Samsung Epic battery life test and review

Samsung Epic 4G battery life test and review

Break Down:
10hours 56minutes until battery completely dead

11 phone calls totaling 110 minutes (1hour 50minutes)
130 text messages back and forth
1 hour of internet searching/using facebook app
checked 30 emails
took 6 pictures
used some apps 6-7 times @ 5 min each
WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth all enabled (4G was disabled)
Live Wallpaper running in the background

Battery usage summary:
Voicecalls: 50%
Display:36%
Cell Standby: 6%
Phone Idle: 3%
Bluetooth: 2%
Android System: 2%

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Samsung
• Epic
• 4G
• battery
• life
• review

[brownhandz]

Today 10/15/2010(a month later) I decided to let the phone go today without charging it and with minimum usage i got to 13 hours with 35% battery life let to go still.

- I didn't talk much maybe 45 mins or so

- watched some youtube vids 30 mins

- facebook 15 mins

- web surfing 30 mins

- GPS and 4G OFF

- played some games 15 mins

- checked 40+ emails

- used WiFi and bluetooth all day on

13 hours later and still have 35% left. I was able to talk for 25+ minutes with the last 6% in the video.

[brownhandz]

@brownhandz oh yeah forgot sent 30 texts and took some pictures

[brownhandz]

Please keep in mind when I did my battery test, I didn't have any widgets that update regularly either. eg. weather news etc..

[ladydye12]

Do you need to let the battery discharge completely in order to make the battery last longer?

[brownhandz]

@ladydye12 that is a matter of debate, but IMO it should be fine without a complete discharge.. I'm no battery expert though.

[00Paisan00]

is it important the very first time u charge it? b/c as usual sprint took the phone out the box and turned it on and tried showing me crap i would wanna look at later. so than on my ride back to home i charged it for a little than disconnected it and recharged til i got home. idk if this why it takes forever to fully charge or its just the way it is? any advice/help would be much appreciated. nice break down btw

[brownhandz]

@00Paisan00 anything I buy that requires a charge, I like to give a complete charge before using it.

[xSANDIVIANx]

@brownhandz Please reply, I want to get this phone but the battery life i guess is bad on reviews, Should i get the HTC Evo Shift 4g or the Samsung Epic? And on a scale 1-10 how good is the battery? Thanks

[TsanelJuan]

how do u minimize cell display? anyone please?

[saadaauto]

@brownhandz do you try other new battery ?

[hotliplucy]

That test isn't very scientific. Try testing with better controls next time.

[gradilla323]

What is the name of that widget (That's green & yellow) of your main menu. That let's you know how many apps are open what is the name of that widger or app

[dondolphy]

@00Paisan00 this ph takes 4ever to charge..but charge faster if you turn the ph of

[Armoredlamb]

My battery got less than 25% in 6 hrs today. (it displayed a please charge message). I had GPS and wifi on. and Weather bug using Background data. I did maybe 20 emails back and forth(mayb a lil more) and bit over 30 txts back n forth. some music and light surfing. And 7.5 min of talking i believe. Gonna try turning off GPS, and if its still not better i'll turn off background data, also.

[narutouzumakijoshua]

my epic lasted maybe about 7 or 8 hours

about 30 mins of youtube,few text messeges, and about an hour of games

then i didnt use it for the rest of the time and my phone was at like 10 percent in 7 hours! Help plz!

[IGOTSHOT23]

@uriarte411 i have had the phone when it came out and i payed the full price for it. im telling you straight up that i get up at 5 use my phone to call, internet, little bit of apps, and boom there goes 80% of my battery by 1pm. i was like WTF so now i have my epic and super happy with it. personal experience.