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Is Your Android Phone Draining Battery Too Fast?

By on May 15, 2011 in Mobile, PDA, TECHIE

There was a report recently (after Google I/O) that says that Google Android phones suck battery and it is “official”. Of course, I did not see any official report from Google but basing on the report, it seems to be true. What do you think?

The reason why Geek.com mentioned this on their article is because of the number of people using the “green man” to charge their handphones during Google I/O. And for those who did not charge on these booth, they might have some backup batteries or some system to “juice” up their devices.

What do you think? Do you think Android phone is a battery “sucker” or not? Would like to hear your view.

For me, it is really a matter on how you use your phone. For an event like Google I/O, I am not surprised that many have to charge their devices, regardless of OS.

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  • http://twitter.com/suhchyuan Merv Koh Suh Chyuan

     It depends on the usage really. My iPhone battery also drains equally fast if my usage is high. A lot of people are not aware that actually many notifications could be running in the background, and that GPS is active, WiFi is active, bright screen, all these can be the cause of the battery drainage. 

    On the other hand, charging the phone doesn’t mean that the battery drain fast. To me it is for “just in case”. I believe no one wants their phone to be dead in the middle of the event.

  • Anonymous

     Merv: True loh. I think any phone with such intense background work will “drain” battery..

  • Samuel Tan

    yes.draining too fast. Problem is the screen.

  • Anonymous

     Samuel: You means the screen is “eating” up the battery? Due to its Brightness or its size?

  • Samuel Tan

    not too sure if it is the size or the brightness. I have a feeling it is the brightness. If you continuously use the phone (either surfing or other apps), the screen normally takes up easily 50% of power usage.

    To make it last longer, I would set the brightness to 20% or lower which makes it unreadable under daylight.

  • Anonymous

     I guess this is no choice with Smartphone’s screen getter larger. Tks for the info. :)

  • http://twitter.com/YKLee13 YK Lee

    If I dare to say, iPhone battery life spoil market to other competing platforms lol.

  • Anonymous

     I thk my #WP7 has good battery life b’cos it has nothing (no multi-task, no push notification). Haha. Will wait for Mango update to verify :)

  • Samuel Tan

     Depends on how you look at it. Comparing HTC Desire HD to iPad. iPad easily beats HTC desire HD by 2 times or more.

  • http://twitter.com/YKLee13 YK Lee

     Yah lar lol…ppl will only say iPhone has fantastic battery life. But none will consider the multi-tasking capabilities that iOS lack and that alone will throw the entire balance off.

    I’m done with my phone handling 1 day’s of usage lol.

  • Anonymous

     True. I like the battery life on iPad :) . That’s for sure.

  • Anonymous

     ya. iOS is not “real” multi-task. Me too. If phone can survive one day. That is already very good.

  • http://twitter.com/YKLee13 YK Lee

     Yeap. Only the techy ppl can understand this notion. The rest, sometimes tell them also dun understand. :(

  • Alvin2038

    my htc desire used to suck battery like crazy. by midnight the battery level would be hovering between 20-30%. then i came across this article and now battery level at the end of the day is about 60%.

    http://www.androidcentral.com/keeping-your-charge-how-improve-battery-life-your-android-phone

    the key power sucker is the 3G data especially when the signal is not optimal. check out the tip on wifi and 3g in the article.

  • Anonymous

     Alvin: Nice! Tks for sharing this article on battery saving :)

  • http://twitter.com/suhchyuan Merv Koh Suh Chyuan

     Am I right to say that seems like the main problem lies on HTC Desire series phones rather than simply Android phones…haha.. Because my Nexus S is completely fine. I use it for mostly social networking, occasional calling, camera – sometimes, games – rarely, it can last me for one whole day till mid-night, and I find that it is pretty good enough. And not forgetting I didn’t follow the tips on saving battery.. which means I turned on almost everything, GPS, WiFi, 3G, etc.. and never have switched them off.

    Yes I do agree with the rest of the people that the Screen is the main factor.. According to the “Battery Use” option from Android settings, about 40% of the consumption comes from Screen / Display. So now the problem lies on the Screen? Or the Battery? I think we’ll have to leave to the manufacturers to investigate.. 

    iPad 2 battery good ah?… probably they got a bigger battery ma.. =P We shall see how is the battery consumptions on those Honeycomb tablets..

  • Anonymous

    I think I saw another screen technology that uses less energy. From Samsung http://engt.co/kEo3NO