So i'll cut to the chase, Battery has been ok with stock rom, after freezing the **** out of some apps, BUT, with VillainRom the phone is working perfect + battery life is amazing.
What is amazing?
53 Hours and 30 minutes since full charge.
I did charge it in the car for very short periods while using GPS and screen on full brightness.
How was the phone configured?
- Wifi/3G Data on at all times
- Push GMAIL and What'sapp
- Screen Brightness on full and the "Adjust screen power" option ticket off.
- Lookout installed and running in background.
- Bluetooth always on, not always connected though.
- 3 Hours of display usage
- 1.5 Hours of calls
- Some gaming, browsing etc.
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Thats really good but i couldn't get anywhere near that, not even without using the phone. I average no more than 10 hours.
Well done mate i wish i could manage it myself.
eitama said:
Screen Brightness on full and the "Adjust screen power" option ticket off.
- Lookout installed and running in background.
- Bluetooth always on, not always connected though.
- 3 Hours of display usage
- 1.5 Hours of calls
- Some gaming, browsing etc.
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Screen brightness full???no way..in ur dreams boy..
only 3 hours you used ur phone out of 53??well that says it..in sleep all the time..
and the "ups" in ur screenshot show charging..
anyways let it sleep in peace..
I'm addicted to gaming on this thing, unfortunately that chews through the battery
so many "charging" peaks lol
isnt that the guy who posted the same thing 1 day ago ? XD
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so many "charging" peaks lol
isnt that the guy who posted the same thing 1 day ago ? XD
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This one?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1142540
Anyway still don't understand what's good about this battery stats ...
@sumeshd,
You know, I don't get money from Samsung or anyone else for posting this? Why would I lie? Anyway, believe what you what, I really don't care that much.
I'll just say again, brightness is @ FULL.
3 Hours, is not ONLY, that's my usage, and you don't have to like it or not.
@bilboa1,
If I wanted, I can charge the phone almost 24/7 I got a charger my car, at home, at work, and even a portable solar one.
The charging peaks you see are mainly USB file transfers for a few minutes, and the long ones are around 30 minutes while driving with GPS + Screen at full brightness.
So the consumption on those moments is rather high, which means the battery isn't charging all that much.
@Mittaa,
You take a 4.3" Smartphone that does everything, and get 53 hours out of it, it's not enough??
if the little charging peaks were not there i'd still get around 46 hours from the phone, is that not enough???
Anyway the information I posted was to help people who are trying to choose a ROM, chose this one, or other people who are having battery problems have a reference.
eitama dont bother posting let this thread die please .
Two reasons one you will find certain users insist you have poor gps yellow screen bad battery life etc . Not worth bothering with if you are happy with your phone .
Reason two is a bit selfish as posting VR great battery life means we are going to get hundreds of numptys posting in VR rom thread who wont read and cannot follow instructions .
jje
JJEgan said:
eitama dont bother posting let this thread die please .
Two reasons one you will find certain users insist you have poor gps yellow screen bad battery life etc . Not worth bothering with if you are happy with your phone .
Reason two is a bit selfish as posting VR great battery life means we are going to get hundreds of numptys posting in VR rom thread who wont read and cannot follow instructions .
jje
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I hear ya buddy, but if iv'e helped even 5 people choose Villain and get good results, then I've done my job
I'm tempted to swap over
Having a superb battery life with VR 1.4...just over 10 hours with more than 6 hours screen on time..in a crappy signal area..this is a 100% increase compared to my desire HD with same pattern of usage..
Brightness in auto/ gps when needed/ bluetooth when needed/ wifi when needed/ auto sync & bckgnd sync enable..
Heavy use includes
Whatsapp
Instant messaging
Ebook reading
Music
Browsing
Gmail push email
And some phone calls texting etc etc..
Seriously im loving this phone
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iznee said:
Having a superb battery life with VR 1.4...just over 10 hours with more than 6 hours screen on time..in a crappy signal area..this is a 100% increase compared to my desire HD with same pattern of usage..
Brightness in auto/ gps when needed/ bluetooth when needed/ wifi when needed/ auto sync & bckgnd sync enable..
Heavy use includes
Whatsapp
Instant messaging
Ebook reading
Music
Browsing
Gmail push email
And some phone calls texting etc etc..
Seriously im loving this phone
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Nice to hear that your happy with your phone ... i'm happy too
I also understand that this is way better than your old desire HD (same for me moving from my old HTC Touch HD)
But I can't understand what this have to do with "whatever Vanilla Rom" ...
Lots of people can get this kind of battery live using stock unmodified, non rooted SGS2!
It could be very usefull if someone made a exact compare between two SGS2 running different ROMs.
First same configuration (screen brightness, auto update, widgets etc) then full charge.
Then 15 min GPS (same route), 15 min browsing WIFI (same websites), 15 min gaming (same game), 15 min talking (same person (sorry bad joke)).
Al together 1 hour of heavy identical usage.
Finally screenshots of battery stats and post here on XDA so we all can clap our hands for the best bettery saving ROM of the week
Well I tried to drain the battery on vr playing games etc to calibrate, and struggled, like noonski did.
I could drain stock rom with ease, but can't do it nearly as easily on vr.
The general consensus from reliable members like nobnut and jje seems to concur with it being better
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I hear ya buddy, but if iv'e helped even 5 people choose Villain and get good results, then I've done my job
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well as I said I have tried all the roms..
I have tried vr4..for many days..it gave me 9+ hrs..
good u r supporting vr but not good that u r filling threads with "anything"
this is my battery with batista70 rom..and I m happiest with it..
PS: note the screen wake time bfor commenting..(its awake most of the time bcoz my heavy txting and use)..
and I am on 3g/h network with data active all the time..
this is the best I could get till now(with my usage)
no hard feelings..
People seem to be getting time between charges that vary wildly, but for me the biggest indication of battery life is obviously 'display on' time, and this seems to be roughly the same for the vast majority. Best I've seen so far is 4 hours, and that was mainly 3G/HSPDA browsing. My most recent however was slightly over 2 hours with VR 1.4, and again that was mainly browsing with data.
So while a screenie showing over 2 days may look impressive, it's how much actual use the user got that's important. The post above that showed over 6 hours was certainly impressive, but how much 3G browsing was done? How many 3D games played? GPS? etc etc
<shamed> - sorry for long post!!!
@ OP - you had a few minutes under 3hrs of charging. That is in excess of a full charge of the battery! And a total screen of a a few hours.. Nothing impressive at all. Saying you had on GPS and screen on full brightness negates the charging is just silly. It is usage, and usage is what we're interested in.
@ mittaa + Zedwings: Completely agree with both. Even display on (IMO the most accurate comparison) is a long way from the full truth for comparison in testing and a very fixed test environment would be needed to test a pattern of usage. I started to think about this like mitaa suggests (and when you do, you realise it is virtually impossible to co-ordinate without resetting back to factory) and there are still variables.
And anyway, it's kind of irrelevant at that point. You wouldn't consider doing it unless you're battery life is not meeting your hopes or needs. but your usage is your usage and you'll be happy or not.
Unless you are prepared to compromise on screen time, game playing, widgets, sync settings, live wallpaper etc, then what does it matter? You must find the balance between battery life and customisation that YOU can live with.
Personally, I do this by running my phone in 'full fat' mode. All radios on (this inc. GPS), synch on full, screen set to about 75% (no auto), the widgets I want, high spec live wallpaper (like Galaxies!) that make my £500 phone look like a £500 phone. I settle into my daily usage pattern, charging whenever I need to charge. This is why I bought my phone, not to immediately turn everything off and play the 'longest, littlest' game!
After about two weeks and this has settled into a fairly regular pattern, I start to switch off the things that mean least to me, one by one, day by day until after a numbers of days I find the balance that I can live with.
Personally I start with turning into perm 2G mode as I have wi-fi almost everywhere I go and I live in an area where 2G and 3G is on the cusp. This is extremely draining to batteries (I deal with none phone GSM equipment every day where battery life is key) and I know signal stregnth on the band you're using, constantly cylcing between band (and the variance in antenna power) is the single biggest thing to affect battery life asside from screen. It may not reflect this in stats, but trust me on this... If I lived and worked in a strong signal area, it would drop a few places down the list, extra call quality is nice as well as data.
For those of you living and working in London for example, but mostly out and away from Wi-fi, then consider leaving 3G on, and turning Wi-fi off.
Wi-fi scanning for networks constantly is another big drain.I have noticed this about Android, it allows you background apps to work leaner than the iPhone in power consumption when you have lots of widgets and synch etc. However the iPhone actually uses GSM to perform background tasks when the phone is off (shutting down wi-fi radio which reconnects as soon as you unlock the screen). This means that if you're out and away from a friendly hotspot all day, battery is less affected than an android.
Anyway, sorry for the long post, but hope you all have luck in finding your 'sweet spot' in usage / customisation.
Peter
ZedWings said:
People seem to be getting time between charges that vary wildly, but for me the biggest indication of battery life is obviously 'display on' time, and this seems to be roughly the same for the vast majority. Best I've seen so far is 4 hours, and that was mainly 3G/HSPDA browsing. My most recent however was slightly over 2 hours with VR 1.4, and again that was mainly browsing with data.
So while a screenie showing over 2 days may look impressive, it's how much actual use the user got that's important. The post above that showed over 6 hours was certainly impressive, but how much 3G browsing was done? How many 3D games played? GPS? etc etc
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the 3g data was on all the time and I browsed xda or dolphin or market etc..overall aprox 3 hrs of browsing out of 15..and more than 4 hrs screen was on..in auto brightness..(I wont fool any1 saying full brightness )wifi tether was done for 20 mins or so..and 2 hrs of phone calls and msging like crazzzzyyyy..hence 15+hrs battery..and I m v happy..thnx to snakes for batista70 rom
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the 3g data was on all the time and I browsed xda or dolphin or market etc..overall aprox 3 hrs of browsing out of 15..and more than 4 hrs screen was on..in auto brightness..(I wont fool any1 saying full brightness )wifi tether was done for 20 mins or so..and 2 hrs of phone calls and msging like crazzzzyyyy..hence 15+hrs battery..and I m v happy..thnx to snakes for batista70 rom
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Well, that's good. Recently I got a total of 16 hours including 57minutes screen on time.
3h screen time on is nothing, on 2-3 days it's called very light usage.
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I got 56 minutes screen on time from my last full charge. Using VR 1.4.
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Ive spent the last few days fiddling and testing stuff to increase battery life. Here is what i have learnt...
(Im running R2BA026)
Firstly, personally i do not want to lose any functionality/performance in order to gain battery life. I think that if you are going to spend the money to get a phone with awesome hardware it should be able to run at full whack.
This guide will not be useful to all, but hopefully it will be handy to those in my situation.
This is a guide for what i have found to be the best compromise between battery life and user experience, with the emphasis being on user experience.
My specific goals are:
- I do not want to lose any performance i.e cause any slowdown/choppiness.
- I am only looking for a 24h battery life as i can charge every night.
- I want to be able to use my phone without worrying about battery. Specifically I never want to think "i shouldnt do that it might run down my battery". I should be able to use all the features on my phone without questioning if i can afford to.
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In my experience using a task killer resulted in only minimal gains to battery life but it meant that opening up apps could be a lot slower and apps could be choppy just after opening them.
Additionally the idea of setCPU is a good one however when coming out of sleep or opening an app it takes a little while to get back up to speed. This also causes choppiness. Personally I find lag/choppiness a real pet peeve, it irritates me alot, so I do not use setCPU either. It is true that with careful set up the lag can be minimised but then the battery life gains are also minimal, so I choose to keep full performance and dispense with setCPU. Bear in mind that the hardware platform is already very efficient and well optimised so a software solution will pretty much be a straight trade of performance for battery life.
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With those two common options out of the way, what else can be done to save juice?
Well generally the biggest consumer of energy is the screen. The simplest option is just to turn it down to minimum brightness, but in my opinion that is not a good solution, its too nice a screen to have dimmed all the time. Thankfully the auto-brightness does a pretty good job of keeping the back light at a good level. It can be a bit disconcerting if you enable it when using full brightness as the drop can seem somewhat dramatic but don't let that put you off, give at 1/2 a day or so and you wont even notice.
Other easy but important things you can do are turning the screen timeout to minimum and always turning off the screen (power button) as soon as you are finished. They are tiny changes but really do make a big difference.
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Onto wifi...
I think there may be a bug with the firmware because if I disable wifi I get a HUGE increase in battery life when Im at home. I have good 3g coverage here and a 3GB allowance so I only need to turn on wifi when Im browsing the web or market, seeing as it takes seconds with the widget this option suits me fine.
I suspect that when the phone is connected to wifi it doesn't sleep properly so drains very fast.
Only turning on wifi when i want it made by far the biggest difference to me, and as it doesn't affect my user experience in any appreciable way I am happy to do it.
I think its a good idea to mention app/widget updates and refreshes here, personally i have all my widgets and apps set to refresh only once a day, that suits me fine because I can refresh them all manually very easily if I want to to be absolutely up to date and I'm not a twitter or facebook addict Most of my widgets are news/article based so once a day is perfect.
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GPS, again this is rather obvious, if you don't use it, turn it off. Personally i use latitude so I have it turned on all the time. Android seems very good about only using it when it is needed and the phone seems to get a fix very quickly so in reality it doesn't spend much of the day being active.
Same goes for bluetooth, although I don't use it so it stays off.
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Nothing i have said here is particularly revelatory mostly common sense but I have always had battery issues often with the battery lasting ~12 hours before asking to be charged.
Updating to 026 made a big difference and following these rules means my battery drains on average 2-2.5% an hour under normal use.
Normal use for me:
-Wifi Off
-GPS on (With latitude widget)
-Gtalk always running
-3 news widgets + timescape
-frequent texting
-moderate calls
-frequent fiddling
The phone is very very snappy, everything apart from timescape opens as near to instant as makes no odds, the phone is a pleasure to use. My battery life has comfortably doubled without the use of any apps or any loss of performance.
Mission Accomplished
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Cheers for that. Very interesting .
I definitely agree about the task killer apps, the OS does a perfect job at running itself!
One question, Am i correct in presuming you have 3g always running? Network mode set to GSM/WCDMA preferred? Ive been afraid to do this as i have it in my head that 3g eats up my battery for fun! I'll have to try it out.
Thanks again!
I bought an extended battery for my X10 the sloping sides stop it looking like a brick. The G1 always looked like a brick with an extended battery but the X10 sloping sides do serve a purpose.
helliewm said:
I bought an extended battery for my X10 the sloping sides stop it looking like a brick. The G1 always looked like a brick with an extended battery but the X10 sloping sides do serve a purpose.
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Cheers for that. Very interesting .
I definitely agree about the task killer apps, the OS does a perfect job at running itself!
One question, Am i correct in presuming you have 3g always running? Network mode set to GSM/WCDMA preferred? Ive been afraid to do this as i have it in my head that 3g eats up my battery for fun! I'll have to try it out.
Thanks again!
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Yep, thats correct With the 3g on it seems to stay in 2g when sleeping then switch to 3g when you wake it, you can see the change in the status bar about a second after waking. Pure speculation though ...
Well, let us know how you get on with 3g active all the time
helliewm said:
I bought an extended battery for my X10 the sloping sides stop it looking like a brick. The G1 always looked like a brick with an extended battery but the X10 sloping sides do serve a purpose.
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I love how slim the x10 is, that combined with the fact that the 3rd party backs are ugly and can be poor fitting mean an extended battery isnt really an option for me, whatever suits though ^^
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I prefer this:
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Nice one where i can get one.
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I certainly plan on getting a pair of bluetooth headphones, will be interesting to see how they affect battery life...
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Nice one where i can get one.
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It's from Sanyo. It's being released in Japan in October, but, I'm sure it will come out internationally as well.
James thanks u were helpful
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Some additional tips based on my personal experience:
-Using a third-party task launcher helps too. Some may not agree, but it works for me.
-Use a third-party digital clock widget instead of the stock one. Again, YMMV.
-Use a third-party(AGAIN!) MP3 player instead of Mediascape. I'm using Meridian, and notice an increase in battery life when playing MP3s.
I like having some control so I run task killer but there's no auto-kill enabled and if I know the phone is just going to turn it back on in 5min, I don't bother killing those apps. Maybe I should just remove it altogether, but it seems convenient to be able to kill an app at will (I do it with windows sometimes).
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-Use a third-party digital clock widget instead of the stock one. Again, YMMV.
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I think the reason why you find that the stock one drains your battery is due to the "use network provided values" being checked in the date and time settings.
Interesting article. I am running 024 and my battery is life is poor. I managed to get seven hours use yesterday after a full charge. My usage throughout the day wasn't anything too crazy. Where I work I get only a standard signal (no 3G). I seem to get a better battery life.
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I agree battery life is horrible. It makes me really miss my blackberry.
Even when battery life is low, charging it takes FOREVER, not to mention if you plug it in and play with it at the same time, it charges even slower.
My Blackberry Tour charged fully in what seemed like 45 mins from less than 10% batt life. I know they are different phones, but it just really sucks to me.
I'm debating going back to a blackberry now. The X10 and other android phones (and Iphone), are more toys than anything else.
/end rant.
hehe sorry
Thats odd, my phone charges pretty damn fast, just a few days ago i was pleasantly surprised that it charged from completely empty (id forgotten to charge it) to ~80% in less than an hour.
Ballfuzz said:
Even when battery life is low, charging it takes FOREVER, not to mention if you plug it in and play with it at the same time, it charges even slower.
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Hmm, mine charges from <10% to 100% within 1 - 2 hours.
Make sure you are charging by AC, charging by USB does indeed take forever.
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Hmm, mine charges from <10% to 100% within 1 - 2 hours.
Make sure you are charging by AC, charging by USB does indeed take forever.
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Yeah I agree by USB takes forever.
JamesBarnes said:
Additionally the idea of setCPU is a good one however when coming out of sleep or opening an app it takes a little while to get back up to speed. This also causes choppiness. Personally I find lag/choppiness a real pet peeve, it irritates me alot, so I do not use setCPU either. It is true that with careful set up the lag can be minimised but then the battery life gains are also minimal, so I choose to keep full performance and dispense with setCPU. Bear in mind that the hardware platform is already very efficient and well optimised so a software solution will pretty much be a straight trade of performance for battery life.
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Quite interesting for me, I decided to add some statistical experiment about it.
Under my situation and environment. (I won't go in detail, sorry about that)
With SetCPU were 2.32% per hour without any usage.
W/O SetCPU were 3.18% per hour without any usage.
or approximately 7% maximum saving per day time. (for me)
My SetCPU only effected sleep state.
Not a big deal but still significant different, but it could survive for whole day anyhow.
I'm more interested about Killing app. I might try after this as I see many argument about it.
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Quite interesting for me, I decided to add some statistical experiment about it.
Under my situation and environment. (I won't go in detail, sorry about that)
With SetCPU were 2.32% per hour without any usage.
W/O SetCPU were 3.18% per hour without any usage.
or approximately 7% maximum saving per day time. (for me)
My SetCPU only effected sleep state.
Not a big deal but still significant different, but it could survive for whole day anyhow.
I'm more interested about Killing app. I might try after this as I see many argument about it.
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Ohh figures, good stuff! Always better to have some numbers to work with.
Do you not find that for a few seconds after waking up the phone gets choppy?
I would definitely be interested in seeing the stats with a task killer
Do you guys leave internet/gps on or something? I get 3 hours/percent on idle.
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Ohh figures, good stuff! Always better to have some numbers to work with.
Do you not find that for a few seconds after waking up the phone gets choppy?
I would definitely be interested in seeing the stats with a task killer
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Yup, with SetCPU for sleep state, it was 'choppy' for a few sec, mostly effect lock screen and screen switching.
This is a screenshot I just took with ShakeAndSave:
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You can see some things in the BattClock area:
4.0g means "4 giorni", that is four days of battery life since last battery swap
[email protected] means 195 minutes of "CPU time", since last battery swap
143£ means 143 minutes of display time since last battery swap
Alas, I have no easy way to track phonecall time since battery swap, if someone knows a registry keys that does that I'd appreciate (there's none under HKLM\System\Uptime).
Some facts: I own a total of 4 batteries for this device, the one currently inside the phone is the original one that came with it, the other three are chinese clones which stand on their own feet not bad at all.
I run the batteries to at least 10%, never lower than 5%, before swapping them with the next one (I have them numbered) to even the cycles.
In this run I had a normal work routine use: probably total 30 minutes of calls, regular use of calendar, database, phonebook, data transfer and synchs with PC, some pictures, under 1hour of manga reading, today I've been playing around with new ringtones, alarm every morning, phone and radio always on.
Display backlight is set to the minimum necessary to comfortably read the screen, I use Lumos, and I am during almost all the time inside a building.
So even if I pay attention to reduce battery drain the most, I still "use" it all the time.
As a comparison, in continuous video playback I get about 4hrs of Frasier episodes, listening with headphones.
What's the best you've got form this device?
I can sqeeze 3 days, but its down to 3-4% thats with txting internet playing games
how do you get it to show mA ?
as said in first post, I use battclock
@OrionCarl
not bad with that kind of usage I rarely connect to the internet
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as said in first post, I use battclock
@OrionCarl
not bad with that kind of usage I rarely connect to the internet
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yeah, im happy with that!dont understand how people can only last a day!
I have to connect, cant go without my weather updates!
hah!
Well I cannot manage to get rid of sense, because without it there would be no way to have a quicklinks set like CHT's. Otherwise I'd save 60MB worth of ram, and some battery drain as well
Hi,
Ciao,
whit your stock Rom and Radio, how long did your battery?
con la tua Rom originale, quanto durava la batteria?
Thanks
Grazie
You mean the original stock rom? It's been ages that I started using AxLor roms, and the original rom was on when I was still learning to use this phone, so I did a lot more things than I do now and drained more power. As far as I can remember anyway, should have been 2 days. Newer radios improved the battery life notably, 2.12 and especially 2.14
LOL we've got three aliens living on mars
well u shouldn't be using an HD2
My thoughts exactly
Anyway I'm running fine this time as well, with my second battery, the first chinese I bought.
I have 39% battery left, and 2.9days runtime on my back, so it's another 4day-er for me
That fourth option was actually a troll-trap, since achieving more than 4days (on a normal 1230mAh battery that is) is impossible unless leaving the phone in standby is almost all you do... and in that case owning an HD2 is a waste of money
My battery can hold my HD2 on his feets for 4-5 days.
This was a whole different story before!
I got my HD2 from my brother, the reason why he gave it to me was because he hated it because of the worst battery life.
He had to charge it every single day.
When I got it from him, I had the same problem.
I charged it in the night, and in the begin of the evening, I had to charge it again, when I didn't even used it so much!
Later I bricked my HTC HD2 (not with upset ofc) with the HSPL things.
It went for repair, and when I got it back... the battery lives for 4-5 days.
Of course it depends on the use ofcourse, but right now, I update my weather and Twitter every 2-3 hours, and I txt sometimes, and sometimes a call, and I use my camera time to time.
With this use... it can live for like 4 days.
And if I would use it even less, then it would live for 5 days, maybe more...
I don't know what they did with the HD2 at the repair, but I know they did an awesome job!
And no... they didn't gave me other batteries, ccoz they werent sended to repair either.
In my opinion, the low battery life for the other people, is a hardware problem, somewhere in the motherboard maybe? a battery leak.
It's also not a battery problem.
You might as well turn off your phone. I dont see the point in having a smartphone where you use it like a dumbphone. If that's the case, just sell your HD2 and get a Nokia 6230...those could last for weeks.
I get about 50hrs (2days) of heavy usage out of my HD2. That's good enough for me.
OrionCarl said:
yeah, im happy with that!dont understand how people can only last a day!
I have to connect, cant go without my weather updates!
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we actually use our phones....
lude219 said:
You might as well turn off your phone. I dont see the point in having a smartphone where you use it like a dumbphone. If that's the case, just sell your HD2 and get a Nokia 6230...those could last for weeks.
I get about 50hrs (2days) of heavy usage out of my HD2. That's good enough for me.
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yeah, I don't buy that either. With heavy usage you are not going to get 2 days. Just my screen being on (50% brightness) watching tv shows I can get about 4 hours. Considering that is about 300mah, that sounds right. That is heavy usage, screen on, video playing, or internet or game playing. Unless you put your screen at 20% brightness, which once again, begs the question, what is the point of having a smartphone if you turn it so far down you can barely see the screen?
I have a charger in the car, 2 chargers stashed at work, several at home. I have yet to buy a second battery like I did with my tp2, but if I ever decided I needed more juice, that would be the plan.
For those whose battery life is over 24hrs, I'd be interesting in seeing their usage stats. For example, battclock will provide times for how long the screen is on and how long the phone is idle for.
Those numbers would be useful to go along with the battery life to accurately show just how much the phone is used.
I agree as in buying the HD2 means you plan to give some sense (pardon the pun, it's not intended ) to all its power, and not using it just as you would do with a low end Nokia.
Anyway that doesn't mean you plan to use all that power constantly. I do watch TV shows on my phone, that's when I'm on the public means, and 4hrs is the best I can get. I also do read manga, and the big screen helps. Yet even if I'm not stressing the snapdragon, I find useful the good camera, the GPS, the big screen, the possibility to check my mail without needing a PC, even if I don't do all those things everyday.
On a side note, before the HD2, I was using a dualsim phone (which did just the phone), a coolpix camera, and an ipaq. With all these things inside the same device now, I get to 4 days, while I couldn't get 4 days out of my dualsim alone before.
In reply to @joshoon, I think that they just upgraded the radio firmware..., for me chaging radios has gone a long way battery-wise in the past
ephestione said:
I agree as in buying the HD2 means you plan to give some sense (pardon the pun, it's not intended ) to all its power, and not using it just as you would do with a low end Nokia.
Anyway that doesn't mean you plan to use all that power constantly. I do watch TV shows on my phone, that's when I'm on the public means, and 4hrs is the best I can get. I also do read manga, and the big screen helps. Yet even if I'm not stressing the snapdragon, I find useful the good camera, the GPS, the big screen, the possibility to check my mail without needing a PC, even if I don't do all those things everyday.
On a side note, before the HD2, I was using a dualsim phone (which did just the phone), a coolpix camera, and an ipaq. With all these things inside the same device now, I get to 4 days, while I couldn't get 4 days out of my dualsim alone before.
In reply to @joshoon, I think that they just upgraded the radio firmware..., for me chaging radios has gone a long way battery-wise in the past
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I putten the same radio on it again.
And few days ago I updated my ROM with the new ROM upgrade from HTC, so the radio either.
And still got awesome battery life.
And if someone wants to see numbers... sure, just explain me what program I need and what to do exacly, and I show u guys.
joshoon said:
I putten the same radio on it again.
And few days ago I updated my ROM with the new ROM upgrade from HTC, so the radio either.
And still got awesome battery life.
And if someone wants to see numbers... sure, just explain me what program I need and what to do exacly, and I show u guys.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=612083
add the timers from the registry keys HKLM\system\uptime, they are the ones ending in Session (clock, cpu and screen), value in seconds, set a divider to get the value in minutes/hours/days
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=612083
add the timers from the registry keys HKLM\system\uptime, they are the ones ending in Session (clock, cpu and screen), value in seconds, set a divider to get the value in minutes/hours/days
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Heyz,
My battery is now on %12 after a few days (only had it one time on USB to put some music on it for 5-10 min).
I usually charge my HD2 when it's 10%, but on 10% it can live for one more day either.
Clock: 126717 (probably 12m, 65h, 61d?
CPU: 1999 (probably 19m, 9h, 9d?)
Screen is not there btw.
I used my phone pretty often last days.
But it wasnt 61 days?
that's in seconds, silly
Divide by 60 for minutes, by 3600 for hours, and by 86400 for days, which mean you had almost 1.5 days.
"Clock" is time since last reboot
"ClockSession" is since last battery change... so if you never swap batteries like I do but just charge it, you should avoid rebooting the device before charging, or there is no way to accurately measure battery life.
ephestione said:
that's in seconds, silly :d
divide by 60 for minutes, by 3600 for hours, and by 86400 for days, which mean you had almost 1.5 days.
"clock" is time since last reboot
"clocksession" is since last battery change... So if you never swap batteries like i do but just charge it, you should avoid rebooting the device before charging, or there is no way to accurately measure battery life.
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Im charging my hd2 right now, so how can I show you guys about my battery life now?
Hey guys. Battery life honestly, is the most important thing when owning a smartphone. Everyone gets different battery life apparently. Some are great!! Some are.. well..
Anyways, my whole point of making this thread is so that we can discuss our various battery lifes. See who has the best. Who has the worst. And why we have such differences! Maybe we can make solutions and we can all have great battery life.
Please include what ROM your running, what kernel, if your overclocked, and little things you might find suitable to add.
For example this is for me:
I'm running Acer liquid ROM 1.1 with pershoots latest .32 kernel. I can get maybe 8 hours out of my battery with extreme mild use. I'm currently trying to recalibrate my battery with the help of bongz ( thank you so much!) I have my screen usually dim, nothing syncing from what I know of, bluetooth never on, gps never on, wifi only at home.
Sent from my Rooted God-like HTC Vision running Liquid Metal.
I'm running GingerVillan 1.5.
Battery life on standby is great - probably around 1-2% an hour. However, when I start using the phone, that drains QUICK. Generally I get around 12-14 hours out of a full charge with mild usage, including Phone Calls, Texts, 1-2 rounds of Words with friends, etc. WiFi is always off, bluetooth is off, GPS on. Stock kernel, newest radio near as I remember. Facebook and Google are the only two accounts.
I previously had a Vibrant that seemingly got better life - with mild use I could easily get 18-20 hours. However, having a keyboard and working GPS is worth the charge every night. The G2 could have gotten a couple hundred more mAh battery, if you ask me.
im running cm7 nightlies
my battery life is pretty good when not on. maybe 1% every 2-3 hours when off and in my pocket(set to absolute minimum via setcpu). with mild to extreme use i get ok battery life of about 4 hrs (starting at 80% usualy). im overcloacked to 1.8ghz ut have it set via setcpu to max out at 1.1ghz. i have gps always off, wifi always off, brighness to auto, and bluetooth off.
themeltingclock said:
I'm running GingerVillan 1.5.
Battery life on standby is great - probably around 1-2% an hour. However, when I start using the phone, that drains QUICK. Generally I get around 12-14 hours out of a full charge with mild usage, including Phone Calls, Texts, 1-2 rounds of Words with friends, etc. WiFi is always off, bluetooth is off, GPS on. Stock kernel, newest radio near as I remember. Facebook and Google are the only two accounts.
I previously had a Vibrant that seemingly got better life - with mild use I could easily get 18-20 hours. However, having a keyboard and working GPS is worth the charge every night. The G2 could have gotten a couple hundred more mAh battery, if you ask me.
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Hm, I might consider upgrading radios. A lot of people are getting great battery life because of it.. will se.
I have never got more than 8 hours with my vision ever. Maybe because I have the old radio?
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Hey,
I think there are too many variables at play here for this to be any use, but here is what I am running.
ROM: Virtuous 1.0.1, OCed to 1GHz using Virtuous Standard 2.1.2 Kernel
Radio: 12.18b.60.140eP_26.03.02.26_M
Build: 1.85
Brightness: Auto
Sync: Google, Facebook, Weather
Wifi: On at home, school; Off all other times
BT: OFF
Data: Always ON
Usage per day: 50-100 texts, 3-5 voice calls, 1-3hours of data/games
Current battery level including standby time and usage time is 57% after 6h 50m.
Good luck on the analysis!
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im running cm7 nightlies
my battery life is pretty good when not on. maybe 1% every 2-3 hours when off and in my pocket(set to absolute minimum via setcpu). with mild to extreme use i get ok battery life of about 4 hrs (starting at 80% usualy). im overcloacked to 1.8ghz ut have it set via setcpu to max out at 1.1ghz. i have gps always off, wifi always off, brighness to auto, and bluetooth off.
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Your oc'd that high lol? WHY?
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Sorry, but battery life threads/posts are always such a joke. So many things effect the battery life that it really isn't as easy as just posting your ROM and Kernel and call it a day. Every single setting in your settings menu, every app you run or have installed, screen on/awake time, BT/GPS/wifi/3g/4g connections, and even just general areas that you use your phone pertaining to their signal strength can effect what your battery life is. Unfortunately, there really is no way to figure out what the "best" battery lives are. It really takes your personal preferences and some of your own tinkering in order to get your configuration just right. You can go into any given custom ROM thread and find someone claiming 30hrs of battery life.
Sorry to be a downer. I (personally) just get really tired of people posting battery life screen shots because there are an extreme number of variables that affect it. I think it gives people false hope of looking to switch to a completely new ROM or change huge numbers of things and expecting to double their battery life.
martonikaj said:
Sorry, but battery life threads/posts are always such a joke. So many things effect the battery life that it really isn't as easy as just posting your ROM and Kernel and call it a day. Every single setting in your settings menu, every app you run or have installed, screen on/awake time, BT/GPS/wifi/3g/4g connections, and even just general areas that you use your phone pertaining to their signal strength can effect what your battery life is. Unfortunately, there really is no way to figure out what the "best" battery lives are. It really takes your personal preferences and some of your own tinkering in order to get your configuration just right. You can go into any given custom ROM thread and find someone claiming 30hrs of battery life.
Sorry to be a downer. I (personally) just get really tired of people posting battery life screen shots because there are an extreme number of variables that affect it. I think it gives people false hope of looking to switch to a completely new ROM or change huge numbers of things and expecting to double their battery life.
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Well said and true that.
CM7 nightlies, new radio (forget which one), after 19 hours still at 74%. Mild usage, few texts, twitter, email, updating apps, etc. And I always use wifi whenever possible, and then edge only when I'm out or not in a wifi area.
cm7 latest nightly #14 , latest radio , pershoot's kernel i can go 4,5 hours screen time on , no problem with constant edge connection on..extremely happy..
oh.. oc @ 1ghz no profiles
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CM7 nightlies, new radio (forget which one), after 19 hours still at 74%. Mild usage, few texts, twitter, email, updating apps, etc. And I always use wifi whenever possible, and then edge only when I'm out or not in a wifi area.
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Can you go to about phone and check your radio?
Fellas hear this, with 2G constantly on only, the radio is using 47 percent of the battery. Do you guys find this normal at ALL? I'm running CM7 now with latest pershoot kernel and this damned .27 Radio which I am seriously considering removing for good.
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Shaquiel Harris said:
Can you go to about phone and check your radio?
Fellas hear this, with 2G constantly on only, the radio is using 47 percent of the battery. Do you guys find this normal at ALL? I'm running CM7 now with latest pershoot kernel and this damned .27 Radio which I am seriously considering removing for good.
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12.28h.60.140fU_26.06.02.27_M
It's that Hutch one from Australia or something. This one here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=959488
I just noticed that the battery life of my DesireZ is greatly dependant on where I am.... I have vacation now and I was mostly at home for the past three days the battery was still about 40% charged this morning so after 2 full days with moderate use, reading an Ebook, playing a game, wifi constantly on, exchange mail on Push and Gmail on push, with standard rom.
when I am at school the battery is often almost empty at about 5 pm...
maybe because of the bad coverage at school?
I don't know if anyone else really noticed, I seen it mentioned in another thread but not enough, if you don't use the wifi calling app, DELETE IT! I have noticed much better performance and battery life after getting of that ****
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Can some one tell me their usage with 4g on all day and moderate use?
Ive begun to get lazy turning 4g off so lately im getting 10-14 hours usage before the battery is dead not using wifi at all ( work days no wifi at work). moderate use maybe 20 mins calling 20-30 text up to 45 min facebooking. nothing too much,
On nightly #29 no pershoot since i am lazy to update to newest nightly and newest pershoot only works after #30 and overclocked to 1.2ghz
I still don't get why people care about battery so much with g2. I got 2 extra battery and an external wall charger all for 10 bucks on ebay. why not use android to its full potential without ever worrying about battery for $10?
westchester1940 said:
I still don't get why people care about battery so much with g2. I got 2 extra battery and an external wall charger all for 10 bucks on ebay. why not use android to its full potential without ever worrying about battery for $10?
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It's a hassle to take off the case (in my case an Otterbox) every time to swap the battery out. Added with the looser hinge, you might accidentally snap something that you don't want to. Would rather have one big battery than multiple smaller ones.
Understood. I don't ever use protection covers. Didnt even know tHere are the kind of cases not interfering with keyboard pullout...
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I want the Mugen battery, my G2 has been quite crap battery life for the past while, I wonder how much this one will help
No complaints here.
Just thought I would throw down my stats as well:
I can usually eke out a good two or three days from my G2. Some things of note: I'm on Wi-Fi with UMA at home, T-Mobile's home network (EDGE) when I'm in the town in which I live, but as soon as I leave town and head towards my place of work, I roam on EDGE all night (with roaming data always turned on) until I get back home. I don't think I've even seen the 3G or H indicators light up on this thing. Got to love the rural life. I leave Wi-Fi always on, in case I find new networks, I leave GPS always enabled, since it really only activates on Google's home page anyways, I use the 30% brightness setting that is the default 'low' setting via the HTC brightness widget, and Auto-Sync is always enabled (Facebook, HTC (weather once per hour), Google). I use the default 1 minute screen timeout, and I use the lockscreen that comes with Poweramp (which I use to listen to music on my drive to and from work via an FM transmitter.)
The capture below shows 2d 14h 2m 30s since being unplugged, at 7% remaining. I use Virtuous 1.0.1 with the stock HTC kernel and the stock T-MoUS radio. I am also using the stock HTC battery that the phone shipped with. I don't feel the need to overclock, as my last phone was a BB Pearl, so this thing is light years faster already.
The only time I really eat up my battery is when I play Wordsmith, because I'm always staring at the lit screen trying to make fancy words.
And while you're right, there are way too many variables when it comes to battery life and usage and signal strength and what have you, it amazes me just the same that others are fine with 8 hours of battery life and choose to carry around extra batteries. Sure, you have a mobile Linux box in your pocket (awesome!), but that's also why I keep a desktop PC at home. To each their own, though, no harm no foul.
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Hi guys,
After buying s2 i was worried about battery life. Because first two days it was like 12-14 hours of medium use.
But now its marathon :d
See some shots..
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Last image is usage of previous charge.
I was a die hard fan of lg phones from optimus one to optimus black but i am happy now that i switched to s2
Cheers guys and please show your records as well.
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I thought i was getting good battery life with medium to heavy usage (27 hours) on Cognition 1.15 but that is exceptional, can you tell me your set up as to how you achieved this amount of battery life.
cheers
Tegrak's kernel and underclocked.
Frozen samsung apps. and brightness mostly 0% as i am fairly fine with the lowest brightness it doesn't hurt my eyes.
also one more thing, i am using overclocking upto 1300 as well and you will be surprised most people will tell you to go underclock to save battery but i didn't and i am just happy with 1.3 Ghz blazing speed.
Here's a shot of running.
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Also i used camera for recording movie for about 50 minutes in 720P and 50+ photographs as well which is not mentioned in the above post. I will post once again when my battery will reach 1% because when its below 10% it drops really slow and allows me to use it more unlike when its full.
Sit it on a desk and stare at it. The average screen on time is 5 hrs. You can use that in a day or spread it across 3 days.
jonny68 said:
I thought i was getting good battery life with medium to heavy usage (27 hours) on Cognition 1.15 but that is exceptional, can you tell me your set up as to how you achieved this amount of battery life.
cheers
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One more thing, i only recharge battery when its below 5% or mostly under 2% to full turning it off. And ofcourse this only first week of using the phone, hope it will increase a bit more by next week.
[Note: I personally believe plugging in and out of charger makes the phone battery drop faster]
chaplu said:
Tegrak's kernel and underclocked.
Frozen samsung apps. and brightness mostly 0% as i am fairly fine with the lowest brightness it doesn't hurt my eyes.
also one more thing, i am using overclocking upto 1300 as well and you will be surprised most people will tell you to go underclock to save battery but i didn't and i am just happy with 1.3 Ghz blazing speed.
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Also i used camera for recording movie for about 50 minutes in 720P and 50+ photographs as well which is not mentioned in the above post. I will post once again when my battery will reach 1% because when its below 10% it drops really slow and allows me to use it more unlike when its full.
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You should blur out your IMEI number from the screenshot buddy.
What ROM are you using?
I usually have brightness set to auto, same as you all Samsung apps frozen, am not using Tegrak i don't believe it's compatible with Cognition ROM, are you using Juice Defender Ultimate or other apps,etc,etc, im on setcpu im 200 min - 800 max - on demand and screen off profile - 200 min - 500 max - consertivave - priority 100.
Seriously impressive all the same..
jonny68 said:
What ROM are you using?
I usually have brightness set to auto, same as you all Samsung apps frozen, am not using Tegrak i don't believe it's compatible with Cognition ROM, are you using Juice Defender Ultimate or other apps,etc,etc, im on setcpu im 200 min - 800 max - on demand and screen off profile - 200 min - 500 max - consertivave - priority 100.
Seriously impressive all the same..
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I am using stock KF3 rooted nothing else i am using except described in previous post.
Cheers.
That is the best battery life ive ever seen on XDA for any type of smartphone never mind one like the GS2, did you use the Internet/Wi-Fi/GPS/Bluetooth,etc, much,do you have any widgets on your screen, push e-mail,etc, im amazed your getting that amount of time without using Juice defender or some other similar app.
jonny68 said:
That is the best battery life ive ever seen on XDA for any type of smartphone never mind one like the GS2, did you use the Internet/Wi-Fi/GPS/Bluetooth,etc, much,do you have any widgets on your screen, push e-mail,etc, im amazed your getting that amount of time without using Juice defender or some other similar app.
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Bluetooth yes for 10 minutes transfering some files.
Gps yes for around 1 hour (you can see that in pics atleast it shows usage for ndrive there)
wifi yes around 1 hour but its always on mostly (mostly used for market to download and test applications, gmailing and also some browsing)
3g or edge no i didn't use it.
Games yes i played like drag race etc.
widget yes, battery widget and the running app widget and live wallpapers.
Mine, I think there's a little (big) problem :
Considering the first 8 hours were during the night so I didn't touch my phone :
Running on VR2.1, many things push or so (like 15/30mins refresh) [mails, fb, twitter, news, weather, etc], and good modem (KG2) and CF-Root 4.1.
Any idea/advice please ?
A better rom maybe ?
Thanks in avance
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You should blur out your IMEI number from the screenshot buddy.
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For those of us n00bs here, what or where is the IMEI number?
Also just to clarify, this is a unique number for each phone, yes?
intruda119 said:
Sit it on a desk and stare at it. The average screen on time is 5 hrs. You can use that in a day or spread it across 3 days.
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Nuff said.
@OP- What's that Widget is (temp, voltage of battery)? Forgot the name!
Regards.
intruda119 said:
Sit it on a desk and stare at it. The average screen on time is 5 hrs. You can use that in a day or spread it across 3 days.
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+1
The real secret to great battery life is to disable all the data connections and not use the phone. Since most people are pretty active with their phones, threads about stand-by time are pretty meaningless. Actually, with over a dozen battery life threads already running, you could say new battery life thread are pretty meaningless too.
diby_2000 said:
For those of us n00bs here, what or where is the IMEI number?
Also just to clarify, this is a unique number for each phone, yes?
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Individual to eachphone usedto identify phone on network.Blocked block after theft .Illegal to change. jje
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Ok thats along the lines of what I thought it was. Thanks.
Didn't know it was possible to change it, illigal. Huh
But can some one tell me where it is shown so I can block it if I ever post some screen shots?
I'm on stock K2-CL. I used 3G just a bit today while in a restaurant, wifi is always on, but I normally sit in front of the computer most of the day, or use my tablet at home, so I do very light surfing - mostly while on the can.
I've not installed "app freezers", nor underclocked the processor, nor rooted or removed anything that isn't stock android. Not stopping tasks in the task manager. In the screenshot below, I did play around a bit on Google Earth for 15 min or so, I'm surprised not to see the android market in there because I feel that's what I used most. I use a live wallpaper that's fairly bright (moving clouds).
Brightness on auto - automatic gmail notifications, contact syncs etc.
I'm going to go on a big trip next week, where electricity will sometimes be optional. I do have that Samsung battery case thinggie coming the mail next week - and already have an external battery as well for emergencies, because this phone will die in an hour or two using the gps, or playing games, or doing serious web surfing - or a combination of those things. It runs very hot too if you use it constantly several hours (drove 500 kilometers last week, the phone was very very hot - seemed unhealthy).
If you hold the power button along with the home button it takes a screen shot.
Thought id say to make it easier for ya in future!
thanks a millions
Don't mind the n00b Here.
Found the IMEI number in the status tab of about phone.
Goto remember to keep this out of public photos.
I have to say that after some experimintation I am getting consistantly incredible batter life. For instance, I took off charger at 6:00 am at 100% fully charged this am. It is now 6:00 PM (12 hrs) constant MS Exchange updating, internet browsing, and about 2.5 hrs on phone calls, I now have 81%.
Some facts:
I am on stock KG5
the following definatly made the batter life wose:
Beautiful Widgets
Widget Locker Lockscreen
I have NO battery monitor programs like Juice Defender. In fact I have purchased Juice Defender Ultimate and I saw a slight decrease in perforance.
I have to following apps installed:
Sirius XM Premium online
App2SD Pro
Google Maps update
MLB At Bat 2011
Scanner Radio Pro
You Tube update
OI File Manager
Only downfalls of KG 5 is no video with the Google talk and Flash crashes with the browser. Tried KH1 and KH3, not ready for prime time.
Thoughts and comments welcome.
Charlie C
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and?
so if you already have incredible battery life (by your definition and standards), what's the point of this thread?
so funny
At least post battery usage graph.
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Come on guys, He was just trying to help!
Well, I've shifted to KH3 which gives me 3.5 days battery time. Haha!
Try KH3.
cc999 said:
I have to say that after some experimintation I am getting consistantly incredible batter life. For instance, I took off charger at 6:00 am at 100% fully charged this am. It is now 6:00 PM (12 hrs) constant MS Exchange updating, internet browsing, and about 2.5 hrs on phone calls, I now have 81%.
Some facts:
I am on stock KG5
the following definatly made the batter life wose:
Beautiful Widgets
Widget Locker Lockscreen
I have NO battery monitor programs like Juice Defender. In fact I have purchased Juice Defender Ultimate and I saw a slight decrease in perforance.
I have to following apps installed:
Sirius XM Premium online
App2SD Pro
Google Maps update
MLB At Bat 2011
Scanner Radio Pro
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Only downfalls of KG 5 is no video with the Google talk and Flash crashes with the browser. Tried KH1 and KH3, not ready for prime time.
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Charlie C
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I think the problem is not the battery mate. You have the same problem than me. Talking two hours and a half by phone every day is nasty, I am sure you have about 80 mails every day like me. This is the real problem to solve, we have to work less so the battery will last more , and kick someone asses who are always calling us and giving problems
100 battery threads but i didnt yet find a clear answer if 2.3.4 improves battery life or not..i wait for the official release so i didnt use any 2.3.4 rom yet...
i too have awesome battery life! my phone was unplugged 13hrs 17m 15s ago and now has 88% remaining..... stock bvkg3 orange rom...
I'm tired of these threads. It's not like samsung sold some phones with good battery life and some without. They are ALL the EXACT SAME.
You can't have a 'better' battery life than another SGS2 user. You can't have a 'worse' battery life either. What matters is usage.
Anyone can get 'incredible' battery life - simply install any ROM such as cog or vr, and do a full wipe. Install only 10 apps, and use the phone sporadically, dare I say, use the phone 'as a phone'.
What I'm trying to say is that the people reporting 52 hours of battery life or what not simply do not use the phone as much as others do. If it sounds logical, that's because it is.
There is no 'magic pill'. I get 54h on standby because despite having 205 apps, I used betterbatterystats to uninstall the worst offenders. But today for example I got 6h out of my battery because I spent 3h hours with the screen on, 1 hour on GPS navigation in my car, 1 hours taking pictures with the flash on, 1 hour playing angry birds. 205 apps, endless memory resident programs, custom-everything, even my wallpaper is 3d with 16x MSAA through CF3d, what did I expect?
The whole Iphone comparison is also whack. I own an iphone 4. Sure when stock the thing flies and stays on battery like you wouldn't believe. But try to customize it and you'll find the same problems that you find on android. Plus, it's twice as heavy as my sgs2
I prefer using my sgs2 as a laptop, the battery life is still better than my acer.
I call bs. But while Im at it i get over 100 hours on my battery. On standby. Omg. I can't believe how long my phone lasts when I don't use it.
Or.
I used my phone 15 hours today. 5 hours screen time. Heavy wifi and cell data. .and snes emulator 2 hours. And I still had 30%. Omfg incredible. I can't believe it not butter. And these are my usual stats or the like. And I don't have a sgs2. I don't get to jizz my pants every day like you guys. Omg. This must be the most incredibly dumb post I've ever posted.
I voided my warranty and your mum.
Wow... so much anger in this forum.
There is a simple solution to all of u angry birds, when u see a thread with the word "battery" in it, run away as fast as u can, and dont look back, ur wasting ur time and others by posting useless angry replies, so cut the crap and grow up...
to the op, thanks for ur post it was helpful at least to me if that counts.
pukemon said:
I call bs. But while Im at it i get over 100 hours on my battery. On standby. Omg. I can't believe how long my phone lasts when I don't use it.
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I used my phone 15 hours today. 5 hours screen time. Heavy wifi and cell data. .and snes emulator 2 hours. And I still had 30%. Omfg incredible. I can't believe it not butter. And these are my usual stats or the like. And I don't have a sgs2. I don't get to jizz my pants every day like you guys. Omg. This must be the most incredibly dumb post I've ever posted.
I voided my warranty and your mum.
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That's not unbelievable at all.. I can easily get 4 hours screen on time and around 24 in total. Clearly your not a super user..
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ChongoDroid said:
That's not unbelievable at all.. I can easily get 4 hours screen on time and around 24 in total. Clearly your not a super user..
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Lol nerd comparing screen time and being a "superuser" or not lmao. Its a phone and works very well, so who gives a ****... Let the guy post his results no need to be an ass about it.
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ChongoDroid said:
That's not unbelievable at all.. I can easily get 4 hours screen on time and around 24 in total. Clearly your not a super user..
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Wow. 4 hours. On a charge. Omfg. Incredible. I get about 7 hours. On a charge. I guess all that wifi/cell data, email sync, emulators and text make me a light user. Tucks tail between legs.
Weren't you just trolling in the atrix forums letting us know exynos > tegra2? How's that being tethered to a wall working out for you?
I voided my warranty and your mum.
@cc999 Thanks for posting your experiance about battery life, don't bother about angry birds. They can't get laid than express anger on your thread .
cigaro78 said:
I'm tired of these threads. It's not like samsung sold some phones with good battery life and some without. They are ALL the EXACT SAME
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@cigaro78 You are sooo wrong! The batteries are not all the same. It depends on many factors (how they are stored before shipping, and lotof thing).
Last year i did some test on 5 exact same new mobile phones (samsung omnia i900) and 2 of them have battery wear of 24%.
So the point is that you coud buy a new phone with some percentage of damaged battery.
Thats a first thing, the second thisng is that firmware (battery optimisation) could extremely reduce or extend battery life, depanding on optimisation.
I tried 5 firmwares, 3 of them 2.3.3 and 2 - 2.3.4. (all stock roms)
Best battery experience I had with 2.3.3 XWKF3 (2.3.3), and the worst on XXKH3 (2.3.4), but for some users 2.3.4 is way better for battery.
I can't get over 16h of normal usage at all. (1h phone talk, 50-80 messages, 25 emails, 30 mins on internet (3G) and about 20 mins of playing amtale). DIsplay usage is 44% (auto), 25% Voice calls, 10% android OS, Internet 9% Android system 8% etc...
I was quite chuffed with mine, 2d 12 hours! admittedly not heavy usage but moderate!
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Wow. 4 hours. On a charge. Omfg. Incredible. I get about 7 hours. On a charge. I guess all that wifi/cell data, email sync, emulators and text make me a light user. Tucks tail between legs.
Weren't you just trolling in the atrix forums letting us know exynos > tegra2? How's that being tethered to a wall working out for you?
I voided my warranty and your mum.
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Lol sounds exactly like my usage.. I don't follow? Tethered to a wall? If you're referring to webtop I don't miss it one bit... And yes I troll the atrix forums frequently... I sold mine to my friend so sometimes I check on progress. And am I wrong about the tegra 2 vs exynos thing? Honestly i've heard arguments for both sides but wouldn't mind another opinion. Sorry to hijack.
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jr866gooner said:
I was quite chuffed with mine, 2d 12 hours! admittedly not heavy usage but moderate!
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Lol, you realy don't use your phone so much .
Phone calls 4%, display 24%???
I bet your display isn't have "'time on" bigger than 1:30h