I bought the Nokia Lumia 1020 and noticed right away that it suffered from battery problems. I don't want to go into details on this thread but you can read about what i did on this thread (http://forums.windowscentral.com/nokia-lumia-1020/246740-discharge-rate.html). I'm aware that the battery needs some time and a few cycles to get normal, I did this. I gave it 1 week but battery only improved very slightly. Tried every tip you can find on the forums, nothing helped.
Long story short.. I turned everything off, no sim card, hard reset, soft reset.. everything you can turn off on the phone was off and the phone would still discharge very quickly. I began searching these forums and others and found that the problem occurs on many lumias and some people claimed it happens on Samsungs etc aswell. Thats why I'm posting here on W8 forum.
Symptoms: 3-10% discharge rate/hour on IDLE(It could lose over 20-30% when sleeping - Compared to my 2 year old iPhone that dropps 1-2%). And remember, everything was turned off. I tried several hard resets and soft resets. No sim card. Every setting OFF. Sometimes over 20% discharge rate/hour on load. It seemed really random, sometimes it could spike and lose battery so fast and sometimes it seemed rather stable.
The problems were so bad I had to return the phone. I like Nokia and I like W8, but these problems seem to occur for many.
Threads about poor battery life:
http://forums.windowscentral.com/nokia-lumia-1020/243573-1020-battery-drain.html
http://forums.windowscentral.com/nokia-lumia-920/215695-lumia-920-battery-your-opinions.html (This one has over 70 pages of complaints)
http://forums.windowscentral.com/nokia-lumia-820/241572-poor-battery-backup-after-amber.html
Lumia 1020 battery life appears poor? - Nokia Support Discussions
and the list continues
I'm creating this thread to see if many others on W8 phone are having these issues? Please post if you experience the same issues.
Long story short.. I turned everything off, no sim card, hard reset, soft reset.. everything you can turn off on the phone was off and the phone would still discharge very quickly. I began searching these forums and others and found that the problem occurs on many lumias and some people claimed it happens on Samsungs etc aswell. Thats why I'm posting here on W8 forum.
Symptoms: 3-10% discharge rate/hour on IDLE(It could lose over 20-30% when sleeping - Compared to my 2 year old iPhone that dropps 1-2%). And remember, everything was turned off. I tried several hard resets and soft resets. No sim card. Every setting OFF. Sometimes over 20% discharge rate/hour on load. It seemed really random, sometimes it could spike and lose battery so fast and sometimes it seemed rather stable.
The problems were so bad I had to return the phone. I like Nokia and I like W8, but these problems seem to occur for many.
Threads about poor battery life:
http://forums.windowscentral.com/nokia-lumia-1020/243573-1020-battery-drain.html
http://forums.windowscentral.com/nokia-lumia-920/215695-lumia-920-battery-your-opinions.html (This one has over 70 pages of complaints)
http://forums.windowscentral.com/nokia-lumia-820/241572-poor-battery-backup-after-amber.html
Lumia 1020 battery life appears poor? - Nokia Support Discussions
and the list continues
I'm creating this thread to see if many others on W8 phone are having these issues? Please post if you experience the same issues.