Re: W10M Insider Preview 14379 Discussion (Redstone Branch, Fast Ring)
I have a Lumia Icon and this is the worst build I have seen in a while. That last few were pretty stable and battery life was good. In this build my battery life is quite a bit worse, I am using 10% per hour without using the phone at all.
Bluetooth keeps crashing on me and when I try to toggle the Bluetooth off and on the phone locks up and has to be rebooted. I also keep losing wifi and have to delete the connection and then re-enter all the id and passwords. Happens at work and at home.
I may try a hard reset tonight but hope they push out a new build so I can avoid that.
And I have an ICON and after a hard reset, this has been one of the more stable builds.
battery life seems to be much improved.
Yesterdays battery stats:
5am off charger 100%
on wifi from 5am till about 7:30am, on WPCentral app, Edge (Facebook) and Facebook Beta App (probably 30 minutes of use on these apps during that time frame). Several incoming emails, text messages and a couple MMS. 2 outgoing emails (both on outlook.com account).
drive into work (phone at roughly 94%. Is connected to Sync3 in 2016 Ford Edge. 35 minute commute to work. Get a couple of text messages that I let Cortona read thru the bluetooth connection (worked flawlessly). Was on Verizon LTE data the entire commute. Couple Text messages came in and a few emails. Notifications all seemed to work as expected
at work about 8:15 after commute. On company Wifi at the office. 30 to 40 emails during the day, 5 or 6 phone calls, 20 or so text messages during the day. Facebook (Edge and App) browsing during the day.
Leave office about 5pm with 70% battery.
Phone calls on way home from work, few text messages (again thru Sync3 on 2016 Ford Edge).
Errands with the kids till about 7:30pm. 65% battery after kids played a few games on phone while one was in drum lessons for 30 minutes.
home with over 60% battery left.
some Edge browsing at home on home wifi, couple rounds of Hill Climb and Golf game to relax for a bit.
headed to bed about 11pm with just under 25% battery. I have my Battery Save set to kick in at 25% and it just kicked in a I was headed to bed for the night.
so getting a good 14 - 16 hours out of the battery life out of my Icon.
I can live with that with the amount of emails and text message and gaming sessions that I did yesterday.
that is pretty typical day for me so i am pretty pleased with this build on my Icon.
I have not seen the 10% drop per hour the lot of others are listing on here without using the phone at all.
my best advice is that if you are having battery issues, first hard reset and the judge the battery life....and make sure you are on the build more than 1 full day before you judge the battery life (in my case, i hold off for 2 full days before I make judgments on the battery life).