How long does a smartphone battery last?

speedtheplough

Ho Boys, Different thing altogether,, dose anyone know how long a smartphone battery lasts. mines a samsung galaxy Sll about a year old,all this week phone slow to charge and dead again noon also it lost a lot of pics of it which was a complete arse because i used it to date work. ?????

Sharpshooter82

speedtheplough wrote: »

Ho Boys, Different thing altogether,, dose anyone know how long a smartphone battery lasts. mines a samsung galaxy Sll about a year old,all this week phone slow to charge and dead again noon also it lost a lot of pics of it which was a complete arse because i used it to date work. ?????

I believe there is only a lifespan of about a year on the new phones as mine is giving bother as well. It started to turn itself off a while back

speedtheplough

do u reckon its the fault off the batt that the phone gets hot and also wud ii b ok to fit a new batt supplied by duracell.ie ???

jersey101

My phone is just over a year old and the batt is only lasting a day and it used to last two. Im.looking into getting a google nexus 5 after christmas

Sharpshooter82

speedtheplough wrote: »

do u reckon its the fault off the batt that the phone gets hot and also wud ii b ok to fit a new batt supplied by duracell.ie ???

Mine does the same and the battery runs out of power very quick afterwards too

speedtheplough

tanks bud, may get a new batt....

st1979

speedtheplough wrote: »

tanks bud, may get a new batt....

Have an s2 and bought on ebay a bigger battery came with a different back cover to accommodate the larger battery all for 10 pounds sterling. Its brilliant

st1979

speedtheplough wrote: »

tanks bud, may get a new batt....

Have an s2 and bought on ebay a bigger battery came with a different back cover to accommodate the larger battery all for 10 pounds sterling. Its brilliant

farming93

speedtheplough wrote: »

Ho Boys, Different thing altogether,, dose anyone know how long a smartphone battery lasts. mines a samsung galaxy Sll about a year old,all this week phone slow to charge and dead again noon also it lost a lot of pics of it which was a complete arse because i used it to date work. ?????

My phone battery used to only last a few hours when fully charged so I looked up a video on youtube on power saving techniques and now I would easily get the 17/18 hours on it and I would use it quiet a bit. Just type in Samgsung galaxy s2 battery and something will come up to help you.

reilig

speedtheplough wrote: »

Ho Boys, Different thing altogether,, dose anyone know how long a smartphone battery lasts. mines a samsung galaxy Sll about a year old,all this week phone slow to charge and dead again noon also it lost a lot of pics of it which was a complete arse because i used it to date work. ?????

It's not the battery or the phone that goes. Batteries should last 4 or 5 years before you have to replace them. it's the aps on the smartphone. Some of them use a lot of power. Some drain the thing without you knowing. What you need to do is plug your phone into a pc, save the information on it (numbers, texts, pictures, calendar notes etc.), then do a factory reset on the phone. After this only install the aps that you actually use. Also install a task killer ap which will shut down aps on your phone while you are not using them - this will save a lot of battery.

bbam

reilig wrote: »

It's not the battery or the phone that goes. Batteries should last 4 or 5 years before you have to replace them. it's the aps on the smartphone. Some of them use a lot of power. Some drain the thing without you knowing. What you need to do is plug your phone into a pc, save the information on it (numbers, texts, pictures, calendar notes etc.), then do a factory reset on the phone. After this only install the aps that you actually use. Also install a task killer ap which will shut down aps on your phone while you are not using them - this will save a lot of battery.

I'd agree with this.
My iphone4 is 3 years old and battery life is still good.
Now it was never wonderful but it lasts all day.

Rovi

Bluetooth and GPS are likely the main culprits for eating battery power.
Switch both off it they're not actually being used.

Sharpshooter82

Rovi wrote: »

Bluetooth and GPS are likely the main culprits for eating battery power.
Switch both off it they're not actually being used.

I've all them off on mine while sometimes it's fine, at times it gets red hot and the battery life flies down. Something very wrong with the phone me thinks

supersean1999

Its Android system that eats battery so Knock off as many of those you Dont want. Ie gps weather updates etc. But Also some upgrades are Worse than others i just updated my HTC one and the Android system went from 30% to 75% . Im getting it Sent back and fixed No matter What i do it dies before 7pm . Before i updated phone i could get to 3 pm the next day .

munkus

To extend the life of any smartphone, go into your settings and change the data connection from 3G to 2G/edge/E. You'd get a couple of more hours each day. You wouldn't notice the difference browsing the web to the likes of boards either as it's only text based.

Muckit

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Muckit

Sorry mods. Point taken. A bit of harmless banter is all.

Meanwhile back on topic. .. shorter battery life is one of the only pet peeves l have with changing over to a smartphone. It ironically nearly stops phones from being called mobiles anymore. Your nearly chained to a plug! Held prisoner by your own phone :-)

whitebriar

Rovi wrote: »

Bluetooth and GPS are likely the main culprits for eating battery power.
Switch both off it they're not actually being used.

My HTC has a power save mode which means when on,no app starts unless used.
Saves data if not unlimited and battery.
Battery lasts 2 days.
Less if using the torch app a lot.

No need to hook it to a pc to save stuff,just back it all up via WiFi to the cloud.

reilig

Another important thing for your smartphone is to make sure you turn it off ona regular basis. Aps can often stay running and continue to drain the battery and make the phone run slow. Turning it off can stop this and basically reset the phone.

nashmach

Do you really need the data on all the time?

Some days wouldn't use the data bar a quick ten minutes here or there for emails and can get up to three days out of it (HTC One S).