brightness, wifi, bluetooth, gps are all off) but still my phone can't last more than 6 hours with heavy usage.
[Vibrant General] rhcp011235:
I get 10-16hrs on avg. but, I keep mine charged in the car + USB alot. so that does not say much :)

And, Im running the hacked kernels and all the good stuff :)
[Vibrant General] SamsungVibrant:
2 days heavy use? I'm sure either these people are exaggerating or their definition of heavy use is different than yours and mine.
[Vibrant General] ohmyggg:
5 hours, 5 minutes total

I have a stock, unrooted/unmodded Vibrant (and have not received the JI6 OTA yet). GPS & Wi-Fi toggled on, Bluetooth off.

5 hours, 10 minutes until (almost) dead battery (1% remaining).

My battery life was always bad. Below are some notes on my usage:

I like having lots of apps installed/using the "smartness" of my smartphone. I think many of these apps "ping" the CPU constantly. Even though nothing seems to hog CPU, it appears that many of them pop in and out constantly utilizing 1-2% CPU (according to my Watchdog app).

Being aware of the high battery usage of the Samsung SAMOLED, I *used* to keep my phone on lowest brightness but ever since I got a charger at work, I've just kept my phone on full brightness all the time so that I can always enjoy the full effect of the great screen.

I have gmail (calendar, contacts, mail, and picasa), AOL mail, Twitter, Facebook (contacts only), and Flickr synced (though I don't think Facebook has correctly synced for a while). My sync interval for FB & Twitter is only once per day. No idea what gmail and AOL are but they seem pretty instantaneous.

I recently installed Watchdog (monitors processes) and NoLED (screen notification for phones without LED notication lights) which run all the time. Using *#*#4636#*#* for Usage Statistics, I can see that both of these applications are in the top 5 for application usage time. Web (used heavily - up to 8 tabs - for a good hour straight on 3G - with full brightness) is #1, Youtube (used it for about 30 minutes on Wi-Fi) is #2, NoLED (runs all the time) is #3, Facebook app (wow, used only for 5-10 minutes on Wi-Fi) is #4, and Watchdog Lite (runs all the time) is #5. I also logged into Trillian and chatted for 5 minutes on 3G in addition to 5 minutes of G-chatting on 3G. I would say this constitutes 2 hours of heavy usage.

Also important, I commute to work everyday and travel through both the Brooklyn-Battery tunnel and the underground NYC subway. In total, my phone is probably without service for 30-35 minutes. I suspect that I don't have super good 3G service at my desk, so maybe that kills battery too.

2 hours of heavy usage with full brightness and 30 minutes without service translated to only 5 hours of battery. Overall, I think my battery should perform better than this (despite my usage).

Having said that, I still love my phone (but please, can we get some better battery technology in our smartphones - and laptops for that matter?).

Edit: Performed same test a few days later with the JI6 update. This time with moderate browser usage (3-4 tabs max for 45 minutes), no 30 minutes of Youtube, and no 10 minutes of FB app. Still had about 30 minutes of no service on the way to work and max brightness the whole time. Total battery drain time = 7.5 hours (vs. 5 hours, 10 min heavy usage). I don't believe the update had any effect. I think it was just my moderate usage.
[Vibrant General] ohmyggg:
haha

On my phone's screen right now.....

"Congratulations!

T-Mobile has sent you a new software update for your device.

But battery life is insufficient.

Please charge your phone before updating."

My only option is a big button that says "Postpone."

haha

Darn!
[Vibrant General] xebix:
Politeness on the internet? What madness is this?!?! :D
[Vibrant General] kangxi:
It would help if you guys that are posting good times actually say your set up. Are you using the stock launcher for example.
[Vibrant General] Netphase:
I have hit 4 days before with light use, including a couple short calls, some texting, a few foursquare check-ins and some random facebook updates. My average drain time is lower though.

Changing the Wi-Fi Sleep Policy to "Never" seems to have helped my battery life a lot when at home on Wi-Fi. That keeps it from switching to 3G when your screen is off which uses more battery.
[Vibrant General] MV10:
HUGE difference. Doubled my battery life -- and it was already pretty good.

In fact, if my phone just sits on standby (e.g. busy day and I'm not on the phone or using it), it doesn't use almost any juice at all -- so in those scenarios it far more than doubles the battery life.
[Vibrant General] reaton33:
I honestly don't think it's the battery. When I first got the phone it would not last more than a full day, about 12-15 hours and that is with light use. My G1 would last 2 days with the same amount of use. After rooting and installing the one click lag fix my battery more than tripled in life. It would last just as long as my G1. After the recent update my battery sucks all over again losing around 8% per hour when it's doing absolutely nothing.
[Vibrant General] kangxi:
The radio in the latest update has been strengthened. Therefor, most users will get better reception but you will have less battery life. Which would you prefer? You can find the JI2 modem floating around if you would rather more battery life.
[Vibrant General] iynfynity:
Does everyone with the JI6 had a difference in their battery performance?
[Vibrant General] Rodriguez92:
Ima try this now see if it helps
[Vibrant General] gravis86:
Yeah I'm running through almost twice as fast...

I think I'm just gonna flash the JI2 modem from Eugene
[Vibrant General] PaiPiePia:
I didn't see any change in battery drain since I flashed to JI6. Perhaps, people who feels like their battery is draining faster is experiencing a placebo effect? Like faster data speed must equal faster battery drain?

P.S. for the record, I didn't see any Data Speed boost at all with JI6, in places I used to get 100 kb down 200 kb up, I still get the exact same thing.
[Vibrant General] Gigamaster89:
12% left after 13 hours. 5 minutes of talk, maybe 2-3 hours of websurfing/playing with stuff, and the rest were idle. All of wifi.

I opened the phone yesterday. Usage looks good? Been waiting for OTA all day but nothing.
[Vibrant General] NoDataFound:
3 hours and 8 minutes today. Thats how long it took to go from 100% to 1%.

Thats been my typical time since I got the phone.
[Vibrant General] iynfynity:
how do you use your phone?
[Vibrant General] tenjhotenge:
31 - 35 hours. J16 with Jac's OC/UV with voodoo mod. Moderate use. 1-2 hours of internet. 0-1 hours of gaming. 0-1 hour of just using the phone for no reason. 1 - 2 hours of voice call. And about a total of 1 hour spent texting. OC'ed at 1.2 Ghz.

If I put in an hour of music and youtube it'd be at 25 - 30 hours.
[Vibrant General] Master™:
I get about 16 hours per day.

I send about 1500 texts per day (Yeah I'm a texter)

I am on the phone for at least an hour per day.

I play about 30 minutes to 1 hour of games.

I am on the internet for about 1 hour..

Anything Else? Oh yeah..

I am overclocked to 1.3Ghz & Using Master Rom 1.1.1
[Vibrant General] NoDataFound:
I use my phone like a normal person. Brightness is at the lowest too. I had one phone call during that time and got roughly 25 - 30 gmails. I have work email not checking during the time when i am at the office and using my blackberry anyway. I dont have twitter or facebook polling for updates and everything else is manual checking. No stupid widgets.

Edit: i just called tmo and they tried to tell me at first that 3 hours was actually acceptable, and that i shouldn't do xyz. After some sweet talking, i am getting a new battery for free and keeping my current one. Sounds fair to me. Ill update with ny new battery times.
[Vibrant General] eunkipark92:
15 hours 200text message. 20min of games. 3-4hours of wifi. 5min on the phone
[Vibrant General] Gigamaster89:
Phone went down 10% overnight on 5 hours of sleep with Wifi on...and still no OTA.
[Vibrant General] lqaddict:
Bionix 1.8 normal use
[Vibrant General] iynfynity:
I can use my phone more than 24 hours of heavy usage if i'm connected in wifi.
[Vibrant General] Wykedx:
How do you change it to never?
[Vibrant General] Shrivel:
Settings/Wireless and Network/Wifi Settings.

Press "menu" and goto the "advanced" settings.
[Vibrant General] oka1:
I get 16-20 hrs

I get on average 16-20 hrs a bay using it to do emails and talk on the phone and of course occasional you-tube funnies The battery is not bad not great not bad
[Vibrant General] ShinyBuddha:
16-20 hours for me and even then with the new JI6 I'm getting better GPS battery life. I use the GPS and Google Navigation 2 hours a day, then there's some surfing, playing Angry Birds (out today!), a few texts, and maybe 20 minutes of phone calls.

~SB
[Vibrant General] KnottyBitz:
What's the down side of sleep-mode-never?
[Vibrant General] ShinyBuddha:
It uses the battery all the time maybe...
[Vibrant General] Mark271:
I don't understand how leaving your WIFI on all the time would save battery life as opposed to leaving it off when not in use.
[Vibrant General] boomerbubba:
Because your Android typically needs some data connection for background processes -- updating email, syncing contacts, calendar, various widgets, etc. WiFi takes less power than data connections over 3G or 4G cell towers. If you are at a site such as your home or office with WiFi, it is much better to use it.

On the other hand, when you are not in such a WiFi area, you just should manually toggle the WiFi as disabled because you have no use for it.
[Vibrant General] iynfynity:
go ahead and try it, then post here your observation. :)
[Vibrant General] Shrivel:
Because Android automatically switches to 3G data connection when the wifi sleeps. If your phone's doing a good bit of background syncing, it takes much less juice to do this over wifi rather than 3G.

If you don't do much data syncing in the background, it probably won't make much difference.
[Vibrant General] SamsungVibrant:
you could put it in airplane mode when asleep, that saves battery
[Vibrant General] rocketragz:
my battery life prior to the update was pretty good. after the ota update, it's horrible.
[Vibrant General] SamsungVibrant:
What do you think could be causing it, what specifically in the update?
[Vibrant General] Kubernetes:
Epic users had an issue after the update with Media Hub's DRM service. It was constantly polling and thus preventing the phone from sleeping. I used Titanium to erase the DRM service and Media Hub and my battery life seems to have improved a bit. (always hard to say with any certainty since my usage varies day to day).

There's a thread in the Epic forums about it and which files to delete.

/edit

Also, forgot to mention that the radio in JI6 is more powerful than the stock radio. It's great if you live in an area with spotty service, but it will drain battery faster. If you already had great reception, you might try flashing the JI2 radio, which is more efficient.
[Vibrant General] N8ter:
16-20 hours is beyond great, but either you're lying or you hardly use your phone for anything.

I don't really care to see these useless screenshots because I can make my phone last a week if I plug it into the car charger everytime I got in the car and kept it on the house charger whenever I was in the house using it on the couch, etc. Getting the info needed off the phone would probably take 20 screenshots.

In any case, it doesn't matter.

You are not getting 16-20 hours with anything other than below-casual/very low usage on this phone.
[Vibrant General] N8ter:
It's not that I don't understand how it works, I just don't understand the point. At home I can keep my phone plugged in while I use it so saving battery power at home is not a factor.

And anywhere else it doesn't matter because I don't spend my days at WiFi hotspot.
[Vibrant General] Kubernetes:
Not true. I easily can hit 12+ hours with 25% left on battery. Typical usage for me includes: BT on, GPS on, music streaming through BT for 3 hours, .5-1 hour for games, 1.5 hr surfing the web, prob 50 email and texts, maybe 15 min of calls. If I'm sitting at my computer, I'll turn off 3g and Wifi.

It is possible to eek out a full day of moderate use, but the keys are keeping the screen use down and only keeping the connectivity you need. Keeping 3g on constantly will rape your battery. If all you're needing at the moment is phone and messaging/email capability, there's no need for 3g or wifi. If I'm out with friends, same thing. The only thing I might need 3g for is to look something up or use maps, but firing it up only takes 15 seconds.

BTW, I'm using Bionix 1.8 w/ Jac's Voodoo @200/1200.
[Vibrant General] rocketragz:
Not sure, but I tested it last night. Went to bed at 100% charge. Woke up 7 hours later at 70%. Prior to the update id lose maybe 6%.

Fwiw before going to sleep, i stopped drm service as I saw mentioned in another post.

Hmmmmm
[Vibrant General] kohakuslayer:
I'm getting 42 hours of battery life and counting, attachment below.

Using Bionix 1.8 w/ JACS OC/UV kernel.
[Vibrant General] N8ter:
Uou hardly used the phone... Same as many others.

Yes, I can do nothing but let it sit there all day and make a few calls then rave the upti,e. With moderate usage (what you'd expect on a smartphone), the battery life is terrible.

Noy hacking my phone just to see if that improves it. I don't agree with the risks (never will).
[Vibrant General] SamsungVibrant:
Ya I agree.
[Vibrant General] iynfynity:
to those who can make their phones last more than a day. can you use your phone with heavy usage continously for 4-5 hours and post your battery status.