Battery Life is OK

[killzone killzo]

I was like many of you thinking that the battery drained way too fast especially when using data until I tried the following smart phones (my friends' phones):

1) iPhone 4s, which had a 92% charge after 4 hours idle and 24 minutes usage time. I opened up safari and surfed a couple of car sites for about five minutes. The battery percentage went down to 88% in less than five minutes. My lumia drains about 3% every 5 minutes of surfing and 1% every 3 hours idle.

2) Samsung galaxy SIII, had a 71% charge after 8 hours idle (and my friend said he used it moderately to heavily throughout the day). I did the same test as in number 1) and the battery went down to 68%. Better than the iphone but the same as my lumia.


It seems like this is a general issue with smart phones.

 

[david90531]

It totally is. People just like to find things to complain about. My cousin owns the S3 and he says it doesn't last through a full day either. My L920 at least last through the whole day with low-mid usage.

 

[ttsoldier]

My battery dies 1% every couple minutes without using it. Like. I sit and watch It die.

I am finding something to complain about?

 

[Coreldan]

Lumia 920 has a totally fine battery life when it works as intended. It's no secret that a good chunk of people are not having theirs word as intended and see crazy drain with just about no use. Luckily I'm not one of those.

That said, it's still a forum, so people are more eager to write about the problems than to write that they have no issues. The problems are there, but are still within the minority.

 

[tebugg]

It totally is. People just like to find things to complain about. My cousin owns the S3 and he says it doesn't last through a full day either. My L920 at least last through the whole day with low-mid usage.

your cousin is right. i have a gs3 also and i have to charge it atleast once during the day or i wont get a full days use out of it and it has a slightly bigger battery than my lumia 920. apps come into play also. some apps are not refined for wp8 like they are for wp7. that will drain a wp8 device faster also. also if you are a frequent user of your device, the display will drain it alot also. on my gs3, the display is always the biggest power drain. that comes from using the phone alot.