Or do I have terrible battery life? It's really bugging me because I always have to charge it overnight and occasionally twice a day! I'm on CM10.1 and using KK's Next kernel. Airplane mode is always on and I only turn on WiFi when I surf. The brightness is always below a quarter. Most of the time it's at ~5% brightness. Is this normal?
Screen on time is 4hrs2mins
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bIagginspaziyonokip said:
Or do I have terrible battery life? It's really bugging me because I always have to charge it overnight and occasionally twice a day! I'm on CM10.1 and using KK's Next kernel. Airplane mode is always on and I only turn on WiFi when I surf. The brightness is always below a quarter. Most of the time it's at ~5% brightness. Is this normal?
Screen on time is 4hrs2mins
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Terrible battery life indeed. We have a P-3100 with SIM card inserted, use data on 3.5G+/HSPA+ browsing for most of the screen on time, 65% brightness, 4-5Hour screen on time and I get around 4-5hours.
Stock 4.1.2 BTW
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Terrible battery life indeed. We have a P-3100 with SIM card inserted, use data on 3.5G+/HSPA+ browsing for most of the screen on time, 65% brightness, 4-5Hour screen on time and I get around 4-5hours.
Stock 4.1.2 BTW
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I think its the os' fault. As I can recall we have about the same battery capacity as the iPad but iDevices lasts much more longer. Even with the RAM consumption.
inciongnene said:
I think its the os' fault. As I can recall we have about the same battery capacity as the iPad but iDevices lasts much more longer. Even with the RAM consumption.
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Use juice defender ultimate
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I think its the os' fault. As I can recall we have about the same battery capacity as the iPad but iDevices lasts much more longer. Even with the RAM consumption.
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Yeah, I managed to squeeze out around 15 hours on my Mini (around 14 hours screen on), on Wifi browsing 10~, 2~ hours on Pdfs, 2 hour video, 1 hour music with screen off.
Brightness @ 55-60%? not entirly sure but somewhere around there.
That again, its fully data on Wifi and not 3G.
The Mini does seem to use RAM a lot more efficiently, It does run a like 2 task in the background and pauses the rest doesn't jerk up (99% jerk free).
Tab runs a huge ton of apps in the background without pausing intensive ups, it uses up RAM fairly heavily and jerks up a bit. I find myself constantly tapping on the multi-task menu killing background task dispite having 1GB<-Thats a touchwiz ROM btw haven't tried AOSP on that.
Besides that, Ti OMAP 4430 vs Apple A5 2nd Gen
Both Cortex A9 Dual Cores running at 1Ghz, Ti uses 45nm while the second gen uses 32nm (More power efficientcy)
Both have PowerVRs, Ti has a Single Core PowerVR SGX540 @ 304MHz Vs A5's Dual Core PowerVR SGX543MP2 @ 250Mhz/core
Overall, I believe it has more to do with Android's base. It is written on Java as a pose to C+ like iOS. Java needs its codes to be emulated on a virtual machine while iOS runs it nativly.
If Android can be coded in C+, It will take away CPU cycles and we could see a drynamic improvement in battery life, speed, literacy and closer CPU and GPU integration.
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Use juice defender ultimate
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Its useless. Thats nothing more than toggle settings, brightness and killing background task(s)
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Tab runs a huge ton of apps in the background without pausing intensive ups, it uses up RAM fairly heavily and jerks up a bit. I find myself constantly tapping on the multi-task menu killing background task dispite having 1GB<-Thats a touchwiz ROM btw haven't tried AOSP on that.
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Than the apps will start again, you kill them, they start again, you kill them and so on, and you wonder about battery life?
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Than the apps will start again, you kill them, they start again, you kill them and so on, and you wonder about battery life?
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99% of user apps don't kill and start again automatically.
You are refering to system processes which I always leave alone.
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99% of user apps don't kill and start again automatically.
You are refering to system processes which I always leave alone.
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guys ultimate juice defender is great it is know saving by battery at x1.88 this means almost the double
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99% of user apps don't kill and start again automatically.
You are refering to system processes which I always leave alone.
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Mmh, you forgot the "free" apps, most of them start again in background to load adds.
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Mmh, you forgot the "free" apps, most of them start again in background to load adds.
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:/ adware loaded ones :/:/:/
Maybe you can try "Greenify" from market
I charge my p3100 2 hours more after full charging.. always use automatic brightness for good battery life of device
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I charge my p3100 2 hours more after full charging.. always use automatic brightness for good battery life of device
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no offense but i dont like samsung's auto-brightness. ios's has better management regarding auto-adjusting the brightness.
im having a hard time looking at the tab outdoors. and im not really directing the screen into the sunlight.
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I charge my p3100 2 hours more after full charging.. always use automatic brightness for good battery life of device
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That's pretty bad for the battery... Fully (as in FULL) charging the battery is not good for the long term.
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Maybe you can try "Greenify" from market
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I second "Greenify" suggestion. It has almost doubled my tablet and phone's standby time.
I had improved my battery life using old method such like for my HTC . No it work about 48 - 50 hours on medium use.
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That's pretty bad for the battery... Fully (as in FULL) charging the battery is not good for the long term.
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The tab stops feeding charge to the battery when it's full. Leaving it on the charger has no effect positive or negative
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I believe its the kernel.
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The tab stops feeding charge to the battery when it's full. Leaving it on the charger has no effect positive or negative
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Do you suggest that it is better to keep plug the charger even though already full.
Is there a Charge and Discharge Counter or something like that, just like a notebook, that would shortened the battery lifetime?
In that case, it is okay then to let it charge over the night, right?
The one your describing is called charge-cycle. Every battery has one. Its better to fully drain your battery once in awhile so the cell on your battery wont solidify. Do it maybe monthly. On notebooks we can remove the battery, and use it plugged-in so it would not wear-out the battery fast. Plugging your device while the battery is still installed is different from no battery and plugged-in at all.
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1) How to have best battery life? I currently already
-Turned off Bluetooth and GPS
-Wifi only when I need it
-Using SetCPU with profiles from another thread
-Low brightness
Im guessing that all the apps autostarting uses alot of battery so I always stop them with Task Killer but they just restart. I tried using Auto Task Killer but it doesnt seem to work. Any help?
2) I use like 40% a day so should I charge everyday or wait until its down at a certain level?
EDIT
Also, whats a good video converter to convert videos for the phone? Most that I tried takes forever and my computer is definately not a slow computer.
Stop using a task killer, the OS will handle the apps. If you keep shutting them down they have to keep restarting, that will suck power.
Any data sync will drain your battery if you us it to often, set it to a reasonable time frame.
I leave my screen on auto seems to work well, and you can charge whenever you feel like it no need to wait till it's low.
If you use Rockplayer you shouldn't even have to convert your movies unless they are full HD. It's a great player you should try it out.
Hi, mine goes down at an average of 1% battery per hour at normal use since the firmware update (v23).
I enable wifi only when I'm at home, for the rest I only use Edge/gprs because at my work the 3g signal appears to be too weak and 3G drains the battery really fast.
Bluetooth and gps are off, Google account syncing is on.
I believe that a lot of widgets have a negative effect on the battery life, so it might be a good idea to limit their number.
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Stop using a task killer, the OS will handle the apps. If you keep shutting them down they have to keep restarting, that will suck power.
Any data sync will drain your battery if you us it to often, set it to a reasonable time frame.
I leave my screen on auto seems to work well, and you can charge whenever you feel like it no need to wait till it's low.
If you use Rockplayer you shouldn't even have to convert your movies unless they are full HD. It's a great player you should try it out.
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Ok I found out the major battery drainer via the battery usage in settings. It shows the the Display accounted for 80% of the battery usage. My display brightness is only set at aprx 25% and I have a total of 4 widgets on. Whats the problem?
Regarding the conversion, I am using rockplayer already but I just want to toggle the video settings a bit (mainly resolution) so the file size is smaller.
40% a day is a quite good result. what is your objective for a smartphone with 4-inch diaplay and 1G cpu?
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40% a day is a quite good result. what is your objective for a smartphone with 4-inch diaplay and 1G cpu?
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Well 40% is with like 30 min wifi, 1hr gaming, 5 min calling. 3G, GPS, BT all off. But im not out of the new battery draining cycle yet.
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40% a day is a quite good result. what is your objective for a smartphone with 4-inch diaplay and 1G cpu?
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More of a wish than an objective but a month would be nice
In the early 80s a 20MB HDD was about the size of 100 X10's and now my X10 has 32GB of storage the size of a postage stamp.
The computing power of an X10 would have filled a 10 story building in 1980.
Where are the big advancements in batteries?
What we need for the X10 is a Hydrogen Fuel Cell
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Well 40% is with like 30 min wifi, 1hr gaming, 5 min calling. 3G, GPS, BT all off. But im not out of the new battery draining cycle yet.
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Bottom line is that it's a huge screen and it sucks power.
Try this, turn off "everything" and play a 2 hour movie, doubt you'll get to the end of it.
Since the screen is so large battery life would have been better served by an AMOLED screen rather than TFT.
Gary.. Think this latest firm ware has a bug that shows the display draining battery much more than it really is.. You should ignore that. My display is set to auto. I get a full day from about 50%.
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More of a wish than an objective but a month would be nice
In the early 80s a 20MB HDD was about the size of 100 X10's and now my X10 has 32GB of storage the size of a postage stamp.
The computing power of an X10 would have filled a 10 story building in 1980.
Where are the big advancements in batteries?
What we need for the X10 is a Hydrogen Fuel Cell
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yes, the current battery technology is obviously far behind the development of mobil devices industry. egeryday, we see the faster cpu, better display and os etc. the battery has become a major weakness slowing down the related industries.
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Hi did anyone experiance this kind of battery consumption? 3days 14hours and 45min and still have like 7%?
Not personally, I use my phone too much to get that kind of life out of it. Based on what I know about the drain when it's screen off and sleeping, though, I think it's well within the realm of possibility with light use.
I get like 24 hours out of mine... with some light-moderate use... used to be better when I bought it but then after installing some apps it just starts degrading a bit I guess
Well, rechargable batteries do degrade over time, and the more apps you have on a device, generally the less time it will last on battery, partially because those that run in the background consume more system resources and partially because those that update data in the background will keep your phone "awake" more of the time.
If I wasn't using my phone and just let it idle (sync on, airplane mode off) I'd get like 12 days of battery life. That's what I like about the NxS, unlike other smartphones it does actually last longer when not used.
hi
i am getting around 10 to 12 hours. wifi always on. mostly watching youtube videos. netbrwosing. gaming.
2g phone calling
still i think i am getting reasonably good back up
Disabling wifi,gps,bluetooth and reducing screen brightness will improve battery life.
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Disabling wifi,gps,bluetooth and reducing screen brightness will improve battery life.
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So will removing the battery and placing it next to the phone.
My wife and I both have the Nexus both with battery issues never charging to full 100% always get 95% max. New phones. Battery usually lasted 10 to 12hrs
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My wife and I both have the Nexus both with battery issues never charging to full 100% always get 95% max. New phones. Battery usually lasted 10 to 12hrs
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That's no issue, but working as intended.
Other phones are using the same technique, but they are hiding it by showing the 100% the phone never reached, that's why they drop to 95-97%ish right after unplugging and from there drain normally.
I experienced battery drowning after using app's like maps or latitude. I had to kill them manually, now I'm cleaning the phones memory regularly. That safes a lot of battery life for me on the one hand, but on the other hand loading app's isn't as fast as before.
It's the classical trade-off between battery life an usability. And 10-12 hours are normal for me if I'm using my phone a lot.
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That's no issue, but working as intended.
Other phones are using the same technique, but they are hiding it by showing the 100% the phone never reached, that's why they drop to 95-97%ish right after unplugging and from there drain normally.
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Just read about it searching. It's a safety setting. Surprised none of the galaxy s phones had this on. I had epic4g before.
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Just read about it searching. It's a safety setting. Surprised none of the galaxy s phones had this on. I had epic4g before.
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Well, depends on the manuf. if they want to "hide" it or not, they could also set 95% capacity as "100%" displayed. All batteries got a safety feature of some kind
20 hours of hardcore use here
Can't be too hardcore, display lasts 4.5h max
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20 hours of hardcore use here
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same here.
never rooted or installed a custom rom.
in 2g idle it lasts ~14days
9 to 13 hours ,was looking at getting maybe better battery but dont think theres one
So 95% is the new 100% because my phone won't charge to 100%. It just stops at 95%.
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Well, depends on the manuf. if they want to "hide" it or not, they could also set 95% capacity as "100%" displayed. All batteries got a safety feature of some kind
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I did not know that was built into the battery thought it was the phone that controlled that. Thanks for info. I'll see what these ebay batteries I purchased for $10 from china do. Should be getting them soon.
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I thought with a battery this big there wouldn't be much of an issue but if you push this phone it won't last the day.
I have screen set to auto, manual sync, data off, wifi off, gps off and here's how I got on today.
6am Of charger and 5mins checking email twitter then wifi off
7 hrs radio and music player,
Then through out the course of the evening I checked emails etc again for a max of 15 mins.
Phone turned of at 8pm so thats 14hrs but that was 14hrs with everything turned off and not really using the phone, my Desire S I used the same way and at this stage of the evening it still had well over a 3rd of battery left almost half. I installed Juice Defender yesterday and it made no difference.
Is this type of battery life normal for this phone?
A lot of battery related threads are there pal,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
Just keep in mind that if you are getting around 5/5½ hours screen on time then you are fine, just fine. Forget about days. And JD will do no good if it doesn't do any bad.
Regards.
Keep in mind I am using Ninphetamine 2.0.2 kernel with villain rom 2.4.2, juicedefender, and did a proper, full battery calibration.
Today I played about 2h of games, listened to music for about 3h, and then did random things like checking email, downloading apps from market etc. I have only Wifi and autorotation always enabled. It's been about 12 hours since I unplugged it, and I am at 83% of my battery life. Looks like I won't have to charge it for 4-5 days using it regularly.
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Keep in mind I am using Ninphetamine 2.0.2 kernel with villain rom 2.4.2, juicedefender, and did a proper, full battery calibration.
Today I played about 2h of games, listened to music for about 3h, and then did random things like checking email, downloading apps from market etc. I have only Wifi and autorotation always enabled. It's been about 12 hours since I unplugged it, and I am at 83% of my battery life. Looks like I won't have to charge it for 4-5 days using it regularly.
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Post Screen Shot of your battery Usage graph, Display On time.
That stats you posted is NOT POSSIBLE.
Regards.
slugger, from this and your other posts, it seems you don't like this phone much. At all.
Why keep it? Curious.
B3311 said:
slugger, from this and your other posts, it seems you don't like this phone much. At all.
Why keep it? Curious.
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I do like the phone just keep having issues with it.
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Keep in mind I am using Ninphetamine 2.0.2 kernel with villain rom 2.4.2, juicedefender, and did a proper, full battery calibration.
Today I played about 2h of games, listened to music for about 3h, and then did random things like checking email, downloading apps from market etc. I have only Wifi and autorotation always enabled. It's been about 12 hours since I unplugged it, and I am at 83% of my battery life. Looks like I won't have to charge it for 4-5 days using it regularly.
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I call BS...
Here's my battey life from a little while ago on CM7. I'm using Juice Defender Ultimate and in my opinion, it makes a huge difference.
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I call BS...
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http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/2506/26068320.png
That's about as good as I've managed, but that's with it basically being still, only sending a few text messages. Don't think it'd have managed that long with music/game playing added in.
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slugger, from this and your other posts, it seems you don't like this phone much. At all.
Why keep it? Curious.
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When a geek is inlove with a device, its pretty hard to let it go despite the flaw. Im on the same boat right now.
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Keep in mind I am using Ninphetamine 2.0.2 kernel with villain rom 2.4.2, juicedefender, and did a proper, full battery calibration.
Today I played about 2h of games, listened to music for about 3h, and then did random things like checking email, downloading apps from market etc. I have only Wifi and autorotation always enabled. It's been about 12 hours since I unplugged it, and I am at 83% of my battery life. Looks like I won't have to charge it for 4-5 days using it regularly.
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Post Screen Shot of your battery Usage graph, Display On time.
That stats you posted is NOT POSSIBLE.
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I call BS...
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+1
That's simply not true.
with very low usage i achieved 4 days but with high usage as stated it will last 1-2 days max
9 hours.
Thats it.
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If he had mobile data and the phone turned off and just on wifi that's doable.
Listening to music with the screen off is a pretty low consumption scenario, cos the cpu will hit 200mhz and the dps' will be doing most of the work.
And considering that the screen and the mobile data connection are #1 and #2 users of power!
Doable but still maybe a slight exaggeration.
The phone has a very low idle draw though, so when its just sitting there not doing anything in deep sleep, you know you wont find your battery dead which is good.
Do people really not have access to chargers in a 12-24hr period? I don't get this whole batt life issue. Yeah,they suck, but seriously, who can't plug their phone in for 20-30mins a couple times a day?
oh and I deft call BS on not having to charge for four days. Never going to happen. Even if you dont touch your phone at all for four days. Still won't happen.
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...who can't plug their phone in for 20-30mins a couple times a day?...
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And you think it's weird that your battery sucks?
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And you think it's weird that your battery sucks?
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Excuse me? I don't think it's wierd at all, Its a known, absolute truth that these batteries suck.
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Excuse me? I don't think it's wierd at all, Its a known, absolute truth that these batteries suck.
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Then stop making it even worse by messing up the memory (of battery) by constantly plugging in and out.
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OT: I got a huge feeling ATK is consuming alot of battery! I just backed up Auto Task Killer Pro to my SD-Card. Uninstalled the app. Next I'm going to see if my batt. lvl. consumption shows improvement.
Will calibrate battery too as soon as it reaches 100%.
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Then stop making it even worse by messing up the memory (of battery) by constantly plugging in and out.
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Haha.
Do a search. My battery will be just fine.
I know people are always complaining about battery performance, or see stories of how someones phone will go from 100-40 in an hour and half to two hours. I think I've found a solution (notice how I said I THINK). I've seen random battery fluctuations on my device for months now, some days it lasts longer than others (obviously data off, wifi off, and all that good stuff) but the battery life would still be eaten away like crazy. Here's what I noticed a few days ago: I went to sleep and when I woke up the next day my battery life had dropped 20 percent overnight, and everything that sucks battery was off. It confused me because that doesn't happen unless I leave data or wifi on. So I looked through the phone and I turned off "Standalone GPS services" one night and went to bed again. The next morning, the phone battery had only dropped 2 percent!
tl;dr turn off Standalone GPS under Location and security settings. IT may help your phones battery life significantly
Hope this helps with your battery performance folks, and if this has been brought to your attention already, then sorry for the repost!
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first of when i sleep if i need the alarm i turn the flight mode on as the battery only uses between 1-4 % a night normally 2
i dont have a standalone option only turn gp on and off
r800i 2.3.4
but i dont have any battery issues really if my battery is draining fast its because im playing a game or browsing the web alot
a good tip is
use wifi instead of data when a wifi network is available but keep wifi off when not in use.
too many people either leave wifi on all the time which wastes alot of battery or never use wifi as there confused and always use data connections even when at home (major battery killer)
What happens with my battery is that if I leave the phone on standby overnight it'll gain about 10% and that's not even in airplane mode.
But as usual my battery does drain quite a lot when playing games using wifi and all that. Using EDGE drains more than using wifi.
I always charge my phone every night so would turning off the gps help much during the day?
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Install AnTuTu CPU Master, set usage to 122 mhz when screen is off, on a call, max out when normal usage and charging.
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Install AnTuTu CPU Master, set usage to 122 mhz when screen is off, on a call, max out when normal usage and charging.
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Or setCPU.
gingerman1984 said:
this info helped me to increase my phones battery performance, it shall work for other phones too:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1391186
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This is about Li-Ion batteries. Xperia PLAY's stock battery isn't Li-Ion, it's Li-Poly.
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This is about Li-Ion batteries. Xperia PLAY's stock battery isn't Li-Ion, it's Li-Poly.
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What's the difference ? does the Xperia Play have a better battery ?
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What's the difference ? does the Xperia Play have a better battery ?
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Each has its own pro's and cons. Here is a list:
Lithium ion:
-The lightest of all metals
-The greatest electrochemical potential
-The largest energy density for weight.
-The load characteristics are reasonably good in terms of discharge.
-The high cell voltage of 3.6 volts allows battery pack designs with only one cell versus three.
-It is is a low maintenance battery.
-No memory and no scheduled cycling is required to prolong the battery's life.
-Lithium-ion cells cause little harm when disposed.
-It is fragile and requires a protection circuit to maintain safe operation.
-Cell temperature is monitored to prevent temperature extremes.
-Capacity deterioration is noticeable after one year (whether the battery is in use or not).
Lithium Polymer:
-Lithium polymer chemistry differentiates itself from Lithium Ion in the type of electrolyte used (a plastic-like film that does not conduct electricity but allows ion exchange - electrically charged atoms or groups of atoms).
-The polymer electrolyte replaces the traditional porous separator, which is soaked with electrolyte.
-The dry polymer design offers simplifications with respect to fabrication, ruggedness, safety and thin-profile geometry.
-Cell thickness measures as little as one millimeter (0.039 inches).
-Can be formed and shaped in any way imagined.
-Commercial lithium polymer batteries are hybrid cells that contain gelled electrolyte to enhane conductivity.
-Gelled electrolyte added to the lithium ion polymer replaces the porous separator. -The gelled electrolyte is simply added to enhance ion conductivity.
Capacity is slightly less than that of the standard lithium ion battery.
-Lithium ion polymer finds its market niche in wafer-thin geometries, such as PDA batteries.
-Improved safety - more resistant to overcharge; less chance for electrolyte leakage.
Ice Cream Sandwich (Beta) already has this feature off by default.. but great tip anyway.
yeah i know my battery sucks too but it vary's sometimes
You could try out apps like juice defender. It disables your data connection and enables it every 30 minutes for example, to update whatsapp etc. When I am at home, I use our WiFi network. My play has the best battery life of all my friends phones and I'm a heavy user, playing a lot of games and using the internet too.
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You could try out apps like juice defender. It disables your data connection and enables it every 30 minutes for example, to update whatsapp etc. When I am at home, I use our WiFi network. My play has the best battery life of all my friends phones and I'm a heavy user, playing a lot of games and using the internet too.
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Juice defender is a great app, but unfortunately it was interfering with my Words With Friends notifications too frequently lol.
For some reason, I'm kinda adamant that juice defender doesn't really help but I've done no test to prove that. I just kinda feel that way.
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For some reason, I'm kinda adamant that juice defender doesn't really help but I've done no test to prove that. I just kinda feel that way.
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Im pretty sure it does, unless youre always using your internet
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For some reason, I'm kinda adamant that juice defender doesn't really help but I've done no test to prove that. I just kinda feel that way.
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It really does! It turns on my data every 30 minutes and I really got an improvement of my batterylife. Why would I need data, when listening to music for example? Just try it out
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Jordanooo said:
Im pretty sure it does, unless youre always using your internet
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I do browse a lot and I'm constantly on wifi. I just use the general setting or whatever it's called
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KindaUndisputed said:
I do browse a lot and I'm constantly on wifi. I just use the general setting or whatever it's called
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You need to try the ultimate version. You can select what happens on specific apps. So apps that dont use the internet, the data will be disabled whilst playing them
Also, you can set it to automatically turn data on/off depending on your location so you connect to wifi at home ect
I find it very useful
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Thanks for the advices. I'm gonna test Juice Defender. Sounds good, as you don't need data during class
Use betterbattstats app to see what processes are running and apps like cpusky to check if your phone is going to deep sleep when not being used
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Its been about 2 weeks since I got my phone and I'm mighty impressed with the battery life, probably because of stamina mode. I know it's only this good since I also haven't installed too many apps on it yet, but it's still much better than any android device I've ever had before.
Shame the battery isn't removable though. How's the battery holding up on your phones?
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Holy crap, what's screen on time like? Performance?
If you post such a screenshot you might aswell tell us the trick that did it I could get 4 days out of my phone on stamina mode and this was with some hours of music and music browser of course, but not much more.
the best that i have seen on my phone is 45 hours ( almost 2 days ) but with 4.5 HOURS SCREEN! too much i think!
ByteFalcon said:
Its been about 2 weeks since I got my phone and I'm mighty impressed with the battery life, probably because of stamina mode. I know it's only this good since I also haven't installed too many apps on it yet, but it's still much better than any android device I've ever had before.
Shame the battery isn't removable though. How's the battery holding up on your phones?
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I use mine moderately most days sometimes heavily and I still get about 1.5 days usage.
Stamina mode is very impressive indeed. :silly:
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No tricks really. Here's how I've been using it.
Settings:
Bravia engine off
Mobile data off most of the time
Wi-Fi on most of the time
GPS off
Stamina mode on of course
Apps:
Streamed a video episode
Streamed music (on chrome)
Played music (on app)
Took pictures
Used flashlight once or twice
Sent a couple of files via bluetooth
Yeah its generally light usage, but again I suspect the lack of apps that have running background services are also a factor in this. Apart from Gmail I don't have any other email or social network apps set up yet. I check my accounts manually on Chrome.
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9 to 12 hours
Hmm, well that's just great. Thing is I have cleaned all the bloatware from my device and I dont use social media, I do have whatsapp and gmail+google calendar running. Normally I get 2 days most out of one battery and this is when stamine mode is off because of whatsapp. But maybe I should try data mode off, wifi on and see what will happen that way. There is almost no situation where I'm not near wifi which I can connect too Still I think using whatsapp a lot eats battery.
I'd love to see 3 days with average use on this device.
My results are just shi**y!
My brightness is on auto.
Data always off.
Sync off.
No other apps installed, which are running in the background except whatsapp.
Stamina is on, for sure! But the battery life is anyway very bad!
5.5-6 hours of screen on time isn't mind blowing. My friend's iPhone 5 gets 8-9. What's surprising is that this has a much bigger battery, and even when the brightness is low and the CPU is underclocked it still drains the battery faster than similar devices. I don't think it's very efficient....
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5.5-6 hours of screen on time isn't mind blowing. My friend's iPhone 5 gets 8-9. What's surprising is that this has a much bigger battery, and even when the brightness is low and the CPU is underclocked it still drains the battery faster than similar devices. I don't think it's very efficient....
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Looks like we have a case of the grass is always greener on the other side
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ZakooZ said:
Looks like we have a case of the grass is always greener on the other side
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What, no, I'm just saying that with a 2370mah battery and only a dual core, it should be better xD
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What, no, I'm just saying that with a 2370mah battery and only a dual core, it should be better xD
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and asynchronous dual-core should make battery life better
well he doesnt seem to use the phone to play or use apps.... so if it is idle all the time you can pretty sure get even more out of it. If you set a cpu-profile for screen-off time, it will be hardly losing battery. I did that on my old phone and despite it was lagging when waking up it lost less than five percent over a week while i did nothing but checking clock from time to time
Greetings
ps it is said that screen-off-profiles are not good for processor.... but i don't know anymore where i read that
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r0zj0k3r said:
Holy crap, what's screen on time like? Performance?
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I haven't checked the screen on time and I already charged my phone yesterday. I'll check it again when it's needs a recharge again and post it here (it might take a while lol). Also, not using any performance altering apps or techniques, is there a certain way you check performance?
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Hmm, well that's just great. Thing is I have cleaned all the bloatware from my device and I dont use social media, I do have whatsapp and gmail+google calendar running. Normally I get 2 days most out of one battery and this is when stamine mode is off because of whatsapp. But maybe I should try data mode off, wifi on and see what will happen that way. There is almost no situation where I'm not near wifi which I can connect too Still I think using whatsapp a lot eats battery.
I'd love to see 3 days with average use on this device.
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Whatsapp does eat up a lot of battery. Since I charged my phone I've been using Whatsapp and the phone is already down 20%.
I don't know if this affects battery or not since I haven't tried it before on any other device, but I'm using 3 home screens instead of 5, I'm gonna try adding back 2 screens on the next charging cycle and see if it makes a difference.
I might have a look into changing cpu frequencies when in idle then. For now I'm with a HTC One X because of dead pixels on my SPs camera sensor.
The HTC(nVidia Tegra3) has less battery capacity but with average plus use it gets two days easily, makes me wonder what is wrong with the Sony firmware....
Customizing Staminamode
Robin>Hood said:
Hmm, well that's just great. Thing is I have cleaned all the bloatware from my device and I dont use social media, I do have whatsapp and gmail+google calendar running. Normally I get 2 days most out of one battery and this is when stamine mode is off because of whatsapp. But maybe I should try data mode off, wifi on and see what will happen that way. There is almost no situation where I'm not near wifi which I can connect too Still I think using whatsapp a lot eats battery.
I'd love to see 3 days with average use on this device.
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Do you know, that in Stamina mode you can allow certain apps to run.
So turn on Stamina mode, long press on stamina, and add Whatsapp.
mine loses 10% when im asleep lol. with stamina mode on, its around 7%
orlaus said:
Do you know, that in Stamina mode you can allow certain apps to run.
So turn on Stamina mode, long press on stamina, and add Whatsapp.
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I did know this but I thought the stamina mode switches of the 3G connection, when the screen is off, which is needed for whatsapp or am I mistaken? Thanks for the hint.
I'll try, my phone should be delivered home tomorrow morning
SunnyChrono6 said:
What, no, I'm just saying that with a 2370mah battery and only a dual core, it should be better xD
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You haven't really thought this thoroughly
The iPhone cpu runs at 1.3 ghz vs 1.7 ghz on the SP
The iPhone Gpu runs at 275 mhz vs 400 on the SP
The resolution is lower than the SP, which means the GPU on the iPhone doesn't have to work as hard
My Xperia SP still runs longer than my friends iPhone 5,
Easily get two days use out of it, screen on time of about 5-6 hours
That's not bad,