So I've rooted my first android phone yesterday!
I've noticed the battery is a bit better.
My battery is down to 67% after 1 hour and 23 mintues of display turned on. I've barely installed anything on the phone.
Is this okay? Should it be better?
Another thing: is there a way to "underclock" or reduce the voltage and save battery like that?
I want to get as much out of the battery as possible.
Thank you
33% drain in that time is pretty poor, I'd expect no more than 10%, but ideally less.
The phone automatically underclocks when youre not using the phone. I had system monitor installed and noticed that when im not doing anything on the phone, the processor goes to 200mhz, and as soon as i click around it jumps to 500 800 1200mhz depending on use.
As for your battery issue, i noticed some apps keep your processor busy at 1200, and then your battery drains even with the screen off. And no thats not normal, in one hour it should at the most go down to 90% on idle. The battery is actually impressive.
And sometimes, when you're on 3g networks and the signals are low, your phone will still drain the battery. And you will notice the back of the phone heating up, oth from running the processor at 1200mhz and using 3g
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Rooting has nothing to do with battery .
jje
My friend tell me root will cause battery run out faster, is that true?
No root is gaining administrators rights to a lower level of the OS .
jje
It's not 1:26 of idle, it's of screen time use.
I've got in my funning services stuff like, email, social hub, music, google+, juicedefender, google maps. Could any of these be draining my battery?
How can I keep some of these apps from not being in my running apps?
For instance, when I force close the google maps, it turn back on after a few seconds.
Google maps and gmail app never bugged me, but i did have issues with social hub and email. Use to drain my battery, so i just signed out because there was no way to stop the background services. Besides that i always have gmaps, gmail, gtalk, go chat for Facebook, Facebook app, whatsapp running in the background and no issues.
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Here are a few screen shots that I took with the battery and screen on stats. Can anyone tell me if it's normal or if I've still got a battery issue?
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Do you set the brightness to full often?
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Set automatic at the screen menu.
No, my brightness is almost always on the lowest setting. I turn it on fully only when I am in direct sunlight and need to use the phone for browsing etc (which doesn't happen often, mostly calls which I can do with minimum brightness).
I dont really know where the problem is, but it doesn't sound normal, the timing you say you are getting. Try to keep a black back ground and dark themes ( because in Amoled displays although low power consumption they use more energy to display white and colors rather tha black). And ley your phone turn off with low battery and charge it to full without disconnecting, to complete a cycle for better efficiency
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so 1.5 hrs for 1/3rd battery usage?
This means you'll get about 4-4.5 hrs of screen usage (assuming normal drainage during screen-offs). This is normal I would say.
On my undervolted phone, I usually get about 5 hours of display time + about 10-12 hours of screen-off time which carries me through the day quite easily.
You can Undervolt your phone using Tegrak's app. More on that here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1101355&highlight=tegrak
Also, you can freeze system apps etc that you don't use by checking this list (using Titanium Backup). (Credit to shanume)
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spr...SENVeXlqUm5vV0E&single=true&gid=0&output=html
What's your phone carrier?
If your are in Japan, You need to configure build.prop.
If your not in JP, I don't know.. Try flight mode. or running without SIM.
so that you can check if the issue related with signal or not. at least...
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I'm not from Japan, but you guys make it sound like something is wrong.
Is there an app that can monitor the usage so I can post results somehow?
Maybe monitor it for all running apps etc?
I did this little test yesterday:
I played a video on my phone (from the SD card) for 20 min with no sound. It took down around 4% of the battery. It was a 720p (1.4GB for 50 min).
Is that normal?
Edit: Just tested it again: 30 min of 720p video, with max volume took down from 25% to 17% (so 8% battery for 30 min 720p video from SD card).
matanc1 said:
I'm not from Japan, but you guys make it sound like something is wrong.
Is there an app that can monitor the usage so I can post results somehow?
Maybe monitor it for all running apps etc?
I did this little test yesterday:
I played a video on my phone (from the SD card) for 20 min with no sound. It took down around 4% of the battery. It was a 720p (1.4GB for 50 min).
Is that normal?
Edit: Just tested it again: 30 min of 720p video, with max volume took down from 25% to 17% (so 8% battery for 30 min 720p video from SD card).
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Again - both 4% for 20 mins and 8% for 30 mins sound normal. You can post these numbers on the Litening Rom thread (quick link in my signature) and other users can confirm.
this is poor... not sure what the hell original ROM doing with you.. in case you dont mind you might give it a shot to try litening or criskelo ROM..
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this is poor... not sure what the hell original ROM doing with you.. in case you dont mind you might give it a shot to try litening or criskelo ROM..
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And what battery drain do you normally see if you play a video for 30 mins?
I'm using VillainROM 2.0 if I didn't mention it before
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[Edit:] I've changed the title to reflect 110 hours. The original title and body of post reflected 100 hours, but since then I've added two more screenshots at the end of this post to show 110 hours (4 days 14 hours), and I added a (absolutely horrible) video to show that I'm running a standard battery (not an extended battery). NOTE: When I say the video is horrible, I mean it came out sideways, and is barely readable, and is a ridiculous 29MB in size. But the two added screenshots back up the readings and statements in the video. What follows below is my original post.[/edit]
Hey all, this is probably not any real record around here, but I wanted everyone to know I've just passed the 100 hour mark, running 100% uptime since the last battery charge!
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Notably, for at lease one-third of the total time, the phone was in an area of poor (or no) signal strength.
For this test, I had wi-fi, mobile internet and GPS all disabled...the only active radio enabled was the telephone voice radio, which was always enabled. I could (and did) recieve calls during the entire time (though I kept the conversations very short).
Here's how I've got my phone set up:
nfinitefx45's stock 2.1 ROM and Darch's Infinitefx_vUV_710 kernel, without freemem tweak (it's not the new vUV2 kernel).
SetCPU, set to 614mhz max and 19mhz min (245 max & 19 min sleep mode), with additional fine-tuning.
AutoKiller, with values I set individually for the different fields (didn't use any of the pre-set options...my settings are probably pretty close to "Agressive", except for the Content Provider value).
I use Advanced Task Killer to kill any apps that I'm no longer using, and I always have. But I've got it set to ignore SetCPU (because I've got a screen-off profile defined and enabled), and also set up to ignore AutoKiller (but I'm not sure if that's really necessary).
Notice the amount of time the phone spends at the different cpu speeds:
Because of the way I've got SetCPU set up, even though I have max speed set to 614mhz my phone rarely runs at that speed...the Powersave bias is set to 125, so most of the time that I'm demanding any real-time performance from my phone, it's actually only running at 537mhz. Likewise, even though screen-off max speed is 245mhz, most of the actual activity in that mode is at 122mhz or 160mhz, again due to the the Powersave bias setting of 125.
Also note that a great deal of time is spent at 19mhz, during both screen off and screen on states. Even so, I experience no noticeable lag, because the phone immediately jumps up to a faster speed as soon as any need arises (such as swiping between screens).
In case you're wondering why some cpu time is showing at 710mhz even though I have the max speed set to 614mhz, remember that I'm running the 710mhz kernel, so while the phone is booting it's running at 710mhz.
I must admit to being miserly in the use of my phone during this test, even though I burned a couple of percent battery downloading the ShootMe screenshot app last night (just so I could provide these pics). And I used EStrongs File Explorer to send the screenshots to my computer over the wi-fi so I wouldn't have to plug in the USB cable.
One more thing...I'm not done yet! I'm going to get another screenshot after my Saturday afternoon nap...hopefully I can get 110 hours out of a single charge.
Cheers!
[Edit:] Here are the two added screenshots that show 110 hours (4 days 14 hours), and the horrible video I shot to back up the fact that I'm using a standard battery.[/edit]
Thats crazy!
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That's a lot of time on one charge. But as you said, not using it much. I think the 2+ hours of awake time is telling.
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mgraham361 said:
That's a lot of time on one charge. But as you said, not using it much. I think the 2+ hours of awake time is telling.
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The point of my post was to show how I've set up my phone to conserve battery when the phone isn't actually busy doing something.
Many forum members, in many different threads, have stated that they burn through battery at a rather disappointing rate even when they're trying to conserve juice. Darch went to the trouble of building up a batch of UV kernels to alleviate as much of that problem as he could (thanks Darch!). In large part, my post was basically explaining how I've taken advantage of that kernel, and nfinity's ROM (thanks to you too, nfinityfx45!), and careful tailoring of system and app settings to set my phone up so that battery drain during periods of inactivity is minimized.
Taken as a whole, the results indicate that my average battery drain is less than 1% per hour. In light of the fact that one third of that total time was spent trying to stay connected to a poor signal, I'm quite confident in stating that during times of good signal my bettery drain is significantly less than 1% per hour.
How many people can say they're realizing that kind of battery conservation with their Hero on an everyday basis? I've gone to the trouble of determining what works and what doesn't in terms of conserving battery, and reported on the setup and the results. That's all.
Another point that could probably be taken from the data is that, all other things being equal, I would probably get better battery life doing the same everyday stuff with my phone than the regular Joe who hasn't taken similar measures to minimize unnecessary battery drain on his device.
The bragging was just icing on the cake!
Edit: So sorry, I meant to also thank urushiol for the UV kernel!
This is pretty sick! Are you also using an extended battery?
i thought that auto killer is bad if you use an OC kernel?
thats hella right though
i've been waitin for someone to post somethin like this so i can maybe get 24 hours with moderate usage
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This is pretty sick! Are you also using an extended battery?
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Nope, I'm using the original battery.
The phone just now beeped at me, and the warning screen says I have no more than 9% battery remaining. In two more hours I'll have 110 hours on the battery. At that time I'll use my wife's Hero to take a video of my phone's battery usage screen, and then I'll pull the battery cover off of my phone in the video so you can see I'm running a stock battery...it says "HTC Innovations" on it.
I'll post the video after that.
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i thought that auto killer is bad if you use an OC kernel?
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AutoKiller is only bad if you're using one of the kernels with the built-in free mem tweaks.
That's why I'm not using a kernel with free mem tweaks...that way I'm free to use AutoKiller and set it up like I want. And I want a custom setup, not one of the preset offerings that comes with the app. I want to use agressive values for most of the settings, but I want to set the kill value for Content Provider to a low number, because if I use the preset value for Content Provider in the Agressive setting, it will kill the GPS antenna input to my tracking app when I'm on my mountain bike, because the phone's in my jersey pocket with the screen turned off...in such a situation AutoKiller presumes the content provider to be a background app and shuts it down if the kill value is set to anything but low...sheesh!
Okay, I've edited my original post to include a HORRIBLE video showing the standard battery being used, and I added two more screenshots showing 110 nonstop hours on a single charge.
So I'm going to finally put this project behind me now, and get back to the truly enjoyable business of actually using my phone again!
And a HUGE thanks to all the devs who've made it possible to get such incredible performance out of our phones!
If anyone cares to know why I decided to use any of the settings that I did, just ask and I'll be glad to talk to you about it.
Cheers, and a good night to all!
wow thanks for the info on autokiller
i can actually use it again! whoo!
Just like the title says. I have checked all my settins syncs which programs are running in the background and so forth.. so im sure its not that..
Anyways here goes.
Before the update I could get about 12-14 hrs of use out of a full battery charge, however after this update I can only get about 5-7 hrs out of a charge.. Nothing had changed.. my usage is the same, my wifi,bluetooth,gps,4g are all off. I don't have any programs syncing or updating in the background.. So i have NO CLUE as to why my battery life cut in half after this update.
I already posted this elsewhere......my battery life was really great before this update.
Same exact settings now as before, plus the phone was reloaded to factory settings by the Sprint store first as I was having some other issues...email not coming through timely, cell signal falling and dropping calls, etc.
My battery life is now 1/2 of what it was prior to the D107 update.
I would say wait and see. When I would flash roms on my HTC phone the battery would die quickly for awhile. After 2-3 full charges it would go back to normal.
Check Cell Standby in battery status. See if Time without signal is 50% or more.
Cell standby is 18% and time without signal is 7%
My time without signal is only 2% So I'm not sure what is going on to make my battery life soo bad.
i got 9 hours today with decent usage where before if say 12 or so ... since the update my time without signal is in the 30-50% range on average & it was 3-4% before .. im a little frustrated on that & i know its taxin the battery a little so . . .
my update has really screwed my battery life. I notice too that Juice Defender keeps reading at 1.00x instead of 1.6-1.8 before the update. I also notice my TWS was at 50-52%. I tried the Airplane mode toggle and it didn't do ****. I really love this phone, but i'm about to return it and try another before my 30 days is up.
So far, i'm concerned with:
back button is not consistent (works sometimes sometimes it sucks)
TWS over 50% of battery consumption.
upgrade made juicedefender not work
little wobble in the phone but not too bad
scratched screen just from rivet in jeans
AND pissed about the tv out that sprint omitted
jemarent said:
my update has really screwed my battery life. I notice too that Juice Defender keeps reading at 1.00x instead of 1.6-1.8 before the update. I also notice my TWS was at 50-52%. I tried the Airplane mode toggle and it didn't do ****. I really love this phone, but i'm about to return it and try another before my 30 days is up.
So far, i'm concerned with:
back button is not consistent (works sometimes sometimes it sucks)
TWS over 50% of battery consumption.
upgrade made juicedefender not work
little wobble in the phone but not too bad
scratched screen just from rivet in jeans
AND pissed about the tv out that sprint omitted
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The back button is a defect in an early batch of phones.. If you swap it, you will probably get a working model..
My email app didn't sync after the update, so I had to reinstall Roadsync. It might be the same thing with JuiceDefender.
My battery is getting much better. Not sure if it is the galaxy rom, the update or my battery is just getting conditioned better. I unplugged my phone this morning and have been on it constantly web browsing, music, 4g, 3g, lots of tapatalk use. 36% left and just approaching 4hrs of being unplugged.
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How do you roll back this update.
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after i re-flashed and updated, ive experienced big drops from the 90% zone to like 75% in a short amount of time but then the decrease stays pretty slow.
im using adv task killer on maximum and juice defender
this combo works pretty well for me, i cant explain the 25% loss. I think my battery still needs calibration, but i get around 14-18 hours normally.
I've noticed the increased battery drain also. I've been tracking it the past couple days with Spare Parts. If you open Spare Parts, click on Battery history. If your phone is running like mine is right now, the Running time is at almost 100%. That means that something is preventing it from sleeping. Next, click the tab that says "other usage", and change it to "Partial wake usage". Mine is showing that Android System is the culprit, causing the partial wake lock. It was not doing this before the DI07 update. I did a factory reset this morning and the only app I installed was Spare Parts, just to make sure it wasn't an app I was using. I get the same results on a fresh clean ROM as I do using noobnl's ROM. NOT COOL!
Well my full run through of the battery is over. I've turned a new leaf about the battery on this. I'm keeping the Epic.
Conditions: Was at zero brightness for about 4hrs of this. Set it to 0 after getting to work. You can see the screen perfectly fine at 0 indoors. (30 minute ride)
GPS - Off except the couple times I checked out google earth
Sync - full manual syncing / with background data on to use the market
Usage: Heavy heavy usage for all but 20 minutes. Total time with screen actually on was about 4 1/2 hours. Lots of tapatalk use, streamed about 20 minutes of CNN via Slingplayer, Streamed about 10 minutes worth of music via last FM. Dolphin browser usage. About an hour of total usage was over 4G
No task managers (well Androids but that doesn't count), no juice defender.
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After all that it has been sitting at 3% for 20 minutes (after taking the ss) with no usage as I wait for it to finally die and write this post. Just over 5hrs straight of near pure 3g/4g data usage over various applications and multimedia is perfectly acceptable to me. This is WAY longer than the average consumer laptop would get under similar usage w/ an aircard.
If I didn't use the phone like a miniature laptop so heavily and just kept it to normal use and some phone calls with auto brightness on I'd guesstimate I'd easily get 10 hours or so if not a lot longer out of it.
Running: Andromeda Galaxy Rom 1.0.3
the reason your getting bad battery life is because it reset all your battery stats. it's going to take a couple days til your battery life gets better. try the bump charging method.
Was running NexusHD2-Gingerbread_V2.3_NAND_(Android-2.3.2) for last two months.. in standby I wouldn't get more than six hours really. Drove me nuts. I've just upgraded to NexusHD2-Gingerbread_V2.6_NAND_(Android-2.3.3)_update . Is there anything I have to do to get better battery life?
Some app that'll turn off wifi? (i have no wifi at work but would like it on at home, any suggestions?)
Should I be upgrading the SD card to some other type?
I never used battery monitoring tools until today. I've installed 'current widget' and it shows 4-6ma of usage when sleeping.
Battery E.T.A. app shows 10hrs of life .. is this normal?
I'm almost at the point of selling this phone because of the insanely short battery life..
no it isn't normal...with 4mA drain it must have to keep at least 2 days in standby...buy a new battery
Ravi Shanghavi said:
Was running NexusHD2-Gingerbread_V2.3_NAND_(Android-2.3.2) for last two months.. in standby I wouldn't get more than six hours really. Drove me nuts. I've just upgraded to NexusHD2-Gingerbread_V2.6_NAND_(Android-2.3.3)_update . Is there anything I have to do to get better battery life?
Some app that'll turn off wifi? (i have no wifi at work but would like it on at home, any suggestions?)
Should I be upgrading the SD card to some other type?
I never used battery monitoring tools until today. I've installed 'current widget' and it shows 4-6ma of usage when sleeping.
Battery E.T.A. app shows 10hrs of life .. is this normal?
I'm almost at the point of selling this phone because of the insanely short battery life..
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Your current widget shows that the battery should last really long. With 4-6maH, u should drain battery at an approx rate of 1% per hour. But since your battery doesnt last that long even after that, seems your battery is too old and is going to die soon.
I will suggest you to flash the stock win 6.5 rom, see the battery drain, if it lasts for 10hrs or so, go and get and new battery.
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Your current widget shows that the battery should last really long. With 4-6maH, u should drain battery at an approx rate of 1% per hour. But since your battery doesnt last that long even after that, seems your battery is too old and is going to die soon.
I will suggest you to flash the stock win 6.5 rom, see the battery drain, if it lasts for 10hrs or so, go and get and new battery.
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Ok, I'll see how it performs for next two days. Then try a different battery. Odd thing is. I have two batteries, neither seemed to last any longer than the other.
I checked this one is a bb81100 1350mAh/3.7v.
Any recommended battery for this phone? Ebay safe?
Ravi Shanghavi said:
Ok, I'll see how it performs for next two days. Then try a different battery. Odd thing is. I have two batteries, neither seemed to last any longer than the other.
I checked this one is a bb81100 1350mAh/3.7v.
Any recommended battery for this phone? Ebay safe?
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Hey
Try enabling the Log file & Log applications in current widget settings, then check the log after a few hours to see if, or how often, your mA spikes above 300-400mA (in standby), then try to figure if any apps you have installed are causing this spikes/ drain.
its a bit of work, but it has helped me in the past identify a 'problem' app
There might be a chance that some other app is eating up your battery.... enable app logs in current widget and check the log if any app has high battery usage...
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Ok, this is quite surprising. I've gotten 13hrs and it says 40% battery left..
I've enabled logging as recommended. But these logs aren't exactly fun to look at. I don't understand why they wouldn't give you an option to pull the core android apps out of the logging.. or some sorta filter tool. ugh
the one thing I uninstalled was the antivirus program that was on my phone. Well along with the firmware update. I can deal with 13hrs of battery.. it was the six hours or 7-8hrs that was annoying as all heck. So if this really does last another 5-10hrs for a total of 20+hrs I'll be super stoked. I barely use my phone.. no games. nothing. It just sits on standby for 3-5calls a day.. and perhaps 20emails/rss feed checks.
Hi,
Kind of a noob question, but how do you enable Log file & Log applications?
I'm running the same ROM and getting 10 hours on a full charge, I used to get much more on the previous Froyo NAND ROM I was running.
In standby, sometimes it gets as low as 3mA however sometimes it spikes as high as 100-250 mA while in standby.
I'm guessing its an app or widget that is causing this (although I pretty much have the same ones as I was using in the previous ROM)
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Hi,
Kind of a noob question, but how do you enable Log file & Log applications?
I'm running the same ROM and getting 10 hours on a full charge, I used to get much more on the previous Froyo NAND ROM I was running.
In standby, sometimes it gets as low as 3mA however sometimes it spikes as high as 100-250 mA while in standby.
I'm guessing its an app or widget that is causing this (although I pretty much have the same ones as I was using in the previous ROM)
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Open Current Widget settings...Tick d boxes beside "Log file" & "Log Applications"...Set ur update intervals (i usually use 300secs= 5 mins)...Let ur phone sit in standby for about 2 hrs then re-open current widget...Tap "View Log" to view the logs with d default or ur favorite viewer.
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I prefer Battery Monitor Widget instead of Current Widget. Hard to explain the differences but you'll know when you try it.
At 4-6mA standby your phone should go for more than 2 days.
Edit: Add screenshot. Even says 3 days.
I am getting crazy CPU usage from Android OS, which is currently sitting at 52% battery usage. The CPU time of Android OS is between 20 and 30 minutes per hour! I have tried freezing many apps, I have tried task killers, rebooting etc. I have WKE7 firmware.
android os does use more than the rest, unsure why, but somehow the battery ife is still pretty good
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KE7 (stock kernel) , full sync on google stuff + 1 email on push + auto brightness + about 1H of display on time on this, 1d20min and 68% left.
sent 3-4 sms and did a bit of various stuff since yesterday.
Seen worse lol
I would be very happy with that kind of batterylife. Sadly, my phone loses about 35% battery while I'm sleeping. With medium usage, I would usually reach 12 hours of battery.
i rate my battery life to smth like "amazing" xD
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i rate my battery life to smth like "amazing" xD
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Yes for me battery life on sgs2 is also very nice - I'm comparing to sgs and it is about 20% better. My heavy usage today was 5 hours of screen on with wifi, some gps, 2h of gaming, skype running for about 3h, and battery run for total 9h. Also I use 2 push email accounts and sync is on. I think thats really good. And typically when I sleep in 8h battery is drained for about 8% with all email and google syncs active. So this is also quite good. All that on KE7. Most of samsung bloatware frozen.
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Been trying to keep away from these battery threads, but noticed today that I've gone from android system 12% to 30% and I've no idea why.
Still on KE2, and am probably a "light user" - black wallpaper, brightness 20%, screen timeout 2 minutes, some phonecalls, lots of SMS, music - lots of Poweramp - shown a few photos, occasional wifi, GPS ca. 30 minutes per day, don't sync, don't use my carrier's dataplan, no e-mail as yet, and no Facebook/Twitter/games/Social hub/accuweather etc ever - in fact they were uninstalled on day 1.
Got 36 hours from my last charge, am now on 79% after 16 hours. Still happy with it, but no idea what has caused this spike.... Will keep an eye on it.
My $0.02 worth.
I am really starting to wonder why some people have amazing batterylife, while others are having terrible battery life. I would be very happy with 18 hours with 4 hours of screen usage, but instead I am barely scratching 12, today has been even worse. 10 hours with 3 hours screen usage...
So far mine is 2hr 15 mins screen on time, mostly browsing on 3G, 13 hours on battery, and have 29% remaining. Its OK, but I wouldn't describe it as amazing. Roll on 2.3.4
the thing is on android battery life largely depend on apps and setup anyway
Yeh, I know. But I feel like I have optimized my setup as much as I can. No autosynching, email check every 2 hours, facebook, twitter and RSS updates ever 4 hours. No GPS, automatic screen brightness, wifi sleep on. No widgets pulling real time info.
mine has the stock weather widget and animated background - also wifi always on (that prolly actually helps ..)
also i used some gps,played short videos, youtube, recorded some vids and took a few pics (you can see i used it more heavily today in the graph)
im supposing a lot of this goes as android system (bug?) cuz its certainly intensive and isnt in the list (not even lower)
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Get rid of the auto screen brightness. I find brightness of 10% makes a huge difference. This samsung screen might look great but in fact it's practically useless as it drinks power
with ke7 as u can see auto brightness doesn't seem an issue for me anymore
i like it because i don't need to set the brightness in sunlight when it's auto hehe
What is your CPU time on Android OS vs. total battery time? Right now my phone has been on for 2 hours and 14 minutes, and CPU time in Android OS is 43 minutes!
If you've read through the majority of these threads, what's weird is that some of you that have uninstalled and/or frozen specific apps are getting worse battery times than those of us that are bone stock and have everything whirring in the background. As an example I use Wi-Fi a lot and also Kies Air and connect to a Blu-ray player using Wi-Fi Direct. The Wi-Fi Sharing app never appears in my running apps after I turn Wi-Fi off. Yet some of you with tweaks that don't use Wi-Fi have it randomly appearing and eating up CPU time.
I've kept up with this thread and other battery threads and for every "ah-ha!" moment there's a post following it showing worsening or no improvement. Somewhere in one of the three battery threads there were some tweets from Google acknowledging the problem in running 2.3.3. with dual-core processors. I think other than for the mad scientist fun factor we're just beating a dead horse and 2.3.4. is going to have to be our salvation. There's not even any assurance that a cooked ROM sans all the Samsung tweaks would work any better if the issue really is a core-OS problem.
Back to our ongoing debate...
Hello there,
I am newbie here, so please excuse me if tons of threads like mine are found across this forum, but believe me when I say i've read 'em all and I can't really work out a solution that suits me.
I've seen that people having the exynos version of s10+ deal with huge battery life problems, and so do I.
On the contrary, I've also seen screenshots of people getting 10 to 14 hours of sot on their s10+ and I really wonder how they achieve it.
First of all, I'd like to say that I've already tried all the minor tweaks like decreasing brightness, screen resolution, animations etc..
I don't really know how to use the "put apps to sleep" thing, and I'd like an opinion to that.
Anyway, I've observed that when I'm on mobile data/4G, the battery drain is insane. Like 1% per 3 minutes or so. Not that good for a smartphone at the cost of almost 1k €, huh?
These are the battery usage stats I get:
-usage by apps
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-battery usage
-android system consumption setting
So...I don't know what's causing the android system to consume such large amount of battery.
-I didn't restore from any back up when I set up my s10+ almost 2 weeks ago.
-I wiped the partition cache yesterday
-I've optimized all apps (including facebook, messenger and instagram, although I use notification glimpse to get the screen to wake up when I'm sent a message)
-Always on Display is set to "off"
-Battery saving mode is set to "optimized" with adaption pattern set to "on"
-Almost 40% brightness during most of the day
-I'm running the latest software available
-animation frames decreased to 0.5x and also reduced via settings
-location and bluetooth permanently set to "off"
-I've already read the battery optimization guide, but I don't feel like turning all the features that drove me to buy this device to "off"..There has to be another way
Please take your time to look into it and enlighten me because it's so frustrating that a 1000 euros smartphone has to be so much tweaked to produce a decent battery outcome.
SaintJimmy7 said:
Hello there,
I am newbie here, so please excuse me if tons of threads like mine are found across this forum, but believe me when I say i've read 'em all and I can't really work out a solution that suits me.
I've seen that people having the exynos version of s10+ deal with huge battery life problems, and so do I.
On the contrary, I've also seen screenshots of people getting 10 to 14 hours of sot on their s10+ and I really wonder how they achieve it.
First of all, I'd like to say that I've already tried all the minor tweaks like decreasing brightness, screen resolution, animations etc..
I don't really know how to use the "put apps to sleep" thing, and I'd like an opinion to that.
Anyway, I've observed that when I'm on mobile data/4G, the battery drain is insane. Like 1% per 3 minutes or so. Not that good for a smartphone at the cost of almost 1k €, huh?
These are the battery usage stats I get:
-usage by apps
-battery usage
-android system consumption setting
So...I don't know what's causing the android system to consume such large amount of battery.
-I didn't restore from any back up when I set up my s10+ almost 2 weeks ago.
-I wiped the partition cache yesterday
-I've optimized all apps (including facebook, messenger and instagram, although I use notification glimpse to get the screen to wake up when I'm sent a message)
-Always on Display is set to "off"
-Battery saving mode is set to "optimized" with adaption pattern set to "on"
-Almost 40% brightness during most of the day
-I'm running the latest software available
-animation frames decreased to 0.5x and also reduced via settings
-location and bluetooth permanently set to "off"
-I've already read the battery optimization guide, but I don't feel like turning all the features that drove me to buy this device to "off"..There has to be another way
Please take your time to look into it and enlighten me because it's so frustrating that a 1000 euros smartphone has to be so much tweaked to produce a decent battery outcome.
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First of all. Your battery stats aren't bad at all. 20h on battery with 4 hours and 30 mins screen on and 32% remaining. :laugh:
You managed those stats with 4g only? That would be just perfect
10h of screen on is possible if you just stay on the phone after you unplug it.(did it myself) but only wifi and indoors brightness(@30%)
They are bad. Android systen usage is too high. Mine is about 7-8 % over 20 hours.
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Gogolakis said:
First of all. Your battery stats aren't bad at all. 20h on battery with 4 hours and 30 mins screen on and 32% remaining. :laugh:
You managed those stats with 4g only? That would be just perfect
10h of screen on is possible if you just stay on the phone after you unplug it.(did it myself) but only wifi and indoors brightness(@30%)
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I had 4G open (whether the phone was idle or active & messaging etc) about 5 to 7 hours in total. Can't be totally sure. The rest of the day I either used WiFi or no internet connection at all.
The battery since the last charge lasted 25h with Android system draining 22% of it. That fkn huge. I don't know what's causing it. I just tried to restrict it from running to background, but the adaptive power option keeps re-enabling it.. xD
vojopd said:
They are bad. Android systen usage is too high. Mine is about 7-8 % over 20 hours.
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Yeah, I've noticed, I'm asking if there's a way to fix it or find what's causing this and then fix it.
There is plenty of things to turn off because of android system high usage. Install battery gsam monitor, grant adb permissions then you will see what drains youe battery.
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So what app should I use to see what's draining my battery and what's causing android system to drain almost 30% of battery per charging circle?
I'm getting 4 hrs of average SOT on 4G with youtube, some browsing, calls with standby time of about 15hrs.
But on Wifi SOT is 7+ hrs.