Related
Gotta say im experiencing significantly better battery performance since updating. Like having more than 50% left when i go to bed thats having data on all day. I evej bluetoothed 2 albums today which definately hogs power. So im certainly impressed nice work dell.
Sent from my Dell Streak using XDA App
Agreed.
Still on 70% at bedtime.
2g on all day, some 3g use, a couple of hours browsing on wifi.
Coooool
Sent from my Dell Streak using XDA App
Is that compared to 1.6? Then I agee.
They have definitely tweaked the services like gps. Now it takes ages to get a signal. That s the price you pay I guess.
It would be better if we could chose the sensitivity and power consumption of our components. Ie if rather say if I want gps to have a signal all the time or not, or grades between
Sent from my Dell Streak using XDA App
i made the mistake of using live wallpaper yesterday - hammered the battery (but looked very nice!)
So i'll see how it does today. I couldn't do a full day on 1.6 with regular use so hopefully 2.1 is a step forwards
On the GPS front, I had that issue yesterday - turn off the "assisted GPS" setting and it will improve no end!
yeah a bit more control over power handling could be handy....
after testing without the live wallpaper it doesn't really seem any better than on 1.6?
triondave said:
i made the mistake of using live wallpaper yesterday - hammered the battery (but looked very nice!)
....
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Live aquarium pity the fish swimming about down't cause enough static electricity to charge the battery
Discovered a batteryhog yesterday:
The mail client eats battery on 1.6. This is the default mail client, not gmail or touchdown.
Had two accounts at 15min intervals, and they caused the phone not to sleep resulting in 10% draining per hour (roughly). Set it at intervals of 1hr, and now I have 97% after 5 hours!
That is an major difference!!
Sent from my Dell Streak using XDA App
Hi all,
Now I've not tried this myself however a friend of mine who recently got a DHD said he was lucky if the battery lasted a day on a full charge however by turning "Data roaming" off (even though he is not roaming) he is now getting anything between 2-3 days on one charge
Data roaming was turned off by default on mine and still the battery drained pretty quick.
Using data of any kind will affect the battery badly. Notes Traveler on my device is the cause of it needing charging every day.
Same as any phone, the more you disable the longer the battery will last.
If everything was implemented correctly by HTC, turning off Roaming should have no impact on battery life at all (provided you don't use Roaming).
I believe that your friend experienced the typical warm-up phase. For some (a lot?) people the battery life is terrible when they first use the DHD, but it gradually gets better.
Your friend probably attributes the increase of battery life to the disabled Roaming, while it is just a "natural" process.
I'm roaming all the time, and my battery is actually pretty good. If i don't use it much it can easily survive two days. My record is three days with light usage. (That was with the stock 1.72 ROM)
What is data roaming anyway???
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
Data roaming is set off by default. And data roaming controls data transfer when you are not on your home operator/network, i.e when traveling.
are your friend meant data connection?
MarkieSA said:
Hi all,
Now I've not tried this myself however a friend of mine who recently got a DHD said he was lucky if the battery lasted a day on a full charge however by turning "Data roaming" off (even though he is not roaming) he is now getting anything between 2-3 days on one charge
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
He probably means "3G" off? I've had mine since the end of October and got into the habit of charging the phone every night. But then wondered about the effects of turning off wifi and 3G as, currently, I'm at home most of the time and have a PC with 24" screen to play with. Anyhow, with 3G and wifi turned off most of the time I get 3 days or so from a charge. I haven't investigated turning just one or the other off as life's too short ....
HTH
Dave
PS: and someone will say, well what's the point of a smart phone if you're just using it like a dumb phone? Well, the "smart" bit here in this case is me ....
Yeah, 3G uses a bit, so the first thing i did was to disable it. No point for me using it actually, since it's WiFi all over the place here i live. If i need it, i'll simply enough just toggle it on.
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA Premium App
BazookaAce said:
Yeah, 3G uses a bit, so the first thing i did was to disable it. No point for me using it actually, since it's WiFi all over the place here i live. If i need it, i'll simply enough just toggle it on.
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You're roaming all the time and then in the next post you say that the first thing you did was to disable 3g... Are you just posting in order to follow others opinions or what?
And btw 3g doesn't actuality use much more power when compared to wifi, if you always use it somewhere where the signal is always poor then it's another thing.
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
dvhttn said:
He probably means "3G" off? I've had mine since the end of October and got into the habit of charging the phone every night. But then wondered about the effects of turning off wifi and 3G as, currently, I'm at home most of the time and have a PC with 24" screen to play with. Anyhow, with 3G and wifi turned off most of the time I get 3 days or so from a charge. I haven't investigated turning just one or the other off as life's too short ....
HTH
Dave
PS: and someone will say, well what's the point of a smart phone if you're just using it like a dumb phone? Well, the "smart" bit here in this case is me ....
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If I meant 3G then that's what I would of said. So just to be clear, there is an option "Data Roaming" that when turned on will enable a data connection when you are in another country. My friend claims that while on his home network he has turned this option off and he has seen a big improvement on battery performance. If this is true or not I'm not sure, I just simply thought I would share his thoughts with everyone else.
I did this, once i remembered where it was and I got my old battery life back. So thats a bonus, not having to take my charger to work!
Vispe85
And btw 3g doesn't actuality use much more power when compared to wifi said:
Using System Panel graphs to monitor battery drain I'd concluded that 3G drains battery at about twice the rate compared to wifi.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Tweaky Rom 4.1 (JVH), Supercurio's Voodoo kernel, JV9 Modem, with Armani battery (1650mAh).
Loving my SGS now.
Sorry but this is not great battery life.I used to have 5days standby with 3hours of display usage and wifi always on in Froyo.But overall its a great Rom i use it myself .
Sent from my GT-I9000 using Tapatalk
3 hours display usage is pretty typical for me at normal 1GHZ clock. at 800MHZ i get about 15 minutes more.
I'm on MIUI and with moderate use I get up to 2 days^^
I'm on MIUI and with moderate use I get up to 1/2 days^^
Top this if you can
skypyy said:
Top this if you can
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Have you wired your galaxy to your car battery?
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
leroys said:
Have you wired your galaxy to your car battery?
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No, he got wired to a car battery. The electrical shock deleted his memory and he forgot where he had left his phone. After nine days of not touching it at all, he finally found it and took a screenshot ...
Sent from my hand
skypyy said:
Top this if you can
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Very nice you won !!
skypyy said:
Top this if you can
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That's on stock 2.2.1 (and it should be noted that the battery wasn't empty, it was at 15%) ... On 2.3.3, at best I got 5 days.
skypyy said:
Top this if you can
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That's amazing
razvan_and said:
That's on stock 2.2.1 (and it should be noted that the battery wasn't empty, it was at 15%) ... On 2.3.3, at best I got 5 days.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
More Amazing
Not using anything isnt the exact description For a smartphone.
I finally topped the 2 Day mark with my 2.3.3 juwe rom. I had problems before to reach at least the 24 hours, sometimes i had to refuel during the Day,caused by the massive drauf bug which keeps android awake. First i deinstalled the latest maps update and undescribed from latitude.i also did Not touch any gameloft game. Wifi was on Most of the time when awake. See the battery historie below
m.flickr.com/photos/squealer/5752311245/
m.flickr.com/photos/squealer/5752856672/
m.flickr.com/photos/squealer/5752312055/
Sent from my GT-I9000 using Tapatalk
Wow!
I am lucky to get 2 days out of my SGS. The most I get is about 24 hours.
Mind you, I have Exchange active sync on. haha.
I have gmail + 2 other imap and one pop3 Mail account syncing every hour.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using Tapatalk
info needed
Hey i new to this, i have a UK I9000, that i recently updated to JVO on kies. I previously had my phone replaced by samsung due to battery issues. but my new one seems to be the same. I can just about get 14 hours or so of use out of it. I have brightness set to outo, auto sync on, have an gmail and an exchange email, also am on 2g/3g auto. i am unsure if i should flash to custom? i keep reading that people are getting 2days out of their battery. i would say that not a heavy user!! could do with some advide! thanks
If I am always in a wifi area I probs get about 4 or 5 days. If though 3G is on i've known it to go from 100% to phyically off within a matter of hours even when not actually using the phone.
Sorry but i am amazed from these screenshot.
I am difficulty arriving to the night.
My phone is having the standard battery, with two google accounts setted on sync and i really use it FEW... 3 hours of display? A dream.
I am on 2.2 because it is branded and i really wonder how u can achieve 2 days. 5 days with moderate use i would shot my head to achieve it.
Someone can give me a good advice?
Also, how are u taking the battery history?
Considering display and mobile data are the biggest battery drainers, we more detailed information than just time on. Give me display usage.
i'm using Darky's Rom V10 RC6 for about 2 weeks and after recalibrating my battery i'm on 3 days now with average use.
Soulrack said:
i'm using Darky's Rom V10 RC6 for about 2 weeks and after recalibrating my battery i'm on 3 days now with average use.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
By average use what do you mean? What functions have you got turned on? For instance are you only using 2G? I would Love my phone to get at least 1 1/2 days worth of use!!
Hello beautiful, sorry for my bad english!
We can write here, comparing ideas and impressions of all, what is the best configuration to protect the battery?
It may seem an obsession, but now it is summer and it often happens that the cells can not just load it because I have an outlet in attack.
So often I stay off her cell phone.
The Nexus S promises, but together with your expertise, I would like to figure out how to stay on the nexus s for as long as possible.
To understand Configuration: os (cyanogen, stock, AOPs, etc. ...), the kernel, governor settings, launcher, widgets, various tricks (NFC disabled) ...
There were?
Can we make the battery last for three days ?!?!?!?!?!!
-------
Let me explain, I have the latest nightly cyanogen, the 88. Off data always when I'm around and I do not use the internet. I do not need the push, so no active sync. The wifi I turn it on only at home or at work, I have WhatsApp, twitter and I uninstalled facebook to try what were saying that facebook consumes battery. I have launcher pro and Gtasks widget for notes in gmail, news and weather widget for news that is updated every 6 hours, if it's on the Internet, and then all program icons. I have installed very few, narrow required.
The kernel is the 1.3.3 universal netarchy signed cfs (the bfs? Is not that I had to use the bfs what do you think?).
This afternoon I used the GPS a few minutes to find an address, then he arrived, I turned off the GPS and data, with the widgets "Power Control" modified cyanogen.
Some short calls since this morning and some short text messages, not even 10. Some web browsing on 3G, but not much.
Well, after all this I can tell you that after only 11hours 18minutes 5seconds the battery is already 42% (97% this morning after recharge).
I'm not coming to pass even 23 hours which is what you do with a simple stock 2.3.4.
What is the sense I'm in the kernel and cyanogen netarchy? Only to change some other small lockscreen?
I need the battery! And I have already explained why.
The other ROM that you have listed does not come from cyanogen?
They are not "pure" cyanogen changed? Implemented? Correct?
Let me know ....
The AOSP where they come from? They are like cyanogen, a family on its own? O derived from cyanogen, too?
Now I remove the cyanogen and try something else.
What do you suck a lot in my phone? WhatsApp? Imagine if gripping always-sync data and as some of you! Not even 10 hours would last.
In the processes running there: Settings - 1 and 0 process services (21MB), WhatsApp - 1 process and 2 services (8.8 Mb), Market - a process and a service (11Mb) Maps - a service process and 1 (5.8 Mb) Google services - 2 processes and one service (15Mb), keyboard Android - a process and a service (8.9 Mb) - TOTAL: 153Mb used and 152 free.
It's right? Do you have it?
I just do not understand where mistake ... help me ...
denteca said:
It may seem an obsession,
but now it is summer
and it often happens that the cells can not just load it
because I have an outlet in attack.
So often I stay off her cell phone.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This is actually quite poetic, in a nonsensical way.
But I can't understand it - could a native speaker please try to "translate"?
why is there a 2nd thread on this? do the mods even ever come here?
Complaining about your phone being HALF dead after 11 hours?! Mine is completely dead after 5! I'm lucky if I even make it that far.
Sent from my HTC Inspire 4G using XDA App
elijahpr said:
Complaining about your phone being HALF dead after 11 hours?! Mine is completely dead after 5! I'm lucky if I even make it that far.
Sent from my HTC Inspire 4G using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
if thats true you need to take it back for a replacement.
3 days of phone use.
Step 1: charge phone to full
Step 2: Set phone down on table
Step 3: Pick it back up 72hrs later
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk
styckx said:
3 days of phone use.
Step 1: charge phone to full
Step 2: Set phone down on table
Step 3: Pick it back up 72hrs later
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
in most cases that would be correct but in reality no phone running android without an extended battery will achieve 3 days. BUT my 4g did go 2 days/8hrs with medium usage.
I can see two days no prob with some average use. You could maybe get 3 days if the screen brightness was at zero, setcpu locked at 500mhz Max and constantly toggle airplane mode when not using it.
What fun is that though.
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk
You seem to have completely missed his point, which is that people who tout their batteries lasting 2 and 3 days acheive this by not really using the phone at all.
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App
matt2053 said:
You seem to have completely missed his point, which is that people who tout their batteries lasting 2 and 3 days acheive this by not really using the phone at all.
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i bet with heavy usage i could go about 24hrs. i used my phone alot yesterday and still had great life on a stock battery. i guess everyones phone is different. it also depends on what kernel and rom you use.
fixxxer2008 said:
i bet with heavy usage i could go about 24hrs. i used my phone alot yesterday and still had great life on a stock battery. i guess everyones phone is different. it also depends on what kernel and rom you use.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Correct. There are so many variables. Some say their battery lasts 7hrs. What we never know is if their homescreen looks like a widget bomb exploded on it, everything set to auto sync every hour and brightness at 100% while they use it like a mini laptop non stop.
At work I get like 5 hours. I use it redicously heavy almost all day.
The two biggest battery killers are tapatalk and web browsing. If that is all you do, yep you will never make it past a day.
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk
fixxxer2008 said:
i bet with heavy usage i could go about 24hrs. i used my phone alot yesterday and still had great life on a stock battery. i guess everyones phone is different. it also depends on what kernel and rom you use.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I think this is pretty accurate.
Typically, with average use (by my estimation) I get about 22-23 hrs between charges.
Average use is defined by
*Netarchy kernel overclocked to 1.2GHz with SetCPU (screen off profile set to 500MHz)
*2-3 hrs of talk time (with about -85dBm signal on average - or at least that's what it is when the call starts)
*push email for 3 IMAP accounts at 5min check intervals and sending and receiving at least 75-100 emails per day
*push gmail with 60 or so emails per day
*fancy widgets updating location every 30 mins.
*Seesmic twitter widgets on homescreen updating 3 accounts.
*Facebook widget
*locations service always on
*wifi never sleeping
I think that's most of what's running.
Battery life on the NS4G has made me laugh at my Evo's 8hr charge and has actually made me use my phone MORE out of confidence that my battery will last.
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using XDA Premium App
TonyArmstrong said:
I think this is pretty accurate.
Typically, with average use (by my estimation) I get about 22-23 hrs between charges.
Average use is defined by
*Netarchy kernel overclocked to 1.2GHz with SetCPU (screen off profile set to 500MHz)
*2-3 hrs of talk time (with about -85dBm signal on average - or at least that's what it is when the call starts)
*push email for 3 IMAP accounts at 5min check intervals and sending and receiving at least 75-100 emails per day
*push gmail with 60 or so emails per day
*fancy widgets updating location every 30 mins.
*Seesmic twitter widgets on homescreen updating 3 accounts.
*Facebook widget
*locations service always on
*wifi never sleeping
I think that's most of what's running.
Battery life on the NS4G has made me laugh at my Evo's 8hr charge and has actually made me use my phone MORE out of confidence that my battery will last.
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Do not forget SCREEN ON TIME and AWAKE TIME, those are the two most important variables of all!
fixxxer2008 said:
in most cases that would be correct but in reality no phone running android without an extended battery will achieve 3 days. BUT my 4g did go 2 days/8hrs with medium usage.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I went on a vacation out of the states so I couldn't use my phone. It was charged before I went and I just left it in airplane mode for the whole trip, and occasionally used it for music and a calculator. After about 4 days it went dead, I was surprised it lasted that long.
fixxxer2008 said:
i bet with heavy usage i could go about 24hrs. i used my phone alot yesterday and still had great life on a stock battery. i guess everyones phone is different. it also depends on what kernel and rom you use.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
lol.mine doesnt even last 4 hours when playing riptide GP.(tegra 2 game)
on my nexus s
fixxxer2008 said:
why is there a 2nd thread on this? do the mods even ever come here?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Says fixxxer. LOL
Enviado desde mi PC36100 utilizando XDA Premium de la aplicación
I'm not sure if you have let the battery die all the way to 0% and then charge it overnight. Do this 4-6 times a month and you will see a huge increase in battery life.
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA Premium App
unlvmike said:
I'm not sure if you have let the battery die all the way to 0% and then charge it overnight. Do this 4-6 times a month and you will see a huge increase in battery life.
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
thats the stupidest ting ever to do with the battery..
its a Li-ion battery.you aren't supposed to let it die.its actually bad!
ghost010 said:
thats the stupidest ting ever to do with the battery..
its a Li-ion battery.you aren't supposed to let it die.its actually bad!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
^-This
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk
unlvmike said:
I'm not sure if you have let the battery die all the way to 0% and then charge it overnight. Do this 4-6 times a month and you will see a huge increase in battery life.
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah you should do this only when calibrating the battery which should need to be done very very infrequently it not at all.
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App
Heey,
I was wondering, when 3G is turned on, on our x10 the battery dis-charges very fast, wifi drains much less... Is this problem also present for you guys? I know 3G drains more battery then wifi, but this is much more then when I used 3G a long time ago... But I was then on stock 2.1. Now I'm on 2.2.1, and I never had this issue... But now I got it Is it only our device or do also all devices have it?
PlayGunsta
I have a friend with a Galaxy S, he says on 3G he has 1 day of battery life, with wifi double.
Not having a go just putting my view forward.
I don't really care how many days the battery lasts as long as it lasts me a day! It can charge when I sleep. I take it as a given that the battery won't be lasting days between charges considering that our phones are basically the same as pcs were from a not too distant past.
Sent from my X10i using XDA App
I dont know if thats device specific but I do know you can get an app called juice defender free off the market which turns off 3g when your phone enters deep sleep. Really helps save battery
Sent from my X10i using XDA Premium App
The Gingerbread Man said:
I dont know if thats device specific but I do know you can get an app called juice defender free off the market which turns off 3g when your phone enters deep sleep. Really helps save battery
Sent from my X10i using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Before I could have great battery life with 3G without JuiceDefender... I'm using much push messaging so JD won't be ideal for me... Do others also have this epic drain?
Am using wolfs rom, with kernel 3.52, after full days use (25 hrs battery) I use 7% on cell standby, roughly the same as stock 2.1 with similar usage.
Sent from my X10i using XDA App
You say you didn't have this on 2.1. Sounds pretty obvious to me:
blame your current ROM.
I also guess no other device could run X10 custom ROMs.
I have had this issue on 2.1 & 2.2.1 and i have no idea Why it does this.
the 3G eats away at the battery like a pig.
It does not matter what the signal quality is like or what BB you use.
It eats and eats.
SE is aware of the issue but some people act like the issue is not even existent.
I get 2 to 3 hours and then i need to charge and the worst is how hot the phone gets while using it on 3G.
dante-fu said:
You say you didn't have this on 2.1. Sounds pretty obvious to me:
blame your current ROM.
I also guess no other device could run X10 custom ROMs.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes but before I also didn't have this on Froyo.... If you read it good...
I went from TripNMIUI to TW 008 and my batterylife with 3G was again amazing... I guess it was TripNMIUI causing it...
PlayGunsta said:
I went from TripNMIUI to TW 008 and my batterylife with 3G was again amazing... I guess it was TripNMIUI causing it...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I find Trip's radio hacks battery hungry too. I also noticed that I lose signal very often and comes back in a few seconds.
Xperia X10i via Tapatalk
My_Immortal said:
I find Trip's radio hacks battery hungry too. I also noticed that I lose signal very often and comes back in a few seconds.
Xperia X10i via Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Maybe that's the cause why 3G is eating so much battery?
PlayGunsta said:
Maybe that's the cause why 3G is eating so much battery?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It could be, yes.
However, I don't use 3G, there is no good coverage in my area. I've set the network to "2G only" and I turn on data only when needed.
The problem lies in the mobile radio management, be it phone or internet.
Xperia X10i via Tapatalk