If your not getting this type of battery life...

[joeynox]

Lol

 

[sandman]

I was getting sub optimal performance from my battery until I completely drained it mon night.

Tuesday was great! 10 hours after a full charge and moderate use it still had 63% remaining.

Today, it has sucked. About 1 hour after a full charge (I had been talking on it the entire time) it was at 69%. Now about 4 hours after a full charge I am down to 35%. Not looking good


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[Kelly Prophet]

I think the real question here is: how is Black Ops??

Seriously though, can you remember an app you may have installed that could be causing the drain? With every new OS come a lot of developers jumping on the band wagon writing crappy code and publishing apps that are no where ready for prime time.

As far as running apps, go to Settings --> Applications -- >Background Tasks and see if anything is running.

Ha, no idea. He'll get to open it this evening when he gets home from school.

I have no idea on what background tasks may or may not have been running. I have a strong suspicion that it's related to GPS - largely because that's what I see others complaining of. Like once you enable a GPS app it just lingers, sucks up battery, and some have even noted the phone being warm.

But, alas - I can't see what's running and can't terminate anything to stop them from running. I looked in Settings and there is no Applications menu item. Perhaps I'm missing something, off to my long term memory storage, a.k.a Google...

Edit: /facepalm
Ok. Found it. Nokia Drive+ Beta, Nokia Trailers, and Weather Channel are the only background tasks.

I think it's time for Nokia Drive+ Beta to go. I suspect it's the culprait.

Edit2: Ok, it's been 10 minutes since I removed Nokia Drive+ Beta and Nokia Trailers and the battery has gone from 69% at 12:59 to 76% at 1:09 - so I'd say that was the batter leech. Earlier this morning I noted my data usage since the 9th was 440.49MB - which is more than I usually use in an entire month. So I noted the amount and just checked it again and it's gone up to 456.38. I have not used the phone to surf the net, play music, or anything that should have consumed any data at all. Literally, I've handled one phone call for about 5 minutes - otherwise it has sat untouched.

The next test, I suppose, is to wait and see if one of those two apps I removed was responsible for that odd data usage.


Edit 3 - final edit I think:

Ok, no new data usage since removing those two Nokia apps. Also, phone has been unplugged for 3 hours with not much use (a few phone calls and text) and it's still showing 100% charge. (Some other normal use like bluetooth sync in my truck, probably a good search or two - what have you.)

Time left still shows really low, 12 hours to be exact. No idea why this is since it's already gone over 3 hours with not even 1% lost. It's probably taking an average that still accounts for the Nokia apps crazy power consumption.

Note to self: If I get lost in the woods with this thing - might only have a few hours of GPS use before it dies. Not good! lol

 

[joeynox]

A Nokia tep said just keep pressing the back arrow until you get to the start screen. Then said get a new one .

 

[Cartman]

Here is a screenshot of mine. I just got the phone yesterday at around 5PM and used it until it was at about 5% battery. Left it plugged in all night.

Remaining battery life: 100%
Estimated time remaining: 1 day 15 hours
Time since last charge: 2 hours

Apps:
Facebook (Live Tile)
Angry Birds
Angry Birds Space
Contre Jour
Cut the Rope
Draw Something (Live Tile)
Words With Friends (Live Tile)
Bank of America
Nokia Drive+ Beta
Prime TV

Settings:
Two ActiveSync email accounts
Bing Suggestions
Every location service setting I could find on.
WiFi on
Backup on
Find my phone on
Feedback on
Bing lock screen

 

[Cartman]

Just an update on my battery life after around 6 hours of use:

Remaining battery life: 93%
Estimated time remaining: 5 days 23 hours (!)
Time since last charge: 6 hours

Have sent a few text and MMS messages, checked email, ran Prime TV, Nokia Maps, Nokia Drive (for only about 30 seconds) and other things I forget. Took it with me to lunch a few miles away. No phone calls though. I will add that I am in a VERY strong 4G area and moderate (3 bars) LTE area.

 

[joeynox]

I don't understand how they could ship the phone with a camera bug and the battery gate.i was on WiFi last night and at 100% battery I played a Netflix movie that was 2 hours and my battery went from 100% 63% but never got hot or even warm. Right now after loading ie and logging in and typing this I went from 100% to 90% and the back of my phone above the camera I's hot not warm.

 

[joeynox]

Wtf ???

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