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new to android need battery saving advice

hello im new to android coming over from wp8 (nokia 920) which i LOVE to death but ive been through 6 920s since launch for a few different reason. Att allowed me to get the g2 for $50 bucks and i get to keep this 920. ive read alot obout the g2s battery and i just wanted to know what i need to disable besides the usual nfc gps stuff to make my battery last longer. I had the screen on for no more than 10 minutes and my batter dropped from 95 to 87 and all i did was look around in settings and take 2 pics with no flash the screen brightness is set to 60 auto.

You have to allow it to go through about 4 charge cycles to calibrate and then your battery life will be insane.
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Don't install anything or do anything. Give it a few days (after the new honeymoon phase) of normal use...you'll get it going the entire day. That drop is fine, don't worry about it.
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Don't turn on the screen.... Ever... and your battery life will be amazing!
Apps can be your best friend and worst enemy. Make sure that you don't have rogue apps eatting your batter and/or apps that have a lot of sleep wake issues and don't let your phone go into deep sleep. Use battery stats apps and sleep wake apps to track down those unwanted apps
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Don't use it?
But seriously. If you plan to not to use that ****ton of features LG included, you can simply root it, install Titanium Backup, and freeze those processes.
Also disabling WiFi hotspots and GPS is said to be the greatest battery saver.

I have CID off, GPS and use 2x battery app.
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Dumb question, what's CID??
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ricardo_r21 said:
Dumb question, what's CID??
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I assumed it was caller ID, but I can't see how that would save battery life, beside maybe freezing the bloatware app that's on the Verizon version (not sure if it's on the other versions).

Dude wtf

I have a problem guys I never get more than 8 hours of battery life and it seems to be getting worse. I have greenify and it doesn't seem to do anything. Someone help me out please.
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joqsan said:
I have a problem guys I never get more than 8 hours of battery life and it seems to be getting worse. I have greenify and it doesn't seem to do anything. Someone help me out please.
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joqsan said:
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check for wakelocks

Screen on time?

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Screen on time?
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Screen on is 2 and a half hours but I've heard people say they use this phone way more than I use mine and they still get like 14 hours
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Something on the phone is causing the CPU to never go to sleep and looks like it is staying at a somewhat high speed as well. When I get a wakelock and am stuck at the lowest speed my phone will drain 50-60% over an 8 hour period, so you must be stuck somewhere in the 500-600MHz range.

I've had my screen on for a while cause of texting also not really any browsing or anything else
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gsamlabs.bbm&hl=en
Try this app to find out what it truly using up you battery. I found this app so helpful that I bought the Pro Version.

Download cpu spy from the play store, and let it run for a charge cycle (it's a free, good quality app and super easy to use). The majority of the time the cpu should be in either 300mhz or deep sleep. Honestly with that kind of battery life, your phone or battery could be defective.

Battery life sucks

2 hours on the phone did this to my battery. Screen time was 48 mins. Screen was off on call using BT. Phone was red hot after call
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It is something you installed or something on your setting up the phone.
this phone battery is amazing , trust me it is.
I get screen on times , unthinkable to my previous phones with brightness way way higher
so.. just try to figure out what is eating your batt and why.
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then again you didnt start your battery log with 100% batt
and your drain was due to a very phone cal (?) With screen off, but your network signal suck really bad, maybe is from there ? But even with low coverage I find it hard to imagine that drain.
But then again.. never had low coverage ..

Yeah I can assure you it's something in your settings that is giving you poor life. You didn't give much description of what they are so it's tough for me to help you with what to fix, or how much knowledge you already have. I recommend BetterBatteryStats and Battery Mix for starters.

Install BBS (Better Battery Stats) and find the rogue application that is causing battery drain.
Battery life for me is amazing. I get close to 28-30 hours with mid - heavy usage.
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Your signal during this two hour call was awful. Keeping a connection while not using the phone is a battery sucker in these conditions. I imagine it is much more so when you are actually on the phone. I'd suspect that as the culprit, as the radio has to be pumped up to the max constantly, instead of every minute or so.

I had a note 2 on same network and never saw this kind of drain. I think this qualcomm chip is ****. In my settings my cpu was at 2.27ghz for 1 hour 43 mins! Why was my cpu maxed out while making a simple call.?
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Battery drain problems... funky wakelocks... Please help!

I'm having a funky wakelock issue. Over the last couple of days I've had a PhoneApp partial wakelock that's been running almost continuously while the phones been off the charger. Today a new one related to the phone popped up. I've attached screen shots and dump files from better battery stats so hopefully someone can help me figure out what's going on.
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I also have the log cat file if needed.

Do you have any MOD that enables the Torch/Flashlight to work from the lockscreen by long pressing volume up or down? I used to have that on and it killed battery from my experience

I do have that mod enabled although I have had it enabled for months and have not had any issues with it draining battery.

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I do have that mod enabled although I have had it enabled for months and have not had any issues with it draining battery.
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Yeah I would disable it for process of elimination to see if that's the cause.
Or another route is do you remember if you restarted your phone since you unplugged it off of the charger? Try to restart your phone everytime you take it off of a charger with the MOD enabled to see if that corrects it

I don't know why this fixed it but it did. I wonder what the developer changed in the coding to cause this to be an issue now
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I read that not only the long press for torch but also the long press for music controls did the same thing. Thought it would be a great idea until I read about the power drain
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With the note 3's massive battery I was still finishing an 18 hour day with 40-50 percent remaining but anything that hits battery life, in particular anything that keeps the phone from deep sleeping, has got to go.
For me it's not so much about day to day battery life as it is about long term battery health
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Nasty system drain

Anyone else had these system drain issues? This is the first day I have seen a problem with it after having the phone for a week now.
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It looks like my "Android System" is at 30%. Phone has basically idled for almost 3 hours and I'm down to 85% battery.

didureboot said:
It looks like my "Android System" is at 30%. Phone has basically idled for almost 3 hours and I'm down to 85% battery.
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Make sure google now isn't running? download better battery stats and see what's running.

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Make sure google now isn't running? download better battery stats and see what's running.
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Google Now isnt on. I hadnt turned it on yet. I just went into the settings for the google search app and verified.

It was the first time mine did it... seems to have normalized since.
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I've seen elsewhere that people have had issues with Samsung Link eating up battery life. Turning it off appears to solve the issue.

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It was the first time mine did it... seems to have normalized since.
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Pretty reasonable. Thank god I pretty much turn off all non necessary Samsung apps because that's just how Samsung rolls lol
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i had almost the same results on my rooted Sprint GS5 with all the samsung stuff, and bloatwhere turned off

Believe it or not.... the "Memos" app was eating more battery than everything else combined for me before I turned it off.
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crazy how much bloat ware verizon put on this thing, the Sprint version was very slimmed down, polar oppoisite of this, lol

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Anyone else had these system drain issues? This is the first day I have seen a problem with it after having the phone for a week now.
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Did you figure out what was eating your battery? Im getting killed with 30% Android system.