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37 hours and still at 74%

Morning all.
just thought I'd share the above with you. Been 37 hours since I charged my phone and my batery is saying 74%. I've sent maybe 50 texts, had 20 mins of phone calls, push email for about 12 hours and bluetooth about 12 hours.
The secret, is to only turn on things you need when you need them!!
I'm using PhoneAlarm to change the status of my phone depending on where I am/what I'm doing.
it's unlikely that anyone is going to phone me at 3 in the morning or send me a text (I prefer not to be woken up) so at midnight my phone goes into flight mode, and turns back on at 6.30. I don't turn the phone off as then the alarm doesn't sounds. I don't need push email when I'm at work so between 8am and 5.30 pm, push email is disabled. Also I don't need bluetooth when I'm at work (I only use BT to connect to my car)...and so on .
I can easily turn the various functions back on with a button here and there, but the batery life I'm getting far outweighs any inconvenience of having to hit a button to turn things on or off.

Just be in touch that the battery drains faster at the end than at the beginning... so i don't think you would have 37 hours -- 3/4 so you could stay 37 x 4 = 148 hours with your phone...
But i agree... the battery is cool !! I don't even imagine with a good extended battery to 2500 mAh !
Ciao
Fred

I agree it does drain faster towards the end, but still...3 days battery life is more than acceptable.

That's pretty good! The best i got was 59% after 1.5 days.. then it less than 10 hours later i was up to 10%.
Battery life is dreadful.

62 hours
54%

I've been using HTC products for a long time. Surprisingly HTC HD has the best battery.

Yet another useless topic, lots of topics about the HD battery, please use them instead of opening more topics, that would make this forum easy to search.

PJMDS said:
Yet another useless topic, lots of topics about the HD battery, please use them instead of opening more topics, that would make this forum easy to search.
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he's just sharing.
cheers and happy new year dude.

Wow, is that HD running on Kryptonite???
I would love to get a battery that lasts 48 hours
Maybe a stupid question, but how do you manage that the phone switches to flightmode on a fixed time?

Not useless - Add to Tips and Tricks List
I was unaware of this approach for turning various services on and off and to me it makes a lot of sense. I'm not sure I would have seen it if it had been buried in another post... I would recommend this get added to the Tips and Tricks list as its a real winner!

eAzYE666 said:
Wow, is that HD running on Kryptonite???
I would love to get a battery that lasts 48 hours
Maybe a stupid question, but how do you manage that the phone switches to flightmode on a fixed time?
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He mentionned Phonealarm, so i think that's it.
Ciao
Fred

frederikk said:
He mentionned Phonealarm, so i think that's it.
Ciao
Fred
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Is this a free program? It sounds like a good idea for me too... turn WiFi and Bluetooth off during the day Mon-Fri and during the night!
Bound to save a bit of power, and then I could hopefully charge every 2 days instead of every night!

Try using http://www.sbsh.net/products/windows_mobile_pocket_pc/phoneweaver.
It's not free but works great and has also large buttons to toggle bluetooth and wireless.

just tried phonealarm too, but somehow it will not switch profile on fixed times?
are you running it with TF3D? if so how do i enable it
also with the default skin pressing the wireless button activates bluetooth and not wireless.

Yeah i tried PA too and it don't switches alarms on time too - how did you set it up ? Also the location in extras dont work - did you get it up and running ?

I use the bugger too much to get anything over a day and a half.

kremator said:
Yeah i tried PA too and it don't switches alarms on time too - how did you set it up ? Also the location in extras dont work - did you get it up and running ?
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PA won't work with Manila, it only works if the TodayPlugin is running.
For a better solution try SPB PhoneSuite.
http://beta.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/phonesuite/
Runs as service and works fine under manila.

As I said earlier try using http://www.sbsh.net/products/windows...pc/phoneweaver.

Vanstra said:
As I said earlier try using http://www.sbsh.net/products/windows...pc/phoneweaver.
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There are 2 options to get Phone Alram to work with Touch Flo
Option 1
Install phone alarm
Deselect Manila from the Today screen and select phone alarm
Phone alarm will now be displayed on the home screen. Go into phone laram settings, click advanced and select touch flo support.
Touch flo / today screen can now be toggled from the left soft key.
Option 2
Install SecondToday (free) to give you 2 "Today screens"
I have used option 2, but have recently changed to option 1. Both work great.
Phoneweaver is ok, but the functionality of Phone Alarm is far superior - guess it depends what you want it to do.

Option 1
Install phone alarm
Deselect Manila from the Today screen and select phone alarm
Phone alarm will now be displayed on the home screen. Go into phone laram settings, click advanced and select touch flo support.
Touch flo / today screen can now be toggled from the left soft key.
Option 2
Install SecondToday (free) to give you 2 "Today screens"
I have used option 2, but have recently changed to option 1. Both work great.
Phoneweaver is ok, but the functionality of Phone Alarm is far superior - guess it depends what you want it to do.
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both options keep phonealarm running and working while TouchFlo is enabled?

Keeping the screen awake while plugged in.

I have searched the forum for an answer and can not find it anywhere so please bare with me if it has been answered previously, it's not easily found.
I have a rooted MyTouch running Cyanogen 4.0.4. I could have sworn in his previous releases, there was an option in the Dev Tools to keep the screen awake while it was plugged in to either USB or charging. Was I imagining this? If not, can someone please tell me where to do this because for the life of me, I can not find it again!
Thanks in advance!

Download Locale from the Android market. It's free and you'll be blown away by the features and ease of use. And it does exactly what you're asking. I don't know if this feature was in previous versions of Cyan's mods but I don't know who wouldn't love Locale!
*Personal tip for ya too, if you d/l locale and use it's other features, use the wifi positioning, not the GPS. The GPS positioning kills my phones battery because it checks your position every 10 minutes with GPS. Wifi is alot less power heavy on the battery. Go get the app and use it, then read my tip again...it'll make alot more sense!*
~*Apollo*~
*Locale, so you know, is location based profiles for sound, brightness, connections like wifi/bluetooth, vibrate, and ringer profiles, and also has power profiles for charging, or when the battery is below 20%, etc.*

yes there is an option. i am using it. it isnt in dev tools. it is in development option in your settings. the same place where you go to turn on usb debugging.

Sorry Slightly off topic but I was wondering if anyone knows of an app to turn the Screen off during a phone call?? I thought The app was "Spare parts" but it wasn't
Any ideas?

Thanks NguyenHuu! I knew I had seen it before and it was driving me nuts not being able to find it! Thanks again!!

Screensaver?

Hey folks i got my desire on wed and been plaing around a fair bit. one thing i've noticed is that i cant seem to get the clock to dsplay without hitting the power button. i find this feature pretty useful as i havnt worn a watch in years for this reason. is there an app anyone knows of that will show the time constantly when th screen is off? or even if i coul just hit the trackball or other button on the front, easier to get to than to the power button.
Also i have juice defender installed, i cant say ive noticed a large difference but i id have it installed sine the 2nd day, is it worth upgrading to juice ultimate? i see that the wifi ioption an others are only available in it.
many thanks for any help anyone has, tom

this screensaver is very nice....
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Well, if you root you can make it so you can unlock the screen with the front buttons. I don't think it would be a good idea to keep the screen on always, it would drain your battery fast. If you just want a clock widget on your lock screen you can install wigetLocker.
edit: wow I failed to notice the thread is from April.....Oh well, Sorry

[FIX]Dialer Battery Drain CM7 Builds

I have seen more and more posts about the Dialer draining battery for power and noone knows why.
After som intensive googling i ended up on MoDaCo's Forum were Chall32 spotted a fix for this back on CM6 builds wich aso seem to work for CM7 builds, and it will make you go: is that all it takes? lol
Turn off (as in un-tick) the "Turn to mute" setting via:
Home Screen > Menu > Settings > Call Settings> Turn over silence
Seems like the Dialer is constantly checking for phone position
and therefor consuming alot more power than necasary.
Again thx to chall32 at MoDaCo's Forum for spotting this.

Is that all it takes!?
I wondered what was causing this for quite a while now. I came to the conclusion that it was a bug in the Battery usage stats, since I didn't seem to notice any decrease in battery life.
I wonder if this will make my batterylife even better.

Top find,
I was about to embark on a journey to find a solution to this.

This setting IS off in PNK22.
For me it was anyways

MariusOX said:
This setting IS off in PNK22.
For me it was anyways
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yep.. it's off also on mine.. i think that's already the default setting on pnk22. using it also. but good find though.

Omg thank you this has been driving me nuts! I couldn't figure why the hell the dialer was taking 85% of my battery!

finally a fix

i am on cm7. i dont see this setting for some reason.

franklin20uk said:
i am on cm7. i dont see this setting for some reason.
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Seems like it's been moved or taken out, will come back to you when i figured out what they done

Due to the bugs with this it has been removed until further notice.
Thx to XL3N7 for finding the changelog for this:
http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#change,3904

Any news about it?
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

Notification LED

Hi, since the note lacks notification LEDs, is BLN ready for it now?

noled works.

I did try noled but sometimes in dark area the black around the icons seems to be not black as it is when it's in suspend mode. my conclusion is that it's consuming to much battery at that time.
power button to wake ain't working too.
what about your experiences at all using noled right now?
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Noled is working fine for me. Doesn't seem to use up too much juice. Leaving GPS and bluetooth on overnight however almost depleted the battery from full.

I love using NoLed, definitely my favourite application. I have it set to display my contacts picture and so whenever I have missed a call from a friend and receives a text from another, I am aware of this by a simple glance!
Battery life isn't significantly effected in my opinion (I have the icon size small/medium and brightness set low).
Sent from my GT-I9100

Hi there newbie here, are these apps? so are downloaded from android or what?

My Motorola Flipout also don't have nonfiction light, but the capacitive buttons blinks when there is a miss call text/email. I wonder how difficult it is to implement it on our Note?

Bigmille said:
My Motorola Flipout also don't have nonfiction light, but the capacitive buttons blinks when there is a miss call text/email. I wonder how difficult it is to implement it on our Note?
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This is a great idea! I hope a capable developer reads your post and considers it.

stedj said:
Hi there newbie here, are these apps? so are downloaded from android or what?
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yes, it's an app available in the market.
- Frank

maxh said:
This is a great idea! I hope a capable developer reads your post and considers it.
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Seconded, this is such a simple and great idea

Well at least there's a sysfs to control the state. It's just a plain on and off leds though, nothing fancy like per-button lights and brightness as in Dell Streak. No big deal for some distracting blinks
Light it on with
# echo "1" > /sys/devices/virtual/misc/melfas_touchkey/brightness
Light off with
# echo "2" > /sys/devices/virtual/misc/melfas_touchkey/brightness
It won't be controllable when it's sleeping though, as usual. So either wake lock (battery drain), modify keyboard driver, or a *very top secret* other method

Can't it be done like in the Dell Streak 5?
App's name is Streak LED.
Isn't it possible to write something like that? Would be ideal.

surely this app not a battery hog? I already felt bad on my battery @@ but I also want a notification light.... tough choice.

i would love the capacitive touch led´s light up when a message arrive. My Dell Streak has an app for it, its just great!
@watch_mania
is it a big deal to write an app for it?
thanks in advance

breckbit said:
i would love the capacitive touch led´s light up when a message arrive. My Dell Streak has an app for it, its just great!
@watch_mania
is it a big deal to write an app for it?
thanks in advance
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There are several ways to implement the feature, each with their own weaknesses. I'll aim for the best solution, but I'll need to check on the melfas touchkey driver for it. Worse case is the wake lock with root access.
It's going to be implemented for sure, as I badly needs the feature as well. It's just a question of when..
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Yeah, I believe also the touch keys are the best solution for me to use them for notifications.

Have been running NoLED for a couple of days (ish useful) - however, checked the battery stats and it was awake a LONG time (15% of 13hrs?) and was around 10% of battery usage.
Have turned it off for now as I sit next to my phone for most of working day and therefore hear it as much as I see it.
Will re-evaluate once I've optimised the phone setup.
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koniakki said:
the touch keys are the best solution for me to use them for notifications.
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I donno why it will turn of itself suddenly, how to keep it always on?

NOLED doesn't work for me...
Well, mates, Noled is not working for me...
Just the option to see the recharge % on the lockscreen...
It worked just once for a sms notification and after that....oblivion
Someone else with the same issue? I am trying to find out a new app with similar options...

try putting the widget on your homescreen, i dont know why but it tends to randomly turn off