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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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Battery DRAMATICALLY Affected by Brightness

**PLEASE READ THE TITLE**
This is not a general battery life thread. I'm looking for comparisons of brightness levels. Thanks.
ALSO: Has anyone noticed a difference when using black themes/wallpaper, etc. I have NOT noticed any significant difference.
Ok, first off, everybody knows brightness affects battery use. However, I've been trying to run my brightness at 30%, which seems pretty low. I figured that can't use much more power than 0%. Still, I've only been getting to about 2pm after charging my phone all night. I'm a heavy user, I like to tinker with my launcher a lot, check facebook, texting, etc.
Today I decided to try 0% on the brightness setting. I'm not crazy about this since it's not bright enough for most situations. I mean, I bought a SAMOLED+ phone for a reason. Anyway, the battery usage seems to be DRAMATICALLY less than with 30%. What's even more odd is my battery usage shows my display using 40% of the battery instead of 50%, which is what I normally see. This isn't a very significant change.
So what about everybody else? Are you guys having the same experience?
UPDATE: I'm up to 7 hrs now and have 67% battery left. Screen on time 1h 26m. This is a dramatic improvement still from 30% brightness.

Ive had my brightness at 100% for most of the day. Im getting great battery life. Im a heavy user and I can get atleast a 1 1/2 days with a single charge. Luckily I hve the luxury to charge over night.

You sir are not a heavy user if you can get 1.5 days with a single charge on 100% bright.
Or maybe a heavy user on calls not browsing or things that use the screen.
on 100% simply 1h browsing, 1h with video, 1 account sync, texting, some calls, check twitter and fb will kill your battery in less than a day, and that is not heavy using.

intruda119 said:
Ive had my brightness at 100% for most of the day. Im getting great battery life. Im a heavy user and I can get atleast a 1 1/2 days with a single charge. Luckily I hve the luxury to charge over night.
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Can i ask how many hours you have your screen on,
because with 100% brightness i'm lucky to get 3.5 hours (internet/games/twitter) of use out of my phone.
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copy and paste from another thread I posted in. This is a very typical day. Now I dont use my phone as much after 6. My phone is currently at 30% from a full charge from friday night.
I make it during the day with 100% brightness. I consider myself an a heavy user.
Ill show my usual day after the new factor wore off.
Unplug at 630-7am
Start my music through Poweramp around 9am at work.(20 gigs of music)
about 20 text/ 30min total of calls
20 or so emails with some attachments
Usually download about 200mb of music/videos throuhout day
Check about 10-15 websites every couple hours(xda app most frequently)
Use Logmein about 10-15min total
Play LIVE holdem Poker roughly 30min total
Youtube/video watching
Some other random things I cant remember
3g/h+ on all day
wifi stays on
brightness at 100%(bright orange/blue wallpaper)
Browser brightness is at 50%
Everyones experience will be different. My original Samsung galaxy s(vibrant) would be dead around 5-6pm. My Galaxy s2 is around 40-50% around 5-6pm. Im experienceing great battery life. My fiance iphone4 would kill my vibrant in battery life, but the sgs2 is on par.

intruda119 said:
Ive had my brightness at 100% for most of the day. Im getting great battery life. Im a heavy user and I can get atleast a 1 1/2 days with a single charge. Luckily I hve the luxury to charge over night.
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Yes, I too find this very hard to believe. I know if I watch a high quality video on YouTube the battery drain is insane. Of course that is data also but I doubt I could get an hour. My guess is if I just left the screen on for 2-3 hrs my battery would be dead from 100%.

intruda119 said:
copy and paste from another thread I posted in. This is a very typical day. Now I dont use my phone as much after 6. My phone is currently at 30% from a full charge from friday night.
I make it during the day with 100% brightness. I consider myself an a heavy user.
Ill show my usual day after the new factor wore off.
Unplug at 630-7am
Start my music through Poweramp around 9am at work.(20 gigs of music)
about 20 text/ 30min total of calls
20 or so emails with some attachments
Usually download about 200mb of music/videos throuhout day
Check about 10-15 websites every couple hours(xda app most frequently)
Use Logmein about 10-15min total
Play LIVE holdem Poker roughly 30min total
Youtube/video watching
Some other random things I cant remember
3g/h+ on all day
wifi stays on
brightness at 100%(bright orange/blue wallpaper)
Browser brightness is at 50%
Everyones experience will be different. My original Samsung galaxy s(vibrant) would be dead around 5-6pm. My Galaxy s2 is around 40-50% around 5-6pm. Im experienceing great battery life. My fiance iphone4 would kill my vibrant in battery life, but the sgs2 is on par.
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Nope, that's definitely impossible.

I don't believe you, period.
On my s2 I lose 30-40% in 2 hours of not very heavy use on auto brightness. I am shocked that when I surf I can see the battery number (using battery guage) actually ticking down. Device is nice but battery life for me makes it totally useless for a prime device.
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ekerbuddyeker said:
I don't believe you, period.
On my s2 I lose 30-40% in 2 hours of not very heavy use on auto brightness. I am shocked that when I surf I can see the battery number (using battery guage) actually ticking down. Device is nice but battery life for me makes it totally useless for a prime device.
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I've got display at auto-brightness which is usually around 30% for me indoors. Got display on time of 4hours 16minutes..includes about 45minutes of 3d gaming (modern combat 2) and rest browsing/downloading etc..
total up time 12hours 39minutes...and got 22% left...thats incredible to me, coming from a desire hd, I cant believe my phone is actually still running haha..
EDIT: Oh yea forgot to mention, I got a new replacement yesterday which means I havent even gone through the charging cycles yet, my previous one was superb aswell so fingers crossed this one will be too

Im off today so my typical use is different. Ill repost my battery stats when I get home after work tomorrow.
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intruda119 said:
copy and paste from another thread I posted in. This is a very typical day...
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Well this is helpful, thanks. Sounds like you are getting better battery life than me. Although I would say I definitely am a "heavier" user than you. I used to make it to about 3pm with my GS1. I'm getting about the same with my GS2 if I leave the brightness on auto. That's if I don't use YouTube for more than a few min. I too would like to know what your screen on time is at the end of the day.

Sorry, posted this in the wrong place

EleCtrOx666 said:
Nope, that's definitely impossible.
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That use and that battery it is simply a lie.

The screen is definitely a battery drainer. Don't set the screen to 100% brightness and record 1080p videos. Battery level will be at 0% in less than 2 hours.

Why the f would I lie? Samsung is not paying my bills nor cutting me a check. ill post tomorrow after work my battery stats.

That is impossible on THIS phone with THIS battery! Period!

intruda119 said:
Why the **** would I lie? Samsung is not paying my bills nor cutting me a check. ill post tomorrow after work my battery stats.
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I'm waiting for those stats.

A screen shot of his display on time along with the graph is what's needed.

Can we get back on OP's original topic of display brightness vs battery life discussion, this is a topic I'm interested in as well as I leave mine on auto-brightness and display is always #1 on my battery consumption list.
Maybe intruda can start a thread called "How my battery life is superior to everyone else's SGS2" and the dissenters can go there and call him out. Just sayin'.

This is my usage today with auto brightness. Mostly at 30%-40% brightness with 45minute gaming and rest browsing. Music. Youtube.
Im impressed.
http://db.tt/MEOhS1s
http://db.tt/IgCZu3z
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curious?? why does every EVO rom that uses battery percentage indicator drain fast

Every single rom ive ever flashed for evo since day one, that has the battery bar as a """"percentage indicator ""instead of plain battery bar always drain drain drain watching he percentage drop every minute, but regular roms with plain batery bar seems to hold decent charges
this issue never fails??

Because the EVO consumes battery power like an alcoholic consumes booze, the stock battery has like 4 values 100 75 50 15 so when u go to a battery gage with more accurate numbers it appears to drain faster
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Yup pretty much. with the bar you don't see it dropping, that's all. that bad boy is still suckin the battery down like Lindsay lohan with an open bar tab. If an evo drains a battery in the forest and no one is around to see it, does it still happen way too damn fast?
You bet your ass.

You don't have your phone/rom optimized. My indicator will sit on a percentage value for minutes (or hours) during use. The phone also consumes zero power at idle.
Evo Deck 1.3d 2.3.5, Tiamat 3.3.7 sbc, -50mV undervolt, interactive governor, 128/768mhz, display brightness 14%, autosync off.
I average 24hrs with my 1500mah battery and have observed a max battery life of 37hrs... With moderate use (screen on about 6-8hrs of that time).
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Braneless said:
You don't have your phone/rom optimized. My indicator will sit on a percentage value for minutes (or hours) during use. The phone also consumes zero power at idle.
Evo Deck 1.3d 2.3.5, Tiamat 3.3.7 sbc, -50mV undervolt, interactive governor, 128/768mhz, display brightness 14%, autosync off.
I average 24hrs with my 1500mah battery and have observed a max battery life of 37hrs... With moderate use (screen on about 6-8hrs of that time).
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vanilla rom, low brightness, no sync..... android phones shouldn't have to run this to get a decent battery power. Its sad

jessejames111981 said:
vanilla rom, low brightness, no sync..... android phones shouldn't have to run this to get a decent battery power. Its sad
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It's not, really. My phone does everything I need it to and it runs super - quick.
Also keep in mind that the Evo is powering a 4.3" lcd
You can't really have it all with smart phones...tons of useless widgets and Apps syncing in the background, or acceptable battery life. Take your pick. It's not limited to android phones - I've had similar experience with Windows 6.xx and Palm Os.

Mark_Hardware said:
Yup pretty much. with the bar you don't see it dropping, that's all. that bad boy is still suckin the battery down like Lindsay lohan with an open bar tab. If an evo drains a battery in the forest and no one is around to see it, does it still happen way too damn fast?
You bet your ass.
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lmao......

Braneless said:
It's not, really. My phone does everything I need it to and it runs super - quick.
Also keep in mind that the Evo is powering a 4.3" lcd
You can't really have it all with smart phones...tons of useless widgets and Apps syncing in the background, or acceptable battery life. Take your pick. It's not limited to android phones - I've had similar experience with Windows 6.xx and Palm Os.
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i had the htc arrive windows phone and battery was horrendous..died faster than my evo and was always heating up

Braneless said:
You don't have your phone/rom optimized. My indicator will sit on a percentage value for minutes (or hours) during use. The phone also consumes zero power at idle.
Evo Deck 1.3d 2.3.5, Tiamat 3.3.7 sbc, -50mV undervolt, interactive governor, 128/768mhz, display brightness 14%, autosync off.
I average 24hrs with my 1500mah battery and have observed a max battery life of 37hrs... With moderate use (screen on about 6-8hrs of that time).
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What is that?

14% brightness? Do you live in a cave? Unless I'm trying to use the phone in the dark I can't see much below 100%. As for the 700mhz any of the fun Apps don't like it to much. Those ninja fruits are to fast for me. My biggest killer of the battery is the weak ass towers in my area. Even when the phone is sleeping its pulling -50ma -350 using the xda app surfing on wifi. At work streaming radio its pulling more than a car charger can put in. It shows -50 while it's charging. No rom or kernel seems to make a bit of difference for me. I've bit the bullet and bought a car charger for my car and truck, the wife's car, the company truck and even the Polaris has its own. I'm thinking of patenting household electrical outlets with a usb port supplying 5volts and installing them all over the house. If somebody beats me to it remember where you heard it from.
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Nope. 100% hurts my eyes - that's way too bright.
There's also nothing my phone can't run at 768mhz. I don't use my phone for those fruity ass apps. Angry Birds and racing games are the only ones I play.
yamaford said:
14% brightness? Do you live in a cave? Unless I'm trying to use the phone in the dark I can't see much below 100%. As for the 700mhz any of the fun Apps don't like it to much. Those ninja fruits are to fast for me. My biggest killer of the battery is the weak ass towers in my area. Even when the phone is sleeping its pulling -50ma -350 using the xda app surfing on wifi. At work streaming radio its pulling more than a car charger can put in. It shows -50 while it's charging. No rom or kernel seems to make a bit of difference for me. I've bit the bullet and bought a car charger for my car and truck, the wife's car, the company truck and even the Polaris has its own. I'm thinking of patenting household electrical outlets with a usb port supplying 5volts and installing them all over the house. If somebody beats me to it remember where you heard it from.
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So because my game has the word fruit in it and yours has the word angry, you game is better? Tel ya what drop both the words and my ninja kicks a birds ass anyday. Hahaha
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^^^ was a joke if anyone missed that.
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Lol
10char

yamaford said:
^^^ was a joke if anyone missed that.
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I'll admit that was funny. Would've been funnier if you were serious though haha

Bad Batter Life?
I don't know about you guys but my battery will last at least 18-24 hours depending on how much I text or use data. I am still a noob to the whole process of flashing and customizing the kernels and roms but with synergy's latest rom I have seen significant improvements in my battery life and I have not messed with the power options nor do I know of any with the current rom.

Braneless said:
You don't have your phone/rom optimized. My indicator will sit on a percentage value for minutes (or hours) during use. The phone also consumes zero power at idle.
Evo Deck 1.3d 2.3.5, Tiamat 3.3.7 sbc, -50mV undervolt, interactive governor, 128/768mhz, display brightness 14%, autosync off.
I average 24hrs with my 1500mah battery and have observed a max battery life of 37hrs... With moderate use (screen on about 6-8hrs of that time).
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how are you getting this pls help me

Well it also runs an older core and screen etc

I've always had OK battery life, can usually get about 2 hours of screen on time and my phone will go from 7am until 11 pm... Just two days ago I flashed the most recent radio.. 2.15.00.0808 and between that and MikG 2.5 my battery has really gained some extra life. Must be the new radio since I also flashed it for my wife and she noticed a damn good increase on Fresh.

Toney Starks said:
how are you getting this pls help me
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go to "Settings > About Phone > Battery > Battery Use"
at the top of the screen there is a graph that will also say how much time you have been running off battery. click on that graph.

[Q] Nexus 4 Bad Battery and S.O.T?

Hello everyone,
I have had my Nexus 4 for about 8 months now.
And to be honest I think my batterylife has been quite poor.
I'm currently using ParanoidAndroid 4.2.2 - 3.69 in combination with Matr1x Kernel
My phone is undervolted and due to Matr1x the minimum CPU frequency is 192Mhz.
I have JuiceDefender set to Agressive. And I no longer have any sort of Wakelock.
Location Services and Google now are Turned off.
I can get around 2 and a half hour Screen On Time with the screen Brightness turned to minimum and 3G on 70% of the time.
When my screen is not on I luckily don't have any drainage. The phone could stay on for ages. I just slept 10 hours and left it all with antenna enabled (Juicedefender turns off 3G by default when the screen is not on and only let's data through once every 30 minuts). The charge dropped from 73% to 70%.
When I'm at home and turn all my antennas off, activate wifi and connect to my home network. I can use my phone for about 3-4 hours with lowest screen brightness.
Listening to music with screen and antennas turned off doesn't seem to drain my battery by a lot when listening for a few hours.
So what I was wondering is;
Is this battery life normal?
I've seen a lot of people who have 4 hours screen on time with auto brightness outside.
Is this a hardware issue, meaning my battery is due for a replacement, although I can't remember battery life being better the first few weeks. I remember only getting 1 and a half hour screen on time. I was able to increase that by undervolting and lowering the minimum Cpu frequency. As well as installing battery management apps.
Here are some screenshots I took yesterday.
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Artego said:
Hello everyone,
I have had my Nexus 4 for about 8 months now.
And to be honest I think my batterylife has been quite poor.
I'm currently using ParanoidAndroid 4.2.2 - 3.69 in combination with Matr1x Kernel
My phone is undervolted and due to Matr1x the minimum CPU frequency is 192Mhz.
I have JuiceDefender set to Agressive. And I no longer have any sort of Wakelock.
Location Services and Google now are Turned off.
I can get around 2 and a half hour Screen On Time with the screen Brightness turned to minimum and 3G on 70% of the time.
When my screen is not on I luckily don't have any drainage. The phone could stay on for ages. I just slept 10 hours and left it all with antenna enabled (Juicedefender turns off 3G by default when the screen is not on and only let's data through once every 30 minuts). The charge dropped from 73% to 70%.
When I'm at home and turn all my antennas off, activate wifi and connect to my home network. I can use my phone for about 3-4 hours with lowest screen brightness.
Listening to music with screen and antennas turned off doesn't seem to drain my battery by a lot when listening for a few hours.
So what I was wondering is;
Is this battery life normal?
I've seen a lot of people who have 4 hours screen on time with auto brightness outside.
Is this a hardware issue, meaning my battery is due for a replacement, although I can't remember battery life being better the first few weeks. I remember only getting 1 and a half hour screen on time. I was able to increase that by undervolting and lowering the minimum Cpu frequency. As well as installing battery management apps.
Here are some screenshots I took yesterday.
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Your idle time seems pretty normal, but 3-4 hours OT on wifi is pretty horrible. I can get almost 6 with wifi only. and 4-5 with 3g/LTE. I'd try a different kernel. This worked well for me: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2256887 if you're on 4.2.2. You should consider upgrading to 4.3 I heard it gives better battery for a lot of people.
This also looks helpful: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2424729&highlight=sot

It does seem a little low compared to my phone. However your signal is pretty low a lot of the time which could definitely hurt your battery life.
Chrome is also very high on the list, were you using it ?
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ogrillion said:
It does seem a little low compared to my phone. However your signal is pretty low a lot of the time which could definitely hurt your battery life.
Chrome is also very high on the list, were you using it ?
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Yes, I was using it for around an hour I believe.
The low signal was because I was travelling with a train. But really, even with normal signal it's somewhat around 2 hours and half SOT on lowest brightness.

To be honest I don't mind paying for a new battery and changing up if the problem turns out to be the battery.
However I would first like to see what the actual issue is.
Because it would be pretty useless if I got the same results even after putting a new battery in.
My CPU governor is currently "OnDemand", what profile do you use?
I'm now testing Wheatley to see if I'm getting better results.

Running paranoid android with the screen on I was sometimes losing 2% every 10 or so seconds whilst on HSPA+, I don't know if that's my fault with kernel settings or what but on CM10 I'm at 70% at 8 hours of HSPA usage and just under 2 hour screen time.
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Hmm, interesting.
Stock was a lot worse on My phone though.

Bump.
Should I contact Google?
Who should I contact for help on this?
I'm now trying Wheatley governor instead of OnDemand and undervolted an additional 25mV. Am I the only one with this type of battery life issue here?

I can get away with 1025mV @1.5ghz, I like interactive; in trickster mod go to hotplug and make sure min cores are at 1 as Matrix sets it to 2 I believe (this excludes screen off)
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It was at 1 by default.
What do you like about interactive?
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Artego said:
Bump.
Should I contact Google?
Who should I contact for help on this?
I'm now trying Wheatley governor instead of OnDemand and undervolted an additional 25mV. Am I the only one with this type of battery life issue here?
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your battery life is normal. not bad, and not extraordinary. you can probably get more out of it though, control your apps and background processes. thats where the most battery life can be gained. how many apps do you enable to notify you of stuff? also, apps that are made to save you battery actually use battery, dont use them. battery life mostly comes from how you set up your device and how you use it. from what i see, you need to set up your device be more battery friendly, if that is what you are worried about. and chrome is terrible to use if you are that worried about your battery, the aosp browser is much much better.

HTC One M9 Battery life and SOT discussion

I couldn't find a thread about battery and SOT, so here it is.
Battery life is one of the most important things in today's gadgets and even if it's often up to what kind of apps and usage pattern you have there is still good to find a baseline to benchmark your own battery life against.
Please show us your battery life, SOT and any findings you have about what to do, and not, to maximize it.
If possible , please use gsam battery monitor and post screenshot. Gsam is a great tool and will also show you parts of what's going on energywise. Root is normally needed for more granular reports.
Thanks!
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I'll put up some screenshots tomorrow after I've had a few full cycles. But its not looking good IMO.
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It's still a very early firmware and hopefully it's possible to find what's draining.
Looking forward to it, but sad news if it's the same for everyone.
Thank you!

First cycles with all initial syncs were getting me about 6:30 hours. After a few cycles, intensive usage (very little gaming, but lots of browsing, twitter, FB, sports timer, some camera etc) I am getting around 8:45. I noticed that changing brightness from default auto (too dark for me) to manual +2 (very bright) doesn't impact battery life much. I think the main drain comes from the 810 and theming.
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8:45 of screen on time ?

avara said:
First cycles with all initial syncs were getting me about 6:30 hours. After a few cycles, intensive usage (very little gaming, but lots of browsing, twitter, FB, sports timer, some camera etc) I am getting around 8:45. I noticed that changing brightness from default auto (too dark for me) to manual +2 (very bright) doesn't impact battery life much. I think the main drain comes from the 810 and theming.
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Theming is known to be able to drain.
Is there a "stock version" that don't drain and is it possible to measure?
When it comes to the SOC, I imagine that's mostly up to Qualcomm and HTC to fix.

Actually more around 8:00 screen on with 45' screen off. Note that I disabled FB and Twitter feed sync, and configured location services only on one Google account and did not use theming on these cycles.
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avara said:
Actually more around 8:00 screen on with 45' screen off. Note that I disabled FB and Twitter feed sync, and configured location services only on one Google account and did not use theming on these cycles.
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About 8 hours of SOT with more than 50% brightness sounds really good, even if you turn location and stuff off.
Can you upload som statistic about what is taking battery and SOT?
Thanks

8 hours is quite consistent with the reviews, e.g. Engadget:
In the standard Engadget rundown test (with a video set to loop endlessly while the screen's set to 50 percent brightness), the M9 stuck around for eight hours and 19 minutes -- a decent increase over the original One M7, but far short of the 11-plus hours we squeezed out of the M8 last year and the 10-plus hours the G Flex2 put up. That seems abnormally low, especially considering that the M9 did just fine when it came to average daily use: It regularly hung around for 13 to 14 hours of continuous work use (including a few spells as a mobile hotspot during press events) without batting an eye.
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Also in my experience 8 hours with the screen off will drain 10%. This is without the phone doing much and WiFi only as I don't have a SIM in there yet.
Coming from a first gen Moto G I don't feel too concerned.

Xero Xenith said:
8 hours is quite consistent with the reviews, e.g. Engadget:
Also in my experience 8 hours with the screen off will drain 10%. This is without the phone doing much and WiFi only as I don't have a SIM in there yet.
Coming from a first gen Moto G I don't feel too concerned.
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True, but most of those test is normally about looping a video, web-script, on 50% brightness.
I you just got the phone and using it in a mixed way 8 hours is pretty good. I never had 8 hours on the M8, even when reading books with flight-mode on (weekend in another country, don't want to get ruined
But... I also have close to 200 apps running god knows what in the background.

dondavis007 said:
About 8 hours of SOT with more than 50% brightness sounds really good, even if you turn location and stuff off.
Can you upload som statistic about what is taking battery and SOT?
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Absolutely no way is anyone getting 8hrs of SOT with 50% left. Not even then 720p blue studio energy with a 5000mah is.
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robstunner said:
Absolutely no way is anyone getting 8hrs of SOT with 50% left. Not even then 720p blue studio energy with a 5000mah is.
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No one said they had 50% battery remaining after 8 hours of SOT. They were talking about the screen brightness being set at 50%

I think you've misread that. It's 8hrs SOT with brightness at 50%. Not remaining battery at 50%.
Here is mine so far tonight after 2 full drain and recharge cycles.
It seems the system itself is a big impact on the battery. Need a lot more work on the firmware.
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It seems the system itself is a big impact on the battery. Need a lot more work on the firmware.
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I think this is the only encouraging thing anyone can say right now.
We know that the M8 is capable of great battery life. The M9 has a bigger battery than the M8 so hopefully the firmware can improve.
As apposed to the S6 where the battery size leaves the battery life nowhere to go but down.

I've been testing a Verizon version with all the test software on it so it's hard to gauge battery life. My main complaint about the phone is its slow charge rate. Takes hours to charge
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pwned3 said:
I've been testing a Verizon version with all the test software on it so it's hard to gauge battery life. My main complaint about the phone is its slow charge rate. Takes hours to charge
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im guessing your not buying the htc quick charger 2.0?

PlatinumNick said:
im guessing your not buying the htc quick charger 2.0?
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That's using a Motorola fast charger that came with my nexus. I think that the last update slowed the charge to help with battery temp problems many of the testers were having
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No one said they had 50% battery remaining after 8 hours of SOT. They were talking about the screen brightness being set at 50%
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Even 8 hours in general is hard to believe in real world use.
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PlatinumNick said:
im guessing your not buying the htc quick charger 2.0?
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I used an Apple iPad charger which gives out 12w/2.1a. It still took nearly 5hrs to charge my dead phone to full power.
My iPhone 6 plus with the same charger takes about 2.5-3hrs to charge a dead phone.

Charging m9 with out of the box charger from 12% takes me about 2 hours and 15 minutes. I'm in France . Don't know whether this is the 'quick' charger or not.
Also, power history graph crashes if I try to launch it while charging
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