Hello!
I've had my black Lumia 920 now for 12 days and I absolutely love it. I love WP8 and the phone does pretty much everything I want it to (there's one or two apps I miss from my old Android phone, but generally it has everything I need). The phone is stunning, the interface is great and simple to use and everyone I've shown the phone to has been highly complimentary.
My one bug bear is the battery. I thought I'd try out all the suggestions here and wait a while before considering going back for an exchange (I got it from P4U in the UK). Since the 14 days are almost up I'm wondering if I should go exchange it. (Other than the battery issue everything else is fine...no dust on the front camera, no rattles inside, no popping noises at the top etc).
How long the battery lasts fluctuates a lot but generally this is what happens:
- Lasts from unplug at 7am to around 11pm on light usage - normally around 30% by this point if I've just been using it lightly
- Idle the phone drains about 3% each hour
- Once I left it overnight uncharged (8 hours) and it lost around 20%
- 1 hour phone call drains anything between 10 and 20%
- 40 minutes on Nokia Drive drained 20%
- Today I used the phone in a poor reception area for about an hour trying to surf the net, facebook, weave etc and it drained over 40%
My settings:
Email: one downloading emails as they arrive
Internet Sharing: off
WiFi: on but not automatically searching
Lock screen: Bing, 1 minute time out
Tap+Send: off
Location: off
Battery saver: on under 20%
Brightness: auto
Background tasks turned on: Battery Level WP8, Nokia Reading, Weather, Weave - everything else blocked, including Nokia Drive+ Beta
Highest connection speed: 3G
Signal is very good in my home and at the office
Would I be wise to try to exchange the phone at P4U? I really love the phone so don't want to end up with one with a bad battery for two years!
Any advice appreciated!
Thanks!
I've had my black Lumia 920 now for 12 days and I absolutely love it. I love WP8 and the phone does pretty much everything I want it to (there's one or two apps I miss from my old Android phone, but generally it has everything I need). The phone is stunning, the interface is great and simple to use and everyone I've shown the phone to has been highly complimentary.
My one bug bear is the battery. I thought I'd try out all the suggestions here and wait a while before considering going back for an exchange (I got it from P4U in the UK). Since the 14 days are almost up I'm wondering if I should go exchange it. (Other than the battery issue everything else is fine...no dust on the front camera, no rattles inside, no popping noises at the top etc).
How long the battery lasts fluctuates a lot but generally this is what happens:
- Lasts from unplug at 7am to around 11pm on light usage - normally around 30% by this point if I've just been using it lightly
- Idle the phone drains about 3% each hour
- Once I left it overnight uncharged (8 hours) and it lost around 20%
- 1 hour phone call drains anything between 10 and 20%
- 40 minutes on Nokia Drive drained 20%
- Today I used the phone in a poor reception area for about an hour trying to surf the net, facebook, weave etc and it drained over 40%
My settings:
Email: one downloading emails as they arrive
Internet Sharing: off
WiFi: on but not automatically searching
Lock screen: Bing, 1 minute time out
Tap+Send: off
Location: off
Battery saver: on under 20%
Brightness: auto
Background tasks turned on: Battery Level WP8, Nokia Reading, Weather, Weave - everything else blocked, including Nokia Drive+ Beta
Highest connection speed: 3G
Signal is very good in my home and at the office
Would I be wise to try to exchange the phone at P4U? I really love the phone so don't want to end up with one with a bad battery for two years!
Any advice appreciated!
Thanks!