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I know its the first day but damn 3 hours and done? I thought evo was bad :[
I don't know what you're doing, but it's wrong.
I bought my phone today at 10:00 AM. First thing I did was charge it all the way. Once I took it off I started getting my apps back, I watched a 720p movie for 10 minutes to see how it worked (freakin amazing... 720p MKV movies out of the box). Browsed the web for 10-20 minutes. Listened to music for 5-10 minutes. Played gamed for about 30 minutes.
Really put the phone through its paces.
I'm at 25% now. 9 hours since unlplugged and screen on time is 1 hour and 34 minutes.
Also remember that you don't get the most out of your battery until you cycle it a few times. I'm running juice defender which also helps a lot.
How did you watch your MKV movie? I am guessing that transferring a 5GB file to the memory card is not optimal.
EvanWasHere said:
How did you watch your MKV movie? I am guessing that transferring a 5GB file to the memory card is not optimal.
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It's a 720p MKV of Dr Horrible The file is only 800 MB (the movie itself is 45 minutes long). I transferred it over while charging the phone along with my music.
Use the "my files" app and navigate to the movie. When you click it, it opens in the stock movie player which plays MKVs just fine. I was rather amazed.
Jsimon9633 said:
I know its the first day but damn 3 hours and done? I thought evo was bad :[
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Take it back get one that works as should
Lol I'm wrong ? I use juice plotter and heavy use and 3 hours later I'm almost at no battery
I'm ok with that as I have been using the hell of it! Love it so far
Yeah...kinda watching the battery myself.
Put it on the charger at 5x% and it hit 100% after charge in about 5 minutes. I turned it off to charge via USB because I knew that couldn't be right. Hit 100% in about 10 minutes. Turned it back on and it's at 65% and charging.
Gonna give this one a few days to condition, though, through normal use and see what happens. The GPS pisses me off that it's completely FUBAR but we'll see if a software fix takes care of that.
The epic drains its batter about 5 to 6x faster then my captivate. It went from 100% at 8 am to dead at 12. I turned off 4g and charged it but now its died again. Died 2 times in 1 day. I am returning it so I cant test more but some people say batters need few days before they work 100%.
I charged mine yesterday morning till the light turned blue and the phone said it was fully charged.
I worked on the phone from 2:00 yesterday afternoon till 11:00 last night...adding, emailing, texting, web browsing and when I was done, it was still at 50%.
My guess is that after there's a real 100% charge in it the battery will condition....just like every other cell phone I've ever used.
So far my Epic battery life is AMAZING. I get so much battery drain on my Evo when I'm not using it. Last night, my Epic was at 14% battery life. I refuse to charge it until I drain it all the way. This morning I woke up and it was at 13%. After 6 hours of idling... 1% drain.
That means my phone has lasted from 11am yesterday until 7:30am today. 2 hours and 10 minutes of screen on time....
shep211 said:
The epic drains its batter about 5 to 6x faster then my captivate. It went from 100% at 8 am to dead at 12. I turned off 4g and charged it but now its died again. Died 2 times in 1 day. I am returning it so I cant test more but some people say batters need few days before they work 100%.
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You are really not having fun with this phone. I got my phone at 11am put it on the car charger. Made a few calls while on charger (about 40 minutes) at about 2pm the phone said 100% charged and to unplug. I'm coming from a modded WinMo FUZE to this phone' so you know I had to explore the Andriod OS. I was on this phone till about 11pm and still had about 20% battery after downloading apps(Now I finally know how poor winMo marketplace really is.) I know the battery will only get better so I'm fine with it. If I need more I'll get a extended use battery.
Ok well either battery life just blows or it needs time to adjust
I made double and triple sure to 100% charge it and juice plotter is already saying I have only 4 hours left from 100% and just now I've been using it for 45 min and its down to 75%
Another note is that the display seems to be the biggest and outrageous offender of battery consumption. 77% right now
My evo had that issue but once I rooted it and installed a custom rom it leveled out to not have the display use that much juice
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Ok well either battery life just blows or it needs time to adjust
I made double and triple sure to 100% charge it and juice plotter is already saying I have only 4 hours left from 100% and just now I've been using it for 45 min and its down to 75%
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See if you can get a replacement. Something isn't quite right there. Im going to get juice plotter and see what it reports for me, but if it's anything like yesterday, I'll easily get a full day out of the battery as I won't be able to use it as much today. I'm going to be working a lot
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See if you can get a replacement. Something isn't quite right there. Im going to get juice plotter and see what it reports for me, but if it's anything like yesterday, I'll easily get a full day out of the battery as I won't be able to use it as much today. I'm going to be working a lot
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I have 30 days going to wait and see of it improves or see what others report and then may report
Yeah I'm leaning towards battery life sucks because even when its off it is using up more battery than my evo did.
I can get full charge to last like 4.5 hours with moderate use.
And the display is by far the biggest offender
Right now it is ay 61% it battery use going to display
Juice defender saves your battery like whoa when it's not being used. Here are my current battery stats:
Current battery life: 36%
Time off charger: 9 Hours 30 Mminutes
Display: 57% (screen has been on for 2 Hours 26 Minutes)
Cell Standby: 25%
Phone Idle: 6%
Dungeon Hunter: 4%
Android System: 3%
Media Server 3%
What in the balls is media server?
I consider this phenomenal battery life compared to my EVO when it launched. It will only get better from here
READ THIS:
The way SAMOLED works is that each pixels is individually lit. Because white consists of the most light, viewing anything with a lot of white will kill the battery faster. Black, obviously, uses the LEAST amount of battery life. You can gain a bit of battery life just by using a darker background for your home screens.
Because of this, web browsing is a huge battery killer.
Yeah I've used that program but I'm trying to still be able to use things like gtalk juice defender kills data intermittently making im programs useless
My evo on jd got like 18 hours battery life and without like 7 which would be great for my epic
4 is a bit extreme especially when it goes from 23 to 12 in 1.75 hours with it being off
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Yeah I've used that program but I'm trying to still be able to use things like gtalk juice defender kills data intermittently making im programs useless
My evo on jd got like 18 hours battery life and without like 7 which would be great for my epic
4 is a bit extreme especially when it goes from 23 to 12 in 1.75 hours with it being off
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The APPS section of Juice Defender allows you to select apps that can use Data. When you open these apps, data is enabled immediately. You'll see the 3G logo kick in. It requires some tweaking to make perfect but id definitely worthwhile.
Just remember. White pixels on epic kills battery faster than Evo.
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The APPS section of Juice Defender allows you to select apps that can use Data. When you open these apps, data is enabled immediately. You'll see the 3G logo kick in. It requires some tweaking to make perfect but id definitely worthwhile.
Just remember. White pixels on epic kills battery faster than Evo.
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Thanks for the tips friend
problem solved by gingerbread 2.3.3 update
The problem is that gaming takes a lot of battery power. I haven't attempted to game for 6 or 7 hours straight but generally speaking, the Play has the best battery of all the handsets I've played with in a really long time. I jumped from a Captivate to the Play and even with little use, the only way I would get through a day is by charging while at work. No problem anymore with the Play, which always has way more charge than I expect to see when I check out my battery life. On the Captivate, you'd be lucky to get 3 or 4 hours of non-stop gaming before it was dead. My first charge, I went 36 hours on my Play with quite a lot of gaming (though not all in one sitting and probably not as concentrated as you). I can hit the promised 5 hours of straight gaming.
I've rooted and removed a few small apps here and there, nothing too huge. I don't bother with attempting to save battery life by going GSM only or just using a headset. Not sure what else you can do. Maybe your apps are more battery-hungry than mine.
Well I havnt modden not even rooted my play but I get 24 hrs or more easily with 1-2 hours gaming and moderate web browsing
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One thing I ha e noticed is if you are in a poor signal area and the phone is constantly searching for signal it will drain the battery quite fast.... just a tip to check out... I've solved my battery issues by turning the phone off when inside the office as after 2 hours of no use with no data or wireless connections the phone would lose 20% battery
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I came from the iPone 3GS to the Play and the iphone had great battery life for movies, music and web. But when you played games the battery died fast. I still need to try with my Play but I think I get more playtime from it. Download Advance Task Manager and run it when you are finished playing around with your phone each time, great little app. I also killed the widgets. Widgets are awesome and I wish I could use them but they seem to kill my battery fast. I'm going to order the charger with extra battery from Ebay soon. (Probably today)
It charges a separate battery on a stand so if you have a big game day you can swap out the battery during the day.
I love this phone for games. The iphone has a lot of games but 1 in 100 are worth the time. And the touch screen sucks for playing games. But the iphone beats the android for ease of use for thing like managing space.
Also get App to SD Pro. It is worth it and I like to buy cool tools if it saves me time of going through all my games to see which ones I can move to the SD card.
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One thing I ha e noticed is if you are in a poor signal area and the phone is constantly searching for signal it will drain the battery quite fast.... just a tip to check out... I've solved my battery issues by turning the phone off when inside the office as after 2 hours of no use with no data or wireless connections the phone would lose 20% battery
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I hear that at work I have to put it on Airplane Mode.
For to increase battery you can put advance task killer on or something and get it to auto kill after lock like I did for my HTC Hero but with new advancements in the custom roms I didn't need it. I expect custom roms to help battery. Untill then, think about getting a new bigger battery. Look in the accessaries thread and find mugan batteries.
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Settings
Android System
Crash Monitor
com.sonyericsson.usbux
Diagnostics Tool
MtpApp
Media Server
SecureClockService
Maps
devicemonitor
Messaging extension
Music
Call log extension
Sony Ericsson Sync
Setup Guide
Get Games
Chinese Keyboard (i need this one)
Please help me.
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You have another couple in there that I would get rid of
Crash monitor, SecureClockService, SetupGuide, Sony Ericcson Sync.
If any of those make you nervous, have a look at this thread for details on each (look for the entry from "constin").
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1047689.html
As always, freeze first Oh, and kill your music service when not in use also.
I leave my house at 7 am for work with a fully charged phone.
I play with it at work for about 2-3 hours on and off. (my work place is really easy going, not much to do atm )
I get home at 4pm (which is now) and battery is 48%.
Then i play with it around 1-2 hours at night when i am in bed after 10 pm.
Normally the battery is around 15% then and i put it back on charge.
So i guess 6-7 hours worth of non-stop gaming sounds about right tbh.
For no signal situations, you might want to grab NoBars from the market. When it sees that you have no signal, it puts the phone into airplane mode to save your battery and then checks for signal again every ten minutes or hour or whatever you set it to.
hey,
this is Android, not iphone
get more batteries and a dock charger~
yanyu said:
hey,
this is Android, not iphone
get more batteries and a dock charger~
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Thank god its not an iphone, theyl forget to put a microphone on the next one lol
I've been using Juice Defender, it works great IMO. Turns off 3G and Wifi whenever the screen is off, runs scheduled data periods to let apps/widgets update, etc.
After so many threads about battery issues I decided to take a plunge and try battery drain. Problem is that I have extended battery and I went from 100 to 1 percent in probably 5 hours but I'm currently at 1% and running with screen "always on" and playing YouTube vidoes in HD and yet it's not going anywhere from 1%. It's been like that for 2 hours now with screen on and youttube playing. Any better ways to drain it?
try tether on too and have a computer use it as wifi router
When I turn the display brightness to 100% it drains my battery crazy fast.
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Fastest way is to simply play some of the more hardware intensive games. I find that about 2-3 hours of PSX does the trick.
pandora lol
I'd just watch lots of...uhhh...nevermind.
Turn on gps, wifi, bluetooth, stream music at 100% brightness. Make sure the speaker is being used.
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maybe the phone the phone isn't really reading properly your non stock extended battery? Might not be a rom issue?
artisticcheese said:
After so many threads about battery issues I decided to take a plunge and try battery drain. Problem is that I have extended battery and I went from 100 to 1 percent in probably 5 hours but I'm currently at 1% and running with screen "always on" and playing YouTube vidoes in HD and yet it's not going anywhere from 1%. It's been like that for 2 hours now with screen on and youttube playing. Any better ways to drain it?
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Start tethering, turn brightness up, start watching HD porn... viola! Battery will be dead in no time.
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maybe the phone the phone isn't really reading properly your non stock extended battery? Might not be a rom issue?
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I have 2 extended batteries from different vendors and both of them showing this issue.
Angry Birds?
Or turn on GPS and driving navigation - mine will drain the battery faster than it can charge with gps/navigation running.
Netflix with with background tasks. Max brightness. All of that fun stuff.
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I downloaded a program to drain my gf's xperiax8.. It was almost fully charged(99%).
Try battery discharging on market.
It says a couble of staff, but only vibration is working. And makes difference.
I opened music gps wifi also.
It drained in 3-4 hours ang regular drain is 3 days with light use, and customizations..
Edit: also with setcpu I set the MIN frequency same as max(and max is OC'ed)
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battery refresh in the market seems to work pretty good..
I got a refurb Note 10.1 2014 from Groupon about a month ago. The battery life has been poor but I didn't use it enough to quantify it. I got home form work today and it was at 65%. After exactly an hour of use, it told me it was about to die at 5%. I can literally watch the battery percentage tick down while writing an email or browsing the web. Is this normal? I've had 11 android phones but this is my first tablet, I've never seen performance this poor.
This is my issue with android devices. If you are not an above average user and know how to trouble shoot to find what app or apps is causing your battery drain you will be left thinking the device itself is not good, when it's probably a wakelock or some background app killing your battery.
My device has good battery life. I wish it would do better with simple Internet browsing, but watching videos and other tasks are great in my opinion.
My advice, try to find if your issue is software related. After ruling that out, the only option is that out must be hardware related.
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I found the battery poor for the first couple of weeks. I gave it a full charge, took it off a couple of mins after 100% each time, only letting it drain down to about 15%. I was getting about 6 hours on screen time without power hungry games.
Then a few days ago drained it full, and charged it over night, now getting 9-10hours on screen time - mainly web surfing, watching full hd film streamed off home servers and low power games (5's.....far too addictive and simple). This also includes some use streaming bluetooth to wireless speaker with screen off, so at least another hour use on top of the 10 but with the screen off.
I'm about like redsurf. 6-10 hours of screen-on depending what you are doing with it. If you are only getting 2-3 hours there is something wrong. You can check under power in the tools/settings menu to see what is eating your power. If it is a program, kill the task. If it is the screen (more than 50% any time I have checked) and you are only getting 2-3 hours, definitely something wrong.
Oh, also try turning down brightness.
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I'm about like redsurf. 6-10 hours of screen-on depending what you are doing with it. If you are only getting 2-3 hours there is something wrong. You can check under power in the tools/settings menu to see what is eating your power. If it is a program, kill the task. If it is the screen (more than 50% any time I have checked) and you are only getting 2-3 hours, definitely something wrong.
Oh, also try turning down brightness.
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Funny enough, I probably have my screen brightness set to between 10% and 25% and rarely ever need it to be turned up any higher than that.
By rooting and disabling alot of bloat stuff I get an additional 1-2 hours out of my note 10.1. Just saying
I'm sure there could be a software issue, but even if i was gaming at full brightness with 40 background apps (I don't), 2 hours is unacceptable and probably defective.
Hi guys,
I got a 32 gig grouper off Ebay in July 2015. From the get go, I was impressed with the battery life, and it got even better when I went the custom rom route. My main use case is streaming movies or TV in the evening for a few hours, and otherwise leaving it in standby/airplane mode to conserve battery life until the next viewing. Typically overnight, the battery sips power -- maybe 2-3% lost in 7-8 hours.
Over the past month, though, I've seen a considerable dip in the standby/airplane mode time in particular. Now, overnight I seem to lose 10-15%. I realize batteries have a lifespan, but I figured I'd see a more gradual drop?
I tend to only have 4-5 streaming apps on the tablet at a time. Currently I'm running CM11 stable, but I observe this standby battery drop in all roms -- I've gone as far back as 4.1.2 (stock + unrooted) and all the way up to CM13 unofficial. I used better battery stats/GSAM but never really caught any wakelocks that would account for that much power lost.
At a loss for what to try next. I can capture screencaps if it helps, but they never really told me anything (perhaps someone else would get more info from them.) Any help is appreciated!
Also, my on screen time feels about the same. I've drained the battery a few times with some streamed video, and I get around 4-6 hours. It's the standby time that has dropped off considerably.
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Get Kernel Aduitor or a CPU managament program and see if your tablet is going into deep sleep or if it's still at another clock frequency or if a program is keeping it up.
Thanks for the reply!
My N7 is in deep sleep about 80% of the time on a typical charge, the other 20% being used for on-screen usage (video streaming and browsing typically). It's maddening -- I now lose 15-20% on standby/airplane mode overnight. I don't see any flags in better battery stats or GSAM battery monitor. Most apps are greenified, too, and location services/other potential draining factors are disabled.
Is it just a bad battery?