Sorry if this has ben posted before but I am at work and can only sneak to use the phone. I am switching to evo 4g and my buddy found out that you can turn network time of and really improve battery life on devices that use sense. Settings-date and time-network time.
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Just be sure to enable sexy time...
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What percent improvement has he seen. I use my phone as a watch, so this does not seem like a worth while power management technique for me unless it improves it 10+ %.
Screenshots from System Panel would be appreciated.
I have found that disabling the mobile network data service off unless you are using helps significantly.
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Just be sure to enable sexy time...
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Care to elaborate? Or am i not getting the joke! It's early so might have went over my head....
Okay first off, I had an EVO 4G, went and got a Droid X and now want EVO back due to using way too many minutes on Verizon. Went today to get everything switched over and nowhere has an EVO around here. Basically my friend found in the desire forums about disabling network time and he tried it on his nexus one with 2.2 CM6 w/ sense and it significantly helped his battery. My buddy and his buddy with the Evo 4G were both going through about 10% an hour even not using it. The Evo 4G guy texted my friend today and said he unplugged his EVO from the wall at 2pm went to work and didn't play with his phone until 7pm. Still had about 80% battery. Went to bed around 12:30 am with 70% and woke up at 9:45 am with 64% battery. It is worth a try for anyone running sense.
Great story bro.
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I havehorrible batter life and it takes forever for this phone to charge and it overheats. I'm using the andromeda kernal and OC widget. Can someone tell me some settings I should use? Or tweaks or whatever? I'm talking non-commonsense stuff (not stuff like "turn 4g off")
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I havehorrible batter life and it takes forever for this phone to charge and it overheats. I'm using the andromeda kernal and OC widget. Can someone tell me some settings I should use? Or tweaks or whatever? I'm talking non-commonsense stuff (not stuff like "turn 4g off")
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Turn on Airplane mode and leave it on. Tell people to call you on the house phone. Your battery life will improve dramatically.
The radio really sucks up tht much power, huh? :/ I wish sprint used simcards so I can have a reason to lug around my hero for when I'm out for more than 3 hours
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The radio really sucks up tht much power, huh? :/ I wish sprint used simcards so I can have a reason to lug around my hero for when I'm out for more than 3 hours
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Wow, 3 hours huh? I'm at least getting 8. I was getting 15 or 20 hours, but then started putting lots of widgets on my screens and that really killlllllllllled it
I usemy phone a lot. I was spoiled by my hero. I was getting days on a single charge with the same usage, if not, more. I wish I knew what's killing it so fast :/ spare prts says the screen is a majority of power consumption, but I usually have brightness on 0 (its plenty bright enough. It seems brighter than my hero at 50% ).
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A_Flying_Fox said:
I usemy phone a lot. I was spoiled by my hero. I was getting days on a single charge with the same usage, if not, more. I wish I knew what's killing it so fast :/ spare prts says the screen is a majority of power consumption, but I usually have brightness on 0 (its plenty bright enough. It seems brighter than my hero at 50% ).
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Is the Running time at 100%? If so, check Partial Wake Usage. Click on whatever's at the top of the list and check it's running time. Report back and let us know what you find.
Is there anyway to make evo battery last longer
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Theres toms of threads on this, just use search
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The usual popular ways involve custom kernals, specific charging routines.
As started above, the most effective way to find out is search the forums because there are literally thousands of post about that already existing
Swyped from a galaxy far far away......
I can get my battery to stay at 100% for 4 hours is I have data turned off. That's 3g or 4g and WiFi. I turn it on when I go to check when I have the time then turn it off again. That's why the power notifications is a must have mod.
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Is there anyway to make evo battery last longer
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Root your phone and install a custom rom, that helps tremendously. Then I recommend you flash a custom kernel from here.
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I always find that if you take the battery out, it will last longer...
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Use Wifi instead of 3g whenever possible. It makes a difference. Turn off 3g when you are at work this way you will still receive texts and calls. It really lasts. I'm on 19 hours with 37%.
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I surf a lot on my phone...I mean a lot. I don't even use my PC anymore, and I probably surf the net for at least three to four hours a day (maybe more). Unfortunately, hours of surfing, even on WiFi, kills my battery. However, I have found that by turning brightness all the way down I can almost double my browsing time. It is a significant difference. You just have to learn to tolerate the dim screen, but for me it is very worth the trouble. And by the way, I have tried every trick I could find on this forum...moat made only marginal, if any, improvements. I use warm 2.2 with HTC 17 kernel.
Not much of a hack or trick...I know. But it is honestly worth it, at least for me.
This is the ffirst time I have itterally gone a whole day on one charge; got up and switched to the N1 at 910 and at around....830 I put it back on the charger at around 15 percent.
I checked email, surges the web and texted throughout the day; I could maybe go half a day on my Captivate.
I seriously thought aabout ordering some spare batteries off of eBay but I'm really rethinking that now.
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what is your setup?
No need to. Just keep a charger in your car. Problem solved
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I hear htc its giving out batteries for free under warranty if you say yours is discharging to fast. Wink wink
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I hear htc its giving out batteries for free under warranty if you say yours is discharging to fast. Wink wink
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Ill have to check up on that, thanks.
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My setup is the rooted, deoxed version of stock 2.3.3. Amazingly fast (just as fast and smoother than the Atrix) and obviously has great battery life.
I'm using Zeam launcher with a few Widgets, light flow and my led light (top of phone) stays lit all if the time.
Checking the stats, I used 83 megs of data that came from web browsing, twitter, downloading applications, and email and stuff.
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I hear htc its giving out batteries for free under warranty if you say yours is discharging to fast. Wink wink
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this is true, when my wife's N1 was just about 2 months old and I noticed the battery was draining too fast i called them up and sent me a new one for free I later found out my was not activating her screen lock before putting inside her bag lol...
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I hear htc its giving out batteries for free under warranty if you say yours is discharging to fast. Wink wink
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could i still get this if i bought my phone off a guy from craigslist?
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could i still get this if i bought my phone off a guy from craigslist?
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you should be able to as long as the 1 year warranty is not up. Did he happen to mention when he purchased it?
I don't have much problem with battery life, if I am at the place with good signal receptions.
Here is my, Battery use graph, which is built into the Gingerbread.
BTW, I did re-charging during the duration.
Settings -> About Phone -> Battery use -> Tap the title bar.
My setup.
Stock GRI40
Kernel : 2.6.35.7 from android.git.kernel.org (compiled with my own taste of configurations)
Governor : Conservative
CPU speed : 128Mz - 998 MHz.
Based on my battery stats, I have an estimated battery life of nearly 48 hours if I leavr the phone alone.
With CM7 RC2 and wifi sleep policy set to never.
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Based on my battery stats, I have an estimated battery life of nearly 48 hours if I leavr the phone alone.
With CM7 RC2 and wifi sleep policy set to never.
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With sleep policy to never on CM7 RC2, does that affect battery life when wifi is turned off? Read some posts its just some bug?
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With sleep policy to never on CM7 RC2, does that affect battery life when wifi is turned off? Read some posts its just some bug?
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set wifi sleep to never increases your battery life dramatically. if you let wifi sleep, then it switches back to 3g which destroys battery much faster than wifi. so leave wifi sleep on NEVER.
just called htc and told them i was having battery issues. they asked for my imei# told me i still had 3 months of warranty left then asked where i would like my new battery sent great customer service!
I can't see how this is one of the biggest batteries out yet after a full nights charge and barely using the phone it needs to be charged again by the middle of the day! I'm tempted to put my sim card back in my iphone... If any one has suggestions I'm all ears.
Oh and I've tried to follow steps to root/unlock etc. but I get errors from the rsnlite 5.3.? installer that it can't install.
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which ROM are u using ? i used to have very good battery life in stock 2.2 2 . about 2 days with 5 hrs display usage.
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I can't see how this is one of the biggest batteries out yet after a full nights charge and barely using the phone it needs to be charged again by the middle of the day! I'm tempted to put my sim card back in my iphone... If any one has suggestions I'm all ears.
Oh and I've tried to follow steps to root/unlock etc. but I get errors from the rsnlite 5.3.? installer that it can't install.
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Dude, there are like three complete threads here with solutions to battery problems. Why did you create another one?
Two of them are in the very same section where you created this thread.
Solution to your battery life woes can be had by putting your sim back inyour iphone. The atrix and instructions to use this forum seem to be above your level of using technology. Btw, my battery life has been awesome.
I voided my warranty.
Dude seriously if you battery sucks its because you dont know how to use the phone properly i get 15-24 hours with heavy texting facebook and browsing you dont need to complain about somthing its your own issue creating another thread is useless post up on the others not here
Holy snot I in no way was bashing the phone but was venting my frustration in how complicated it seems to be to get the battery to last...
I also posted in the general section not QA where I knew I would get bashed.
Im on stock 2.3.4 and it seems like (due to not being able to install the 5.3 lite program) I'm stuck running stock rom and can't make changes needed you guys can.
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Holy snot I in no way was bashing the phone but was venting my frustration in how complicated it seems to be to get the battery to last...
I also posted in the general section not QA where I knew I would get bashed.
Im on stock 2.3.4 and it seems like (due to not being able to install the 5.3 lite program) I'm stuck running stock rom and can't make changes needed you guys can.
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If you aren't comfortable flashing a new rom and/or freezing system apps, give the "2x battery" app a try. It certainly is an improvement to the stock battery life.
I really want to flash one but the program I need to install on my cpu won't install... I keep getting error msgs and no one has been able to give me a solution why yet.
I used to have an htc fuze and flashed roms almost daily so I have the knowledge but my machine isn't cooperating with the needed download to unlock.
Ill try the 2x battery, thank you for the help.
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I can't see how this is one of the biggest batteries out yet after a full nights charge and barely using the phone it needs to be charged again by the middle of the day! I'm tempted to put my sim card back in my iphone... If any one has suggestions I'm all ears.
Oh and I've tried to follow steps to root/unlock etc. but I get errors from the rsnlite 5.3.? installer that it can't install.
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User error....
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Holy snot I in no way was bashing the phone but was venting my frustration in how complicated it seems to be to get the battery to last...
I also posted in the general section not QA where I knew I would get bashed.
Im on stock 2.3.4 and it seems like (due to not being able to install the 5.3 lite program) I'm stuck running stock rom and can't make changes needed you guys can.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1198333
Installed 2x battery then fully charged the phone and disconnected it around 4 our so.
wifi on the whole time, I have texted and taken some HD video plus been on FB since and have only dropped to 80%. Thank you for the tip on the program, seems to be helping. Ill leave it unplugged over night and see where I am in morning.
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Stock atrix battery life sucks!
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Could not disagree more. On my stock Atrix, I was getting just over 2 days usage (not just leaving the phone on the table) pretty consistently. Rooted and GB rom now, am getting a day and a half but am probably just getting the battery and rom used to each other lol
I don't get it, I had 80% 2 hours ago then went to 70% powered off and on and now I have 80% again?
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Omg. You have a self charging battery!
I voided my warranty and your mum.
Bender B. Rodgriguez said:
If you aren't comfortable flashing a new rom and/or freezing system apps, give the "2x battery" app a try. It certainly is an improvement to the stock battery life.
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Freezing apps would definitely help. Especially is you use "System Panel" to find the culprits.
Although from what I've heard isn't stock supposed to have better battery life than the custom ROMS?...
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Ill take a look at that one to. Went to sleep with 70% and left wifi on all night to end up with 50% this morning. I'd say that isn't too bad.
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I can't see how this is one of the biggest batteries out yet after a full nights charge and barely using the phone it needs to be charged again by the middle of the day! I'm tempted to put my sim card back in my iphone... If any one has suggestions I'm all ears.
Oh and I've tried to follow steps to root/unlock etc. but I get errors from the rsnlite 5.3.? installer that it can't install.
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You, Sir, are a five-star noob.
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Ill take a look at that one to. Went to sleep with 70% and left wifi on all night to end up with 50% this morning. I'd say that isn't too bad.
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Which battery saving mode are you using?...
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My battery lasts about 3h max, im living the dream!
@ccrows- It only lets me select the daytime mode due to not having the PRO version. And I dont see in it where I can freeze apps?
It actually seems to be charging faster as well. How long does it take you guys to get a full charge from dead on average?
Alright I wasn't going to make a thread on this because this topic is already discussed elsewhere naturally but I feel my situation is different. All over the place I see people reporting great battery life with ICS.. well mine is HORRIBLE. I just flashed the latest nightly for Pete's bugless. I didn't change the kernel. Everything is stock. Only a few apps installed. Noop for scheduler and ondemand for governer.
The phones been off the charger for 55 minutes and I'm sitting at 76%. Idk what's going on. I've tried so many rom/kernel combos and I seem to get the same exact battery life no matter what. Around 6-9 hours with less than 1 hour of screen on time.
Things I've tried to combat this:
Undervolting
Freezing apps
Restricting background data
Underclocking
Brightness set to auto
And I'm sure a few other things I'm forgetting about. I've done all this and still get ****ty battery life. I've flashed the new radio hoping that it would solve my issues but no dice. My signal strength reports at -67 dbm yet the bars never go over 2. 3g or 4g. Even after updating plr.
On gingerbread cm7 I ran brightness at 70%, ocd to 1.4ghz and always got 15+ hours.
For the love of god someone help me. Cuz I think my phone hates the cream sammiches.
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try this kernel, trinity teuv underclocked/undervolted kernel, oc'd gpu http://goo.gl/rY6ga
and do not set brightness to auto, its a battery killer. i keep my brightness at about 20-25%.
also, be sure to fully discharge your battery then charge it completely, after 2 or 3 cycles you should be good.
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try this kernel, trinity teuv underclocked/undervolted kernel, oc'd gpu http://goo.gl/rY6ga
and do not set brightness to auto, its a battery killer. i keep my brightness at about 20-25%.
also, be sure to fully discharge your battery then charge it completely, after 2 or 3 cycles you should be good.
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I do this every day lol I let the battery drain to around 15-30% before I plug it back in.
Screenie: 1 hour later and I lost another 25% this can't be rom or kernel related. As I have tried trinity already and the same thing happens
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Ugh. Another 20% gone. Its only been a half hour from the above screenie. You guys see my dilemma? Lol **** me.
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21% ..
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i was having horrible battery drain after flashing a new rom & kernel - i finally figured it out that my APN settings were messed up and I re-entered them according to the correct carrier settings.
i don't know if that will apply to you since it looks like your 4G data is working properly, but since I was on wifi 99% of the time, as soon as I went off, my data didn't work. but it's something to look at.
4 hours later I'm down to 4% from a full charge.
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Could you try better battery stats to see if something is holding a wakelock?
Turn Data usage off :/ i think Fb or some app is using your 4g
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Turn Data usage off :/ i think Fb or some app is using your 4g
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I would be interested to see what your battle life diff is without 4g switched on. Also in that 4 hrs what was ur screen on time?
Have you thought of trying a new batt? Just got an OEM Samsung for 5 bucks on eBay. Worth a shot.
Oh remove fb app it blows...install friend caster way better less batt make sure you change the sync interval.
You could also try green power from the market to manage your data use while screen is off.
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Ok here's how my battery performs back in cm7 nightly 174 gingerbread. Almost 4 hours and only 25% chipped away. If you look above you'll notice I lost more than 40% in the same time with ics. And I'm doing nothing different. I'm even overclocked to 1.3ghz ondemand with noop for a scheduler.
I think I'm sticking to gbread until official source is out. Maybe then ill get the same battery life.
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That is really weird, if you have time try Milestone 3 and SG's latest kernel and just leave the settings stock . I get wonderful battery life with it hopefully you do to
Oh and are there any apps you are using on ICS that you aren't on CM7?
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Nope. Lately its only been a handful. I actually have more apps installed on gbread to achieve some of the features that are baked into ics. I just don't get it. Ics hates my phone. I even used the GPS today. So weird.
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Try what I suggested unless you did already then ignore lol
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Could it be a faulty battery?
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Could you try better battery stats to see if something is holding a wakelock?
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This. If you are installing the same ol battery-draining POS app then you are not going to fix it with any rom or kernel.
So you guys think my batter watcher widget is preventing my phone from sleeping properly? Ok.. I'm on cm7 right now. Battery is def back to normal. And this is with bacround data on. Ill delete bw and get better battery stats.
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Better battery stats is not the same thing as other (mostly useless) monitoring apps.
Look. 16 hours on gb. If none of my apps are killing the battery then what could it be?
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