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So I finally bit the bullet and purchased two Galilio 2000mah batteries from ebay and currently have been quite pleased, however, I use the battery monitor widget found in the marketplace and I have found that it is not correctly displaying the temperature. It is always stuck at 77.3 F. Using stock battery I am able to get a accurate temperature.
I like to be able to get a temp reading so I can stop using the phone if it gets too hot.
Any ideas why this is happening and/or recommendation for one that will work?
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BatteryTime Lite seems to report accurate temperatures for me and my Sprint OEM Extended battery.
I use battery left widget its dead on! It just takes awhile to calibrate but it works.. check it out!
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Unfortunately, neither of these programs worked for me. They did the same thing as Battery Monitor Widget. Showing a constant 77.3 F. Any other ideas/suggestions?
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Ayryyn said:
Unfortunately, neither of these programs worked for me. They did the same thing as Battery Monitor Widget. Showing a constant 77.3 F. Any other ideas/suggestions?
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Yep... cheap battery is cheap! I am betting it doesn't have a temp sensor....
Setcpu works for me but I don't have one of the budget batteries
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I think a good app for estimated battery would be juiceplotter. Its in the market. I use that and its pretty accurate, but sometimes its off.
If battery monitor widget doesn't work... nothing is going to. They all get the measurements from the same place.
Yeah, I thought so, just was hoping for a different answer. Oh well, life will go on. Some how.
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Same here, cheap '2000mah Galilio' batteries from eBay always read 25 deg Celsius.
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You're going to be okay just by feeling the phone. If it gets hot to the touch, shut it off or take it out of your pocket. It's a waste of space having battery temperatures displayed if you ask me, unless you're way overclocked or running Snap.
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Hi.Is it just my S2 get hot when I play games or use GPS? Especially at the top around the camera.
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Normal.
Yep, very normal. However I did find that using GPS really heated things up... next hottest is games
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same here
I had similar issue this morning. Listened to music then watched a video (20 minutes) on morning commute and device got very warm, felt it in my pocket. it soon cooled down but still a bit conerning....
arii1986 said:
Yep, very normal. However I did find that using GPS really heated things up... next hottest is games ...
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probably using that particular GPS software, not just GPS antenna by itself?
does it heat up if you just display GMaps with your location, without doing anything heavy in GMaps? Because I did not notice that much heat coming from using light GPS apps. Gaming - yes, some of those games are killers.
I am using Navigon software. I played Angry Birth and the same,phone was hot after 5min. I know is normal that phone is warm, but this is not warm,but hot.Galaxy S was cold compare to S II.
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Of course it's NOT normal. Might be normal for SGS2 but not for others. as I've said on another thread, Navigating with GPS driving it got to 60C, you could slowly cook an egg at 60C.
Mine doesn't get especially warm, It gets well 4-5 degrees warmer when I browse the web or watch HD movies
It's think it's high screen brightness in combination with SW (high CPU load)!
Mine is never warm if brightness is kept below 50%
My screen brightnes is 0%. It is hot at the top where is CPU I gues.
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Could rooted phone be warmer than unrooted phone?
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How many degrees celsius is taken as very hot on the Galaxy S II?.
I was overclocking my Galaxy S II earlier and my temprature was up to 46 degrees celsius when i was running a stress test on the phone.
So i just stopped my stress test of the phone then.
How did you measure temperature?I have just battery temp. it is 42.
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How did you measure temperature?I have just battery temp. it is 42.
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You can download the same stress test program as i'm using from Android Market. It's called StabilityTest v1.5.
it will test your CPU's on your Galaxy S II if you are overclocking it. But you can check the temprature even if you aren't overclocking.
the temp rise is sort of random, i can play games for hours (and its 26C here) with brightness on auto and so on, it doesnt get hot
then suddenly, it does, sometimes even when im not doing much
didnt get the time to pin point w/e thing creates that behavior
(and when i say hot ofc im talking of very very hot - which is what everyone talks about imo)
killall or restart and its good to go til it happens again
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How many degrees celsius is taken as very hot on the Galaxy S II?.
I was overclocking my Galaxy S II earlier and my temprature was up to 46 degrees celsius when i was running a stress test on the phone.
So i just stopped my stress test of the phone then.
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I'm running that app now. I wanted to get an idea of temperatures at stock before undervolting/clocking so I could see how much difference it made. But the phone is seriously hot to the touch, enough to be worrying about. The app's reporting 50C after 37min but it feels hotter than that to me.
Some components are designed to run hot. For example I have an ATI 4850 that happily runs 70+C at idle is rated for up to 120C. But I'm worried even if the exynos can handle these temps what about the other components? The top of the screen feels even hotter back. Could this cause damage to the display for example?
This is my first smart phone but having that much heat in such a tightly packed device seems like a recipe for failure.
You will find temps of 50 deg centigrade and more when using all resources of SGS II (e.g. nav with wikitude drive = camera on) and phone attached to car screen on a sunny hot day.
This is normal!
Touch a nav-device in action and You will find it glowing ......
But contrary to HTC HD 2 SGS II does not freeze or crash at that point.
Leave a device switched off in direct sunlight in a car and it will get hot too, but still it will work .....
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my phone was getting extremely hot when benchmarking etc, this was default clock and voltages.
the phone reported it was reaching 50 degrees. thought this was "normal". this was on the firmware the phone was running outta the box.
flashed latest firmware and have since messed about with overclocking, @ 1650 my phone never got as hot as it did stock.
so if you have not done it, flash the latest FW...
So your cpu is not 1200 but 1650mHz now?
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Been running tons of different ROMs on tons of different Android devices, and every once in a while there is a particular combo that gets tremendously hot.
Once had my N1 get so hot while using Co-Pilot Live and Spotify while plugged into a car charger, that it turned off and wouldn't come on again for some 5-10 minutes.. Definitely worrying.. Switched ROMs and never saw the problem again.
I was looking around some of the battery stats and it came to my attention that some sensors seem to be operating alot of the time. I figure this has alot to do with the standby power consumption ive been experiencing with CM7.
The point is, i cant find any way to control sensor behaviour to test this out. Is anyone aware of any app or script which helps with this? Because i have not been able to find any.
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seriously? nothing?
im sure someone can come up with something
What sensors are you talking about?
Im not sure, but when i go in spare parts and look as sensor usage it says android system has been using sensors for 3 and something hours and the same goes for dialer and gallery.
whats for sure is that my screen hasnt even been on for half that long, so what im thinking is some of the sensors must be collecting data while the phone is supposed to be sleeping and that should account for some of the phone idle battery usage.
my idea is to turn off all the sensors (which i dont use anyway except for maybe the proximity one during calls) and see how it affects battery usage.
however i have yet to find a way to manipulate or turn off any of the sensors on this phone.
If you disable screen rotation, that will probably shut down the accelerometer/orientation sensor.
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If you disable screen rotation, that will probably shut down the accelerometer/orientation sensor.
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that one is pretty obvious and while i doubt that will turn off the sensor (might just tell the device to ignore its readings but it doesn't mean the sensor is shut down) there are still 5-6 more sensors running on this device and what im looking for is a way to shut them down on the hardware level. i figure this is kernel-related but still this can't be the first time anyone has brought this up.
Then delete /system/lib/hw/sensors.olympus.so, that will disable them all, they won't even be initialized
Not sure if your phone will like it though, nandroid backup first
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Then delete /system/lib/hw/sensors.olympus.so, that will disable them all, they won't even be initialized
Not sure if your phone will like it though, nandroid backup first
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currently in the army so i cant say i'm in an environment to be getting my phone into boot loops but do you figure there is a more friendly way to edit that file rather then deleting it?
There's no source for the sensors library, so unless someone wants to disassemble it and rewrite from scratch, no.
and you dont figure that will be something worth looking into in the great journy towards great battery life?
Sorry for hijacking this but how do you enable the the spare parts app?
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and you dont figure that will be something worth looking into in the great journy towards great battery life?
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I already get more than a full day with pretty heavy use, enough greatness for me
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Sorry for hijacking this but how do you enable the the spare parts app?
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CM7 has it on the ROM, for other ROMs you can install one from the market
Not much help, but to confirm your findings, if the proximity sensor is on, a little red light appears. Look out for it. If it is always on, you have a problem.
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Not much help, but to confirm your findings, if the proximity sensor is on, a little red light appears. Look out for it. If it is always on, you have a problem.
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True. However running elixir i see that this phone has 8 sensors in total. It also claims that some of them use between 6 to 8 mA while in use. Cant really say what that means battery wise or even if its correct but i still think its worth looking into
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Any sensor in particular you are concerned about?
If im trusting elixir.. the magnetometor, rotation vector and orientation are what we should be concernef about. It claims the rest use negligible amounts but i dont know if we can believe that (says light sensor uses no power at all which i find a little hard to believe)
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True. However running elixir i see that this phone has 8 sensors in total. It also claims that some of them use between 6 to 8 mA while in use. Cant really say what that means battery wise or even if its correct but i still think its worth looking into
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8 mA draw would kill your battery after 9-10 days. Not a very significant drain...
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If im trusting elixir.. the magnetometor, rotation vector and orientation are what we should be concernef about. It claims the rest use negligible amounts but i dont know if we can believe that (says light sensor uses no power at all which i find a little hard to believe)
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Hmmm. The 3-axis geomagnetic sensor in the atrix, the AK8975/B has a
consumption of
- 3-axis magnetism measurement (ave.): 350μA (typ.) at 8 Hz repetition rate
-Power-down: 3 μA (typ.)
That is 0.00035A if it is constantly pooling at 8x a second!
The accelerometer in the atrix is the KXTF9 series and assuming the atrix has the most power hungry version, the KXTF9-2050, it can only draw a maximum of 940μA and typically draws a current of 840μA. It's standby current draw is 0.1μA or 0.0000001A and at that rating, our 1930 mAh battery can keep it in standby for about 2 million years!
In short, the sensors don't draw alot of power, despite what the apps say, it the people who made those sensors say they cannot exceed such a current draw, that's that. You might want to look at apps who are actually requesting the data from the sensors, and not the sensors themselves.
Well then like i said the programs which seem to be using the data are noted as android services, dialer and gallery. So i dont know if theres much you can do about that....
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8 mA draw would kill your battery after 9-10 days. Not a very significant drain...
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Well then according to your calculations: if thats one sensor theb that means 3 sensors would kill the battery in 3 days. Which ofcourse means they would use about a third of the battery in one day.
I personally find this hard to believe but it still means significant drain.
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Hi Guys! Just wonder whether all tab get warm when browsing and use 3g.
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Nope, mine stays cool under heavy 3G usage, and Im from Egypt ( read : normal weather ).
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Hi Guys! Just wonder whether all tab get warm when browsing and use 3g.
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if u r charging while browsing yes it will heated.
mine is same as yours..tab getting warm while browsing and downloading..is it normal??
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Honestly I'm surprised it gets warm if you're just browsing the internet and not charging. Charging gets the battery warm, and any sort of processor-intensive activity (such as gaming or software rendering) will get the cpu warm. It's nothing to worry about as long as it's not uncomfortably hot.
Its normal for it to be warm, just like a regular andriod phone.
the only part that gets warm from my unit is the battery i think as i have battery widget installed and i can see the temp aside from that no other part of the phone gets hot for me
Generally ok for me, except this morning when under direct sunlight on a hot day over here in sunny Singapore.
Temp went up to 44 degC according to the battery monitor widget. When i got back home, it went back down to 32 degC.
lowem said:
Generally ok for me, except this morning when under direct sunlight on a hot day over here in sunny Singapore.
Temp went up to 44 degC according to the battery monitor widget. When i got back home, it went back down to 32 degC.
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The max temp i got is 41c maybe there is an app that uses intense battery and cpu running in your background ?
I havet been monitoring my temps but the warmer side becomes annoying at times, though this is expected since the tablet is so thin.
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hi guys.... Just want to share n asked about GT P 6800 i have some problems when using the browser and i dont know it is becase the software ( a bug) or the hardware it self.... First when i using the browser it runs normaly and usually i open 6-8 tab but after one hour of using it the browser sudenly freeze for 10 seconds and back to the search option so all the tabs that i have opened were lost, so i wondering u all in this forum find the same problem or not.....plese i need some advice cause i really like this 7.7..... Thanks....oh my region at indonesia, jakarta
Mine gets warm too, around 70F outside. Going to download some temp app monitoring. Just browsing, reading pdfs.
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The max temp i got is 41c maybe there is an app that uses intense battery and cpu running in your background ?
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Just surfing some websites with Flash under hot direct sunlight in a tropical country next to a swimming pool. Direct, radiated, reflected heat all in one, I'd suppose
So I see some people on here getting 9+ hours of screen on time on here. That is AMAZING. I know basically everything has to do the user. But I have attached some screenshots with about 30% battery left. I was wondering if anybody could help me out. Or any out of the ordinary tips.
it looks like you're using your phone a lot, and should get over 4 hours of screen on time. Perhaps you can reduce your screen brightness or something, turn off GPS, location reporting etc.
BTW, theres no way anyone would get 9 hours screen on time on a note 3, with reasonable screen brightness. I average 5 hours, less if I'm using more system taxing apps.
I assume if your on xda your rooted. My saving grace is under clocking. I use my tablet for gaming but I have about an two hours of screen on time, four hours of talk time and about an hour of maps and I'm currently sitting at 73%. Also if you don't want to run a custom rom freeze everything you'll never use and greenify everything keeping your phone awake. With light usage I can get 4 days on a charge. As soon as I get money in going to get the 10 mha battery. There is a review on xda where the guy could get 2 days of screen on time and like a day and a half of gps/map usage.
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I would start with quick things to check....disable GPS/location settings, disable Sync altogether(via status bar toggle) if you don't mind not getting your Twitter updates(see it's using 3% of battery in your screenshot), disable NFC if it's on, turn off WiFi and Bluetooth when not connected
Also check out your RED mobile data signal in your screenshot and see if you can fix that, "signal hunting" when your phone doesn't have a good data signal really hurts battery life greatly
Next I would install an app like Wakelock Detector, open it, and change the view to "Wakeup Triggers" and after your phone has lots of time with the screen off, come back to it and see what's causing your phone to "wake up" when it's trying to "sleep" when screen=off
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I assume if your on xda your rooted. My saving grace is under clocking. I use my tablet for gaming but I have about an two hours of screen on time, four hours of talk time and about an hour of maps and I'm currently sitting at 73%. Also if you don't want to run a custom rom freeze everything you'll never use and greenify everything keeping your phone awake. With light usage I can get 4 days on a charge. As soon as I get money in going to get the 10 mha battery. There is a review on xda where the guy could get 2 days of screen on time and like a day and a half of gps/map usage.
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I'll definitely try this. And yup rooted running eclipse. Thanks again
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What do you suggest I under clock to? And what app to do so? Also what about I/o schedulers and governor. And by under clocking you mean lowering the max could rate right? Or the min too.
Here are a few screenshots on my wakelocks after about 10 min.
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Here are a few screenshots on my wakelocks after about 10 min.
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Wow Kik caused 4523 triggers in just 4 hours lmao, and switch that view to "wakeup triggers" is how i gauge it better, but with the view that you're on there...you can tap the name of the app for more info on what it's doing exactly like "Alarmmanager" or w/e the app is doing
Edit: also ditch Google Music if you play music from SDcard/locally like me....i use Beat instead, free app
I use rom toolbox pro and I under clock to 1036 mhz with cfq scheduler and interactive governor. Rom toolbox pro is great at about everything you need to do and greenify pro with xposed features help a lot
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Wow Kik caused 4523 triggers in just 4 hours lmao, and switch that view to "wakeup triggers" is how i gauge it better, but with the view that you're on there...you can tap the name of the app for more info on what it's doing exactly like "Alarmmanager" or w/e the app is doing
Edit: also ditch Google Music if you play music from SDcard/locally like me....i use Beat instead, free app
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I would but I use Google play all access unless you have a good free music downloader to suggest.
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I would but I use Google play all access unless you have a good free music downloader to suggest.
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+1 for beats. I used MOG for a long while before beats bought them out. Combine that with folder mount and I can store all my music to my sd card. To bad I couldn't transfer my music from mog to beats and have not had time to re download but I had about 50 gig of music before the switch over.
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So I see some people on here getting 9+ hours of screen on time on here. That is AMAZING. I know basically everything has to do the user. But I have attached some screenshots with about 30% battery left. I was wondering if anybody could help me out. Or any out of the ordinary tips.
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when I used xposed one of the items must have caused it as after I took them off the battery works fine (two days if I am carefully) charging once at night gives full day (plus) on battery.
Gladyscoleman said:
used you cell phone always battery saving mood.
Always keep lock your cell when you busy
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Uhm... What?!?
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