I have followed ever tip and trick posted and it's paying off. I can go a whole day on one charge with moderate use. My advice is try ever trick that is floating around out there. My battery is better than my 3GS. Still waiting for my two extra batteries I ordered 3 weeks ago. Once received I'll be all set.
Wow. That was really useful.
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Oh, man. Thanks so much for conglomerating every bit of advice regarding the battery into a single tip! It's just what I needed!
linkkkk mee pleasseeeeee
The same way users in a car forum will chat about their cars and discuss problems and how they fix it, and then updating their thread when a particular fix worked, I think the OP was just excited to know that all those tips are paying off.
As a big group of Evo owners who chat about our phones, we all experience the horrible battery life. It's nice to have some feedback now and then to know that its still possible to have a decent battery life with this phone.
HHOOOOOO-LEEEEEE FUUUCCCKK! The OverclockWidget has really really really extended my battery life. When I left home from work, I still had about %65 power left. I used it normally as I would (playing Pandora to and from work, e-mail, work e-mail and calendar throughout the day, in meetings checking e-mail for important messages, text messaging, maps, Transdroid, checking my torrent progress, on wifi, off wifi, on wifi, etc).
It is 10pm and I have.... lemme check... 44% power left. I disconnected from the charger at 8 am and refused to charge during the day, so I could see how well the OverclockWidget would operate. I'm not going to charge tonight and see how much power I have left when I wake up in the morning. I expect to have 40% left. I'll report back.
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HHOOOOOO-LEEEEEE FUUUCCCKK! The OverclockWidget has really really really extended my battery life. When I left home from work, I still had about %65 power left. I used it normally as I would (playing Pandora to and from work, e-mail, work e-mail and calendar throughout the day, in meetings checking e-mail for important messages, text messaging, maps, Transdroid, checking my torrent progress, on wifi, off wifi, on wifi, etc).
It is 10pm and I have.... lemme check... 44% power left. I disconnected from the charger at 8 am and refused to charge during the day, so I could see how well the OverclockWidget would operate. I'm not going to charge tonight and see how much power I have left when I wake up in the morning. I expect to have 40% left. I'll report back.
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i got the same results plus hard reset and the CDMA prl trick, its mind blowing to me how my phone went from wasting more than half battery in about 2hrs to 8hrs + of life with heavy usage.
check out the results for some in this thread
http://androidforums.com/support-troubleshooting-evo-4g/98062-battery-issue-hard-reset.html in case some haven't tried it already.
Guys GUYS guys
I think overclock widget effect is probably placebo effect
The system already dynamically clocks the CPU
Don't believe? Install OSMonitor and look at the "Misc" tab
Notice the "ondemand" governor scaling range of 245000 - 998400
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I'm not going to charge tonight and see how much power I have left when I wake up in the morning. I expect to have 40% left. I'll report back.
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So, I woke up this morning and the first thing I did after getting out of the shower was check my battery. Yep, as I predicted, my battery was at 40% left. I'm at work right now, and I've been in a long meeting constantly using my phone to check e-mails, respond, kill time by browsing reddit and other time-killing-web browsing. It's 9:30 am and I now have about 25% power left and I still haven't charged it this morning. I'm going to see how long I can go before the battery dies.
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i got the same results plus hard reset and the CDMA prl trick, its mind blowing to me how my phone went from wasting more than half battery in about 2hrs to 8hrs + of life with heavy usage.
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Yeah, I saw that thread a while ago, but it never sank in. Bookmarked! Thanks for that, I'm going to try to implement the PRL trick.
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Guys GUYS guys
I think overclock widget effect is probably placebo effect
The system already dynamically clocks the CPU
Don't believe? Install OSMonitor and look at the "Misc" tab
Notice the "ondemand" governor scaling range of 245000 - 998400
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Is it really? Anybody confirm this?
For what it's worth
I also did the GSM to CDMA trick with *#*#4636#*#* yesterday and since then my battery life has gone through the roof...Currently I am over 16hours unplugged, with surfing, checking emails, 4g on and off and normal to heavy usage...Whatever that did...it made a really big difference on my phone...
I have no complaints!
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It's 9:30 am and I now have about 25% power left and I still haven't charged it this morning. I'm going to see how long I can go before the battery dies.
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OK, so at 4pm my phone is about to die. For the past couple of hours it's been complaining about the battery power left. The reminders were annoying, but I'm sure for everyone else they are needed. I have like 1% or 2% power left and I'm going to finally charge it. If you don't know the story: I took it off the charging cable yesterday (Monday) morning at 8am when I was heading out the door on my way to work. I got home and still had a lot of juice left, so I decided NOT to charge it overnight. The next morning (today, Tuesday) I still had 40% power left and now at 4pm the battery has died out. That is now a total of 32 hours of usage time (browsing, telephone calls, e-mails, Pandora, reddit, etc) from normal to heavy usage at times.
Now that I have the PRL trick setup I'm going to charge it and start the experiment again for 2 days and see how much a single charge can get me. I'm going to predict 2 whole days of usage. WISH ME LUCK!
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How . I dont get anything near this
Antebios said:
HHOOOOOO-LEEEEEE FUUUCCCKK! The OverclockWidget has really really really extended my battery life. When I left home from work, I still had about %65 power left. I used it normally as I would (playing Pandora to and from work, e-mail, work e-mail and calendar throughout the day, in meetings checking e-mail for important messages, text messaging, maps, Transdroid, checking my torrent progress, on wifi, off wifi, on wifi, etc).
It is 10pm and I have.... lemme check... 44% power left. I disconnected from the charger at 8 am and refused to charge during the day, so I could see how well the OverclockWidget would operate. I'm not going to charge tonight and see how much power I have left when I wake up in the morning. I expect to have 40% left. I'll report back.
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Started a discussion here on whether OverclockWidget is able to do anything about your battery life http://androidforums.com/all-things...nsane-battery-life-40-hours-7.html#post929496
So far I'm convinced that it's something else that's increasing your battery life, not OverclockWidget.
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How . I dont get anything near this
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I have a hardware rev 0003 device, running Fresh 0.2. I keep location services off (until I need it), and wifi on, since I'm typically either at home or the office where there is wifi, and the wifi radio uses less power than the 3G radio. Background data is enabled. In accounts & sync, I have Facebook set to sync contacts once a day, I have turned off the stream sync, and don't run the FriendStream widget. I use Twidroid for Twitter, and have it sync once an hour, and don't use Peep, nor do I have Twitter even configured under accounts & sync. I have disabled stocks, news, and weather from syncing as well. I don't use the clock widget that shows the current weather, as it's always polling too. I have both my GMail and my corporate Exchange e-mails both setup, and both pushing.
That's really about it! Nothing really special. I did get way less than this running both stock roms.
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Now that I have the PRL trick setup I'm going to charge it and start the experiment again for 2 days and see how much a single charge can get me. I'm going to predict 2 whole days of usage. WISH ME LUCK!
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So, I've started the experiment again. It started yesterday morning at 8:30 am. I went to bed with 59% battery. I woke up this morning to about 55% battery left. I've used it as I normally would. It's 6pm and 23% battery left. So far, NO recharging for about 34 hours. I'm going to happy hour and will show it off more. Let's see if I can make it to tomorrow morning without a charge.
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Let's see if I can make it to tomorrow morning without a charge.
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I went to bed with about 5% power left. I woke up and my phone was dead. I had used it the rest of the night, showing it off, using Pandora to stream music on my way home. I'm very happy that I made it 2 complete days with enough power to meet my daily tasks.
Now, imagine if I had a custom ROM with more tweaking.
Overclock widget will not work in our evo's yet. It's just placebo. Proof? Set the max clock speed at the lowest, and nothing happens. Then take my hero for instance, overclock it and it runs great. Set the speed at it's lowest and that thing can barely swipe from screen to screen. We don't have the ability to tweak our processor unless we are running a custom kernel. Unfortunately the only kernel capable right now isn't fully functioning.
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Ok, guys look... I know there are lots of variables, but I get back from work, it's been 12 hours since my 100% charge, I'm at 26%. I get home, I charge my phone. It's back up to 100% in about 2 hours. I try some weather widgets on my phone, answer 3 emails quickly, I'm down to 83%. Something must be up, right?
I have notice this happen and its because the phone reads the battery is at 100 but you still need to let it charge longer for it to hold the charge. I suggest a full charge then kill it until it shuts off. Then let it charge while off until the LED turns green and maybe for a little time after that. Do that a few times and you should see some improvement.
Ok, well perhaps I'll have to try that then. Can the battery be reconditioned? Do these batteries have memory?
How long have you had the phone? Battery life should improve after having the phone for 5-10 days.
Like what joe333x stated.When I first got my phone I charged it up to 100% and turned it off until the led turned green for about 30mins. After that I get about 16hrs of battery life.
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I've had the phone since last Thursday night (not yesterday) and I know that two times, I unplugged when it was orange. Guess I should have left it.
The other thing possibly battery related is that right now for example, I have thhe little cycling arrows icon on my taskbar. I am 99% positive that I have nothing set up to be syncing for THIS long. It's been on all day. I unplugged at 7:45AM, it's now 11:21AM, I've done maybe 15 text messages, and the phone is at 77%. You can see how I might find this frustrating.
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I've had the phone since last Thursday night (not yesterday) and I know that two times, I unplugged when it was orange. Guess I should have left it.
The other thing possibly battery related is that right now for example, I have thhe little cycling arrows icon on my taskbar. I am 99% positive that I have nothing set up to be syncing for THIS long. It's been on all day. I unplugged at 7:45AM, it's now 11:21AM, I've done maybe 15 text messages, and the phone is at 77%. You can see how I might find this frustrating.
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i understand. i'm having the same problem. my battery died on me after 5hrs of usage, or complete setup, i should say. i just got off the phone w/ t-mo support in hopes of getting a replacement battery. no go. the operator said her phone dies in 2-3hrs, so i should be happy w/ 5. opted me to buy a spare battery for $50. i am very displeased.
you guys have something running in the background for sure ..go into your acocunts and sync the very least turn off the tmo garbage if not all of them except for google.. If you see my thread I've gone over36 hours on one charge
I've got all of them off, even weather cause I'm using Weatherbug.
But I do have background data on. But I don't wanna be completely disconnected to my data. What exactly does background data run?
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you guys have something running in the background for sure ..go into your acocunts and sync the very least turn off the tmo garbage if not all of them except for google.. If you see my thread I've gone over36 hours on one charge
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my 5hr kill is after doing a factory reset. only thing set to sync is google. no facebook or twitter accounts are linked. display is on the minimum. screen timeout is 15sec. no wifi, bluetooth, or gps. so i'm at a lost.
are you still experiencing that kind of life?
Same here. No wifi, no bluetooth, no Google, no GPS. All I have even remotely "automated" are my emails, my text message data, my freakin phone. That's it. It's gotta be the battery charging thing I think because there's nothing else draining my battery and yet the little sync circular arrows are still on my task bar.
Oh, and by the way... since my message at around 11:15 or so, I'm now down from 77 to 70 per cent. 7 percent in an hour without doing anything.
The things like tmobile and weather are set to sync automatically from the factory (meaning theyre set after a wipe) Have you guys gone into the settings and made sure you turned them off??
I have, yes. They have been off all week. 12 hours usually gets me down to about 26 per cent. That's a 6 day average, moderate use.
that doesnt sound too bad for 12 hours.. have you tried killing it a few times and fully recharging?
my thing is, i find it quite unpleasant that i'm having to disable all the basic or advertised functions of my phone just to have the same, if not, worse battery life? i find myself not even wanting to answer some calls because of the thought that one 5min conversation will dock my battery more than 5%.
It is incredibly ridiculous to have to be constantly concerned that if I do a search on the internet, that my phone may die earlier than I can afford. Additionally, I don't wanna be one of those annoying people running around all over the place with an AC adapter trying to plug my phone in every place I go to. Nor do I think I should have to keep a USB cable handy for when I'm at work. Plus, what's the deal with the batteries, do they or do they not have a memory that requires them to be fully charged and then fully discharged?
Hey guys,
I just joined because of this specific issue myself. My girl has the mytouch 3G and she could go for almost TWO DAYS without a charge. I leave my house at 7AM every morning, and return about 7PM. By the time I get home, I've maybe texted a few people, made one or two phone calls, and my battery is sub 30%. I've turned off wifi, bluetooth, and the display is just about as dark as it can go.
I just turned off the background data option, and had to manually go into all the accounts and make sure the sync was also not running. We'll see what happens.
Does anyone know if there is a 2.2 FW for this phone we can use yet? I've read up on user created FW (like cyanogen) because they cut out all the useless crap most of us will never use.
tinpanalley said:
I've had the phone since last Thursday night (not yesterday) and I know that two times, I unplugged when it was orange. Guess I should have left it.
The other thing possibly battery related is that right now for example, I have thhe little cycling arrows icon on my taskbar. I am 99% positive that I have nothing set up to be syncing for THIS long. It's been on all day. I unplugged at 7:45AM, it's now 11:21AM, I've done maybe 15 text messages, and the phone is at 77%. You can see how I might find this frustrating.
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I noticed this too. Its due to that fact that from default there are a bunch of things that sync now not just your gmail account. Go into settings and disable all the unneeded things and you wont see it as much.
poetik517 said:
my thing is, i find it quite unpleasant that i'm having to disable all the basic or advertised functions of my phone just to have the same, if not, worse battery life? i find myself not even wanting to answer some calls because of the thought that one 5min conversation will dock my battery more than 5%.
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I have had these issues before and it was almost always due to somthing in the background.
but letting the battery drain till it shuts down then charge 5+ hours then drain again, always going till it dies is the key, it will run a long time after it says it is done...
bhang
bhang said:
I have had these issues before and it was almost always due to somthing in the background.
but letting the battery drain till it shuts down then charge 5+ hours then drain again, always going till it dies is the key, it will run a long time after it says it is done...
bhang
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i'm continuing that "conditioning" now. it died yesterday after 5hrs fresh from a factory reset. i charged it for 8hrs. i will perform another day of drainage and overcharge today.
Fully charged my phone night before last and went to work in the morning (9am). I didn't touch it all day, didn't even turn it on. On my drive home at 5pm it was dead, off.
I plugged it in with the phone off when I got home and saw that it was fully charged a few hours later around 10pm and I booted it up and left it alone. This morning it was dead, off.
Looking at the apps that take up my battery doesn't work because it doesn't retain information what happened to the phone prior to the last reboot. Not sure what to do. My awake time matches my standby time exactly. It's obviously a 100% awake time problem but what's triggering this?
I'm on Fresh .3 with absolutely no other mods. I don't think I have any apps that ping outside servers. So what the ****!?
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lulz, I just realized I haven't been even able to use the phone in 3 days due to this issue
Something is eating your battery obviously.
Restore to stock and see if you have the same issues.
Bielinsk said:
Something is eating your battery obviously.
Restore to stock and see if you have the same issues.
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That's a PITA. This is a clean fresh .3 rom install with only logmein, dropbox and couple non-online games installed. Why is this phone such ****ing fail right now.
Have you removed the Favorites widget? Doing that stopped all battery drain problems for me. Just delete the widget.
First thing to check is if you have a sufficient cellular signal. If you are getting a weak signal it will cause poor battery life. If cell signal strength is not your problem then it is definitely something you have installed on it eating away at your battery. That said check/do the following:
1) Check how frequently you have your accounts syncing
2) Before the phone dies look in your battery use to see what's eating your battery
3) Install a task manager/killer (I use Advanced Task Killer)
4) You don't have to do this one but it does help. I use a program called Startup Auditor to disable startup on apps I don't need to run when the phone first boots (you'd be surprised how many are in there).
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Have you removed the Favorites widget? Doing that stopped all battery drain problems for me. Just delete the widget.
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delete it completely or remove it from one of the home panels?
the "time without signal" workarounds seem to prove the most effective for me. in addition, reduce background usage and automatic update frequencies as best as you can.
according to this thread [http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=709768] (and link within), HTC has acknowledged some issues and is preparing to deploy a few fixes.
You are running someone else's ROM, there could be a problem with the radio, or a problem with the way it was loaded.
If you are in an area where you don't get signal, you are going to drain the battery, and FAST.
Do you have 4g on but not in a 4g area?
I am...
fully rooted and have fresh .3 as well. I am getting over 30hrs with moderate use and the last hour of that I had everything on to purposely run it down to dead. (was doing a toastch recommeded battery meter calibration).
Took my phone off the charger last night at 7:30 pm. It's 2:23pm and I have 31% left. I have Wifi, BT, and Background apps with auto sync turned on.
I would say you might be experiencing the Motorola cell tower problem. HTC has confirmed that the EVO is not playing well with cell towers that have motorola transmitters. It is causing the phone to use more energy to dial in the tower.
To be sure...
1. Set all apps and widgets to manual update or update once a day.
2. Get rid of the people app or widget from any home screen.
3. Go into Gtalk and uncheck auto sign in. Then sign out when you exit the program.
4. charge the phone until the green light comes on. Don't use a battery meter. The second the green light comes on, go into recovery and wipe the battery stats. Reboot the phone and run it until the battery dies and will not longer power the phone. This does nothing for the battery but does recalibrate the internal battery meter.
5. For maximum life...turn off: background data, WiFi, BT, and Mobile networks when not using. keep screen at 1/2 brightness.
If I do the above and manually update mail, weather, social apps, etc... and only turn radios on when I need them, I can get 40 hrs. out of my EVO and this is under moderate to high moderate use.
One other thing....plug your phone in for 10 minutes. Then unplug it and go into immediate stand by for like 30 minutes. Go to settings>about phone>battery>battery use>cell standby. Time without signal should be very low....anything over 10-15% and I'd suspect that if you did everything in 1-5, you have a towers issue robbing your battery.
I was having awake time issues with Fresh .3, so I switched to DamageControl, and everything has been great. Unplugged this morning at 7, and I still have 75% battery remaining. Better battery life than the Hero or BlackBerry Tour!
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That's a PITA. This is a clean fresh .3 rom install with only logmein, dropbox and couple non-online games installed. Why is this phone such ****ing fail right now.
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I don't have any of those problems at all. You probably have a bad battery/phone.
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I don't have any of those problems at all. You probably have a bad battery/phone.
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i would agree with you but i am having a similar issue and sometimes i get great battery life and other times its just unacceptable. Check out my thread here :http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=709704
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Fully charged my phone night before last and went to work in the morning (9am). I didn't touch it all day, didn't even turn it on. On my drive home at 5pm it was dead, off.
I plugged it in with the phone off when I got home and saw that it was fully charged a few hours later around 10pm and I booted it up and left it alone. This morning it was dead, off.
Looking at the apps that take up my battery doesn't work because it doesn't retain information what happened to the phone prior to the last reboot. Not sure what to do. My awake time matches my standby time exactly. It's obviously a 100% awake time problem but what's triggering this?
I'm on Fresh .3 with absolutely no other mods. I don't think I have any apps that ping outside servers. So what the ****!?
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I seem to be having the same problem as you and it is quite frustrating. I get a steady 10% battery drain every hour even when its idle. I tried juice defender and setcpu and it is still the same. I turned off all my sync accounts and nothing. I also have systempanel and it doesn't seem like theres a rogue app eating my batteries.I'm going to truth to stock tonight to see if something is wrong with my phone. Did you ever figure out what was wrong with your phone?
AVA9 i get 20 hours a charge
but YES something is eating your battery install system pan have and let it run a bit and check the info id bet its
1 your evo spend a lot of tWOS
2 you have a rogue app eating your battery
Way to bump an ancient thread.
DOH dear god i did not look at that lol
I do apologize for bumping such an old thread, but I feel like this thread has already asked much of what I also wanted to ask but have not reached a conclusion. Therefore I would like to try and solve the problem or provide as much info as I can to solve the problem.
I indeed have installed systempanel and here are the screenshots for the day.
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(sorry my account is not allowed to post links)
As you can see besides the internet, there is nothing else thats taking up the battery. Also I took this pic after I put the phone on the charger for a bit, it was at ~ 13% before. The battery usage information says a majority of the battery was used by #1 android system and #2 cell standby, it was neck and neck almost, with #3 being phone idle. My weather app polls every 3 hours, my facebook syncs every 30 mins, my htc sense facebook syncs once a day, and I have not configured any other emails except for two gmail acconts, which received probably 3 emails throughout the whole day.
I just used setcpu today, it made absolutely no difference. Same results as yesterday when I did not have setcpu. Thanks in advance for the help!
dude you need to try my setup: superevo and setcpu
i got 7 days of battery using the evo as a simple phone.
http://edsandroid.blogspot.com/2010/10/7-days-battery-potential.html
proloss said:
dude you need to try my setup: superevo and setcpu
i got 7 days of battery using the evo as a simple phone.
http://edsandroid.blogspot.com/2010/10/7-days-battery-potential.html
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Why would anyone use an EVO as a simple phone.
I am beginning to think peoples opinions on moderate use vary tooooo much. The EVO is similar to an unplugged laptop. The more you make the cpu work the faster your battery is going to drain.
It seems some people just dont get that.
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That's a PITA. This is a clean fresh .3 rom install with only logmein, dropbox and couple non-online games installed. Why is this phone such ****ing fail right now.
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Sounds like Operator error.
Hi.
Since buying my phone I have been suffering with serious battery issues and been following steps and advice within these forums to try and combat it. The other night I took the phone to bed on a full charge and when I got up at least 8 hours later, my battery was at 60 odd %, and has been like that and worse sometimes since buying it, and have had to put it on charge every night as throughout the day it would drain considerably.
I started the thinking that perhaps the battery was faulty, I did get my phone second hand at a bargain price so had started wondering if that was why, and as nothing I've read on here seemed to be helping, that had cemented my thinking.
One of the last things I did before going to bed last night was to remove Facebook using Titanium backup, and changed the quicklaunch bar for the Beautiful widgets, widgets (wifi, BT ect). Woke up this morning to find my battery at 88%, it was at about 94% when I finally stopped using the phone, so I'm quite a happy bunny this morning.
Perhaps some might think it's still drained a bit too quick?, but as it's clearly a vast improvement, I'm more than happy with that right now.
I find it odd that so many X10 users are having problems with their battery performance. My stock Canadian (RB20) X10 lasts over 3 full days if I don't use wi-fi or voice much --granted, for those who make lots of calls and suck up 3G data, no phone will yield over 3 days per charge. I haven't uninstalled the standard apps either and have my screen brightness at maximum all the time (though I always immediately shut it off when not in use).
Just making a few calls, sending a few texts, checking my e-mail a couple of times per day on wi-fi, and playing about 2 hours of music, my battery drops 10-15% only.
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I find it odd that so many X10 users are having problems with their battery performance.
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It is strange, and stranger that a little bit of tweaking seems to sort it out. I'm going to see how it goes and try not to charge it over the next day or so. It's only 10 mins or so that it's dropped to 87%, which as I've said is a considerable difference to what it's usually been.
i also find it interesting that people are having problems with battery life, im coming from a samsung i8000 Omnia II and before that the i900 Omnia I, my omnia 2 did have better battery life as i didnt use as much of the phone as i do now, bearing in mind with my omnia II i made about 20-30 calls anywhere between 1 and 40 min each, i sent about 30 sms/mms, checked my emails (not push option) a bit of internet and maybe hour of gaming and my battery would be at 40% at the end of the day 8am-11pm). now with my SE X10 i do all the same but i get my emails checked automatically every hour, weather every hour, same amount of calls and sms/mms, play games for about hour, check the news blogs, find something thru google maps or 'layar' app, download a few wallpapers, maybe update apps, and i have 30% left by 6pm so its not as good time wise as my previous phone but i use the phone more that i did before, and that is something people dont realise is that they are actualy using the phone alot more, the iphone had a similar problem, APPLE didnt expect people to spend so much time on it, but id suggest that if your at the office or in the car, just plug it in for a bit it will make a difference
just my 2 cents and observations
i set facebook to never update automatically, so it does not drain my battery. I noticed that the sync with google calendar drains the battery really fast. I had the google calendar auto sync checked and there was only 56% left every morning from a 100% charged battery before going to bed. After I unchecked that option it only drains about 3% now.
jerrytea said:
i set facebook to never update automatically, so it does not drain my battery. I noticed that the sync with google calendar drains the battery really fast. I had the google calendar auto sync checked and there was only 56% left every morning from a 100% charged battery before going to bed. After I unchecked that option it only drains about 3% now.
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Unless your Google Calendar is changing I don't see why it's syncing?
I have background data on, 4 email account polling every 10 minutes, 1 push email account, Twitter, Facebook and I'm dropping 1% per hour unplugged.
applebook said:
I find it odd that so many X10 users are having problems with their battery performance. My stock Canadian (RB20) X10 lasts over 3 full days if I don't use wi-fi or voice much --granted, for those who make lots of calls and suck up 3G data, no phone will yield over 3 days per charge. I haven't uninstalled the standard apps either and have my screen brightness at maximum all the time (though I always immediately shut it off when not in use).
Just making a few calls, sending a few texts, checking my e-mail a couple of times per day on wi-fi, and playing about 2 hours of music, my battery drops 10-15% only.
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Don't take this the wrong way but if you don't make calls, no WiFi and it sounds like you're not using much 3G, few text and email a couple of times a day .... sort of should last long, No?
Kind of like if I put gas in my car and don't drive it
XperiaX10iUser said:
Hi.
Perhaps some might think it's still drained a bit too quick?, but as it's clearly a vast improvement, I'm more than happy with that right now.
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If you want to be really happy
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=725796
Izzy_Deadyet said:
If you want to be really happy
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=725796
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Thanks, but no thanks, the thing I love about the Xperia is it's sleekness, so the last thing I'd want to do is stick an ugly ass extended back cover on it. If push came to shove I'd just buy another battery and rotate them, but as I seem to have sorted my issue out it looks like I won't have to.
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Don't take this the wrong way but if you don't make calls, no WiFi and it sounds like you're not using much 3G, few text and email a couple of times a day .... sort of should last long, No?
Kind of like if I put gas in my car and don't drive it
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That was my point. It should last, yet some here are reporting that their X10 loses an insane percentage every hour without any activity.
For people having problems with the xperia battery life, two questions:
1. Are you using moxier mail?
2. Are you using SE built-in flickr account?
If you are using either, try turning them off (delete the flickr account from phone and restart the device) and share what the progress is. I would be very interested to know the before-and-after difference, and am very hopeful you find your issues a thing of the past with this change . Lemme know.
For email you can still use the other built in apps, not to mention K-9 mail.
My solution.
Hi,
My phone would burn 10% per hour, without use.
I went on holiday with it and it suddenly behaved itself. I put this down to the Roaming preventing data access.
On my return to the UK I've loaded an app called 'Data on Demand' from the market. It prevents data access when the screen is off. (default settings)
My phone will now last 4 days with my light usage.
If your only getting one day, give this a try, If I remember correctly it was free too.
Kind Regards,
Paul.
I have wifi and BT off, GPS on and I use 3G.
Thanks for the tip Paul.. I'll give that a try.. sounds good..
Guys its a smartphone with a 1 ghz processor and a large screen. I dont get why people think the battery is supposed to last forever. Anything over 20 hours is great in my opinion. If you want a powerful smartphone, you WILL have to charge it every night. Get used to it. I dont see why this is an issue.
I guess the issue is the relative difference people have in battery life compared to each other
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Paul5015 said:
Hi,
My phone would burn 10% per hour, without use.
I went on holiday with it and it suddenly behaved itself. I put this down to the Roaming preventing data access.
On my return to the UK I've loaded an app called 'Data on Demand' from the market. It prevents data access when the screen is off. (default settings)
My phone will now last 4 days with my light usage.
If your only getting one day, give this a try, If I remember correctly it was free too.
Kind Regards,
Paul.
I have wifi and BT off, GPS on and I use 3G.
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I've tried Data on Demand on my X10i and it seems not to turn data off properly in automatic mode. Could it be a problem with Switcpro widgets? Do you use this one too?
Zenghelis said:
I've tried Data on Demand on my X10i and it seems not to turn data off properly in automatic mode. Could it be a problem with Switcpro widgets? Do you use this one too?
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No I don't, but I do find a re-boot after charging helps. I guess there must be some naughty app/service in there somewhere.
The effect I get using Data on Demand is dramatic. I'm hoping others will see this result too.
Regards, Paul.
48-hours, over two dozen short calls, handful of SMS texts, some wi-fi, screen brightness maxed, 4 hours of music, still over 25% charge. I didn't use data though, but even if I had, I still could have lasted the 2 full days on a single charge.
If your X10's battery is not lasting, then you are doing something wrong, or there is a problem with the battery/phone.
Thanks for the heads up, Paul, will let you know if it improves the battery life on my x10i 026 rooted.
applebook said:
48-hours, over two dozen short calls, handful of SMS texts, some wi-fi, screen brightness maxed, 4 hours of music, still over 25% charge. I didn't use data though, but even if I had, I still could have lasted the 2 full days on a single charge.
If your X10's battery is not lasting, then you are doing something wrong, or there is a problem with the battery/phone.
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So aside from the WiFi you used it like a Moto Razr, yup it does play mp3's
It seems that you're comparing your non-smartphone type usage to users having battery problems using all of the features. You then go on to say the users are doing something wrong. Which is what? Using the features of the X10? I imagine if I charged the phone, turned it off, it would last for days
GPS ON
WiFi off
Bluetooth ON
3G ON
Background Data ON
Gmail syncing mail, reader, calendar, contacts
Twitter and Facebook both running
Emails 20
SMS 10
Talk time 90 minutes
Screen at 50%
Playing online Poker for 2 hours
Reading XDA Forums 30 minutes
NewsRob 20 minutes
Market for 15 minutes
Total screen on time about 4.5 hours
This is in 10 hours, battery remaining 62% ... it's a 2600mAh extended battery.
Yes, I actually use the features of the X10.
I'm sorry but it's getting annoying hearing people say that they're getting great battery life with the original battery but .... do this ... turn off all of the features.
Here's the bottom line. If you use the features to the max then the battery will drain.
I wouldn't have even commented on your comment but when you said "then you're doing something wrong" .... well ... I think you"re wrong on this issue.
I had everything turned off. No email, no sync, no wifi, no gps, nothing. I fully charged the battery and unplugged it before I left. Display was never turned on. I wanted to see a completely isolated battery test. The only applications I had active according to my task manager was Launcher Pro.
Time on 10 hours 20 minutes
Battery life left 60%
Battery used 40%
Cell Standby - 40%
Phone Idle - 30%
Android System 20%
Calls (1 missed call) 5%
Display 3%
Maps 2% (Why does maps show up?)
Again this is with absolutely 0 use or syncing going on. Left phone at home, turned on and immediately checked stats when I got back from work.
According to this small test I can't even last a day on a full charge even if I left it completely alone.
Thoughts?
Running stock JI6
Holy stewart Gilligan Griffin.
Why does everyone need to make a thread for personalized information regarding their battery life?!?
I had a g1 n then mytouch n I've never seen such whining over battery life. If I see one more battery thread.......
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at least your reply was helpful.
sj_martin said:
Running stock JI6
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In 1.5 day of standby with every radio off and no sim, my phone only lost about 5% with stock JI6.
I think it is a cool idea. I find that 5% usage for one missed call is very bad. I have really suspected that voice calls kill this battery and that seems to add evidence. 5% for a missed call? That is messed up.
I think this is the aspect of battery life that doesn't get addressed enough: drain during standby. Of course everyone expects to lose some power while the display is on and syncing/other processes are running--but what about when the phone is left untouched? Here are 3 ideas:
3g is a notorious battery drain even when the phone is not being used--use 2g instead.
Freeze or uninstall media hub and other running processes that attempt to run/connect to servers in the background. I removed dmservice, media hub, and all drm processes and this seemed to be helpful.
Use a custom rom--these appear to hold power in standby better than stock roms do.
grennis said:
I think it is a cool idea. I find that 5% usage for one missed call is very bad. I have really suspected that voice calls kill this battery and that seems to add evidence. 5% for a missed call? That is messed up.
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To add further detail usage time was 45 seconds for the missed call.
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I had everything turned off. No email, no sync, no wifi, no gps, nothing. I fully charged the battery and unplugged it before I left. Display was never turned on. I wanted to see a completely isolated battery test. The only applications I had active according to my task manager was Launcher Pro.
Time on 10 hours 20 minutes
Battery life left 60%
Battery used 40%
Cell Standby - 40%
Phone Idle - 30%
Android System 20%
Calls (1 missed call) 5%
Display 3%
Maps 2% (Why does maps show up?)
Again this is with absolutely 0 use or syncing going on. Left phone at home, turned on and immediately checked stats when I got back from work.
According to this small test I can't even last a day on a full charge even if I left it completely alone.
Thoughts?
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Cell Standby indicates that there is an activity that polls something from the network.
if you are so concerned about what it might be, you can see when and how much data is being used by going to your TMO account online and check for the data usage - one of the good features TMO put in place is actually tell you when your phone connected to get what amount of data over the data connection, does not tell you what it was doing though.
Yeah, something is going very wrong in your phone. When my phone is on standby with just 2G on it drains less than 1% per hour. I would definitely recommend getting rid of the drm service and media hub (and Daily Briefing). I also use Autostarts to keep all kinds of random programs from starting at inappropriate times (Really Slacker, does your app need to launch every time the time zone changes?)
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I would definitely recommend getting rid of the drm service
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It is.... DrmUA.apk?
According to Samsung the phone should last 450 hours in standby mode...
Anyway, yeah, I'd be curious to see the same test done with 2g only.
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According to Samsung the phone should last 450 hours in standby mode...
Anyway, yeah, I'd be curious to see the same test done with 2g only.
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450 hours rofl.
Looks like i'm going to go off stock and try out some roms now. I assume bionix 1.9 is the new hotness out there? Going to flash and try the same test again and post results.
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According to Samsung the phone should last 450 hours in standby mode...
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I wonder if Samsung's definition of "standby mode" is what the rest of us call "off".
I've never had any kind of batt life with this phone...charge everday overnight...start work at 8, use here and there for navi (around 10 mins max, maybe 2x a day) about 30 min avg talk...and mp3 player...get home by 4 and always at 30% or (most often ) less...have had stock/ bionix roms, never changed, no matter what build....it's pathetic..called tmo, they said there are no known issues with batt on this phone...wow...do a google search on it..anyways, they are sending out a new batt..I hope I just got a bad one...seems very random tho, some ppl have all radios on ,screen all the way up and get 10+ hrs...if i left my screen on (say navi on) for more then an hour straight I'd be out of battery..very weird..praying new batt is better...
copied from team whiskey site:
Code:
Battery Conditioning
Does it seem like youre just not getting the battery life you should from your phone? Do all your other friends keep going while you slowly putter into a shutdown? Well pout no more! Simply follow these steps to clear your batter information from the phone and your phone will act better then new! :)
1. Charge phone completely, leave plugged into power
2. Boot into recovery
3. Wipe battery stats
4. Reboot to normal
5. Remove power cable
6. Drain that sucker all the way
7. Recharge fully
8. Rejoice!"
I turned my phone off today. Then I left the house. When I got back the battery was glad to see me. Seriously, I've read just about everyone and almost started my own battery disturbance thread. I've come up with a new thought at least for me. I don't care any more. I have electricity. I have a spare battery and a charger. If my phone wants to last a whole day. Yay! If I use it more because of some game with angry birds or cards or dice, great. I've reached that Mark Twain moment somewhat tweaked when he said,
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”
I'll tweak it with the last 27% of battery left in my feeble vibrant to:
"battery is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it won't matter".
Enough already I say! Lets spare the air. Batteries are meant to be used
Back to the regular reading of all the battery threads now.
I think I had the same issue as you. Cell standby was the biggest drain. When you tap on that, do you see 50% time without signal? If that's the case, this seems to be a bug in Android which was somehow introduced in JI6. The best solution I've found so far is after every boot to put your phone in flight mode for a few seconds and back. This fixes the radio glitch, your time without signal should go down way under 50%, and battery drain should stop. Hope that helps.
You should recondition your battery:
Fully charge
Reboot into recovery wipe battery information
Reboot into OS
Unplug power cable
Let battery FULLY drain (do not plug in until fully dead)
FULLY charge battery (do not unplug until fully charged)
This reconditioning should be done after every ROM flash.
What is wrong with almost everyone's obsession regarding battery life??
Oh my gosh I'm so tired of hearing everyone saying: I have switched everything off now and still only get 2 days of use.. Why??
If you want a weeks worth of battery life get 1" non-touch black & white screen phone.
If you want a awesome phone get a Galaxy Note, switch everything on, sync your social networks and mail every 10 minutes. Browse the web on the awesome 5.3" screen, play games and enjoy the phone to the full. So what if you need to charge it every 12hours.
Pikkie86 said:
What is wrong with almost everyone's obsession regarding battery life??
Oh my gosh I'm so tired of hearing everyone saying: I have switched everything off now and still only get 2 days of use.. Why??
If you want a weeks worth of battery life get 1" non-touch black & white screen phone.
If you want a awesome phone get a Galaxy Note, switch everything on, sync your social networks and mail every 10 minutes. Browse the web on the awesome 5.3" screen, play games and enjoy the phone to the full. So what if you need to charge it every 12hours.
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2days hahahaha he said 2 days hahahahahahaha
1charge per 12 hours with 4.5-6 hours screen on for surfing and videos 2 hours music to work and back and if not music it is 720 video Dr.House and all the time wifi or 3g on!!! oh and 3-4 hours on a area with 0-2 signal and only G
life battery rocks!!!
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2 days 10 hours with light usage (1 hour screen on time, automatic brightness, few 5 minute calls, about 20 notes, apps updating and some browsing over wifi) and still have 70% left.
It depends on the user. It surely has the juice to cope with heavy use. I couldn't be more happy
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2 days 10 hours with light usage (1 hour screen on time, automatic brightness, few 5 minute calls, about 20 notes, apps updating and some browsing over wifi) and still have 70% left.
It depends on the user. It surely has the juice to cope with heavy use. I couldn't be more happy
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Cheater you Charged it for sure with a usb and forgot
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Braxos said:
Cheater you Charged it for sure with a usb and forgot
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No cheats here, just light usage
bassarnis, be a pal and tell us how the hell you managed that. even with light usage i'd be lucky to get 15+ hrs.
kebong said:
bassarnis, be a pal and tell us how the hell you managed that. even with light usage i'd be lucky to get 15+ hrs.
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Roger that, entering good guy Greg mode.
First of all, the fist charges are important. Once i bought it, i updated it to latest 2.3.6 OTA and started using it till it shut itself off. Then charged it to full while off. Repeated this circle 5-6 times, maybe more. I haven't rooted the device yet. Its 100% stock running KK5. (Europe)
As i am in places where there is wifi available, i switched data off. In wireless and network options, i use "GSM only" mode. I left auto synch, auto brightness and gps on.
Widgets. I use the stock weather, stock digital clock, battery solo widget, stock task killer, stock news and weather, stock calendar. All those spread across 6 homescreens with 39 other app shortcuts on a black/silver background.
About the light usage. 5-6 times a day, i switch wifi on for synching. I read my mail and check my Facebook messages. Once i am done doing whatever i wanted to do that requires internet (update any app that requires updating etc.), i switch wifi off.
Lastly, before going to sleep, i close all active apps using the stock task killing widget and clear the ram. Overnight, i lose 2% battery.
Now that's what I call a battery obsession!
I just use my device as I see fit, and top up charge when I can - I have a Micro USB cable on my keyring, which means I've always got a charging cable on me.
Regards,
Dave
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Roger that, entering good guy Greg mode.
First of all, the fist charges are important. Once i bought it, i updated it to latest 2.3.6 OTA and started using it till it shut itself off. Then charged it to full while off. Repeated this circle 5-6 times, maybe more. I haven't rooted the device yet. Its 100% stock running KK5. (Europe)
As i am in places where there is wifi available, i switched data off. In wireless and network options, i use "GSM only" mode. I left auto synch, auto brightness and gps on.
Widgets. I use the stock weather, stock digital clock, battery solo widget, stock task killer, stock news and weather, stock calendar. All those spread across 6 homescreens with 39 other app shortcuts on a black/silver background.
About the light usage. 5-6 times a day, i switch wifi on for synching. I read my mail and check my Facebook messages. Once i am done doing whatever i wanted to do that requires internet (update any app that requires updating etc.), i switch wifi off.
Lastly, before going to sleep, i close all active apps using the stock task killing widget and clear the ram. Overnight, i lose 2% battery.
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I see things like this and I cringe... It's a smartphone. It shouldn't need all this garbage done to it to get good battery life. It shouldn't need toggling, everything should be on, push notifications should be used, and it should still get good battery life
Yumunum said:
I see things like this and I cringe... It's a smartphone. It shouldn't need all this garbage done to it to get good battery life. It shouldn't need toggling, everything should be on, push notifications should be used, and it should still get good battery life
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YEAH! i should be able to have wifi always on without it using any battery. thats right. screw the laws of thermodynamics, it should run for weeks even! having to toggle a button is just way too much work for me!
Yumunum said:
I see things like this and I cringe... It's a smartphone. It shouldn't need all this garbage done to it to get good battery life. It shouldn't need toggling, everything should be on, push notifications should be used, and it should still get good battery life
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I partly agree with you. But we lack the battery technology to do all that. Not having enough signal coverage alone is enough to drain your battery. In some ways, you adjust yourself so as to keep using the phone for longer periods of time.
I must disagree with the fact that all the above i mentioned are garbage though. I am happy that i figured out a combination that will save me huge amounts of battery. I can still do all the heavy use i need, when i need it. With smart-phones there are options in settings to let you do just that. No-one forces you to do all that, just as no-one forces me to leave everything on.
Having lost 30% battery in 2+ days, means that theoretically if i kept using it like that i would get 7 days of one charge. For example, i know when i will receive an email, from who and when he/she expects me to reply. I hardly get any emails that require immediate response. If someone expects me to reply instantly, they send an sms, or call. Both of the options work fine using gsm only mode.
I also don't find important being logged in facebook 24/7. I 'll log when i have a break, before sleeping and when i wake up. Need to check the weather before leaving for work? Tap on wifi, wait 2 secs for it to connect, click refresh on the widget, done. It doesn't take more than 10 seconds.
I don't rush to turn off wifi or anything. I just use the battery juice and the phone's cpu on demand. The note is indeed a smart-phone, but with all it's features it is reaching laptop territory. I find that treating it as a laptop works better for my needs. Then again, thats just me. If your lifestyle demands all of the note's features on 24/7, then by all means leave them on. There are external 18000 mAh battery packs you can grab.
I'm running Cassies's Lite ROM and I can get between 5 hours and one week on a single charge. Just do everybody a favor and understand that this thing can go into sleep state for days.
If I leave it alone, nothing playing or syncing on the background I lose about 1-2% in 8 hours, so this could go on for days, even a week if you don't touch it.
Of course if the screen is on for only 15 minutes on 2 days, you're not going to have much power used.
During calls screen is off, yesterday I did a 1 hour call and lost less than 10% battery. So you can make several calls on 2 days and lose litlle charge.
If you play a 3D game with screen on at full brightnees, you'll deplete the battery in 5 hours.
It's no difficult to understand. battery life depends on what you do with the thing. Whenever the screen is on, it will consume power. How much depends on the brightness level and the color of the pixels displayed.
Syncing facebook / twitter / e-mail through 3G takes a lot of power too, specially when you're on a low signal area.
Anybody noticed the difference charging the phone while off versus charging it while on.
It looks to me charging while off makes the phone battery last much longer
it also takes much longer time to charge
ChromJ said:
Anybody noticed the difference charging the phone while off versus charging it while on.
It looks to me charging while off makes the phone battery last much longer
it also takes much longer time to charge
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Yes thats a fact, it also happens with my girlfriend's galaxy s2.. With my note the other day, found out that even plugged by usb to the pc with intensive using, wasn't enough to charge the battery % and actually it was decreasing..
William Haven said:
Yes thats a fact, it also happens with my girlfriend's galaxy s2.. With my note the other day, found out that even plugged by usb to the pc with intensive using, wasn't enough to charge the battery % and actually it was decreasing..
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My old iPhone 4 did that . I was downloading an app while having it plugged in into the wall outlet, and the battery just started going down (600+ meg download).
The note is a sloooowww charging device, that's for sure.
i always get over 2 days life out of mine. i never use wifi and i have gps on all the time. But what i do is i have the screen to auto and i use the stock task manager widget. With applications i always use the back button instead of home which 90% of the time closes the app. As a browser i use opera mobile as this has an exit button too. keeping running apps to a minimum seems to help my battery las well.
I'm getting amazing battery life.
And still going strong 11hrs with somewhat light usage and it's nowhere near 50% battery yet hehehe
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i can get around 5 hours display time, wich is faaaaar better than sgs2. During the night the power consumption is 1% per 5 hours with wireless off or 1%/hour with wireless on. I'm on Rocket rom v12 which rocks!
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Yumunum said:
I see things like this and I cringe... It's a smartphone. It shouldn't need all this garbage done to it to get good battery life. It shouldn't need toggling, everything should be on, push notifications should be used, and it should still get good battery life
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I'm getting 3.5 days on a charge with moderate use.
I have 4 email accounts that are polled every 60 minutes.
I make a few calls a day and use the browser a little.
What seems to help is doing a force stop on apps that I'm not using like AP Mobile and Yahoo Finance.
Also, I am runnning KL7.
With light usage, few sync's a few calls ((4-5 min) some texts and notes and few minutes of gaming.. I get a around with 16+ hours of usage easily. I'm happy with the battery and the Note can definitely get on with a more aggressive battery usage...