Google: Android Battery Should Last All Day

[Clintonio]

My Droid lasts days if not used. It uses a LOT of battery if I use it constantly, playing games, etc.

 

[eccentric909]

My Palm Pixi lasts about 3-4 days between charges for normal use, heavy use is about 1-2. I've been pretty happy with it, it actually stays charged longer than my old basic LG flip phone.

 

[Usersname]

Steve Jobs stated that Apple wasn’t the first to the multitasking party, but they would be the best. Although I personally don't use any mobile phones (of any description) I was certainly taken with the thought Apple have put into solving the problem with iPhone OS4 when I read about it.

 

[gwolfman]

[citation][nom]scuba dave[/nom]Hmm. Well, time to make a comment that will quite obviously get rated down to at least -40 ( )But I don't have that problem with the only apple product I own.. My 3GS iPhone. I'm surprised if i HAVE to charge it more than once every 2 days.Just saying.Alright, now all you apple hateraids.. Fire away[/citation]
That's because the iPhone doesn't multitask! 😛

 

[MrHectorEric]

With heavy use my Droid needs to be charged for a little bit sometime during the day, but for occasional use it lasts all day easily. When I rolled from 2.0 to 2.1 my battery life improved by quite a bit. The display is the real killer so when I'm playing games or using navigation it keeps the screen active for a long time requiring a mid day charge.

 

[Guest]

on my droid, if i'm constantly turning the screen on and off it seems to use the battery quicker than if i were just leaving the screen on for 5min at a time.

after about 12 hours (when i get home for the day) my battery is somewhere between 40-60%. I do email checking throughout the day and light web browsing for about 1 hour in total

 

[joe gamer]

"The primary consumer of the battery life on these phones is the transmit/receive circuit,"

Funny, on my Droid under battery use the screen takes up 45-50% far more than the 13% from the transmit/recieve functions, soooo doesn't really matter what apps I use the damn screen set to lowest brightness uses far more power than anything else. I wouldn't give up android for anything else, but don't blow smoke up my ass about the damn battery.

 

[chriscornell]

I have a HTC Tattoo running Android 1.6 Donut - battery lasts 2-3 days, with me writing around 20 messages/e-mails a day, talking 10-20 minutes per day and surfing the web 15 minutes per day.

Sooooo....I'm kinda satisfied

 

[majorlag]

Droid user here, my battery easily last all day, 13 hours later and it is still at 50-60 percent battery.

Best thing to do is long click one of the three screens and add the power widget. This alone will help you turn off wifi when not needed, turn the brightness to 50 percent, turn GPS off when not used, which will hog the power just as quick as the screen at full brightness, syncing which I keep on all day long, and bluetooth off when not driving.

I have found GPS is the main culprit of battery usage with screen set to full brightness as the second. You can always see what is eating the battery under Menu->Settings->About phone->Battery use

I do have a task killer program that I only run once every month or so, and I never turn my phone off setting at 1,130 hours uptime with no issues, Droid does!

 

[Abrahm]

My Droid lasts me over 2 days a charge with regular web browsing, email checking, etc.

 

[scuba dave]

[citation][nom]gwolfman[/nom]That's because the iPhone doesn't multitask![/citation]

You don't give apple enough credit. Even though they don't have multi tasking yet, when they do put it on the iphone, it will have a better implementation than anything out there yet. If I had to guess.. It will most certainly not have to deal with some stone-age "app killer" program to deal with battery destroying programs. It will probably feature some sort of alternative "sandbox" where the program will sit until called upon. True, it'll be slightly slower than those phones that hold programs fully ACTIVE in RAM, but lets face it.. while I'm guessing that will be apple's intent, it will still be up to programmers to utilize such a feature.. Which is probably what is taking apple so long.

As I said, thats MY guess, and I'm certainly no expert.

 

[skatt3rbrain]

My cliq needs a charge every 36 hours, great battery life. On weekends with heavier usage I still get a good 18-24 hours out of it--much better than my old sidekick.

 

[crinky]

[citation][nom]scuba dave[/nom]Hmm. Well, time to make a comment that will quite obviously get rated down to at least -40 ( )But I don't have that problem with the only apple product I own.. My 3GS iPhone. I'm surprised if i HAVE to charge it more than once every 2 days.Just saying.Alright, now all you apple hateraids.. Fire away[/citation]
haha good for you. i dont want to own a iphone caus i have a milestone and im happy with it and im ahppy for you if you like your iphone

 

[JohnnyLucky]

hmmm....seems like battery life depends not only on the amount of use but also the type of use.