Good day everyone. As you'll see, I haven't really made many posts, but I do use XDA a lot to find info about phones, to look up problems and solutions, and getting ROMs/kernels. So thanks a ton to this forum and to everyone who has made a post that has helped me (and thanks to those who have helped others of course).
So, I made this post to share with you guys my settings for getting the best battery life that I have seen so far on my device. The device is rooted, and I am not running a stock kernel or ROM. I always thought that I would stick to a Sense based ROM, as (to me anyways) of all the manufacturer skins, Sense looks by far the best.
But that was until I got my 2nd gen Nexus 7 a little while ago. I absolutely loved vanilla Android so much that I decided to put on a Google Play Edition kernel and ROM onto my One. Now, when doing that, you do lose some features; Infrared and the camera flash being 2 of them (there might be more, but I haven't noticed that).
The ROM I am running is the 4.3 GE by faux123, and the kernel, also by faux123 i believe, is the 007m. Very smooth, absolutely stable (thanks faux123!)
You can find them here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2255900
Here are some screenshots to show you how much life I got out of a full charge, and also how much Screen On time I got
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Here are some stats of things I did on the phone during this time:
Made/Recieved calls : 10min54sec
Sent/Recieved texts : 7
Sent/Recieved Whatsapp messages : 559
Photos taken : 2
Web pages visited : 64
I also checked some YouTube vids, updated Whatsapp, Tested out a few vids to test out the BubbleUPnP app, and spent some time on Facebook (I feel like this took up roughly 2 hours or so, but I'm honestly not sure).
Now, when I started, I wanted to see how much battery life I can get out of the device, but by keeping the same performance; so NO underclocking, nor did I overclock (I will share all the settings I used in this post).
So, without changing the clock settings, I had a go at doing some undervolting. I finally settled on some settings that were quite a bit under the default numbers, but the performance is still identical to standard (i'm getting the same score in Antutu of roughly 26000 as I did without undervolting), and it is perfectly stable.
The app I used to make the settings is FauxClock (thanks again faux123!).
I made some other changes as well such as switching off ALL syncing etc.
Alright, let's jump into it.
For various settings I used the same settings as recommended by faux123 in the post i linked earlier, so check them out. Also, If I don't mention a particular setting, then that is because I left it as default. These settings are all to be found in the FauxClock app (unless stated otherwise).
Clock Settings:
Clock range : 384mhz - 1.728ghz
CPU governor : Ondemand
Intelliplug Hotplug Driver : ON
Voltage Settings:
384mhz - 800000uVolts
486mhz - 812500uVolts
594mhz - 825000uVolts
702mhz - 837500uVolts
810mhz - 850000uVolts
918mhz - 862500uVolts
1026mhz - 887500uVolts
1134mhz - 912500uVolts
1242mhz - 925000uVolts
1350mhz - 950000uVolts
1458mhz - 987500uVolts
1566mhz - 1000000uVolts
1674mhz - 1037500uVolts
1728mhz - 1062500uVolts
CPU Idle/Stats:
C0 : ON
C1 : ON
C3 : ON
Thermal Manager:
PnPMgr OFF
I/O Scheduler:
Scheduler : fiops
Readahead Size : 1024
eMMC Entropy contribution : OFF
Memory Manager:
ZRAM Disk Size : 200
ZRAM Swap : ON
Clear VFS : ON
Auto FS Writeback Delay : ON
Swappiness : 100%
Miscellaneous:
Dynamic File Sync: ON
Next up was to disable a whole bunch of stuff. These settings are found in the Android settings.
Under WiFi settings, go into the Advanced section. Leave EVERYTHING unchecked except "Wi-Fi optimisation".
Turn off Mobile Data
Change the setting in Mobile Network Settings to only use 2G
Set the display brightness to AUTO
Display sleep in 30 seconds
Under location settings, set "Access my location" to OFF
Under Backup & Reset, set Backup My Data to OFF
Under Accounts settings, turn off ALL syncing
Under Developer Options, switch off all Window Animation and Transitions (set the value to 0)
Next up go to the Play Store, and then go into its settings. Turn off all notifications, and also turn off "Auto update apps".
Ok, you're all set. Hope this will help some of you!
Sweet guide mate , it'll hopefully help many ppl with battery issues , I myself kinda have different setup , didn't turn off locations / syncs etc , pretty much everything on , here few samples , last one from today testing new setup.
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im getting this on my Dual , no more saving, data, wifi, sync, gps are always on.
Shan89 said:
Sweet guide mate , it'll hopefully help many ppl with battery issues , I myself kinda have different setup , didn't turn off locations / syncs etc , pretty much everything on , here few samples , last one from today testing new setup.
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that looks pretty damn good. which settings are you using?
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that looks pretty damn good. which settings are you using?
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He has the freak htc one with a larger battery by accident.
He is the only person getting battery life anywhere close to this
Shan89 said:
Sweet guide mate , it'll hopefully help many ppl with battery issues , I myself kinda have different setup , didn't turn off locations / syncs etc , pretty much everything on , here few samples , last one from today testing new setup.
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What's your rom, kernel ?
This battery life is pretty average, you should be able to get 3 days out of a stock sense one with light use
Oops sorry missed the screen on time, yeah pretty good...
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Shan89 said:
Sweet guide mate , it'll hopefully help many ppl with battery issues , I myself kinda have different setup , didn't turn off locations / syncs etc , pretty much everything on , here few samples , last one from today testing new setup.
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Pretty good with that much screen on time.
criszz said:
im getting this on my Dual , no more saving, data, wifi, sync, gps are always on.
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awesome considering you got 2 sim cards
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that looks pretty damn good. which settings are you using?
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Crixley pretty much answered it tho I believe everyone can get this or near this.
crixley said:
He has the freak htc one with a larger battery by accident.
He is the only person getting battery life anywhere close to this
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the only weird thing about my hardware itself is I can uv -190 stable and -210 with some stuters, weird part is I'm bin 3 lol.
Note all screenshots were made with stock kernel , still waiting for the source before I move onto Ex kernel , pretty much same results except I use 500 gpu and 1.9 cpu.
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insertcoin rom 4.0.1 ( there's newer versions im just lazy to update since it's not really needed for s-off users ) anyway Rom cleaner with my script , some Xposed mods stock kernel and few other things I can't remember of right now , been setting up this Rom since it got out and battery became better and better.
Anyway I'm mainly getting this high scren time cuz of having zero wakelocks , pretty much only @ WiFi and good reception , as for brightness I'm @ 30/50% most of the time.
When I'm using phone outside with 3/4g on and no WiFi with brightness 50/100% I get around 24 hrs on battery with 6/6:30 up to 7 hrs screen time max , everything is always on , syncs etc.
Oh and this last screen shot was a surprise for me as well , I've pretty much only did this vs my standard usage , forgot to turn on power saver and charged phone from 60% to 100% via pc ... So I'm surprised myself I got almost 5hrs for 50% , usage was the same as always except my average is 3:50/4:10 per 50% I usually get down to 30/35% on battery with around 6 hrs screen time and 30/35hrs on battery , then I get bored and charge the phone.
godutch said:
This battery life is pretty average, you should be able to get 3 days out of a stock sense one with light use
Oops sorry missed the screen on time, yeah pretty good...
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Pretty good with that much screen on time.
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Thx lol.
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Shan89 said:
Crixley pretty much answered it tho I believe everyone can get this or near this.
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Hey can you post a screenshot of your app percentages please?
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Hey can you post a screenshot of your app percentages please?
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Will do for next screen shots , rarely do that , anyway my usual daily usage : fb , blink feed , tons of chating via fb / viber , lots of sms texting ( around 200 a day if not more ) sometimes talking , usually for about 30 mins , most of the time @ WiFi , turning irself off @ night , I hate getting gazillion updates from xda and other sync apps , I also have sync for everything that has it , reading on xda few hrs a day 3 I guess , browser , YouTube , reading news uhmmm Skype sometimes but rarely , that'd be all I think.
Oh I also Odex every Rom I use.
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Found around 1month old screenshots with usage , anyway pretty much the same even today. And can't find other parts of app usage there were 2 more , this is actually 1st time I hit 7 hrs
You can see here I also had high wakelocks of total 41 mins , now on 4.3 I usually don't go above 5/15 mins depends how much on battery , anyway 20hrs on battery usually lead to 5/7 mins. So battery is better now.
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Will do for next screen shots , rarely do that , anyway my usual daily usage : fb , blink feed , tons of chating via fb / viber , lots of sms texting ( around 200 a day if not more ) sometimes talking , usually for about 30 mins , most of the time @ WiFi , turning irself off @ night , I hate getting gazillion updates from xda and other sync apps , I also have sync for everything that has it , reading on xda few hrs a day 3 I guess , browser , YouTube , reading news uhmmm Skype sometimes but rarely , that'd be all I think.
Oh I also Odex every Rom I use.
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Found around 1month old screenshots with usage , anyway pretty much the same even today. And can't find other parts of app usage there were 2 more , this is actually 1st time I hit 7 hrs
You can see here I also had high wakelocks of total 41 mins , now on 4.3 I usually don't go above 5/15 mins depends how much on battery , anyway 20hrs on battery usually lead to 5/7 mins. So battery is better now.
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I'm assuming you don't use the browser much. That is always the highest drain for me, and I'm starting to wonder if that is my issue.
I get like 10 hrs this phone is harsh on the battery even with JD
No data and staying on 2G? How is this even useful?
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I'm assuming you don't use the browser much. That is always the highest drain for me, and I'm starting to wonder if that is my issue.
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I'd say 30 mins a day , few days ago used it for about 1:30 anyway ended up with around 4hrs @ 50% , I don't really use hardcore browser when using it , just to find something then read that for 5/10 mins and so on.
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I'd say 30 mins a day , few days ago used it for about 1:30 anyway ended up with around 4hrs @ 50% , I don't really use hardcore browser when using it , just to find something then read that for 5/10 mins and so on.
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ahh that is where we differ, that makes up the majority of my usage!
That would explain a lot then, my browser is up around 50-60%
Well if we turn of all the features, then our smartphone turns in to a dumbphone again. There is no point in that, it costs a fortune so I wont reduce it to a medioker phone.
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Will this work on TrickDroid too?
jaypeg123 said:
Well if we turn of all the features, then our smartphone turns in to a dumbphone again. There is no point in that, it costs a fortune so I wont reduce it to a medioker phone.
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+1
OP i think you should concider the phone i linked. I think it will solve all you battery issues and since you have disabled all the other feature this phone fits you needs exactly. so you are actually using the same features which you want and you dont even have to disable anything elc!
https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=...=jNrzOckWIKr2Mr8aPW4JdQ&bvm=bv.53760139,d.dmg
and i forgot to add one more thing, You can get a Good deal too if you opt for this phone.
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I'd say 30 mins a day , few days ago used it for about 1:30 anyway ended up with around 4hrs @ 50% , I don't really use hardcore browser when using it , just to find something then read that for 5/10 mins and so on.
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Shan it's me again! With regards to being held awake, I'm currently on 15 hours off charge, 60% charge with 2 hours screen on which is quite good for me. My help awake says 45 minutes though, is this bad? Google services has 223 next to it. I've turned off maps locations, contact sync, app store update etc. I only have calender and app data syncing, should I turn off auto back up?
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ahh that is where we differ, that makes up the majority of my usage!
That would explain a lot then, my browser is up around 50-60%
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Ahh that could be it , but then again I use viber / fb chat and sms chat a lot if you're not on those then I have higher overall app usage ...unless browser uses more then it should ...but I didn't notice that , do you happen to use adblocker ? Cuz I do that might be the case as well.
Btw could you post some screenshots of your battery , preferably with screen screenshot from gsam , and app usage plz.
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Shan it's me again! With regards to being held awake, I'm currently on 15 hours off charge, 60% charge with 2 hours screen on which is quite good for me. My help awake says 45 minutes though, is this bad? Google services has 223 next to it. I've turned off maps locations, contact sync, app store update etc. I only have calender and app data syncing, should I turn off auto back up?
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I didn't turn off anything except " Google location search " all the syncs are up and running , although I unchecked " backup phone daily " from playstore when setting up phone , as for maps those can be a big time drainer if you don't have them hibernated via greenify ?
As for 45 mins awake in 15 hrs isn't "that" bad , it should be 20 at most but still pretty good , most of the ppl have literally 2+ hrs of wakelocks , lol once I had in 13 hrs on battery 12:40 of wakelocks haha , tho I did end up with 5+ hrs screen time.
Anyway I don't get how do you guys manage to spend 40% of battery to gain only 2 hrs screen time unless you're on 100% brightness or gaming for 30+ a8 for example , anyway could you type me your average daily usage.
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So i'll cut to the chase, Battery has been ok with stock rom, after freezing the **** out of some apps, BUT, with VillainRom the phone is working perfect + battery life is amazing.
What is amazing?
53 Hours and 30 minutes since full charge.
I did charge it in the car for very short periods while using GPS and screen on full brightness.
How was the phone configured?
- Wifi/3G Data on at all times
- Push GMAIL and What'sapp
- Screen Brightness on full and the "Adjust screen power" option ticket off.
- Lookout installed and running in background.
- Bluetooth always on, not always connected though.
- 3 Hours of display usage
- 1.5 Hours of calls
- Some gaming, browsing etc.
Don't believe me?
Here are screenshots!
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Thats really good but i couldn't get anywhere near that, not even without using the phone. I average no more than 10 hours.
Well done mate i wish i could manage it myself.
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Screen Brightness on full and the "Adjust screen power" option ticket off.
- Lookout installed and running in background.
- Bluetooth always on, not always connected though.
- 3 Hours of display usage
- 1.5 Hours of calls
- Some gaming, browsing etc.
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Screen brightness full???no way..in ur dreams boy..
only 3 hours you used ur phone out of 53??well that says it..in sleep all the time..
and the "ups" in ur screenshot show charging..
anyways let it sleep in peace..
I'm addicted to gaming on this thing, unfortunately that chews through the battery
so many "charging" peaks lol
isnt that the guy who posted the same thing 1 day ago ? XD
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so many "charging" peaks lol
isnt that the guy who posted the same thing 1 day ago ? XD
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This one?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1142540
Anyway still don't understand what's good about this battery stats ...
@sumeshd,
You know, I don't get money from Samsung or anyone else for posting this? Why would I lie? Anyway, believe what you what, I really don't care that much.
I'll just say again, brightness is @ FULL.
3 Hours, is not ONLY, that's my usage, and you don't have to like it or not.
@bilboa1,
If I wanted, I can charge the phone almost 24/7 I got a charger my car, at home, at work, and even a portable solar one.
The charging peaks you see are mainly USB file transfers for a few minutes, and the long ones are around 30 minutes while driving with GPS + Screen at full brightness.
So the consumption on those moments is rather high, which means the battery isn't charging all that much.
@Mittaa,
You take a 4.3" Smartphone that does everything, and get 53 hours out of it, it's not enough??
if the little charging peaks were not there i'd still get around 46 hours from the phone, is that not enough???
Anyway the information I posted was to help people who are trying to choose a ROM, chose this one, or other people who are having battery problems have a reference.
eitama dont bother posting let this thread die please .
Two reasons one you will find certain users insist you have poor gps yellow screen bad battery life etc . Not worth bothering with if you are happy with your phone .
Reason two is a bit selfish as posting VR great battery life means we are going to get hundreds of numptys posting in VR rom thread who wont read and cannot follow instructions .
jje
JJEgan said:
eitama dont bother posting let this thread die please .
Two reasons one you will find certain users insist you have poor gps yellow screen bad battery life etc . Not worth bothering with if you are happy with your phone .
Reason two is a bit selfish as posting VR great battery life means we are going to get hundreds of numptys posting in VR rom thread who wont read and cannot follow instructions .
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I hear ya buddy, but if iv'e helped even 5 people choose Villain and get good results, then I've done my job
I'm tempted to swap over
Having a superb battery life with VR 1.4...just over 10 hours with more than 6 hours screen on time..in a crappy signal area..this is a 100% increase compared to my desire HD with same pattern of usage..
Brightness in auto/ gps when needed/ bluetooth when needed/ wifi when needed/ auto sync & bckgnd sync enable..
Heavy use includes
Whatsapp
Instant messaging
Ebook reading
Music
Browsing
Gmail push email
And some phone calls texting etc etc..
Seriously im loving this phone
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iznee said:
Having a superb battery life with VR 1.4...just over 10 hours with more than 6 hours screen on time..in a crappy signal area..this is a 100% increase compared to my desire HD with same pattern of usage..
Brightness in auto/ gps when needed/ bluetooth when needed/ wifi when needed/ auto sync & bckgnd sync enable..
Heavy use includes
Whatsapp
Instant messaging
Ebook reading
Music
Browsing
Gmail push email
And some phone calls texting etc etc..
Seriously im loving this phone
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Nice to hear that your happy with your phone ... i'm happy too
I also understand that this is way better than your old desire HD (same for me moving from my old HTC Touch HD)
But I can't understand what this have to do with "whatever Vanilla Rom" ...
Lots of people can get this kind of battery live using stock unmodified, non rooted SGS2!
It could be very usefull if someone made a exact compare between two SGS2 running different ROMs.
First same configuration (screen brightness, auto update, widgets etc) then full charge.
Then 15 min GPS (same route), 15 min browsing WIFI (same websites), 15 min gaming (same game), 15 min talking (same person (sorry bad joke)).
Al together 1 hour of heavy identical usage.
Finally screenshots of battery stats and post here on XDA so we all can clap our hands for the best bettery saving ROM of the week
Well I tried to drain the battery on vr playing games etc to calibrate, and struggled, like noonski did.
I could drain stock rom with ease, but can't do it nearly as easily on vr.
The general consensus from reliable members like nobnut and jje seems to concur with it being better
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well as I said I have tried all the roms..
I have tried vr4..for many days..it gave me 9+ hrs..
good u r supporting vr but not good that u r filling threads with "anything"
this is my battery with batista70 rom..and I m happiest with it..
PS: note the screen wake time bfor commenting..(its awake most of the time bcoz my heavy txting and use)..
and I am on 3g/h network with data active all the time..
this is the best I could get till now(with my usage)
no hard feelings..
People seem to be getting time between charges that vary wildly, but for me the biggest indication of battery life is obviously 'display on' time, and this seems to be roughly the same for the vast majority. Best I've seen so far is 4 hours, and that was mainly 3G/HSPDA browsing. My most recent however was slightly over 2 hours with VR 1.4, and again that was mainly browsing with data.
So while a screenie showing over 2 days may look impressive, it's how much actual use the user got that's important. The post above that showed over 6 hours was certainly impressive, but how much 3G browsing was done? How many 3D games played? GPS? etc etc
<shamed> - sorry for long post!!!
@ OP - you had a few minutes under 3hrs of charging. That is in excess of a full charge of the battery! And a total screen of a a few hours.. Nothing impressive at all. Saying you had on GPS and screen on full brightness negates the charging is just silly. It is usage, and usage is what we're interested in.
@ mittaa + Zedwings: Completely agree with both. Even display on (IMO the most accurate comparison) is a long way from the full truth for comparison in testing and a very fixed test environment would be needed to test a pattern of usage. I started to think about this like mitaa suggests (and when you do, you realise it is virtually impossible to co-ordinate without resetting back to factory) and there are still variables.
And anyway, it's kind of irrelevant at that point. You wouldn't consider doing it unless you're battery life is not meeting your hopes or needs. but your usage is your usage and you'll be happy or not.
Unless you are prepared to compromise on screen time, game playing, widgets, sync settings, live wallpaper etc, then what does it matter? You must find the balance between battery life and customisation that YOU can live with.
Personally, I do this by running my phone in 'full fat' mode. All radios on (this inc. GPS), synch on full, screen set to about 75% (no auto), the widgets I want, high spec live wallpaper (like Galaxies!) that make my £500 phone look like a £500 phone. I settle into my daily usage pattern, charging whenever I need to charge. This is why I bought my phone, not to immediately turn everything off and play the 'longest, littlest' game!
After about two weeks and this has settled into a fairly regular pattern, I start to switch off the things that mean least to me, one by one, day by day until after a numbers of days I find the balance that I can live with.
Personally I start with turning into perm 2G mode as I have wi-fi almost everywhere I go and I live in an area where 2G and 3G is on the cusp. This is extremely draining to batteries (I deal with none phone GSM equipment every day where battery life is key) and I know signal stregnth on the band you're using, constantly cylcing between band (and the variance in antenna power) is the single biggest thing to affect battery life asside from screen. It may not reflect this in stats, but trust me on this... If I lived and worked in a strong signal area, it would drop a few places down the list, extra call quality is nice as well as data.
For those of you living and working in London for example, but mostly out and away from Wi-fi, then consider leaving 3G on, and turning Wi-fi off.
Wi-fi scanning for networks constantly is another big drain.I have noticed this about Android, it allows you background apps to work leaner than the iPhone in power consumption when you have lots of widgets and synch etc. However the iPhone actually uses GSM to perform background tasks when the phone is off (shutting down wi-fi radio which reconnects as soon as you unlock the screen). This means that if you're out and away from a friendly hotspot all day, battery is less affected than an android.
Anyway, sorry for the long post, but hope you all have luck in finding your 'sweet spot' in usage / customisation.
Peter
ZedWings said:
People seem to be getting time between charges that vary wildly, but for me the biggest indication of battery life is obviously 'display on' time, and this seems to be roughly the same for the vast majority. Best I've seen so far is 4 hours, and that was mainly 3G/HSPDA browsing. My most recent however was slightly over 2 hours with VR 1.4, and again that was mainly browsing with data.
So while a screenie showing over 2 days may look impressive, it's how much actual use the user got that's important. The post above that showed over 6 hours was certainly impressive, but how much 3G browsing was done? How many 3D games played? GPS? etc etc
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the 3g data was on all the time and I browsed xda or dolphin or market etc..overall aprox 3 hrs of browsing out of 15..and more than 4 hrs screen was on..in auto brightness..(I wont fool any1 saying full brightness )wifi tether was done for 20 mins or so..and 2 hrs of phone calls and msging like crazzzzyyyy..hence 15+hrs battery..and I m v happy..thnx to snakes for batista70 rom
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the 3g data was on all the time and I browsed xda or dolphin or market etc..overall aprox 3 hrs of browsing out of 15..and more than 4 hrs screen was on..in auto brightness..(I wont fool any1 saying full brightness )wifi tether was done for 20 mins or so..and 2 hrs of phone calls and msging like crazzzzyyyy..hence 15+hrs battery..and I m v happy..thnx to snakes for batista70 rom
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Well, that's good. Recently I got a total of 16 hours including 57minutes screen on time.
3h screen time on is nothing, on 2-3 days it's called very light usage.
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I got 56 minutes screen on time from my last full charge. Using VR 1.4.
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Hi guys,
After buying s2 i was worried about battery life. Because first two days it was like 12-14 hours of medium use.
But now its marathon :d
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Last image is usage of previous charge.
I was a die hard fan of lg phones from optimus one to optimus black but i am happy now that i switched to s2
Cheers guys and please show your records as well.
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I thought i was getting good battery life with medium to heavy usage (27 hours) on Cognition 1.15 but that is exceptional, can you tell me your set up as to how you achieved this amount of battery life.
cheers
Tegrak's kernel and underclocked.
Frozen samsung apps. and brightness mostly 0% as i am fairly fine with the lowest brightness it doesn't hurt my eyes.
also one more thing, i am using overclocking upto 1300 as well and you will be surprised most people will tell you to go underclock to save battery but i didn't and i am just happy with 1.3 Ghz blazing speed.
Here's a shot of running.
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Also i used camera for recording movie for about 50 minutes in 720P and 50+ photographs as well which is not mentioned in the above post. I will post once again when my battery will reach 1% because when its below 10% it drops really slow and allows me to use it more unlike when its full.
Sit it on a desk and stare at it. The average screen on time is 5 hrs. You can use that in a day or spread it across 3 days.
jonny68 said:
I thought i was getting good battery life with medium to heavy usage (27 hours) on Cognition 1.15 but that is exceptional, can you tell me your set up as to how you achieved this amount of battery life.
cheers
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One more thing, i only recharge battery when its below 5% or mostly under 2% to full turning it off. And ofcourse this only first week of using the phone, hope it will increase a bit more by next week.
[Note: I personally believe plugging in and out of charger makes the phone battery drop faster]
chaplu said:
Tegrak's kernel and underclocked.
Frozen samsung apps. and brightness mostly 0% as i am fairly fine with the lowest brightness it doesn't hurt my eyes.
also one more thing, i am using overclocking upto 1300 as well and you will be surprised most people will tell you to go underclock to save battery but i didn't and i am just happy with 1.3 Ghz blazing speed.
Here's a shot of running.
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Also i used camera for recording movie for about 50 minutes in 720P and 50+ photographs as well which is not mentioned in the above post. I will post once again when my battery will reach 1% because when its below 10% it drops really slow and allows me to use it more unlike when its full.
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You should blur out your IMEI number from the screenshot buddy.
What ROM are you using?
I usually have brightness set to auto, same as you all Samsung apps frozen, am not using Tegrak i don't believe it's compatible with Cognition ROM, are you using Juice Defender Ultimate or other apps,etc,etc, im on setcpu im 200 min - 800 max - on demand and screen off profile - 200 min - 500 max - consertivave - priority 100.
Seriously impressive all the same..
jonny68 said:
What ROM are you using?
I usually have brightness set to auto, same as you all Samsung apps frozen, am not using Tegrak i don't believe it's compatible with Cognition ROM, are you using Juice Defender Ultimate or other apps,etc,etc, im on setcpu im 200 min - 800 max - on demand and screen off profile - 200 min - 500 max - consertivave - priority 100.
Seriously impressive all the same..
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I am using stock KF3 rooted nothing else i am using except described in previous post.
Cheers.
That is the best battery life ive ever seen on XDA for any type of smartphone never mind one like the GS2, did you use the Internet/Wi-Fi/GPS/Bluetooth,etc, much,do you have any widgets on your screen, push e-mail,etc, im amazed your getting that amount of time without using Juice defender or some other similar app.
jonny68 said:
That is the best battery life ive ever seen on XDA for any type of smartphone never mind one like the GS2, did you use the Internet/Wi-Fi/GPS/Bluetooth,etc, much,do you have any widgets on your screen, push e-mail,etc, im amazed your getting that amount of time without using Juice defender or some other similar app.
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Bluetooth yes for 10 minutes transfering some files.
Gps yes for around 1 hour (you can see that in pics atleast it shows usage for ndrive there)
wifi yes around 1 hour but its always on mostly (mostly used for market to download and test applications, gmailing and also some browsing)
3g or edge no i didn't use it.
Games yes i played like drag race etc.
widget yes, battery widget and the running app widget and live wallpapers.
Mine, I think there's a little (big) problem :
Considering the first 8 hours were during the night so I didn't touch my phone :
Running on VR2.1, many things push or so (like 15/30mins refresh) [mails, fb, twitter, news, weather, etc], and good modem (KG2) and CF-Root 4.1.
Any idea/advice please ?
A better rom maybe ?
Thanks in avance
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You should blur out your IMEI number from the screenshot buddy.
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For those of us n00bs here, what or where is the IMEI number?
Also just to clarify, this is a unique number for each phone, yes?
intruda119 said:
Sit it on a desk and stare at it. The average screen on time is 5 hrs. You can use that in a day or spread it across 3 days.
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Nuff said.
@OP- What's that Widget is (temp, voltage of battery)? Forgot the name!
Regards.
intruda119 said:
Sit it on a desk and stare at it. The average screen on time is 5 hrs. You can use that in a day or spread it across 3 days.
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+1
The real secret to great battery life is to disable all the data connections and not use the phone. Since most people are pretty active with their phones, threads about stand-by time are pretty meaningless. Actually, with over a dozen battery life threads already running, you could say new battery life thread are pretty meaningless too.
diby_2000 said:
For those of us n00bs here, what or where is the IMEI number?
Also just to clarify, this is a unique number for each phone, yes?
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Individual to eachphone usedto identify phone on network.Blocked block after theft .Illegal to change. jje
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Ok thats along the lines of what I thought it was. Thanks.
Didn't know it was possible to change it, illigal. Huh
But can some one tell me where it is shown so I can block it if I ever post some screen shots?
I'm on stock K2-CL. I used 3G just a bit today while in a restaurant, wifi is always on, but I normally sit in front of the computer most of the day, or use my tablet at home, so I do very light surfing - mostly while on the can.
I've not installed "app freezers", nor underclocked the processor, nor rooted or removed anything that isn't stock android. Not stopping tasks in the task manager. In the screenshot below, I did play around a bit on Google Earth for 15 min or so, I'm surprised not to see the android market in there because I feel that's what I used most. I use a live wallpaper that's fairly bright (moving clouds).
Brightness on auto - automatic gmail notifications, contact syncs etc.
I'm going to go on a big trip next week, where electricity will sometimes be optional. I do have that Samsung battery case thinggie coming the mail next week - and already have an external battery as well for emergencies, because this phone will die in an hour or two using the gps, or playing games, or doing serious web surfing - or a combination of those things. It runs very hot too if you use it constantly several hours (drove 500 kilometers last week, the phone was very very hot - seemed unhealthy).
If you hold the power button along with the home button it takes a screen shot.
Thought id say to make it easier for ya in future!
thanks a millions
Don't mind the n00b Here.
Found the IMEI number in the status tab of about phone.
Goto remember to keep this out of public photos.
Hey there Guys,
I have been here for quite a while,
But never really signed up, I went up the ranks from having a Galaxy Ace, to an S1 and now i got a lovely S2, I have switched from SOOO MANY different Roms its ridiculous lol ^_^... I think im addicted!
Anyway,
The purpose of this thread and i hope it kicks off, Is for us to post our stats with how much battery life , Display screen time etc etc, we are getting out of our current set ups, Which i think will be helpful for all so we can "Roughly" estimate and compare between ourselves, and to help those looking for a better alternative..
Please Follow The Template Guideline below
TEMPLATE:
Rom: Hyperdroid 6.1.17
Keneral: phenomenal 4.0 Extreme
Governor: Conservative
I/O Sched: n00p
Voltage Settings: N/A (phenomenal already has changed the voltage setting, they cant be altered)
GPU Settings: N/A
Time Since Charge: 1d 9hrs
Display Screen Time: 3hrs 30 Mins
Battery Life Remaining: 28%
Brightness Setting: Lowest
Call Time: 5 Mins
SMS Messages Sent: 80 - 90
WiFi: Did Not Use
2G/3G: 2g left on all the time
Extra Additional Information:
Used music for 4 hours
Feel Free to post any related pics also!
Take care guys!
My battery lasts 3 days, with no problems at all!
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it would probably be more relevant if you post a graph without charging the phone
btw, it's an interesting thread to help choose a battery efficient rom, and to see if anybody really can get a 5 h screen on time with a single charge (like i've read around here), I only get 3,5-4 hours, I'll post my stats later
cipry189 said:
it would probably be more relevant if you post a graph without charging the phone
btw, it's an interesting thread to help choose a battery efficient rom, and to see if anybody really can get a 5 h screen on time with a single charge (like i've read around here), I only get 3,5-4 hours, I'll post my stats later
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The screen time highly depends on what you're doing with the phone. If you play somewhat heavy games, you won't get the 5 hours.
But if you mostly use it for light stuff, those 5 are generally easy to get. And even 6 or 7.
So in other words, this thread is simply a big fap fest/look at my e-peen hoedown ?
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So in other words, this thread is simply a big fap fest/look at my e-peen hoedown ?
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Ummm Not really Mate,
And well i was in a bit of a rush when i made it...
But of course there are MANY factors that can determine the battery life,
But there is also no harm in us showing what we are getting with our current setups? Im not saying we are going to get 3 days if we play like 4 hours of a game on our phone..
But for some "General Users" this may prove quite useful?
I for one am interested in the post above, Saying that he is getting 3 days, I would love to know his setup , then i can try it out and see if it works better for me?
Thats the only aim of this thread...
So i would appreciate if you didnt use such remarks mate ^_^
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My battery lasts 3 days, with no problems at all!
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Mate,
What setup you using?
I would appreciate if you shared you setup and experiences with how much your using the phone? So we can get a better idea bro?
Thanks ^_^
cipry189 said:
it would probably be more relevant if you post a graph without charging the phone
btw, it's an interesting thread to help choose a battery efficient rom, and to see if anybody really can get a 5 h screen on time with a single charge (like i've read around here), I only get 3,5-4 hours, I'll post my stats later
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Exactly,
I know there are alot of factors with what determines the screen time,
But there is no harm in us discussing what we are getting with our current set-ups and how much use we do with our phones..
Using Checkrom Revolution v4 and neak 1.3.3 kernel
With stock battery
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are you kidding me, 7 h and 44 mins , I get almost 4 hours screen, only by doing moderate stuff, (browsing, a few calls, some music, I'll post graphs later when the battery discharges), I'm on cm9, but it was the same before with stock roms, think i'm going to get Checkrom a try, only to see if it can reach that kind of performance
cipry189 said:
are you kidding me, 7 h and 44 mins , I get almost 4 hours screen, only by doing moderate stuff, (browsing, a few calls, some music, I'll post graphs later when the battery discharges), I'm on cm9, but it was the same before with stock roms, think i'm going to get Checkrom a try, only to see if it can reach that kind of performance
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LOL I've seen someone hit 8 hours screen on with Hyperdroid. I'd have to underclock to about 500mhz and have screen brightness on the lowest setting whilst looping a blank video to hit that lmao
Sorry. I'll leave you to fap off over battery life & show each other your e-peens in peace.
TaoNinja said:
Ummm Not really Mate,
And well i was in a bit of a rush when i made it...
But of course there are MANY factors that can determine the battery life,
But there is also no harm in us showing what we are getting with our current setups? Im not saying we are going to get 3 days if we play like 4 hours of a game on our phone..
But for some "General Users" this may prove quite useful?
I for one am interested in the post above, Saying that he is getting 3 days, I would love to know his setup , then i can try it out and see if it works better for me?
Thats the only aim of this thread...
So i would appreciate if you didnt use such remarks mate ^_^
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Sorry. I'll leave you to fap off over battery life & show each other your e-peens in peace.
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No need to say sorry ,
Its a free world and we can say what we want
So please feel free to wonder off..
But phew 7hrs On screen with Check Rom + Neak,
What were you doing when the screen was on most of the time ?
I just reflased Neak with my Hyperdroid rom,
Going to check it out...
Please be a bit more descriptive guys with what you did that day,
SMS Messages sent,
Music listened too etc etc..
Thanks people!
TaoNinja said:
No need to say sorry ,
Its a free world and we can say what we want
So please feel free to wonder off..
But phew 7hrs On screen with Check Rom + Neak,
What were you doing when the screen was on most of the time ?
I just reflased Neak with my Hyperdroid rom,
Going to check it out...
Please be a bit more descriptive guys with what you did that day,
SMS Messages sent,
Music listened too etc etc..
Thanks people!
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Mostly browsing the internet..xda..videos on youtube..whatsapp..email..calling..and some games
Im using a mostly black wallpaper..no widgets and brightness on around 30% with sync on all the time.
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These are the results I got today. It's not the best but pretty good.
Info:
• Foxhound 3.0 (KL1)
• Siyah Kernel 2.6.7
• 2000 mAh battery
• All day connected to wifi, 15 minutes max to 3G/H+
• Activities on phone: lots of whatsapp, viber calls, Internet browsing, played a few games for a few minutes (fruit ninja for example), etc
Result as in screenshots: 6 hours of screen time and over 13 hours of standby time.
well here are my stats, not very good from what i see
-the latest build of cm9
-2:36 h of screen on but 31% still left
-about 30 mins of calls, some sms, connected to a 3g network but data on only for about 10 mins and wi fi for about 3 hours
-an hour of music
-about 20 mins of games (apparatus )
I think that I'll flash Check Rom + Neak tonight to see how it goes, tomorrow the 2000 mAh battery will arrive so the next post will be with the new battery
Nice seems like we are getting some good feedback at the moment ^_^,
If we get more and more posts,
I will make some sort of Template Guideline i guess that everyone should follow when they make their Posts...
Im tempted to get a 2000mah battery it seems like a couple of people have upgraded to that, I think i will wait for a bit more feedback from others,
Still currently testing my Hyperdroid + Neak 1.3.3 at the moment,
Will see what i get out from it..
Dude this type of thread has been done to death... more than a few times already .
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Criskelo ROM 2.6.6 v34 ...Kernel XWKK5
2d 8h 50m on batery and stil 35% battery
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kova05 said:
Criskelo ROM 2.6.6 v34 ...Kernel XWKK5
2d 8h 50m on batery and stil 35% battery
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How much screen time? I could get those results too if I barely use my screen and a 3G/wifi connection... can't really see your picture, its very small lol
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TaoNinja said:
Nice seems like we are getting some good feedback at the moment ^_^,
If we get more and more posts,
I will make some sort of Template Guideline i guess that everyone should follow when they make their Posts...
Im tempted to get a 2000mah battery it seems like a couple of people have upgraded to that, I think i will wait for a bit more feedback from others,
Still currently testing my Hyperdroid + Neak 1.3.3 at the moment,
Will see what i get out from it..
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The 2000 mAh extanded battery is very nice. It adds about 20-35% battery life. What I also like is the new back cover that comes with it. The back becomes "flush" with that hump at the bottom of the phone. Also, the phone becomes more rounded. It sits better in your hand imo.
Ok firstly, just to make it clear I know everyone has their own way in which they use their phone so you may not get a lot of battery life out of your phone. However I have achieved 7 hours screen on time for the past 2 days while actually using the phone how I normally would!
I know there are already 2 threads about battery life, I decided to create this thread so that everyone who is doubting me and everyone who wants to know how I did it or what I do with the phone can look here for all the answers. I have found myself repeating posts over and over again.
I have had my phone for more than a week now so its gone through its fair share of charge cycles now so make your judgement about battery after the first week or so.
OK here are my screenshots for the first day I got 7 hours screen on time!
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Here I will tell you what I did on that day, all the settings etc etc:
[] I browsed facebook, twitter, instagram and the web.
[] A couple hundred messages sent on facebook, whatsapp and through the text messaging app.
[] Took some pictures and posted them on instagram, also took a couple zoes
[] Wacthed quite a lot of youtube videos
[] Downloaded many apps
[] Had a couple attempts on temple run 2, real racing 3, vector and logo quiz
[] Used the remote through the ir blaster
[] Used zedge to go through many different notification sounds to download the best ones
[] Made a couple phone calls
[] Spent insane amount of time on xda premium app xD
[] Turned on auto sync for 10 minutes every couple of hours, turned it off once everything synced (two gmail accounts, email, facebook, twitter, weather, dropbox, google and whatsapp)
[] Used 3g for 2-3 minutes, most of the day on wifi
[] Most of the day was on 3 bars of signal or more
[] Lowest brightness for most of the day, set to 15% while showing someone pictures for about 20 minutes
[] POWER SAVER MODE TURNED ON AT 30%
Bluetooth OFF, gps OFF, nfc OFF, airplanemode OFF, blinkfeed OFF, google now OFF
Here are my screenshots for the seccond day I got 7 hours screen on time!
Here I will tell you what I did on that day, all the settings etc etc:
Pretty much same usage as above, however....
[] I did have a sports notifications app running in the background during the last 10% of the phones battery. This app was sending me notifications in real time about football matches going on.
[] I turned power saver mode on at 20%
NOTE: THE 9-10 HOUR GAP IN THE SECOND SCREEN IS WHEN I WAS SLEEPING AND THE PHONE WAS IN AIRPLANE MODE! THE PHONE DRAINED 3% BATTERY IN THESE 10 HOURS.
Here are my screenshots for my 3rd day (where I almost got 7 hours again, I'll explain below why I didnt make it this time)
As you can see on my 3rd day I got 6hrs 30 mins screen on time which is still insane!! But my usage was slightly different.
[] I spent half the day on 3g and the other half on wifi
[] I was in an area with 2-3 bars of signal most of the time
[] I watched more youtube videos than the other two days
[] Also downloaded and tried out many different games (A LOT)
Thats all I did different and I still almost managed the 7 hours! Just half an hour shy
Extra things that you should know about
1) As you can see from my screenshots for both days my device hasn't stayed awake (due to wake locks etc) for long, less than 30 mins. Some people know that I was having battery drain issues from 'mediaserver wakelock'. At one point I had 900 wakelocks even though I didn't play any media :/ this thread solved the issue for me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1717237
I downloaded the tool which scanned my music folder and identified me about my corrupt mp3 files which I then deleted. Basically, after listening to music with these corrupt mp3 files in my library, the mediaserver would go in a loop causing the device to stay awake and have many wakelocks. After deleting these mp3s, mediaserver is always near the bottom on the app sucker page in GSAM battery monitor app
2) Funnily enough, as soon as I decide to turn off blinkfeed... I get 7 hours screen on time XD so blinkfeed must be a battery drainer. I'm going to set up blinkfeed again soon to see if my results change and if my battery life is affected by it. (Just setup blinkfeed and seeing if it actually affects the battery life I'm getting, CHECK HERE SOON FOR UPDATE ON THIS)
To disable blinkfeed, just go into topics and services and just de select everything. Then just set the normal screen to the right as your default home screen.
3) The phone comes preloaded with some apps that you may not use. I found that some of these apps were always running in the background even when I'm not using them. You can't uninstall them which is annoying but you can disable them if you want. Just go into settings/apps/all then just click on the app you want to disable (YOU CANT DISABLE HTC APPS) then just click disable. I did this with the play books, magazines, 7 digital, sound hound and a couple others I never use.
4) Disable Google now. If you like Google now, like the functionality of it and use it regularly then you don't have to do this. However, from personal experience and testing, I have found that my battery life increases a lot if I have Google now disabled. Google now is definitely a great app, if only they figure out a way to drain less of my battery then I'll enable it again.
5) You will find this in most places telling you about battery life but.... Turn off things you don't need or aren't using. When your done with Wifi, switch it off. When your done with mobile data, switch it off. Bluetooth, GPS etc etc. This will save your battery, if you have everything turned on for no reason then don't complain about bad battery life.
THIS IS ALL DONE WITHOUT USING ANY APPS TO SAVE BATTERY LIFE. SO NO JUICE DEFENDER OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT
[more coming soon].............
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In as it amazes me the life you get.
Starting to shut down things I don't use anymore. I always forget to shut down wifi when away from it, that and Bluetooth.
Good luck
Sent from a galaxy far away!
JesseMT4G said:
In as it amazes me the life you get.
Starting to shut down things I don't use anymore. I always forget to shut down wifi when away from it, that and Bluetooth.
Good luck
Sent from a galaxy far away!
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Trust me, read through my updated posts above and maybe you can get this battery life. Yup shutting down things is a good start
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If you're rooted, freezing or removing the bloat also helps
This is amazing. I can't wait for the One to arrive in Canada. The waiting is dreadful. I can barely get 4 hours on my one x.
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It better have a good battery life consider the non removable battery...
Yes!! I'm gonna love my one when I get it
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I'm really looking forward to the test with blinkfeed on.
Maybe you could also do blinkfeed and google now on ? That way we can see the real impact of these apps.
Google now is pretty amazing, would hate to dissable it.
wow, now just imagine the SoT you could get with a custom Rom/kernel. I wouldn't be surprised for average users (ie. people who don't cripple their phone in exchange for battery life) to hit 8-9 hours.
There's no secret to how this person got 7 hours of screen on. Just look at his wakelocks. Only 10-40 minutes over a whole day.
Hunt3r.j2 said:
There's no secret to how this person got 7 hours of screen on. Just look at his wakelocks. Only 10-40 minutes over a whole day.
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Yes I minimised my wakelocks, I had my phone on a lot more than 10-40mins, I think you should read everything thoroughly
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Will.1 said:
I'm really looking forward to the test with blinkfeed on.
Maybe you could also do blinkfeed and google now on ? That way we can see the real impact of these apps.
Google now is pretty amazing, would hate to dissable it.
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I've been testing it with blinkfeed on, Google now on and on mobile data throughout most of the day for a while. I've had the phone for more than a month now so I've had many different scenarios with the phone already. I can tell you that the battery life does suffer a bit if you have blinkfeed and Google now turned on. Also obviously if your on mobile data for most of the day you will get worse battery life as apposed to Wifi. Signal strength is another factor, weak signal is more drain. I get over 5 hours screen on time easily most days on really heavy use. On medium use 7 hours for me, would be awesome with custom kernels, underclocking etc. I'm on stock at the moment
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yvibes said:
I've been testing it with blinkfeed on, Google now on and on mobile data throughout most of the day for a while. I've had the phone for more than a month now so I've had many different scenarios with the phone already. I can tell you that the battery life does suffer a bit if you have blinkfeed and Google now turned on. Also obviously if your on mobile data for most of the day you will get worse battery life as apposed to Wifi. Signal strength is another factor, weak signal is more drain. I get over 5 hours screen on time easily most days on really heavy use. On medium use 7 hours for me, would be awesome with custom kernels, underclocking etc. I'm on stock at the moment
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You were getting 5hours with blink feed and Google now???
Also sorry for changing subject, but you had it for a month already. Do you use case? If not, how is the phone handling scratches?
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Hmm. Interesting.
I get nowhere near 7 hours so I've turned blinkfeed off and will see how it goes. I do like Google now so that's stayiing
I get really fast drain as soon as I use chrome
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milestoneman said:
I get really fast drain as soon as I use chrome
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I experienced the exact same thing! The battery drain while using Chrome is VERY heavy! I compared it with the stock internet browser and 10 minutes using Chrome drains the same amount of battery as 36 minutes using stock browser!
Here is also the MP3 checker for windows and linux.
http://mp3.about.com/od/tutorials/ht/Check-MP3-Files-For-Errors.htm
ksarius said:
You were getting 5hours with blink feed and Google now???
Also sorry for changing subject, but you had it for a month already. Do you use case? If not, how is the phone handling scratches?
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Yes, with blinkfeed and google now I got 5 sometimes 6 hours of screen on time.
Nope no case at the moment, have been looking around for a while though, will be getting one soon. I've got one tinnyy scratch on the back, not really visible thanks to the silver. Can only be seen if you know about the scratch and look for it purposely under good lighting.
pikatchu said:
Here is also the MP3 checker for windows and linux.
http://mp3.about.com/od/tutorials/ht/Check-MP3-Files-For-Errors.htm
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Yes thanks for linking it, I forgot to link it. I used this to end my horrible battery drain caused by media server.
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Hunt3r.j2 said:
There's no secret to how this person got 7 hours of screen on. Just look at his wakelocks. Only 10-40 minutes over a whole day.
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Yes. I felt unbelievable when I saw almost no difference between awake time and screen on time.
Curious about how the OP can achieve it.
hung2900 said:
Yes. I felt unbelievable when I saw almost no difference between awake time and screen on time.
Curious about how the OP can achieve it.
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being on Wifi the whole time helps this a lot
This might be an ignorant post, not everyone is gonna have my usage patterns. I game, but this is more for people who use alot of social media, stream alot of videos, and browse alot of web. This isn't absolute, either. Tweak it, add your own flair to these settings and save even more power, or get a little more performance instead.
I was getting at most 3 hours of screen on time with the usage pattern detailed above, now I'm getting near 5 or more. My good friend gave me the base for these settings, and I adjusted as necessary.
The idea here is managing your processing power based on CPU load and getting back to idle frequency immediately after completing a task, beside lowering the frequency. I'm sorry in advance if this doesn't work for you, makes your device crash, or doesn't allow the performance you've come to expect from your Nexus. Backup beforehand, always.
OK, I'm running the Nexus6xshamu 2.2.0 rom and Franco r44 kernel with no other installed mods. I have a pebble time connected at all times and always have WiFi and cellular radios on, but not GPS. Grab kernel adiutor for this. I'll add links that explain these values and what adjustments will do which things for your device
First, you set maximum frequency to 1574mhz (I know it's low, this isn't a powerhouse group of settings) and your minimum frequency to 422mhz. Select the interactive governor and disable all input boost, period. (You can do that last if you want, to prevent any lag until you're done) Lower settings associated with input boost to 0. Disable sync threshold if it's not disabled already. Governor tune-ables are the most important part of this, but we'll come back to those.
Leave voltage and GPU settings at defaults, but you can tweak them too if it'll help your particular usage pattern. Under Screen settings, still in kernel Adiutor, aim for cooler colors, so you can have your brightness set a little lower and have it look pretty bright still. I keep mine at 70% or higher though. The "Franco" profile is a good place to start. I left I/O scheduler settings alone mostly, with a read ahead of 128kb. No special Wake settings either; that would drastically compromise standby time.
Do you like numbers? I've got a bunch of them here. These are the Interactive Governor Tuneables I use.
Above High-speed Delay: 39000
Align Windows: 1
Boost: 0
Boostpulse Duration: 80000
Go High-speed Load: 99
High-speed freq: 960000
IO is Busy: 0
Max Freq Hysteresis: 0
Min Sample Time: 30000
Target Loads: 64 422000:58 652000:12 729000:74 883000:8 960000:83 1036000:15 1190000:6 1267000:76 1497000:5 1574000:90
Timer Rate: 40000
Timer Slack:80000
OK, that was nuts right? Your device might be lagging a little, but that's OK in my opinion. What I did to help the occasional jitters was hop into Developer Settings and tick "Use GPU for 2d rendering" but I like to think a little lag is worth the battery life. Target loads basically tell the CPU "You can use any frequency less than xxxxxx until your load hits xx% then jump to xxxxxx frequency." If you like these settings but want a little more oomph at really high loads, then try adding 1728000:94 2265000:98 to the end of Target Loads and raise your max frequency to 2265mhz. You'll lose battery though, since the CPU voltage for these frequencies are alot higher.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3269557 There's some great info about this stuff in this thread if you wanna learn more about what you're doing here.
I'd like to add that I owe all of this info to my good pal (who owns a Nexus 5x) who taught me about governor tweaks. Also, please forgive me if:
This is stupid
This is common knowledge
I clearly don't know what I'm talking about
Or you inherently dislike me
Thank you for your time.
Here is a screen of battery life I get after watching YouTube for hours at 2k resolution, or at 1080p60 when available. Using the above settings of course.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Lastly, for real this is the last thing I have to say, I like to lower my resolution to 1080p sometimes to ease load on the GPU, which can reduce lag and save a little battery. Be careful about doing this, entering typos or weird values can make your life a living hell. How to do it is simple. Get a terminal emulator (I use termux) and enter these commands (don't enter stuff in parentheses)
su (to get root access)
wm size 1080x1920 (everything is going to look really bad after this, but the next command will fix it)
wm density 420
Remember to enter these commands one by one.
Then reboot, even if it immediately soft reboots. This will persist through reboots, but not ROM changes. To go back to normal, in case it breaks an app you like,enter these commands:
su
wm size reset
wm density reset
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Thanks for sharing. Going to have to try this out.
synisterwolf said:
Thanks for sharing. Going to have to try this out.
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Sweet, post back if it works out.
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nice one dude
I'm the one that's not going to be posting "nice".. instead, I'm going to post that I get from 5-6h sot every day doing nothing that you posted at all. I live in NYC, so my signal quality is amazing, and it doesn't lower my battery life, like most users. AND, I tend to keep my brightness lower than 10%, which also helps immensely.
Lowering the screen resolution will not save battery and if memory serves me correct, applications use 2d rendering by default.
A black theme would save more battery.
JonesL said:
Lowering the screen resolution will not save battery and if memory serves me correct, applications use 2d rendering by default.
A black theme would save more battery.
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your screen uses the most battery, period. lowering screen brightness will raise battery life. for every 35% that i personally raise the brightness by 35%, i lose one hour of sot.
JonesL said:
Lowering the screen resolution will not save battery and if memory serves me correct, applications use 2d rendering by default.
A black theme would save more battery.
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It's more to improve performance without doing anything that requires higher frequencies. While it does help battery, the help there is minimal at best.
Lowering your resolution does NOT turn off any pixels. All 4.5 million of those pixels that make up your screen are still firing. Your GPU doesn't have to work as hard though, same goes for your CPU when it's the one pushing those pixels around.
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simms22 said:
I'm the one that's not going to be posting "nice".. instead, I'm going to post that I get from 5-6h sot every day doing nothing that you posted at all. I live in NYC, so my signal quality is amazing, and it doesn't lower my battery life, like most users. AND, I tend to keep my brightness lower than 10%, which also helps immensely.
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You're clearly one of the lucky ones then. I'd kill for my Nexus to get that kind of SOT. And no doubt there are tons of people that DO get 5-6 hours, but there are also undeniably people who get only 2.5 to 3.5 at best. I was one of them, and this is what I had to do to fix it.
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simms22 said:
I'm the one that's not going to be posting "nice".. instead, I'm going to post that I get from 5-6h sot every day doing nothing that you posted at all. I live in NYC, so my signal quality is amazing, and it doesn't lower my battery life, like most users. AND, I tend to keep my brightness lower than 10%, which also helps immensely.
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In my experience every phone is different. Some people can get incredible battery by doing absolutely nothing and some struggle to hit 4 hours of sot. This is aimed towards those having problems, that need to tweak to get the most out of their phone. I know that is subjective and is based on usage patterns, signal strength and apps installed. This isn't for people getting 5-6 hours sot. So thank you OP for trying to help people get the most out of their batteries.
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prichm1992 said:
You're clearly one of the lucky ones then. I'd kill for my Nexus to get that kind of SOT. And no doubt there are tons of people that DO get 5-6 hours, but there are also undeniably people who get only 2.5 to 3.5 at best. I was one of them, and this is what I had to do to fix it.
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Now I already have 4h SOT at 65% remaining from battery.
And I am not living in NY
I'll post a screen shot when I will reach 2-3 %, when I will have probably over 7h SOT
JonesL said:
Lowering the screen resolution will not save battery and if memory serves me correct, applications use 2d rendering by default.
A black theme would save more battery.
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lol. just realized that you were talking about resolution yesterday, and me brightness.. sorry :angel:
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kdeuley said:
In my experience every phone is different. Some people can get incredible battery by doing absolutely nothing and some struggle to hit 4 hours of sot. This is aimed towards those having problems, that need to tweak to get the most out of their phone. I know that is subjective and is based on usage patterns, signal strength and apps installed. This isn't for people getting 5-6 hours sot. So thank you OP for trying to help people get the most out of their batteries.
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:good:
Uninstalling FB official app (indirectly) gives me 6-7 SOT, because that app is just a resource hog.
but its nice to see that others are experimenting to find the best for them and sharing their experience.
For me, i could care less about how long my phone last because i have chargers everywhere, work, car, home, and also a 13000 mhA battery pack in my back pack. so my device isnt customized at all besides default settings in PureNexus and Elite kernel. But to each their own.
synisterwolf said:
Uninstalling FB official app (indirectly) gives me 6-7 SOT, because that app is just a resource hog.
but its nice to see that others are experimenting to find the best for them and sharing their experience.
For me, i could care less about how long my phone last because i have chargers everywhere, work, car, home, and also a 13000 mhA battery pack in my back pack. so my device isnt customized at all besides default settings in PureNexus and Elite kernel. But to each their own.
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I did the same thing. The Facebook app was literally the source of 90% of all wakelocks. As soon as I started using the website in Chrome my standby time increased drastically and my phone started sleeping properly.
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As I'm always keeping my promises, please find attached my screen shots.
gothy.gothy said:
As I'm always keeping my promises, please find attached my screen shots.
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This is insane man.
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sandip_909 said:
This is insane man.
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no, it's REAL
As you saw, browsing, hangouts, mail and feedly. I don't use FB on mobile.
The gaps from WIFI were on my way back from/to home/work, when I had 4G mobile data active while browsing.
Will turning off notifications for the Facebook app help instead of uninstalling the app? I do not see Facebook consuming lot of better in the battery stats.
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wazza1991 said:
Will turning off notifications for the Facebook app help instead of uninstalling the app? I do not see Facebook consuming lot of better in the battery stats.
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Download wakelock detector from the play store. It will tell you what app is using the most battery while your phone is sleeping and exactly what service from the app is doing it. I bet it's Facebook or something that uses location services.
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gothy.gothy said:
As I'm always keeping my promises, please find attached my screen shots.
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That is seriously impressive. If you're using a custom kernel or any settings please share.
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kdeuley said:
That is seriously impressive. If you're using a custom kernel or any settings please share.
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Underclock, undervolt, greenify, amplify (see the guide of v7), ElementalX,
CPU MAX: 1497
Undervoltage (Global) by 20 mV
Hotplugging ------ Max Cores Online: 2, Cores online during suspend: 2, Run with all cores online = disabled
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Over the weekend I will try to reach more than 8h, maybe 9h SOT, knowing that Mobile Data consume more than WIFI and I won't use Mobile Data this weekend.
I'll post the screenshots if I succeed