Like most people, I've had bad battery life since the J16 update. My phone didn't last a whole day [6am-10pm].
I've read and found nothing.
I decided to uninstall the new Task Manager that came with the J16 update.
Since I never installed one before, I thought it was worth a try.
It should be running in the background to check on 'open' apps, right?
UNINSTALLED.
So far, i know my battery has been lasting longer.
You should try this if you don't care about having the new task manager.
You can uninstall using Titanium Backup.
Don't try if you're not comfortable.
If anyone does this, post it up and let everyone know if battery life has increased.
Try a custom ROM
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Or, try actually using your phone. Why do people continue to try to pass off "Oh this phone has excellent battery life" when their own screenshots show that they haven't used the phone for most of its up-time?
FWIW, I can get about 4 hours of actual usage, i.e. the total time my screen is on is about 4 hours. That is not to say 4 hours of continuous usage, but rather in total for the whole day before my battery conks out on me.
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Or, try actually using your phone. Why do people continue to try to pass off "Oh this phone has excellent battery life" when their own screenshots show that they haven't used the phone for most of its up-time?
FWIW, I can get about 4 hours of actual usage, i.e. the total time my screen is on is about 4 hours. That is not to say 4 hours of continuous usage, but rather in total for the whole day before my battery conks out on me.
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Agree completely. I get about 4 hours of actual use at best.
I can't even use exchange email cause it destroys the battery.
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Or, try actually using your phone. Why do people continue to try to pass off "Oh this phone has excellent battery life" when their own screenshots show that they haven't used the phone for most of its up-time?
FWIW, I can get about 4 hours of actual usage, i.e. the total time my screen is on is about 4 hours. That is not to say 4 hours of continuous usage, but rather in total for the whole day before my battery conks out on me.
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pittphan said:
Agree completely. I get about 4 hours of actual use at best.
I can't even use exchange email cause it destroys the battery.
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Than I do not see a point of these threads about "my battery life sucks". I use my phone for my needs, and it lasts me longer since I upgraded to a custom ROM with a custom kernel. I use my phone as an MP3 player during my 2 hr commute, while reading the news, etc. Before I went with the custom ROM+kernel my phone would last 20 hrs at best while performing the same tasks.
DarkAgent said:
Or, try actually using your phone. Why do people continue to try to pass off "Oh this phone has excellent battery life" when their own screenshots show that they haven't used the phone for most of its up-time?
FWIW, I can get about 4 hours of actual usage, i.e. the total time my screen is on is about 4 hours. That is not to say 4 hours of continuous usage, but rather in total for the whole day before my battery conks out on me.
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Agree completely. I get about 4 hours of actual use at best.
I can't even use exchange email cause it destroys the battery.
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Agreed! I actually get 4 hours of continuous use, as well. I thought it was crazy because everyone was talking about getting amazing battery life. Even with battery conditioning, I get the same 4 hours and when I say continuous use I mean it. I check my Twitter, RRS Feeds, Facebook, Browsing, Pandora, gaming, etc. All at the same time and I play heavy 3D games like N.O.V.A not anything like Hang Man. I never get past 4 hours because I use my phone extensively.
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Agree completely. I get about 4 hours of actual use at best.
I can't even use exchange email cause it destroys the battery.
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This is a serious problem. It looks like the SyncManager has a huge bug introduced in JI6. It seems that the SyncManager will lose it's mind and continuously start pulling data over 3G from Exchange. No emails get returned at this point. Once I kill the SyncManager and run Email I will get all my emails and the SyncManager will run properly again.
When the SyncManager breaks, my battery drains at a rate of 1% per minute and the phone is HOT. I fear what it is doing to my data usage through T-Mobile. I just looked it up. 40 Megs in 4 hours (it was plugged into the charger for 3 of these). 7.2 GB/mo if I let it go for 30 days on the charger.
I'm running Bionix 1.9.1 I haven't used the phone in the past 3 hours and my battery's dropped to 73%
Is that battery meter in the screenshot an app you can download or is it part of a custom rom?
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Is that battery meter in the screenshot an app you can download or is it part of a custom rom?
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It's part of the ROM. I also believe there is a separate MOD for it.
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It is part of Android, so it is available on all ROMs - not just custom ROMs. Go to settings -> about phone -> battery status (or something like that).
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Or, try actually using your phone. Why do people continue to try to pass off "Oh this phone has excellent battery life" when their own screenshots show that they haven't used the phone for most of its up-time?
FWIW, I can get about 4 hours of actual usage, i.e. the total time my screen is on is about 4 hours. That is not to say 4 hours of continuous usage, but rather in total for the whole day before my battery conks out on me.
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You are so right! Let me see those numbers with browser and homescreen on the top and I'd be happy. But I'd like to know if it's OK to remove that new task manager BC it does run constantly in the background?
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Out of frustration with horrible battery drainage after the update, i gave in a did a factory restore yesterday as a last resort.
I can happily say that my battery situation has dramatically improved after doing the factory restore. after sleeping for 7 hours, my battery drained ONLY 1% compared to the the night before in which my battery drained 30% over night.
Despite some saying not to use juicedefender, i've had good experiences with the program and I did have it running last night. (paid version)
Regarding mediahub, i have not accepted the t&c's and don't plan to. However download manager (media hub process) is running in my running services.
Currently it has been 14 hours since unplug and my batter is at 25%. I have used my phone heavily for the past 5 hours.
btw, my phone is completely stock.
I am quite happy.
can anyone confirm that removing the Task Manager improves battery?
I did see an improvement stopping the Media Hub and DRM service but it only lasted a shrot time. Now I've been having terrible battery life, I've only been able to get about 15hr with bare minimum use. I rooted lastnight and removed Media Hub. I'm in airplane mode even and I'm dropping 1-2% every half hour.
i dont get it i use my phone all day on wifi then play music at work for 4-5 hrs through bluetooth headphones come home surf the web on wifi for 2 hrs and my battery is still at 35% am i just lucky or ? i dont have the battery problems that i hear soooooo much about ?
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I got my Vibrant a few days ago and as of today i can only get 4-5 hours max out of the whole battery and thats with heavy to moderate use.. does anyone else seem to have this problem.. im gonna return the phone and get a new one but does anyone else seem to have this?
I really dont understand why this is so bad..
4 or 5 hours of heavy use is about all I get. That is if I'm constantly messing with it. E.g. web, email, facebook,ect. However I think this phone has excellent battery life when I'm not constantly playing with it. Wifi definitely drains it quicker. And stupid apps like facebook. I periodically mess with my phone throughout the work day and by the time I get home I usually have about 75% battery remaining. I think that's pretty good.
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I got my Vibrant a few days ago and as of today i can only get 4-5 hours max out of the whole battery and thats with heavy to moderate use.. does anyone else seem to have this problem.. im gonna return the phone and get a new one but does anyone else seem to have this?
I really dont understand why this is so bad..
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THE BATTERY IS TERRIBLE. thats why i returned it, and the slow acrolling from screen to screen with stock software
I think you can only expect about 4 hours of awake time use on this phone. I haven't had much trouble with mine, I get about 13-14 hours per charge. But my phone its idle 9-10 hours of the day.
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THE BATTERY IS TERRIBLE. thats why i returned it, and the slow acrolling from screen to screen with stock software
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Then why are you still in the vibrant forums... move on...
I would think by now people would be use to the type of battery life you get with these types of phones. With heavy usage your not going to last all day just how it is until battery tech catches up to phone tech. I use mine a above moderate usage and some days heavy usage. From when I unplug it at 7:00am the battery is down to about 10 to 15% by the time I leave work at 4:00pm. Thats a lot better than my HD2, Cliq, MT3G and G1.
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Then why are you still in the vibrant forums... move on...
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I agree 100%. Im seeing a lot of this. One thing I dont see is the "Vibrant Complaint" forum. Can't understand why ppl feel the need to come back in here if they dont like, dont have or feel they need to bash the phone from their experience. Get rid of the phone or keep it and be patient, its that simple... or am I missing something?!?!?
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I would think by now people would be use to the type of battery life you get with these types of phones. With heavy usage your not going to last all day just how it is until battery tech catches up to phone tech. I use mine a above moderate usage and some days heavy usage. From when I unplug it at 7:00am the battery is down to about 10 to 15% by the time I leave work at 4:00pm. Thats a lot better than my HD2, Cliq, MT3G and G1.
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Im almost in the same boat, much better battery life then my G1! I can get from 8-8pm with moderate usage and music palying for the last hour. I was experiencing horrible battery life (8-2/3pm) when I was running notifications with Bloo 1.5.apk, auto brightness on, and Advanced task manager running. Now that I have cut the notifications from bloo (got gmail for this anyway), set brightness to manual setting, and got rid of the task manager I am regularly seeing, after bering unplugged since 8(its now 1245) and im @ 85%. Try trimming down the services you have running in the background and by an extra battery or a car charger.
Id like love to try mine out when i get it tomorrow because with
Mytouch Slide, i had Facebook, Gmail and all the usual stuff syncing and it lasted me close to 8-12 hours of Web, texting and just playing around with it throughout the day.
The Nexus One Was the same lasted me some good 10-14 hours a day syncing the usual stuff along with the weather and such. So Id expect the vibrant to be the same, or Else im returning it and thats the end of it. That also goes for lagging issues as well. And most likely get a different android phone or go back to the N1 and Switch Forums....
Have you ever owned a Smartphone before? Thats normal if you are using it heavily.
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Have you ever owned a Smartphone before? Thats normal if you are using it heavily.
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no its not normal.. ive used my MT3G with heavy use gives me at least if not more than 7-8 hours use.. what i dont understand is why the hell it takes so long for my battery to charge.
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no its not normal.. ive used my MT3G with heavy use gives me at least if not more than 7-8 hours use.. what i dont understand is why the hell it takes so long for my battery to charge.
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I get 6-8 hours.
I think 5 hours of juice is really good relative to your heavy usage. I always get 15 - 18 hours a day. That's with moderate use. Even playing a game of Armored Strike for an hour. This is the best battery i've had on a phone. I can easily get over a day and a half or even more once I settle down and stop using it so much more than I need to [ because I just got it.... ]
If this is what you consider to be terrible, I don't mind how terrible my battery life at all. I made a few calls, used GPS a few times, always listening to music.. some market downloads, pictures taken. SetCPU at 1000MHZ 100% of the time.
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Disable Google Talk. My battery life was excellent (typically all day on full charge with heavy use). I signed into google talk one day and was lucky to get 4hrs before charging was needed. I deselected the auto sign in option and killed it in the running services section. Battery life has gotten so much better 70% after 4.5hrs.
i think the battery life for my vibrant is pretty epic. when i went to cm5.0.8 and cm6 on my g1 i calibrated the battery and thought i was getting really good battery life. then i got the vibrant. i could probably make it two whole days without a charge with how i use my phone (probably moderate-light compared to most on here).
but one thing i do agree with is this phone takes FOREVER to charge.
Hmm.....
Ok.....well I consider myself a moderate-heavy user...
On that note, I actually use my phone for work calls, emails, plus personal calls and emails as well....and i'm an avid gamer and already have many games on my Vibrant and use it to play them regularly.....then there is the fact that I travel for work....a lot, so I constantly using google voice search and maps to find where i need to go (never use the gps though)....I used the internet all the time, especially on WiFi (higher battery drain)....and don't get me started on the movies, music and youtube....plus while at work I have Pandora running from my phone throughout the day....
So how is my battery life? I unplug my phone every morning at 9am, with all that use I don't need to plug it in again till 10-11pm (12-14hrs!!).....by that time of course the battery level is at 5-15%.....But I'm definitely not complaining....
I do however disable the auto-brightness feature....AND turn down my brightness to about 30%....50% brightness cuts about 2 hours off of the battery life....
But a GREAT PHONE!!! Loving my new Galaxy S Vibrant
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i think the battery life for my vibrant is pretty epic. when i went to cm5.0.8 and cm6 on my g1 i calibrated the battery and thought i was getting really good battery life. then i got the vibrant. i could probably make it two whole days without a charge with how i use my phone (probably moderate-light compared to most on here).
but one thing i do agree with is this phone takes FOREVER to charge.
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yeah, i feel the same way. As far as phone taking forever to charge, are you using the usb-computer charger or usb-wall? The usb-computer can be very weak depending on your system.
Charging from pc, i would wake up only to see 65%. That's pretty crazy. On the wall charger, it takes less about 4-5 hours every time.
Anyone loosing like 6 percent in the first 15 minutes after a full charge? 15 minutes ago i was 100% now im at 94....
I get better battery life than i got on my G1.
These are not cell phones... they are tinny laptops that you can press against your face and make phone calls.
This thing has more features than the $1200 gaming PC i built 2 months ago.
I had bad battery life the first day. Turned the phone off late at night and let it charge full. Battery has been wonderful since then.
Hi to all!
I'm thinking of buying either the Legend or Desire. There are two things that are important to me. The battery life and storing applications on the memory card. I suppose that the latter will be taken care of by the upcoming update to Froyo (if it ever happens!). How about the battery life? How long does it last on the Legend? Would anyone have any experience with the Desire vs the Legend on this? All comments appreciated!
Thanks in advance!!!
I don't have experience with the Desire but my Legend performs battery wise as expected from a smartphone I guess.
After the last update I discovered for example that leaving Google Reader open in the browser in the background drained power, so I now leave the browser always on the google homepage or kill it altogether when I'm not using it and I've seen an increase in battery life.
Anyhow, I give it a pretty intense use, on a work day I listen to podcasts on it for some hours at least, I connect it to my car bluetooth on the commutes (40 mins average total), read email, etc. And it lasts me the full day without problems, usually ending the day with 30% or more battery left.
It obviously depends on how each one uses their phones, as tricks like the Reader one I mentioned can make a difference.
The Legend seems to have slightly superior battery to me. My legend ends the day at about 30 percent after 2 hours of Bluetooth stereo playback, and plenty of latitude use and web browsing. My partner's new desire ends the day about about the same but without the music playing I do.
I was jealous of the desire when my partner bought it but If I had the choice of legend or desire again, it would be a hairline decision to buy legend again. If Legend had live wallpaper I would choose legend without doubt.
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My battery life is even better than my old dumbphone. With medium use and pretty stringent management (ie. a task killer, bluetooth and wifi off unless I need them), I can get about five days on a charge.
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My battery life is even better than my old dumbphone. With medium use and pretty stringent management (ie. a task killer, bluetooth and wifi off unless I need them), I can get about five days on a charge.
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Are you sure you are using the original battery ? I have never heard anyone reporting 5 days on any smartphone on even minimal usage. Legend seem to give 1 to 2 days max on minimal usage.
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Are you sure you are using the original battery ? I have never heard anyone reporting 5 days on any smartphone on even minimal usage. Legend seem to give 1 to 2 days max on minimal usage.
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I have on two occasion to manage get three days but five days? Naah, not with the original battery.
Well if you disable APN the thing can last 5 days, but with net connection active definitely no way.
I can believe he gets 5 days out off this phone. I can get 3 days out of it with very good reception, some hours of browsing and 20 texts a day. Almost no calling and 3G always on AND WITH A GOOD TASK KILLER I always kill almost every app before putting it in standby you just need to know what you can and can't kill.
I can do 3 days with low use (maybe 10min calls and 20sms a day) and APN off most of the time.
With APN on I don't think it will last more than 2 days max
Just to clarify, I do turn off my mobile internet unless I'm using it at that moment, and yes I'm using the stock battery.
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Sure, if you turn everything off it'll last a few days, but then might as well carry a dumbphone
Hey all,
I've been using Azure 1.0 on my Legend.
In case anyone is wondering what battery life is like on this ROM [I know I wanted to know before I decided to run it...] :
I've just got the best usage for this ROM in terms of battery life, since I started using it [0.5].
I haven't gone for Azure 1.0.1, and have stuck to 1.0 as I didn't have any APN issues...
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Voice calls = 1hr 3m 15s + SMSing
WiFi = 6hr 46m 46s
For the hours that WiFi was not on, Data [H/3G] was always enabled.
Approx 1hr 45min of browsing
Approx 10 emails received and replied to
Battery life was pretty poor when I first installed the ROM.
Then I used SetCPU to help....but it didn't seem to help too much...
Now I am seeing better battery life, like the above.
No idea if this is good/bad for this ROM, but for me, its the best I've seen yet....
...though still probably not as good as I first saw on the stock ROM before the update which messed up the stock SMS app was pushed out...
18 hours ~ 24 hours average. 1 and a half day or so if I'm lucky.
2G network. only switch on 3G when it's needed.
Wi-Fi, gps and bluetooth if needed. If not, it's turned off all the time.
always leave my Trillian (MSN/YM/gTalk) turned on almost all the time (like 75% of the time).
WhatsApp for 24 hours.
Mail fetching every 4 hours.
Twidroyd fetching every 15 minutes.
Urbandictionary widget fetching every hour or so.
15 minutes of call average.
Texting about 10-20 times a day.
And data counter widget running all the time.
Rooted and using a nice clean ROM called "CleanEclair 1.6.2"
Got a good Task Manager too.
It's definitely better than my old iPhone 3g.
BUT, if you are asking "Desire or Legend"
I may choose desire for it's better hardware.
PS: Sorry about my bad english.
Just to echo previous statements about battery life, I too get an easy 24 hours from my UK Legend. It usually has at least 30% charge left when I plug it in at night (10-11pm), this is from about 6am. As I type this as 4.30pm it has 69% left.
I leave data and wifi on all the time but only enable GPS & Bluetooth when needed. The phone connects by wifi at home but is in a marginal 2G location when I'm at work (cheers, Vodafone!) so probably has to work quite hard to keep connected to the network.
Google services and Twitter update constantly, Facebook every hour.
Don't run any task killer apps as I found they made naff all difference.
I do watch how many browser tabs I have open and what's on them thought as I notice that some pages really suck the battery dry.
Navigation is the real killer on the Legend (or any Android I guess); the combination of screen on, GPS enabled and heavy duty data use means it can go flat in as little as 3 hours. A power cable in the car will only supply 500mA, rather than the full 1A that a main scharger will, so it only really slows down the drain on the battery.
Other than that I expect the phone to fit my life, not the other way round. The effort that some expend to micro-manage their battery life really baffles me!
I get terrible battery life...
Typically 7-8hrs , now I use it for work but today I did 30ish minutes of calls, + maybe 1hr's worth of reading emails, sending data etc etc etc.
From looking at the "battery" part of the settings/about screen I can see that Display seams to be the thing EATING the battery..
is this normal?? I do use the power widget and put the screen down as low as it goes when I can however im really shocked at the power usage..
Ive tried using a task killer (advanced task killer) and JuiceDefender and neither make much difference...
any comments?? am I being realistic? I used to have a blackberry 8900 and it would easily last me a whole day , doing the same email load, websurfing, syncing etc, might even last 1.5days but I tend to plug the legend in whenever I can....
Is this normal???
Angelo
asantaga said:
From looking at the "battery" part of the settings/about screen I can see that Display seams to be the thing EATING the battery..
is this normal??
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I have the same issue, display is always the best battery easter even with the bare minimal usage.
Is it normal guys?
lessirey said:
I have the same issue, display is always the best battery easter even with the bare minimal usage.
Is it normal guys?
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Yup. Try lowering your screen brightness and see the difference. Screen and gps is the most battery-hungary.
Everything depends on how you use your phone. Try to avoid GPS and max screen brightness. And always remember to kill aps with any of the app killers, after you finished with it.
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Everything depends on how you use your phone. Try to avoid GPS and max screen brightness. And always remember to kill aps with any of the app killers, after you finished with it.
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Good advice. Except on the task killing. Google around why task killing is not healthy for your phone.
my battery doesn't seem to show the correct level...I can charge it overnight on the mains an in the morning it has only got to 38%. Take the battery out and it goes up to 60ish%. Phone will last about a day, but can't seem to get a full charge into it.
So as I read through the forum I see many people say that the Epic 4G has some pretty bad battery issues. Well, I've had a few Android phones and by far the Epic has the best battery life I have ever seen yet. If you guys have any questions about my settings or anything, feel free to ask me.
Here's a screen shot of my battery life from the other day... it was pretty "Epic".
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how much time was with phone actually in use
impressive
I used it with some pretty heavy use. I was texting all day and playing around with some apps as well. I didn't charge it overnight to see how it would hold up overnight and it held up well.
I am using a custom ROM that I have actually created myself that I will be releasing shortly in a few days.
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I used it with some pretty heavy use. I was texting all day and playing around with some apps as well. I didn't charge it overnight to see how it would hold up overnight and it held up well.
I am using a custom ROM that I have actually created myself that I will be releasing shortly in a few days.
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You're also using WiFi, which dramatically improves battery life. I'd also be curious to see what your TWS is - tap on "cell standby" and see what your "time without signal" is. Some days, it's 0-1% for me; on those days, I see great battery life. Other times, I've seen as high as 50%. Those days, I get awful battery life.
In addition, there seem to be issues with the onboard DRM process running in the background (possibly a media hub thing), and other fishiness in general with the stock ROM. So, no, the Epic per se has NO battery issues, but the ROMs have some rather inconvenient bugs that have a significant effect.
BTW, congratulations on your 2^7 posts. It was such a nice number that I felt I needed to comment on it...
Yeah, my TWS is on 50% today... its always a hit or miss with that.
What I noticed is key with WiFi are two apps in the market, WiFi Status & WiFi Lock.
WiFi Status - This app will notify you that you have WiFi on when you are not connected to any wifi hotspots, essentially warning you you're using up more battery than you should be.
WiFi Lock - This app is key for me, it keeps your WiFi signal active even when your phone's screen is off. This prevents your phone from switching networks everytime you wake up your device, a HUGE battery saver I've noticed.
If anyone else has any other questions, feel free to ask.
Wait so you cant just set it to a no sleep policy with wifi from the connections menu? Not a problem to me, just curious
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Wait so you cant just set it to a no sleep policy with wifi from the connections menu? Not a problem to me, just curious
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I may be wrong, so someone can correct me if I am, but I have yet to find a system setting that does this.
Nice and all but doesn't really mean anything at all. 21% Idle means that out of all that time, most of it wasn't in use at all.
Well, I just posted my best results but on average I normally get about 10-15 hours with my battery watching videos and playing games on my phone.
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I may be wrong, so someone can correct me if I am, but I have yet to find a system setting that does this.
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Yep. You're wrong. Under wireless networks hit the menu key and it will take you to the advanced wireless settings where you can choose to leave Wifi on when the screen is off.
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Yep. You're wrong. Under wireless networks hit the menu key and it will take you to the advanced wireless settings where you can choose to leave Wifi on when the screen is off.
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Sweet, I thought it should've been there somewhere. Thanks for the tip.
what was the time on for the display? when i use wifi i get awesome life but wifi off i lose about 4-5 hrs
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Nice and all but doesn't really mean anything at all. 21% Idle means that out of all that time, most of it wasn't in use at all.
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We're not talking about the battery use percentage. We're talking about Time Without Signal, a completely separate metric that is reached by *tapping* on cell standby (not phone idle, which is yet another separate entity.)
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Screebl is a power management app. We are talking about length of battery right out of the box, not modded with an app to control your power.
Right out of the box, no root, no custom recovery, I get 7-8 hours on a good day, with TWS at 50% all day.
Unplugged it yesterday at 630am, used for a little while, was plugged in from 9-10am by 230pm it was at 20%. Today, unplugged at 7am, its 10:30 and i'm at 70%. This gives me a STANDBY time of about 10-11 hours You don't see that as a battery issue?
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Yep. You're wrong. Under wireless networks hit the menu key and it will take you to the advanced wireless settings where you can choose to leave Wifi on when the screen is off.
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Thanks for this! I had saw mention in another thread about setting the wireless to stay active but couldn't find where to do it.
Thanks!
I have no idea what is killing my battery now. Went to bed last night. Put phone in airplane mode and killed all the apps, shut down drm and GPS was left on but not in use since all apps were shut down.
Went to bed at 73%, woke up 6hrs later at 43%. No wigets at all except battery watcher. LauncherPro is my launcher. Display was off. That is an atrocious battery lose.
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Speaking of battery saving apps, have you tried JuiceDefender? It's gotten me a few more hours of battery life.
los1223 said:
Speaking of battery saving apps, have you tried JuiceDefender? It's gotten me a few more hours of battery life.
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I havent yet, just because I don't know what settings to use for it.
Could you possible post the best settings I should be using?
I was super frustrated yesterday because I got about 7 hours of battery right after I had just installed the latest mixUP kernel, which was said to improve battery life.
Then I read up on the DRM service bug, so I charged back up, did the normal airplane mode on/off, killed the OmaDrmConfigService from Running Services and now my life is changed forever! On 3G I'm sitting at about 4-5% per hour battery usage with GPS on, which translates to ~20 hours of life. If you haven't tried that yet, it's at least worth a shot.
Sure, there are some other things about my setup (mixUP kernel, SetCPU profiles, 1 hour sync intervals on Facebook/Twitter/Weather) that may get me to that 20 hour number. However, those have been unchanged since I went from 7 to ~20 hours of battery life. It seems that killing the OmaDrm service is really what knocked down the battery usage for me.
EDIT: Also, no JuiceDefender on my phone. My data flows freely. So that makes my jump in numbers even more exciting for me!
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I used it with some pretty heavy use. I was texting all day and playing around with some apps as well. I didn't charge it overnight to see how it would hold up overnight and it held up well.
I am using a custom ROM that I have actually created myself that I will be releasing shortly in a few days.
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If I could get 1 day and 9 hours even using wifi that would be AWESOME! Please release that ROM!
Today, using wifi, my phone was DEAD at 4pm and I took it off the charger at 730am. I hardly freakin USED IT, maybe ONE 2 min phone call, ZERO texts and NO OTHER USE. In it's current form it's Totally USELESS.
I know a few people have been moaning about the plays battery but I thought I would post a couple of pictures showing how well mine has been lasting over the weekend, I'm highly impressed as I have been using it quite a lot too.
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That is 36 hours since a last charge and counting with 39% battery left! during this time I have been using the internet, a few apps, the camera and XDA forum app!
The lowest the Play has latest me is about 7 hours but that is playing 3D games non stop, so anything pushing the gpu will drain the battery a LOT faster than shown above.
So yup, the Play has got a FANTASTIC battery
UPDATE: So far it has lasted 40 hours 8 minutes with 18% remaining
Update, 43 hours with 13% left
Damn i'm jealous. My play doesn't last that long. Did you disable some app's? Ans all sync on manual probably
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I've got about 150 apps on my phone, Trillian constantly running to keep me online with IM protocols, syncing set to automatic, streaming podcasts with bluetooth and playing games from time to time, often with the screen on for long periods of time. I've been averaging 24-35 hours per charge, FAR better than my old Captivate which wouldn't last a day at any point.
Aerox912 said:
Damn i'm jealous. My play doesn't last that long. Did you disable some app's? Ans all sync on manual probably
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Mine is rooted and I removed a few system apps, nothing major though, I have facebook and twitter syncing every 3 hours, email every hour.
My Play finally turned off at 2%, total time - 45 hours, 7 minutes
I have been using a lot this afternoon so did go down faster during the last few hours, highly impressed as my old samsung galaxy s would never last a day without a charge.
Yeah, I think it just depends on how you use it. For me I don't use 3G at all so that already saves, and then on top of that I selectively turn on/off bluetooth and wifi. I can game for like 3 hours straight and still have 75% left. I think the longest I've gone is 24+ hours with heavy periods of gaming throughout. If you constantly use 3g, wifi, bluetooth, and have a gazillion programs running then ur battery life might be way less.
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Yeah, I think it just depends on how you use it. For me I don't use 3G at all so that already saves, and then on top of that I selectively turn on/off bluetooth and wifi. I can game for like 3 hours straight and still have 75% left. I think the longest I've gone is 24+ hours with heavy periods of gaming throughout. If you constantly use 3g, wifi, bluetooth, and have a gazillion programs running then ur battery life might be way less.
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This is the thing, On the other end of the scale I have only got 7 hours out of it when I was playing games non stop all day but that isn't bad as my old psp would go flat in 3 hours playing non stop.
It definitely depends how you use it but its good to know it can last for almost 48 hours between charges if you want it too!
Hello FK1983, thanks to your post I found the Battery Monitor Widget, which provide more information than the one I had before. I was reading all the post about the xperia play battery because mine was lasting just for half day.
I install this widget and noticed that where it provide the estimate charge use by the phone was showing more than 150mA, this even in standby, while yours was only showing 4mA, base on this I know somethign was running and eating my battery so I restart the phone and now it has been in 2mA while in standby and around 40mA and 60mA while writing msg or checking something else.
Is there any way to know what is eating my battery if I notice the last behavior again? so i can just kill it and not just restart the phone again
Another thing I noticed is that in your picture where you can see the battery information it says "Techno: Li-poly 585/1500mAh" while in my play says "Techno: Li-poly XXX/1200mAh" where XXX is the actual battery charge. Is this indicating that there is something wrong with my battery? I check it just to be sure that it wont be a 1200mAh battery model because of different region market but the battery has written on it 1500mAh. Any help will be appreciate.
Thanks.
Always check to make sure Gtalk isn't running in the background if you're on 3G (make sure your signed out), as it literally destroys my battery in about 6 hours.
And if anyone knows of a precise application that indicates battery usage (outside of the built-in one), I'd love to hear about it!
There's no question that the play has great battery life compared to most smart phones out there. I lost my charger and it lasted 4 days and still wasn't dead when I bought a new one.
any tip?
is a good time in u battery....
eoga said:
Hello FK1983, thanks to your post I found the Battery Monitor Widget, which provide more information than the one I had before. I was reading all the post about the xperia play battery because mine was lasting just for half day.
I install this widget and noticed that where it provide the estimate charge use by the phone was showing more than 150mA, this even in standby, while yours was only showing 4mA, base on this I know somethign was running and eating my battery so I restart the phone and now it has been in 2mA while in standby and around 40mA and 60mA while writing msg or checking something else.
Is there any way to know what is eating my battery if I notice the last behavior again? so i can just kill it and not just restart the phone again
Another thing I noticed is that in your picture where you can see the battery information it says "Techno: Li-poly 585/1500mAh" while in my play says "Techno: Li-poly XXX/1200mAh" where XXX is the actual battery charge. Is this indicating that there is something wrong with my battery? I check it just to be sure that it wont be a 1200mAh battery model because of different region market but the battery has written on it 1500mAh. Any help will be appreciate.
Thanks.
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The battery mAH settings you can change from 1200 to 1500 in the options, that maybe why some of your stats look different to mine? give it a try.
Regarding running apps, you could keep a close eye on the running processes and see what is running there, or use a task killer or even an "app monitor" that records apps usage.
Folks that report awesome battery life:
Have you applied the 2.3.3 update? I'm still on 2.3.2, and I'm lucky if I get 5 hours of moderate internet browsing before needing to plug in (with about 20% battery left).
Also, in contrast to the OP's picture, my battery widget is consistently reporting between 200 and 300 mA shortly after a reboot. Can't kill any tasks to speak of either. Nothing is running to speak of except homescreen widgets.
Using launcher pro with its built in facebook widget, power control, fancy widget, pandora widget (not playing), winamp widget (not playing), battery monitor widget, google plus widget, and a volume control widget. Running a live wallpaper as well. With all this running, is 300mA a reasonable usage?
I'm on 2.3.3. 5 hours seems awfully short for just web browsing...
I get around 24 hours with 15 hours of Facebook & ebudddy....around 2hours of web browsing and abit of gaming
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Im on 2.3.3 and i get around 24 to 30 hours facebook and surfing the web for around 2 hours and sending msgs and making some calls. if you are getting 200 or 300 mA i think something is killing your battery. On idle Im getting around 4 and 5 mA sometimes 12-15 mA(I guess something running in the background) and when using the web browser, WIFI on and GPS on im getting around 100-150 mA the most being really bad.
I'm on the R800X. I guess verizon really screwed this phone up.
I rooted my play last night and my battery seems to drain quicker.
I don't know why I havent done anything to phone yet as iv been at work all day. And since I havent replaced all my games yet iv used it alot less today than I normally would but the battery seems to have drained more than usual.
Would a task killer help prolong battery life? I read somewhere that a task manager is not needed with android but im skeptical
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I rooted my play last night and my battery seems to drain quicker.
I don't know why I havent done anything to phone yet as iv been at work all day. And since I havent replaced all my games yet iv used it slot less today than I normally would but the battery seems to have drained more than usual.
Would a task killer help prolong battery life? I read somewhere that a task manager is not needed with android but im skeptical
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Android has a build in task killer, having two will only drain battery. try setcpu and remove as much bloatware as you can(need root).
I just updated my play to 2.3.3 and battery life seems worse for me than 2.3.2. I can barely get through a day of light usage (no gaming, and ard 1 hr's worth of web surfing, switched off most of the updating from apps like facebook, email, pulse etc to manual).
I tried battery monitor widget and my Battery health shows up to be 'null' (my friend's htc desire hd shows 'good'). Would any kind soul be able to tell me if there's something wrong with the battery or the software (mine is stock Singapore xperia play firmware 2.3.3).
No matter what I do the battery will not last me a full day. A full day for me is about 18 hours. I use my phone almost none at all while at work and I use juice defender to keep data and wifi off while I am not using the phone. I would say 80% of my day is wifi and only a little is LTE. I monitor my task usage and the only thing that ever shows up is screen...there are other apps but very little usage. I use auto brightness. Could that be it? Unless JD doesn't work well with these phones, I just can't figure out what it is. Unless of course its just normal...
Phone has to last me 18 hours with moderate usage. If it doesn't, I need another phone.
Post some screenies?
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The big killer of battery life is when LTE doesn't have a good signal (inside a large building). Connecting and reconnecting to the tower is what always kills my battery. I suggest you look and try those "turn of LTE" hacks around. My battery lasts me about 20 hours with moderate usage (but I am always in a great LTE location), and about 12 hours with heavy usage.
As long as your signal (wi-fi, LTE, HSPA, whatever it may be) remains good, you should have amazing battery life. I often take my phone out for 16-17 hours between charges and have ended the day with anywhere from 60% to 25% of the battery life, ranging from light to moderate usage.
For me, an average day is on wi-fi for at least 90% of the time, but a recent trip I had to Chicago (LTE all day, no wi-fi) showed similar results - and that was with some more moderate use while traveling! Not sure if there is much you can do about your signal, but I know my last phone (Captivate) got worse signal in my pocket vs. on my desk. SIII doesn't seem to be having as much of an issue, but still something to consider if necessary in your case.
I live in Dallas and have great LTE.
I just copped the sgs3 today and have not put it down my batt isn't that bad. 8 hours st8 on it lol
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OP, one suggestion I have...
What makes this phone a winner over my One X is the removable battery. I believe you can get a second stock battery for about $30, and I saw a charger and battery for around $40 earlier. Maybe you should pick up a spare? I realize it's not ideal, but it's an option.
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I'm in Vegas, lte rocks and I use my phone constantly. I can't get 4 hours so I just ordered an Anker 2200mAh.
I'm not on wifi but the Lte network in Vegas flies too which is just an additional $$. I've just got juice defender ultimate. I know a lot of people swear by it but I can do it better and faster myself. I'm a heavy user and if we could just turn off the Lte u and then maybe slow down the processor., I would be fine. It's ridiculous we still need additional batteries.
Whenever I leave my house I do the following in settings.
Power Savings I now just leave on.
I either completely Restrict background data or you can do by application in Data usage and go into Accounts and Sync and turn most off. Anything not Google is off and under Google I just sync my calendar, address and Gmail.
Now if we can turn off Lte, I will be fine I think.
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tuffluck said:
No matter what I do the battery will not last me a full day. A full day for me is about 18 hours. I use my phone almost none at all while at work and I use juice defender to keep data and wifi off while I am not using the phone. I would say 80% of my day is wifi and only a little is LTE. I monitor my task usage and the only thing that ever shows up is screen...there are other apps but very little usage. I use auto brightness. Could that be it? Unless JD doesn't work well with these phones, I just can't figure out what it is. Unless of course its just normal...
Phone has to last me 18 hours with moderate usage. If it doesn't, I need another phone.
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I'm pretty happy with my battery...
Stock AT&T SGS3 rocking KT747
Once I stopped useing the XDA dev app that was hitting my CPU at a constant 30% I have been getting great battery.
Screen brightness on 100% as well.
Yup
Just put it on the charger as I took the screenshot.
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I was running rom that was supposed to be stock but debloated and I installed the cpu1 sleep apk and I got horrible battery life. 5 hours and I was completely dead. I could not see any partial wakelocks. I was about ready to box up the phone and ship it back to Amazon. I flashed back the complete stock rom and I got great battery life. 12 hours, 3 phone calls, 3 push mail accounts, yahoo checks every 15 minutes, 1 hour streaming and the Windows Weekly podcast and I still had 65% left. I was moving so I didn't get a chance to browse or do work crap on it.
Hell with it, I'm staying stock till CM9/10 gets most of the bugs worked out.
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I'm pretty happy with my battery...
Stock AT&T SGS3 rocking KT747
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Mine is about the same, but that isn't good for me. I am 7am-3am daily. There is no way your battery is making it 20 hours, just like mine.
How do you take a screenshot?
Swype with your whole hand from right to left
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I live/work just outside of an LTE area, and lately have been using my phone pretty light due to not being able to use it at work other than when I'm on lunch. I get almost no signal in my entire building, so 75% of the day I turn airplane on so my battery doesn't get raped.
So for me and my use recently, the battery has been doing good enough for me.
the standby thing raping my battery is weird,same thing with maps even though i never use it... but i guess both are common. Chrome use was at 3% and i forgot to check screen on time.
On the current charge I'm siting at 47% at almost 24 hours, about 1hr 15 mins of screen on time. 30 mins of voice, 10 of chrome...but i accidently unplugged the phone right before i went to sleep last night instead of starting this morning, and i just took a nap so again there is a lot of sleep time
Take all that for what it's worth, which I have no idea lol
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How do you take a screenshot?
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Actually its more of a judo chop on the left side and then slide to the right while maintaining constant contact with the screen.... Of course the easy easy way is to just hold home+power for 2 seconds
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Swype with your whole hand from right to left
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Thanks but holy **** that sucks! Being 6'6" with big hands prolly doesn't help. Here goes..
gedster314 said:
I was running rom that was supposed to be stock but debloated and I installed the cpu1 sleep apk and I got horrible battery life. 5 hours and I was completely dead. I could not see any partial wakelocks. I was about ready to box up the phone and ship it back to Amazon. I flashed back the complete stock rom and I got great battery life. 12 hours, 3 phone calls, 3 push mail accounts, yahoo checks every 15 minutes, 1 hour streaming and the Windows Weekly podcast and I still had 65% left. I was moving so I didn't get a chance to browse or do work crap on it.
Hell with it, I'm staying stock till CM9/10 gets most of the bugs worked out.
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I had the same issue, then discovered that going through a charge cycle fixes the issue. I got only 5.5 hours of use off my first charge (80% of the time on standby), but things improved enormously after recharging it to some extent, then unplugging it. See my post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28742643&postcount=297
I've had my phone unplugged for an hour now after the last partial charge, and it's actually gone from 48% then to 51% now, as the battery is still recalibrating.
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the standby thing raping my battery is weird,same thing with maps even though i never use it... but i guess both are common.
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The cell standby reading is a bug in the software, it is reading something like 10 times higher than it is supposed to.