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Battery Life

Ok thought the battery life on my HD2 was pretty awful (always charged it all night) but for some unknown reason a couple of days ago I decided to switch off all data updates (twitter, email download set to every 2 hours instead of 30mins, stock updates, rss hub) still have facebook & weather apps downloading as normal. I now kill any program once I've finished using it.
Doing all this has dramatically increased battery life, am now on 71% after unplugging it yesterday around 1PM so that's best part of 22 hours. During which have made/received a few calls sent 10+ texts, downloaded 50+ emails, manually updated rss feeds 10 times, played about with IMDB app for 30 mins, played 45 mins on poker, done a full virus scan & database update (31mins), run a level 3 ram clean, browsed the web.... probably spent about 2-3 hours on it solid and the battery is only down just over 1/4 - would have pretty much been out of juice before!
All I have to do is click the update now soft key every time I want a data feed refreshed, no biggie I reckon.

my battery is awsome too.. using it every day for phone calls and many many sms, surfing everyday with opera when im in train / bus to work or school.
i dont use it for music, so dont know how much battery that would cost, also i dont have any things updating in the background like the weather or facebook or whatever, im doing that manually..
fact, my battery can hold 2 days, maybe even 3. but what kills the battery is when i play games.. 15mins of morphgear games and my battery has 10% less omg
but yea.. rarely playing games with it, so i got my hd2 lasts 2 days

HTC EVO 4G: 45 hours battery life (VIDEO)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S2KFKF1u1c
8-9 hours of standby, heavy texting, moderate web browsing, 1 hour of Sprint 4G Hotspot, 30 mins of Google Navigator, no movies, no games, gps & bluetooth off (only when needed)
ADW Launcher, unrooted & using task killer

and 0 time using it as an actual phone?
If I shut everything off on my phone and only use it for texting, I bet I can get some pretty sick times out of it too.
Automated task killers are still bad. I strongly suggest people don't run them.

That video is a waste. Instead of recording the results, which can be taken as a picture, why didn't you record your settings. Smartass!

i made this video to show that the battery life for the EVO is quite good! and that anyone can photoshop a screenshot! i dont really make calls, id say about 30 minutes of total talk time during this time period.. i use msn talk and do a lot of texting for communication.. thank you!

Awesom Battery life X10. Post yours too!

For Battery improvements I did the following. Please point out if there are any improvements left undone by me.
1.Display set to 4% brightness using Battery booster app.
2.Screen time out 15 sec/30 sec depending on activity.
3.All auto-sync disables (i dont need them currently)
4.Network mode set to GSM only (disabled edge using wifi)
5.killing unused tasks couple of times.
cell standby(GSM) -33% - 1day 9 hr 10 min
display - 29% - 3 hr 40m
phone idle - 25% - 1 day 5 h 26m
wi-fi - 7% - 2h 6m
android system - 3%
voice calls -0.xx % - 4min
total up time 33 hours 10 mins during this session + previous day uptime 5 hours = Total 38 Hours up time
with 22% battery left
(did normal usage like websurfing few pages on wifi, installed 5-8 apps from the market, few mins of gaming , few mins of youtube , some 150 text messages, few Video playbacks for 10 min )
I'm really enjoying this awesom device from SE.
Previously been a victim of Nokia's cheap strategies and products , a couple of times but now i feel like i'm back to heaven with this device. Thank God!

3 days 23 hours to date best, without all the jiggery pokery

any custom roms out there that give a massive boost to battery and performance?

I suppose long standby battery life is pretty cool but it is a smartphone and personally, very impressed with thy battery life on my x10 with what I consider heavy usage;
Autosync on all the time with my Google account so I never lose my contacts and calendar ever again
3g also always on but when I get home from work until next morning WiFi on, that's about 12hrs
Auto brightness on, using tasker for automated 100% brightness on videos and games
K9mail for push email - receive and read about 10 to 15 of them a day
1 to 2 hours of web surfing
Half an hour of music
Above usage lasts me about 16~20hrs and about 15~20% battery life left, how's that?
x10 a+root+jit

I consider myself a pretty heavy user, not sure how long my battery would last as it is charged overnight.
It comes off charge at 7am and will last until 9pm with usually around 25% remaining.
Tbh I don't put much effort into conserving battery since 2.1, it is already fine. The only change I make is nothing updates automatically, I do it when I need it done.
Sent from my X10i using XDA App

6. uninstall moxior using titanuim backup.
7.disable time scape.
8.don't use Live Wallpaper (Use regular wallpaper).
9. use real player or vplayer instead of media scape.
then you can go up to 2 days with normal use.
and with (Games - GPS - wifi - media) ... around 14 hours.
the X10 has awesome battry but the poor programmed apps and high graphical use apps kills it.

If you guys are so worried about battery life why did you get a smartphone
If you have to turn off all its features just to get it to last longer I don't see the point of owning a smartphone... just saying
As long as it lasts me through a day with everything running so that I can charge it when I get back home I'm fine... and it does that

Even using live wall papers I receive a solid ass two days with WiFi and GPS/location services fully enabled (I have a 6 gig data plan and try killing it as much as possible lol). I use it pretty heavily too. A few hours of straight internet radio or on board music, watch some videos over VLC, lots of browsing and tons of texting throughout the day.
I do kill tasks if I've run a ****load of programs and have a few suspect ones that may drain the battery before I put my phone away for a few hours. But lately I've not killed tasks and it's almost exactly the same to my surprise. Last charge might have even been longer despite not killing tasks too!
I use Titanium to uninstall all the useless crap and have JIT enabled.

4days 15hours 48seconds
Cell Standby 49%
Phone Idle 32%
Voice Calls 9%
Display 7%
Android System 2%
20% battery left

hemo1001 said:
6. uninstall moxior using titanuim backup.
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Why should anyone uninstall Moxier? In my tests I've seen that if I don't configure it, it will not impact on battery life.
However, I'm running with GMail and Moxier both in push mode on 3G network and I get about 36 hours.

I've uninstalled moxier, not to save battery but to save memory, and improve boot time..
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i don't use it and it keeps auto-lunch it self so that's annoying .
anyway i delete the unused apps to increase space and speed in general.
i use smart phones for movies , games and GPS . most of the time so the battry life is too much important to me. i didn't active the 3G internet in my smartphone it costs alot.

akila87 said:
4days 15hours 48seconds
Cell Standby 49%
Phone Idle 32%
Voice Calls 9%
Display 7%
Android System 2%
20% battery left
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What ROM are you using ? ... What are the other settings and apps you have been using to get that statistics ? ... anyone tried underclocking the CPU ?? ...

i don't recomend downclocking the CPU.
it makes the x10 too slow and laggy.

after 15 Hours.. down to 56%.. would get 2 full days out of this.. (I usually put it into flight mode at bed time). Wifi set to always on..

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What ROM are you using ? ... What are the other settings and apps you have been using to get that statistics ? ... anyone tried underclocking the CPU ?? ...
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SE stock ROM with launcher pro + JIT removed Moxier & KBs

akila87 said:
SE stock ROM with launcher pro + JIT removed Moxier & KBs
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wow launcher pro app is really nice ! ... thank u buddy

Being able to undervolt the processor would be awesome. It's a common practice in the laptop world, and a must do if you plan on using the laptop a lot relying on the battery only.

My solution to all this! Just charge it every night, so you don't have to worry about having juice the next day when you are out and about...

My Battery Research

hi i make some battery "meters" to compare with others and see if we have a bad battery or something its draining our battery. after several test freezing apps, motoblur services and so on i get some interesting stuff like freezing sometimes motoblur service will not help on battery in fact could cause some FC, and not sure if some apps are "calling" the freezing services that make drain faster.
i make a "chart" using gingerblur with apps, fresh sbf test, sbf with apps and so on.
i was using live wallpapers and without LWP, i noticed an maybe "obvious" if you arent in home screen LWP will not drain your battery. maybe only when you wake and stay too much in homescreen, perhaps its not to much IMO yes you can save Battery using a normal wallpaper i can say 5% max.
in my test i use NO DATA, since data will drain a lot the battery and its kind "unestable" to check because bad signal data transfer and so on, i will research more later, in all my test i leave the screen doing nothing i didint execute any process and FULL BRIGHT, and i use Battery Monitor widget to chech 1% by 1%
Using GingerBlur 2.5 in .57 version and all my apps drops from 99% to 63% ( 36%) in 2 hours using LWP in homescreen (secret LWP from SGSII)
After a fresh sbf .83 no apps installed,NO LWP after 1 hr drop from 99% to 88%, after 1:30 from 99% to 81% then i start using the phone and after 2 hr drops to 76%
then i install all my apps,using LWP drop from 99% to 70% then 2 hours later and one phone call drop to 61%
i use this .83 with all my apps 13 min phone call and 2 hours playing a movie in through my tv and drops 30%
and last using a LWP but i was in settings screen for 2 hours and i drop from 99% to 75% again using FULL Bright in all cases
(in airplane mode i get for 9 hour just 6% decrement using setCpu screen off 425)
i will compare this with my 2200mah anida battery (when arrive ¬¬ )
so im wondering who else can try "compare" this results so we can check averages and see if we have a good battery and then a rogue app.
And last i found 1 app that make me drain pretty fast
Enhanced Email (it drops in airplane mode like 7 hours like 16%)
lighflow seems drain a little no to much

My battery drains like 1% per minute on voice calls. I don't know how Moto thinks it gets 300 mins of 3g talk.
I hard reset last night and I'm getting ~3% per hour drain, which is typical for me. Screen time kills this thing no matter what brightness level I have it set at.
Here's my setup:
Blur doing FB and Twitter sync
Gmail set to push
Corporate Sync email, calendar, contacts set to push (setting this to 15 min or 30 min makes no difference in my experiance)
Docs and Voice apps, but not auto-syncing
Astrid tasks syncing with Google
A bunch of other apps that don't sync and aren't running by default (I just installed them, haven't run them yet)
I did a factory reset because something was trashing my battery usage. I burned through a full charge in 6-7 hours yesterday and my phone was quite warm.

stewartsoda said:
My battery drains like 1% per minute on voice calls. I don't know how Moto thinks it gets 300 mins of 3g talk.
I hard reset last night and I'm getting ~3% per hour drain, which is typical for me. Screen time kills this thing no matter what brightness level I have it set at.
Here's my setup:
Blur doing FB and Twitter sync
Gmail set to push
Corporate Sync email, calendar, contacts set to push (setting this to 15 min or 30 min makes no difference in my experiance)
Docs and Voice apps, but not auto-syncing
Astrid tasks syncing with Google
A bunch of other apps that don't sync and aren't running by default (I just installed them, haven't run them yet)
I did a factory reset because something was trashing my battery usage. I burned through a full charge in 6-7 hours yesterday and my phone was quite warm.
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yea seems the atrix get pretty warm a lot, in my "heavy" usage playing or watching a video can get 40+ degrees.
i get 1% per hour with no data and like 4% with data.
i was reading heavy usage and get like 24 hrs and i say no way my battery sucks lol.
i usually get like 12-14 hour with medium usage all day data on (maybe 1 or 2 off) posting on fb some browsing msn and like 4 hours playing music
i have 10% bright its enought for me. at least the atrix let me last a little more than my nexus one battery isnt amazing FOR ME perhaps isnt bad at all with "heavy" usage i guess i will get like 9 hours or little less

zen kun said:
yea seems the atrix get pretty warm a lot, in my "heavy" usage playing or watching a video can get 40+ degrees.
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I wasn't using it at all. I had just power-cycled it so nothing was running (games/movies/etc.).

stewartsoda said:
I wasn't using it at all. I had just power-cycled it so nothing was running (games/movies/etc.).
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Lol. I came from Milestone and I am finding Atrix cold .
My Milestone in hardcore use was easily reaching 50 celsius degrees .
My atrix while I am in hard use usually stays in 42 degrees too.

Guys i get a full day out of this phone without even trying etheir you guys are not flashing the phone properly or your phones are corrupted this phone has better battery life than my iphone 4 did

I get at least 2 days. Now that I am not playing with it constantly, I normally get 3 days (and 2 inactive nights) to about 20-30%.
Not rooted.
Do fairly regular email, fb, maps, /. , etc.
No movies
Virtually all data is via WiFi
BUT
It is not my primary computer. I program days and do most of my work on a real computer. Tonight in my chair with a glass of wine, I am using an Eee netbook -- a real keyboard is dramatically faster for me.
And I have developed the following important habit: I always put it to sleep with the slanted key at the top whenever I am done, so my screen time is fairly low. I think this helps a lot.
I expected battery life to be a problem before I bought it and that's why I like the back cover -- easy to change the battery. However, this has even better battery life than my last Blackberry and I thought that was excellent. I won't be buying another battery until I have a year or so on this one.
I believe the essence of all of these power conversations is that if you use it as your primary computer, you will use up the battery fast. If you use it primarily as a phone and as a portable secondary computer, the battery is excellent.

zen kun said:
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And last i found 1 app that make me drain pretty fast
Enhanced Email (it drops in airplane mode like 7 hours like 16%)
lighflow seems drain a little no to much
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FYI
I'm currently running 1.5.7 & a couple of days ago i froze updater 2.2.1 because i was sick of getting reminders to update (using gladiatrix). Since then (although it only just clicked) my battery drain has been horrid (10% per hour in standby), after thawing updater 2.2.1, my battery drain has gone back to normal (1% every 2 hours in standby)

Mmmmm I will freeze as well to se improvements perhaps there is no updates atm and maybe will not get better
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Sent from my loved atrix ;D

Battery Temps (Stock ROM)

I running a few test on my wife's phone. Her phone is getting warm/hot to the touch during fast wireless charging. It seems this might be a known problem but I will start by switching the wireless charger to the one I use on my Note 5 which does not overheat.
I am running test for battery temps under different operating conditions:
Specs:
Samsung Galaxy Edge+
ATT SM-G928A
AndroSensor Battery Monitor
Stock ROM
Andriod 5.1.1
Typical Usage:
Lots of texts and emails
Lots of Internet browsing
45 mins of talk time per day
Never closes apps
Bluetooth, WiFi (5G), GPS, 4G cell connection (~-100dbm)
Quick Temps Check:
Screen on Browsing 82-88°F
Screen off couple mins 79°F
Will update as time goes on. Please share your experiences.

Hello there.
My usage is pretty simmilar:
1. reading emails a lot (few accounts without self check)
2. Around 4 hours web browsing per day via tapatalk or uc browser
3. 40-60 mins. talk per day (not aways)
4. no closing apps until the next recharging
5. Most of the day I use ONLY hapa or hspa+
6. Around 1h music with stock player with my Denon on-ear headset at max volume level
My device is non-rooted with very good sot around 8h! No fb or fbmessanger installed. only viber ofc. i can get 8h+ sot with this usage. no games installed
Max cpu temp reached is 37C, max battery around 29C