Hey Guys,
I've been using the S2X on Telus for about 4 days and having terrible results. On day 1 I charged it up to 100% before turning it on. Here's what I have today as an example:
6h 18m 42s on battery, down to 13% now.
Display 57%
Voice Calls 11%
Android System 6%
Android OS 6% etc
Is this normal? My display settings aren't crazy, it's auto-brightness, auto-rotate is off. I don't have any major apps or widgets that are draining it either.
Please help! If this is an error, I'd like to work with Telus / Samsung and get the device / battery replaced ASAP.
Thanks!
Seeing as nobody is replying to your question, I will chime in.
I got my S II X the morning of Oct. 28th when it came out and had read about the varying battery results, but...
1) The battery needs to be cycled (100% to 0%, turned off and charged to 100%) a few times in order to achieve maximum battery life and duration.
2) You should only charge your battery when it is very low (20% or preferably less) if you want it to live long.
3) You are better off charging with your phone off in order to avoid uselss cycles (gets to 100%, drops to 98% because it is on then charges to 100%, and so on, all night). If you don't, you are reducing the useable life of the battery.
4) The S II X has a fantastic screen, but it will kill your battery if you leave brightness up very high and if you use a bright background. Use automatic brightness (works very well) and set your background to a dark image, or dark live wallpaper. I use live wallpaper all of the time, but the backgrounds are dark. AMOLED displays have the advantage of turning off pixels to make black, so using a darker/black theme wallpaper turns off all of the black parts of the screen saving battery.
5) Juice Defender is very good and does make a difference. I used the free version for a few months and bought the Ultimate version in order to have it control Bluetooth and other more advanced settings. Worth every penny. I use my phone extensively for work, unplug, turn on at about 8:30am and by 5pm I have between 50 and 70% left.
6) Be sure to turn off auto sync of your accounts, unless absolutely needed. Settings - Accounts and sync - Under the manage accounts section select the accounts one by one and uncheck all of the things that you don't need to have sync (I use none since my e-mail is what is important).
7) Using the GPS for navigation, Google Maps or other apps that require location verification will also drain battery. If you don't need it, turn it off. If you do need it then get Juice Defender Free or paid, to manage it automatically. Using Navigation in your car will drain the battery, this is when I plug in the car charger. Once done with Navigation, I disconnect it.
8) Keep a car charger handy because you will eventually get into a situation where your battery will be too low for comfort and it will save you.
Hope this helps!