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My 1st Imagio had no problem with battery, but the "end" key broke so I had a replacement sent. The replacement had nicks on screen and major battery drain, with overnight charge, by 3:00pm I had 5% left. So I sent for 2nd replacement. Same problem with the battery, fully drained by midday. Frustrated, I went to Verizon and requested replacement battery. All seemed well at first. Then, the new battery began to drain. I started eliminating programs running and now, at 10:00pm, I still have 72%, I talked, texted, sent pic mssg, got email, updated weather...etc. This is what I changed.
I turned the phone to CDMA only.
I changed input back to default HTC qwerty (I had sip change to swype)
I set email to check once a day, but I hit send/receive periodically
I set weather to check once a day.
Sorry, but I also uninstalled "codyppc performance booster"
I reinabled Auto Divice lock. (this seemed to help save battery by locking)
I am running spb mobile shell 3.5 and WM 6.5 interface. Whenever I run the HTC Touchflo3D it seems to drain more battery, along with suck up memory.
I check running applications often, reset a couple times a day. I am having an issue with my spb time alarm going off in the morning though. I will try something tonight to eliminate that as the culprit. Overall, I think anything set to run regularly will drain the battery. With these fixes, now I LOVE THIS PHONE. I have all my programs on it, lots of program and storage memory left, (more than I had out of the box) tweaked just the way I like. Hope this helps someone.
Did anyone find this helpful???
Just wondering if I had isolated issues or if anyone else tried and got results...
i posted about it. the battery life can be fairly attrocious for several reasons. Mainly OEM settings & Poorly stored batteries.
With some fairly medium use (google maps, few camera shots a day. Maybe 20-30 minutes worth of streamed video via CorePlayer, or a hacked HAVA program) i still have some battery life the next morning. (Not a day and a half worth, but enough to make it from one morning till the next).
My first battery was trash, but my second has been perfectly fine. Unfortunately doing everything you've already said. Forcing CDMA only & installing no-push internet cab was the biggest help. (Left email & weather on update every 30min)
The idle time for me (overnight with no charge) seems to be better not running TF3D also. If I know Itll be awhile before I can charge it's the first thing that get's disabled. I love TF3D, but SBP shell is nice also.
Eh... My regular useage will typically last around 24-36 hours before the phone wont cut on anymore. Good enough for me I guess. Mostly depends on how much I voice call during the day. (lotta test/mms)
Anywho. Long post for telling you that I dont know what else you can do. At some point it'll boil downt o being a smartphone & while in use it'll devour it's battery???
Actually... I didn't see you had installed no-push internet. You need to if you haven't. When you open a data connection many times it wont close by itself. So you can set your email, weather, etc to check every day & after it cheks it. Itll stay on all day. :\
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Thanks for the feedback. I do have no push internet also. In addition to previous post, I have tried to run Facebook and the battery drained in a couple of hours. I love the phone though. I may buy the extended battery... then it will last 4 hours instead of 2????
WIth my first Imagio I ran push email and TF3D. I had no battery issues to speak of. After a full day I would be at 30-40%. Memory was an issue though and then the end key broke.
With my replacement I tried SPB MS 3.5 and had outrageous battery drain, 4 hours off the charger and I was down to 25%. WHen I remove SPB I am back to what I will call acceptable battery performance. I finally turned off TF3D and got a couple of widgets for the plain jane today screen. I can live with the battery life and I am not resetting 1 or 2 times a day to revover memory.
Cant wait for the unlock and custom roms!!
how do you get the weather to update every 30 min?
this would help if it really works if i get one i will let you all know how it does.
http://www.fommy.com/view-full-page.asp?divid=HTC&model=HTC+Imagio+XV6975&skuno=83981
I’m wondering if my phone or battery is defective. Up until about a month and a half ago, my hardware version 003 Evo used to sleep for 19-20 hours and have 89-91% charge left. I could easily get a full day (for me, 5:00 AM – 9:00 PM) with light to moderate use and still have plenty of charge left. I once got the warning at 15% charge at the end of a 3-hour + phone call and right at about the 20-hour mark. Then things changed.
I now have Azrael 2.1 DC installed with the Azreal Theme, animations, and wallpapers using stock HTC #11 kernel as distributed. The only things synching are Facebook for HTC Sense (synching contacts once a day), Google (normal), News (manual-synch only), Qik (disabled), and weather (every hour). The main Facebook app has everything unchecked and is not running.
I removed the big Favorites (people), Bookmarks, and Friend Stream widgets from the main screens.
The non-default items running has been reduced now to just a few items, but ones that I’ve used all along:
Brightness Toggle Widget, Dr Web Anti-Virus , Documents To Go, and Swype. (Note: Each of these has been through one or more updates since this all began.)
At the current time, if I take my phone off of the charger at 6:00 AM and maybe view/delete a few of the overnight SPAM email, by 8:00 AM (2-hours later) the charge is between 78-82%. If I make no calls or just spend a minute or two on the phone, view/delete 2-5 emails, maybe send a text or two and don’t charge it of course, by the time 5:00 PM rolls around the charge is down to 15-20%. Sometimes it’s less.
I powered on the screen just now and power was at 91%. I viewed two emails, deleting one, in about 30-seconds. Power now at 89%. The phone has been unplugged for 2-hours.
Since I bought SetCPU I installed that temporarily and verified that the CPU isn’t constantly running at 1GHz, but is scaling using On Demand.
Have made backups, tried different kernels, different ROMs (Sense and ASOP) and kernels…it’s all the same, more or less. To add more confusion, my wife’s Evo (completely stock) is now only getting slightly better battery life than mine. Our Evos were pre-ordered and shipped on release day. I’m wondering if either one or both of our phones is screwing up, using far too much power far to quickly, or if it’s the batteries…maybe a bad lot?
I’ve attached a screenshot of the SpareParts battery screen after a full charge. Can someone let me know if the voltage, etc, looks correct? I have several other screen caps showing various info that I can upload later that may help.
If anyone has heard anything that might help to explain this behavior I would greatly appreciate hearing it. Thank you for your time.
New observation. Put SetCPU back on my Evo, and just sat there and watched it for a while. I've observed that the CPU appears to alternate between 245MHz and 998MHz, spending more time at 998MHz than anything else.
I plugged in my Evo, set the screen to not shut off when plugged in, removed SetCPU, installed System Panel, and observed the CPU activity for about 20-minutes.
While the CPU load was very often in the 10-15% range with frequent brief visits to higher demand, the CPU Clock Speed never dropped below 661MHz during that entire 20-minutes and spent a lot of time all over the higher frequencies.
Tried killing everything that I could, even the things that restart; nothing made much difference. Going to wipe eveything, and try some different ROMs and see if I observe the same behavior.
4G may be running in background trying to connect and throwing log errors every 2 secs. Doesnt matter if you turned it off..it keeps going and is a know defect at medium level of support at google site and known for a few months.
Verify using aLogcat or other free log app.
Errors will look similar to
E/Wimax (***): <DC CONNECT> IO error: msg='/1270.1:7771 - Connection Refused'
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and wont stop unless you reboot the phone after you use 4G.. every time.
Thank you for the reply! Unfortunately, I live in the Greater New Orleans, LA area, one of Sprint's red-headed step-children, where we will probably get 4G right after Tenney, MN gets it.
Last night, after a nand-backup, I wiped everything twice as usual, and install CM 6.1.1, the latest Google Apps, updated everything and built a normal installation. I left the kernel that it came with.
Using the default 'On Demand' CPU governer, once it settles down it does spend more time down at 245MHz, butif it rises at all, it prettymuch goes straight to 998MHz and back again. I set the governer to 'Conservative' and it appears to be working. The CPU does ramp up on occasion but does not necessarily immediately go all the way to 998MHz...in fact it rarely makes it to that speed.
I'll spend a bit of time like this and observe what sort of battery life I get. One odd thing...while sitting on the charger this morning, my Evo spontaniously rebooted itself...we'll see.
Thank you for your time.
nYdGeo said:
I’m wondering if my phone or battery is defective. Up until about a month and a half ago, my hardware version 003 Evo used to sleep for 19-20 hours and have 89-91% charge left. I could easily get a full day (for me, 5:00 AM – 9:00 PM) with light to moderate use and still have plenty of charge left. I once got the warning at 15% charge at the end of a 3-hour + phone call and right at about the 20-hour mark. Then things changed.
I now have Azrael 2.1 DC installed with the Azreal Theme, animations, and wallpapers using stock HTC #11 kernel as distributed. The only things synching are Facebook for HTC Sense (synching contacts once a day), Google (normal), News (manual-synch only), Qik (disabled), and weather (every hour). The main Facebook app has everything unchecked and is not running.
I removed the big Favorites (people), Bookmarks, and Friend Stream widgets from the main screens.
The non-default items running has been reduced now to just a few items, but ones that I’ve used all along:
Brightness Toggle Widget, Dr Web Anti-Virus , Documents To Go, and Swype. (Note: Each of these has been through one or more updates since this all began.)
At the current time, if I take my phone off of the charger at 6:00 AM and maybe view/delete a few of the overnight SPAM email, by 8:00 AM (2-hours later) the charge is between 78-82%. If I make no calls or just spend a minute or two on the phone, view/delete 2-5 emails, maybe send a text or two and don’t charge it of course, by the time 5:00 PM rolls around the charge is down to 15-20%. Sometimes it’s less.
I powered on the screen just now and power was at 91%. I viewed two emails, deleting one, in about 30-seconds. Power now at 89%. The phone has been unplugged for 2-hours.
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I have been having the exact same problem with my 0003 phone with Nova screen. I used to get fantastic battery live. I would take it off the charger and it would sit at 100% for at least an hour. Nowadays, I take it off the charger and by the time it takes to get to work (10 mins) it will be around 92%. I have tried 3 different batteries, numerous ROMs and kernels with no changes. The only thing I can think of is that a month or 2 ago my daughter knocked my (naked aside from screen protector) phone off of the counter and it fell bottom left corner first onto the tile floor, cracking the screen. I actually went by the Sprint store yesterday and talked about getting the screen replaced. According to him, they don't have parts for the Evo so I am getting a new phone. Hopefully that takes care of my issue. I know that doesn't really help you but just wanted to let you know, I have the same issue
Thank you for your reply! I've been fortunate and have not dropped mine yet. Trying a new 3.70 ROM on my phone and have updated my wife's stock Evo to the same release. Going to observe whether or not this makes any difference.
try doing a full erase and wiping your battery stats (in recovery). see how that works for you.
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try doing a full erase and wiping your battery stats (in recovery). see how that works for you.
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Thank you for your input. When I created the ROM, I did a multiple complete wipe, and then started flashing. I recently redid everything again with Azrael X v3.0. After a few days, I recharged with the phone off for a few hours after the light was green, and then reset the battery stats. Unfortunately, no change resulted.
I recently flashed the "SBC-net-4.1.9.1-more-havs-v7" kernel, and this has had an effect. When I remove the phone from the charger, usage starts there instead of zooming down to the 88%-92% range. I've disconnected from the charger, and made a short 2-3 minute phone call, and it was still at 100%!
I've charged the phone for a few hours after the light was green, and then again reset the battery stats (though the post for the SBC kernels says that since the battery gets and stays fully charged, no more need to reset the stats).
I am strongly suspecting that the battery is the problem. In order to test this I've ordered a 3500 mah battery. Once I have it installed, I'll fully charge, and then use/charge for several days. I'll observe the battery life during this part, but will then flash to a rooted, but otherwise completely stock ROM, and live with that long enough to observe accurate battery usage.
I'll use the info that I gather during that time to compare with others with the same type of battery. This isn't an exact science of course, but If they get a full day with very heavy usage and I get a full day with little to no usage, I know that my phone is borked, etc.
Thank you for your time, and Happy New Year to everyone!
Well, have had the 3500mAh battery for a while and its not the battery. I am totally baffled. The phone hasn't been dropped, there's not a blemish on it anywhere. Absolutely everything works, there's no 100% wake time...the up time and awake times are different and at least appear to be reasonable.
Both regular and extended batteries have been through the HTC-recommended 'conditioning' procedure, or whatever they call it. I've tried several different Sense ROMs as well as CM6-6.1 (doing double and triple wipes of everything), with various kernels...stock, custom, SBC, non-SBC, HAVs, noHAVs, more aggressive/less aggressive/no undervolting, TM, King's (always wiping cache and dalvik). They don't all run the same, but regardless of what ROM or kernel I have installed, after charging all night I can unplug the phone and leave the house at 6:00 AM, not use the phone at all...100% screen-off time, and by 3-ish in the afternoon the stock battery is at 35-40%. Awake time could be anything from 45-mins to a little over an hour.
Previous to this, and whatever switch got thrown that's causing this, after that same 9-hours of non-use the stock battery would be at least 90%...maybe 85% on a weird day.
With the same 3500mAh battery that others get through 12-hours of extremely heavy use, or with casual use go a few days on, I can use it to maybe answer a couple of texts, quickly view and delete a few emails, manually killing the screen after any activity, and by 5:00 PM, 11-hours later, I'm looking at 40% charge.
The only suggestion that anyone has had (in another forum) was to download the original signed RUU, run it taking the phone completely back to original state, update it OTA, and then re-root (hboot 2.10 with Unrevoked 3.31 or whatever it is, latest RA, etc). The theory is that 'sometimes using the RUU and going completely back to stock is the only thing that fixes some issues'. Has anyone else ever heard of anything like that?
If anyone can shed any light on this in any way, shape or form, you have my sincere thanks in advance.
Thank you for your time.
nYdGeo said:
Well, have had the 3500mAh battery for a while and its not the battery. I am totally baffled. The phone hasn't been dropped, there's not a blemish on it anywhere. Absolutely everything works, there's no 100% wake time...the up time and awake times are different and at least appear to be reasonable.
Both regular and extended batteries have been through the HTC-recommended 'conditioning' procedure, or whatever they call it. I've tried several different Sense ROMs as well as CM6-6.1 (doing double and triple wipes of everything), with various kernels...stock, custom, SBC, non-SBC, HAVs, noHAVs, more aggressive/less aggressive/no undervolting, TM, King's (always wiping cache and dalvik). They don't all run the same, but regardless of what ROM or kernel I have installed, after charging all night I can unplug the phone and leave the house at 6:00 AM, not use the phone at all...100% screen-off time, and by 3-ish in the afternoon the stock battery is at 35-40%. Awake time could be anything from 45-mins to a little over an hour.
Previous to this, and whatever switch got thrown that's causing this, after that same 9-hours of non-use the stock battery would be at least 90%...maybe 85% on a weird day.
With the same 3500mAh battery that others get through 12-hours of extremely heavy use, or with casual use go a few days on, I can use it to maybe answer a couple of texts, quickly view and delete a few emails, manually killing the screen after any activity, and by 5:00 PM, 11-hours later, I'm looking at 40% charge.
The only suggestion that anyone has had (in another forum) was to download the original signed RUU, run it taking the phone completely back to original state, update it OTA, and then re-root (hboot 2.10 with Unrevoked 3.31 or whatever it is, latest RA, etc). The theory is that 'sometimes using the RUU and going completely back to stock is the only thing that fixes some issues'. Has anyone else ever heard of anything like that?
If anyone can shed any light on this in any way, shape or form, you have my sincere thanks in advance.
Thank you for your time.
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A lot of times its a market app that's the culprit. Make sure you don't have an app installed that keeps your phone awake even when the screen is off. The market tells you what every program has access to including wake issues. After a fresh Rom install / kernel flash........check all apps to make sure none of em do this. Task killers are not the answer......not installing apps with too many permissions helps a ton.
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I have been having the exact same problem with my 0003 phone with Nova screen. I used to get fantastic battery live. I would take it off the charger and it would sit at 100% for at least an hour. Nowadays, I take it off the charger and by the time it takes to get to work (10 mins) it will be around 92%. I have tried 3 different batteries, numerous ROMs and kernels with no changes. The only thing I can think of is that a month or 2 ago my daughter knocked my (naked aside from screen protector) phone off of the counter and it fell bottom left corner first onto the tile floor, cracking the screen. I actually went by the Sprint store yesterday and talked about getting the screen replaced. According to him, they don't have parts for the Evo so I am getting a new phone. Hopefully that takes care of my issue. I know that doesn't really help you but just wanted to let you know, I have the same issue
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I got the same story from the sprint repair center by me as well. When they told me new phone I asked them "do you mean a referb" they said "yes". I'd rather have my screen replaced then get a referb
Thank you for your reply. Yep, I stopped using task killers of any type when froyo was released due to OS functionality making them useless, and if fact a negative.
So far I haven't experienced any extreme wake-time issues, though I knwo they can be a big problem.
I've tested this by completely wiping everything several times, flashing a ROM and not making any changes so its still using the factory HTC #15 kernel which is pretty well known now for good battery life. I've run it like that for a week with multiple restarts, full charges with battery stat wipes, etc.
So far, no luck, no change. Still hoping to figure it out.
Problem Identified but not yet resolved.
It appears that there is some issue with one or more radios in my phone. I don't know enough about the innerds to know if there is more than one, but whatever receives data downstream is screwed up.
Over time I've noticed that my downstream data has gotten slower and slower. Then I started missing calls periodically, and texts sent to me at 10:30 AM were showing up as arriving at 6:30 PM...weird stuff.
After un-rooting, performing a complete factory reset, and a complete data restore (from the ##3282# menu), the phone and texts seem to be more consistant, but running the SpeedTest app to a server here in NOLA produces the following results:
Ping: 20ms - 30ms
Downstream: 0 - 128Kbs (Seriously, I get "0" often, and 128Kbs is the absolute max achieved on occasion)
Upstream: 1.2Mb - 1.46Mb
After re-rooting the phone, I've tested this in the Azrael 4.0 and EViO 1.8 Sense ROMs, and in CM6.12, and the results are identical. Its very strange that it only seems to affect the downstream rate.
I guess its time to RUU, bring it to a Sprint store, pay their $35 and see if they can fix it.
Hey all, I would like to get an idea of the average/normal battery life you are all getting with the TMobile MyTouch 4G. I'm originally a proud owner of an HD2 & also own a Droid Incredible, but a family member has this new Tmobile phone & they are not having the best experience
Basically, Battery is running out, literally from 100% to 0% in approximately only 5-7 hours. What kind of use? Almost none! 3G Data On; GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth all Off. No navigation. Less than 3 hours talk-time during that time. Display on Automatic brightness, with timeout at 15 sec.
She is at work during most of this time so no heavy data usage, & I know so because she's on the 200MB plan & "MyAccount" reflects light data use.
Phone is completely Stock (no overclock, stock kernel, not rooted, etc).
So is this terrible battery life normal? Or would you all say there is something off with this particular phone?
There is a task manager installed set to kill unnecessary apps on screen off. I've gone over all settings at least 3 times. Still dies in less than 7 hours. I dont get it. So that's most of the info, anything else I forgot to clarify let me know!
Thanks!
If you turn off the mobile network and stop all synching if you don't need it the phone should last you a very long time, the data connection saps up a lot of battery.
First of all, UNINSTALL your app killer. It does more harm than good.
Second, it would be good to root your phone, and uninstall unnecessary apps. (amazon mp3, games, etc etc... all the bloatware.)
Third, install setCPU from market and set up profiles as recommended on XDA. (search)
Fourth, set USB debugging ON, stop all sync incl background data, display at auto brightness.
YOU have to remember that battery life really depends on usage, and LOCATION.
During a work week, I recharge battery before I go to bed and unplug @ 100%.
I usually get one day of battery during work inside a building with E (not H) so not so strong signal. I make ~30 min total call time with ~1 hours of web browsing, market app install, stocks, etc... I get home with ~30% left.
During the weekends, I rarely use the phone sometimes and get 2 days or more.
Currently at 1d 3hrs and still 55%.
how do you uninstall the preinstall programs? i rooted my phone.. but when i go in to manage my apps.... i can still only unintall the ones that i downloaded. the preinstalled ones still dont allow me to un install
Use Titanium, or another uninstaller from the market...
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Don't uninstall system apps with titanium. Use the freeze function first. Arbitrarily uninstalling certain preinstalled apps can make your phone go wonky and titanium does not back up system apks, only data. So if you uninstall a system app, it's gone for good.
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On stock you should probably be able to go a day without the phone dying, depending on usage. Good custom ROMs with SetCPU profiles can do even better.
My advice, don't fuss around with trying to figure out what can be uninstalled and what can't. It's far easier to flash a custom ROM that doesn't come with any of that crud to begin with. If you're rooted, you might as well. Just make a backup of your stock ROM in case you need to switch back to it for some reason.
If you aren't going to do that, then I agree with the above about nixing the taskiller. Get a program that lets you monitor apps on your phone. Check it after a while and see if there are any apps that are misbehaving (using more resources than they reasonably should), then you can uninstall the offending app.
Naturally, turn off wireless and GPS when not in use. You can turn of sync as well, but every now and then you should turn it on for a bit to sync your stuff with Google's servers.
I unplug my phone around 6am every weekday and usually plug it back in between 10-11pm. My daily usage consists of mostly txts, a few phone calls, web browsing and maybe a game or two.
When I plug it back in every eveing I average about 40% battery left. I leave bluetooth and gps on and have all my mail accounts sync every two hours.
Compared to my Vibrant and even my G1 that is fantastic. The last couple of days I left it unplugged overnight to use as an alarm and it lost very little of it's juice.
I have a stock (though rooted) MT4G that is about a week or so old.
I use my phone moderately, but only talk maybe 10-30 minutes on average. I use between 30-60% of my battery in a 16 hour period. Once or twice I have used 2-3 hours of talk and heavy data useage, and I don't think I went under 25% battery in 16 hours.
It sounds like something is amiss with your family member. What does your battery usage stat say?
I would guess you may have a defective battery....
I've had my MT4G for about a month, still running stock and not rooted (yet lol). I've been paying attention to battery too. Battery life seems to have decreased over the last couple of weeks. First couple of weeks I had the phone it lasted from wake-up to bedtime on a single charge. Recently, though, it is usually at 10-20% by 6pm when I get home from work. Minimal usage, a few short phone calls, some texting, regular e-mail checking, and just playing with it for an hour or so every day (customizing home screen, market browsing, web browsing etc). Used to be when I'd plug it in to charge before going to bed it would be in the 10-20% range, now it's hitting that range about 5 or 6 hours earlier. Frustrating to say the least.
Just to give you a bit of reference, when my phone was stock unrootedi would get about 12hrs on a charge. After rooting I did a few simple things and now I get between 24 and 36hrs on a charge. The things I did after root were:
1.Keep gps, bluetooth, and wifi off when not in use
2.when at home using wifi, I change the carrier mode to gsm only so the radio doesn't constantly search for cdma signals. (this eats a lot of juice).
3.keep sync off and only sync mail when I need to check it.
4 don't use feed widgets (fb, twitter, news). I use the apps for those needs.
5 keep my screen brightness at 30% unless I'm in bright sunlight. I rarely go over 60%.
6.used titanium to freeze unwanted or unused apps and widgets.
7.use setcpu to underclock when screen is off or battery is low.
8.use watchdog to monitor cpu usage of my running apps. It notifies me if an app goes over a predefined threshold.
9.I NEVER use a taskkiller.
10.I don't use live wallpapers (watchdog has confirmed that they are ALL cpu hogs)
Some of these practices you can do without root and are good habits to get into.
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I'll try to keep this short and sweet. I'm coming from a phone that was married to its charger (an overclocked-to-all-hell Pre) and I constantly micromanaged its battery by turning on data, wifi, and gps only when needed. With the Atrix's huge battery and the upgrade in phones I decided, "What the hell. Crappy battery life with this phone is still better than the best battery life with my old one. Enjoy the features." So I left Wifi, GPS, and Sync on 100% of the time. (I did, however, set all my apps to manual sync.) I have 3 homescreens and very, very few widgets. With a normal day's use this usually netted me about 14-17~ hours with about 2~ hours of screentime. Not the greatest, but amazing comparatively to the Pre.
Today I finally took the time go around and start messing with Tasker and other battery optimizing techniques. Here are a few thigns I did that have already netted me large returns:
The first is the simplest: I changed my screen brightness from Automatically adjusting to a static 15%. Though not the best, this is is bright enough for me in close to all situations and the ones where it's not I just change it back to automatic (this is done via the excellent Widgetsoid).
I use Google Voice for texts and that means I always need a data connection--this throws out things like JuiceDefender because it prevents me from receiving instant notifications. Between home and school I'd say I have a WiFi connection about 85% of the time, so i went into the Wireless preferences and turned my WiFi Timeout to "Never." In case you didn't know, a wifi connection is much more battery friendly than a 3G/4G one. Remaining always connected keeps my phone from cutting the connection and then rescanning for a network to connect to several times a day.
I used a Tasker profile I found online (it was either Reddit or Lifehacker, you can probably find it on both) that turns my GPS on only when I load an app that I've specified I want GPS on. I've known about this for a while but I was hesitant about instituting it because a luxury I wanted was to be able to open up Navigation, Yelp, or Foursquare and have an instant lock-on with my location. After testing today, between being generally located by wifi or cell-tower triangulation, and then having an exact location a few moments later with GPS, I found almost zero difference between leaving GPS on and having it enabled right when the app was opened.
Lastly, I downloaded the newest SetCPU here from XDA (it's free for XDA members. Search for it.) and had it throttle back the processor all the way while the screen is off. In addition, it will have the processor scaled back some when the battery reaches 30% and 10% respectively, and a few other instances such as the phone temperature getting too hot.
I'm laying into bed right now and according to Circle Battery Widget I have 37% battery left after 11 hours of being unplugged. Now, while this doesn't sound very great at all I want to specify that this is with my display having been on for 4 hours and 15 minutes. This is by far the largest battery hog (45% in this case) and there is no way my battery would have lasted before I changed these few things. I don't know how applicable they are to anyone else but they sure did help me and I felt I should let people know.
The battery on this phone is freaking AMAZING!! I use my phone a lot! Prior to this I had the Captivate and I would have to charge it around 3 or 4pm cause it was already at less than 15% and dropping quickly.
On 4/26 this phone lasted me 11 hours with lots of usage around 3 hours of display time.
On 4/27 I unplugged it at 10 and it died today at 1am! That to me is sick!! I charge every night so lasting a whole day of use is fine for me!
Oh and I have my brightness at a bit more than half, which I could have never done on the Captivate lol
my experiences have been rather positive as well.
4/26 unplugged at 12am.
4/27 flashed ginger-blur, restored apps, ubuntu webtop mod, all of the other mods.
@6pm i had 7 hours and 16 minutes of screen time and 1 gb of data used. I was at 15%
my only issue is that i only get battery updates every 10%. any idea why?
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my experiences have been rather positive as well.
4/26 unplugged at 12am.
4/27 flashed ginger-blur, restored apps, ubuntu webtop mod, all of the other mods.
@6pm i had 7 hours and 16 minutes of screen time and 1 gb of data used. I was at 15%
my only issue is that i only get battery updates every 10%. any idea why?
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you need the circle battery widget to get 1% updates. There may be a couple other battery apps that do it as well, not sure.
Ive got a 120 apps installed and get close to 14hrs of battery life with screen on time of 4-5hrs
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Ive got a 120 apps installed and get close to 14hrs of battery life with screen on time of 4-5hrs
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I'm pretty sure the only way I could get 5 hours of screen time is in airplane mode.
Coming from the Pre ( I still love that phone OS) I can testify to glorious battery life on my Atrix. I don't even charge it at night, I run all day long and charge it usually at my home office desk before I go to bed.
I do miss my Pre. My wife has one and it gives me sad puppy eyes every time I look over at it.
I got my new S7 Edge from TMobile last Friday and sent back my iPhone 6+. So far I find the battery life to be complete ****e. I did all the normal things I would with any phone like turning off notifications for everything, turning off auto brightness and setting it low, turned off background usage for everything, enabled no background data, turned off animations, installed nova launcher and a few other things.
For example; I unplugged my phone about 1:30 ago and only played music in my car for about 15 minutes.. my battery is at 80% now. If I actually use the phone I can watch the percentage trickle down by 1 about every 30 seconds. Thats just with browsing the web... If I'm in a game it drops 2% at a time extremely quickly. Maybe I dont understand how it works yet, but I closed all of the open programs and when I go into Application Manager i'm able to "force close" all this stuff. Shouldn't that option be greyed out if I closed all the open apps by pressing the left button? I also installed advanced task manager and used the widget to close open things. It tells me it closes a number of tasks, but they still are able to be "force closed".
This phone is unusable in it's current state. I talked to TMobile chat and after some basic troubleshooting I was told to call, which I will be doing later. So is anyone else having extreme drain like this with nothing open? Also am I not correctly understanding how apps run on Android? I've searched the internet and read a lot of articles on these things and I feel like I understand it somewhat. The features and screen of this phone are a million times better than my iPhone, so i really don't want to switch back. Thanks
TL;DR - Battery drains 20-30% an hour with minimal, sleep usage. Apps stay open after closing. SOS Plz halp
I read in a post that people are having big battery drain because of media scanner service scanning the SD card constantly. I have a 64gb SD card in so this could be it.
Hmm, I have the T-Mobile version as well, and have an SD card inserted. I'm not having any battery drain issues, knock on wood. Took my phone off the charger at 9:30 a.m., it's now 1:30 p.m. and I have 84% left. I've done some texting, some WhatsApp, some Trivia Crack, a couple of phone calls, answered an email or two, did a little browsing in Chrome, and some Snapchat. I also have always-on display turned on.
Not quite as stellar as the battery life on some of my Nokia Lumias, but pretty darn solid, and definitely bests any battery life I've witnessed on Android or iOS.
I don't know all the details of your usage, but it's not like it's complicated so I doubt you're doing anything crazy. I'd bet the issue is either a bad device, or something really simple we're not noticing. Either way, I'd definitely exchange the device while you're in the grace period.
If it's at all relevant, I have the gold variant. I have a co-worker with the black one (also T-Mobile) and seems quite happy with his as well.
That's a really abnormal drain. It sounds like you might have a lemon. I would recommend getting it replaced or backing it up with Smart Switch for PC and doing a hard reset. Sometimes the store reps are helpful with finding battery-draining apps. Sometimes.
I thought it might be bad also. I don't think i could have changed anything that would cause this. I also have Always On Device turned off, anything like that is off... even edge screen features and ones that do something when you move the phone. When I get home im gonna factory reset it and see if its any better. If not I will call TMobile and request a new one.
Yeah, you likely got one with a defective battery. I don't think I could get mine down to 80% from fully charged that fast if I tried.
Yeah you shouldn't be able to lol. Do you know what I was talking about with the apps staying active?
So I did a factory restore last night and left my phone off of the charger overnight. It only dropped by 2% over 8 hours. In the past 2 hours it has only gotten down to 90% even with me downloading all of my apps again. I think the issue is resolved. I'll keep messing with it and see if it's really fixed, but I'm also not getting the SD card notification constantly anymore.