I'm switching to the nexus s in a few days - Nexus S General

Is the battery life good?
How is the 3g? Does it go in and out or stay connected
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dco717 said:
Is the battery life good?
How is the 3g? Does it go in and out or stay connected
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Both depend on you usage habits and region.
I can go a day on a single charge and have no data issues
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with:
netarchys kernel
voodoo colors adjustments
running at 1.0ghz
automatic brightness
GPS on
syncing on
average usage of maybe 2-3 hours of browsing and data i get roughly 60-68% at the end of the day at 11pm.
never have any data issues of it dropping.

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This is the ffirst time I have itterally gone a whole day on one charge; got up and switched to the N1 at 910 and at around....830 I put it back on the charger at around 15 percent.
I checked email, surges the web and texted throughout the day; I could maybe go half a day on my Captivate.
I seriously thought aabout ordering some spare batteries off of eBay but I'm really rethinking that now.
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what is your setup?
No need to. Just keep a charger in your car. Problem solved
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I hear htc its giving out batteries for free under warranty if you say yours is discharging to fast. Wink wink
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ddgarcia05 said:
I hear htc its giving out batteries for free under warranty if you say yours is discharging to fast. Wink wink
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Ill have to check up on that, thanks.
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My setup is the rooted, deoxed version of stock 2.3.3. Amazingly fast (just as fast and smoother than the Atrix) and obviously has great battery life.
I'm using Zeam launcher with a few Widgets, light flow and my led light (top of phone) stays lit all if the time.
Checking the stats, I used 83 megs of data that came from web browsing, twitter, downloading applications, and email and stuff.
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ddgarcia05 said:
I hear htc its giving out batteries for free under warranty if you say yours is discharging to fast. Wink wink
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this is true, when my wife's N1 was just about 2 months old and I noticed the battery was draining too fast i called them up and sent me a new one for free I later found out my was not activating her screen lock before putting inside her bag lol...
ddgarcia05 said:
I hear htc its giving out batteries for free under warranty if you say yours is discharging to fast. Wink wink
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could i still get this if i bought my phone off a guy from craigslist?
jonesy420 said:
could i still get this if i bought my phone off a guy from craigslist?
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you should be able to as long as the 1 year warranty is not up. Did he happen to mention when he purchased it?
I don't have much problem with battery life, if I am at the place with good signal receptions.
Here is my, Battery use graph, which is built into the Gingerbread.
BTW, I did re-charging during the duration.
Settings -> About Phone -> Battery use -> Tap the title bar.
My setup.
Stock GRI40
Kernel : 2.6.35.7 from android.git.kernel.org (compiled with my own taste of configurations)
Governor : Conservative
CPU speed : 128Mz - 998 MHz.
Based on my battery stats, I have an estimated battery life of nearly 48 hours if I leavr the phone alone.
With CM7 RC2 and wifi sleep policy set to never.
SalsaForte said:
Based on my battery stats, I have an estimated battery life of nearly 48 hours if I leavr the phone alone.
With CM7 RC2 and wifi sleep policy set to never.
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With sleep policy to never on CM7 RC2, does that affect battery life when wifi is turned off? Read some posts its just some bug?
boky3000 said:
With sleep policy to never on CM7 RC2, does that affect battery life when wifi is turned off? Read some posts its just some bug?
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set wifi sleep to never increases your battery life dramatically. if you let wifi sleep, then it switches back to 3g which destroys battery much faster than wifi. so leave wifi sleep on NEVER.
just called htc and told them i was having battery issues. they asked for my imei# told me i still had 3 months of warranty left then asked where i would like my new battery sent great customer service!

[Q] is there a way to keep data connection on without it killing the battery fast

is there a way to keep data connection on without it killing the battery fast
I have data on all day and battery lasts a whole day, it's usually on about 40% when i go bed
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Yeah, I've never turned off data.
Maybe with HEAVY game usage it might be worth it but for everyday use I like to stay connected.
I have ebuddy & Skype running and loads of **** set to sync every hour or half our and the battery lasts easy a day at work & most of the evening.
It's only when I'm smashing some heavy screen on time (4hrs+) that I'm needing a recharge.
If you are on a 4.0 based firmware, then if you turn the automatic network search off and manually set it to your network provider, that usually helps a lot.
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turn down your screen brightness.. if you bought the auto brightness app from the market it will definitely help... my battery lasts about 10-18 hours depending on the amount of games I get into in one day..
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If you are on a 4.0 based firmware, then if you turn the automatic network search off and manually set it to your network provider, that usually helps a lot.
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I didn't know about that one, thanks dude!
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3 hour Battery life On CM7

After calibrating, draining and recharging and wiping stats a thousand times, this is what I get:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-...9zLfSiSGJ_Q/s512/screenshot-1321359229108.png
Wtf is that crap?
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Rouge app, or bad battery
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Viamonte said:
After calibrating, draining and recharging and wiping stats a thousand times, this is what I get:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-...9zLfSiSGJ_Q/s512/screenshot-1321359229108.png
Wtf is that crap?
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2 hours of screen time there, that seems about normal to me. I'm lucky if I squeeze out 3 hours of screen time throughout the day.
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It depends entirely on what you are doing. 2 hours of screen time (even in ideal conditions) will most likely get through half of your battery.
What screen brightness settings do you use?
What were you doing with the "screen on"? (i.e. gaming, video etc).
What kernel do you use? Try the Faux 1.0 Ghz kernel (if not already) and consider undervolting.
I imagine with the combo of Faux's stock kernel, undervolting and perhaps reducing screen brightness will see 5ish hours of screen time.
It was on around 85% brightness due to being under direct sunlight.
My kernel is faux's 1.45 for CM
Over 80% of the time the clock was around 200, 400MHZ as stated by SetCPU, and both those clocks are undervolted by 50.
I was browsing the whole time.
Viamonte said:
It was on around 85% brightness due to being under direct sunlight.
My kernel is faux's 1.45 for CM
Over 80% of the time the clock was around 200, 400MHZ as stated by SetCPU, and both those clocks are undervolted by 50.
I was browsing the whole time.
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Wow no wonder. Roaming for 2 hours with brightness nearly on full will definitely drain your battery.v Plus the 1.45 Ghz kernel overclocks the RAM and GPU also. You might want to get an anti glare screen-protector and flash the 1.3 Ghz kernel and use wifi.
I'm on the nightlie 18
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rog1121 said:
Wow no wonder. Roaming for 2 hours with brightness nearly on full will definitely drain your battery.v Plus the 1.45 Ghz kernel overclocks the RAM and GPU also. You might want to get an anti glare screen-protector and flash the 1.3 Ghz kernel and use wifi.
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Umm... wifi wasn't an option back there, and I don't use screen protectors. BUT I didn't know that bit of fact from faux's kernel, I'll put in the 1.3
BTW, Green power pro does help a ****load on keeping battery alive.
ps: anyway to control RAM and GPU clocks the way we do with SetCPU with the... well... cpu?
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I'm on the nightlie 18
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Why don't u go to a stable version and see if the battery drain continues there also ? You can always create backups to restore right ..
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Welcome to cm7. I'm lucky to get 10 hours light usage with faux 1ghz kernel undervolted with a screen off profile of 216-216mhz.
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jimmer411 said:
Welcome to cm7. I'm lucky to get 10 hours light usage with faux 1ghz kernel undervolted with a screen off profile of 216-216mhz.
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Have you tried installing better battery stats and CPU spy to see if you have a rogue app? You should be getting significantly better battery life. How is your cell signal?
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anupash said:
Why don't u go to a stable version and see if the battery drain continues there also ? You can always create backups to restore right ..
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Lol it is stable and my battery life is great
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I don't believe setcpu functions correctly for dual core devices, I remember reading, albeit a while ago, setcpu only effects 1 core, leaving the second untamed.
Please correct me if I'm wrong. Stock cm kernel has plenty of ass behind it, no ones playing bf3 on their handsets....yet...
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In all actuality, android isn't optimized for dual core devices either. ICS will be.
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termleech said:
Have you tried installing better battery stats and CPU spy to see if you have a rogue app? You should be getting significantly better battery life. How is your cell signal?
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Watchdog shows the suspend process and android media process taking up about 30% usage constantly. Signal is strong when I'm at work, constant 4-5 bars H+
Even after a full wipe and clean install of CM7 those same processes throw up alerts immediately, I will get al alert for the suspend process every few mins.
Background data off, no email syncing or anything. I'm lucky to get 3 hours screen on time or pandora streaming. I bought a new Motorola battery about a month ago and I don't use GPS or wifi.
Running stock, aura or homebase and the drain is gone... they aren't any good IMO tho.
For now I'm carrying a spare charger everywhere I go till the nexus prime is released.
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JaronBang said:
In all actuality, android isn't optimized for dual core devices either. ICS will be.
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ICS is still android lol
I know what you meant though. Just saying

Battery Drains QUICKLY!

I got school at around 6 am. By the time I eat lunch it's already at 57%. By the time I get home around 5 and it's already at 17%.
All I do is listen to music (doubletwist/playerpro) and play Cut the Rope, WTF!?
Cell standy by is 46% in batter usage followed by wifi with 11%
any help guys?
What I tend to do is have brightness down to about half. Have you also tried fully charging the phone, taking the battery out and charging back to full? I sometimes find it drops down but regenerates itself.
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is it stock no over clocking mods etc no app keeping phone locked awake?
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Droid117 said:
What I tend to do is have brightness down to about half. Have you also tried fully charging the phone, taking the battery out and charging back to full? I sometimes find it drops down but regenerates itself.
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fma965 said:
is it stock no over clocking mods etc no app keeping phone locked awake?
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Brightness is below half,I never go over. WiFi is on but not all the time.
Stock rom 2.3.4 rooted
Do you have data off?
How's your phone signal most of the time? It has been proven that low/bad signal drains battery quicker than good signal.
Sometimes certain buildings/rooms have pretty bad reception making it a huge drain for your phone.
Droid117 said:
What I tend to do is have brightness down to about half. Have you also tried fully charging the phone, taking the battery out and charging back to full? I sometimes find it drops down but regenerates itself.
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This is a useful piece of information, however is not really practical. Ideally we don't want to be turning off our phones on every charge :/
I myself own 3 batteries, and alternate them (I have a wall charger for the batteries)
what ver are you using if 2.3.4 the battery issue is fix.
I get 3 /4 bars, at school right new and yea some times I get nothing, especial ly during the subway ruse which is an hour
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Once I updated my phone to 2.3.3 I noticed that the battery life was sub-par, only lasting 3/5s of the day on a full charge.
I proceeded to root my phone (as I don't have the money to unlock my Big Red Bootloader); after installing SetCPU I took down the clocking meter 1 notch (768MHz) and the phone is stable with not difference in performance (so far). Doing this and removing some unneeded bloatware has increased my battery life 2.5x and I can go almost 3 days on a single charge.
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what ver are you using if 2.3.4 the battery issue is fix.
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xiEvo is correct and I've read a lot of good stuff regarding battery life with 2.3.4. I can only begin to imagine what kind of battery life I'll have once I get that update.
get juice defender off the market ultimate version is best. this will lookafter everything for you.. juice defender is a must have app for all android devices
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I'm 2.3.4.
Honestly I had the best battery life with 2.3.2, IDK why.

Someone help me! (BatLife woes)

Alright I wasn't going to make a thread on this because this topic is already discussed elsewhere naturally but I feel my situation is different. All over the place I see people reporting great battery life with ICS.. well mine is HORRIBLE. I just flashed the latest nightly for Pete's bugless. I didn't change the kernel. Everything is stock. Only a few apps installed. Noop for scheduler and ondemand for governer.
The phones been off the charger for 55 minutes and I'm sitting at 76%. Idk what's going on. I've tried so many rom/kernel combos and I seem to get the same exact battery life no matter what. Around 6-9 hours with less than 1 hour of screen on time.
Things I've tried to combat this:
Undervolting
Freezing apps
Restricting background data
Underclocking
Brightness set to auto
And I'm sure a few other things I'm forgetting about. I've done all this and still get ****ty battery life. I've flashed the new radio hoping that it would solve my issues but no dice. My signal strength reports at -67 dbm yet the bars never go over 2. 3g or 4g. Even after updating plr.
On gingerbread cm7 I ran brightness at 70%, ocd to 1.4ghz and always got 15+ hours.
For the love of god someone help me. Cuz I think my phone hates the cream sammiches.
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try this kernel, trinity teuv underclocked/undervolted kernel, oc'd gpu http://goo.gl/rY6ga
and do not set brightness to auto, its a battery killer. i keep my brightness at about 20-25%.
also, be sure to fully discharge your battery then charge it completely, after 2 or 3 cycles you should be good.
simms22 said:
try this kernel, trinity teuv underclocked/undervolted kernel, oc'd gpu http://goo.gl/rY6ga
and do not set brightness to auto, its a battery killer. i keep my brightness at about 20-25%.
also, be sure to fully discharge your battery then charge it completely, after 2 or 3 cycles you should be good.
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I do this every day lol I let the battery drain to around 15-30% before I plug it back in.
Screenie: 1 hour later and I lost another 25% this can't be rom or kernel related. As I have tried trinity already and the same thing happens
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Ugh. Another 20% gone. Its only been a half hour from the above screenie. You guys see my dilemma? Lol **** me.
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21% ..
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i was having horrible battery drain after flashing a new rom & kernel - i finally figured it out that my APN settings were messed up and I re-entered them according to the correct carrier settings.
i don't know if that will apply to you since it looks like your 4G data is working properly, but since I was on wifi 99% of the time, as soon as I went off, my data didn't work. but it's something to look at.
4 hours later I'm down to 4% from a full charge.
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Could you try better battery stats to see if something is holding a wakelock?
Turn Data usage off :/ i think Fb or some app is using your 4g
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Turn Data usage off :/ i think Fb or some app is using your 4g
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I would be interested to see what your battle life diff is without 4g switched on. Also in that 4 hrs what was ur screen on time?
Have you thought of trying a new batt? Just got an OEM Samsung for 5 bucks on eBay. Worth a shot.
Oh remove fb app it blows...install friend caster way better less batt make sure you change the sync interval.
You could also try green power from the market to manage your data use while screen is off.
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Ok here's how my battery performs back in cm7 nightly 174 gingerbread. Almost 4 hours and only 25% chipped away. If you look above you'll notice I lost more than 40% in the same time with ics. And I'm doing nothing different. I'm even overclocked to 1.3ghz ondemand with noop for a scheduler.
I think I'm sticking to gbread until official source is out. Maybe then ill get the same battery life.
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That is really weird, if you have time try Milestone 3 and SG's latest kernel and just leave the settings stock . I get wonderful battery life with it hopefully you do to
Oh and are there any apps you are using on ICS that you aren't on CM7?
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Nope. Lately its only been a handful. I actually have more apps installed on gbread to achieve some of the features that are baked into ics. I just don't get it. Ics hates my phone. I even used the GPS today. So weird.
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Try what I suggested unless you did already then ignore lol
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Could it be a faulty battery?
Harbb said:
Could you try better battery stats to see if something is holding a wakelock?
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This. If you are installing the same ol battery-draining POS app then you are not going to fix it with any rom or kernel.
So you guys think my batter watcher widget is preventing my phone from sleeping properly? Ok.. I'm on cm7 right now. Battery is def back to normal. And this is with bacround data on. Ill delete bw and get better battery stats.
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Better battery stats is not the same thing as other (mostly useless) monitoring apps.
Look. 16 hours on gb. If none of my apps are killing the battery then what could it be?
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