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Droid 2 LCD uses too much battery

Look at the photo, seriously why is it like this?
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i think thats normal, mine does that too and afaik the old droid did the same thing.

I found I was able to about double my battery life by setting my brightness manually to about 10%. I've found this to be plenty of illumination in just about any situation unless I'm trying to view my phone outside.
A nice brightness widget I've found is called "Brightness Level."

Could it just be a case of "new gadget syndrome" ? The D2 is my sixth Android phone, and they all seem to suffer from this "bug" when I first get them.

jcsugrue said:
Could it just be a case of "new gadget syndrome" ? The D2 is my sixth Android phone, and they all seem to suffer from this "bug" when I first get them.
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I completely agree with this when i first got my phone it would die fairly quickly but just because I wouldn't ever put it down.

jcsugrue said:
Could it just be a case of "new gadget syndrome" ? The D2 is my sixth Android phone, and they all seem to suffer from this "bug" when I first get them.
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haha yeah cause you have to set everything up and download all your apps and such so its a huge battery drain there.
but back to the OT of course the screen/display uses the most amount of power on your phone and what you are seeing there is normal.
your battery life seems pretty good if after 7 hours you still have over 1/2 your battery

I gotta say, i couldn't disagree more.
Look at my signature, i've had quite a few Androids and so far they've all been horrible. But even though i'm gonna get the fascinate, I don't think i'll beat the battery life on the droid2. I've been VERY impressed with this phone's battery life. All of the Android phones i've had were lucky to get 18-24 hours of battery life with moderate use. The galaxy S's did better than the EVO, but the droid 2 has been the winner in this department.
On the EVO, i typically got 10-16 hours
On the GAlaxy S's, i was gettin 18-28 hours
On the Droid2 i've been getting 33-55 hours
All have the same 1400mh battery and i use them all the same way.
My phone is currently on 50 hours without plugging it in. (i have an app for that) and it was only at 90% when i unplugged it.

well there was that test done a couple of weeks ago that found the DroidX and Droid2 to be above the normal

orateam said:
I gotta say, i couldn't disagree more.
Look at my signature, i've had quite a few Androids and so far they've all been horrible. But even though i'm gonna get the fascinate, I don't think i'll beat the battery life on the droid2. I've been VERY impressed with this phone's battery life. All of the Android phones i've had were lucky to get 18-24 hours of battery life with moderate use. The galaxy S's did better than the EVO, but the droid 2 has been the winner in this department.
On the EVO, i typically got 10-16 hours
On the GAlaxy S's, i was gettin 18-28 hours
On the Droid2 i've been getting 33-55 hours
All have the same 1400mh battery and i use them all the same way.
My phone is currently on 50 hours without plugging it in. (i have an app for that) and it was only at 90% when i unplugged it.
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Sgs has a 1500 mah

Display is always the biggest energy user by far on my Droid 2 and I have the brightness turned down to about 5% and I am no longer using a live wallpaper...I can't think of what else it could be?

I guess after having the evo, I've grown used to conserving battery. Here is what I do. Not use live wallpaper, turn on things like wifi and bluetooth when not using them. And use a task manager to kill everything when turning it off.

My Droid 1 and now Droid X always have 50% or more of there battery tied to display. My Droid X is typically much higher than 50% as matter of fact mine is 72%. With most typically batter drains turned off I got 20 hours or so on my Droid X. That is because I listen to music and FM radio 2 hours a day.

i just checked mine and its at 18%

It is also a sign that you don't have any other apps that are eating a lot of battery. My D1 and now my D2 both look like that.
The only time my D1 was different was when I:
a) Installed an app that was poorly written and consumed a lot of battery life.
b) Spent most of the day with the screen off but music playing (MP3 or Pandora)
c) Had a horrible signal so the Radio took up a much larger percentage than normal looking for a signal

I just leave my display settings low and then use the Power Control widget to spike up the brightness if needed be.

orateam said:
I gotta say, i couldn't disagree more.
Look at my signature, i've had quite a few Androids and so far they've all been horrible. But even though i'm gonna get the fascinate, I don't think i'll beat the battery life on the droid2. I've been VERY impressed with this phone's battery life. All of the Android phones i've had were lucky to get 18-24 hours of battery life with moderate use. The galaxy S's did better than the EVO, but the droid 2 has been the winner in this department.
On the EVO, i typically got 10-16 hours
On the GAlaxy S's, i was gettin 18-28 hours
On the Droid2 i've been getting 33-55 hours
All have the same 1400mh battery and i use them all the same way.
My phone is currently on 50 hours without plugging it in. (i have an app for that) and it was only at 90% when i unplugged it.
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how did you get such good battery life on your droid 2? please share your secrets.

I get somewhere between 30-40 hours of battery life and that's with running Pandora or listening to a podcast for at least 45 mins over 3G every work day (I walk during lunch for exercise).
- I'm rooted.
- I've set my backlight to 10%.
- I've renamed the following apps (adding .bak) so they never run:
AdService.apk.bak
amazonmp3_1.8.11_signed_zipaligned.apk.bak
Blockbuster.apk.bak
CityID.apk.bak
DLNA.apk.bak
DlnaSystemService.apk.bak
FriendFeed.apk.bak
HomeSyncWizard.apk.bak
Mynet.apk.bak
- I set weather to update only every 6 hours.
- I check Twitter and Facebook every now and then but I have them set to only update when they run.
- I don't run any widgets that constantly update (like twitter, weather, etc.)
- I download RSS feeds and podcasts whenever I'm charging the phone (though I usually have more than enough battery to handle a daily feed update and download over 3G without any problem)
- I manually enable and disable GPS and WiFi since they have a tendency to look for signals for no reason. It only takes a second or two to connect to known hotspots or get my location so it's no biggie to me to do that by hand.
- I back up my data at 2am or so daily so there's a good chance that every other backup is done while charging.

goliathvt said:
I get somewhere between 30-40 hours of battery life and that's with running Pandora or listening to a podcast for at least 45 mins over 3G every work day (I walk during lunch for exercise).
- I'm rooted.
- I've set my backlight to 10%.
- I've renamed the following apps (adding .bak) so they never run:
AdService.apk.bak
amazonmp3_1.8.11_signed_zipaligned.apk.bak
Blockbuster.apk.bak
CityID.apk.bak
DLNA.apk.bak
DlnaSystemService.apk.bak
FriendFeed.apk.bak
HomeSyncWizard.apk.bak
Mynet.apk.bak
- I set weather to update only every 6 hours.
- I check Twitter and Facebook every now and then but I have them set to only update when they run.
- I don't run any widgets that constantly update (like twitter, weather, etc.)
- I download RSS feeds and podcasts whenever I'm charging the phone (though I usually have more than enough battery to handle a daily feed update and download over 3G without any problem)
- I manually enable and disable GPS and WiFi since they have a tendency to look for signals for no reason. It only takes a second or two to connect to known hotspots or get my location so it's no biggie to me to do that by hand.
- I back up my data at 2am or so daily so there's a good chance that every other backup is done while charging.
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Just barely rooted my Droid 2. I dont really have much of an idea of what to do with it now, though. How do I go about renaming those apps? I've always wanted to get rid of that crap.

Snag Root Explorer or some other root-permission-enabled file explorer from the market for a few bucks or use adb if you're familiar with it and want a free way to manipulate files on the /system partition.
I'll assume you go with an app like Root Explorer (well worth it, in my mind).
Open Root Explorer and hop into the /system/app directory. Click the "Mount R/W" button so that the /system partition is writable.
Find any .apks you do not want and long-press on the file until you get a menu. Choose "Rename" and either rename the .apk to .bak or just add .bak to the filename. As long as the file extension no longer reads ".apk", it won't be a program the phone can launch.
Note: Be careful about renaming some of the Blur .apks, as a few still seem to be required for normal phone function. Check other threads on "removing bloat" for some tips and more detailed warnings.
I also highly recommend renaming files instead of deleting them because it provides some options if something ever goes awry or you simply want to re-enable something you removed during the rename process. The multitude of "Oops I deleted somethingImportant.apk! Anyone have it?" threads offer their own words of caution, I'd say.
Good luck!

Is renaming better than freezing?

Battery drain help

My battery on my dell streak drains very fast. For example i had it plugged in until 100% in the morning. Then about an 1 hour and a half laater without using it that much it draimed to 67 %. The battery usage says cell standby 49% and the screen was 17% and those were the highest. From my nexus one i kno that cell standhy should not be that high. What is causing this to be so high? And why is my battery draining so fast?
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Are you on1.6 or 2.1? mind was the same on1.6. Loads better on2.1. But I have also noticed that if you are in an area where 3g is poor it spend slot of energy trying to connect. I turn of data quite allot and it doubles battery life. BeforeI was getting less than a day now I get a day easily...... UnlessI have a load of widgets
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Im using 1.6, then 3g then probably is the problem. Did u do anything to fix this problem?
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I had similar problem and deleted my task manager, as amazingly it was using more battery than running applications
It also stopped 'fancy 'widget from updating, even when told to ignore it
'Appbrain' market was also another major problem, i also think that 'smooth calendar' doesn't help; but i'm still experimenting.

thanks for reply, im using advanced task killer, maybe i ll try taking it off to see if it affects the battery in anyway

If you look in the battery tab you should see where your biggest power hogs are.
Mine happened to be media.
I had removed all the media from my SD card, forced redection etc and it still drained the battery.
Eventually, I removed all ringtones and music from the SD card and did a hard reset, ran it for a full day monitoring the battery usage. Now I'm adding a bit of music back to see if it was a bad media file that caused the indexer to draw power.

For me the battery usage is almost 60% cell standby...then every other small thing piles in. Why is the cell standby so high. I would think that the display would be the highest
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I'm having the same problem on my streak that is running 2.1 in the USA.

so is there a solution for this problem??

Arkalos13 said:
so is there a solution for this problem??
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Delete ALL your apps
Weatherbug also drinks batteries, but it's so good this time the good outways the bad

I havent purchased my streak yet, does anyone know if 2.1/2.2 will have better battery consumption on this device?
you guys are scaring me..lol

Nobody can say for sure what the upgrade with have until it's released.

My experience is thus......
Widgets drain battery
T ask managers drain the battery, I now use watch dog
The biggest one by far.... The data connection drains battery. Especially if its a poor connection.
So first thing is to turn of 3g etc when not required. I get a day easily. If I add widgets I get a day just. This is with location gps and sync turned on all the time
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I was haviing normal smartphone battery life, about a day, then started having some trouble so I uninstalled some apps. But, I also let the battery die completely overnight then charged it full and am now on day three at 55%

Houndx said:
I was haviing normal smartphone battery life, about a day, then started having some trouble so I uninstalled some apps. But, I also let the battery die completely overnight then charged it full and am now on day three at 55%
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Day 3 at 55%? Do you have a SIM card in your phone? Data enabled? 3 days and only 45% battery life drain is unreal. I have a fresh restore and my Streak barely makes it through the day still, no widgets installed, no network-activity causing apps running in the back, no task managers. The battery life on this phone sucks.

3G has been on the whole time as well as wireless networking and gps. Bluetooth was turned off until about noon today. For widgets I've got Weatherbug Elite, Jorte Calendar, 3G Watchdog, System Info and Latitude. The phone has had pretty light use for the last few days because I was doing some work around the house, but I did use it for the occassional game of solitaire and as my ebook reader at night as well as a few short calls.
Today, on the other hand, I've made several phone calls (more than a dozen, some longer some short), have had bluetooth on half the day, wireless enabled and a small amount of surfing. I went from 55% at 8AM to 19% at 9PM.
I think the battery meter was in need of proper calibration and that's why I did a full discharge and recharge. I'm as shocked by what's happened as anyone else.
Oh, I've also had Juice Defender installed both before and after the full discharge/recharge. Before I did that I wasn't even getting 12 hours out of the battery and that's why I tried it.

Dolphin browser HD, no sh%t, my battery went from approx 95% to 3% overnight. 9 hours
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My battery life has been pretty good for me, when I go to bed it's at 100%, come morning after 2 alarms it's usually at 97%. I usually have 3G & Bluetooth on. Then throught the day I don't use the phone much besides the odd text and odd e-mail, with a couple games of Robo Defence, and come 9 in the evening I'm usually around 40% which is pretty good considering that I get crap signal at work (very weak signal with the occasional signal drop) and I know that usually uses a lot of battery.
However, the other night, I went to bed with 100% on the phone and some time between then and 6 hours of sleep, the phone had died completely. Couldn't turn it back cos there was absolutely no charge in it...need to charge it a bit before turning it on. Quite worrying as I use the phone as an alarm during work days (luckly it was the weekend) and I don't acutally know what caused the massive drain

Thought I'd share my experiences here with you guys....
I've had my Streak about 4 weeks now, it's a US Beta version, on TMO US so no 3G, only EDGE. The only widget that uses data is Weather & Toggle. I have had sync and Facebook sync turned off, and only use GPS sparingly.
I tried everything - I started turning off the data connection (3G/EDGE in the top right menu) and basically uninstalled every program I thought could be using battery. Still, it would go from 100% at bedtime to around 60% in the morning. I then tried Airplane mode. Still was draining! I then installed Juice Defender, and it actually went from 100% to 0 - it died that night! D'OH! The whole time is was a 50/50 mix between "cell standby" and "phone idle". It doesn't show any programs using battery. I also tried Drain-o-meter, but it didn't show anything else either.
Well here's what finally fixed it for me -- turn back ON the EDGE/3G data connection and leave it on!!!
I'm guessing there are things running in the background (my guess is Weather Toggle widgets but the drain was still there even after I uninstalled it), possibly system processes, that require a data connection. In my case, that fixed it... now it goes down from 100% to about 92-95% overnight. Now I just leave the data connection on and it's all good!
I'm not saying this will work for everyone else, but hopefully maybe there's at least 1 other Streak user who has the same problem.

I was not happy with my streak's batteryperformance either (stock ROM), until a recent discovery.. It seems the Mail client (not gmail or touchdown) caused a partial wakelock if I had set it to 15min intervals (have 2 accounts) Draining approx 10% every hour.
After I set it to sync every hour, I dramatically increased the battery time.
Today when I checked it I had only used 3% in 5 hours (normally it would be minimum 30% in the same time)
I suggest you check your settings if you have the Mail client set up with accounts.
This changed my perspective on batteryperformance TOTALLY!

Bad battery life after 107 update

Just like the title says. I have checked all my settins syncs which programs are running in the background and so forth.. so im sure its not that..
Anyways here goes.
Before the update I could get about 12-14 hrs of use out of a full battery charge, however after this update I can only get about 5-7 hrs out of a charge.. Nothing had changed.. my usage is the same, my wifi,bluetooth,gps,4g are all off. I don't have any programs syncing or updating in the background.. So i have NO CLUE as to why my battery life cut in half after this update.

I already posted this elsewhere......my battery life was really great before this update.
Same exact settings now as before, plus the phone was reloaded to factory settings by the Sprint store first as I was having some other issues...email not coming through timely, cell signal falling and dropping calls, etc.
My battery life is now 1/2 of what it was prior to the D107 update.

I would say wait and see. When I would flash roms on my HTC phone the battery would die quickly for awhile. After 2-3 full charges it would go back to normal.

Check Cell Standby in battery status. See if Time without signal is 50% or more.

Cell standby is 18% and time without signal is 7%

My time without signal is only 2% So I'm not sure what is going on to make my battery life soo bad.

i got 9 hours today with decent usage where before if say 12 or so ... since the update my time without signal is in the 30-50% range on average & it was 3-4% before .. im a little frustrated on that & i know its taxin the battery a little so . . .

my update has really screwed my battery life. I notice too that Juice Defender keeps reading at 1.00x instead of 1.6-1.8 before the update. I also notice my TWS was at 50-52%. I tried the Airplane mode toggle and it didn't do ****. I really love this phone, but i'm about to return it and try another before my 30 days is up.
So far, i'm concerned with:
back button is not consistent (works sometimes sometimes it sucks)
TWS over 50% of battery consumption.
upgrade made juicedefender not work
little wobble in the phone but not too bad
scratched screen just from rivet in jeans
AND pissed about the tv out that sprint omitted

jemarent said:
my update has really screwed my battery life. I notice too that Juice Defender keeps reading at 1.00x instead of 1.6-1.8 before the update. I also notice my TWS was at 50-52%. I tried the Airplane mode toggle and it didn't do ****. I really love this phone, but i'm about to return it and try another before my 30 days is up.
So far, i'm concerned with:
back button is not consistent (works sometimes sometimes it sucks)
TWS over 50% of battery consumption.
upgrade made juicedefender not work
little wobble in the phone but not too bad
scratched screen just from rivet in jeans
AND pissed about the tv out that sprint omitted
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The back button is a defect in an early batch of phones.. If you swap it, you will probably get a working model..
My email app didn't sync after the update, so I had to reinstall Roadsync. It might be the same thing with JuiceDefender.

My battery is getting much better. Not sure if it is the galaxy rom, the update or my battery is just getting conditioned better. I unplugged my phone this morning and have been on it constantly web browsing, music, 4g, 3g, lots of tapatalk use. 36% left and just approaching 4hrs of being unplugged.
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How do you roll back this update.
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after i re-flashed and updated, ive experienced big drops from the 90% zone to like 75% in a short amount of time but then the decrease stays pretty slow.
im using adv task killer on maximum and juice defender
this combo works pretty well for me, i cant explain the 25% loss. I think my battery still needs calibration, but i get around 14-18 hours normally.

I've noticed the increased battery drain also. I've been tracking it the past couple days with Spare Parts. If you open Spare Parts, click on Battery history. If your phone is running like mine is right now, the Running time is at almost 100%. That means that something is preventing it from sleeping. Next, click the tab that says "other usage", and change it to "Partial wake usage". Mine is showing that Android System is the culprit, causing the partial wake lock. It was not doing this before the DI07 update. I did a factory reset this morning and the only app I installed was Spare Parts, just to make sure it wasn't an app I was using. I get the same results on a fresh clean ROM as I do using noobnl's ROM. NOT COOL!

Well my full run through of the battery is over. I've turned a new leaf about the battery on this. I'm keeping the Epic.
Conditions: Was at zero brightness for about 4hrs of this. Set it to 0 after getting to work. You can see the screen perfectly fine at 0 indoors. (30 minute ride)
GPS - Off except the couple times I checked out google earth
Sync - full manual syncing / with background data on to use the market
Usage: Heavy heavy usage for all but 20 minutes. Total time with screen actually on was about 4 1/2 hours. Lots of tapatalk use, streamed about 20 minutes of CNN via Slingplayer, Streamed about 10 minutes worth of music via last FM. Dolphin browser usage. About an hour of total usage was over 4G
No task managers (well Androids but that doesn't count), no juice defender.
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After all that it has been sitting at 3% for 20 minutes (after taking the ss) with no usage as I wait for it to finally die and write this post. Just over 5hrs straight of near pure 3g/4g data usage over various applications and multimedia is perfectly acceptable to me. This is WAY longer than the average consumer laptop would get under similar usage w/ an aircard.
If I didn't use the phone like a miniature laptop so heavily and just kept it to normal use and some phone calls with auto brightness on I'd guesstimate I'd easily get 10 hours or so if not a lot longer out of it.
Running: Andromeda Galaxy Rom 1.0.3

the reason your getting bad battery life is because it reset all your battery stats. it's going to take a couple days til your battery life gets better. try the bump charging method.

Crazy Android OS CPU usage

I am getting crazy CPU usage from Android OS, which is currently sitting at 52% battery usage. The CPU time of Android OS is between 20 and 30 minutes per hour! I have tried freezing many apps, I have tried task killers, rebooting etc. I have WKE7 firmware.

android os does use more than the rest, unsure why, but somehow the battery ife is still pretty good
http://goo.gl/cyd1T
KE7 (stock kernel) , full sync on google stuff + 1 email on push + auto brightness + about 1H of display on time on this, 1d20min and 68% left.
sent 3-4 sms and did a bit of various stuff since yesterday.
Seen worse lol

I would be very happy with that kind of batterylife. Sadly, my phone loses about 35% battery while I'm sleeping. With medium usage, I would usually reach 12 hours of battery.

i rate my battery life to smth like "amazing" xD

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i rate my battery life to smth like "amazing" xD
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Yes for me battery life on sgs2 is also very nice - I'm comparing to sgs and it is about 20% better. My heavy usage today was 5 hours of screen on with wifi, some gps, 2h of gaming, skype running for about 3h, and battery run for total 9h. Also I use 2 push email accounts and sync is on. I think thats really good. And typically when I sleep in 8h battery is drained for about 8% with all email and google syncs active. So this is also quite good. All that on KE7. Most of samsung bloatware frozen.
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Been trying to keep away from these battery threads, but noticed today that I've gone from android system 12% to 30% and I've no idea why.
Still on KE2, and am probably a "light user" - black wallpaper, brightness 20%, screen timeout 2 minutes, some phonecalls, lots of SMS, music - lots of Poweramp - shown a few photos, occasional wifi, GPS ca. 30 minutes per day, don't sync, don't use my carrier's dataplan, no e-mail as yet, and no Facebook/Twitter/games/Social hub/accuweather etc ever - in fact they were uninstalled on day 1.
Got 36 hours from my last charge, am now on 79% after 16 hours. Still happy with it, but no idea what has caused this spike.... Will keep an eye on it.
My $0.02 worth.

I am really starting to wonder why some people have amazing batterylife, while others are having terrible battery life. I would be very happy with 18 hours with 4 hours of screen usage, but instead I am barely scratching 12, today has been even worse. 10 hours with 3 hours screen usage...

So far mine is 2hr 15 mins screen on time, mostly browsing on 3G, 13 hours on battery, and have 29% remaining. Its OK, but I wouldn't describe it as amazing. Roll on 2.3.4

the thing is on android battery life largely depend on apps and setup anyway

Yeh, I know. But I feel like I have optimized my setup as much as I can. No autosynching, email check every 2 hours, facebook, twitter and RSS updates ever 4 hours. No GPS, automatic screen brightness, wifi sleep on. No widgets pulling real time info.

mine has the stock weather widget and animated background - also wifi always on (that prolly actually helps ..)
also i used some gps,played short videos, youtube, recorded some vids and took a few pics (you can see i used it more heavily today in the graph)
im supposing a lot of this goes as android system (bug?) cuz its certainly intensive and isnt in the list (not even lower)
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Get rid of the auto screen brightness. I find brightness of 10% makes a huge difference. This samsung screen might look great but in fact it's practically useless as it drinks power

with ke7 as u can see auto brightness doesn't seem an issue for me anymore
i like it because i don't need to set the brightness in sunlight when it's auto hehe

What is your CPU time on Android OS vs. total battery time? Right now my phone has been on for 2 hours and 14 minutes, and CPU time in Android OS is 43 minutes!

If you've read through the majority of these threads, what's weird is that some of you that have uninstalled and/or frozen specific apps are getting worse battery times than those of us that are bone stock and have everything whirring in the background. As an example I use Wi-Fi a lot and also Kies Air and connect to a Blu-ray player using Wi-Fi Direct. The Wi-Fi Sharing app never appears in my running apps after I turn Wi-Fi off. Yet some of you with tweaks that don't use Wi-Fi have it randomly appearing and eating up CPU time.
I've kept up with this thread and other battery threads and for every "ah-ha!" moment there's a post following it showing worsening or no improvement. Somewhere in one of the three battery threads there were some tweets from Google acknowledging the problem in running 2.3.3. with dual-core processors. I think other than for the mad scientist fun factor we're just beating a dead horse and 2.3.4. is going to have to be our salvation. There's not even any assurance that a cooked ROM sans all the Samsung tweaks would work any better if the issue really is a core-OS problem.
Back to our ongoing debate...

Why I will stick with 3.5.4 for a while (mostly battery life)

It pains me, being a flashaholic, to stick with a rom for a long time, but it looks like I might be on OOS 3.5.4 for a while. I got the phone for Christmas, and of course I have tried most of the roms, but keep coming back to 3.5.4. The battery life for me has been incredible. But I also like to assign the menu function to one of the hard buttons since I use it so much, and this does not appear to be available in any nougat rom.
Although I have flashed a lot of roms, I still think it's confusing going from one to the other and having to do additional steps and using different versions of twrp so you don't end up with no OS. If I could completely rid the phone of encryption to not have to deal with this ever again, I would.
Anyway, I decided to see if I could completely drain the battery in 24 hours. I was almost successful. This entailed leaving a clock display (with a black background) on all night which does not really use a lot of battery, so it's kind of cheating. But somewhat made up for by having used waze for over an hour and bluetooth streaming for many hours that day. Using the phone a lot in and outdoors, I am usually on par to get a little more than 10 hours of screentime in a day. But here are the results from yesterday:
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I'm in 4.0.2 and now 4.0.1 may be I'll come back to 3.5.4. I think new updates are not important for me, and battery life is more important. Even in new os. My BBM is can't connect because of unknown reason.

What did you do settings/app/Kernal wise in order to achieve this SOT?

I got my phone a couple days ago and my battery is amazing.
I recommend you look into these apps to help out:
AdGuard Pro - ad blocker for sites & apps
CCleaner - I Run this every so often to cleanup app cache
ForceDoze
Hibernation Manager (I've used Greenify and it works great, but it needs Xposed to work). SInce Xposed is not yet available for Nougat I found this app to be a good alternative to Greenify and doesn't require root either.
L Speed
LeanDroid

You use your phone too much

do you still think 4.0.2 is bad?

Greenify works fine without xposed. I'm using it. Nice to know of alternatives though.

So you just turned ur phones display on and made the time out to never and kept the device in a closet.. Well done..

I see no difference in battery between 3.5.4 and 4.x.x.

geekynoob said:
So you just turned ur phones display on and made the time out to never and kept the device in a closet.. Well done..
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Nope. Used it extensively throughout the day on Friday, watching youtube, browsing reddit, playing non-CPU-intensive games, texting, (slow day at work) using GPS, etc for over 7 hours. The only screentime I did not have my hands on it was the linear decline (easily visible in the screenshot) from around midnight until 0700 which was the clock (which to me used a surprising amount of battery for having a black background).
I do have good signal throughout the day (repeaters in building I work) as well as at home. I was indoors most of the day, except when using GPS. I have doze mode set. I use Adaway. Don't have facebook on the phone and don't automatically check email accounts. Don't use greenify or any other battery saving app. I use a widget to only turn on GPS when I need it as well as usually keep the brightness at 26% when indoors (otherwise it's too dim for me) and auto when outdoors.

You are putting yourself to a huge security risk.

sharath_babu said:
do you still think 4.0.2 is bad?
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Ofcourse ! you didnt even used your phone.Look at his percentage 28% so more screen on time than your.Try to compete that with nougat update.I am gonna wait too untill they build what more stable build than these maybe you are happy with what you got i am not and the bang of all things xposed aint gonna work on nougat and i kinda need that alot.

phoneturf said:
Nope. Used it extensively throughout the day on Friday, watching youtube, browsing reddit, playing non-CPU-intensive games, texting, (slow day at work) using GPS, etc for over 7 hours. The only screentime I did not have my hands on it was the linear decline (easily visible in the screenshot) from around midnight until 0700 which was the clock (which to me used a surprising amount of battery for having a black background).
I do have good signal throughout the day (repeaters in building I work) as well as at home. I was indoors most of the day, except when using GPS. I have doze mode set. I use Adaway. Don't have facebook on the phone and don't automatically check email accounts. Don't use greenify or any other battery saving app. I use a widget to only turn on GPS when I need it as well as usually keep the brightness at 26% when indoors (otherwise it's too dim for me) and auto when outdoors.
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No offense but sounds like bull****, specially without statistics like from accubattery, etc.

phoneturf said:
Nope. Used it extensively throughout the day on Friday, watching youtube, browsing reddit, playing non-CPU-intensive games, texting, (slow day at work) using GPS, etc for over 7 hours. The only screentime I did not have my hands on it was the linear decline (easily visible in the screenshot) from around midnight until 0700 which was the clock (which to me used a surprising amount of battery for having a black background).
I do have good signal throughout the day (repeaters in building I work) as well as at home. I was indoors most of the day, except when using GPS. I have doze mode set. I use Adaway. Don't have facebook on the phone and don't automatically check email accounts. Don't use greenify or any other battery saving app. I use a widget to only turn on GPS when I need it as well as usually keep the brightness at 26% when indoors (otherwise it's too dim for me) and auto when outdoors.
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Ur battery stats show nothing.. Being frank I consider myself an advance user but this is sorcery..

phoneturf said:
Nope. Used it extensively throughout the day on Friday, watching youtube, browsing reddit, playing non-CPU-intensive games, texting, (slow day at work) using GPS, etc for over 7 hours. The only screentime I did not have my hands on it was the linear decline (easily visible in the screenshot) from around midnight until 0700 which was the clock (which to me used a surprising amount of battery for having a black background).
I do have good signal throughout the day (repeaters in building I work) as well as at home. I was indoors most of the day, except when using GPS. I have doze mode set. I use Adaway. Don't have facebook on the phone and don't automatically check email accounts. Don't use greenify or any other battery saving app. I use a widget to only turn on GPS when I need it as well as usually keep the brightness at 26% when indoors (otherwise it's too dim for me) and auto when outdoors.
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Sorry but your screenshots don't add up to what you are saying.
Just my 2 cents.
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I don't think this is bad anyway. Between huge default DPI of 3.5.4 and DPi control in 4.0.2 PLUS extra features, it's a no brainer.
And this is on full stock, unrooted, no greenify, no nothing extra. Good enough in my opinion. Automatic brightness on whole time, 4G or WiFi on whole time, location off etc.

This SoT is mad. What apps do you use?

MaxFTW said:
This SoT is mad. What apps do you use?
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Dude... he literally doesn't do anything. Look at the screenshot and the apps that were most used. "Phone idle?" LMAO.

ive been getting 8 hours of SoT with the newest FreedomOS 1.1 with pretty heavy gaming and such. so its not exactly a huge problem going into new updates. Having a billion apps installed drains your battery, clearing caches drains battery. Just let your phone do what it does and it should even out. the kernel data was released for nougat recently anyway so just wait a bit for some more battery efficient roms to flash.

geekynoob said:
Ur battery stats show nothing.. Being frank I consider myself an advance user but this is sorcery..
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All these vitriolic comments! It makes me think that a lot of people just looked at the screenshots and did not read the text. But I will explain further.
Here are my screenshots from a workday of "normal" use today.
if I continued to use the phone for another 3 hours to make it 7 hours total, as shown in the original post, it would be down to about 35%. Today, as I was then, I am on par to get over 10.5 hours screentime.
I use an app (gentle alarm) as a bedside clock that takes about 5% battery per hour with the display on. It was running for 7 hours in the original screenshots to completely run down the battery, as was explained. The 7 hours of normal use and 7 hours as clock added up to 14 hours.
But now everyone's comments are making me feel special. Is no one else getting over 10 hours screentime on OOS MM? The 9 hours I was getting with nougat OOS was fine - it's not like I ever really need over 10 hours, but as I said, I also want a hard key assigned to the menu function.