So I've been reading about a lot of people finding the battery on the 1520 to be amazing. So far, based on my first 3 full days of use it's been little to no better than my 920. I don't know if I have a lemon or if I'm considered a power user and my battery lasting as long as it does is typical from my usage.
Yesterday it sat on the charger at work all day. I pulled it off at 7pm at full charge. I made my 20 min walk home. Answered one 3 min phone call. Got home and I was already in the 87% battery remaining range after being off the charger for just over an hour. I did a morefew things on it, like surf the net, took a few pics then uploaded them on Fhotoroom and I was down to 84%. I put the phone down for another hour or so then did a bit more surfing for about 15 min then tossed on Minion Rush for about 30-40 min and then Modern Combat 4 for about 30 more min.
Checked my battery and I was down to 35%. So that hour or so of gaming cost me about 40% battery.
To me this was typical on my 920. But after reading about people gaming on MC4 for 1 straight hour with only 20% battery drain or going 3 days before a charge I'm trying to figure out what my issue might be.
Mind you, I've only had the phone a couple days. The 2nd day I did a full discharge and then a full charge just incase.
My phone settings are:
- Full Screen brightness at max 24/7, auto brightness disabled
- Wi-fi always on but only connected when I'm at home
- Location Services on 24/7
- 1 email account with "sync as items arrive"
- 1 email account with "sync every hour"
- Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts connected
- bluetooth turned off
- tap + send turned off
- Highest connection speed in cellular settings set to 4G aka LTE
- Battery saver on
- back up to the cloud on
- Skydrive photos upload set to Good Quality over data and video set to Good Quality over Wi-fi
- Both options in Find My Phone are on
- Glance Beta installed and set to "peek"
Live tiles:
- Amazing Weather HD set to hourly updates
- Me tile
- Facebook
- Fhotoroom
- Fuse tile (rss feeds)
- das Image
- Metrotube
- Flixster
- Break.com
- Speedtest.net
- My Stocks Portfolio
- Asphalt 8, Dark Knight, Minion Rush, Six-Guns, Modern Combat 4
Background Tasks that are "allowed":
- Amazing Weather HD
- Battery
- das Image
- Fuse
- MetroTube
- Minion Rush
- My Stocks Portfolio
- Twitter
- Viber
- WhatsApp
Sorry for the long winded post but if anyone has any suggestions based on my setup that will save me some serious juice please let me know. I was wondering if keeping Wi-Fi enabled all day regardless of using it might be one problem. Or maybe I just need to give the battery time to settle. Not sure..
Yesterday it sat on the charger at work all day. I pulled it off at 7pm at full charge. I made my 20 min walk home. Answered one 3 min phone call. Got home and I was already in the 87% battery remaining range after being off the charger for just over an hour. I did a morefew things on it, like surf the net, took a few pics then uploaded them on Fhotoroom and I was down to 84%. I put the phone down for another hour or so then did a bit more surfing for about 15 min then tossed on Minion Rush for about 30-40 min and then Modern Combat 4 for about 30 more min.
Checked my battery and I was down to 35%. So that hour or so of gaming cost me about 40% battery.
To me this was typical on my 920. But after reading about people gaming on MC4 for 1 straight hour with only 20% battery drain or going 3 days before a charge I'm trying to figure out what my issue might be.
Mind you, I've only had the phone a couple days. The 2nd day I did a full discharge and then a full charge just incase.
My phone settings are:
- Full Screen brightness at max 24/7, auto brightness disabled
- Wi-fi always on but only connected when I'm at home
- Location Services on 24/7
- 1 email account with "sync as items arrive"
- 1 email account with "sync every hour"
- Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts connected
- bluetooth turned off
- tap + send turned off
- Highest connection speed in cellular settings set to 4G aka LTE
- Battery saver on
- back up to the cloud on
- Skydrive photos upload set to Good Quality over data and video set to Good Quality over Wi-fi
- Both options in Find My Phone are on
- Glance Beta installed and set to "peek"
Live tiles:
- Amazing Weather HD set to hourly updates
- Me tile
- Fhotoroom
- Fuse tile (rss feeds)
- das Image
- Metrotube
- Flixster
- Break.com
- Speedtest.net
- My Stocks Portfolio
- Asphalt 8, Dark Knight, Minion Rush, Six-Guns, Modern Combat 4
Background Tasks that are "allowed":
- Amazing Weather HD
- Battery
- das Image
- Fuse
- MetroTube
- Minion Rush
- My Stocks Portfolio
- Viber
Sorry for the long winded post but if anyone has any suggestions based on my setup that will save me some serious juice please let me know. I was wondering if keeping Wi-Fi enabled all day regardless of using it might be one problem. Or maybe I just need to give the battery time to settle. Not sure..