How is your 950Xl battery doing?

[Letros]

My 950 battery is just ok. The 1520 battery life was amazing, however, I feel like it is an outlier.

 

[Sunstorming]

Mine was so bad, it was one of the dozen reasons I returned it (see also: build quality, stability, screen color issues, heat issues, mobile hotspot issues, Bluetooth issues, etc..) ... and I had it for five days, and I did the whole "pray and your battery will get better if you kill it and charge it 10 times" deal some people believe in (that never ever works) ... the battery on the 950XL is pathetic for its rated 3320MaH.

Microsoft is in for a LOT of returns if the forums are to believed. I have not seen one positive trending post on the phone. And while people are more apt to ***** about a problem then praise a solution, this phone goes well beyond that.

Sticking with the 1520 w/ Win 10 til spring at least; 24+ hours battery, nice looking huge screen, great camera. And stable.

 

[Musicman247]

3 hours since taking it off the charger, 82% battery left with moderate use. Battery says I have an estimated 1 day and 5 hours of battery left. We'll see how accurate that is.

 

[Roderick Aspiras]

I read that Windows hello may be the culprit.

Mine is doing terrible. I got it wednesday and let it restore all my settings, messages, etc. Charged it overnight to 100%. Unplugged it at about 9 am Yesterday and by noon I was critical. Even tried enabling Battery Saver at around 50%. Considering doing a hard reset as 4-5 hours of battery life with very little usage seems wrong even for a new phone.

 

[Musicman247]

I read that Windows hello may be the culprit.

I've got Hello enabled and am sitting at 80% after 3.5 hours. This is with Wifi off and my Band paired.

 

[Paolo Cardelli]

Very good battery life for me.

With:

• Cortana On
• Hey Cortana OFF
• Bluetooth OFF
• Glance Screen On
• Push Outlook Mail
• 100% Max Brightness
• Whatsapp/SMS+Skype+Video On and Push
• Windows Hello On
• Most of Backgrounds App left enabled
• Moderate-Heavy daily usage (Playing music, shooting photos, browsing with Edge, messaging, sending Mail, receiving Push Notifications, 30+ minutes calling)

My 950 XL lasts full day, from 7:00 am to Midnight, with approximately 10-15% battery left.
Pretty amazing considering the configuration and usage above.
My 920, with same usage, always died around 5pm :angel:

 

[TennisGuy45]

Good battery life for me.

Easily getting 16-18 hours with 20% left as I put it on the charger.

Trick for me was disabling Windows Hello, Hey Cortana, and glance screen (actually I've never used glance screen even on my 1520).

 

[Joe920]

3 hours since taking it off the charger, 82% battery left with moderate use. Battery says I have an estimated 1 day and 5 hours of battery left. We'll see how accurate that is.

Are you me? I'm at exactly 82% as well right now, 3h taking it off the charger.

 

[Sunstorming]

http://i.imgur.com/Mtk3A0N.jpg

Phone came off the charger at 10:45 AM. Was at 11% at 12:37 AM the next day.

terrible battery life. Here's mine:



Look how many times I had to plug it in, and the rates of charge / discharge. Bad stuff.


Seriously, check what apps you have running in the background.

 

[coderewind]

I am not convinced with the battery life so far either. Specially at the rate at which is drains the battery in idle mode compared to other phones/platforms. OS definitely needs a performance update.

 

[Joe920]

Are you me? I'm at exactly 82% as well right now, 3h taking it off the charger.

Hmmm... After 15min in Tapatalk over LTE I dropped from 82% to 77%. That's bad, right? Or expected?

 

[Sunstorming]

Hmmm... After 15min in Tapatalk over LTE I dropped from 82% to 77%. That's bad, right? Or expected?

It's bad and to be expected...

 

[elindalyne]

terrible battery life. Here's mine:

What are you talking about. 13+ hours of heavy use is great. Emailing, texting, browsing reddit, watching videos, tweeting...

 

[jadani11]

My battery was very bad between 5 and 8 hours with normal to heavy use so something was very wrong and I tried to install the app from my provider (Mobistar) but it wouldn't install.
I did the setup without simcard so that was maybe the big problem with the app and my short battery life.
I did a factory reset with the simcard in the phone and I could install the app again, my battery life is ok now 9 hours of heavy use and after 16 hours I still have 10%
I hope it will help some people with this Problem

 

[Musicman247]

Here's mine so far: http://i.imgur.com/3edCE88.jpg

 

[Akira X]

Update 2: Since allowing the battery to go to 0%, battery life appears to have improved. Since taking it off the charger over 4 hours ago with very light use, battery is at 93%. I also turned Windows Hello back on after removing from charge.

Previously, the battery lost 10% per hour and the battery app showed any from 4-8% discharging rate (just sitting idle). Now its showing less than 2%.

Check out the slopes before and after.
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Update 3:11hours off the charger and at 73% with light usage(emails, WC App, edging), no games, hello on)

 

[Musicman247]

Just hit 50%, 7 hours and 43 minutes after taking it off the charger this morning. Have played a game, texted and surfed during the day and taken a dozen or so pictures. I'd say moderate use. I'm pretty happy with this! And it's only the first day! If things get better, wow! I did let the phone completely die last night and plugged it into its charger overnight.

Have had Hey Cortana, Hello, Bluetooth and Wifi on all day. Screen brightness on auto.

 

[feereless]

94% took it off the charger 5 hours ago. been texting and browsing stuff. not too bad! lol. hello and hey cortana off, emails set at 1 hour

 

[FastDave]

Took mine off the charger at 6:30 this morning. By 8:00 I was down to 80%. It's now 1:00 and I'm down to 40%. I have done nothing but a little surfing and checking email. No videos. No music. Haven't even talked on it. I have only been letting it drain to 10% each cycle. I'll take it all the way to 0% and turn off Hello and see how that does and report back.

 

[rudypoochris]

Guys - disable messaging backup in Messaging + Skype. It is completely broken and will drain your battery like crazy. After doing this I went from -15%+ per hour down to -7% and hour. Still not great, but I can get through a day now. The OS is not finished, its **** we have to deal with this, but I highly doubt it is a hardware issue.