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How to QUADRUPLE Your Android Battery Life

Turn off your task killer. Stop limiting how many accounts your syncing. You wanna know how to increase Android battery life? Well here's the secret to amazing battery life on your Android phone.
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Very interesting. I am trying it.

=( blocked at work. I'll check it out when I get home =)

will check back to see how it works.

topdawgn8 said:
=( blocked at work. I'll check it out when I get home =)
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radar5 said:
will check back to see how it works.
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Definitely do. Don't miss out!

Here, I'll help remove the mystery.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.latedroid.juicedefender

App looks like it would be awesome but without root I'm not able to control CPU so its not worth it for me. I use widgets to control everything that the program does and then I don't need to have it running in the backround
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Q2slingshot said:
App looks like it would be awesome but without root I'm not able to control CPU so its not worth it for me. I use widgets to control everything that the program does and then I don't need to have it running in the backround
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Glad that works for you. Me personally, I'd rather let an app do it. Then it can still let things in every so often without me doing anything. And the battery use is minimal in the background.

JuiceDefender works... it's a good application. The more time you spend setting it up correctly, the better it works. And having UltimateJuice is a must.
I don't believe in Taskillers as they are just taking up CPU cycles killing off applications that aren't even doing anything (read up on how Android works to understand this fully, mainly how it kills of application and how they can be open and dormant).

gonna give this a shot, thanks

What is the proper way to set up, or some decent configurations for Juice Defender? I've tried it but I really do not understand it at all.

Giving it a try on Fresh 3.1.0.1.
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topdawgn8 said:
=( blocked at work. I'll check it out when I get home =)
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You know your phone has a browser...
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Panda Fuzz said:
You know your phone has a browser...
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a flash enabled browser

davebu said:
a flash enabled browser
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Uh we have flash enabled browsers........
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actually seems like a pretty good app, setcpu saves me so much battery already just by underclocking when the screen is off idk if i need to sacrifice my data connections. anyone know the benefits of ultimate juice?
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Uh we have flash enabled browsers........
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that was the point

ritzbrie said:
What is the proper way to set up, or some decent configurations for Juice Defender? I've tried it but I really do not understand it at all.
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If you set it up as I do in the video, I've found that its a very good balance.
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JuiceDefender works... it's a good application. The more time you spend setting it up correctly, the better it works. And having UltimateJuice is a must.
I don't believe in Taskillers as they are just taking up CPU cycles killing off applications that aren't even doing anything (read up on how Android works to understand this fully, mainly how it kills of application and how they can be open and dormant).
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Agreed on both accounts. You gotta go for UltimateJuice and I can't emphasize more that task killers really don't help. You're completely right on your points. The apps aren't doing anything. Android doesn't handle background apps poorly like a PC.
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actually seems like a pretty good app, setcpu saves me so much battery already just by underclocking when the screen is off idk if i need to sacrifice my data connections. anyone know the benefits of ultimate juice?
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In the video I state the benefits of UltimateJuice. Also, with JuiceDefender you'll be able to underclock as you do with setcpu. Saves you a running app as well

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You know your phone has a browser...
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I know...my cube is right next to the door with the director of my department going in and out of it all day long. So it's stealthier for me to watch a video on my desktop rather than my phone.
Oh the woes of an intern.

topdawgn8 said:
I know...my cube is right next to the door with the director of my department going in and out of it all day long. So it's stealthier for me to watch a video on my desktop rather than my phone.
Oh the woes of an intern.
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You could always try wired tethering...

Oh, it's just a big advertisement for JuiceDefender. I thought it was providing some acutal tweaks and settings to change and some data to back it up.

Multitasking question

Hey everyone,
First time android user and absolutely loving it so far!
I was wondering how vigilant I need to be in killing off background apps? Coming from the iPhone, its a very different approach. I am just wondering if too many apps running has a negative effect on speed and battery life. How adept is the OS at killing off apps that I haven't opened in a while?
Thanks so much for the input. I am loving my Atrix!!
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Starting with Froyo, Android became much more efficient with managing memory. I do not run a task manager on my DX, never kill any background processes, and my phone runs great all day long.

I only use task killer to make sure I don't have any constant data streaming while I'm not using the phone.

Thanks for the input. I will have to read up on froyo and multitasking efficiency. On the same note, can anyone recommend a battery indicator replacement? Is there a way to show a percentage using the stock one?
Thanks again.
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joelszs said:
Thanks for the input. I will have to read up on froyo and multitasking efficiency. On the same note, can anyone recommend a battery indicator replacement? Is there a way to show a percentage using the stock one?
Thanks again.
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I use Circle Battery Widget from the Market. Works great.
Joe

joelszs said:
Thanks for the input. I will have to read up on froyo and multitasking efficiency. On the same note, can anyone recommend a battery indicator replacement? Is there a way to show a percentage using the stock one?
Thanks again.
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Circle battery widget works
https://market.android.com/details?...oid.CircleBatteryWidget&feature=search_result

FNugget said:
I only use task killer to make sure I don't have any constant data streaming while I'm not using the phone.
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Good point I forgot about. Since Verizon is still on unlimited data (for now), I never pay any attention to what runs in the background.

I too am new and did find one app that allowed multi-tasking, kinda like the windows version of alt-tab and also kill it it too. Very simple but sees be great so far. Called TaskSwitcher. I hold down the Search button and it brings all the "windows" in the background, can go to them or hold it down and kill them. Really impressed!

Meh, with this ophone, you don't really need to worry about background tasks slowing you down.
I used one to make sure there wasn't something big in the background draining the battery but other than that, it hardly ever slows down.

Some help filling up the Nexus screens?

Hi guys,
First, I'm a developer who spends a lot of time with his nose into terminal windows and editors... so please forgive me if I'm used to the "boring" stuff. I was wondering if you could give me some suggestions what widgets should I use to fill few of the tablet screens. So far, the main apps I use on the tablet are the Terminal (go figure) to manage my Linux boxes and my 3 Google Apps accounts (drive, mail, etc.)
I looked on the internet at those "popular widgets" postings and they all show crappy stuff like Google Play, Beautiful Widgets, Facebook etc. With no disrespect, they are useless to me. I'm looking more into "geek" factor, like some nice tablet memory/kernel stats and other cool widgets I could make use of. I know is hard what I ask but I'm looking for input from tech people who use the tablet to manage mostly Linux related stuff, not just the Google Play library.
It sucks to have all those screens empty, thank you for your help.
Floren

You could actually design a fancy-nothing widget by yourself that could show random stuff, like stats, load, cool pictures, links to websites, etc, periodically. Resizable, and repicable. That would be nice.
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For a self-proclaimed dev, this guy sure is lazy. ****, app inventor takes no time.
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ace7196 said:
For a self-proclaimed dev, this guy sure is lazy. ****, app inventor takes no time.
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I don't write Android apps. I did wrote from scratch the XDA search you use it every day and helped the guys to optimize their servers, so you can post your content easier. Thanks for the nice insults.

Yea wth?
Anyway. I suggest Android Pro Widgets. Its free but I recommend buying it for themeing ablilities. They are scrollable Widgets for Facebook, twitter, calendar, favorites, etc. I have a page dedicated to these alone. I like my main homescreen very minimalistic.
Outside of that I use some sort of weather widget. I don't listen to music often and my status bar has toggles. Not sure what else you would need.
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Could try minimalistic text and create your own text widgets showing stats of the tablet.

Does anyone got any good music widgets?

Battery Monitor Widget Pro and System Tuner Pro have some decent geeky widgets. Not great though. I'd like to find some more too.
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TECK said:
I don't write Android apps. I did wrote from scratch the XDA search you use it every day and helped the guys to optimize their servers, so you can post your content easier. Thanks for the nice insults.
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Don't worry about responses like that one. They are a dime a dozen and provide nothing to these forums/communities. Best to ignore nay sayers...
Some suggestions for widgets would definitely be a weather widget, gmail/email widget, play music widget. Just to name a few a lot of it is personal preference from what I see...
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Has anyone tried elixr2? Has quite a few widgets like the OP asked for.
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dante32278 said:
Has anyone tried elixr2? Has quite a few widgets like the OP asked for.
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You beat me too it. Elixr2 is good. I used to use it on my gtablet while testing roms. It was really helpful

I'm sorry if you understood my comment as an insult. I was actually giving a nice idea. I have developed some apps for diferrent purposes, and I found your post interesting - some widgets to beautify your screens. I could simply not mention any idea, but you know, I like brainstorming.
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I made a widget once for a friend that showed either his stats or his teams stats from World Community Grid, but it only seems to work on 2.1 and I'm not a Dev....no idea how to fix it. LOL
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TECK said:
Hi guys,
First, I'm a developer who spends a lot of time with his nose into terminal windows and editors... so please forgive me if I'm used to the "boring" stuff. I was wondering if you could give me some suggestions what widgets should I use to fill few of the tablet screens. So far, the main apps I use on the tablet are the Terminal (go figure) to manage my Linux boxes and my 3 Google Apps accounts (drive, mail, etc.)
I looked on the internet at those "popular widgets" postings and they all show crappy stuff like Google Play, Beautiful Widgets, Facebook etc. With no disrespect, they are useless to me. I'm looking more into "geek" factor, like some nice tablet memory/kernel stats and other cool widgets I could make use of. I know is hard what I ask but I'm looking for input from tech people who use the tablet to manage mostly Linux related stuff, not just the Google Play library.
It sucks to have all those screens empty, thank you for your help.
Floren
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I strongly recommend Elixir Widgets 2. Highly customizable, lots of options (more than any other), sips battery and CPU.
Here is my main 'reporting' page.
Also I reduced to 3 home screens... psychological reduction in empty space.

josjator said:
I'm sorry if you understood my comment as an insult.
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I was quoting ace7196, not you. Thanks though.

Bad battery with tw roms

Hi, im getting some bad battery life's with any tw ROM. I get an average of 10hours with 2.5hours screen on. I've tried a lot of tweaks etc. Like disabling location services and down clocked CPU etc. I've disabled smart screen and all of those features. But when running stock android I can easily get 2days.
Someone know how to fix this.?
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reinberto said:
Hi, im getting some bad battery life's with any tw ROM. I get an average of 10hours with 2.5hours screen on. I've tried a lot of tweaks etc. Like disabling location services and down clocked CPU etc. I've disabled smart screen and all of those features. But when running stock android I can easily get 2days.
Someone know how to fix this.?
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootuninstaller.batrsaver try this

jaythenut said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootuninstaller.batrsaver try this
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don't think that will help much, because i need to receive mails and messages all day

reinberto said:
don't think that will help much, because i need to receive mails and messages all day
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Well maybe that's why

Use BetterBatteryStats to see what's using your battery or maybe wakelocks, also use Greenify to hibernate apps you don't use

Greenify helps for a bit but it still bad
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jaythenut said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootuninstaller.batrsaver try this
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Going to try this

Ritchiejoe said:
Going to try this
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Cool its very good I loose about 2% over night so good that i brought it

Better battery life????

Anybody have tips on how to save some battery on this device? Here are my battery stats. Any suggestions welcomed pleasseeee.
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I wasn't very impressed with the Note 3's battery life at first, then I went into Settings>Application Manager and disabled a whole bunch of bloatware. Also went into each app and turned off any background update and location service if we don't need it. You can do this without root. Just take a look on this board and you'll see someone has compiled a list of apps that you can disable.
The phone now runs cooler, and yesterday, we had 14h usage and 6.5 hours display on time (auto brightness). Very impressive in my book.

oilfighter said:
I wasn't very impressed with the Note 3's battery life at first, then I went into Settings>Application Manager and disabled a whole bunch of bloatware. Also went into each app and turned off any background update and location service if we don't need it. You can do this without root. Just take a look on this board and you'll see someone has compiled a list of apps that you can disable.
The phone now runs cooler, and yesterday, we had 14h usage and 6.5 hours display on time (auto brightness). Very impressive in my book.
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Thanks, I've already debloated it like crazy. Still getting those battery stats. I am rooted
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Turn off all the Samsung features when you're not using them like Smart Stay and Air Gesture. The sensors are always on in certain apps when you have them enabled. Turning them on and off is easily accessible via the notification toggles. But it will only slightly help, your phone should be performing better than that even with those features running. Try a factory reset if it is safe to do with the root method.
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Turn off all the Samsung features when you're not using them like Smart Stay and Air Gesture. The sensors are always on in certain apps when you have them enabled. Turning them on and off is easily accessible via the notification toggles. But it will only slightly help, your phone should be performing better than that even with those features running. Try a factory reset if it is safe to do with the root method.
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Thanks, i have all features turned off... might try a data reset, also noticing some FCs....

XzxBATTxzX said:
Thanks, I've already debloated it like crazy. Still getting those battery stats. I am rooted
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Have you guys checked out Greenify? (recommend)

greenify
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Have you guys checked out Greenify? (recommend)
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yup. was recommended that app on the s4, great app

Download the app Wakelock Detector from the Play Store.
Open it for the first time right after you unplug your phone
After some deep sleep occurs for awhile, open Wakelock Detector and select the icon in the top right to select "Wakeup Triggers"
This will show you which app waked the device when it was trying to sleep(=screen off) and how many times it waked it. Figuring out Google wakelocks will probably help you the most unless you have some poorly written or rogue app
A good start would be to remove ALL google apps that you don't use, and turn off google ads as well as notifications and scheduled checks within say...Play Store and Youtube and Gmail

MeetFace said:
Have you guys checked out Greenify? (recommend)
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Could you share with me what u hibernate.
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thunderbread said:
Could you share with me what u hibernate.
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I essentially hibernate everything except system apps and widgets, just to be safe. You would also not hibernate apps that you want background notifications from. I also use the donate version, which allows me take advantage of GCM. Which, for apps that use GCM, allows me to hibernate those apps and still receive notifications.
Hope that helps =]

My favorite app is the Snapdragon BatteryGuru. I love it! That will monitor usage and show you which programs are battery hogs and will learn your behaviors with your phone. Only works with the Snapdragon Processor phones as well.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiam.snapdragon.app&hl=en

sebastianraven said:
My favorite app is the Snapdragon BatteryGuru. I love it! That will monitor usage and show you which programs are battery hogs and will learn your behaviors with your phone. Only works with the Snapdragon Processor phones as well.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiam.snapdragon.app&hl=en
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Sorry to ask a stupid question but is the VZW Note 3 snapdragon?
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thunderbread said:
Sorry to ask a stupid question but is the VZW Note 3 snapdragon?
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No worries, yes it is a snapdragon 800
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thunderbread said:
Sorry to ask a stupid question but is the VZW Note 3 snapdragon?
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=does+the+us+verizon+note+3+have+a+snapdragon+processor
Third result...wouldn't even have to click through. Just saying =D

MeetFace said:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=does+the+us+verizon+note+3+have+a+snapdragon+processor
Third result...wouldn't even have to click through. Just saying =D
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Thanks and I did Google it couldn't find a solid answer. Thanks again.
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