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My phone is off a lot of the time but it still uses up a lot of my power according to the battery use screen.
For example, right now my battery is at 45%, 9h 15m since unplugged. "Display" shows up at 48% of the power use. Time on is 58m. On my old Evo, Display was rarely on the top of the list. A day like today would have Cell Standby and Phone Idle at the top taking up over 50 - 60%.
Could it be the auto brightness setting that's sucking power? Anyone else getting these results?
I haven't had the time to try and figure out why, but yes, I am getting the same results on mine as well. Right now the battery is at 44% (9h 42m on), with the Display at 55% (1h 33m display on). Display has always been at the top of the list for me. The next three are Android OS 13% (1h), Cell Standby 13% (9h 42m), Phone Idle 8% (8h 14m)
Mine has been unplugged for about 1.5 hrs, and on for 35 minutes.
Voice Calls: 45%
Display: 33%
Cell Standby: 8%
I'm experiencing something similar. Gravis, are you on auto brightness? If not, what brightness level?
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I'm experiencing something similar. Gravis, are you on auto brightness? If not, what brightness level?
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I use a power widget to scale my screen brightness as needed. I'm usually on the lowest setting since I'm mostly indoors but I had it on 100% all day yesterday since I was outside and it wasn't really draining my battery.
gravis86 said:
I use a power widget to scale my screen brightness as needed. I'm usually on the lowest setting since I'm mostly indoors but I had it on 100% all day yesterday since I was outside and it wasn't really draining my battery.
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I too keep mine on the lowest setting as well. It's plenty bright enough for me. Also, I wouldn't trust those readings...it could also be related to the whole false reading of the reception and battery status symbol. Perhaps software related. Nevertheless, the screen still uses 20% less power than traditional lcd's.
Try keeping it off auto brightness and see how it does...should notice an improvement.
iunlock said:
I too keep mine on the lowest setting as well. It's plenty bright enough for me. Also, I wouldn't trust those readings...it could also be related to the whole false reading of the reception and battery status symbol. Perhaps software related. Nevertheless, the screen still uses 20% less power than traditional lcd's.
Try keeping it off auto brightness and see how it does...should notice an improvement.
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You mean 20% less then an average AMOLED? and then AMOLED is 30-40% over LCD
Guys... You WANT your screen to be the highest thing using battery. It doesn't mean that it is bad. It just means that the screen is taking MORE battery than other things. You need to take it for what it is. A comparison versus other items on the phone. Your screen using that much power is how it should be (think about your laptop... turn the screen down or off, battery goes right up). If your screen was at the bottom, it would mean that the actual PHONE was using a ton more power.
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Guys... You WANT your screen to be the highest thing using battery. It doesn't mean that it is bad. It just means that the screen is taking MORE battery than other things. You need to take it for what it is. A comparison versus other items on the phone. Your screen using that much power is how it should be (think about your laptop... turn the screen down or off, battery goes right up). If your screen was at the bottom, it would mean that the actual PHONE was using a ton more power.
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Good point. I'd rather have the screen eating power than say, the GPS. But I guess as long as the phone gets you through the it doesn't really matter, does it?
Does turning off the "Powering saving mode" option under "Sound and display" seem to help or hurt the situation?
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Does turning off the "Powering saving mode" option under "Sound and display" seem to help or hurt the situation?
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Mine is off. I don't like the screen changing intensity/brightness without my permission
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Does turning off the "Powering saving mode" option under "Sound and display" seem to help or hurt the situation?
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I shudder to think that a "power saving" mode would actually increase battery usage...
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You mean 20% less then an average AMOLED? and then AMOLED is 30-40% over LCD
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Indeed.
Most of the GSM models have display at the top, while CDMA have standby and idle.
This is due to CDMA radios drawing a lot more power.
I too am experiencing the same thing... my battery life has been less than stellar, so I have taken it off auto-brightness and am using a black wallpaper to try and reduce the consumption. After being on for 4 hours, (I had to reboot several times this afternoon) my display has used 70%, the next down is cell stanby at 12% I was fully charged at 3:30 today - it is now 10 and I am down to 33% battery remaining, with moderate to minimal usage.
I guess a gorgeous display requires a lot of battery.....
Battery use has to add up to 100%, so something has to take a majority. 66% doesn't mean it took a huge part of your battery. Imagine this, you unplug your phone and then go on pandora for 15 minutes of the first 20 minutes unplugged. Say your battery was at 96ish by then. If you checked your battery usage and it said something like PANDORA: 75%, it means that pandora used 75% of the 4% that has been drained, not like pandora has some type of abnormal battery sucking bug in it (key word abnormal, i'm aware pandora wears on a battery). But get the gist? If it were "cell standby" and "phone idle" that were using the battery, then we'd have something to worry about seeing as the phone wouldn't even be in use during its times of most power consumption.
You people apparently never actually TALK on your phone. My voice calls take most of my power.
Pneumatic said:
You people apparently never actually TALK on your phone. My voice calls take most of my power.
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for me, i've noticed that installing and moving files on the internal and sdcard memery eats up the battery the fastest.
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Guys... You WANT your screen to be the highest thing using battery. It doesn't mean that it is bad. It just means that the screen is taking MORE battery than other things. You need to take it for what it is. A comparison versus other items on the phone. Your screen using that much power is how it should be (think about your laptop... turn the screen down or off, battery goes right up). If your screen was at the bottom, it would mean that the actual PHONE was using a ton more power.
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Guys... You WANT your screen to be the highest thing using battery. It doesn't mean that it is bad. It just means that the screen is taking MORE battery than other things. You need to take it for what it is. A comparison versus other items on the phone. Your screen using that much power is how it should be (think about your laptop... turn the screen down or off, battery goes right up). If your screen was at the bottom, it would mean that the actual PHONE was using a ton more power.
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Guys... You WANT your screen to be the highest thing using battery. It doesn't mean that it is bad. It just means that the screen is taking MORE battery than other things. You need to take it for what it is. A comparison versus other items on the phone. Your screen using that much power is how it should be (think about your laptop... turn the screen down or off, battery goes right up). If your screen was at the bottom, it would mean that the actual PHONE was using a ton more power.
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Guys... You WANT your screen to be the highest thing using battery. It doesn't mean that it is bad. It just means that the screen is taking MORE battery than other things. You need to take it for what it is. A comparison versus other items on the phone. Your screen using that much power is how it should be (think about your laptop... turn the screen down or off, battery goes right up). If your screen was at the bottom, it would mean that the actual PHONE was using a ton more power.
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I can't quote this enough for emphasis.
Use your brains folks. If your battery is lasting all day and your screen is using half of your power draw, then you simply have a far more efficient phone than before.
And over the EVO, that makes a TON of sense. Your WiMax OFDM radio probably used up a higher percentage of your total power draw because it simply uses more power than our WCDMA UMTS radio.
Be happy - not disappointed. It means your battery is mostly being used up only when you actually use the phone as opposed to eating up all of your battery while it's just sitting in your pocket.
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I can't quote this enough for emphasis.
Use your brains folks. If your battery is lasting all day and your screen is using half of your power draw, then you simply have a far more efficient phone than before.
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Rather than wasting time with not so clever posts, maybe it would be more beneficial to read the first post a bit closer. If you're not using the device a lot, you would expect the Display usage indicator to decrease over time and the other indicators such as Cell standby and Phone idle to increase over that same time period.
Hi,
I unplugged my phone this morning around 9 A.M, and sent about 50-100 texts today, and right now at 5:35 my phone is at 33%. The only thing that is running, is ADW.Launcher, and I've done LIGHT Twitter/Facebook checking throughout the day, maybe about 2-3 times each. I have Beautiful Widgets, but it's set to update every hour. I haven't talked on the phone at all, and my brightness is set to auto. My wifi is off, and I made sure I don't have GPS or anything on. What's killing my battery? My BB's battery life was 1000x better, I shouldn't have to baby this phone to have it make it through the day.
I'm running JT's Clean D101 rom, and that's it.
Edit - 32% now.
Get "OSMonitor" from the market (its free) and it will give you a real time display of all running processes and cpu % for each process. To make it easier to watch list open options in OSMonitor and sort by load and make sure order is checked as well. And watch the list for a couple of minutes to see the offender that is hogging the cpu. I've had problems with the xda app and I seem to be the only one that has it hammer the cpu after closing it so I always have to kill the xda app in task manager after using it or else it will ride the cpu between 8-20%.
My typical idle cpu usage is about 2-5% not including the cpu usage of OSMonitor itself.
good day.
lolreconlol said:
Hi,
I unplugged my phone this morning around 9 A.M, and sent about 50-100 texts today, and right now at 5:35 my phone is at 33%. The only thing that is running, is ADW.Launcher, and I've done LIGHT Twitter/Facebook checking throughout the day, maybe about 2-3 times each. I have Beautiful Widgets, but it's set to update every hour. I haven't talked on the phone at all, and my brightness is set to auto. My wifi is off, and I made sure I don't have GPS or anything on. What's killing my battery? My BB's battery life was 1000x better, I shouldn't have to baby this phone to have it make it through the day.
I'm running JT's Clean D101 rom, and that's it.
Edit - 32% now.
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Thats about normal time for a Smartphone. If you average that you used 66% of your battery in 8.5 hours, then its safe to say your battery is averaging 12 hours a day. Also, most of your battery will go to your display, and if you texting all morning, your display is going to be on all morning.
It also could be that your in an area with bad signal. Your phone is going to pump juice to try and keep signal.
As far as BlackBerry gos, its not nearly as smooth and capable. I could argue my flip phone from high school lasted four days without needing to be charged. Android is in an entirely different class than BlackBerry.
Is there a definitive process for conditioning or reconditioning the stock battery? I'm on my second fascinate(vzw replaced first one basically because of my frustration with the local vzw store) & I've noticed a big difference in battery life between the 2. First one was completely stock with adw launcher only & it got 16-20 hrs between charges. This one is rooted, some bloat removed, and I only get 8-10 hrs. Using os monitor to look for cpu hogs & so far no improvement. Put all my bloat file extensions back to stock in sys/app hoping to impact erratic charging cause it all started after root. Any ideas?
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I'm no expert (standard disclaimer) but I don't think it's a matter of calibrating the battery as much as calibrating the software.
Power the phone down
Charge to 100%
Boot into CWM
Wipe Cache
Go into Advanced, and Wipe Battery Stats
Pull the battery, reinsert, and again charge until have 100%
Unplug, reboot, and run the phone in whatever your normal use is until you get as close as you can to a full discharge
Again power down and charge to full
As I understand it, this process allows the software to correctly read the true charge on the battery. if anyone sees any flaws with this, or anything incorrect in my information, please advise.
Are you using a Live wallpaper? I noticed an increase in my battery life after I turned it off, which is kind of stupid because it should only use CPU cycles when the screen is turned on.
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Are you using a Live wallpaper? I noticed an increase in my battery life after I turned it off, which is kind of stupid because it should only use CPU cycles when the screen is turned on.
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Yep, just the stock n1 style that came with the phone. I liked it since I first saw it & have used it the whole time, even before battery issue.
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Are you using a Live wallpaper? I noticed an increase in my battery life after I turned it off, which is kind of stupid because it should only use CPU cycles when the screen is turned on.
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Sending 50 to 100 texts pretty much insures your screen is staying on lol.
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lolreconlol said:
and my brightness is set to auto.
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This could be a big offender right here. Use the power control widget and keep it on the lowest brightness except for when you're in areas that make the screen too dim to make out (read: outside).
Thanks to Daswolven. Recalibrating the battery did the trick. The only thing I can link the issue to is having to charge from my laptop for 3 days last week due to a massive power outage in my area. Anyone else see this?
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Thanks to Daswolven. Recalibrating the battery did the trick. The only thing I can link the issue to is having to charge from my laptop for 3 days last week due to a massive power outage in my area. Anyone else see this?
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Glad to help.
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I am posting for a friend that has a SNS. The couple of days he has been draining the battery in about 6 hrs. I looked at the battery usage and it said that the display was at 60% and the graph shows a constant fail of power. I checked and he has the screen set to auto brightness and the screen times out at one minute. The only other thing that I cna think of is that he has poor cell coverage but we are using wifi in that location which his phone is connected to. I understand that poor cell coverage causes power drains but with the major of his data going through the wifi one would think that the cell power drain would be minuscule. Thanks in advance.
It depends on how weak. Data is not going to route over the cellular network, but it will try to maintain a connection for things like calls. Thus the phone will attempt to maintain a connection to the tower unless airplane mode is enabled or the cellular radio is otherwise disabled.
If the signal is really weak then the gain is going to be automatically adjusted to try to boost the signal - this is going to cause an increase in power used, sometimes substantially. If you spend most of the day in this situation then you don't have many options currently if you want to receive calls on the phone (you could look at a SIP solution).
If you don't care about receiving calls just turn on airplane mode and then toggle wifi on.
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I am posting for a friend that has a SNS. The couple of days he has been draining the battery in about 6 hrs. I looked at the battery usage and it said that the display was at 60% and the graph shows a constant fail of power. I checked and he has the screen set to auto brightness and the screen times out at one minute. The only other thing that I cna think of is that he has poor cell coverage but we are using wifi in that location which his phone is connected to. I understand that poor cell coverage causes power drains but with the major of his data going through the wifi one would think that the cell power drain would be minuscule. Thanks in advance.
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You need to provide screen on time and awake time. If he just got the phone and is using it a lot.... well then six hours is not bad for an android phone.
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You need to provide screen on time and awake time. If he just got the phone and is using it a lot.... well then six hours is not bad for an android phone.
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Not really. Maybe 6 hours continuous use, something like 3 hours display at 20-50% and 3 hours talk time; that would be normal. But 6 hours low-medium use points out that something is indeed wrong.
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Not really. Maybe 6 hours continuous use, something like 3 hours display at 20-50% and 3 hours talk time; that would be normal. But 6 hours low-medium use points out that something is indeed wrong.
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But like I said we don't know if it was normal or heavy use without screen on time and awake time.
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Set the Phone to GSM Auto (PRL)
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Smurph82 said:
I am posting for a friend that has a SNS. The couple of days he has been draining the battery in about 6 hrs. I looked at the battery usage and it said that the display was at 60% and the graph shows a constant fail of power.
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60% display means the phone was on and actively used for over 3 hours. That's a fair bit but isn't too much really, but it depends on what else is running durng that time. As mentioned, awake time is also important because it means the phone is actively working at something even though the screen is off. He may have a rogue app that he installed sucking power. Or simply leaving the web browser on a webpage with a regular refresh cycle will cause the browser to continue to run in the background keeping the phone awake while the screen is off. I've gotten in the habit of going back to the google home page when I'm done browsing to make sure it's on a "dead" page.
Anywho, more details are needed to figure it out. Just saying it's only using 60% display isn't enough to find out why the phone only lasts 6 hours. Mine lasts between 24-48 hours depending on usage from heavy to moderate. With light usage I figure the battery would last 3-4 days, but I'm not that light of a user and I generally top up every night anyway as it's better to top up a Li-Ion battery than let it run down all the time.
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Set the Phone to GSM Auto (PRL)
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My Nexus S on Rogers was already on that setting out of the box. I'm curious, what does that do?
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60% display means the phone was on and actively used for over 3 hours.
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Huh???
When it says "What's been using the battery" and it says "Display........ 60%"
that just means that the display is responsible of 60% of the battery drain that has occurred since last boot.
For example, if you were at 100%, then turned your phone on for 5 minutes and scrolled back and forth on homescreens, lets say your batter went down to 95%. Well, if 2.5% of that 5% loss is from display, and 2.5% is from Android System, then when you check the battery screen it's going to say "What's been using the batter?"....... Display - 50%; Android system - 50%.
If you did the same thing for 4 hours, and the battery drained down to 20%, you might still see...... Display 50%, Android system - 50%.
In other words, the % has nothing to do with how long the phone has been on.
also if screen on time is 3 to 4 hours, yes the battery will be very low by then.
Thank you all for the advice. As I said this is my friends phone. i don't see him using it a lot we are both programmers so we use a computer for most everything, and we have both our phones on wifi because of the terrible cell signal. I will ask him to try and keep up with everything he does to see his use patterns to see how much he is really using the phone. I will post later on what apps are running and his amount of use. The main reason I am not sure is because this has just started happening with in the last week. We have been in the same location for 6 months and it has just now become a problem.
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My Nexus S on Rogers was already on that setting out of the box. I'm curious, what does that do?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=675136
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=675136
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Hmm...ok that kinda helps, but it doesn't really explain what's happening when it uses that setting. I know that PRL means preferred roaming list, and GSM Auto means it selects automatically, but how it selects and why it uses less battery is what I want to know.
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I updated "cleanly" as per my previous post,
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Looks good!
What is your brightness setting?
More info about your settings please?
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Auto mainly but i adjust sometimes upwards, as ICS auto brightness can be a bit too dark for me sometimes.
I turn wifi, gps off when im not using it, NFC is off if that makes a difference. 3g is on always. Nothing special, I just "use it" as I normally would.
I think 2 days and 8 hours is pretty good going?
Stock battery?
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Stock battery?
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yes absolutely, nothing custom at all. bought from carphone warehouse in uk, i9020T
I don't get it, I get 14 hours if I'm lucky...
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I don't get it, I get 14 hours if I'm lucky...
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No idea feel free to ask me specific questions!
what apps have you used in this 2+ day period?? games? streaming video? web-browsing? These are the most common uses and they are also the biggest battery killers. I'm sure if I had my phone in airplane mode & barely used it at all I could get better battery life than that. Please give us more details on the specific apps, etc. you ran in this period (to the best of your memory, of course )
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what apps have you used in this 2+ day period?? games? streaming video? web-browsing? These are the most common uses and they are also the biggest battery killers. I'm sure if I had my phone in airplane mode & barely used it at all I could get better battery life than that. Please give us more details on the specific apps, etc. you ran in this period (to the best of your memory, of course )
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Hmm probably only an hours worth of "apparatus" - game, good couple of hours on google reader, facebook etc. no more than an hour on the phone.
my "normal" usage really; not trying to be overly conservative, but also not constantly on. certainly nothing to suggest that I'm getting any worse battery life than I did on 2.3.x
Next time you get this kind of usage from a full charge down to zero let us know your screen on time please.
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Battery life stats don't mean much if you don't really use the phone for those 2 days. I'm at 16hours with 66percent left.
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Here's mine. A day and half. Similar battery performance with GB even though that Android OS is way too high (higher than Screen)
Yes; that Android OS' looks like a statistic and therefore has a 87.8% chance of being made up on the spot (like that one!).
This is a sample of my battery life and quite unusual for me; Mobile Standby is the highest because I spent five or so hours in an area with very poor coverage, when it could get a signal it was 2G.
Wifi is on when I know I have a hotspot I can use. AutoSync off unless I need it. Bluetooth wasn't used. Screen brightness mostly at the minimum with some time at Auto. Latitude constantly running in automatic update.
Screen on time was 2 hours, 30 minutes and that included approximately 20 minutes of Google Maps (not Navigation).
The biggest difference I've made on my device is to log out of Google+. My use is mostly checking two Gmail accounts, browsing the web, using DropBox / Documents-to-Go, texting, some photography.
Disabling Latitude's AutoUpdate stops the device from waking up with the screen off (all those little blue ticks on the use bar) and makes a big difference to battery life when I'm on the move.
How can you guys take screenshot on stock?
Hold down power and vol. down simultaneously for a second or two for a screenshot.
Also, nice battery life. I've been running about a day with ~50% left, 2 hours of screen time and somewhere around 30 - 45mins gaming. WiFi on all day and calls/texting was minimal.
Have a look https://plus.google.com/u/0/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT More insight regarding Android OS from google engineer.
I am running stock 4.0.3 ICS and battery lasts only 10-11 hours.(Data Disabled, Occasional Wifi Use, Brightness reduced to minimum.).
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I am running stock 4.0.3 ICS and battery lasts only 10-11 hours.(Data Disabled, Occasional Wifi Use, Brightness reduced to minimum.).
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What's your screen on time during the ten hours?
Now that the masses are receiving their devices and it officially launched at Tmo stores nationwide (well most) how about some battery life experiences?
We all know all too well how battery life can vary and there is NO real way to measure except to give our individual results. Please keep in mind that trying to compare your battery life to another is futile
KISS keep it simple. Give approximates, don't be anal like me (or be specific it's okay)!
Just name your provider and if root/unlock, # of apps installed, WiFi vs Cellular percentage, average cell strength, SOT (screen on time) and whether or not using adaptive brightness and at what %, your typical usage (how you used your phone including GPS usage, talk time, and streaming), and a couple of screenies showing what ya got.
I'll start it off with my first day with the phone. I charged it to 92% and have had it off since ~11:30AM today.
T-Mobile stock no root no unlock
55 apps
WiFi 80% Cellular 20%
105dBm average
SOT is 2hr 55min with 50% battery left. Adaptive brightness ON always @ 50%
Ambient OFF
Syncing all Google apps, I use GNow, 2 push email, and weather every hour. I text and browse web throughout the day and talked on phone ~20min. GPS on battery save
For my first cycle I'm very pleased!
That's about the same as my moto x, so average?
Here's my moto x (2013) battery usage.
Auto brightness, 2-3 bars most of the day on Sprint's network. YouTube, monument valley, reddit, browser, gmail, twitter, bluetooth, locations, google now, and other apps.
On target for 6 hours SOT. It probably wont make it to 6 but 5+ is my bare minimum so it looks like you will make it without any issues. After the kernels and tweaks come I believe we can hit 7 hours or close to it.
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That's about the same as my moto x, so average?
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I don't know, it's my first cycle & day with the phone (in the OP ^).
Throughout my many years with Android this will increase quite a bit after a few charge/discharge cycles.
It is a large MotoX after all
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On target for 6 hours SOT. It probably wont make it to 6 but 5+ is my bare minimum so it looks like you will make it without any issues. After the kernels and tweaks come I believe we can hit 7 hours or close to it.
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I believe we'll hit 7 without tweaks or kernels. I'm feeling confident
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I believe we'll hit 7 without tweaks or kernels. I'm feeling confident
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That would be great, plus google can always release more patches.
I'm on pace to hit about 4 hours of SOT. Using WiFi only right now as my local LTE signal is worse on the nexus vs my 6+, which us shocking BC I remember motorola having great radios back when I was an avid android user. I do love both platforms so no bias here at all lol. Love this nexus and where android stands with lollipop. Probably going to stick with my 6+ as my primary for now. I really wish we could see SOT for the 6+ BC it is an absolute BEAST in that area. I can't run the dang thing down unless I try and even then it is exhausting. For you recent android users, what is the typical SOT these days for the phones with such big batteries and high res screens? Is it really the screen that kills the batteries so quickly in comparison to the lower res screen on the iPhone phablet?
My first full charge since I got the phone early this morning and I'm at 2 hours sot at 70%. Brightness is at about 90% with adaptive on. Watched a few utube bids and browsed around all on 4g
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When people are posting SOT I would like to also know whether adaptive brightness is being used or not. I'll gladly post some screenshots in the coming days once my battery gets a few cycles on it.
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uhguy said:
When people are posting SOT I would like to also know whether adaptive brightness is being used or not. I'll gladly post some screenshots in the coming days once my battery gets a few cycles on it.
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Great point I'll add that thanks :good:
Mine is activated on verizon and i feel like im having excessive battery drain.
My first full discharge had over 3 hours of screen on time and went from early afternoon to the next morning. How are people getting 6 hours?
Today i charged it up when i returned home from work. Only a few hours on the battery and only 48 minutes of screen time so far on this discharge and I'm at 70% as of writing this post through the phone. Adaptive brightness is off and the brightness has been set low (1/4th brightness or less depending on light, with screenfilter on to make it dimmer than normal when needed). Also, data is off and only wifi is on for data. Ok google detection is on though and i noticed recently that its not taking my commands with the screen off even though its set to.
Finally, the thing gets very hot when using it, especially when charging.
Edit: picture of the battery stats the morning after I made this post. It's nice that the battery practically flat lines at night when I also turn off cell data and WiFi. However, something is waking my phone and I don't know what it is, maybe its auto sync. I can't seem to figure out how to turn off auto sync with android 5.0 so I can test that.
I think it is better also to specify how much percentage of the adaptive brightness.
Because you can set it to 100% or lower, like 30%.
That would affect the battery, no?
gogol said:
I think it is better also to specify how much percentage of the adaptive brightness.
Because you can set it to 100% or lower, like 30%.
That would affect the battery, no?
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Yes I believe it would, thanks!
On my third discharge with WiFi only and brightness maybe 1/4 inch turned up from all the way down. Ambient display on. Not sure my battery life is up to par.
If I need to an anymore info just let me know. Haven't been on Android in a minute.
What's up with this guys?
DrexelDragon said:
What's up with this guys?
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Looks like a graph. I think they all come with it.
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donnyp1 said:
Looks like a graph. I think they all come with it.
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Thanks.. I'm talking about Google services and Search being #1.
DrexelDragon said:
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When you click on GServices what is your keep awake time, cpu foreground and total times?
Do you have location reporting set to ON?
jbdan said:
When you click on GServices what is your keep awake time, cpu foreground and total times?
Do you have location reporting set to ON?
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Yes reporting on - Keep Awake: 26m, CPU fg: 1s, CPU total: 5m 47s
DrexelDragon said:
Yes reporting on - Keep Awake: 26m, CPU fg: 1s, CPU total: 5m 47s
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Do you use the reporting on feature? Those look somewhat normal