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12 Hours Idling and Not a Drop in Percentage!

Better battery life is simply impossible! As the picture below ilustrates, this thing did not sip a single percentage from around 9:00PM to 9:00AM this morning. Sure, the phone was not touched, but even still... I then checked my emails, Twitter, and played some music from my SD card yielding the 9% drop.
I have an Exchange and a Gmail account pushing, Wi-Fi is always on (BT and GPS was off), and Tango, Tikl, SportsTap, SetCPU, Astrid Tasks, and JuicePlotter services running in background in addition to the typical OS services.
SetCPU Profiles:
Temp > 50: 499/245 ondemand
Screen Off: 245/245 ondemand
Charging/Full: 998/245 peformance
Battery < 25%: 499/245 ondemand
Battery < 100%: 998/245 ondemand
Please check my sig for the rest of my setup...
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Yea, it doesn't use much power at all when it's not being used.

Well, it normally does... it is still pushing and polling information too/from servers. 1% per hour is already really good, but 0% in almost 12 hours in insane!

not for nothing, but I get the same results with baked snack 1.9, pushing basically the same stuff, but without setcpu.
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With the newhtc kernel i gota 6% drop in 9 hours with no use

I need help with my batry!
Im going to post screen pics so please someone anyone take a look. im running fresh 3401. which is supposed to come with new OTA. battery life is disgustingly short.

dan.kels.r said:
Im going to post screen pics so please someone anyone take a look. im running fresh 3401. which is supposed to come with new OTA. battery life is disgustingly short.
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Those screen shots don't mean anything. Are you saying you only get about 2 hours out of a full charge? Hell, I can watch a movie for 5.5 hours on a full charge.
Something isn't right. If you ARE only getting 2 hours, wipe your phone and start over, something is wrong with your ROM.
I am using Fresh 3.4.0.1, I have 8:50 uptime, 2:55 awake time, and I have 60% battery left. I don't use stepcpu and have not changed the kernel.

The 0% battery drop in 9 hours is certainly impressive but I have a feeling the quick drop after waking the phone up is a delayed indication of the true battery consumption over the past 9 hours.
A few minutes of syncing/email/browsing usually doesn't hit my battery life quite as much. I don't keep great track of my battery life but I know the other day when I didn't have my charger at night I was at 70% after 24 hours WITH mild usage and syncing. Or to put it another way, during my 8 hour workday I lose one/two bars with 4G on, GPS on and autosync. Not too shabby.

Mine did the same thing the other night. Went to bed with 1% left, woke up 10 hours later with 1% left. I was on wifi, however; everything is syncing and turned on, too.

Bielinsk said:
Those screen shots don't mean anything. Are you saying you only get about 2 hours out of a full charge? Hell, I can watch a movie for 5.5 hours on a full charge.
Something isn't right. If you ARE only getting 2 hours, wipe your phone and start over, something is wrong with your ROM.
I am using Fresh 3.4.0.1, I have 8:50 uptime, 2:55 awake time, and I have 60% battery left. I don't use stepcpu and have not changed the kernel.
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well i just wanted whoever can help to see how low the battery level was and in the screen shots you can see what was running and how long. This isnt the only rom thats had short battery life with me. Something wrong with the phone and or battery maybe? also since your using the same rom/kernel i am do you use or suggest juice plotter and defender?

dan.kels.r said:
well i just wanted whoever can help to see how low the battery level was and in the screen shots you can see what was running and how long. This isnt the only rom thats had short battery life with me. Something wrong with the phone and or battery maybe? also since your using the same rom/kernel i am do you use or suggest juice plotter and defender?
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I stopped using defender or plotter.
Only thing I can think is you are in a poor service area and your phone is constantly searching for signal. That will drain your battery fast.

creyc said:
The 0% battery drop in 9 hours is certainly impressive but I have a feeling the quick drop after waking the phone up is a delayed indication of the true battery consumption over the past 9 hours.
A few minutes of syncing/email/browsing usually doesn't hit my battery life quite as much. I don't keep great track of my battery life but I know the other day when I didn't have my charger at night I was at 70% after 24 hours WITH mild usage and syncing. Or to put it another way, during my 8 hour workday I lose one/two bars with 4G on, GPS on and autosync. Not too shabby.
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It's almost 12 hours actually. Also, the drop is due to streaming Pandora while checking emails. That's a normal drop for streaming Pandora and using my BT headphones.

after about a week of lurking and trying to get a grip on owning my first android device. here is my first post
My girl and I got some evo's and me being the nerd that I am with my devices I ended up here within about 10 minutes of having my device.(first eight minutes I was cleaning up the cream in my pants about my new device.) before one trip to reddit.com/r/android (<-beware of the awesomeness that is reddit!)
anyways I digress. I rooted instantly for tethering and started really hating my device because of the battery issues and I continued to read and then i took the plunge.
mine Azreal 2.4 with riptide theme v8 started with Netarchy 4.2 then swithched to kingxclick #11
I am a heavy user and I have been up 12.5 hours with 4.5 screen on time WIFI RADIO only pandora or music or internet vids ALL day. just dropped under 40%
I thought that was good but my girls setup is killing mine
hers Virus Airborne 3.1 with kingxclick#11 and on a full charge and top off method and battery wipe she is running now 27 HOURS with 3.5 screen on time
without a charge and is at 37%
she doesn't use her phone nearly as much as me but her wifi, and 4g on the ENTIRE time.
setcpu setting that worked for me!
kingxclick#11 CFS or BFS: Put the following settings: 1152-256 conservative. Then in advanced settings: Up threshold 95, Down threshold 50, and Freq. step 5. Test these settings out before you click "Set on boot"
(not my own setup just following one if the sages around here's posts)

I get things like that sometimes where it will be constantly decreasing then suddenly stop for several hours. I think it's just an error/inconsistency in reading the battery or something because it isn't a realistic effect.

Seeing similar results with Stock Fresh 3.4 and Setcpu. Look at the time when I went to sleep
Juice Plotter
Using Battery

I'm tempted this weekend to just leave my phone idle until it actually drops a % and see how long our phones actually have standby time with this kernel.

I went all day without charging running the new trigger rom.

Just wanted to recommend the trigger rom to everybody with bad battery problems. I was running Bionix before and getting 8 hrs at most, but now with trigger Im going all day without even touching a charger. I dont have any widgets that connect to my internet on the homescreen and Im not running any apps that hog power. Yesterday was a pretty heavy day for the phone though ant it worked flawlessly. I guess the only thing I really did was underclock it to 800mhz.
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Nice, I'm using the semi-accurate battery metamorph... which is that?
Also, GPRS, yikes

s15274n said:
Nice, I'm using the semi-accurate battery metamorph... which is that?
Also, GPRS, yikes
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Minimal matte
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I am running the Bionix 1.3.1 with the Dragon overclock kernel. I get 15-17hours a day on one charge, I am overclocked to 1.28ghz (I do have profiles in setcpu that underclocks me to 800mhz when the screen is off or when I am charging its down to 1ghz).
So I am not bashing your rom, but the reason you were having such terrible battery life really doesn't have much to do with Bionix. When I was running Bionix by itself I was averaging 22hours on a single charge
Currently I am at 30% battery life having gone 9.5hours on one charge today. This was a particularly harder day on the phone than normal, I have made several calls (to the tune of about 2 hours total), I have been playing "word with friends", constantly chatting on google talk, updated several apps over the course of the day, did some google searches on Dolphin HD browser, some you-tubing, and constantly checking and reading/replying to emails from my three accounts that are synced on it.
(I was home all day today lol)

kponti said:
I am running the Bionix 1.3.1 with the Dragon overclock kernel. I get 15-17hours a day on one charge, I am overclocked to 1.28ghz (I do have profiles in setcpu that underclocks me to 800mhz when the screen is off or when I am charging its down to 1ghz).
So I am not bashing your rom, but the reason you were having such terrible battery life really doesn't have much to do with Bionix. When I was running Bionix by itself I was averaging 22hours on a single charge
Currently I am at 30% battery life having gone 9.5hours on one charge today. This was a particularly harder day on the phone than normal, I have made several calls (to the tune of about 2 hours total), I have been playing "word with friends", constantly chatting on google talk, updated several apps over the course of the day, did some google searches on Dolphin HD browser, some you-tubing, and constantly checking and reading/replying to emails from my three accounts that are synced on it.
(I was home all day today lol)
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Lol there must be something wrong with my battery
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Impossible to really put much into it. Everyone uses their phone differently, even those people on different days. Flash what you love.

I get two days worth of battery life with heavy texting and moderate wifi. This Rom is a keeper for me I'm at 1 day and 3 hours and got 45% battery remaining.

I get from the Trigger Rom 20 hrs +/- with average use , 30 calls 20 texts, 20-40 emails, music other misc.
it is a Solid Rom and it battery performance is excellent.

Sig enough said
Trigger + Tigersblood = Winning

nothing new...
Overstock+any rom with disabled 3g and setcpu @800 MHz - about 48 hours (with music, ebook, calls). The proof is somewhere in the Trigger topic

I just went 29 hours off one charge on mine. Trigger is a keeper for me as well.

Get the same battery life with bionix 1.3.1 and overstock 1.5
3 exch accounts
Facebook and twitter syncing every 2 hours
3g+wifi
Two hours of bluetooth and music
Few texts and phone calls
Gps for traffic in the morning and in the afternoon
Brightness at 50 %
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And here I thought I was finally doing good with Trigger and you all come in and blow my happiness out of the water.
I pull mine off at 8am sharp, it sets with wifi and wifi calling on at work all day. maybe 1 10min phone call 2-4 txt and 4-8 emails and I get home at 6pm with 20% remaining. before on stock I would have to charge at 1-2 just to make it home and I thought that trigger and overstock was kicking butt till you all stepped in here with your usage and times and now I'm depressed again....
I even installed system monitor and it shows wifi calling only using 2-4% all day and the cpu usually hangs around 200-400. Guess my phone just hates batteries. might try setcpu.

trigger is awesome. i was messing around with some of the 2.2.1 roms... but i eventually went back to trigger. so smooth, so clean.

Wifi calling is a huge battery drain. You'll do much better without it.

Sdobron said:
Wifi calling is a huge battery drain. You'll do much better without it.
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The only issue is no signal at all at work, so wifi calling was a blessing when it came out so giving it up is kinda a bad thing, nothing like paying for service I don't have 9 hours out of the day. but like I said wifi calling was only consuming 2-4% so I don't see how that is killing my battery. But for a test I'll run one day with the app frozen and see how my battery goes.

I don't think the 2-4% is completely accurate, as that's probably due to cpu and not the increase in radio/standby usage. Try it without when you're not working. Even so you're getting great battery life for being on wifi calling.

Im not bashing the Bionix rom at all. I ran it for about 3 months straight and it was amazing. I had it overclocked to 1.4mhz and it was a beast, but I never used all that speed anyway. I was constantly disabling data and I basically took all the smart out of the smartphone. I was having to do everything manually to keep my battery lasting about 8 hrs.
I just never had battery life before like I have with this trigger rom. I just wanted to recommend it to other people that have serious battery issues. Flash whatever you want. The people on these forums have ceated some amazing roms and they all have their pros and cons. For me, trigger is the best so far. Just wanted to put that out there

reddragon72 said:
And here I thought I was finally doing good with Trigger and you all come in and blow my happiness out of the water.
I pull mine off at 8am sharp, it sets with wifi and wifi calling on at work all day. maybe 1 10min phone call 2-4 txt and 4-8 emails and I get home at 6pm with 20% remaining. before on stock I would have to charge at 1-2 just to make it home and I thought that trigger and overstock was kicking butt till you all stepped in here with your usage and times and now I'm depressed again....
I even installed system monitor and it shows wifi calling only using 2-4% all day and the cpu usually hangs around 200-400. Guess my phone just hates batteries. might try setcpu.
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Do you have a desk job where you sit at a computer? If you do, why not just hook your phone up to your computer with the USB cable and let it charge and power off of that?
But as was stated before, Wifi calling along with really low or no signal will eat your battery.

Odin back to stock then flashing trigger again helped my battery big time also.

The Plays Battery can actually rock!

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.

liaoip said:
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).

44 Hours of battery life!!!!

I'm running Toxic Crazy8, stock battery, Bali Kernel, undervolted an extra -25v across the board, reduced clock speed to 400mhz when screen's off. Light use gave me 44 hours of battery!
I probably could have pushed it even further. The first night it was updating 35 apps over wifi, and that sucked up almost 60%
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That's great an all but it comes slow. Try multitasking or play a simple game. It will lag like crazy. 44 hours is too much anyway, for me 12 hours would be the best.
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Airplane mode sure does help too
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It damn sure does...lol

I got 48hrs from the same rom, with wifi on constantly with skype. light to moderate use. Music at least 2+ hours twice in that span as well. Great rom. I chose not to UV or overclock so I have no SetCPU or anything installed, it's stock toxic with the 98 kickass script and v6. Really fast actually and no need for oc.

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I got 48hrs from the same rom, with wifi on constantly with skype. light to moderate use. Music at least 2+ hours twice in that span as well. Great rom. I chose not to UV or overclock so I have no SetCPU or anything installed, it's stock toxic with the 98 kickass script and v6. Really fast actually and no need for oc.
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thats impossible with "moderate" use.
its light, and i mean like.. VERY light not even to the scale of being the actual light... so techinically your not using light, but using little light to no light at all.
P.S. my sentence includes 6 words "light"
now that i'm done with that bull****.
Please people posting their batteries as 40+ hours, PLEASE start using your phone. or just get a feature phone, honestly.
I, too, keep my phone on standby more than actual use, but i DO use it when i can. theres atleast 8 hours of music daily, constant wifi use, 24/7, and i get near 20 hours of battery life because i consider my use minimal moderate. At the end of the day, my battery life is usually at 40%, then i charge it again.
I'm on MIUI as well so battery life isn't perfect and i can deal with that.

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thats impossible with "moderate" use.
its light, and i mean like.. VERY light not even to the scale of being the actual light... so techinically your not using light, but using little light to no light at all.
P.S. my sentence includes 6 words "light"
now that i'm done with that bull****.
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I SAID "light to moderate"... Also how can one judge what moderate is vs moderate with a guy who acts like a girl being on the phone all day texting and talking??? It's a ridiculous to even judge moderate or light vs someone else, because everyones concept of light to moderate are vastly different. So don't come at me like that bro.
Light to moderate (hence i didn't use strictly moderate) to me is at least 1 and a half hours on skype calls, at least an hour and a half on calls, a few texts on skype and sms, 10+ emails, a few show-offs lol, Wifi never turned off and skype always signed in, at least 4+ hours with music at the gym and a little after, a few random checks, a few market and web browses and maybe a short vid chat. That's light to moderate to me.
If you want to see less than light, like when I'm sleeping and checking my phone occasionally with wifi set to never turn off and skype signed in always I'll show you. It's been almost 12 hours since i was at full charge and unpluged and I am now at 94%. seems ridiculous I know and I thought so too but I ain't complaining. Stock battery as well. I'm no way saying this is light or what have you because it was idle for 90%+ Just an example of how deadly toxic 8 is with battery. And I do have apps. I dont usually play games though.

look at the attachment.That was after I downloaded 2 apps and tried them both lol and couldnt figure out how to screenshot. I'm done with this "bull****" now.

Once I see the cell standby is higher than the display I pretty much know how you use your phone.

No, you only know what you see. I am running Toxic8 also and am getting around 30+hours of real actual use, granted 8 of those are when I am sleeping, but still get strong use all day long.
Day in my battery.
Get up and go to work at 7am, listen to Iheartradio until 930-10
PowerAmp until 130 lunch with texts and email checks throughout.
130-2 XDA, random surfing
2-6 I listen to 2 different podcasts.
6-7 ride home on bus and listen to PowerAmp and check XDA again.
9-10 after kids in bed and I play a few games and check/clean some files in
Root Explorer.
Go to bed and then start over in the morning and finally plug in around 10 or 11 (lunchtime)
The cycle may shift a few hours here or there but it almost always the same. Oh and not sure if it is this ROM or not,but if I go into settings>about phone>status>batteryuse the picture shows that my display is at 75%, stand-by is 15% and phone idle is at 10% all +/- and that is clearly not the case. So you think that you see what my use is like but really you aren't.
I also use Juice Defender Plus which kills the radio/data traffic for an app-to-app basis and I have it set to kill radio/data while I am asleep.
I can post a screen shot if you like of the battery use (seeing isn't believing) or a shot of BetterBattery Stats (seeing is believing) if you like, but I am using my phone all day AND getting 30.

my vibrant hates toxic 8 for some reason. ultimate rom on the other hand has been very fast, responsive, and long lasting.

I prefer to actually use my phone for what I paid for it to do.....if I just want a phone ill go buy one out of a gumball machine or pick it out of a box of cracker jacks

iwillkillyou said:
That's great an all but it comes slow. Try multitasking or play a simple game. It will lag like crazy. 44 hours is too much anyway, for me 12 hours would be the best.
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I was at 19 hours and 31 minutes using the Stock ROM with 41% battery left.
That's 33 hours if I had let it go all the way down with the same usage, and I definitely used it more than the OP does if that screen shot is any indication.
Didn't use airplane mode or anything.
I just uninstalled all apps I don't use and use a Black Background with only 3 home screens and a 30 second screen time-out.
WiFi used whenever I could, and I keep GPS on all the time now. Automatic screen brightness, too

The people who are being negative, what do YOU consider good use? I'm on trigger 3.2 final with bali 1.8.8 kernel, and my phone can get 24 hours with occasional use and still be at 50% battery, easily 24 hours with REAL use.
Real use includes calling for 1-2 hours, playing at least an hour of games, and just syncing off for apps I don't use constantly.. I don't have the phone underclocked when screen is off or undervolted any more than the kernel is set for.
How do I get that battery life? When the screen is off, it is in deep sleep. I get less than 1% battery drop per hour when it is in deep sleep. So basically unless I'm ACTUALLY using my phone, it isn't draining.
The part that impresses me is that I get easily 20+ hours of heavy use on the ORIGINAL battery(over a year and a half old). I know that battery must have lost some of its ability to charge.. I got my phone replaced by warranty, and the battery they included WILL NOT give as much battery life.. it makes me think that the problem with some people is a combination of a crap stock battery, and wake lock issues..

Wow this is some crazy stuff! I've been on GB for a long time now. I was just thinking the other day to flash back to 2.2 just for the lulz. But then along came the ICS port.
It seems I should try this out.
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THIS is what really light use looks like.. maybe an hour of calling, a few dozen texts, reading some news..
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2.2 toxic is a great rom. i think it doesn't get enough love because of the GB and ICS options.
either way even 12hrs of battery life is pretty nice congrats

What I don't understand is:
1. How come it's on flight mode?
2. How come Display < Stand By?

Running on stock 2.2 with 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS turned off, barely any apps installed so nothing started up in the background, and not recieving any calls all day my battery went from 100% to 93% in 13.5 hours. I estimate just shy of 60 hours of potential battery life.
But that was with a phone that wasn't being used at all; i.e. a paperweight. I could just turn the phone off and claim I had a bajillion hours of battery life.
FYI when I took the sim card out of my daughter's iPhone 3G, turned off wifi, and shut the screen off it lost about 1% PER DAY. That works out to a 3-month battery life (give or take) but again it's just a paper weight at that point.
In other words, if you're using your phone as an MP3 player for 2 hours a day, why shouldn't it get 44 hours of battery life?

Ok so i read all this hype about crazy8 so im trying it out now...
Damnit im very impressed....
I watched 2 movies complete played angry birds, on my phone for most the night and this morning when i got off work 9 1/2 hrs later i still had 35% battery life.
That is awsome to me,though i did not get 44 hrs due to i actually use my phone i will say im impressed,,,,i now no longer need to carry my 3 batteries and the external charger with me everywhere i go lol
I normaly go thru 2 battery changes a night.
Tonight i will run with all the script tweeks and so on...im excited to see the results then lol...although i will not run plane mode and undervolt it and all those lame tricks, actually may oc clock it a bit.
No more miui and cm7 for me lol bad ass battery life with everything working and snappy as hell....im at home with crazy 8

Real life battery stats

Look at all these OMGZ BATTERY LASTED FIVE DAYZ AWESOME BAHHHH! I've noticed one common thing between them all, well 90% of them at least, the owners don't use their phones. You see these long battery life's but very short on screen time and very long intervals in between on screen times. Its common sense that you'll get great battery life if you let your phone sit hours on end just idling.
For the people who actually use their phone like texting, phone calls, surf various sites, and play games, having great battery life like all these people say is a dream. I want to get an idea on what real world use on your phone gets you.
Here's some screenshots of today's battery cycle, which is about average everyday for me. I've sent and received in the neighborhood of 250+ texts, surfed various sites, trolled xda, played a game for a while, and read my news.
So let's see what my life compares to all the other power users like myself vs the people who let their phone idle in the corner for three days and say they got amazing life.
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Matrix 17.0
100/800 lazy
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That's badass!! Though I don't use my phone much during the day at work. I check Tweetdeck for facebook and twitter timelines, XDA app, gmail, listen to music at times, read news through Pulse and Browser. Here's my battery stats for that one day that I wanted to see how my battery would hold out with deep idle on. Did not plug it in to charge entire day (I normally charge it while working).
This was on AOKP M3, Matr1x 16.0 cfs 200/1000. WiFi on in the morning when I woke up and checked some stuffs before heading to work. No WiFi at work entire day, then WiFi on again when I got home as shown in the screenshots.

Oh geez.....yawn
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Not everyone uses their phones the same way you do, while I do agree that people who just let their phone idle just for the purpose of getting amazing screenshots doesn't accurately portray real world battery usage, it still doesn't mean that we all use our phones the same way you do, for example I have school during the day, I can't be using it constantly so of course I'll be getting better battery life than "power users" but then again this is MY REAL LIFE USAGE so I'm not just letting it idle on purpose, so please don't put everyone that gets good battery life on the "OH MYY GAWDZZ" boat. Also I do actually use my phone, I get everything I need to be done on my phone while consistently getting 20+ hours with 4-1/2 hours screen on time.

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Not everyone uses their phones the same way you do, while I do agree that people who just let their phone idle just for the purpose of getting amazing screenshots doesn't accurately portray real world battery usage, it still doesn't mean that we all use our phones the same way you do, for example I have school during the day, I can't be using it constantly so of course I'll be getting better battery life than "power users" but then again this is MY REAL LIFE USAGE so I'm not just letting it idle on purpose, so please don't put everyone that gets good battery life on the "OH MYY GAWDZZ" boat. Also I do actually use my phone, I get everything I need to be done on my phone while consistently getting 20+ hours with 4-1/2 hours screen on time.
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Well thank you for expressing your feelings about categorizing people. I said that because well that's what most people do on here, truth. The whole point of this is to see what people are getting that use their phones, power users or not. I just want to get a good look and filter out the people who sit on their phones, turn data off and all that. You're completely right that no one else might use their phone as much as I do but I'd rather get a good look at actual use rather than like you said, looking to get that amazing screenshot.
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I understand what you were trying to get at. Its just not everyone is using their phone like you do so REAL LIFE usage will vary greatly depending on the user.

to many variables these threads are getting redundant...

This thread makes sense! On with the reak world battery pics!
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But this is my real life usage, I'm just not into heavy gaming Would've had around 5% more if I didn't get a random reboot at around 75% mark.
Activities include: email & whatsapp sync, around 10 mins phonecalls & 20 texts, reading ebook, browsing web & market, playing light game.
What makes a difference is good signal reception (all green/not using 3G unless there's no wifi and I need to download a file) and constant access to wifi (working from home, didn't need to go anywhere the last two days). Setting screen brightness on lowest unless I really need to turn it up helps too.
On heavier days when I'm out and about, using GPS navigation and mobile data, making more phonecalls & texts, taking pics, I typically get about half of that (20-24 hours).

deetailed said:
But this is my real life usage, I'm just not into heavy gaming Would've had around 5% more if I didn't get a random reboot at around 75% mark.
Activities include: email & whatsapp sync, around 10 mins phonecalls & 20 texts, reading ebook, browsing web & market, playing light game.
What makes a difference is good signal reception (all green/not using 3G unless there's no wifi and I need to download a file) and constant access to wifi (working from home, didn't need to go anywhere the last two days). Setting screen brightness on lowest unless I really need to turn it up helps too.
On heavier days when I'm out and about, using GPS navigation and mobile data, making more phonecalls & texts, taking pics, I typically get about half of that (20-24 hours).
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What phone, and what battery capacity? :O
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Rom : ics 4.0.4 porting
kernel: steve garon, 1100mhz,default voltage
governor : smartassv2
scheduler : noop

i9023, kangy13 + matrix 16.0
smartassv2, 200-1000mhz
freq arm int
1000 1175 1000
800 1100 975
400 1000 975
200 850 950

From cm9 v3.4 + Matr1x v17
Bugless beast + Matr1x v16.5
Bugless beast + speedy7
Now still testing irtehun + matr1x, hope to see 8h screen on time. Adios
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I am now testing another uv/uc setting.
24 hours on battery and screen on time is 2hr30min. Still 50% battery left.
liveoc 105%, 210-840mhz, smartassv2
freq arm int
840 1075 950
420 950 950
210 850 925

VhGomez LotaR1 Matr1x kernel v17. 200/1000 this was heavy use. Playing games, doing studying, reading,texts calls, xda all kinda of stuff. Downloaded like 350mb today....
Enjoy

TRinity T144-honeybadgerb kernel and a cm9 kang, 3+ hours screen on time, extremely heavy use, 1 hour of benching at 1440mhz/1440mhz, the rest browser time at 1440/100. probably could have gotten another hour of screen on time but it was my time for bed

well there's the thing about letting your phone sit forever, but also wifi. a lot of us sync a lot of stuff, so even when we sleep the phone will lose a clear 10% overnight. That's fine and all, but when you're on wifi, the stress on the phone is a lot less simply because 3G data takes a LOT more power....

dmo580 said:
.......so even when we sleep the phone will lose a clear 10% overnight. That's fine and all....
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That's not fine. My phone loses 2% tops overnight.

jerusry said:
That's not fine. My phone loses 2% tops overnight.
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What ROM/Kernel, CPU settings, and sync settings are you using?

Gomez Lota R1/ matr1x v17
200/1000 goin up to 400/1200
On demand gov
Deep idle on
I have every sync shutoff and manually sync when I want to check stuff. Always sync right when I wake up and several times during day.
Many disabled apps.