Heavy Use Test - A Little Over 4 Hours

[garak0410]

I've got a brand new Lumua Icon. I let it charge fully, let it run down to 5% and then full charge over night. I decided to give it a heavy use rest...here's what I did:

Let XBOX Music populate my entire music collection in the app (about 13,000+ songs)
Play Netflix for about 20 minutes.
Heavy browsing and RSS feeds use.
Playing Music. For a while via Bluetooth and then via a audio cable.
Used Cortana a time or two.
Browsed Socl and Facebook.
Downloaded A few Albums from the cloud to the phone. \
Mostly Wi-Fi Use.

Did this off and on for about 4 hours and it is down to 12% as I right this.

Not sure if this is normal drain for such heavy use or not.

Thoughts?

 

[anon(7900571)]

Let your icon battery calibrate. You have purchased a new phone , lithium battery need some charges before it could show good result. My Lumia 920 was pathetic for first few weeks but now its

 

[garak0410]

Let your icon battery calibrate. You have purchased a new phone , lithium battery need some charges before it could show good result. My Lumia 920 was pathetic for first few weeks but now its ��

How do you calibrate? Full change, full run out a few times? Or another method?

 

[anon(7900571)]

Umm just use it for few days and your battery will show you some good results :smile:

 

[rubenwidjaja]

How do you calibrate? Full change, full run out a few times? Or another method?

I don't think do calibrate battery until its death is good to do. Just use it normally and charge it 2-3 times with airplane mode on so the OS will good to know your battery.

 

[garak0410]

Sounds good...with my job, I normally need to keep a decent charge on it, so I normally charge overnight and then again at lunch, even if it is at 70% or so at lunch. Is that OK?

 

[Indistinguishable]

I've got a brand new Lumua Icon. I let it charge fully, let it run down to 5% and then full charge over night. I decided to give it a heavy use rest...here's what I did:

Let XBOX Music populate my entire music collection in the app (about 13,000+ songs)
Play Netflix for about 20 minutes.
Heavy browsing and RSS feeds use.
Playing Music. For a while via Bluetooth and then via a audio cable.
Used Cortana a time or two.
Browsed Socl and Facebook.
Downloaded A few Albums from the cloud to the phone. \
Mostly Wi-Fi Use.

Did this off and on for about 4 hours and it is down to 12% as I right this.

Not sure if this is normal drain for such heavy use or not.

Thoughts?

This alone is enough to bring any phone to its knees.

 

[garak0410]

This alone is enough to bring any phone to its knees.

Maybe I need to trademark my "stress test."

 

[bayanii]

Its ok to charge your battery at 70%. Icons battery has, I believe, 1000 cycles.

 

[J Ice70]

Its ok to charge your battery at 70%. Icons battery has, I believe, 1000 cycles.

Do you mean it cann be recharged 1000 times?

 

[ttsoldier]

Let your icon battery calibrate. You have purchased a new phone , lithium battery need some charges before it could show good result. My Lumia 920 was pathetic for first few weeks but now its ��

This is wrong lithium batteries do not need "conditioning".

Just over four hours is fine with heavy use.

Heck, I can kill my fully charged battery in 4 hours with whatsapp only. lol

 

[anon(7901790)]

That's about right. I went from 100 down to under 20 in about that amount of time. I took over 130 photos and shot 3 videos at the zoo and was sending via MMS and uploading to Facebook a lot. Whenever I'm home or driving, it's on a charging plate or in my CR-200 car dock charging.

And 1000 charges means 1000 full discharge and recharge cycles; not topping off or setting it on the charger once in a while.

 

[atherosxd]

This is wrong lithium batteries do not need "conditioning".

Just over four hours is fine with heavy use.

Heck, I can kill my fully charged battery in 4 hours with whatsapp only. lol

haha even though I use Lumia 1020. I can get atleast 2 hours of heavy use. facebook, youtube(mytube), twitter, 6tag and Call of Arena(Online Game). I use Mobile Data/

 

[Jazmac]

Are we talking about a smart phone or a laptop? lol. Some people are just hard core on electronics but I have to say, that is one good stress test ya got there but you need to get an iphone and a gs4 to see how they survive in the same conditions. I can tell you up front, the Iphone 5 would have trouble in those conditions. I had always heard how stellar the battery was on the iphone and was really surprised how quickly it drains with moderate use.

 

[Mr Lebowski]

Li-ion battery doesn't have memory, it doesn't learn -some say discharge fully once a month ? I keep mine charged pretty much all the time. Sometimes I don't plug it in while driving and it will drop to 18-25%, it won't harm it or help it. I want it charged as much as possible so when I'm not able to charge it, it's still got a lot of time left.

 

[MikeSo]

I've had my Icon for 3 days now and I have to say the battery life is the one thing that concerns me. I get about 5 hours of regular use (music, browsing, WP Central app ). When it's sitting unused it seems to be ok (in the graph below I was sleeping from 11 PM to 6 AM), but any actual use really seems to bring the battery down right away. Is this normal? I am running 8.1.

 

[baaahthesheep]

When I got my LUmia 928, the battery life wasn't very good initially. But after I think 3 weeks of usage, I began to get super battery life. I think it just needs some time. I never drained my battery either. Just regular usage.

 

[MyNL822]

I thought heavy use would be gaming, but if doing those things took it down that much you probably wouldn't get more than 2 hours of intensive graphic gaming(asphalt 8 or FIFA 14)

 

[MikeSo]

I don't know about gaming, but Netflix barely touched my battery. I watched an episode of Dexter and I noticed no heat and battery was only down a few percent it seemed. Texting seems much worse. Kinda weird.

 

[ajst222]

Let your icon battery calibrate. You have purchased a new phone , lithium battery need some charges before it could show good result. My Lumia 920 was pathetic for first few weeks but now its ��

The whole thing about "letting your battery calibrate" and "battery memory" is a myth...at least with lithium ion batteries. That only applies to nickel ion batteries.