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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
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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.
Sent from my blah blah blah blah

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.

General battery usage

hey pretty new on mt4g so i wanted to gauge battery life and see what other people are seeing. I'll start and lay a rubric for everything I'm seeing
Mytouch4g
Rom cynogenmod 6.1.2RC2
Grankin 2.6.32.27 oc'd to 1.8ghz. Kernel
Have set CPU set for 245mhz on screen off/On demand. And normal is 245 to 1.8ghz on demand ad well. ( Not sure what's good profiling and stuff
Have Facebook and ebuddy and everything is off cept for data. No email only push Gmail
Hitting about 1% every 20 min and when i do browsing for like 20-30 min i lose like 10-15%
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Nice..
Mine can only hold for about 15 hours, lite web browsing, barely phone calls and texts..

I got about 16 hours yesterday. Using CM7. Brightness all the way up. Everything on except wifi. Browsing about 2 hours. About 5 phone calls, 15 mins or more. Used google maps. Did about 20 text msgs. I think that's all I did. Loving the battery life on CM7.

I get like 2 days use out of my phone without charging it. I've always tried to figure out why my battery life is always so much better than my gfs and I think I might have figured it out....I'm always on wifi.
The two places I am the majority of the day (work and home) I am constantly connected to wifi so it keeps my radio from scanning for a bettery data signal so my battery lasts a lot longer.

I have:
Iced Glacier v.1.1.6
Gorilla OC 1.6ghz beta v05 (but runs at 1.7ghz?)
SetCPU set at 1.7ghz ondemand and 245mhz screen off powersave
I get around 16 hours from a full charge, but Im always on the phone and playing with it but I have noticed that my battery does last longer on wifi

after tinkering around with it its working out better.
using
CM7nightlies#9
CM kernel
no setcpu
i get around 20 to almost 24 hours of usage. but most of the time i'm charging or partial charge cause i stream music like a mad man ahha.

stock i can get almost 24 hrs on a full charge im also using screen filter app(awesome app to use) im on pocket empires a lot too

Is it just me or does 100% last longer when fully charged? Has anyone also observed this? ATM I have 93% at 20hour mCPU scaled at 768mhz and around 15-16H moderate use with scale at 1.6GHz on max load.

I bought the Mytouch 4g on black Friday and found problems with the battery life in the first week. 5 Hours maximum without even using it. The camera worked randomly. I exchanged the phone for another one and all my problems were solved. I use the phone for gaming mostly and that drains the battery obviously .
I purchsed the powerskin case from the T-mobile store and I couldn't be more satisfied. I can use my phone for 6-7 hours straight playing games and browsing the web and it still has a full battery with a bar left on the power skin. It may be a little bulky but it brings be back to the good ol days when phones were bricks and adds that extra padding that I feel is necessary for protection. The price tag on the powerskin was $70 at the store but when it was scanned it came up as $40.00.
I highly suggest this product for those with fear of their phone dying unexpectedly.

Mac33 said:
I got about 16 hours yesterday. Using CM7. Brightness all the way up. Everything on except wifi. Browsing about 2 hours. About 5 phone calls, 15 mins or more. Used google maps. Did about 20 text msgs. I think that's all I did. Loving the battery life on CM7.
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Just because of root your battery is that great? My brightness is off all day and my Data is off and my battery MIGHT last me till like 10:00 PM..

This is probably a silly question, and after quite a while searching I haven't found any real answer, but here goes:
Going from original out-of-the-box to rooted RoyalGinger 2.1, the battery use by my Display has gone WAY down. Like from always being #1 to usually being well below Cell Standy, Phone Idle, Wi-Fi, etc. And it's definitely not that I'm using the Display less.
Has anyone else seen this? Does it have something to do with how RoyalGinger, Gingerbread, etc. calculate battery usage? Is it normal?

ericjwaugh said:
This is probably a silly question, and after quite a while searching I haven't found any real answer, but here goes:
Going from original out-of-the-box to rooted RoyalGinger 2.1, the battery use by my Display has gone WAY down. Like from always being #1 to usually being well below Cell Standy, Phone Idle, Wi-Fi, etc. And it's definitely not that I'm using the Display less.
Has anyone else seen this? Does it have something to do with how RoyalGinger, Gingerbread, etc. calculate battery usage? Is it normal?
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yes its normal. you came from stock MySense UI(stock Glacier), and Sense builds are known to be battery whores because they look awesome, have loads of interactive widgets, and lots of bloatware as well. going to an AOSP build(CM7, RG) the ROM is very lightweight and contains little to no bloatware and still as fast, maybe even faster. just look at the size of the files...Sense=300+MB, AOSP=80-110MB. plain and simple, all of the bloat consumes more power on your display

clarknick27 said:
yes its normal. you came from stock MySense UI(stock Glacier), and Sense builds are known to be battery whores because they look awesome, have loads of interactive widgets, and lots of bloatware as well. going to an AOSP build(CM7, RG) the ROM is very lightweight and contains little to no bloatware and still as fast, maybe even faster. just look at the size of the files...Sense=300+MB, AOSP=80-110MB. plain and simple, all of the bloat consumes more power on your display
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Thanks for the prompt reply. I guess I didn't expect the Sense bloat to be reflected in the display usage. Does "Display" include the touch interface as well? If so, I guess I can see why Sense would show up as display.

Display counts more than just the power used by the LED backlighting.
I plugged my phone in yesterday at 14 hours of uptime with 45% battery remaining, after a day of fairly heavy use. Close to three hours of music listening, two hours of screen-on time and 3G/wifi web browsing, forty minutes of voice calls and a few SMS.
Using CM7 nightly #143 and insanity v3 kernel, 122/1017 clocks with smartass governor. I'm sure if I switched from smartass to conservative my battery life would increase a bit, but I like the smoothness that smartass gives me, and even on a day of brutally heavy use, I'll still come home with at least a quarter charge left.

Here's mine. Don't post attention to the time, I rebooted a couple times, it's probably been about five hours on battery. I don't do too many games per se, but I do browse xda and facebook a lot
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here's mine (i'm too new to post links):
15h 12m 37s on battery
Android System 44%
Cell standby 22%
Phone idle 18%
Voice calls 8%
Wi-Fi 6%
Display 5%
as you can see (er, read), the display is really low. not sure what's up with system (maybe scanning the sdcard?), usually it's just standby and idle at the top. this is on RG2.1 with the display on auto brightness with defaults.
so this really is normal?

ericjwaugh said:
here's mine (i'm too new to post links):
15h 12m 37s on battery
Android System 44%
Cell standby 22%
Phone idle 18%
Voice calls 8%
Wi-Fi 6%
Display 5%
as you can see (er, read), the display is really low. not sure what's up with system (maybe scanning the sdcard?), usually it's just standby and idle at the top. this is on RG2.1 with the display on auto brightness with defaults.
so this really is normal?
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yep, that looks about normal for AOSP builds

Well I won't complain. Like I mentioned, I was really surprised at the low battery consumption of the display. Didn't expect that much difference just by changing ROMs. Wish I would've rooted a long time ago.
Thanks again for humoring me and my silly questions.
clarknick27 said:
yep, that looks about normal for AOSP builds
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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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Got even better battery life? Post a screenshot =)

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.

Penvision66 said:
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.

xriderx66 said:
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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AOKP b23
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.

SeeNah said:
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
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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
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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.

ATT - battery just isn't cutting it

No matter what I do the battery will not last me a full day. A full day for me is about 18 hours. I use my phone almost none at all while at work and I use juice defender to keep data and wifi off while I am not using the phone. I would say 80% of my day is wifi and only a little is LTE. I monitor my task usage and the only thing that ever shows up is screen...there are other apps but very little usage. I use auto brightness. Could that be it? Unless JD doesn't work well with these phones, I just can't figure out what it is. Unless of course its just normal...
Phone has to last me 18 hours with moderate usage. If it doesn't, I need another phone.

Post some screenies?
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The big killer of battery life is when LTE doesn't have a good signal (inside a large building). Connecting and reconnecting to the tower is what always kills my battery. I suggest you look and try those "turn of LTE" hacks around. My battery lasts me about 20 hours with moderate usage (but I am always in a great LTE location), and about 12 hours with heavy usage.

As long as your signal (wi-fi, LTE, HSPA, whatever it may be) remains good, you should have amazing battery life. I often take my phone out for 16-17 hours between charges and have ended the day with anywhere from 60% to 25% of the battery life, ranging from light to moderate usage.
For me, an average day is on wi-fi for at least 90% of the time, but a recent trip I had to Chicago (LTE all day, no wi-fi) showed similar results - and that was with some more moderate use while traveling! Not sure if there is much you can do about your signal, but I know my last phone (Captivate) got worse signal in my pocket vs. on my desk. SIII doesn't seem to be having as much of an issue, but still something to consider if necessary in your case.

I live in Dallas and have great LTE.

I just copped the sgs3 today and have not put it down my batt isn't that bad. 8 hours st8 on it lol
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OP, one suggestion I have...
What makes this phone a winner over my One X is the removable battery. I believe you can get a second stock battery for about $30, and I saw a charger and battery for around $40 earlier. Maybe you should pick up a spare? I realize it's not ideal, but it's an option.
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I'm in Vegas, lte rocks and I use my phone constantly. I can't get 4 hours so I just ordered an Anker 2200mAh.
I'm not on wifi but the Lte network in Vegas flies too which is just an additional $$. I've just got juice defender ultimate. I know a lot of people swear by it but I can do it better and faster myself. I'm a heavy user and if we could just turn off the Lte u and then maybe slow down the processor., I would be fine. It's ridiculous we still need additional batteries.
Whenever I leave my house I do the following in settings.
Power Savings I now just leave on.
I either completely Restrict background data or you can do by application in Data usage and go into Accounts and Sync and turn most off. Anything not Google is off and under Google I just sync my calendar, address and Gmail.
Now if we can turn off Lte, I will be fine I think.
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No matter what I do the battery will not last me a full day. A full day for me is about 18 hours. I use my phone almost none at all while at work and I use juice defender to keep data and wifi off while I am not using the phone. I would say 80% of my day is wifi and only a little is LTE. I monitor my task usage and the only thing that ever shows up is screen...there are other apps but very little usage. I use auto brightness. Could that be it? Unless JD doesn't work well with these phones, I just can't figure out what it is. Unless of course its just normal...
Phone has to last me 18 hours with moderate usage. If it doesn't, I need another phone.
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I'm pretty happy with my battery...
Stock AT&T SGS3 rocking KT747

Once I stopped useing the XDA dev app that was hitting my CPU at a constant 30% I have been getting great battery.
Screen brightness on 100% as well.

Yup
Just put it on the charger as I took the screenshot.
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I was running rom that was supposed to be stock but debloated and I installed the cpu1 sleep apk and I got horrible battery life. 5 hours and I was completely dead. I could not see any partial wakelocks. I was about ready to box up the phone and ship it back to Amazon. I flashed back the complete stock rom and I got great battery life. 12 hours, 3 phone calls, 3 push mail accounts, yahoo checks every 15 minutes, 1 hour streaming and the Windows Weekly podcast and I still had 65% left. I was moving so I didn't get a chance to browse or do work crap on it.
Hell with it, I'm staying stock till CM9/10 gets most of the bugs worked out.

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I'm pretty happy with my battery...
Stock AT&T SGS3 rocking KT747
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Mine is about the same, but that isn't good for me. I am 7am-3am daily. There is no way your battery is making it 20 hours, just like mine.

How do you take a screenshot?

Swype with your whole hand from right to left
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I live/work just outside of an LTE area, and lately have been using my phone pretty light due to not being able to use it at work other than when I'm on lunch. I get almost no signal in my entire building, so 75% of the day I turn airplane on so my battery doesn't get raped.
So for me and my use recently, the battery has been doing good enough for me.
the standby thing raping my battery is weird,same thing with maps even though i never use it... but i guess both are common. Chrome use was at 3% and i forgot to check screen on time.
On the current charge I'm siting at 47% at almost 24 hours, about 1hr 15 mins of screen on time. 30 mins of voice, 10 of chrome...but i accidently unplugged the phone right before i went to sleep last night instead of starting this morning, and i just took a nap so again there is a lot of sleep time
Take all that for what it's worth, which I have no idea lol

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How do you take a screenshot?
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Actually its more of a judo chop on the left side and then slide to the right while maintaining constant contact with the screen.... Of course the easy easy way is to just hold home+power for 2 seconds
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Bowsa2511 said:
Swype with your whole hand from right to left
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Thanks but holy **** that sucks! Being 6'6" with big hands prolly doesn't help. Here goes..

gedster314 said:
I was running rom that was supposed to be stock but debloated and I installed the cpu1 sleep apk and I got horrible battery life. 5 hours and I was completely dead. I could not see any partial wakelocks. I was about ready to box up the phone and ship it back to Amazon. I flashed back the complete stock rom and I got great battery life. 12 hours, 3 phone calls, 3 push mail accounts, yahoo checks every 15 minutes, 1 hour streaming and the Windows Weekly podcast and I still had 65% left. I was moving so I didn't get a chance to browse or do work crap on it.
Hell with it, I'm staying stock till CM9/10 gets most of the bugs worked out.
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I had the same issue, then discovered that going through a charge cycle fixes the issue. I got only 5.5 hours of use off my first charge (80% of the time on standby), but things improved enormously after recharging it to some extent, then unplugging it. See my post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28742643&postcount=297
I've had my phone unplugged for an hour now after the last partial charge, and it's actually gone from 48% then to 51% now, as the battery is still recalibrating.

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the standby thing raping my battery is weird,same thing with maps even though i never use it... but i guess both are common.
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The cell standby reading is a bug in the software, it is reading something like 10 times higher than it is supposed to.