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[G2 and Desire Z General] AZ2ENVY:
This is the first phone Ive had that Ive honestly been Impressed with the battery life on right out of the box (not including non smartphones) . And Ive had ALOT of phones lol . Im not rough on my phones by any means I actually treat them like my child lol . I can actually use the phone with moderate to heavy usage and still have charge left at the end of the day . HTC is evolving pretty nicely IMO :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] philosophics:
My total uptime for the day is 6hrs. That's how long the phone has been on and off the charger. I still have 31% remaining.

That's with me checking facebook/twitter/xda/engadget every 10mins and listening to music every now and then as well as games.

This is a great device but I'm trying for a replacement. Refer to the loose hinge memory thread if wondering why...
[G2 and Desire Z General] Arcadia310:
My battery lasted 17 hours on its first charge. Imagine when I actually calibrate it.
[G2 and Desire Z General] mtl171:
Can someone please explain to me how calibrating works? so you charge it all the way up then drain it till it shuts off? i assume you do this when you first get your device. also didn't some people say that calibrating a li-ion battery actually hurts it?
[G2 and Desire Z General] ThaGeNeCySt:
for my macbook pro, I have to discharge the battery completely.. let it sit for a few hours, then charge it to full... according to the software I use to read my battery data, my maximum charge does increase and I do this every month just to keep it there. I'm not sure if it's the same deal with cell phones.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Jorsher:
My best guess is it just gives the phone a couple reference points (full and dead) so it can more accurately tell you remaining battery life.

How big of a difference it makes or if it's even necessary, I'm not sure, but it isn't difficult to do so I do it anyway :P

Still very pleased with the battery life.
[G2 and Desire Z General] joackie27:
Here's my battery use.

16h 48m 18s since unplugged

Cell Standby - 58%

Time On 1d 2h 59m 53s

Time without a signal 39%

Phone Idle - 23%

Time On 15h 8m 34s

Android System - 13%

CPU total 8m 47s

CPU foreground 1m 8s

Voice Calls - 3%

Time on 11m 14s

Display - 3%

Time on 1h 39m 43s

Up time: 23:02:07

Battery left - 27%
[G2 and Desire Z General] mtl171:
16 hours? impressive
[G2 and Desire Z General] dyndragon:
On the whole, I'm doing much better than what my N1 was doing. After several days of using it from 6am until 10-11pm, I still have 30% battery remaining too.
[G2 and Desire Z General] joackie27:
I could probably have gotten a much better result if the time without a signal was less. 39% without a signal is a huge drain to the battery. Also, I've noticed coming from the EVO that my battery charge did not go down immediately on the 1st 10% (100% to 90%) after it reached FULL charge after taking it out of the charger.
[G2 and Desire Z General] vikramdhani:
What is the size of the battery on G2 ? I want the slim version for G2
[G2 and Desire Z General] funkadesi:
there is no slim version, as of now? :confused:

The only version that exists is 1300 mAH, which is the stock battery
[G2 and Desire Z General] mtl171:
i don't think they can make it any slimmer unless they want to get rid of the keyboard...
[G2 and Desire Z General] Gr8gorilla:
way better than my vibrant and my nexus one. I had 3 batteries for Nexus and two for vibrant, of course that is bad reference because I overclocked both of them....
[G2 and Desire Z General] mtl171:
lol. now lets see how drastically the battery life sucks when we bump the CPU up to 1Ghz.
[G2 and Desire Z General] dynamikd:
I had a full charge from a dead battery @ 8:48 am. Now it's 4:09 pm and I'm at 40%. I have twitter syncing at 30 minute intervals and my facebook syncs every hour. I believe I was getting better battery out of my slide and I have that overclocked to 844, granted I use SetCPU.

I'm still happy with the device and I can't wait until root so I can set profiles in SetCPU.
[G2 and Desire Z General] NaFun:
My phone battery drained the other night after charging it up full in the morning, though I'd used a LOT of GPS and 3G/HSPA (Google Earth, Navigate, speedtests, Vimeo videos) that day showing it off.

I charged it full yesterday at work, went home, did a bunch of stuff on it, set it down for the night without charging it. I'd even set the Maps Live Wallpaper with Traffic, which should be an energy hog.

I woke up this morning to 60% battery, and stayed green until I plugged it in again at work at 2pm. And that was after playing with Google Earth some with my stepdaughter.

So yeah, with intensive use it seems the battery life is still better than what I had with my G1. With 'normal' use, and the definition of normal changing to account for Flash videos, faster web browsing, etc, I can get over a day of battery life. I don't do any battery management, keeping GPS, wifi, 3G/HSPA on all the time, live wallpapers, several widgets, etc.

NaFun

G2 stock, upgraded from G1 w/ CyanogenMod 1.6
[G2 and Desire Z General] kevdawg:
I can say also that I have been getting some fantastic battery life here.
[G2 and Desire Z General] XfrostX:
What are you guys doing to get such amazing battery life? I have to charge my phone everyday as I am down to about 30 percent after 12 hours. I do not have a live wallpaper and I dont even use the phone for about 7 hours and it drains constantly. I have the beautiful weather widget and the engadget widget updating every 2 hours. Not sure whats up here, but my battery life is horrible.

I tried putting the phone on airplane mode (for those 7 hours i don't use it for) and the battery was full by the time i put it on again.. However after about an hour of turning airplane mode off, the battery drained to about 60 percent.. Any idea?
[G2 and Desire Z General] mtl171:
Anyone know how badly Live Wallpapers hurt the battery life.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Ghostcreamy:
Depends on which Live Wallpaper you're using, but most of them use 2 - 5% extra when compared to a standard background. Also, don't be fooled into thinking that black backgrounds save battery - with LCD's the savings is basically nothing.
[G2 and Desire Z General] under0ath888:
I got my g2 yesterday and let the battery drain completely before charging it and today after the first full charge i have had it unplugged for about 6 hours now and after text msgs and playing some games for about 20 mins, about 15 mins of a phone call, a few emails checked, and just browsing through the phone i still have 96% battery left.

i even had the battstatt widget on and thought it was messing with the reading so i took it off and rebooted the phone but it hasn't changed. hopefully it doesn't drain rapidly after a certain % but so far it looks fantastic, especially since my g1 have drained about 50% by now.
[G2 and Desire Z General] XfrostX:
How are you guys getting such good battery usage stats, I take my phone off of airplane mode, and drive home and I'm already at 60 percent (was 80 before I leave) .. now I'm back home.. been about two hours and I'm at 40 percent... any idea? Also, I keep switching from edge to hspa even though I'm in the same location lol, usually drops when I pull the keyboard out and hold it. Should I get a replacement?
[G2 and Desire Z General] SuperFly03:
Something is seriously wrong here... or you have an app in the background pulling data down/using the GPS.

I had to whack several background data apps on my Incredible before I could really get the thing to last past lunch.
[G2 and Desire Z General] XfrostX:
How do I see whats its in the backround and using data?

-- I logged off facebook

-- Turned off Location services

-- All I have on my home screen are the engadget widget and the beautiful widgets weather

-- I've got -- Movies, shazam, speedtest, UPS tracking, MusicSleep, beejive, meebo, ebuddy, astro, android irc, and color notes installed.. Don't think any of those do anything in the backround.

Think I just have a bad battery?
[G2 and Desire Z General] sinistersai4d4d:
Similar experience. Today I was off and spent most of the day on my phone. From 8:30 to 5:30 when the phone almost died.

Anyone coming from a G1 would be impressed by that. 8 hours of nearly constant use.. I used GPS, have constant FB and Twitter updating, and I even made a ringtone for my mom and sent it to her and played around with music and recorded some MicDroid T-Pain sound effects in between games of Scrabble (WordFued) with a friend online.

It's not amazing life, but it's good.
[G2 and Desire Z General] dynamikd:
No doubt, we have similar usage. I'm giving the battery some time to "adjust" to me, but if it continues, I'm going to get another one and see if that resolves the issue.
[G2 and Desire Z General] SuperFly03:
Anyone using Battery Left widget to report battery life?
[G2 and Desire Z General] sinistersai4d4d:
I use "Battery Status" for the status bar.
[G2 and Desire Z General] linkmaster_6:
I dont have a g2....yet. I wanted to see reviews and mainly how well the battery on it was and it seems like this lasts a good while. But anyway in response to your post. Meebo is a huge drain on your phone. So is ebuddy and android irc. They all run in the background because they are IM clients. They have to constantly almost check the IM server for any messages. My motorla cliq on wifi will drain about 15 precent per hour just with meebo running. Try not running meebo and tell me if that helps
[G2 and Desire Z General] XfrostX:
Yeah I know it drains battery, I've started using beejive which uses push. So it won't be as much as a drain, however I've went through days without using an I'm client and it has been bad :(
[G2 and Desire Z General] Ghostcreamy:
Based on this forum I decided to train my battery per the instructions (drain to the point it won't turn on and then chart with phone turned off for 6+ hours.) My battery performance is off the hook right now.

It's 4pm (started at 7am) and I'm still at 60% according to "Battery Indicator?" - which cost me $1. 99 but has been totally worth it so far!
[G2 and Desire Z General] dschach:
Battery Life Results for G2

So far it's not spectacular, about the same as the Nexus One/Incredible.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3967/the-tmobile-g2-preview/4
[G2 and Desire Z General] rpmccormick:
My G2 battery seems much worse then my G1. The G2 lasts about 1/4 a day with heavy use and almost a full day with normal use. My G1 lasts about 1/2 a day with heavy use and ~30hours with normal use.

When my G2 is almost dead, the battery usage page shows nothing above 3% other then Android system and phone idle.
[G2 and Desire Z General] pseudoswede:
Drained battery and re-charged (took only about three hours). Later in the day, re-charged to 100% via USB; three hours later, I was down to 35%!

I had 3G and WiFi turned on, had GPS turned on for about 10 minutes, had Facebook updating every hour, and I played Solitaire for a while.

Can anyone top that?
[G2 and Desire Z General] taporctv:
My phone's first experience under heavy use was this past Saturday while watching college football. I was constantly texting, checking scores, and calling friends. I got 10 hours of use that day. My best battery life was yesterday. I had a total uptime of around 16 hours before powering it down to charge. I was logged out of facebook and had my network location turned off. Not bad considering I had a decent amount of texts/chats, web browsing, games going on.
[G2 and Desire Z General] dynamikd:
I think my battery might be bad. I have 29% left and the phone has been on for only 4hrs and 30 minutes.
[G2 and Desire Z General] under0ath888:
under normal usage and about 6 hours of sleep its been 25 1/2 hours and i still have 36%
[G2 and Desire Z General] Bugattixda:
I'm lost.

2 charges ago the batt lasted 24hrs and I still had 47%

My last charge it was down to 27% within 6hrs?

Approx the same amount of activity... ish
[G2 and Desire Z General] Mftek1:
I'm in the same boat bro. After only 4 hours of moderate wed browing my battery is at 17%.... wtf

Sent from my T-Mobile G2
[G2 and Desire Z General] dynamikd:
Check new out, I have been using airplane mode when I'm at work because I am not allowed to have my phone in the scif, and I've actually let the battery fully discharge two to three times before charging it and my battery had gotten much better. I have all my feeds check for updates every two to three hours as well and the screen times out after thirty seconds.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Mftek1:
Thanks bro. I'm going to give that a try.

Sent from my T-Mobile G2
[G2 and Desire Z General] dynamikd:
16 hours and 30 minutes with 3% charge left.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Vulgrim:
Currently at 26 hours and 30 minutes at 8%

Sent from my T-Mobile G2
[G2 and Desire Z General] cdw9800:
Help!!

im having a weird issue, my Android System in Settings>About Phone>Battery Use> ranges from 45 to 60 percent of battery life of the charger for 4hrs no use drain about 20 to 35 percent (at work) no reception problem im signed out of Facebook Twitter etc what can be causing Androind System to be so high?? My GF G2 she is signed on Twitter Facebook ETC and is well below 20 Percent in Android System did a factory data reset didnt help any suggestions?
[G2 and Desire Z General] thynk:
Using Juice defender, and light usage on the phone I have gotten 36 hours with 50% left. WAY WAY WAY better than I got on the Nexus One. I can do an hour of wifi streaming iheartradio in the morning with about 10% usage, on my Nexus One, it would be at LEAST 20%.

I should get really ambitious and figure a way to export my juice plotter graphs.
[G2 and Desire Z General] skiptomylou11:
I get about 12-16 hours per charge on this phone, which is definitely nice coming from a G1.

I can probably get more out of it but I tether for 3-4 hours about 4-5 days during the week. Other than that with very light use before I need to charge although it hasn't been consistent. Some days it lasts longer than others and I've been neglecting to reboot because of the temp-root.

I'm still thinking of getting a back up battery just incase because I've fried batteries due to constant tethering, so I don't wanna be surprised and all of a sudden be left without a working battery.

All in all, I can't complain. Useage is good, not great, but it's a definite improvement.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ~~Tito~~:
I don't know if this is good or not. I unplugged today fully charged around 1:20pm, Now its 4:24pm and battery is at 63% with constant texting, GTalk and twitter updates. With maybe 20+/- min of browsing. One youtube video from the youtube app. :confused:

Is that good or bad?

Oh I have it at 1ghz, ondemand with power save bias at 20%. Max 1017mhz - Min 368 mhz
[G2 and Desire Z General] EfemaN:
I slept 10 hours and battery didn't fall at all from "Fully Charged." I turned Wifi on, browsed online for ~30 minutes and was down to about 80%. Normal?

EDIT: I have background data and sync on; but considering it didn't fall at all overnight, that couldn't be the reason for the huge drop... can it?
[G2 and Desire Z General] ~~Tito~~:
Did any services update while you where alseep? It could have lagged to change the battery status.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Sv3nt3k:
I can usually go for about 24 hours before it's time to plug it in before bed. I occasioanlly browse for something and frequently text. Background data is on along with sync. When I'm at home, I turn the brightness down to the lowest setting.

When I step out to somewhere, I set it to automatic. Without SetCPU and no root, that's about how long it goes. But with rooting and using SetCPU, my phone idles at around 235 MHz on sleep, so it's barely using any processing power. I can usually go 5 to 6 hours on a full charge, reporting at 100% before dropping to 99%.

I'm not expecting this to go two full days of use and no charging, that's asking too much. But so far, my battery life is good.
[G2 and Desire Z General] EfemaN:
I suppose I don't know the answer to that; I don't know how to check. Although the 0% drop overnight has happened the last two nights as well, but I don't know if battery status has failed to update those times too. I use a program called BattStatt to tell me the status in text form.
[G2 and Desire Z General] kcm117:
I have no trouble getting through my long days (8:30am-6:00pm).

Turning auto sync off and just using it when u want to check stuff saves soo much battery
[G2 and Desire Z General] ThaGeNeCySt:
I got the red chichi batteries... (well i ordered the white ones just to be different ;):p)

they were at around 60% when I put it in my phone... so it took about 2 hours to run it to zilch with trillian and ustream running.. i charged it to 100

I've done web browsing, texting, gtalking, spent 1 hour and 35 minutes in total in phone calls.. screen brightness close to 50 with the screen being on for 2 hours and 40 minutes.. i have twidroyd updating every 30 minutes, facebook with existing contacts sync updating every hour.. beautiful widget weather updating every 3 hours, news widget updating every 3 hours, nexuskang live wallpaper, launcher pro plus, all the google syncs on, overclocked to 1GHz with SetCPU service running

Normally with these settings and under those circumstances, my phone would shut down and need to be charged after about 9 and a half hours.. it's been 11 hours and 31 minutes and my battery is at 24% left

I'm totally impressed right now.. as I needed just a little bit more juice after a normal work day to last me a little bit while home before needing to be charged before I go to bed.

It may begin to last longer with a few more 0-full charge cycles but right now color me IMPRESSED. :eek:
[G2 and Desire Z General] puertoricantainoking:
Have my G2 for 2 days already and loving the battery life very durable :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
Not sure about you.

But i find my self always sticking my finger right into the camera lense, and it's always hard to keep clean

specially when you are eating with your hands then you do something on the phone and that oily residue is hard to get out without a good wipe.

the problem is i find i spend a lot of time trying to clean it.

So i was wondering if anyone got a good idea to put some sort of screen protector for the camera lense

i was thinking probably i'll cut a small piece of the screen protector and put it on top, since i got many to spare

also i got a few very nice one with mirror coating

problem is... not sure if the mirror coating ones will make the picture less sharp as it reflects back the light

right now the camera is taking very nice a vivid pictures as well as recording, and i wouldn't want a screen/lense protector to cut down the resolution & light input when taking pictures and making videos

specially for night mode photo shots
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MKVFTW:
Food fingers will also be an issue with a screen protector. Unless you use a anti glare one which will most likely degrade the image. You best bet is a case or backing that recesses the camera preventing you from touching it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] aridoasis:
it's really hard to avoid touching the camera, and you're right, a screen protector might deteriorate the image quality.

what i've been doing, same with phones i've previously had, is carry a small piece of micro fibre cloth in my wallet. that way, i can make sure my lense is clean.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
i do have that, problem is, oily residue is hard to remove with the micro fibre cloth

it just smudges it around, the only way to take it out is to go to the washroom get a tiny bit of soap (or wet cloth tissue, like the ones you can get from KFC) and clean it with the micro fibre cloth
[Galaxy S I9000 General] INeedYourHelp:
I never took the protector off that comes with the phone.

It was quite funny. The screen protector I bought came with a protector for the camera lens but no matter what I couldn't get it on.... I discovered that the camera came with a protector already on it, lol.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] aridoasis:
this would probably be your best bet. it's an oleophobic (supposedly oil repelling) screen protector that includes 3 extra pieces for the camera lense as well.

http://www.sgpstore.com/product_info.php/products_id/1497
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Billus:
Just use your thumb.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] SlowRain:
1. Don't eat greasy food, it's bad for you--bad for your smartphone, too.

2. Use a fork instead of your fingers.

3. Barring those smart-alecky suggestions :D, perhaps there's an opportunity for someone to develop a sexy after-market back for the SGS--one which makes for easier battery changing and has a sliding window over the camera lens. Does something like that already exist?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] silverstorm:
If you get a Martin Fields screen protector it usually comes with a additional cut out protector for the camera lens. It's pricey though, but the film is good quality and you don't get any bubbles.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tron360:
I have read thread after thread and all I get is error 67 - Evo works fine for phone calls and text messages on revol wireless. but I am unable to connect to the web. Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zoon0n:
Hey all -

Rooted yesterday with unrevoked 3.21 (wicked awesome), so I'm S-OFF and have ClockworkMod Recovery 2.5.0.5. Flashed my first ROM today, Virtuous 3.0.1, without a hitch via ROM Manager. So far so good.

Downloaded various PB31IMG.zip's in hopes of installing a new, custom splash for my Dinc.. no such luck. I'm following the instructions found here on the "Splash1 and Bootscreen Compilation" thread to a "T." Problem is, when I boot into hboot, it's not recognizing PB31IMG.zip as an update, so I'm not getting the confirmation dialogue. Also, when I press volume up, I'm getting "no image" or "wrong image" as the message when it runs through the zip.

I'm wondering (1) is there an alternate method, aka install through ClockworkMod? and (2) are there other requirements besides S-OFF?

Thanks -

Zoon0n
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fernando sor:
Are you moving them to the root if your sd card?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zoon0n:
Yes, most definitely, it's sitting right there in /sdcard when I check it in Astro
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fernando sor:
Thats strange. I would invest in root explorer. Having both I think its far superior. So your booting into your bootloader right? And the first action your taking is moving your volume rocker up?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fernando sor:
Whenever you download anything from your phone it most always goes to your download folder. Did you move it out of there and place it on your root?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zoon0n:
It's the darndest thing.. it's definitely in the root of the SD Card, I pulled it out and plugged it into my PC just to check. I'm hitting volume up straight after booting into hboot, but it says "No image or wrong image" when it looks through the PM31IMG.zip.. and this is with all of the files I've tried, both the ones I downloaded here and the ones I created. Root explorer is on the list, I'm trying to be frugal however and decided to grab SetCPU first (a good choice I'd say :D)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobosan:
Have you attempted to open the update file on your computer, and unzip it? I know sometimes my router will pick up noise and interference, and CRC check's on zip's and exe's will fail. Opening the zip on your computer and seeing if it unzips correctly will tell you if it's a corrupted zip or not.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zoon0n:
I'm able to unzip them just find. Inside there's the splash1.img and android-info with the following text:

modelid: PB3120000

cidnum: VZW__001

mainver: 3.17.605.0

hbootpreupdate:3

look right?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] najaboy:
It sounds like your sd card may not be formatted to FAT32. Refprmat it using FAT32 and it should work like a charm.