Official Samsung Battery Performance Talk - Page 5

**flyers2114** · #41 (**permalink**) 09-05-2010, 08:33 AM

Well as we all know these darn phones if used are never going to get great battery life...but what I always do is get an extra battery.....problem solved for whenever I use a ton of data, etc....here is what I bought...pretty good deal to me for OEM batt and stand alone charger...the stand alone charges the battery quicker also....but overall the batt life is pretty good to me..its just I use the crap out of my phones....

Here it is....

http://shop.sprint.com/NASApp/online...ubPageNumber=0

BTW is does say out of stock online...but they had a lot at my Sprint corp store....

**Carla** · #42 (**permalink**) 09-05-2010, 01:32 PM

Merged "Epic Battery Life!!!" into "Official Samsung Battery Performance Talk".

beejmeister · #43 (**permalink**) 09-05-2010, 03:20 PM

I have to say that it sucks to walk into my local SPRINT store, where I know them as I've been doing business with them for 10 years or so, and, when I mentioned that I had a battery that was dying fast, have them ask me if I had my BT shut off.... Really? I have to disable a critical function of the phone in order to be able to keep battery life? That makes NO SENSE!

Look. I have carried several smart phones over the years... and gotten used to disabling BT, carrying ONE extra battery and when I can.... I ALWAYS plug in to my PC, car or wall....

But this thing is beyond the pale of bad battery life.

Also. And I find this most laughable... everyone is saying to make sure that the 4G is off... So... Is it rude for me to notice the elephant in the room called SPRINT's advertising of 4G as the Second Coming, but also point out that, whatever we do, DON'T TURN ON 4G?

The solutions out on all of this and other web sites is to add software that disables data communications when the phone screen is off, keep your BT off, Don't use 4G (WHATEVER you DO!), Watch how many apps you have that may use internet access, etc. REALLY? So what did I really get. The latest and greatest cutting edge phone that turns into a paper weight by 1 in the afternoon (or earlier) unless I have a pocket full of batteries to support it?

Isn't this like building a Jumbo Jet, bragging that it can travel at the speed of sound, it has an on deck kitchen to serve gourmet meals during the flight, that the seats are the most comfortable ever and have massage functions built in, and many other AWESOME things.... but OOPS! we only put a fuel tank on it that can take you HALF way across the Atlantic? Unless of course, you don't bring any luggage, don't bring any food to be served by the gourmet kitchen, don't turn on the special functions like the massage chairs... AND... whatever you do... DON'T FLY FASTER THAN 350 MPH!

WTF???!! Isn't this phone sold as being able to do all of these amazing things at phenomenol speeds and that doing all of this is the great big reason to have this phone?

Love the phone's functionality.... hate the implementation.....

JohnnyOnTheSpot · #44 (**permalink**) 09-05-2010, 05:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by flyers2114

Here it is....

http://shop.sprint.com/NASApp/online...ubPageNumber=0

BTW is does say out of stock online...but they had a lot at my Sprint corp store....

How much is it?

smu · #45 (**permalink**) 09-05-2010, 05:43 PM

Originally posted here:
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.p...9&postcount=12

I thought I would tell a short tale on this subject. While I am still TP2ing it, my wife's TP2 bit the dust a couple of weeks ago, so she was one of the first in line to get the Epic. Like so many of you, her battery life was horrible and it would go from charger to low battery warning in about 3 hours. We tried the usual suspects of lowering the screen brightness (which, even at its lowest setting was tremendously bright), not actively syncing with her GMail account, etc. and she still had very poor performance from the battery.

Over the last 5 days, she has twice had the issue where she would have "No data connection available" which would necessitate her pulling the battery to reset it. When it happened this morning, she was beyond pissed and called Sprint Customer Service. The guy suggested that she update her profile on the phone. When she tried to do this, she could not because it failed with an "unknown error". When the CS rep called her back five minutes later to check on her, she reported what happened and he asked her to take it to a Sprint store. We did, and - de rigueur - they wanted to hard reset her phone and that it would take a hour for the techs to get to it. Since I'm still a WinMo guy, I don't know how to do this on her phone, so I suggested that they just give us a new phone since hers was only 5 days old. After a slightly heated conversation between me and the Sprint store rep (it never elevated in volume, mind, but I just pointed out to him that if I came back in a couple days with the same problem, I was going to be one unhappy camper), he finally relented and gave her a new phone.

Now, this is where the story gets a bit interesting.

One of the first things that I noticed is that the new phone she has is either a new hardware rev and/or a new software build because on the previous phone, the brightness settings for the display only had four levels...the new phone has 10 levels and can get MUCH dimmer than the old one. The second thing we noticed is that this one charges about twice as fast as her old one...and the battery seems to be lasting much longer.

With all that being said, I'm wondering if the people who are having terrible luck with the battery had the same production run as my wife's first phone and - conversely - if the people having good luck have the other production run.

**D/\SH** · #46 (**permalink**) 09-05-2010, 05:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by smu

Originally posted here:
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.p...9&postcount=12

I thought I would tell a short tale on this subject. While I am still TP2ing it, my wife's TP2 bit the dust a couple of weeks ago, so she was one of the first in line to get the Epic. Like so many of you, her battery life was horrible and it would go from charger to low battery warning in about 3 hours. We tried the usual suspects of lowering the screen brightness (which, even at its lowest setting was tremendously bright), not actively syncing with her GMail account, etc. and she still had very poor performance from the battery.

Over the last 5 days, she has twice had the issue where she would have "No data connection available" which would necessitate her pulling the battery to reset it. When it happened this morning, she was beyond pissed and called Sprint Customer Service. The guy suggested that she update her profile on the phone. When she tried to do this, she could not because it failed with an "unknown error". When the CS rep called her back five minutes later to check on her, she reported what happened and he asked her to take it to a Sprint store. We did, and - de rigueur - they wanted to hard reset her phone and that it would take a hour for the techs to get to it. Since I'm still a WinMo guy, I don't know how to do this on her phone, so I suggested that they just give us a new phone since hers was only 5 days old. After a slightly heated conversation between me and the Sprint store rep (it never elevated in volume, mind, but I just pointed out to him that if I came back in a couple days with the same problem, I was going to be one unhappy camper), he finally relented and gave her a new phone.

Now, this is where the story gets a bit interesting.

One of the first things that I noticed is that the new phone she has is either a new hardware rev and/or a new software build because on the previous phone, the brightness settings for the display only had four levels...the new phone has 10 levels and can get MUCH dimmer than the old one. The second thing we noticed is that this one charges about twice as fast as her old one...and the battery seems to be lasting much longer.

With all that being said, I'm wondering if the people who are having terrible luck with the battery had the same production run as my wife's first phone and - conversely - if the people having good luck have the other production run.

im going to have to check this out, im having the same troubles with my device charging slow and draining horribly quick under moderate use and forget about heavy.

crazaytalent · #47 (**permalink**) 09-06-2010, 05:37 AM

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crazaytalent · #48 (**permalink**) 09-06-2010, 05:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by smu

Originally posted here:
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.p...9&postcount=12

I thought I would tell a short tale on this subject. While I am still TP2ing it, my wife's TP2 bit the dust a couple of weeks ago, so she was one of the first in line to get the Epic. Like so many of you, her battery life was horrible and it would go from charger to low battery warning in about 3 hours. We tried the usual suspects of lowering the screen brightness (which, even at its lowest setting was tremendously bright), not actively syncing with her GMail account, etc. and she still had very poor performance from the battery.

Over the last 5 days, she has twice had the issue where she would have "No data connection available" which would necessitate her pulling the battery to reset it. When it happened this morning, she was beyond pissed and called Sprint Customer Service. The guy suggested that she update her profile on the phone. When she tried to do this, she could not because it failed with an "unknown error". When the CS rep called her back five minutes later to check on her, she reported what happened and he asked her to take it to a Sprint store. We did, and - de rigueur - they wanted to hard reset her phone and that it would take a hour for the techs to get to it. Since I'm still a WinMo guy, I don't know how to do this on her phone, so I suggested that they just give us a new phone since hers was only 5 days old. After a slightly heated conversation between me and the Sprint store rep (it never elevated in volume, mind, but I just pointed out to him that if I came back in a couple days with the same problem, I was going to be one unhappy camper), he finally relented and gave her a new phone.

Now, this is where the story gets a bit interesting.

One of the first things that I noticed is that the new phone she has is either a new hardware rev and/or a new software build because on the previous phone, the brightness settings for the display only had four levels...the new phone has 10 levels and can get MUCH dimmer than the old one. The second thing we noticed is that this one charges about twice as fast as her old one...and the battery seems to be lasting much longer.

With all that being said, I'm wondering if the people who are having terrible luck with the battery had the same production run as my wife's first phone and - conversely - if the people having good luck have the other production run.

;m having pretty good battery life... and my screen brightness seems to have a wide range of progression from bright to low.... but whre do u find the settings where its showing the screen brightness levels numbered? On my epic in the settings menu it a simple slider...

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