[crackberryhead]

Have the 9930 with the official 7.1 from verizon, Is the battery life always gonna suck, or will they some day fix the issue with an OS fix? Just curious

[AbuYazeedUK]

[crackberryhead]

Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez!

[HankHowdy]

Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez!

You're problem is 7.1. Go with .374 and it will at least last you all day.

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[Minarets]

You're problem is 7.1. Go with .374 and it will at least last you all day.

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i am on .374 and can only get to about 5pm (off the charger at 6am) and that is with less than 10% remaining. now, i have the fortune, i guess, that i am in my car a lot during the day (sales job) so i can constantly keep it charging from there...

i have not updated to 7.1 just because of all the reported "worse" battery talk.

[HankHowdy]

i am on .374 and can only get to about 5pm (off the charger at 6am) and that is with less than 10% remaining. now, i have the fortune, i guess, that i am in my car a lot during the day (sales job) so i can constantly keep it charging from there...



i have not updated to 7.1 just because of all the reported "worse" battery talk.

Then you have a bad battery. Try for a replacement. They're free for a year.

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[theKHMERboy]

I just got my bold yesterday and the battery don't seem to be as good as on my torch.. But lucky I have 2 batterys for my bold

[jrcdpm]

It seems to be variable from device to device. It also seems very dependent on what apps you are running. I am currently running 7.1 on my 9930 and showing a discharge rate of 2.9% per hour (which I consider very good). Previously I had anywhere from 4.9% to as high as 10.4%. I deleted some apps and did some battery pulls and now have stabilized at a very good battery use over the past several days. I do not necessarily think one OS is better than another, so I would not avoid upgrading--you need to experiment with your device and various OS and what apps you are running, but you can get a good battery life.

[HankHowdy]

It seems to be variable from device to device. It also seems very dependent on what apps you are running. I am currently running 7.1 on my 9930 and showing a discharge rate of 2.9% per hour (which I consider very good). Previously I had anywhere from 4.9% to as high as 10.4%. I deleted some apps and did some battery pulls and now have stabilized at a very good battery use over the past several days. I do not necessarily think one OS is better than another, so I would not avoid upgrading--you need to experiment with your device and various OS and what apps you are running, but you can get a good battery life.

This is very strange. On 7.0 I would get 3-5% discharge and when trying 7.1 on three separate occasions I would get 8-15%.

Its crazy how it plays out totally different on different phones.

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[Smartie020]

I�m on OS7.1 and still not satisfied with the battery life. The battery looses a lot of its energy even when I�m barely using the phone. On .585 battery life was sometimes really good and sometimes it sucked, same apps installed.

I did a security wipe on OS7.1 to see how it goes without all my apps: There is not really a difference. I always close my apps after I used them, except for twitter.

[9900Boldfan]

i"m on 7 and running GSM network. My battery life is very good. I bought an original spare battery so I don't have to worry about running out of battery.

[Pi Guy 3.14]

My battery life is terrible. On sprints 7.1, gps off, wifi off, global comm off, no apps running in background nor any apps that use mem/batt while not in use... I'm 3 hrs in my day with not much usage (email, bbm, interwebs) and its at 45%