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I am not responsible if you brick you're phone or blow it up/cause world war three. so don't tell me it's my fault because this should all be fine, just don't wanna get legals against me you know how it is
People seem to think that 1-5MA is fantastic but it's all about how long you spend on the phone, i mean if you have it on for 2 hours messing with it. listening to music, angry birds then internet, you are going to have bad battery life no matter what you do, smartphones aren't built for a hell of a long battery life.
First things first!
Battery stats, charge using current widget to 100% untill it shows 0MA usage keeping it plugged in goto root explorer or w.e you use that can Mount and enable write access to DATA/SYSTEM then delete the file BATTERYSTATS.bin then restart phone unplug and you are done.
Display the display is best set at Auto.
Vibration off, for max battery life.
as for the CPU just set the notifcations off and screen off to the lowest setting unless you have it doing ridiculous things it should be fine, if not set it one about that the lowest should be 245MHZ this will save power!
im more of a minimalistic kinda guy so i prefer to have stock apps and the apps i really need not like these iphone types who just want to show you how many apps they have on their phones.. so how many apps you use is upto you, but if you have quite a few download and install a cache cleaner, doesn't matter which one. all do the same (i think)
Other things to prolong battery life:
Turn the screen off when you're not using it!
Turn auto rotate off
Turn onto silent (not recommended if you have a life outside of XDA can cause problems with girlfriends and such)
Turn off things when not using them, this goes for all of the options, WIFI, GPS, Mobile data.
that should prolong battery life.
Hope i helped
what is your definition of pretty long battery life ? At the end of the day we all have to charge the phone.
2 days usually mate
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samuel2706 said:
2 days usually mate
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Not happening. I have a social life xD.
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monstermuffin20 said:
Not happening. I have a social life xD.
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My girlfriend calls me for about 30-1 hour a day, I listen about 2-3 hours to music a day, 10-20 minutes of games, 10-20 minutes internet, halfhour internet, sometimes halfhour MSN, mutch Ping/whatsapp/sms/facebook.
Still got about 2 days? Sometimes a little shorter sometimes a little longer :>
mesut19 said:
My girlfriend calls me for about 30-1 hour a day, I listen about 2-3 hours to music a day, 10-20 minutes of games, 10-20 minutes internet, halfhour internet, sometimes halfhour MSN, mutch Ping/whatsapp/sms/facebook.
Still got about 2 days? Sometimes a little shorter sometimes a little longer :>
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Then your phone is a miricale phone
monstermuffin20 said:
Then your phone is a miricale phone
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Yeah friend of mine said it to xD My screen brightness is 50% I don't have any complains about the battery ^^
I get about 6-8 hours on a work day from my phone when stock, 8-12 hours with current rom
1% every 1-2 minutes, on CM 6.1.3 ROM is that normal?
even after flashed new recomended radio
the Battery Drain fix makes my wifi can't find AP and the USB won't be detected, rebooted and still the same.
tried CM 7, stuck at boot loop, can't even enter the phone
I don't know about Cm 6 but I thought the fix was for cm 7 Only. The creator is a man named mad Murdoch ask him he will know more
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I notice that actually reception plays a big big part of battery life, which means this can vary from location to location, country to country, network to network.
If you are in an area (or even a particular room in your house) that constantly require power to hold onto weaker network signal, your battery will be drained a lot of faster obviously.
And to be honest, there isn't much we can do about it except using a known good radio.
my 2 cent.
Franklin
franklin20uk said:
I notice that actually reception plays a big big part of battery life, which means this can vary from location to location, country to country, network to network.
If you are in an area (or even a particular room in your house) that constantly require power to hold onto weaker network signal, your battery will be drained a lot of faster obviously.
And to be honest, there isn't much we can do about it except using a known good radio.
my 2 cent.
Franklin
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Cheers ill add that in to the first post later on today
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Hey guys,
I see some people here have AMAZING battery life. Some people are getting 4+ hours screen on time with a single charge.
I only get around 2 - 2.5 hours screen on time. Which is good, but not as good as other people.
I am using the latest Paranoid Android ROM, and I have tried many different kernels but battery life is the same with all of them. I tried undervolting, still the same battery life.
All location/gps settings are OFF. The only syncing I have is Facebook syncing every 4 hours. I checked the battery stats, and everything is normal. I checked Better Battery Stats and everything is normal too, no unusual wakelocks or anything like that.
I checked my cpu bin in terminal, and it has been binned as a 'FASTER' cpu.
I have very good signal all the time. Always use WiFi, never mobile data. Bluetooth, NFC are OFF, and brightness is autobrightness.
So after all this, why am I not getting amazing battery life like others?
Thank you!
harro3 said:
Hey guys,
I see some people here have AMAZING battery life. Some people are getting 4+ hours screen on time with a single charge.
I only get around 2 - 2.5 hours screen on time. Which is good, but not as good as other people.
I am using the latest Paranoid Android ROM, and I have tried many different kernels but battery life is the same with all of them. I tried undervolting, still the same battery life.
All location/gps settings are OFF. The only syncing I have is Facebook syncing every 4 hours. I checked the battery stats, and everything is normal. I checked Better Battery Stats and everything is normal too, no unusual wakelocks or anything like that.
I checked my cpu bin in terminal, and it has been binned as a 'FASTER' cpu.
I have very good signal all the time. Always use WiFi, never mobile data. Bluetooth, NFC are OFF, and brightness is autobrightness.
So after all this, why am I not getting amazing battery life like others?
Thank you!
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Because you use the phone and the others no! I have similar battery life. I get 3 hours screen on time.
Try cyanogenmod. For me is the best rom.
Heres a few things that help me:
make sure if your on a ROM that has it to disable cell broadcasts in wireless & network settings.
In Google sync settings, uncheck everything you don't use or can manually sync. The only things I leave checked are gmail, contacts & calendar.
If you've opened maps, make sure to back all the way out of it & swipe it away from your recent tasks screen. Better yet, if you don't need it, uninstall it or use an alternative like mapquest app.
If you don't use Google talk, open it and sign out or uninstall it.
Try not to overdo it with widgets on your home screens. I mean a few is cool, but when u have 5 screens all jam packed with various widgets constantly running & syncing...
I know you said you've tried various kernels, but I honestly found that I got the best screen on time with Franco r86 kernel (just over 4hrs). I'm not a huge kernel fan so I haven't really tried others, but I was only getting just over 3 hrs on stock.
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harro3 said:
Hey guys,
I see some people here have AMAZING battery life. Some people are getting 4+ hours screen on time with a single charge.
I only get around 2 - 2.5 hours screen on time. Which is good, but not as good as other people.
I am using the latest Paranoid Android ROM, and I have tried many different kernels but battery life is the same with all of them. I tried undervolting, still the same battery life.
All location/gps settings are OFF. The only syncing I have is Facebook syncing every 4 hours. I checked the battery stats, and everything is normal. I checked Better Battery Stats and everything is normal too, no unusual wakelocks or anything like that.
I checked my cpu bin in terminal, and it has been binned as a 'FASTER' cpu.
I have very good signal all the time. Always use WiFi, never mobile data. Bluetooth, NFC are OFF, and brightness is autobrightness.
So after all this, why am I not getting amazing battery life like others?
Thank you!
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I use the greenify app to hibernate facebook and words with friends it helps somewhat on battery life
I recently discovered that if I reduce the brightness down to 50% (which is still very BRIGHT), I can get an extra 30% battery life.
Simple, and yet, effective
Turn the brightness down - even 10pct is plenty bright indoors.
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Flash matrix kernel
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lowrider262 said:
Heres a few things that help me:
make sure if your on a ROM that has it to disable cell broadcasts in wireless & network settings.
In Google sync settings, uncheck everything you don't use or can manually sync. The only things I leave checked are gmail, contacts & calendar.
If you've opened maps, make sure to back all the way out of it & swipe it away from your recent tasks screen. Better yet, if you don't need it, uninstall it or use an alternative like mapquest app.
If you don't use Google talk, open it and sign out or uninstall it.
Try not to overdo it with widgets on your home screens. I mean a few is cool, but when u have 5 screens all jam packed with various widgets constantly running & syncing...
I know you said you've tried various kernels, but I honestly found that I got the best screen on time with Franco r86 kernel (just over 4hrs). I'm not a huge kernel fan so I haven't really tried others, but I was only getting just over 3 hrs on stock.
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Thanks, I have now signed out of google talk. I only have one widget at the moment and that's the clock widget. It's annoying that everyone can get 3 or 4 hours screen on time and I only get 2
harro3 said:
Hey guys,
I see some people here have AMAZING battery life. Some people are getting 4+ hours screen on time with a single charge.
I only get around 2 - 2.5 hours screen on time. Which is good, but not as good as other people.
I am using the latest Paranoid Android ROM, and I have tried many different kernels but battery life is the same with all of them. I tried undervolting, still the same battery life.
All location/gps settings are OFF. The only syncing I have is Facebook syncing every 4 hours. I checked the battery stats, and everything is normal. I checked Better Battery Stats and everything is normal too, no unusual wakelocks or anything like that.
I checked my cpu bin in terminal, and it has been binned as a 'FASTER' cpu.
I have very good signal all the time. Always use WiFi, never mobile data. Bluetooth, NFC are OFF, and brightness is autobrightness.
So after all this, why am I not getting amazing battery life like others?
Thank you!
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Try Eugene's CPU Sleeper from the market. It turns off all but one of your cores while the screen is off to minimize cpu usage. On CM nightly with stock kernel I got 34 hours with 17% remaining and 2.5 hours screen on time til I ended up charging my phone. I run my CPU at 1350 max / 384 min.
Make sure under sound settings all the sound on touch, keypad, etc are all turned off. Each time your phone ticks a sound it uses battery. Also bright display backgrounds will use more battery.
I only sync chrome, calendar and instant upload
good luck
harro3 said:
Hey guys,
I see some people here have AMAZING battery life. Some people are getting 4+ hours screen on time with a single charge.
I only get around 2 - 2.5 hours screen on time. Which is good, but not as good as other people.
I am using the latest Paranoid Android ROM, and I have tried many different kernels but battery life is the same with all of them. I tried undervolting, still the same battery life.
All location/gps settings are OFF. The only syncing I have is Facebook syncing every 4 hours. I checked the battery stats, and everything is normal. I checked Better Battery Stats and everything is normal too, no unusual wakelocks or anything like that.
I checked my cpu bin in terminal, and it has been binned as a 'FASTER' cpu.
I have very good signal all the time. Always use WiFi, never mobile data. Bluetooth, NFC are OFF, and brightness is autobrightness.
So after all this, why am I not getting amazing battery life like others?
Thank you!
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Clock down your device
Use conservative cpu governor or something like that,
Undervolt if necessary
Have a low brightness screen if it's possible
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Flash Franco's kernel.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2002782
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You can also try this, it takes a few days to "learn" your routine then it supposedly starts saving battery. I'm currently in day 2 of learning mode so I don't know for sure how well it works. But it seems to be getting good reviews so far...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiam.snapdragon.app
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lowrider262 said:
You can also try this, it takes a few days to "learn" your routine then it supposedly starts saving battery. I'm currently in day 2 of learning mode so I don't know for sure how well it works. But it seems to be getting good reviews so far...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiam.snapdragon.app
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I've read the the battery guru app does nothing for your phone whatsoever...
mrjoeltan said:
I've read the the battery guru app does nothing for your phone whatsoever...
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It just turns radios off and shuts down syncing, nothing you can't do by yourself.
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mrjoeltan said:
I've read the the battery guru app does nothing for your phone whatsoever...
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Well it basically learns your routines and changes your sync settings, turns WiFi on/off when needed, and various other things you could do yourself but might forget. Kinda like tasker for lazy people so in theory yes it could save you some battery.
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VoiD_Dweller said:
Try Eugene's CPU Sleeper from the market. It turns off all but one of your cores while the screen is off to minimize cpu usage. On CM nightly with stock kernel I got 34 hours with 17% remaining and 2.5 hours screen on time til I ended up charging my phone. I run my CPU at 1350 max / 384 min.
Make sure under sound settings all the sound on touch, keypad, etc are all turned off. Each time your phone ticks a sound it uses battery. Also bright display backgrounds will use more battery.
I only sync chrome, calendar and instant upload
good luck
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All those sounds are already off, that's the first thing I do
Thanks for that app, I'll try it to see if it helps.
curtzxion said:
Clock down your device
Use conservative cpu governor or something like that,
Undervolt if necessary
Have a low brightness screen if it's possible
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I undervolted the hell out of my phone, at one time it was a -150mv undervolt.
Brightness was on auto, I've now switched to controlling it manually to see if that helps
gravitysandwich said:
Flash Franco's kernel.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2002782
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Tried his kernel already a few weeks ago. No real change in battery.
That seems weird
I am completely stock, and set things more or less the same with you (not syncing, no gps unless needed, on wifi all the time) and I could get over 4 hours screen on time on an 18 hours battery life. I believe this phone (chipset?) is really efficient on standby. Does your phone show that it's being kept awake much using the cpu spy app?
Same here... I'm on stock and the best i got was pretty impressive i think. 49 hours with 4 hours screen on time. I waited till the phone turned off by itself Even though i don't get that with heavier use, it's still enough to take me through a whole day which is better then my old phone
My battery saving tips:
-turn off everything you're not using (wi-fi when not at home or office/school, bluetooth, gps, low brightness indoors)
-swype away apps after you exit from them
-turn off the screen when you put it down/in your pocket etc.
-turn off google now
That is everything that i do. No sync disabling, undervolting, underclocking or other tricks
Install greenify app from playstore
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drbrainsol said:
My battery saving tips:
-swype away apps after you exit from them
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That doesn't do anything. Android as a native app killer. On the other side, this would lead to more battery consumption as Android would have to initalize data the next time you open that app. IMHO leave the apps as they are, Android would take care of them and kill them when required.
lowrider262 said:
Kinda like tasker for lazy people so in theory yes it could save you some battery.
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IMO it's isn't as powerful as tasker, but it's giving some extra juice.
Its been about 2 weeks since I got my phone and I'm mighty impressed with the battery life, probably because of stamina mode. I know it's only this good since I also haven't installed too many apps on it yet, but it's still much better than any android device I've ever had before.
Shame the battery isn't removable though. How's the battery holding up on your phones?
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Holy crap, what's screen on time like? Performance?
If you post such a screenshot you might aswell tell us the trick that did it I could get 4 days out of my phone on stamina mode and this was with some hours of music and music browser of course, but not much more.
the best that i have seen on my phone is 45 hours ( almost 2 days ) but with 4.5 HOURS SCREEN! too much i think!
ByteFalcon said:
Its been about 2 weeks since I got my phone and I'm mighty impressed with the battery life, probably because of stamina mode. I know it's only this good since I also haven't installed too many apps on it yet, but it's still much better than any android device I've ever had before.
Shame the battery isn't removable though. How's the battery holding up on your phones?
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I use mine moderately most days sometimes heavily and I still get about 1.5 days usage.
Stamina mode is very impressive indeed. :silly:
regards
No tricks really. Here's how I've been using it.
Settings:
Bravia engine off
Mobile data off most of the time
Wi-Fi on most of the time
GPS off
Stamina mode on of course
Apps:
Streamed a video episode
Streamed music (on chrome)
Played music (on app)
Took pictures
Used flashlight once or twice
Sent a couple of files via bluetooth
Yeah its generally light usage, but again I suspect the lack of apps that have running background services are also a factor in this. Apart from Gmail I don't have any other email or social network apps set up yet. I check my accounts manually on Chrome.
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9 to 12 hours
Hmm, well that's just great. Thing is I have cleaned all the bloatware from my device and I dont use social media, I do have whatsapp and gmail+google calendar running. Normally I get 2 days most out of one battery and this is when stamine mode is off because of whatsapp. But maybe I should try data mode off, wifi on and see what will happen that way. There is almost no situation where I'm not near wifi which I can connect too Still I think using whatsapp a lot eats battery.
I'd love to see 3 days with average use on this device.
My results are just shi**y!
My brightness is on auto.
Data always off.
Sync off.
No other apps installed, which are running in the background except whatsapp.
Stamina is on, for sure! But the battery life is anyway very bad!
5.5-6 hours of screen on time isn't mind blowing. My friend's iPhone 5 gets 8-9. What's surprising is that this has a much bigger battery, and even when the brightness is low and the CPU is underclocked it still drains the battery faster than similar devices. I don't think it's very efficient....
SunnyChrono6 said:
5.5-6 hours of screen on time isn't mind blowing. My friend's iPhone 5 gets 8-9. What's surprising is that this has a much bigger battery, and even when the brightness is low and the CPU is underclocked it still drains the battery faster than similar devices. I don't think it's very efficient....
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Looks like we have a case of the grass is always greener on the other side
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ZakooZ said:
Looks like we have a case of the grass is always greener on the other side
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What, no, I'm just saying that with a 2370mah battery and only a dual core, it should be better xD
SunnyChrono6 said:
What, no, I'm just saying that with a 2370mah battery and only a dual core, it should be better xD
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and asynchronous dual-core should make battery life better
well he doesnt seem to use the phone to play or use apps.... so if it is idle all the time you can pretty sure get even more out of it. If you set a cpu-profile for screen-off time, it will be hardly losing battery. I did that on my old phone and despite it was lagging when waking up it lost less than five percent over a week while i did nothing but checking clock from time to time
Greetings
ps it is said that screen-off-profiles are not good for processor.... but i don't know anymore where i read that
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r0zj0k3r said:
Holy crap, what's screen on time like? Performance?
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I haven't checked the screen on time and I already charged my phone yesterday. I'll check it again when it's needs a recharge again and post it here (it might take a while lol). Also, not using any performance altering apps or techniques, is there a certain way you check performance?
Robin>Hood said:
Hmm, well that's just great. Thing is I have cleaned all the bloatware from my device and I dont use social media, I do have whatsapp and gmail+google calendar running. Normally I get 2 days most out of one battery and this is when stamine mode is off because of whatsapp. But maybe I should try data mode off, wifi on and see what will happen that way. There is almost no situation where I'm not near wifi which I can connect too Still I think using whatsapp a lot eats battery.
I'd love to see 3 days with average use on this device.
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Whatsapp does eat up a lot of battery. Since I charged my phone I've been using Whatsapp and the phone is already down 20%.
I don't know if this affects battery or not since I haven't tried it before on any other device, but I'm using 3 home screens instead of 5, I'm gonna try adding back 2 screens on the next charging cycle and see if it makes a difference.
I might have a look into changing cpu frequencies when in idle then. For now I'm with a HTC One X because of dead pixels on my SPs camera sensor.
The HTC(nVidia Tegra3) has less battery capacity but with average plus use it gets two days easily, makes me wonder what is wrong with the Sony firmware....
Customizing Staminamode
Robin>Hood said:
Hmm, well that's just great. Thing is I have cleaned all the bloatware from my device and I dont use social media, I do have whatsapp and gmail+google calendar running. Normally I get 2 days most out of one battery and this is when stamine mode is off because of whatsapp. But maybe I should try data mode off, wifi on and see what will happen that way. There is almost no situation where I'm not near wifi which I can connect too Still I think using whatsapp a lot eats battery.
I'd love to see 3 days with average use on this device.
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Do you know, that in Stamina mode you can allow certain apps to run.
So turn on Stamina mode, long press on stamina, and add Whatsapp.
mine loses 10% when im asleep lol. with stamina mode on, its around 7%
orlaus said:
Do you know, that in Stamina mode you can allow certain apps to run.
So turn on Stamina mode, long press on stamina, and add Whatsapp.
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I did know this but I thought the stamina mode switches of the 3G connection, when the screen is off, which is needed for whatsapp or am I mistaken? Thanks for the hint.
I'll try, my phone should be delivered home tomorrow morning
SunnyChrono6 said:
What, no, I'm just saying that with a 2370mah battery and only a dual core, it should be better xD
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You haven't really thought this thoroughly
The iPhone cpu runs at 1.3 ghz vs 1.7 ghz on the SP
The iPhone Gpu runs at 275 mhz vs 400 on the SP
The resolution is lower than the SP, which means the GPU on the iPhone doesn't have to work as hard
My Xperia SP still runs longer than my friends iPhone 5,
Easily get two days use out of it, screen on time of about 5-6 hours
That's not bad,
The screen on my Nexus 4 is really just starting to kill my battery. I keep the brightness as low as possible while still being able to read the screen. Is there anything else I can do?
usually lcd panels consume more battery ... and can you be more specific..??????
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I think I understand what you're saying. Are you talking about how screen seems to use so much more battery in the battery info section than everything else
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I always see screen taking 50% min.. No matter how light i use my phone...
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Don't know if I'm allowed to suggest apps to download. But what I do is download DU Battery Saver. It helps my battery A LOT and I'm a heavy user from Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Twitter, and playing lots of games on my break at work. Especially today, I'm barely at 44%.
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youngvacho said:
Don't know if I'm allowed to suggest apps to download. But what I do is download DU Battery Saver. It helps my battery A LOT and I'm a heavy user from Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Twitter, and playing lots of games on my break at work. Especially today, I'm barely at 44%.
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You have a lot of drain there buddy.. And battery savers are a myth. Also, you are running LTE which 90%of population doesn't have - this may also affect your battery life.
My point is, if you do a backup of your rom for me to try it out in my phone, in my area, i will not see any difference because you use LTE, i use... Edge.
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scottharris4 said:
The screen on my Nexus 4 is really just starting to kill my battery. I keep the brightness as low as possible while still being able to read the screen. Is there anything else I can do?
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In every smartphone, screen will be the major consumer. For good battery, turn off sync, location, mobile data, Bluetooth. These settings may save 5% or 10 % of battery only. For real improvement in battery, try custom ROMS with various kernels such as Franco etc..
Normally in stock 4.4.2 , I would get a screen on time of 5 hours with WiFi and around 4 hours with mobile data always on, Facebook,hike,Viber,telegram,fb messenger, bbm, and a few others will be running in background,high location accuracy,Sync turned on, brightness at auto.
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Got this phone about 10 days ago and my battery is terrible since day 1, someone suggested to root my phone and get the BBS app and dump a file i did that and installed a system tuner to disable google CHECKIN OR GCM and unchecked them. apps i got installed to help with battery battery doctor, wakelock detector, os monitor, system tuner, gsam battery, betterbatterystats.
Apps i disabled are:
Ant radio service
Ant+ plugins
App zone
Blurbcheckout
chaton
chrome
flipboard
google play book, games, movies, music, newstand , google search, google+ , hangouts
hp print service plugin
my magazine
s health , svoice , samsung account , samsung apps , samsung galaxy apps widget, samsung push service, smart remote , Top Hd Games
got a plain black wallpaper, even after all this i cant get more than 2h30m screentime and everyone is getting 5h+ do i have a defective unit? what are my options right now? cause basically i removed everything the phone has lol. i talk to my workplace and they can send the phone for repair but i want to see if someone can help me before i do that. i have to unroot the phone if i have to send it for repair even though my phone is 0x1 on knox cause i was stupid to root with cf-root and didnt check other methods.
After all that you did, then it sounds like a faulty battery or device.
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How's your signal at work? I'm on 3g at half signal maybe? I get about 3:30 and standby. But when I'm at home WIFI only I get about 4-4:30 it all depends too on how bright your screen is.
darkfangex5 said:
How's your signal at work? I'm on 3g at half signal maybe? I get about 3:30 and standby. But when I'm at home WIFI only I get about 4-4:30 it all depends too on how bright your screen is.
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How do I check if I have a good signal at work? Through an app or through a battery status.
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This system tuner app you used it not any overclocking or something that might drain you battery?
What screen brightness do you use most of the time?
Can you see what use most of your battery? There is charts you can access in settings -> battery
I run with BLAZE kernel and Alliance ROM. (install without any samsung or google bloat if you can)
And I have been using my phone constantly, playing streemed music, installing apps, downloading from internet, browsing internet, having screen active a lot...
And Now I'm at 87% and have been running 1 hour and 38 minutes on battery. (Was at about 100% battery before)
I run +5 screen brightness and don't have any special powersaving features running that limit my experience with the phone.
You could try that kernel and ROM too, I feel they improved my battery time a lot.
I also shut down some samsung and google bloat stuff like air browse, s voice and such crap, saving a little little battery.
Here is my battery info and my brightness level. I have Canadian g900w from Rogers so I am not sure what roms or kernels you can use ?
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kgyirhj said:
This system tuner app you used it not any overclocking or something that might drain you battery?
What screen brightness do you use most of the time?
Can you see what use most of your battery? There is charts you can access in settings -> battery
I run with BLAZE kernel and Alliance ROM. (install without any samsung or google bloat if you can)
And I have been using my phone constantly, playing streemed music, installing apps, downloading from internet, browsing internet, having screen active a lot...
And Now I'm at 87% and have been running 1 hour and 38 minutes on battery. (Was at about 100% battery before)
I run +5 screen brightness and don't have any special powersaving features running that limit my experience with the phone.
You could try that kernel and ROM too, I feel they improved my battery time a lot.
I also shut down some samsung and google bloat stuff like air browse, s voice and such crap, saving a little little battery.
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I posted my info with photos ^ thanks
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Hey, here I have everything turned on and I never followed these stupid extreme battery guides and I easily get over 4 hours of screen time and one day away from the charger. I only use auto brightness, Greenify and KT Kernel.
It's a smartphone, if you're supposed to turn all the features off then you should have bought a dumb feature phone.
Looks like ur using max brightness? Nearly 2 hours screen on time for 44% isnt the best but isnt terrible. I get around 5 to 6 hours using low brightness 3g/4g on besides when screen on. Using android tuner and greenify for tuneing. Screen uses a lot of battery to. Im using. Ktoons kernal now with oc and the batterys probably the same to to me. No beter or worse but. Im running higher clock.
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I also use normal power save eith the greyscale option selected and I have the cpu limited disabled.because ktoons app limits it for me.
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sofia-captivate said:
Here is my battery info and my brightness level. I have Canadian g900w from Rogers so I am not sure what roms or kernels you can use ?
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You're set for almost four hours of screen on time there, on what seems to be very poor mobile signal. Doesn't sound that unrealistic to me to be honest.
Poor mobile signal absolutely kills battery life, as your phone spends the entire time searching and trying to get a better signal.
dandroid13 said:
Hey, here I have everything turned on and I never followed these stupid extreme battery guides and I easily get over 4 hours of screen time and one day away from the charger. I only use auto brightness, Greenify and KT Kernel.
It's a smartphone, if you're supposed to turn all the features off then you should have bought a dumb feature phone.
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I think his point is that most people get 5-6 hours screen time with everything on and without following the "stupid extreme battery guides". To be honest it looks like you aren't getting great life either if you are only getting 4 hours. I regularly get 6-7 with everything on and no greenify or kernel tweaks
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sofia-captivate said:
Here is my battery info and my brightness level. I have Canadian g900w from Rogers so I am not sure what roms or kernels you can use ?
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I see a couple of things interesting with your setup, Speaking from personal experience, I too have had battery issues drive me up a wall. I'd get just about a day on a battery when everyone else gets about 3-9 days more. My friend has an s5 all stock and he gets 9 days on a freaking battery. WTF
I rooted my first s5, with ANCH baseband and still couldn't solve all the issues with it. So I sent it back to t-mo and they sent me another one, getting batteries on ebay has also ended up a wash. 2 batteries I've received go down 20% from a full charge in the first hour and shut completely down at 32 percent at least I got a refund on that. (So be careful about ebay batteries, even though they say samsung.
So looking at yours here's what I see, Your system is staying awake, lets look at wake locks. Kik is really tearing up your machines wakelock (900wake locks) as well as the camera CPU time, i'd imagine you were recording a video at some point.
1. Go get greenify and greenify those Kik, Instagram and camera apps if thats usage while the screen is off. (No notifications on those apps, i'm afraid when you do that.)
2. Go get system tuner, make sure your rooted by towelroot (If you so choose to keep from tripping knox) and go into app mgr and find android system and go through activities, receivers and services and make sure everything you see that says IQAgent gets unchecked. This will help you stay out of ServiceIQ's eyes and also help your battery as your entire phone is debugged through those apps. (Help is on the forums somewhere)
3. Turn off google now, hotword detection and location history or you'll start noticing Google services draining your battery
4. Go get deep sleep battery saver and remove that battery saver, I personally never liked it it only suggests things to do rather than do them for you. At night or whenever you need to save your battery turn on slumber and it will only take like a percent to 5% in the morning
5. You probably have a bad battery, especially if its down to that low. Time to exchange or return
I'm incredibly disappointed, i've had to do all these things to really figure things out, heck i'd be on firefox for about 15 minutes and go down 18% (Happened this morning)
Android really has some issues with kitkat, and even though we try and fix these problems with modifications there comes a point where one just gives up and tries to deal with it.
I don't understand why my phone gets 1.2 days and my co-workers Verizon s5 gets 9 days with normal usage. Everyone seems to have crazy all over the scale battery life results. Heck, i've reset my phone and flashed so many roms that i'd be safe to say that I have yet to have 10 full discharges in the 4 weeks i've had the phone. At the end of the day though, it's mountains better than my iphone 5 with a lenmar battery case.
Wish I could say the same with stability, I'd be on my bike and switch tracks (or try) and stuff just doesn't respond, heck I can't even go with voice activation with wired headphones and that is really a downer for me. I want to be able to hold down the pause and play and get the google now boop boop sound and speak as i'm riding.
I'm tired of this, and google has no answers, the fixes above only seem to add a couple of hours but not the 9 days I was seeing.
Goldie said:
I think his point is that most people get 5-6 hours screen time with everything on and without following the "stupid extreme battery guides". To be honest it looks like you aren't getting great life either if you are only getting 4 hours. I regularly get 6-7 with everything on and no greenify or kernel tweaks
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So? What do you do to have that many hours? Which rom? How often do you recharge? Which apps do you use? That's the point. I never freeze/uninstall anything...
dandroid13 said:
So? What do you do to have that many hours? Which rom? How often do you recharge? Which apps do you use? That's the point. I never freeze/uninstall anything...
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My rom. With nothing removed or frozen as I have to keep all bloat due to development to check everything. I recharge every night usually with about 20% left and about 5h30 screen on. Using Tapatalk, music, calls, Internet. The usual stuff.
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I get 6-7 hours normal use with the bloatware I never use frozen. And I mean never use.
Gtalk, whatsapp, line, google drive, dropbox, gmail, Yahoo mail, corporate mail, all running. No greenify. No battery saver.
Now playing games is different thing. 2-3 hours max.
My battery is amazing. I keep the screen brightness lower, keep networks and chips off when not using, i use bootmanager to prevent apps from launching ay boot and only 1 active widget. Good for a day and a half of very fair use !
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It's your probleme. Problably you have some stupid apps I'm your phone that you shouldn't have.
Like you see in my picture. My battery it's just fine and there is 2 stupid apps that eat me my battery without do anything
My battery is great too, maybe problem is some apps
matheus_sc said:
My battery is great too, maybe problem is some apps
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Yup probably, the only flaw with a smartphone is its user