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Got my extended battery yesterday!! Makes bionic heavier but i actually like it better that way...lets see how long it lasts fully charged at 830 this morning...to be contunued
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Congrat! have a nice day

Yessir, enjoy. Makes it last so much longer! I feel like the last 5% takes forever! lol

Oh yea long day today so it will be put to the test
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Just picked one up yesterday as well. Makes it feel like the phone I had previously which was an EVO with an extended battery. I like it and for 25 bones right now it's hard to pass up.
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For reals can't pass it up at half price!!
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It make the phone more comfortable to hold for me as well. Enjoy.

So how did it go? Are you still on the original 1st charge from yesterday?

Just got my EXT. Bat. today via Fed EX will give it a full charge tonight and test hard tomorrow, almost feel like the bionic is to lite with orgin. batttery in it??

Very good design on this extended battery

Alright!!!! So I last charged it this morning @ 830am...it is now about to be 8 so almost 12 hours now and its @ 50%!! So my usage consisted of checking emails, texting, facebooking, lil bit of checking xda, twitter, and a couple of very short calls so I would say my use was at moderate through out the day...I'm very happy with the extended battery!! I think I had done my normal streaming of Pandora or iheart radio (around 2 hours in the office) that it would still be going right now
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I just received mine today. Then I hit a brainstorm. I popped it into the external battery charger and it started charging. So, I thought to myself - why not have 2? Added bonus - I'd have a spare back cover as well.
Et voila! I went back to VZW and ordered a second one today.
I'll be popping mine in late tonight and seeing how it goes in a non 4G area with WiFi on, GPS on, etc....
I'll probably try to condition the battery as well as I can also, draining it as far as it will let me the first time and then fully charging in the external charger. Same with the next one that comes in.

Nice I'm going to.go home and use my quick charger!!
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I like the weight and feel of the phone with the extended battery. Feels a lot more like my Thunderbolt, which is what I am accustomed to.

Ugh....can't believe I missed it. I just got my phone yesterday, too.

This is my first run with the battery. Hour and a half GPS, gaming, phone calls, 2 hour Rdio streaming, hitting it pretty hard before I went to bed. Woke up and used it even more.
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Dumb question for anyone using the extended battery. I got mine earlier in the week and it doesn't really seem to last any longer than the standard battery. Charged it all the way up and the most I can get out of it is about 8 hours. I don't really consider myself a heavy user either. Do you guys find that you have to run it all the way down and it last forever on 5% or does it just seem to overall last longer for you?
Thanks

Also received mine yesterday. Has been off the charger now for 12 hours. 2 of those hours were spent streaming slacker radio which I am doing right now still. Battery is at 40%. Also I have been browsing the internet, facebook, and xda all day. I am very impressed. I like the weight of the phone too. It feels solid and well built, kinda like you know your holding a powerful machine.
Edit:I also have had skype active in the background all day and 4g turned on.
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Acturbo said:
Dumb question for anyone using the extended battery. I got mine earlier in the week and it doesn't really seem to last any longer than the standard battery. Charged it all the way up and the most I can get out of it is about 8 hours. I don't really consider myself a heavy user either. Do you guys find that you have to run it all the way down and it last forever on 5% or does it just seem to overall last longer for you?
Thanks
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Sounds like you may have an app or several apps that are constantly syncing in the background. I can go all day with the stock battery. When I used the extended battery, I went all day and had 50% left.
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cdf3 said:
Sounds like you may have an app or several apps that are constantly syncing in the background. I can go all day with the stock battery. When I used the extended battery, I went all day and had 50% left.
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Thanks for the reply, I just did a factory reset and am gonna roll with that for the next day or so. If its not that I read somewhere else that there may be a batch of more power hungry phones. If this continues I will exchange it I guess.

How has your battery life been?

I must say, this little thing is impressive... I've been hammering this thing all day! I expected 6-7 realistic hours.
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That's pretty good, I see it to improve after a few more charges.
Does yours takes a while to charge fully?

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That's pretty good, I see it to improve after a few more charges.
Does yours takes a while to charge fully?
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I charged it once since purchase yesterday.. took about an hour and thirty.

mine has been crazy about 10 hours of nonstop usage as well I can barely put the thing down. Current charge is a bit lower cause I have been playing GTA 3 all day

I decided to use it right out of the box with 40% and it lasted 20 hours with moderate use I'd say. Played a couple games and streamed some music and a few emails. It's all charged up now, so I'll see how the battery is now!
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WiFi seems to use a really small amount of battery power.

phoneman09 said:
I decided to use it right out of the box with 40% and it lasted 20 hours with moderate use I'd say. Played a couple games and streamed some music and a few emails. It's all charged up now, so I'll see how the battery is now!
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Great battery life so far and yea it seems to take forever to charge up, then than apps syncing etc I left it alone for a while and it'd only charged like 30℅

Mine has been great as well. Been playing games and watching videos and browsing. I guess the real life tests they did were accurate when they rated it at 9 hours.
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Make sure you're using the Asus charger that came with your N7 to charge it.
The Asus wall charger puts out 5v 2A - most other chargers are only outputting .5A
My first charge took forever using an old Moto charger I use for other devices.. once I plugged in the Asus it's down to less than 3 hours for a full charge.

so that means from zero (0%) to 100% fully charged how many hours of charging with the original charger?
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about 3 hours

Speeding Wheels said:
Make sure you're using the Asus charger that came with your N7 to charge it.
The Asus wall charger puts out 5v 2A - most other chargers are only outputting .5A
My first charge took forever using an old Moto charger I use for other devices.. once I plugged in the Asus it's down to less than 3 hours for a full charge.
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I feel much better knowing that I'm not the only one to have done that.

Battery Life is Far Better than expected
My battery life has been exceptional, which surprised me. I saw a youtube video where the guy from Cnet said he was concerned about how fast the battery drained. I don't know if he had a defective unit, but I've been pushing it pretty hard. Downloading apps, watching youtube videos, checking emails constantly and browsing the internet.
I've even used super video and overskreen to browse and watch a video at the same time. Still it last at least 8-9 hours. When on a long car ride, about 6 hours of constant use... Got home and it was at just under 30% battery left. This N7 is a BEAST!

Great battery life here as well. Just watched 4 straight hours of movies streamed from my HTPC using Air Video Server and Mirage player while out of town. Flawless.
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Battery life seems pretty good to me, pulled off the charger and used alot yesterday, mostly web browsing with screen set to it's lowest setting cause I was inside all day, timeout set at 5mins. I was connected to a weak wifi signal all day with gps on and bluetooth off.

can you imagine what the battery life will be when we get some cooked up roms with some tweaks in this beast!

im happy with the battery life as well as the charge time

Battery life has been great, 8-10 hours, no complaints besides that it charges very slowly.
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I enjoy being able to put the tablet down and picking up the next day without it having been on the charger and see it only went down from 92% to 82%..
Last tablet I had, even turned off, it wouldn't have enough power to turn on the next day.
I am at 77% with 1d 6h 9m 5s..

I could play hard all day, set it down late at night. Wake up in the morning and hop on. It has great battery life. About as good as my iP*d

Galaxy S4 Active Battery Life

Just got the phone today and have not had a chance to calibrate the battery but the battery life so far is horrible compared to the original S4.
Anyone else experiencing bad battery life on this phone?

I'm the opposite. I had the S4 for a week and a half and traded it for the Active a couple of days ago. My battery life has been better than the original. I've got this phone set up the same as I did the s4 too. It probably just varies on what apps you have installed.
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Hardcore73 said:
Just got the phone today and have not had a chance to calibrate the battery but the battery life so far is horrible compared to the original S4.
Anyone else experiencing bad battery life on this phone?
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I am experiencing the exact opposite. The battery life on my S4 Active absolutely smokes anything I ever got on the original S4.

My active is better on battery than my S4 also. Set up exactly the same
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I traded my Active for the regular S4, the aqua looked good on the website but disgusting in real live. I'm getting much better life with the S4 running the 9505 firmware and some of the Samsung features turned off.

These are just a few shots of my battery life. This is standard and sometimes it is a lot better:
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I get the same battery life as joshuadjohnson22. Usually about 3.5 hours screen on and if im lucky I can survive 16 hours on a charge.
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The battery life on my Active is far better than any other phone I've owned. I got 5 1/2 hours screen time yesterday with over 16 hours uptime. Still had 15% left when I replaced the battery this morning. Never seen anything like that before.
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I had the S4 for a few days and I was worried because my battery would be drained in less than 8 hours. Coming from an S2 that I had to baby to get through the day I was worried. Ever since I exchanged the S4 for the Active I don't really worry about playing games, even for a couple hours, because it easily gets me through the day.

Disable the only big battery drain I had was maps constantly updating my location. I disabled that and run on power saver. I woke up at 6am this morning and its 7:30 now, I still have 59% left. I used to average 22 hours on my old captivate so I guess I'm not doing too bad. I realize that having a phone that out performs most PC's is going to munch some milliamps.
I'm rooted, debloated, and try to avoid constantly updating apps. I use better battery stats to "tune" my usage too.
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I had the phone for a week, and after a few days my battery was draining like crazy (lost 90% overnight with everything off).
I went to the store and got a new battery...so far it's been amazing. I think my back cover may not have been 100% locked in to be honest, not sure if that would affect it or not.

I used to get between 4-5 hours on screen time. Stand by time doesn't mean much. I have noticed that the display is brighter so that could do it.
I also tried the battery from my S4 and same results.
My original battery is on charger. I am going to charge to full and completely drain it and check on screen time and report it.

After I recalibrated the battery it is looking great now. 1 hour on screen time only used 10% battery.
I will keep you posted.

The battery on my active is much better than on my regular s4. The standby time is actually good. My regular s4 always loses about 15% an hour in standby with nothing running.
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I never lost hardly any battery at all in stand by with my regular S4.
I also set my GSM battery app to disable apps I don't want to turn on either (ATT Locker, ATT Wifi, etc..)

I am at 13hrs with 30% remaining. I have 2 email accounts, weather, and a network monitor that sync actively. So far, I like this, coming from a note.
I just declocked the cpu today and intend to do some more dabbling.

Lasts from waking up til bedtime for me.
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Do any of you use the CPU part of the power saver mode? Is your phone slower and do you see more battery life using it?

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Do any of you use the CPU part of the power saver mode? Is your phone slower and do you see more battery life using it?
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I just use my phone without worrying about what is on or off...the battery has been that good for me. I don't have any clue why, but I have never gotten battery life this good out of any previous smartphone.

Loving the battery life of my S4 Active, better than my Note 2 on Verizon with Beans.

Battery issue, anyone?

So I got the charging dock for my Z1, the first night perfect, woke up and everything completely charged.
Today (2nd night) unhooked 5 minutes 97%, 15 minutes down to 81%. It was going down by the minute.
Tried to recharge, it just would´t. Removed sim card for a couple of minutes.
3 hours later 71%(normal discharge) 10% in 3 hours. Actualy a little better, I get 15 hours a day per charge, about 6% every hour, from 7 am to 10 pm, not bad, except for this.
Haven´t decided if recharge, or just wait for battery to drain and completely recharge again.
Has anybody had this happened?? Any comments, greatly appreciated.
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Are you using the provided sony charger? Also is your dock a genuine sony branded dock? These things could possibly affect the quality of charge you are getting.

Yes I just got the original dk31 for the Xperia Z1, that's what's bothering me, because it's all original.
Any ideas?? Thanks.
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Mine drained to around 50% in standby yesterday over about an hour. Took it off charge around 7am, first time I looked at it, it was around 8ish and had dropped to nearly 50%. Put it in the genuine Sony dock and it was draining faster than it could put charge in to it. Put it in to airplane mode and plugged the micro USB in and it charged up.
Went to sleep last night with it in the dock at 19%. Woke up this morning to an error saying the charger doesn't have enough power or something (I was still half asleep) and it was still on 19%. Plugged the USB in and left it for about half an hour. Still the same 19% so turned it off and left it to charge. 3 hours later and it was at about 85%.
I know it's a big battery and takes a while to charge but if the charger can't keep up while the phone is still on, then there's a problem. It hasn't discharged as quick today but it might be a dock issue as it's been charged with the micro USB. I'll give it another go tonight/tomorrow and if there's still a problem I'll contact Sony.

As I said - awesome battery life with new 257 firmware
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And believe me - my phone is constantly in my hands...
I'm on hangouts, XDA, web all the time.
I don't talk to much, maybe 10-15 min per day but I send lots of SMS and emails...
I just love Z1 - best device I ever had :thumbup: for Sony this time.
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ra3ul said:
So I got the charging dock for my Z1, the first night perfect, woke up and everything completely charged.
Today (2nd night) unhooked 5 minutes 97%, 15 minutes down to 81%. It was going down by the minute.
Tried to recharge, it just would´t. Removed sim card for a couple of minutes.
3 hours later 71%(normal discharge) 10% in 3 hours. Actualy a little better, I get 15 hours a day per charge, about 6% every hour, from 7 am to 10 pm, not bad, except for this.
Haven´t decided if recharge, or just wait for battery to drain and completely recharge again.
Has anybody had this happened?? Any comments, greatly appreciated.
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Something is using cpu cycles or a rogue app of some sort. That would be my guess. If you don't know what it use a wake lock detector, on my nexus 7, google currents sync was killing me. If not any of those maybe a defective battery or something. I use mine all day and get an average of 4 - 5 hrs screen on time. I'm up at 6 and in bed by 11-12. Usually have 20-30% remaining and I'm a pretty heavy user with NFC and all sync on.

I installed the dock clock app, and let it run all night, I believe that to be the problem. Because I didn't use it last night, and I'm at 30% 16 hours since last charge.
I use it a lot, emails, Web, Facebook and Twitter, a lot of whatsapp, bout 1 hour on the phone.
So just deleted the app, and will put the alarm clock back on the night stand.
Thanks for the comments.
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Intentionally trickle charge?

It seems that I can't get Battery Care to trigger consistently at night even though I always go to bed somewhere between 11-1 and get up at 7 on weekdays or 9ish on weekends.
I realized though that I happen to have a pretty slow 500 mA USB port charger from back in the day. If I go to bed with the phone at 20% it would take over 4 hours to charge, meaning the phone spends less than half the night at 100%. Maybe this is the next best thing?

cmstlist said:
It seems that I can't get Battery Care to trigger consistently at night even though I always go to bed somewhere between 11-1 and get up at 7 on weekdays or 9ish on weekends.
I realized though that I happen to have a pretty slow 500 mA USB port charger from back in the day. If I go to bed with the phone at 20% it would take over 4 hours to charge, meaning the phone spends less than half the night at 100%. Maybe this is the next best thing?
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I'm using charger UC 12 it gets charge at super speed but yet it never triggered Battery care (using x compact for the last one week)

Nauju said:
I'm using charger UC 12 it gets charge at super speed but yet it never triggered Battery care (using x compact for the last one week)
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How fast does it charge? I have not seen any evidence of anyone being able to charge the X Compact any faster than about 1%/minute which is not super speed by any measure.

@cmstlist I'll try to check it out next time I charge. Feels pretty fast, but then again my previous phone was Z1c...
I usually get battery care where night time is the the first major charge of the day (sadly that's not always the case since I'm getting pretty disappointing battery life my Xc came with stock 7.0...).
I'm using the UCH-12 (supplied), have similar hours to you. When it turns on it reports a plan to be @100% 2hr~ before I wake up.
I was actually wondering is this feature any good (theoretically at least) or just voodoo?

Mine came with UCH 20 rather than 12. So far I'm never needing to charge it all day if I started at 100. Sometimes it's above 60 by bedtime so I don't start to charge it until morning.
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For what it's worth, here's a graph of how the UCH 20 charges it with Battery Care. Normal speed until 90%, flat until almost wake time, then up to 100.
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32% -> 88% in 64min 1%/1.14min WITH screen-OFF usage (Music stream w/ WIFI+BT headset + WhatsApp web).
It started faster @ 1%/0.9min then I guess I used it more/slowed down on its own.
NO battery care triggered.
That's pretty good for me, being able to use the phone and still charge fast.

Yeah so it seems like the fastest it'll charge under any circumstances is slightly above 1%/min.
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So the battery care only works with certain Sony chargers?
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For what it's worth, Battery Care will trigger with any kind of charger, even a slow trickle. So even if in only charging at 1%/3mins, it'll still plateau at 90% for a while.
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