Originally Posted by
OzRob Another thing to do is STOP OBSESSING with the estimated time left and just USE your phone. The estimated time is just that - an ESTIMATE. The more normally you use your phone the more accurate the reading. Also, the fact that the phone says you only have and estimated 23 hours remain doesn't mean that that's how much time you have left. If you use your phone less, you'll get more time. If you use your phone more, you'll get less time. And the more often you fire up the screen to check how much 'estimated' time you have remaining, the less time you'll have remaining because you keep turning on your screen to check how much time is remaining. Jumping through hoops to change the 'estimated' time remaining doesn't do ANYTHING to make your phone ACTUALLY last longer.
I've had my phone tell me that it 'estimated' I had 1 day and 8 hours left after a full charge, but the phone actually lasted just over two full days. And the estimate kept changing as I used my phone. The number shown is a 'best guess'.
Apparently, the issue is not "Estimated Time Remaining". Sometimes drain rate goes ridiculously high, as high as -19%.
But one more thing, if I choose "Windows Phone Style Estimation Method", it never shows drain post 2.2% and when I switch to "Battery Sense Style", during heavy usage, drain rate is shown to be 10%+ and estimated life remaining 6 hours, which is untrue but this high drain ?
