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Yesterday arrived my dev phone 1 and I am very hapy with it bu battery level is at 20% at 18:00. Is this normal?. I dont want to switch the band to 2g. I keep gmail synched with direct push but google talk not. anyone with same prpoblem?
Thanks
yeah, the standard battery in the G1 is ****ing terrible
not a lot you can do except buying an extended battery (which is a very good idea! )
The only thing I have found to extend my battery Life has been discussed previously a few times on these boards...
1. Turn off Wifi, when not in use. (Toggle WiFi from the Market is Great)
2. Turn off GPS, when not in use. (Toggle GPS from the Market also great)
3. Turn down the screen brightness.
4. (not sure if this makes a big difference) But sometimes if I do not need my feeds or background running apps throughout the day I will restart my phone, or run through a few applications that are not pulling web cache. This way you dont have auto update feedreaders in the background running. It seems like it works for me, but that could very well be wishful thinking. Also turning of things like Twitroid update etc...
Hope that helps.
recasper said:
The only thing I have found to extend my battery Life has been discussed previously a few times on these boards...
1. Turn off Wifi, when not in use. (Toggle WiFi from the Market is Great)
2. Turn off GPS, when not in use. (Toggle GPS from the Market also great)
3. Turn down the screen brightness.
4. (not sure if this makes a big difference) But sometimes if I do not need my feeds or background running apps throughout the day I will restart my phone, or run through a few applications that are not pulling web cache. This way you dont have auto update feedreaders in the background running. It seems like it works for me, but that could very well be wishful thinking. Also turning of things like Twitroid update etc...
Hope that helps.
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i do #4 as well, it seems to help, since i have root i just go into terminal and type su [enter] reboot [enter] and when it turns back on its usually doing bettery with the battery
as for opening programs, would advanced task manager serve the same purpose (closing apps that arnt needed and using memory, because if its using memory isnt it in some way using battery power?)
Thanks.
I am porting CommMgrPro to Android (Similar to Locale but much more powerfull). In this way I will switch to 2G, turn Wifi off, disable connections, etc, etc, etc automatically depending on my location/weekday/hour.
Greetings
Dani
Hi All
I have a brand new G1 and, like you, I was suprised by the short battery life.
I also thought about selling the phone but apart from that problem I like it very much.
I noticed that the permanent 3g wireless connection was the real draining battery application.
So the solution I found now is: to disable the permanent connection. I downloaded APNdroid application from the market and I use it everytime I need to toggle connection on and off.
I also tried to leave the WIFI on and i saw that it does not consume much battery.
I did not tried with the GPS.
I am using a good tool to toggle and to fine check the battery level: Useful switchers
I can now say I am pretty satisfied with the phone.
Greeting
Lollo
lollonet said:
Hi All
I have a brand new G1 and, like you, I was suprised by the short battery life.
I also thought about selling the phone but apart from that problem I like it very much.
I noticed that the permanent 3g wireless connection was the real draining battery application.
So the solution I found now is: to disable the permanent connection. I downloaded APNdroid application from the market and I use it everytime I need to toggle connection on and off.
I also tried to leave the WIFI on and i saw that it does not consume much battery.
I did not tried with the GPS.
I am using a good tool to toggle and to fine check the battery level: Useful switchers
I can now say I am pretty satisfied with the phone.
Greeting
Lollo
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Yes. It was the same problem there was in HTC Hermes/TyNT and TouchPro/Diamond. I created bandswitch in the past and will create two little toggles to switch 3g/2g with and without time limit....
Conditioning
Try Conditioning the Battery...
I have gps on, 2g, brightness at 50% and screen timeout at 30 secs, everything syncing and I get around 5 or 6 hours of use...just like the company says I should.
Run your battery completely dead...
Charge your phone for around 8-12 hours...
Repeat for about 6 days...
You should see improved battery life.
I have 3g, wifi, bluetooth, brightness at 50% and screen timeout at 30 secs, everything syncing with 1-2 hours of music/video with 30 SMS, about 20 mins of calls......I am now getting about 8hrs on the new ones from HTC (the 04).
Interesting Battery
Well now that I have had a week of use I have noticed that the (old) "02" batteries would last about 4-5hrs and go until 1% before turning off, with a slow count down. The (new) "04" batteries stay at a high number (about 6-7hrs) until they get to 15% and within a few mins turn-off....as I recall I saw postings of 'quick' count downs, so I wonder if you either get a slow drain down with about 4hrs of use OR about 6 hrs of use with the last 15% a very quick shutdown....I'll keep monitoring these new HTC batteries to see if it was just one of those "weekend" things or if this is the trade off...was caught off guard as I had been getting 30 mins or so when I had 15% left and the G1 would stay on until 1%..."teach an old dog new tricks".....
I have found the solution for MY large battery drain:
The problem has been, that my phone used 5% of battery per hour when it’s merely lying around. The battery graph was a straight, quickly decreasing line. So the culprit was not something that happend from time to time but always.
One very disturbing thing: The indicators below the battery graph shows when phone, Wifi and the screen were on. In additions it shows when the phone has been awake.
Even if the screen was off and I did not touch the phone, the „Awake“ indicator constantly showed every minute for a very short time. So the phone never went to sleep, it woke up constantly all the time. Sorry, unfortunately I don’t have a screen capture for this.
Deactivating automatic updates for applications and setting the Emails to sync never didn’t help. I even erased all the Samsung crapware from the system folder, but to no use. The battery died after one day of not doing anything with the phone.
Then I deactivated syncing of the contacts and the calendar for my WindowsLive-Exchange account and the battery drain stopped. I now have less than 1% per hour (see screenshot) when the phone is simply lying around.
So, for me the culprit is the syncing for contacts and calender via Exchange. Unfortunately there is no option to set the sync interval for these.
- Anyone can reproduce this issue?
- Is this just a problem with WindowsLive Exchange or does this happen with other Exchange accounts too?
- Is there a possibility to set the sync interval for contacts and calendar (somehow, maybe via a config file)?
There seems to be something seriously different if not broken in GB 2.3.3. Apps that work perfectly fine in Froyo are keeping GB 2.3.3 from going to sleep. I've isolated several apps that either keep the screen from shutting off or keep the device constantly awake even when it it's no longer running/cached/screen is off. And, these are programs that work perfectly fine in Froyo and do not cause idle drain. Wonder if this is something 2.3.4 addresses...
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I have frozen:
social hub, email (i use another one), and few more programs that I dont use but noticed that they stay on without any reason,
if 3G or wifi is ON battery drain is prery bad, I guess this is a bug in 2.3.3 as cmd512 said.
Last night I turned off wifi and 3g and made sure that wifi share + manager are off (they can be turned off easily if u untick "use wifi" in location settings menu)
so with everything off for 7 hours sleep (dont rly need my phone while sleeping) battery was down 2% only :O
the moment I turn on 3G Android OS use jumps to the skies :X
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I have found the solution for MY large battery drain:
The problem has been, that my phone used 5% of battery per hour when it’s merely lying around. The battery graph was a straight, quickly decreasing line. So the culprit was not something that happend from time to time but always.
One very disturbing thing: The indicators below the battery graph shows when phone, Wifi and the screen were on. In additions it shows when the phone has been awake.
Even if the screen was off and I did not touch the phone, the „Awake“ indicator constantly showed every minute for a very short time. So the phone never went to sleep, it woke up constantly all the time. Sorry, unfortunately I don’t have a screen capture for this.
Deactivating automatic updates for applications and setting the Emails to sync never didn’t help. I even erased all the Samsung crapware from the system folder, but to no use. The battery died after one day of not doing anything with the phone.
Then I deactivated syncing of the contacts and the calendar for my WindowsLive-Exchange account and the battery drain stopped. I now have less than 1% per hour (see screenshot) when the phone is simply lying around.
So, for me the culprit is the syncing for contacts and calender via Exchange. Unfortunately there is no option to set the sync interval for these.
- Anyone can reproduce this issue?
- Is this just a problem with WindowsLive Exchange or does this happen with other Exchange accounts too?
- Is there a possibility to set the sync interval for contacts and calendar (somehow, maybe via a config file)?
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Hmmm..it could be. I will try this also. First I just take the contacts out, because that is not so necessary for me. Calendar is pretty necessary for me and emails are a must. If I have to take the calendar out, then so be it. I will manually sync it once a week then.
By the way, I just noticed that with my gmail account the sync icon is constant in the calendar.
Now when I unchecked it and checked back it went away after a while.
I am not sure if it was sycning all the time without luck. Lets see.
I think calendar synch is on of the probleme. With calendar sync my phone drain 5% per hour in idle mode without 1% by one or two hours.
It's quite strange that there's quite a lot of these threads now all saying about how bad the battery is but I'm amazed by how good the battery is. I don't use my phone a huge amount especially at work and when I get home I use it for a quick web browse and the occasional text message and phone call. Most days I will still have 80% or more left by 23:30 having been on since 07:15. Today I checked my phone at 12:30 and the battery had only gone down 1% in just over 5 hours. All I did with it from 07:15 was occasionally take it out of sleep but not unlock it to check for any notifications. Since then I've been using the web (data) for about half hour or so, an hour of music listening and texting and right now I have 77% left after 12.5 hours off charge. Therefore I think my SGSII has the best battery life I could ask for.
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It's quite strange that there's quite a lot of these threads now all saying about how bad the battery is but I'm amazed by how good the battery is. I don't use my phone a huge amount especially at work and when I get home I use it for a quick web browse and the occasional text message and phone call. Most days I will still have 80% or more left by 23:30 having been on since 07:15. Today I checked my phone at 12:30 and the battery had only gone down 1% in just over 5 hours. All I did with it from 07:15 was occasionally take it out of sleep but not unlock it to check for any notifications. Since then I've been using the web (data) for about half hour or so, an hour of music listening and texting and right now I have 77% left after 12.5 hours off charge. Therefore I think my SGSII has the best battery life I could ask for.
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Really depends on what apps you have running, as you can see from my original thread on this "Awake all the time during idle" issue:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1094666
But in general, agreed. Once I got rid of that bug, the device has been fantastic with battery life. And, for a stock ROM, that's damn impressive!
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But in general, agreed. Once I got rid of that bug, the device has been fantastic with battery life. And, for a stock ROM, that's damn impressive!
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I fully agree. Now that I don't have the "wake-up" issue anymore, the battery lifetime is almost as good as the Omnia7 -that's damn impressive for a modern Smartphone with such a hardware!
For me, I turned off my wifi, gps and "my location". And most importantly, my applications are not running when it is on idle. Go to task manager by holding the home folder and click exit all. Or you might try to clear the ram memory.
i have turned off gps, wifi and syncing but still getting battery drains can´t even last for a whole day. But I installed Litening ROM just now and see if this helps . I was on KE2 before flashing custom rom
skycamefalling said:
I have found the solution for MY large battery drain:
The problem has been, that my phone used 5% of battery per hour when it’s merely lying around. The battery graph was a straight, quickly decreasing line. So the culprit was not something that happend from time to time but always.
One very disturbing thing: The indicators below the battery graph shows when phone, Wifi and the screen were on. In additions it shows when the phone has been awake.
Even if the screen was off and I did not touch the phone, the „Awake“ indicator constantly showed every minute for a very short time. So the phone never went to sleep, it woke up constantly all the time. Sorry, unfortunately I don’t have a screen capture for this.
Deactivating automatic updates for applications and setting the Emails to sync never didn’t help. I even erased all the Samsung crapware from the system folder, but to no use. The battery died after one day of not doing anything with the phone.
Then I deactivated syncing of the contacts and the calendar for my WindowsLive-Exchange account and the battery drain stopped. I now have less than 1% per hour (see screenshot) when the phone is simply lying around.
So, for me the culprit is the syncing for contacts and calender via Exchange. Unfortunately there is no option to set the sync interval for these.
- Anyone can reproduce this issue?
- Is this just a problem with WindowsLive Exchange or does this happen with other Exchange accounts too?
- Is there a possibility to set the sync interval for contacts and calendar (somehow, maybe via a config file)?
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I have noticed the same issue trying to sync to a exchange 2003 account. It seems that my calendar is syncing either every minute or about every 20 minutes. I also noticed the same issue with my gmail calendar. I have tried two different phones and reset each one several times. The same problem keeps occurring. I may have to download touchdown for email, contacts and calendar. It just sucks because then I will have two calendar applications (one for work and one for home). This is very frustrating.
Are you still having issues with echange calendar sync?
After updating to KE7, I have noticed that every time I receive an exchange email the screen wakes up for a second or two and goes to sleep again.
Didn't occur on previous firmware. Anyone else with this issue and a possible fix?
Is social hub the best solution for IM? I would like to have Yahoo and MSN messengers on always, so should I use another less power hungry client? When people mention calendar synch is it google calendar they're talking about? My google calendar is important for me, so how to optimize it?
brademcee said:
Are you still having issues with echange calendar sync?
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Yes, unfortunately. I am now syncing manually with a switch on the homescreen.
I am now hoping for Android 2.3.4 to fix this issue.
Have a look at comment #290:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=11126#c290
I have an X10i with Jerpelea's CM7 with custom kernel and that had a very annoying deep sleep issue (the phone never went deep sleeping) which caused the battery to drain very quickly, but Temoi19 found out that by disabling automatic time updates and manually selecting the operator, made the phone to deep sleep. So I took a shoot and tried the same trick on my new Galaxy S II and now when idle my phone barely eats power. After over an hour after unplugging I was still at 100%. I don't know if I am just lucky, but it is worth a try
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I also have this issue with my sgs2. I looked into the exchange settings and there is the option to change the syncing. It was set to push, I now i changed it to manual and will report back the results tomorrow. The drain in general only occurs when mobile data is enabled here. Didn't try with wifi yet.
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pik1 said:
I also have this issue with my sgs2. I looked into the exchange settings and there is the option to change the syncing. It was set to push, I now i changed it to manual and will report back the results tomorrow. The drain in general only occurs when mobile data is enabled here. Didn't try with wifi yet.
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You can leave the syncing to push, it's just for the EMails and they're working fine.
I'd propose to disable the calendar and contact sync in Einstellungen -> Konten -> Automatisch synchronisieren
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You can leave the syncing to push, it's just for the EMails and they're working fine.
I'd propose to disable the calendar and contact sync in Einstellungen -> Konten -> Automatisch synchronisieren
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according to the logs if there are no changes in contacts or calendar both will be synced only once per day. so this should not be the issue.
I know this issue has been posted in forums for other devices, but I haven't seen anything about it for NC. I did try to search the NC forums but couldn't find anything that seemed to address this problem.
I am using MIUI 1.7.22. I have noticed significant battery drain due to Android OS (in battery stats), suspend (in the systempanel app), and event/o (also in systempanel). I have disabled auto-sync and any apps that appear to be likely culprits (those that might attempt to download data). This problem seems to appear with wifi on or off, and when on, I have tried both setting it to never turn off and to turn off when the screen is off. Initially I was experiencing battery drain due to cell standby, which I took care of by disabling the telephony provider, phone, and mms apks. I know many don't believe this has an effect, but I did it anyway. The cell standby drain is gone, but now I'm fighting the drain due to these other factors. Has anyone found a fix for this?
After scouting around for info, I have tried some suggestions seen elsewhere: rebooting and wiping dalvik cache. So far today I haven't had any Android OS, etc. issues. Standby life with screen off is as it should be (for now and hopefully forever)--very slow battery drain.
This is with wifi set to never shut off, which I prefer.
Suspend etc. came back last night although not as extreme as before. Hopefully some other folks will have things to add to this thread. I will continue posting progress info as I learn more about this.
From the code.google.com forums:
Confirm heavy battery drain with enabled Location & Security -> Use wireless networks / Use GPS satellites. I've disable both options and now my battery life is normal.
With enabled "Location & Security" options battery eaten by "Android OS" process (about 40-55%).
I will try this and report back.
Disabling WIFI and GPS in location/security had no effect. There appears to be a google process that prevents the system from sleeping.
I was still experiencing random battery drain due to Android OS, suspend, event/0 after switching to cm7. One suggestion I read was to disable calendar sync, as this appears to be a runaway process that attempts to connect to the server constantly without allowing the device to sleep. Doing this allowed me to get through the night with very little drain and the Android OS, etc. processes were finally behaving (within normal limits).
I'm not sure if anyone is reading this thread but I will continue to update until I figure out the solution, as I imagine this problem will become more noticeable to others who are equally frustrated with this issue.
Having same problems on my galaxy s2. Lots of people have this problem and think it's a problem with the os. What os version are you using?
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Having same problems on my galaxy s2. Lots of people have this problem and think it's a problem with the os. What os version are you using?
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Right now I'm using cm7 (2.3.5) but I was using MIUI before. Turning off calendar sync has worked well so far.
I had bad battery drain in the past and no deep sleep. but what worked for me was not to use any live wall paper. this fixed my deep sleep issues. for the battery drain, re-set your battery stats and re boot a couple of times for the stats to settle down. also check google map and latitude. in latitude just log out. un-checking sync in my yahoo email app also helped with my battery drain. my wifi is set at, off with screen. I went from 20 -30% drain in 7hrs to now 1-3% in 7hrs
I hope any of this info can help
cm7 n146
Thank you, boxcar. I had tried all of those things (froze live wallpaper, reset battery stats, reboot, froze maps and latitude) but the only thing that worked for me was unchecking the box for calendar sync. Email sync and wifi appear to be non-issues--no difference between off or on. Evidently this google calendar sync bug is a known issue (that very few people seem to know about!). I hope google will fix this soon.
I also have same problem on my Galaxy S2. These two(events/0, suspend) drain many battery, 14% one night, without WIFI, GPS, Bluetooth.
I'll keep on tracing this issue, and share the result in this thread.
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I also have same problem on my Galaxy S2. These two(events/0, suspend) drain many battery, 14% one night, without WIFI, GPS, Bluetooth.
I'll keep on tracing this issue, and share the result in this thread.
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Turning off autosync seems to help the most (although setting WIFI to turn off when the screen turns off appears to help, as well). I tried using an autosync toggle but just turning it on at all seemed to result in a gradual creeping up of the Android OS, etc. problems. Manual sync of calendar and perhaps gmail and contacts seems to be the way to go. For some reason, exchange mail set to push results in no problems. The other trick I've found is to go to applications, then calendar and calendar storage, and force stop, delete cache, and THEN manual sync of calendar (reboot, recovery, wipe dalvik, fix permissions are good ideas, too). When I flash nightlies, I go through this process and the offending processes work as they should. If I don't, problems appear sooner or later.
I've had my nook on for 9 hours now, WIFI on (off with screen off) and 30 minutes of display on time. I've lost 9%, so I think I'm on the right track. This is how it should work, I.think. Of course, the results SHOULD be the same with autosync on, but manual sync for good battery life is an acceptable small tradeoff in my opinion.
Sincitybronze said:
I've had my nook on for 9 hours now, WIFI on (off with screen off) and 30 minutes of display on time. I've lost 9%, so I think I'm on the right track. This is how it should work, I.think. Of course, the results SHOULD be the same with autosync on, but manual sync for good battery life is an acceptable small tradeoff in my opinion.
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For the noobs in the audience, how exactly does one turn off autosync? Where is it located?
Thanks in advance.
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For the noobs in the audience, how exactly does one turn off autosync? Where is it located?
Thanks in advance.
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Menu, settings, accounts and sync (I leave background data checked).
I found part of the root cause, maybe some old application - can work on new version, but drain many battery. Today I uninstalled the 'Android photo widget', then only 1% battery has been drained within 2 hours when standby. Not totally solved the issue, but seems OK.
I guess you can also try this, find another 'bad' application which drains your battery.
Well guys, I'm not sure if I'm the last Nook Color user to continue fighting with this super annoying headache (I know SGS2 users are, too), but I think I'm on to something. I thought calendar sync was the culprit (and perhaps it was), but the Android OS drain (featuring nemeses suspend and event/0) would not go away and the arrival of this problem continued to be (apparently) random. I had an idea that, if the calendar sync kept alternating between suspend and event/0, perhaps this was due to old events that caused the sync process to continue longer than it would normally. So, based on this idea and logic, I changed my exchange e-mail account settings to sync email from the last month rather than to sync all mail. Looking at my work e-mail history, I realized I had e-mails in various folders and sent mail from as far back as 2001! Although it's nice to be able to access all e-mail history, perhaps the polling services were constantly monitoring the activity of super old emails and folders, which caused the suspend and event/0 processes to flip out. I don't know if this is the way Android actually works but it seemed logical to me. Well, for the last 24 hours, I have intermittently checked my cpu activity through systempanel, and what do you know, when the device is not being used, suspend and event/0 work as they are supposed to and Android OS stays low in the battery % list. PLEASE let this be the fix! I know there are other factors that contribute to the acting out of these processes, but on a stripped down device with no autosync or widgets and no out of control services identified in systempanel or watchdog, there can't be many other explanations. I'm curious if others with this problem have similar settings on their email accounts. In all the forums on different sites (and I've read a ton of them), I've never seen anything like this mentioned.
http://code.google.com/p/android/is...c=ID Type Status Owner Summary Stars&id=16721
Please vote there, and, may be, Google will fix it.
For those still following this thread, here's a tip. Use Gemini app manager (in the market). This has been one of the best tools I've found for managing wakelock issues and battery drain during standby. It allows you to identify apps that start up on their own (more than you think) and prevent them from starting randomly. In my experience this has been a huge cause of the standby drain problem showing up as Android OS, suspend, and event/0 in battery monitors. I'm currently sitting on 81% battery remaining with over 1 hour of screen time after 21 hours since my last charge. I know it's not a lot of usage but it's the standby time that's fantastic.
boxcar8028 said:
I had bad battery drain in the past and no deep sleep. but what worked for me was not to use any live wall paper. this fixed my deep sleep issues. for the battery drain, re-set your battery stats and re boot a couple of times for the stats to settle down. also check google map and latitude. in latitude just log out. un-checking sync in my yahoo email app also helped with my battery drain. my wifi is set at, off with screen. I went from 20 -30% drain in 7hrs to now 1-3% in 7hrs
I hope any of this info can help
cm7 n146
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I've a Galaxy S2. Tried everything, except disable autosync. Was losing 30-40% battery at night. So far since turning off google sync I'm getting about <1% battery use an hour. Will see if it continues. Thanks.
This isn't a thread for when your battery drain is excessive on standby, this is a thread dedicated to figuring out how to simply get more power to the phone for extended runtime.
I'm using a 5000 mah external battery pack for extra charge, and it seems to be good enough to last me at least an extra day or two of usage, which is great. It seems like the only other options are cutting up the battery door to fit an extended battery from the evo 3D or just carrying extra batteries...
Best easy change for me was always using wifi instead of the network when at home and work. Made a huge improvement
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This isn't a thread for when your battery drain is excessive on standby, this is a thread dedicated to figuring out how to simply get more power to the phone for extended runtime.
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So....how to get the most time out of your battery in standby?
As you've allready said:
One of the biggest improvements is possible by using a Sensation or Evo3D battery. With that i get a nice 1% per hour in standby. (It's actually a bit lower than 1%).
While not using the phone it's unnessecary to have 3G activated. Recieving emails and texts via whatsapp, viber etc via 2G is good enough. For everything that is more datahungry you can allways activate 3G manually.
Keep background data turned off. I use K9 Mail which works independently and Whatsapp recieves messages too. But a lot of other stuff doesn't syncronize which means less wakelocks and thus less power consumption.
Same with locations. As long as you don't WANT to tell google your every step you can keep network based location turned off.
If you need a location fix quickly you can allways turn on gps for a moment. After using the FasterFix app (i guess you need root for that), i get a gps lock in 5 seconds, so i can determin my location really fast and share it with others (for intance via whatsapp) without having to keep it on all the time.
And last but not least:
You probably don't need to know the current outside temperature every 5 minutes. So set that to manual update too.
Doing these things doesn't turn my smartphone into an overweight dumbphone with a battery problem and i get a maximum of over 4 days of standby time out of it.
Normally my battery holds for roughly 35 hours (1 day and 11 hours), but it's usually awake for 1/4th of the time serving as my newspaper and video and mp3 player.
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Totally forgot:
Use llama!
You'll never have to worry about forgetting to set your phone on vibrate while at work and setting it to loud at home.
You can configure it so it only activates wifi at home and turns it off again if you didn't connect to any access point after a set amount of time. I haven't had to activate/deactivate wifi manually for ages without having to worry about it constantly searching for networks and sucking my battery dry!
What he said
Dlog said:
So....how to get the most time out of your battery in standby?
As you've allready said:
One of the biggest improvements is possible by using a Sensation or Evo3D battery. With that i get a nice 1% per hour in standby. (It's actually a bit lower than 1%).
While not using the phone it's unnessecary to have 3G activated. Recieving emails and texts via whatsapp, viber etc via 2G is good enough. For everything that is more datahungry you can allways activate 3G manually.
Keep background data turned off. I use K9 Mail which works independently and Whatsapp recieves messages too. But a lot of other stuff doesn't syncronize which means less wakelocks and thus less power consumption.
Same with locations. As long as you don't WANT to tell google your every step you can keep network based location turned off.
If you need a location fix quickly you can allways turn on gps for a moment. After using the FasterFix app (i guess you need root for that), i get a gps lock in 5 seconds, so i can determin my location really fast and share it with others (for intance via whatsapp) without having to keep it on all the time.
And last but not least:
You probably don't need to know the current outside temperature every 5 minutes. So set that to manual update too.
Doing these things doesn't turn my smartphone into an overweight dumbphone with a battery problem and i get a maximum of over 4 days of standby time out of it.
Normally my battery holds for roughly 35 hours (1 day and 11 hours), but it's usually awake for 1/4th of the time serving as my newspaper and video and mp3 player.
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Totally forgot:
Use llama!
You'll never have to worry about forgetting to set your phone on vibrate while at work and setting it to loud at home.
You can configure it so it only activates wifi at home and turns it off again if you didn't connect to any access point after a set amount of time. I haven't had to activate/deactivate wifi manually for ages without having to worry about it constantly searching for networks and sucking my battery dry!
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Exactly what he said, but you can automate a lot of it by using an app called Tasker. I use it to sync all data on my phone for 3 minutes every 4 hours so it's always up to date. It can also automate the GPS on/off depending which app I use so it switches on when I open CoPilot and turns off again when I close it.
Tasker can also replace Llama if you can find 'profiles. to do it. Llama looks pretty good though.
I think the biggest drain is the display. With auto brightness on, the sensor will monitor the changes in your surrounding every second the moment you turn on the screen. Turn that off and manually control the brightness save a lot of battery.
Or just use lower autobrightness script.
I use Invisibright. Long hold on search softkey + slide enables me to set the brightness to whatever I want in a second no matter what apps are running.
Hunt3r.j2 said:
Or just use lower autobrightness script.
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It is still useless as your sensor is still working every time you turn on your screen. The sensor is draining your battery. Not the brightness value.
Autobrightness sensor drain
So you think that there is a greater drain from the light sensor than from an uncontrolled screen brightness?
Interesting thought. I'll manually set my brightness level a round20% for the next charge cycle and see what effect it has, though I suspect that as my display currently accounts for 20% of battery drain it won't make all that much difference.
I use juice defender and I think its actually working.
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Hi guys, I have a little battery issue over night I'm loosing about 4-5% every night ..
I have a OnePlus 5 on open beta 4 everything stock.. and clean flashed when it was out (factory reset after updating with full zip)
When I look in gsam my phone is awake only 10 minutes over 8h of sleep.. so it's not a wakelock I think because the only wakelock I get is netmgr_wl which is a kernel wakelock
I only disable WiFi and Bluetooth and put my phone on DND when I go to sleep
Mobile data is on, NFC on, location on and that's all
I've read here like 2 weeks ago that putting the phone face down help with over night discharge .. but it didn't helped me !
How come that I lose this much compared to some here who are loosing only 1%
Do you know a fix or something that can help me ?
tlf55 said:
Hi guys, I have a little battery issue over night I'm loosing about 4-5% every night ..
I have a OnePlus 5 on open beta 4 everything stock.. and clean flashed when it was out (factory reset after updating with full zip)
When I look in gsam my phone is awake only 10 minutes over 8h of sleep.. so it's not a wakelock I think because the only wakelock I get is netmgr_wl which is a kernel wakelock
I only disable WiFi and Bluetooth and put my phone on DND when I go to sleep
Mobile data is on, NFC on, location on and that's all
I've read here like 2 weeks ago that putting the phone face down help with over night discharge .. but it didn't helped me !
How come that I lose this much compared to some here who are loosing only 1%
Do you know a fix or something that can help me ?
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Maybe the others that loosing 1% don't sleep so long, disabled cellphone, used other apps, using no location services at all, disabled Nfc, don't use Google app. There's a lot you can do. But for detailed investigation please do record that behavior with better battery stats and provide a dump file.
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Maybe the others that loosing 1% don't sleep so long, disabled cellphone, used other apps, using no location services at all, disabled Nfc, don't use Google app. There's a lot you can do. But for detailed investigation please do record that behavior with better battery stats and provide a dump file.
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+1
Basically, you don't need to disable the cellphone (aka enabling Airplane mode) but if you disable Mobile Data it already helps a lot. If you disable Mobile Data and WiFi, you should get the same 1% battery drain others are reporting.
On a side note, I should add that I drifted away from trying to conserve battery drain because I became a fan of the Always On display app, which makes it convenient to see the time in the night or early morning without having to touch my phone.