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My battery solution

I've had a very sudden and dramatic improvement in battery life and I thought that I'd post what seems to have worked for me.
I installed setCPU and set it for
768/254 on demand - main
245/245 performance screen off
368/368 performance - battery<41%
battery<101% 768/245 on demand
I installed Ultimate JuiceDefender and set it for extreme - blocking all connectivity except for a white-list
I decided that I could do a better job than the auto screen, so I installed Brightness level and I keep it generally at about 20% and then flick it up a bit if I need it.
I disabled auto rotation and now toggle the screen with a widget.
I've taken phone calls, recorded phone calls, checked email a few times, tweeted - very often using wifi which I operate using a toggle widget
I had the phone on charge all night switched off.
Disconnected it at 8.00 this morning and at 6.30 this evening, the JD widget tells me that there is still 12hrs and 28 mins of battery time left.
Considering the size of the screen and what this phone does. And considering the very poor battery life - 8hrs max I was getting before, I am far happier and the phone now becomes a practical item to have.

Whats your percentage battery left?

seems to be saying 72%
I also noticed that for the first time screen usage is less than running usage.
Screen consumption has always been the big factor on phone - and I see that is what people say on the forum, so I'm very pleased to have reduced it so well.
The Brightness level app allows a variable control whereas all the other screen controllers have seen allow you only to rotate through three or four preset brightness levels.
Brightness Level lets you do that with a widget but it also has a slide bar, which is what I was looking for

So basically you've downgraded the DHD to a level of a Nokia S40 device imo As this has been covered by many others in many other battery life related threads I'm just saying this short and simple. Just use the device as it is supposed to, enjoy the awesome features it provides at the full potential and don't get fixated on the battery life, it'll get you through the day no problem (doesn't include playing angry birds for three hours straight ) and just plug it in when you have the chance.

About battery, some tips, my battery life is around 2 days with normal usage of phone, only i dont use 3g only wi-fi:
Brightness - between 25% and 50%
When you on the internet and use native explorer for android go to "Menu-more-settings-enable plugins" and set it to "On demand"
Tupe *#*#4636*#*# - "Phone information" and set "Preffered network type" to "GSM Auto Prl"
Android Revolution HD 2.15 rom

lejars1 said:
I've had a very sudden and dramatic improvement in battery life and I thought that I'd post what seems to have worked for me.
I installed setCPU and set it for
768/254 on demand - main
245/245 performance screen off
368/368 performance - battery<41%
battery<101% 768/245 on demand
I installed Ultimate JuiceDefender and set it for extreme - blocking all connectivity except for a white-list
I decided that I could do a better job than the auto screen, so I installed Brightness level and I keep it generally at about 20% and then flick it up a bit if I need it.
I disabled auto rotation and now toggle the screen with a widget.
I've taken phone calls, recorded phone calls, checked email a few times, tweeted - very often using wifi which I operate using a toggle widget
I had the phone on charge all night switched off.
Disconnected it at 8.00 this morning and at 6.30 this evening, the JD widget tells me that there is still 12hrs and 28 mins of battery time left.
Considering the size of the screen and what this phone does. And considering the very poor battery life - 8hrs max I was getting before, I am far happier and the phone now becomes a practical item to have.
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your on stock rom mate?
i can see that you can charge your phone while its turnd off..
i think on customized ROM like ARHD LD CORE cm7 and etc cannot charge their phone while its off because iT will BOOTup to recovery mode

Doesn't performance mode just keep the CPU clock on it's maximum? It would rather shorten the battery life than prolong it.

Why buy a smartphone and use it like a landline lol i hammer my phone and still get 10-14 hours out of it, thats fine for me, i only get 3hrs out of my laptop lol
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Mate there is something eating your battery if u only get 8 hours battery life.
These adjustments you made are unnecessary if you find the culprit that is eating your battery, why get a phone like the dhd and run it on 20% brightness and lower the cpu to such a level.
Have you used spare parts to check your battery usage?
Im currently on 40% and my phone has been unplugged since 27 hours and I don't even have setcpu installed.
Maybe you should post details on your barret usage!
Swyped from my sexy galaxy tab

But I'm not compromising anything now. I'm completely happy with the way that the phone works for me now.
I'm actually operating the screen at 12% for most of the time - when I am not outside and it doesn't present any difficulty for me.
Obviously I would always like better battery life and I'll look for more ways to improve it.
Doesn't performance mode just keep the CPU clock on it's maximum? It would rather shorten the battery life than prolong it.
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According to setCPU, if you set it to on demand, it will keep on scanning for required power level. Performance automatically goes to the max. Apparently on demand uses slightly more power so they advice to use performance when possible. So I set the same max/min figure and use a performance governor.

i would actually consider rooting the phone as an alternative, or getting a bigger battery. i have alot of issue with the battery life previously, but after switching rom, it actually help alot

Well it is rooted to enable JD and setcpu to work. But I haven't dared go further because I am still trying to understand the entire process - and also the way back!
I probably will eventually.
I've ordered a 1500 Mugen - and if that actually exists and if it is an improvement on the stock battery then that will advance things as well.
I'm very pleased with the improvement I have achieved so far because at least I'm able to take the thing off the tit for a full working day and use it as a real mobile phone!!

lampz said:
your on stock rom mate?
i can see that you can charge your phone while its turnd off..
i think on customized ROM like ARHD LD CORE cm7 and etc cannot charge their phone while its off because iT will BOOTup to recovery mode
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this is only true if you're using CMW Recovery 3.x.x.x

redlinux said:
this is only true if you're using CMW Recovery 3.x.x.x
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No, its on all versions of cwm, you can still charge your phone though, even in recovery
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AndroHero said:
No, its on all versions of cwm, you can still charge your phone though, even in recovery
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Yup2x, it's true that we can charge it very well while in recovery mode. I was referring to the situation wherein the printer reboots to recovery as soon as you plug in the charger to your DHD. Some users have reported that and they are all using 3.x.x.x.

lejars1 said:
So I set the same max/min figure and use a performance governor.
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As far as I've understood, you will always have max frequency when performance is applied. So there is no use setting min value really as it doesn't matter.
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Vispe85 said:
So basically you've downgraded the DHD to a level of a Nokia S40 device imo As this has been covered by many others in many other battery life related threads I'm just saying this short and simple. Just use the device as it is supposed to, enjoy the awesome features it provides at the full potential and don't get fixated on the battery life, it'll get you through the day no problem (doesn't include playing angry birds for three hours straight ) and just plug it in when you have the chance.
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By far the most excellent advice. I totally agree with you.

Wholy crap gingerbread has awful battery

I wouldn't even say I use my phone frequently. When I used the miui or however it's spelt rom I would have 60 percent to 30 remaining each day. On gingerbread? I'm down to 15 percent every day and every night my phone has shut off due to lack of battery.
Isn't there any rom with excellent battery life? That's all I want, I use my phone for tethering.

i put CM7-RC2 on my device yesterday and it's the best battery life i've ever gotten.

Gb battery life owns, u got something else going on

No he doesn't, i've measured religiously since the original nexus shipments and this is by far the worst

My battery was really bad but now it seems to last me 10hrs & up which is weird for a phone to last me that long. I really think theirs an app or bug running the battery crazy I don't use any task managers. Their was a thread somewhere saying to run your phone on recovery mode and to press on the reboot/restart and battery get better I did that so maybe it does work but I highly doubt it.

I can vouch for poor battery too. I am on CM7 RC2 and I can't even make it through a day with light use. By light use, I mean practally not using the phone at all.

My battery life seems to be better than ever. Some 10-20 percentage units more left in the evenings all down the line.
Edit: Stock GB, no task managers.

ttnurmi said:
My battery life seems to be better than ever. Some 10-20 percentage units more left in the evenings all down the line.
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I agree. Gingerbread has been nothing short of AMAZING for my battery life. The battery life is so good now that I stopped using my spare battery altogether!

Macmee said:
I wouldn't even say I use my phone frequently. When I used the miui or however it's spelt rom I would have 60 percent to 30 remaining each day. On gingerbread? I'm down to 15 percent every day and every night my phone has shut off due to lack of battery.
Isn't there any rom with excellent battery life? That's all I want, I use my phone for tethering.
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Did you happen to do an Update or a full install when you got gingerbread?
Some suggest that it's due to the update process.. so you might want to try a full install:
http://android.clients.google.com/p...b119f8.signed-passion-ota-102588.656099b1.zip
Remember to wipe your cache first..

What i noticed is taht custom roms use more battery than stock rom. this is for me i don't say that it is like this for everyone. But with gigerbread i got the best battery life. i also think using apps from SD uses also a lot of battery life, but again i have no other choice to low on memory.

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I had the same problem. I am on stock gb.
Just set wifi sleep policy to never. It will last 2 days after that. It is definetly a bug.

Seems to be a real mixed bag with GB on N1's. Lots of people saying "better battery" many others, myself included, reporting much worse. For me, I experienced very poor battery life right from updating to the stock GB using the singned passion .zip file. Even did a factory reset, and only reinstalled my daily used apps and it made little difference, then I went back onto a MIUI rom for a few days and battery life was wonderful again.
Then early this week I flashed to CM7 RC2, and for two days battery life was the worst I've ever had.
Had been seeing a few comments on different forums of people who had the same problem swearing black and blue that after they changed the wifi sleep policy to "always on" their battery life improved dramatically on Gingerbread.
I know if sounds backwards, and that is why I was sceptical for ages, but last night I made the change to see if it would make a difference for me today and all I can say is WOW!!! Phone had a real test today as I started work really early. As of right now the phone has been off charge for 16 hours.
Half a dozen or more voice calls, minimal text, my usual wifi and 3g data, about 10 min of streaming video over wifi and about 1/2 hour in total running Navigation.
There is no way in hell my phone would have done all that and even lasted me 8 hours prior to changing the wifi sleep policy - so I think there is definitely something in it.
As for the ppl who aren't noticing bad battery, maybe they already had theirs set this way - or maybe it's an issue only effecting certain batches of devices (like the wifi reconnect issue which seemed to be pretty common pre froyo)

it /WAS/ terrible at first. Really, really dire, but it's back to what it used to be, even better now perhaps.
To the OP, do you have WIFI turned on still? I used to leave it turned on and it didn't ever knock down battery as it was going to sleep and not coming back, so wasn't a drain. GB appears to have fixed this, and it was staying on, thrashing the battery.
Turning it off and turning it on as needed only, battery life is now fine.
Do you have WIFI Turned on? Bluetooth? For now, to try and test what's happening, turn off 3g, wifi, bluetooth, automatic date/time sync, and JUST use it as a phone for a day. See what % you're at at the end of the day.
Then we can take it from there.
But I'd be pretty certain that it's wifi related, in that it's now working as it should be, we just got used to it being broken before.

My phone on cm7 rc2 has worse battery than I used to have with wildmonks kernel and cm6.1. Yesterday, the phone was barely used until 8 o'clock at night. It was at 45 percent. After an hour medium use, its gotten down to 23 so I had to plug in the phone....the easiest fix? Keep a charger In the car!
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Using stock Gingerbread and I can say that my battery life is decent, better than Froyo for sure. The phone lasts longer than 16 hours and I use bluetooth to listen to music for 1.5 hrs on my commute home. By the time I get home after a long day (8pm'ish), I still have about 20 to 30% left.

I have no wifi no bluetooth no gps and a dim screen.
Tis is seriously crappy battery life.
Does anyone think they can link me to a good miui rom. For me, it seems that gb just wont work.
I am running stock gb then i flashed the root and my boot loader is unlocked.

bohlool said:
I had the same problem. I am on stock gb.
Just set wifi sleep policy to never. It will last 2 days after that. It is definetly a bug.
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Listen to this person!
For some reason, since 2.3.3, if you have your Wifi policy to sleep when the screen is off, Android will rip through your battery. You'll notice Android OS taking all the battery on the status page.
Set the sleep policy to never and you get better battery life again. Turn off Wifi manually when you're not using it, even better. Until somebody fixes this bug, I guess it's the only workaround we've got.
More info: check issue 15057 on code.google.com - cant post link due to the newness of this account.

Same here on shorter battery life my nexus one as well post gingerbread ota... I will look into detailed system processes and try to find out why...
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bohlool said:
I had the same problem. I am on stock gb.
Just set wifi sleep policy to never. It will last 2 days after that. It is definetly a bug.
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Will give it a try on this, mine is set to turn off when screen is off.
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Log into latitude and log out. Every time there is a map update it defaults to being a battery draining monster. But in essence. Something to do with maps link to latitude (which i don't even use) breaks my phones battery life.

Hypothesis on (Semi)Bad Battery Life

I got the kindle fire about a week ago. Since that time I have received okay battery life. I don't love or hate it. I decided to check to see if something odd in the background was running. I ran a battery saver program, probably juicedefender, and found that the GPS was on. Wait, what!? There is no GPS in the Fire. So I installed GoLauncher, and used the native power manager to turn it off. These are just preliminary results, but battery life seems to have increased a lot. It could also just be a placebo, but I guess that having the GPS on could be something amazon forgot to remove in the code, and created an endless processing loop. Just a guess, I would love to hear some other thoughts on this.

the only way to tell is the drain the battery doing the exact same thing between changes. i've been tinkering around with my kindle as well because there has to be *something* which explains how the nook tablet can get an extra 2-3 hours on the same capacity battery...

Something... But the Nook actually has 4000 mah battery, while the Fire has a 4400 mah battery, so it has a smaller battery, and better battery life. I would then guess, it is software related, because hardware is virtually identical.

What are you guys considering a bad battery, because I couldn't be more satisfied with mine.. Two days of HEAVY use with the display on for a total of 6 hrs -- is that not what you're all getting? And if so, how is that not good for a dual core processor running on a 7" IPS display?

How did you disable the GPS?
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nikcomp said:
How did you disable the GPS?
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Would like to know too.
Not terribly impressed with the battery life on the KF compared to the Nook Color (which seemed to last FOREVER)

nikcomp said:
How did you disable the GPS?
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I was using ADW EX launcher and just did a long tap on screen, added widget, power control.
And it added the little toggle bar that most droid phones have with notification bar.
Wifi was on, blue tooth area was blank, then gps, sound, and autorotate.
I confirmed gps was lit up. tapped it, to disable then removed the widget.

I did the exact same thing. Pretty simple.

surprise surprise....
i did a battery test of the nook tablet vs the kindle fire today (i own both and intend to return one). i had a game running as my test (jelly defense), wifi off, screen brightness max.
nook tablet died at 4 hours. kindle fire lasted an extra hour.
so either all the build.prop stuff i did made a difference, or my nook tablet's battery is defective and i need recalibrate it....

hyperbling said:
so either all the build.prop stuff i did made a difference, or my nook tablet's battery is defective and i need recalibrate it....
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Just noting that there seems to be issues with battery life that factory resets seem to fix (oddly), so it might be worth resetting either/both devices if you see drastically lower than expected battery lives.

hyperbling said:
so either all the build.prop stuff i did made a difference, or my nook tablet's battery is defective and i need recalibrate it....
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Could you list your build.prop stuff? Much appreciated!

how long takes to recharge the nook color?

hello to all friends i bought a nook color but i have problem with charging it takes more the six hour for full charge i am using nook color charger with micro usb and laptop for charging it is normal or some thing is wrong with my nook color thanx from all XDA froum
I am using the cm7 custom rom

afghan-gsm-mastermind said:
hello to all friends i bought a nook color but i have problem with charging it takes more the six hour for full charge i am using nook color charger with micro usb and laptop for charging it is normal or some thing is wrong with my nook color thanx from all XDA froum
I am using the cm7 custom rom
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Your problem might be using the laptop as a power source. If you use the wall charger it should completely charge from 0 to 100 in about 4hrs
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thanx for ur replay
Can u tell ur nook color how long keeps the charge when i am watching the vedio every 3 minuts one parcent came down i mean if i watch vedio when all other comunication is off like wifi bluthuth and other comunication so if i continue watching vedio it will keep its charge 300 mints so what u friends think ? I think my battry have problem becuse i bought the nook color from my friend.
If my battry have problem i think i cant find it in afghanistan thanx friends

1. use the wall charger, it charges real fast. charging from a laptop with the included cable is not a good idea.
2. There are a lot of things you can do to improve battery life, most of which will require rooting and flashing a different ROM besides stock, just so you can get to the settings that make a difference. 5 hours of battery life on a stock NC playing videos is probably about right. I get 10+ hours of video out of mine with extensive tinkering. Far and away the biggest factor is the screen brightness, and beyond that, how bright, on average, is the video. I watch movies with brightness about 9-11%.

thanx mr 72 for replay
i am using cm7 custom rom
So what should i do to do beetter for battry life i am watching vedio in 0% brightness plz help i want to see vedio a bout 10 hours if poossibl thanx

Battery life will be affected by any radios, screen brightness, and CPU clock speed. The nook is not meant be charged over USB, but as you can see, it is possible. If you're looking to get a ten hours battery life, and you've purchased and rooted the wrong tablet. Id say nook color can get anywhere from 5-7 hours based on the above factors.

Mine takes 4 hours but my nook needs to be off to charge. If it is left on even with the screen off and saying charging, the battery is actually going down. Kinda stupid but whatever this thing is cheap greatness lol
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vulcan4d said:
Mine takes 4 hours but my nook needs to be off to charge. If it is left on even with the screen off and saying charging, the battery is actually going down. Kinda stupid but whatever this thing is cheap greatness lol
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Really? I that's interesting. I can charge mine in about seven hours with the screen on and in use.

AnnonymousFalcon said:
Battery life will be affected by any radios, screen brightness, and CPU clock speed. The nook is not meant be charged over USB, but as you can see, it is possible. If you're looking to get a ten hours battery life, and you've purchased and rooted the wrong tablet. Id say nook color can get anywhere from 5-7 hours based on the above factors.
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NC can certainly get 10+ hours of battery life under normal use, and up to 17+ hours in my experience if you are using apps that require no wifi, low CPU and can tolerate low brightness settings.
Follow the guide in my sig.

mr72 said:
NC can certainly get 10+ hours of battery life under normal use, and up to 17+ hours in my experience if you are using apps that require no wifi, low CPU and can tolerate low brightness settings.
Follow the guide in my sig.
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I suppose under the correct settings you could. Is this including sleep time or solely screen on?

AnnonymousFalcon said:
I suppose under the correct settings you could. Is this including sleep time or solely screen on?
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That's "on" time.
17+ hours of actively reading ebooks (Moon+ reader in my case, black text on off-white background, no wifi enabled [was on a plane], brightness around 10-15%)
10+ hours of actively watching movies (MX Video Player, movie format varies from 720P to 480P DVDrip h264 and xvids, also no wifi, on a plane)
I say "+" because I quit using the NC and there was remaining battery, so I don't know how long it would have run if I let it run to zero. Check out my guide (in my sig) to see how I set mine up. There are no settings that compromise performance or utility.

I find charge time can vary pretty greatly. Last night i didn't get a full charge with the same settings that I had the night before.. aside from updating to a new nightly. Generally I can charge the device in less than 5 hours if the wifi is off and nothing is running.

I'm going to piggyback this forum as I have been searching over 40 min and this looks closest. Sorry ahead of time.
I also found it takes forever to chafe my nook. I have a droid raze and ourchase local for it so I'm using in my nook to shutbdown the wifi from 1am to 6.am. hmm I may change that to. 12:69 am. It will help with my issue but I still have the the following request.
Wifi seems to be eating up battery life. Does anyone know of a program that will auto off wifi if not used for say at min?
Also for other readers: I found a simple free program called connections (for the bionic connectivity issues) I use it on the nook when there seems to be an issue. I have a shortcut in app launcher so its avail in any program.
Any feedback welcome.
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Droidatar said:
Wifi seems to be eating up battery life. Does anyone know of a program that will auto off wifi if not used for say at min?
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No, but if you leave the defaults, then wifi should be off while sleeping.
Or you can use the status bar pull-down in CM7 to turn it off when you are not using it.
However, I find that it doesn't make a huge difference.

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[...] Wifi seems to be eating up battery life. Does anyone know of a program that will auto off wifi if not used for say at min?
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I am using Juice Defender Ultimate on my NC running rooted B&N 1.4.1 for exactly this purpose, and it is working well. I also tried Green Power, but had problems with it.
JD is definitely overkill, since it's meant for device with more radios. You could also use Tasker and set it up to turn off wifi when the screen goes off.

bobstro said:
I am using Juice Defender Ultimate on my NC running rooted B&N 1.4.1 for exactly this purpose, and it is working well. I also tried Green Power, but had problems with it.
JD is definitely overkill, since it's meant for device with more radios. You could also use Tasker and set it up to turn off wifi when the screen goes off.
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I looked at tasked but thought it would be overkill since I already have local set to turn off at 1am.
I will check out jd as I may use on my raze as well.
Thanks.
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mr72 said:
No, but if you leave the defaults, then wifi should be off while sleeping.
Or you can use the status bar pull-down in CM7 to turn it off when you are not using it.
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Thanks, I did not realize the default for cm7 was off during sleep. I will test but I can swear upon wake it would be found I forgot and left the wifi on. I will check that setting.
Thanks again for your response.
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Battery life in standby?

I did a little experiment with battery life, particularly in standby mode.
Wifi is on, and the weather/clock widget updates every 2 or 4 hours.
After 24 hours not using it at all, battery life went down to about 94%.
On an ipad2, after 24 hours, it is at 99%.
On, ipad2, most notifications if not all are turned off. Could this be the reason for the discrepancy? Any ideas to make it better? Should I have weather update 1 every 24 hours and update manually as needed?
I notice I cannot set the update interval for mail? Is it because it is push and not pull?

Id be greatful with that kind of battery life. Honestly.
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KindaUndisputed said:
Id be greatful with that kind of battery life. Honestly.
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really? standby time is important to me. I go through spurts of not using the tablet but I don't want to have to keep the tablet plugged in.Turning it off means I have to wait for boot up to use it real quickly.

superflysocal said:
really? standby time is important to me. I go through spurts of not using the tablet but I don't want to have to keep the tablet plugged in.Turning it off means I have to wait for boot up to use it real quickly.
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I have it turn my wifi off while screen off and with build.prop tweaks I get 7 days b4 I have to charge... Or... Get juice defender in market and it will handle the wifi and syncing to give you much greater battery life.
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It lost 6% in 24 hours. That means it will take over 16 days to drain. I doubt many users will see this as a problem.
I guess you could uninstall any widgets you have and keep it in power saving mode. Turn off wifi. Check the apps section in the settings menu and see which ones are running in the background and uninstall them.
Otherwise, buy an ipad if you want ipad specs.

I'm at 87% at 2 days and 10 hours right now. I have FW .29 and SeanZ's tweaked build.prop. I'm happy with it personally.

Personally I've been pretty thrilled with my battery life. I've never had a device before that would still be at 99% after four-five hours on standby tweaks or not - and the biggest tweak I've done is disabling weather (I've gotta save something for my phone to do).

superflysocal said:
really? standby time is important to me. I go through spurts of not using the tablet but I don't want to have to keep the tablet plugged in.Turning it off means I have to wait for boot up to use it real quickly.
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Get the keyboard and use it like a docking station.
The tablet slips in it pretty easily.

I'm not really happy with the standby time so when I'm not around or sleeping I shut it down.

Probably shutting down WiFi is the most important battery saver. Either by hand or with an app.
edit: Except apps producing wakelocks, of cource. Better Battery Stats helps.

what is this tweaked build.prop and where do I get it? Is root required?

superflysocal said:
what is this tweaked build.prop and where do I get it? Is root required?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1641219

+1 this. I have to say, I was a bit skeptical before I updated my build.prop file. But when I did, I noticed an immediate speed boost and much much much better batter performance.