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Do I have a bad battery?

Hey everyone,

this has been an awesome phone, but the battery is bugging me a bit. I am new to smartphones, but I came in with the understanding that I will have to make charging on a daily basis my new habit. That's fine, but my N4 is needing it twice, maybe three times per day. As you can see below, battery drained in about 6 to 7 hours.

Here are some of my stats.

On "Day 1", I had gone out to a few different stores, with turn by turn navigation guiding me over T-mobile's "4g" data. This was for ~1.5 hours. You can see the data signal, GPS on, and screen on. Screen time and Maps time are also shown.

On "Day 2", I stayed indoors and used some apps (mainly Chrome) over WiFi. Screen time and Chrome time are also shown.

The third data set shows stats during charging via wall outlet (screen and WiFi were off).

The last data set shows stats after the charging session, but it also shows a bit about how battery is when I turned off cell service (via Airplane mode). I've had cell service turned off for a while now (screen was off too), and the battery has been pretty stable (tiny, stable drop).

I cannot understand if this is normal, or if it's because of T-mobile's signal, or if I got a bad battery. I'm getting discouraged because I'm seeing posts of people going 1 or even 2 days without charging their N4. Could someone please help me out?

edit: Also, everyday, I'm constantly finding myself Force Stopping every app that I'm not using in order to have the battery last the whole day (I didn't do it during GPS usage on Day 1, though).

edit: Brightness is always on lowest, or low, setting. Other than Day 1, Location Access is almost always turned off.

edit: I've had the phone for 12 days now.

Posted Dec 2, 2012, 6:09 PM UTC · edited

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