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My phone has been off the charger for roughly 3 hours and my batter is already down to 66% .. I spent about 10 minutes in the market and that's about it.
Battery status looks like this-
Android OS 70%
Display 10%
Android System 5%
Cell Standby 4%
Phone Idle 3%
Market 2 %
Any ideas on what is going on with my android OS?
*Running completely stock*
Rooted phones have a few extra options like cpu settings unvolted kernel. Stock phones-try to lower you brightness, shorten screen time out, turn off gps and bluetooth. There is a app called juicedefinder that seems to help.
check what services are running maybe?
settings>applications>running services
dionysos911 said:
My phone has been off the charger for roughly 3 hours and my batter is already down to 66% .. I spent about 10 minutes in the market and that's about it.
Battery status looks like this-
Android OS 70%
Display 10%
Android System 5%
Cell Standby 4%
Phone Idle 3%
Market 2 %
Any ideas on what is going on with my android OS?
*Running completely stock*
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You can click on Android OS and get a more detailed break down of what is using up the most juice in that subset... I am betting you downloaded an app at some point that is corrupt and running non-stop draining your battery.
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You can click on Android OS and get a more detailed break down of what is using up the most juice in that subset... I am betting you downloaded an app at some point that is corrupt and running non-stop draining your battery.
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I clicked on it from the battery status but it only lists CPU Total, Data Sent, and Data Received. Doesn't break out what programs are doing it.
Under the running services is there a way to see the programs power usage or perhaps an app that will do this?..
On a side note my battery is now down to 30% with it's only uses since it was at 66% was taking it out of standby every once in a while to see the battery usage. Android OS is now up to 73% of the usage..
You either have a high refresh rate for data on a running service, or you downloaded a program with crappy code that doesn't kill itself when not in use.
List your installed programs.
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I clicked on it from the battery status but it only lists CPU Total, Data Sent, and Data Received. Doesn't break out what programs are doing it.
Under the running services is there a way to see the programs power usage or perhaps an app that will do this?..
On a side note my battery is now down to 30% with it's only uses since it was at 66% was taking it out of standby every once in a while to see the battery usage. Android OS is now up to 73% of the usage..
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Odd... I am on a Desire ROM, but when I open up my system battery usage, AndroidOS isn't even showing, it has a long list of apps, and appears to be in order of battery usage. I could swear AndroidOS does the same.
Download Spare Parts from the market, then click on Usage Statistics to see which apps have been running the most, etc.
I am using Task Manager to autokill apps but I feel this tool is itself eating battery no??
How do you like this ??? ...(but: no WiFi/3G used !!)
Check out the battery & hours!
vegetaleb said:
I am using Task Manager to autokill apps but I feel this tool is itself eating battery no??
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Yes.
Task manager are running service(battery eaters) that monitors and closes apps in saved states(not battery eaters) and other running services. It's counter intuitive to run autokill applications because it itself, is wasting battery killing stuff that doesn't need to be killed.
Task managers that autokill are good for applications that have ****ty code and don't close themselves, or for programs that hang up.
Nothing More
If you're autokill killing services alll day long, why are you even running the services? Just run then as needed.
my display is like 65/70% of the battery use
So you are using Cyanogen ROM
Try Emo or Desire Roms it should fix display battery problems
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Yes.
Task manager are running service(battery eaters) that monitors and closes apps in saved states(not battery eaters) and other running services. It's counter intuitive to run autokill applications because it itself, is wasting battery killing stuff that doesn't need to be killed.
Task managers that autokill are good for applications that have ****ty code and don't close themselves, or for programs that hang up.
Nothing More
If you're autokill killing services all day long, why are you even running the services? Just run then as needed.
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I've tried more taskkiller programs (ATM, Taskiller, etc) and came to the conclusion, that the ONLY auto task killer which actually SAVES battery (compared to setup w/o task killer program) is Task Panel. Don't ask me why/ how, but with TaskPanel my N1 is fast en lean, battery lasts about 130% of native (w/o/ TaskPanel).
Of course, question is whether task killer necessary, but as I use lots of widgets, programs, in my experience task killing helps to keep my N1 fast..
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So you are using Cyanogen ROM
Try Emo or Desire Roms it should fix display battery problems
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imm using modaco custom R13 rom
http://android.modaco.com/content/g...custom-rom-for-nexus-one-with-online-kitchen/
this one
this morning at 100% it was 8am
at 2PM im at 52% , its been 6hours with 3G on, light at 25%, everything else off.
with 30min music, 10min calling, some sms and a 50min TV show....
my iphone held quite a bit better
So after some systematic disabling of apps it seems the culprit was the Touch Input that came with the HTC_IME .. After disabling that I am back up to regular battery life and android OS is only using 2% of my battery again.
Sometimes the Android OS is stuck at 70% and the battery is drained really quickly. A reboot fix it. Next time I have to check what exactly is causing that Android OS is at 70% battery usage.
So after some systematic disabling of apps it seems the culprit was the Touch Input that came with the HTC_IME .. After disabling that I am back up to regular battery life and android OS is only using 2% of my battery again.
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just to be sure, you're using nexus one? if so, can you elaborate more on what app or service you're talking about. thanks
that's weird because i am using the HTC IME keyboard and i have touch input running too, but my display takes up 90% of my battery all the time. must have been some weird glitch.
RogerPodacter said:
that's weird because i am using the HTC IME keyboard and i have touch input running too, but my display takes up 90% of my battery all the time. must have been some weird glitch.
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Yes this is a Nexus One running stock ROM.
It may have just been a fluke with the version I downloaded from this forum. I am going to install the new version as soon as I get around to it. Not sure how it did it but as soon as I disabled it my battery usage went back to normal.
I was having this same issue on a MyTouch 3G running a 1.6 Rom (TheOfficial), and it appears it's a common problem on the Droid as well from some research. I was using HTC_IME. I just switched back to the default android keyboard and will see if it fixes my battery drain issue.
(My thread in the mytouch devel forum got locked for some reason, even though I consider this a legitimate concern for ROM development, since it's a rather major and hard-to-find defect.)
UPDATE: the "Android OS" task has stopped being a problem after I switch from HTC_IME, but "Cell Standby" is now taking up 50% of the battery, so the battery still drains, but slightly 30% slower.
hello guys i have x10a fw r2ba026 rooted and i install setcpu and i have 2 task killers systempanel and process manager but still i dont see any improvement in my battery life i dont even know what to do. please guys when u read this thread please reply. i went to my battery use and this is the result i got it says 8 hours since unplugged but i unplugged like 13 hours ago i dont know why its saying that please help
8h 20m 39s since unplugged
display 72%
cell standby 8%
voice calls 6%
phone idle 5%
android system 3%
maps 3%
browser 2%
wifi 2%
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2 task killers systempanel and process manager but still i dont see any improvement in my battery life
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i would not bother running task killers. i have not got anything like that running in my rooted 26 and i can get 2 days from a charge with general usage. Task killers run and actually chew up more power than they free up and on another note, android itself is very clever at handling resources. you do not need to have 80% of your ram free (read: wasted) in order for your phone to be running well. android will kill off tasks as required.
my advise, ditch your task killers and enjoy longer battery life
I agree, automatic task killers are a complete waste of time.
Ditch the task killers. Seriously.
Also make sure your screen brightness isn't too high. Just wastes battery for nothing.
should i uninstall setcpu also? or keep it ? i uninstall process manager but havnt uninstalled systempanel
battery
on my x10 firmware v...26 rooted, battery lasts over 3 days. HOWEVER for 30hours was in plane mode and i use SetCPU in powersave mode...It's third week since i bought the phone. And screen brightness is on automatic. In that 3 days 1 reboot, few calls, mp3s, video clips, vwifi web browsing for a few minutes. If I want to play for instance NFS shift It will last for only a few hours...
@kremx can u tell me your setcpu profile settings? r u using any task killers?
I use setcpu and juice defender, both on automatic settings and set to start on bootup. Batt lasts 2 days with normal usage
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I agree, automatic task killers are a complete waste of time.
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I see that said a lot on here, has the theory been tested at all, is there any data to support that?
In response to the O.P, I use Advanced Task Killer and SetCPU.
i use setcpu and juice defender, works well for me, i get bout 20 hours of heavy usage out of my phone which is a lot better then when i first got it (got like 6 hrs of battery life), i am also running 020
edit: am also using helix launcher
mate as bin said by others, cant stress enuf, get rid of any task killers and battery aids as i hav found they do more harm, since the update the only thing i use is SEEPU to monitor the processor and memory, and my battery life has improved on mass amount, typical day, unplug at midnite, 3%/4% used overnight, bluetooth on at 8 till 4.30 with gps and sometimes wifi with few phone calls and tx plus bit of browsing market etc, by time i get home for 5.30 i still hav 65% left, so could easy do 2 day, if i turned it all off i reckon i could prob get 3 half day out of the battery maybe little more
@Shonan_ thanks an ill delete all taskkiller on phone to see how it goes. what is seepu app for i saw it on market how do i use it? does it have any benefit?
Imho task killers, setcpu etc. do more harm than help. Your display usage seems high what is your display timeout? Mines set at a minute and while my battery only lasts a day, the r1f fw my battery would only last 4-6 hours. Definite improvement. Hope this helps
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i download helix launcher omg in 6 hours i only lost 5% with like 15 texts and 10 mins call and 45 mins browsing. wow every1 should install helix launcher donut.
the_ahmadzais said:
wow every1 should install helix launcher donut.
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Nice! glad to hear it is going better for you
FWIW - i run ADW launcher on mine, no task killers/CPU or Battery tools and short screen timeouts. I get great battery life.
Turn down the display brightness!!!
the_ahmadzais said:
hello guys i have x10a fw r2ba026 rooted and i install setcpu and i have 2 task killers systempanel and process manager but still i dont see any improvement in my battery life i dont even know what to do. please guys when u read this thread please reply. i went to my battery use and this is the result i got it says 8 hours since unplugged but i unplugged like 13 hours ago i dont know why its saying that please help
8h 20m 39s since unplugged
display 72%
cell standby 8%
voice calls 6%
phone idle 5%
android system 3%
maps 3%
browser 2%
wifi 2%
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72% of your battery goes to display! Man that should give a clue!
Turn down the brightness of your display, way down. 20% brightness perhaps, that's what I can live with under most weather circumstances.
Even with auto-brightness my display doesn't eat THAT much battery.
Do you live perhaps in a very sunny area, that you keep your display so bright??
Anyway, to improve your battery life, turn down the brightness!!
I found juice defender made a difference. Before I installed it Android System was using the most power, now it's screen which is as it should be!
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tnleeuw said:
72% of your battery goes to display! Man that should give a clue!
Turn down the brightness of your display, way down. 20% brightness perhaps, that's what I can live with under most weather circumstances.
Even with auto-brightness my display doesn't eat THAT much battery.
Do you live perhaps in a very sunny area, that you keep your display so bright??
Anyway, to improve your battery life, turn down the brightness!!
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I also dont get great battery life and the display is always using at least 70% of it when I check the usage but when I turn off auto brightness it ends up being brighter even when its manually turned all the way down so it seems auto would make more sense....
First let me tell you exactly what my phone says
9 Hours 42 Minutes since unplugged
Battery Level 84 %
Display 41 %
The major things that can help in saving the battery is killing the 3G and Manually set the brightness.
am using the 3G only when i need it , i wont keep it running all the time, the reason of that is most of our apps mails etc, will Auto sync , and that will eat your batter.
Plus : Stop GPS , Bluetooth when it is not needed
why display shows 70 % of consumption ?? (((( cause you have 4 inches LCD screen ))) , smaller the screen the less it will use .
Task Killer , is not for saving battery , it is for freeing your RAM , X10 has 384 MB RAM , Android is using more than 200 MB out of it , leaving you with less than 180 MB to run your apps , so if you run few apps your free RAM will start dropping and you will start feeling how heavy is it to start any app.
I agree to the post above.
Here are the check list to improve battery life:
If you use email, put the update duration to max, except for important mail account
Set brightness to automatic
Enabled GPS, Bluetooth and WiFI when required
Only enabled 3G when you are using the phone for internet access (Find a good 2G-3G switch apps, mine runs in notification), i also found talking on 2G line gives better quality specially if you live where 3G BTS is very scarce
Uninstall all task killer and battery management
Use less widget, widget updates also takes baterry
I usually able to run the phone without need to charge for 2 days for daily task such as check email, messaging, IM and few phone calls.
wlan - standby
... with juice plotter i have seen, that my wlan-standby (screen off) does not work correctly, if some apps (also no typical always on apps) are installed, but i cant remember which ones. So after installing new apps, i always check juice plotter after (in the standby mode) ...
... i know some apps are doing an intervall update, that is ok (you can see spikes in juice plotter) but a 100% time use is silly ...
... is there a app i can monitor, which app and when an app use wlan/gps/bt (time/open/close) ???
after getting 2.1 update..my phones battery life has become more horrible.
when i am out clubbing, phone doesnt even last 8 hours.
most friends with Blackberries keep their 3G switched on always so they can use whatsapp or BBM
but for me..if i keep 3G on..the battery wont last for few hours..
how are you guys dealing with this problem?
i am thinkin of buying an extra battery and keeping it in my pocket when out.
or thinkin of upgrading to some other android phone with froyo
My phone is lasting 2 days now.. I did find a few things that were killing my battery though (Handscent bug on unread text messages, some self updating widgets I was using.. ).. suggest you try to suss out what's preventing the phone from sleeping and ditch the app, or replace with one that doesn't cause the problems...
(I've also rooted, enabled JIT, removed Timescape and a few of the other std apps too but don't really think that any of that made much difference to my battery)
Using custom rom (2.1 b005 ; i know old, but good ) with a task killer and extended controls (app) for de-/activating APNs
Also using setcpu set to poversave, max 512 and min the lowest
Loosing 1% battery in ~3-4 hours
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PoTi_96 said:
Using custom rom (2.1 b005 ; i know old, but good ) with a task killer and extended controls (app) for de-/activating APNs
Also using setcpu set to poversave, max 512 and min the lowest
Loosing 1% battery in ~3-4 hours
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1% in 3-4 hours ..u mean standby time?
standby time is pretty decent by default anyway
but usage time is very very low.
Disable face recognition service. I get ~3-4 days of light usage now and can do a full day at heavy usage no problem.
i'm losing 3% an hour on standby and i have nothing running, how do you guys last 1-2 days?
that looks like you have such a lot of battery draining apps.
do this:
charge the phone all the night and in the morning turn it off.
instead of turning it on with the power button, press the MENU button and the power button both at the same time.
after you see the sony ericcson logo release the power button, keep the MENU button pressed until the phone boots up
now you are in safe mode
in this mode all your start-up apps won't boot, only the needed by the system.
Keep this way all day long and by the night check your battery indicator, if it is way too much diferent than before, blame your apps.
Also remove timescape, this will give you around 15% more of battery life.
btw: make a shorcut on the homescree of your whatsapp and everything you need to stay communicated, because they won't be on the apps drawer
PoTi_96 said:
Using custom rom (2.1 b005 ; i know old, but good ) with a task killer and extended controls (app) for de-/activating APNs
Also using setcpu set to poversave, max 512 and min the lowest
Loosing 1% battery in ~3-4 hours
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Custom b006 is also great at battery life. I have 3g always enabled and connect a lot to wifi at home and my battery is at about 60% after a full day of usage.
Another tip, if you want to stick with original firmware, you could try data on demand. This enables mobile data connection only when screen is on and saves you a lot of battery.
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Battery life has been greatly improved in 2.1 so I would be checking what apps you've installed because it's more than likely due to one.
If you don't use/configure Timescape, it doesn't take battery life. No need to uninstall. I haven't, and I can get two days, with plenty of usage.
I've found, though, if you reboot the phone after giving it a full charge, it tends to work a lot better. Yesterday, after using the phone for a few hours at/after work, I was at 70%. Played Angry Birds for 30 minutes, brought it down to 60%, and it was 56% by bed time.
I don't know how you guys are getting 2 days or more... for me, I'm struggling to get through the 24 hour period !!
Between, I don't like to turn off the data or stop syncing this and that sort of things. Stopping these to save on the battery, must get a old Nokia phone which can last a week without a charge.
Give any real advice other than this if possible.
Did u check whether ur battery usage have high "cell standby" consumption? I know mine has bloody high 40%...believe this is one of the culprit...
Compared with wife's x10 mini...hers superb battery life easily 3 days normal use..with 0% cell standby...argh..
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I've said it before... Bad apps or bad widgets cause the battery to drain when on standby..
If you are getting substantial drain when your not using the phone then it's bad apps or bad widgets preventing your phone from sleeping.. when sleeping (even with wifi/ 2G/ 3G and syncing switched ON) you should be seeing between 1-3% per hour depending on how much you have syncing.
I've got FB syncing, auto sync on google sync (contacts, calendar), and googlemail push all on, all the time.
You need to work out what's at fault and find an alternative which doesn't cause the problems.
Also when you just updated your phone is doing all kind of stuff in the background. After a few days it is much better already, my phone last now for 2 days without any task killing application, but I did remove a lot of useless default crap using titanium backup application...
Sent from my x32 using the licking write method....man I am thirsty now!
when i'm using it i got max 4-5 hours my phone like airplane drinking battery but when used custom roms is better
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my x10 was stay for 2-2.5 days .
after using BB charger it stays 20 hours .
even when i back with the original charger it stays worse than before
I habe 3G always on and my Phone lasts 2-3 Days
Hmm without 3G / Data enabled I can use my phone for 3 to 5 days because I only use them when I needed it only. My friends have it enabled everytime and he gets about 1 days and a half in quite poor reception area, maybe other setting also affect battey life? because I think the x10 battery life is comparable to my previous nokia e52 with 1500 mAh battery in similar condition (3g / data and gps active only when needed).
Battery time on 2.1
Hello i'm a x10 owner and after the upgrade at 2.1 mi battery time is more than awful around 1,5 days on 1.6 i have the battery up to minimum 3 days, i use advanced tak killer on 1.6 i had es task killer (much better than advanced task) but on 2.1 if i select kill all it turnes of my signal and my sd card and if i select kill when scren off when i'm in a call and the scren goes of bye bye signal and convesation ( what to do??????????????????????????????
And a anoyng thing i have many aplications that run by themselfs like yahoo messenger & mail, youtube, gesture search, and 2or3 more the question is whyyy? I never touch them and they are running i think thats why my battery dies so quick please helppp, i was weryyyy happy with my battery time on 1.6 now i hate 2.1 (
its not recommended to use a task killer on 2.1 as it has better task management
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My unit is currently running on Froyo 2.2. Full charge of battery only last for 7 hours approx. Plus my setting is less screen brightness , maximum battery saver profile (under battery mode) and using 2G(edge) to conserve power. Unfortunately it doesn't save much battery.
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This was told to me by someone around here in the forum itself (it was in Droid 2 forum to be precise as back then we did not have a dedicated Milestone 2 forum). MotoBlur is a big battery hogger.
Once we can have a BLUR free ROM it will be much better. For people, it is lasting more than a day with overclocking.
Got mine 2 days ago and it really seems to be an issue. What if we remove all those Motoblur widget such as social network and weather, witch seems to keep transfering data all the time?
And what about installing Launch Pro? That will inative Motoblur, but it'll still be installed. Is that supposed to solve battery issue or not?
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Got mine 2 days ago and it really seems to be an issue. What if we remove all those Motoblur widget such as social network and weather, witch seems to keep transfering data all the time?
And what about installing Launch Pro? That will inative Motoblur, but it'll still be installed. Is that supposed to solve battery issue or not?
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I have Launcher Pro installed and have a data and sms sim only in and the battery can last for 2 days easy.
Yesterday I used about 50% all day.
I am using my Milestone 1 as a phone only, no data turned on and it lasts ages without data (CM6)
Milestone 1 or [email protected]?
My Milestone 2 leasts between a half and two days, depending on my usage. Without 3G / UMTS on it leasts over one day (just 2G and / or wireless lan on). Even if I play Angry Birds or such in my spare time I have no problems to get through a whole day.
The biggest battery-killers are 3G and the auto-sync functionality, they can kill my MS2 within 10 - 12 hours.
Same here, overclocked to 1.25ghz @ 62VSEL, 3g /umts ON, I can make calls, play angry birds, read rss feeds, make a moderate amount of calls... I easily get more than a days use, though I routinely charge it every night for obvious reasons
note: I have stripped all of the motobloat social networking components, photo widgets, phone addons, help centre, weather 2.2, news 2.2, world clock 1.0, moto lounge, myspace, etc.
I really do believe the battery's more than sufficient for day to day use in these phones, as long as you don't load the phone up with junk such as facebook, myspace, etc.
Ok, remove all Widgets, set it to 2G... Doubt if it wouldn't be smarter to go back to my Nokia 6111 from 5 years ago.
Seriously, Motorola couldn't launch in the market a headset witch the battery can't last one day with factory default settings. Hardusers may find a way to solve the issue. Regular users have no choice but run to iPhone.
MS2 is the heaviest smartphone i have ever had. Thanks for its useful physical keyboard ( I didn't know how much text on touchscreen annoyed me ). And I still have to carry my charger on my pocket...
i've just installed juice defender. the phone runs since 2day and 20hours and has 60% battery left by now.
very nice app!
@tarnaman: did u do any particular tweaking with Juice Defender or just used JDs default settings??
mine have amount of 2 days without charge, but how you use JUICE DEFENDER to get 60% battery after 2 days?
you turn off your phone? turn off 3g?
tell us
mine have amount of 2 days without charge, but how you use JUICE DEFENDER to get 60% battery after 2 days?
you turn off your phone? turn off 3g?
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@tarnaman, you use jds default settings?
Shellite said:
Same here, overclocked to 1.25ghz @ 62VSEL, 3g /umts ON, I can make calls, play angry birds, read rss feeds, make a moderate amount of calls... I easily get more than a days use, though I routinely charge it every night for obvious reasons
note: I have stripped all of the motobloat social networking components, photo widgets, phone addons, help centre, weather 2.2, news 2.2, world clock 1.0, moto lounge, myspace, etc.
I really do believe the battery's more than sufficient for day to day use in these phones, as long as you don't load the phone up with junk such as facebook, myspace, etc.
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How can i strip all of the motobloat junk, like u did?
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And, for the jd's user, ure using default configs?
If not, can u pass urs?
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@tarnaman: did u do any particular tweaking with Juice Defender or just used JDs default settings??
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i use juice defender in agressive mode. i dont need an "always-on" data-connection. when i want to check mails or updates im getting the phone out of the standby mode and then do a check. after that, i turn the display off and juice defender also turns the data-connections off.
at least, the phone was continuously 5 days on until the battery became empty.
Juicy defender worked fine for me. Also, installing go launcher saves some energy during the day. It lasts my entire day (7am 18pm) without social widgets enabled but gtalk.
Another thing that I installed was overclock widget (rooted phone) and put it to downclock my phone when screen is turned off.
My M2 drains battery so fast, 60% left after 3 hours.
Already using juice defender, undervolting by milestone overclock and underclocking when screenoff using setcpu. But seems they don't help to extend the battery life
And the battery usage stat seems strange, mobile standby is using most power, instead of the display (juice defender switch off data when screen off already). I didn't put any social networking widget on my ADW EX.
Would having a factory reset and skip the login of motoblur help saving the battery?
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WongJames said:
And the battery usage stat seems strange, mobile standby is using most power, instead of the display
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The battery usage shows the app by the amount of time they runned, so if standby is at first it means that your phone stayed more time in standby than with the screen on.
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The battery usage shows the app by the amount of time they runned, so if standby is at first it means that your phone stayed more time in standby than with the screen on.
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oh thanks
so it is different from Milestone. I get use to the Milestone that the battery usage shows the % of battery used
I don't know about Milestone 1, but the default behavior for android is to show the % of time that an app has runned, so the battery use screen is more like a indication that an app is probably killing your battery, not the real deal.
There might be a part on ur motherboard thats draining too much juice. I had the same problem on my phone though the battery depletion wasn't as significant as yours. Check with ur dealer and claim it from ur warranty. Its apparently a common problem with the milestone range
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Battery drAin last night 10% and alarm didnt sound.
Now have 5%, and drain 1% each 3 or 4 min, its amazing... (mode ironic off).
What can I do?
No wifi or data plan activated, only phone in 3g mode...
Download TaskKiller from the market and kill any task you aint using. Then fully charge and keep the memuse low
friscoltu959 said:
Battery drAin last night 10% and alarm didnt sound.
Now have 5%, and drain 1% each 3 or 4 min, its amazing... (mode ironic off).
What can I do?
No wifi or data plan activated, only phone in 3g mode...
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weird as I'm using the same setup as you are, only 3G activated and my battery goes 16 hours with 93% left.
Till today with an hour and a half of game play, my battery went to 49% after 36 hours unplugged.
The battery is amazing, you just need yo restart and check what's activating in background
Do you have whatsapp running?
I'm not using any task killers by the way
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Task killers are not good for what you are talking about here. Don't just sit there kill every task you see. That could actually hurt your battery performance because the kernel will just start those apps and processes right back up again taking cycles from the cpu, and juice from your battery
Besides, Gingerbread has it's own task killer, so why clutter your system with more unnecessary apps?
What you need to do is open your battery stats and find what exactly is running and destroying your battery. Im most certain its only one thing, and just stop that one process.
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I have new experiences. Let´s go...
23:00 - 00:00: Only wifi turn on. Twitter, facebook, playing snes emulator, also fpse psx emulator. My baterry drain 60% to 50%.
00:00: All radios turn off. Very impressed 23:00 to 00:00 because only 10% of battery usage on heavy mobile working. Let´s see what happened when I go to bed.
00:00 - 7:30: With 50% of battery, alarm don´t sound because ALL BATTERY HAVE DISSAPEARED, in other words, 0% of battery. Seven hours after, with all radios off (airplane mode on), xperia in inactive mode, and don´t have battery. I´m really disapointed, scared, angry,...
CONCLUSIONS:
If I turn mobile to inactive, each 5 minutes, 1% of battery drain. With 50% and 7:30 hours of inactivity, no batery to my xperia.
So please.
What Can I do? Love this phone is my second android (i´m bored using iphone), but this unnormal draining of my battery, scares me. I can´t complete faith with xperia.
One more thing.
Before goint to sleep I´ve installed Go launcher, and no plugins because this problem happens to me since first day, and want to be secure not was my fault.
Please help me
friscoltu959 said:
I have new experiences. Let´s go...
23:00 - 00:00: Only wifi turn on. Twitter, facebook, playing snes emulator, also fpse psx emulator. My baterry drain 60% to 50%.
00:00: All radios turn off. Very impressed 23:00 to 00:00 because only 10% of battery usage on heavy mobile working. Let´s see what happened when I go to bed.
00:00 - 7:30: With 50% of battery, alarm don´t sound because ALL BATTERY HAVE DISSAPEARED, in other words, 0% of battery. Seven hours after, with all radios off (airplane mode on), xperia in inactive mode, and don´t have battery. I´m really disapointed, scared, angry,...
CONCLUSIONS:
If I turn mobile to inactive, each 5 minutes, 1% of battery drain. With 50% and 7:30 hours of inactivity, no batery to my xperia.
So please.
What Can I do? Love this phone is my second android (i´m bored using iphone), but this unnormal draining of my battery, scares me. I can´t complete faith with xperia.
One more thing.
Before goint to sleep I´ve installed Go launcher, and no plugins because this problem happens to me since first day, and want to be secure not was my fault.
Please help me
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there are several causes to this
It could be an application running wildly in background
Or
Your battery is defective
I recommend you re-installing your firmware and note the applications you use
Avoid task killers and any app that updates itself every 10 minutes or so ( Facebook twitter.. etc ) let them update every couple of hours or manually
The battery in Xperia play is amazing so it's sad what's happening with you
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I solved problem, and really impressed with battery performance.
Have 80% with all day wifi on, playing emulators, and using whatsupp, gmail...
What i do:
Task Manager de Rhythm Software = close apps when turn off screen.
SystemPanel App - Task Manager = cpu usage, close apps
MySettings app
Im using Power control plus, and deleted Extended Control Plus.
My battery now, is better than other smartphones like defy or nexus, which I´ve tried.
Tornlogic said:
Besides, Gingerbread has it's own task killer, so why clutter your system with more unnecessary apps?
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where is this? i dont see?
Settings then applications then manage applications.
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Then you will see 4 tabs on the top. Select "running"
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Then you will see 4 tabs on the top. Select "running"
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Sorry forgot that. Cheers.
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Settings then applications then manage applications.
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no that is different, that is running services not running apps. Samsung has a default task killer on their phones, which is very good and shows actual running apps and allows you to kill them. i used to have it on my galaxy s i miss it.
there is only one app i have found on the market that works in the same way, that is; Active Apps. all other task killers are a load of **** and really do nothing.
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no that is different, that is running services not running apps. Samsung has a default task killer on their phones, which is very good and shows actual running apps and allows you to kill them. i used to have it on my galaxy s i miss it.
there is only one app i have found on the market that works in the same way, that is; Active Apps. all other task killers are a load of **** and really do nothing.
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You mean the task manager with the galaxy s one when you hold the menu button? That is useful but must admit never needed to use it. I prefer to restart the phone.
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matknny said:
You mean the task manager with the galaxy s one when you hold the menu button? That is useful but must admit never needed to use it. I prefer to restart the phone.
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well you dont have to hold down the home button to access it. you download it through samsung apps and can use it like a normal app. dont know about you, but i found it very useful and used it very often. for example; when you quit the web browser, it never really closes. go into samsung task killer and you can see it running and can stop it and close it FULLY from there. again, any app you use the "home button" to exit out off, will remain running in the background. i always used the samsung task killer to end these apps properly.
the only other app, as i've said, that works like this is Active Apps. all other task killers are such of load of ****.
I have gotten as much as 7 hours straight gameplay out of this device !
So battery life is exellent just kill tasks that are un-needed. ( f.e. google maps , media server , etc...)
As for standby mode I can squeeze in 2 days I guess
Still playing to much so kinda hard to confirm
Battery life is excellent for me.
I started yesterday on 100%.
- Took it in the bathroom and watched some youtube while i had my bath (ye ye i know !)
- Played 1-2 hours worth of gaming
- Phone went on standby for another 2-3 hours while i went out, did some shopping and some random texting
- Came home had another 1 hour roughly gaming and web surfing
- Text some more to say i'm going round my mates house to watch the boxing
- Spent 4-5 hours up my mates house, showing him the phone, google earth, streetview, maps, emulators, games, everything
- Came home late at night, left my phone on the floor OFF from charge and woke up this morning with 7% battery power left.
Considering how much i used it, i think that's dam good.
Same battery problem here too. Recieved at 10am. Charged by 1pm, dead at 10pm with little use really. Some downloading, browsing, few texts and 30 secs of phone calls.
Advanced task killer seems to have done nothing. Any tips guys, defective battery maybe?
try active apps.
advance task killer, task killer advance, yada yada yada are all full of ****.
also put a shortcut for "Running Services" on your homescreen. periodly check this to end services like "get games" or "Event management" or "TimeScape" or "Google Maps", etc.
Zub7 said:
try active apps.
advance task killer, task killer advance, yada yada yada are all full of ****.
also put a shortcut for "Running Services" on your homescreen. periodly check this to end services like "get games" or "Event management" or "TimeScape" or "Google Maps", etc.
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Tried that, active apps isn't showing any apps that are using any cpu time at all, just the same stuff advanced task killer shows for using ram, which i continually kill. This is with all signals barring normal signal turned off, i'm getting a 1% drain every 10 mins at the moment.
The battery monitor is showing cell standby, phone idle and display as the main things eating the battery. Will give it until the end of the day then call orange for a new battery as there's obviously something wrong here.
fishbow, I recommended you hard reset, because me happens same thing.
I discovered extended controls was my problem.
In your case, maybe anything.