Nexus One battery life

Andude · 07-03-2010, 03:05 PM

This morning I used my N1 for 6hrs straight and drained the battery down to 15%. That was with GPS, Wifi and Sync on and Auto Display Brightness. I had Twitter syncing every 3 minutes, MSN, multiple browser windows, and a bunch of other apps and I was doing alot of surfing, apps downloading, and just using it.

For the usage I got out of it, the battery life can't be said to be amazing, but its decent enough and today was hardly a normal usage pattern.

Bryter layter · 07-22-2010, 04:08 PM

Battery life is currently one of the Android phone's and Iphone's weaknesses compared to phones from the feature phone segment (Nokia, SE, Moto, LG, Samsung, ...) which run for days. On the other hand we nowadays get loads of features and good apps compared to the old boring stuff, pros and cons... I suggest: Use the battery usage (as mentioned above), set dimmer time and screen brightness, be sure to download toggle apps (preferably in-app toggle apps) and be vary of apps that consume a lot of battery. I've for instance developed a home screen replacement "Simple Home" (available in Android Market) that minimizes the battery use in the launcher. Live wallpaper is e.g. a good way to quickly drain your battery.

Bryter layter · 07-22-2010, 04:17 PM

Another thing is closing apps. Even though it is not recommended due to the reason that Android is designed not to close apps (The system it self will handle closing apps when needed) it is undeniably so that if less apps that are running the less battery will be consumed.

Andude · 07-22-2010, 05:00 PM

Good ideas Bryter, based on the above here's what I do:

- No Live wallpaper
- 1 min screen dimmer
- use Advanced Task Killer Free to kill tasks
- override Auto Brightness when reading eBooks (I use a lower setting that's still as comfortable to read) or doing alot of surfing.
- don't run too many apps that poll if you don't need them.
- turn off GPS while at the office
- turn off wifi when out of wifi range

As a last resort, get a car charger, and USB cable at work and home :P.

sdy284 · 07-22-2010, 08:45 PM

1 min? I keep my timeout at 30 seconds! Everytime i check to see what's eating up my battery usage, it's always the screen using the most

Andude · 07-23-2010, 01:57 PM

That's true, but I can't stand a 30 sec dimmer, I often look up or away from the screen and when I'm looking at it again I have to unlock it. With 1 min dimmer I just manually engage the lock when I know I'm done for the time being. User preferences ftw

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Bryter layter · 07-24-2010, 04:31 AM

In-app toggle which I mentioned above is a great thing if you wanna save battery. Enable e.g. Bluetooth from within your app when you don't need it no more just disable it without leaving you app.

Screens and battery consumption, well, lets hope for better HW with less power consumption..

SkyfireFan · 07-28-2010, 05:18 PM

One way to conserve battery life, for those of you who consume a lot of video, is to download Skyfire for your video browsing. Due to our ability to transcode video into Html5, and do the heavy lifting/compression on our end, this can dramatically conserve battery when compared video consumption with other browsers and optimized mobile video.

MitchRapp81 · 08-12-2010, 04:50 PM

my battery seems to last from 8am to 1am daily. I usually go to sleep and charge it with about 20-25% left on it.

I'm a heavy user (cuz I just got the phone 2 weeks ago and am still finding new ways to waste my entire day on it!)

Sleepingeye · 10-05-2010, 02:31 AM

Any "superphone" class smartphone will have it's battery drained under normal circumstances in about 4-5 hours *AT BEST* (assuming it's not in airplane mode). I would *ALWAYS* recommend getting a spare battery if you're a heavy user.

If you want battery life, go get a dumb, feature phone or a Blackberry. To be perfectly honest, unless you're into hardcore 3-D gaming, those phones have the exact same apps and capabilities as a smartphone (just a little bit difference interface).

You have online capabilities, apps that you can download (maybe not on-device), etc. Screen rotation is a gimmicky at best (especially since a lot of games and apps lock orientation anyway -- i mean, take a look at the default home screens of any phone right now: none rotate sideways).