Hi Guys,
My LG G2 D802 is getting totally unacceptable battery life. I've tried everything but I just don't know what's killing the battery. I've actually got 4 hours screen time max (which is average for the G2) but I was expecting much more. Today, I've barely got 2 hours 45 mins screen time and 22% left... This is just mostly from reading facebook, xda, news apps etc. I've even turned sync to a minimum and am using easy battery saver so when my screen if of, data is off and syncs once every 30 mins for 15s. I have no idea why Android OS and especially Android System( in screenshots below, its used almost 50% of the battery).
What to do? I've attached screenshots of my battery usage and better battery stats.
Thanks
Sean
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honestly thats about what I get.....stop comparing your stats to other. most of the time the people that have huge screen on time is because they stay in wifi areas all day, turn down brightness to 0 and turn off syncing completely.
G1_enthusiast said:
honestly thats about what I get.....stop comparing your stats to other. most of the time the people that have huge screen on time is because they stay in wifi areas all day, turn down brightness to 0 and turn off syncing completely.
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I have sync on absolute min... I've disabled it almost... I was expecting much more from the G2... Even my old Xperia Z1 got 3 hours screen time.. I was at least expecting 5... Anyways, I've always got a strong signal (mostly 3G+4G) and use wifi for 1-2 hours a day so I really cannot understand that.
Also, I'm quite sure that the Android System and OS shouldn't be using so much battery... Something is definetly wrong there...
G1_enthusiast said:
honestly thats about what I get.....stop comparing your stats to other. most of the time the people that have huge screen on time is because they stay in wifi areas all day, turn down brightness to 0 and turn off syncing completely.
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Not so. I get 5-6hrs screen on and usually go about 16-18hrs between charges. On the heavily modded stock rom. I have Facebook/Twitter & 2 email accounts and only control syncing with battery guru. I'm never on WiFi because my ISP stinks. I live in a great 4g area and have unlimited data so that's what I use.
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garywojdan81 said:
Not so. I get 5-6hrs screen on and usually go about 16-18hrs between charges. On the heavily modded stock rom. I have Facebook/Twitter & 2 email accounts and only control syncing with battery guru. I'm never on WiFi because my ISP stinks. I live in a great 4g area and have unlimited data so that's what I use.
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that helps too, I live in Hawaii, tmobile signal here sucks.
Have you tried uninstalling/disabling any bloatware or apps you don't use?
Did you make sure your location services are turned off?
yyz123 said:
Have you tried uninstalling/disabling any bloatware or apps you don't use?
Did you make sure your location services are turned off?
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I haven't disabled or uninstalled bloatware but I don't use it... Still I shouldn't be getting this much battery usage from android system... Can someone put up a picture of their daily usage especially the % ?
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Sean473 said:
I haven't disabled or uninstalled bloatware but I don't use it... Still I shouldn't be getting this much battery usage from android system... Can someone put up a picture of their daily usage especially the % ?
Thanks
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If you haven't already, I recommend you download the Gsam Battery Monitor app (available in playstore).
Take screen shots of every menu in that app after you've used your phone from 100% down to 10% and post in this comparative analysis thread.
For your reference, I get anywhere between 4hrs to a maximum of 6hrs of screen-on time depending on usage.
get cpu spy and check what frequency your cpu is at most of the time when not sleeping.
try a couple of battery depletion then charge till full cycles. If no improvement factory reset and try from there.
turn off gps/bleutooth/carrier iq if its enabled btw.
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bachera said:
get cpu spy and check what frequency your cpu is at most of the time when not sleeping.
try a couple of battery depletion then charge till full cycles. If no improvement factory reset and try from there.
turn off gps/bleutooth/carrier iq if its enabled btw.
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I have disabled GPS Bluetooth etc... I do however need Bluetooth sooner or later as I have a Sony SW2...I'm gonna root and greenify stuff.. Lets see if that helps!
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Having 1 bar of signal is probably killing your battery
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I remove almost every bloated lg app from stock rom. But with 1 hour screen time with max 30% brightness screen is not the bigger drainer. It is android system with 37% usage. Processor worked 5 minutes, waking was 4 minutes. Yet how this could be bigger drainer than one hour screen time.
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I remove almost every bloated lg app from stock rom. But with 1 hour screen time with max 30% brightness screen is not the bigger drainer. It is android system with 37% usage. Processor worked 5 minutes, waking was 4 minutes. Yet how this could be bigger drainer than one hour screen time.
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This is the thing which I can't understand..
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How often have you ran it down to 10%?
Are you using the OEM charger?
If you have like a 1000mah or 550mah charger, I'd try doing a slow charge overnight (it'll take 4hrs on a 550mah charger) to see if your battery life is improved.
yyz123 said:
How often have you ran it down to 10%?
Are you using the OEM charger?
If you have like a 1000mah or 550mah charger, I'd try doing a slow charge overnight (it'll take 4hrs on a 550mah charger) to see if your battery life is improved.
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I've been draining down to below 10% each time I've used it (5-6 times)... When I root later, shall I use one of those battery calibration apps? Trickle charge is out of the question for me as I don't have time at night to charge it and I use the OEM charger always... Let me root, try greenify some stuff and see if it helps...
Sean473 said:
I've been draining down to below 10% each time I've used it (5-6 times)... When I root later, shall I use one of those battery calibration apps? Trickle charge is out of the question for me as I don't have time at night to charge it and I use the OEM charger always... Let me root, try greenify some stuff and see if it helps...
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You don't have time at night when you sleep?
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You don't have time at night when you sleep?
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I don't like leaving stuff on the charger and going to bed... I usually forget to turn it off
it should help recondition. just keep it on charger half hour after it says its charged.
At this point I would recommend doing a factory reset on a full stock rom. On earlier phones debloating could have caused a lot of errors and thus weird stuff happening we want to eliminate that. So going back to full stock might be last way of eliminating all else. After that I think hardware issue.
on full stock seek ways to disable that iq cartier, disable locations and switch off gps etc. Perhaps via recents, go to task manager then menu bitton and services. Disable all you dont use and check battery life.
this is all I know.
btw, this is first phone I didnt need to debloat to get amazing life
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But isn´t debloating something to improve battery life little bit? Because all LG system stock apps drain quite a lot from battery.
amazing battery life for me
Iv been having amazing battery life. Yesterday from 7am-11pm the phone only got down to 47%. Of course with everything shut off untill im on wifi at home and when im not using data i shut it off. The one thing i know that uses wayyyy to much battery is google now. I turn it off and clear the data and cache. I even have my brightness at 50%. Right now the phones has been on for 5 1/2hrs unplugged and its at 90%. used pandora, watched a video on adult swim app and some light browsing.
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So as I read through the forum I see many people say that the Epic 4G has some pretty bad battery issues. Well, I've had a few Android phones and by far the Epic has the best battery life I have ever seen yet. If you guys have any questions about my settings or anything, feel free to ask me.
Here's a screen shot of my battery life from the other day... it was pretty "Epic".
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1 day 9 hours 50 minutes 1 sec
how much time was with phone actually in use
impressive
I used it with some pretty heavy use. I was texting all day and playing around with some apps as well. I didn't charge it overnight to see how it would hold up overnight and it held up well.
I am using a custom ROM that I have actually created myself that I will be releasing shortly in a few days.
schizopunk said:
I used it with some pretty heavy use. I was texting all day and playing around with some apps as well. I didn't charge it overnight to see how it would hold up overnight and it held up well.
I am using a custom ROM that I have actually created myself that I will be releasing shortly in a few days.
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You're also using WiFi, which dramatically improves battery life. I'd also be curious to see what your TWS is - tap on "cell standby" and see what your "time without signal" is. Some days, it's 0-1% for me; on those days, I see great battery life. Other times, I've seen as high as 50%. Those days, I get awful battery life.
In addition, there seem to be issues with the onboard DRM process running in the background (possibly a media hub thing), and other fishiness in general with the stock ROM. So, no, the Epic per se has NO battery issues, but the ROMs have some rather inconvenient bugs that have a significant effect.
BTW, congratulations on your 2^7 posts. It was such a nice number that I felt I needed to comment on it...
Yeah, my TWS is on 50% today... its always a hit or miss with that.
What I noticed is key with WiFi are two apps in the market, WiFi Status & WiFi Lock.
WiFi Status - This app will notify you that you have WiFi on when you are not connected to any wifi hotspots, essentially warning you you're using up more battery than you should be.
WiFi Lock - This app is key for me, it keeps your WiFi signal active even when your phone's screen is off. This prevents your phone from switching networks everytime you wake up your device, a HUGE battery saver I've noticed.
If anyone else has any other questions, feel free to ask.
Wait so you cant just set it to a no sleep policy with wifi from the connections menu? Not a problem to me, just curious
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A_Flying_Fox said:
Wait so you cant just set it to a no sleep policy with wifi from the connections menu? Not a problem to me, just curious
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I may be wrong, so someone can correct me if I am, but I have yet to find a system setting that does this.
Nice and all but doesn't really mean anything at all. 21% Idle means that out of all that time, most of it wasn't in use at all.
Well, I just posted my best results but on average I normally get about 10-15 hours with my battery watching videos and playing games on my phone.
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I may be wrong, so someone can correct me if I am, but I have yet to find a system setting that does this.
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Yep. You're wrong. Under wireless networks hit the menu key and it will take you to the advanced wireless settings where you can choose to leave Wifi on when the screen is off.
infamousjax said:
Yep. You're wrong. Under wireless networks hit the menu key and it will take you to the advanced wireless settings where you can choose to leave Wifi on when the screen is off.
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Sweet, I thought it should've been there somewhere. Thanks for the tip.
what was the time on for the display? when i use wifi i get awesome life but wifi off i lose about 4-5 hrs
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Nice and all but doesn't really mean anything at all. 21% Idle means that out of all that time, most of it wasn't in use at all.
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We're not talking about the battery use percentage. We're talking about Time Without Signal, a completely separate metric that is reached by *tapping* on cell standby (not phone idle, which is yet another separate entity.)
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Screebl is a power management app. We are talking about length of battery right out of the box, not modded with an app to control your power.
Right out of the box, no root, no custom recovery, I get 7-8 hours on a good day, with TWS at 50% all day.
Unplugged it yesterday at 630am, used for a little while, was plugged in from 9-10am by 230pm it was at 20%. Today, unplugged at 7am, its 10:30 and i'm at 70%. This gives me a STANDBY time of about 10-11 hours You don't see that as a battery issue?
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Yep. You're wrong. Under wireless networks hit the menu key and it will take you to the advanced wireless settings where you can choose to leave Wifi on when the screen is off.
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Thanks for this! I had saw mention in another thread about setting the wireless to stay active but couldn't find where to do it.
Thanks!
I have no idea what is killing my battery now. Went to bed last night. Put phone in airplane mode and killed all the apps, shut down drm and GPS was left on but not in use since all apps were shut down.
Went to bed at 73%, woke up 6hrs later at 43%. No wigets at all except battery watcher. LauncherPro is my launcher. Display was off. That is an atrocious battery lose.
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Speaking of battery saving apps, have you tried JuiceDefender? It's gotten me a few more hours of battery life.
los1223 said:
Speaking of battery saving apps, have you tried JuiceDefender? It's gotten me a few more hours of battery life.
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I havent yet, just because I don't know what settings to use for it.
Could you possible post the best settings I should be using?
I was super frustrated yesterday because I got about 7 hours of battery right after I had just installed the latest mixUP kernel, which was said to improve battery life.
Then I read up on the DRM service bug, so I charged back up, did the normal airplane mode on/off, killed the OmaDrmConfigService from Running Services and now my life is changed forever! On 3G I'm sitting at about 4-5% per hour battery usage with GPS on, which translates to ~20 hours of life. If you haven't tried that yet, it's at least worth a shot.
Sure, there are some other things about my setup (mixUP kernel, SetCPU profiles, 1 hour sync intervals on Facebook/Twitter/Weather) that may get me to that 20 hour number. However, those have been unchanged since I went from 7 to ~20 hours of battery life. It seems that killing the OmaDrm service is really what knocked down the battery usage for me.
EDIT: Also, no JuiceDefender on my phone. My data flows freely. So that makes my jump in numbers even more exciting for me!
schizopunk said:
I used it with some pretty heavy use. I was texting all day and playing around with some apps as well. I didn't charge it overnight to see how it would hold up overnight and it held up well.
I am using a custom ROM that I have actually created myself that I will be releasing shortly in a few days.
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If I could get 1 day and 9 hours even using wifi that would be AWESOME! Please release that ROM!
Today, using wifi, my phone was DEAD at 4pm and I took it off the charger at 730am. I hardly freakin USED IT, maybe ONE 2 min phone call, ZERO texts and NO OTHER USE. In it's current form it's Totally USELESS.
No matter what I do the battery will not last me a full day. A full day for me is about 18 hours. I use my phone almost none at all while at work and I use juice defender to keep data and wifi off while I am not using the phone. I would say 80% of my day is wifi and only a little is LTE. I monitor my task usage and the only thing that ever shows up is screen...there are other apps but very little usage. I use auto brightness. Could that be it? Unless JD doesn't work well with these phones, I just can't figure out what it is. Unless of course its just normal...
Phone has to last me 18 hours with moderate usage. If it doesn't, I need another phone.
Post some screenies?
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The big killer of battery life is when LTE doesn't have a good signal (inside a large building). Connecting and reconnecting to the tower is what always kills my battery. I suggest you look and try those "turn of LTE" hacks around. My battery lasts me about 20 hours with moderate usage (but I am always in a great LTE location), and about 12 hours with heavy usage.
As long as your signal (wi-fi, LTE, HSPA, whatever it may be) remains good, you should have amazing battery life. I often take my phone out for 16-17 hours between charges and have ended the day with anywhere from 60% to 25% of the battery life, ranging from light to moderate usage.
For me, an average day is on wi-fi for at least 90% of the time, but a recent trip I had to Chicago (LTE all day, no wi-fi) showed similar results - and that was with some more moderate use while traveling! Not sure if there is much you can do about your signal, but I know my last phone (Captivate) got worse signal in my pocket vs. on my desk. SIII doesn't seem to be having as much of an issue, but still something to consider if necessary in your case.
I live in Dallas and have great LTE.
I just copped the sgs3 today and have not put it down my batt isn't that bad. 8 hours st8 on it lol
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OP, one suggestion I have...
What makes this phone a winner over my One X is the removable battery. I believe you can get a second stock battery for about $30, and I saw a charger and battery for around $40 earlier. Maybe you should pick up a spare? I realize it's not ideal, but it's an option.
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I'm in Vegas, lte rocks and I use my phone constantly. I can't get 4 hours so I just ordered an Anker 2200mAh.
I'm not on wifi but the Lte network in Vegas flies too which is just an additional $$. I've just got juice defender ultimate. I know a lot of people swear by it but I can do it better and faster myself. I'm a heavy user and if we could just turn off the Lte u and then maybe slow down the processor., I would be fine. It's ridiculous we still need additional batteries.
Whenever I leave my house I do the following in settings.
Power Savings I now just leave on.
I either completely Restrict background data or you can do by application in Data usage and go into Accounts and Sync and turn most off. Anything not Google is off and under Google I just sync my calendar, address and Gmail.
Now if we can turn off Lte, I will be fine I think.
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tuffluck said:
No matter what I do the battery will not last me a full day. A full day for me is about 18 hours. I use my phone almost none at all while at work and I use juice defender to keep data and wifi off while I am not using the phone. I would say 80% of my day is wifi and only a little is LTE. I monitor my task usage and the only thing that ever shows up is screen...there are other apps but very little usage. I use auto brightness. Could that be it? Unless JD doesn't work well with these phones, I just can't figure out what it is. Unless of course its just normal...
Phone has to last me 18 hours with moderate usage. If it doesn't, I need another phone.
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I'm pretty happy with my battery...
Stock AT&T SGS3 rocking KT747
Once I stopped useing the XDA dev app that was hitting my CPU at a constant 30% I have been getting great battery.
Screen brightness on 100% as well.
Yup
Just put it on the charger as I took the screenshot.
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I was running rom that was supposed to be stock but debloated and I installed the cpu1 sleep apk and I got horrible battery life. 5 hours and I was completely dead. I could not see any partial wakelocks. I was about ready to box up the phone and ship it back to Amazon. I flashed back the complete stock rom and I got great battery life. 12 hours, 3 phone calls, 3 push mail accounts, yahoo checks every 15 minutes, 1 hour streaming and the Windows Weekly podcast and I still had 65% left. I was moving so I didn't get a chance to browse or do work crap on it.
Hell with it, I'm staying stock till CM9/10 gets most of the bugs worked out.
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I'm pretty happy with my battery...
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Mine is about the same, but that isn't good for me. I am 7am-3am daily. There is no way your battery is making it 20 hours, just like mine.
How do you take a screenshot?
Swype with your whole hand from right to left
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I live/work just outside of an LTE area, and lately have been using my phone pretty light due to not being able to use it at work other than when I'm on lunch. I get almost no signal in my entire building, so 75% of the day I turn airplane on so my battery doesn't get raped.
So for me and my use recently, the battery has been doing good enough for me.
the standby thing raping my battery is weird,same thing with maps even though i never use it... but i guess both are common. Chrome use was at 3% and i forgot to check screen on time.
On the current charge I'm siting at 47% at almost 24 hours, about 1hr 15 mins of screen on time. 30 mins of voice, 10 of chrome...but i accidently unplugged the phone right before i went to sleep last night instead of starting this morning, and i just took a nap so again there is a lot of sleep time
Take all that for what it's worth, which I have no idea lol
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Actually its more of a judo chop on the left side and then slide to the right while maintaining constant contact with the screen.... Of course the easy easy way is to just hold home+power for 2 seconds
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Swype with your whole hand from right to left
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Thanks but holy **** that sucks! Being 6'6" with big hands prolly doesn't help. Here goes..
gedster314 said:
I was running rom that was supposed to be stock but debloated and I installed the cpu1 sleep apk and I got horrible battery life. 5 hours and I was completely dead. I could not see any partial wakelocks. I was about ready to box up the phone and ship it back to Amazon. I flashed back the complete stock rom and I got great battery life. 12 hours, 3 phone calls, 3 push mail accounts, yahoo checks every 15 minutes, 1 hour streaming and the Windows Weekly podcast and I still had 65% left. I was moving so I didn't get a chance to browse or do work crap on it.
Hell with it, I'm staying stock till CM9/10 gets most of the bugs worked out.
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I had the same issue, then discovered that going through a charge cycle fixes the issue. I got only 5.5 hours of use off my first charge (80% of the time on standby), but things improved enormously after recharging it to some extent, then unplugging it. See my post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28742643&postcount=297
I've had my phone unplugged for an hour now after the last partial charge, and it's actually gone from 48% then to 51% now, as the battery is still recalibrating.
jdhommert said:
the standby thing raping my battery is weird,same thing with maps even though i never use it... but i guess both are common.
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The cell standby reading is a bug in the software, it is reading something like 10 times higher than it is supposed to.
Hey guys, had my Nexus 4 for about a week, the glass on both sides is still like butter and delicious. Battery life is another issue though, I can't even get through a whole day of regular use without charging. Is anyone else in the same boat as me?
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While my battery life is nothing amazing (3hrs of screen time/12 hours full usage) it's not nearly as bad as yours. This is strange. I thought tests indicated that the average battery life was 4 and a half hours of screen on time? I'd love to know if there is a possible battery problem that is causing fluctuation in battery life between phones.
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Yes, I seem to be. Usually good with battery management too. Very similar statistics for me. What is your brightness set at?
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automatic brightness, this is discharging from an overnight charge, so 100%
Automatic brightness tells people nothing.
Depending on your environment it can range from almost the lowest brightness setting to full if you're out in sunlight
I'm sure the terrible signal isn't helping much. Try switching to 2g when you aren't browsing etc.
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Automatic brightness tells people nothing.
Depending on your environment it can range from almost the lowest brightness setting to full if you're out in sunlight
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My nexus on auto doesn't go as bright as the highest brightness setting. It's about half way or default.
Switching to 2G when I'm at home with wifi coverage helped some. The improvement wasn't dramatic, but it was noticeable.
Are there any apps that will turn off mobile data after a certain period (say 15 minutes?) to save battery life? That is the only thing that I can figure is killing my phone so much more quickly. I have unlimited data and no wifi at home, so I leave it on at all times. My old phone, however, had a setting that would turn it off after the screen had been shut down for 15 minutes (and turn it on occasionally to sync).
I don't want to have to toggle my data on and off all the time to make the phone last more than 7 hours.
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Are there any apps that will turn off mobile data after a certain period (say 15 minutes?) to save battery life? That is the only thing that I can figure is killing my phone so much more quickly. I have unlimited data and no wifi at home, so I leave it on at all times. My old phone, however, had a setting that would turn it off after the screen had been shut down for 15 minutes (and turn it on occasionally to sync).
I don't want to have to toggle my data on and off all the time to make the phone last more than 7 hours.
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Juice defender will shut data off when the screen is off
Unfortunately, I don't have any tips. I have the same usage (though mine was all on HSPA, no WiFi) in a fairly bright room with auto brightness and nearly identical battery life. My Galaxy Nexus under the same usage conditions would get significantly better (3-4 hours of screen on time instead of 2).
Doesn't seem to be better :S
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Doesn't seem to be better :S
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Hey, I am still getting similar statistics to you. I turned off Google now last night and set the brightness to just over quarter (in case it was the auto brightness that was the problem).
Still getting terrible numbers compared to others, it seems that those of us getting bad batt life have very similar numbers in terms of time off charger and screen-on time.
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Turn off wifi if not in use, there is some bug with it.
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Hey guys, had my Nexus 4 for about a week, the glass on both sides is still like butter and delicious. Battery life is another issue though, I can't even get through a whole day of regular use without charging. Is anyone else in the same boat as me?
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Unfortunately, I don't have any tips. I have the same usage (though mine was all on HSPA, no WiFi) in a fairly bright room with auto brightness and nearly identical battery life. My Galaxy Nexus under the same usage conditions would get significantly better (3-4 hours of screen on time instead of 2).
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I have had greatly improved speed and battery with Code fire X BR2 ( haven't tried BR4) and Matrix 2.0 kernel. Also I set my cell radio to GSM auto PRL which prevents the phone from constantly searching for 3g if signal isn't strong enough (or something like that) but helps. I also left the screen setting on auto brightness.
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will future software update fix this battery issue.
6 hours is terrible
CPU uses a lot cause it is so powerful
ragnarok_ said:
Battery life is another issue though, I can't even get through a whole day of regular use without charging. Is anyone else in the same boat as me?
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3hrs 30min screen time.
Running 4.2.1 rooted with the Matrix 2.0 kernel and gov set to interactive. No other tweaks or anything special done to try and increase battery life. 2 mailboxes using push mail and on Wi-Fi for the better party of the day.
I would check using CPU Spy and Better Battery Stats just to make sure your phone is getting in to deep sleep, and nothing is holding the device awake.
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jhock said:
Are there any apps that will turn off mobile data after a certain period (say 15 minutes?) to save battery life? That is the only thing that I can figure is killing my phone so much more quickly. I have unlimited data and no wifi at home, so I leave it on at all times. My old phone, however, had a setting that would turn it off after the screen had been shut down for 15 minutes (and turn it on occasionally to sync).
I don't want to have to toggle my data on and off all the time to make the phone last more than 7 hours.
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Auto Data is much more lightweight and has less settings to get lost in than Juice Defender. You can set it to turn data off immediately or after fifteen minutes
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For some reason I think the numerous stock google apps spend a lot of time phoning home. I disabled seversl of them that I don't use in the app settings (G+, Currents, Magazines). That changed seemed to help and it's easy to try.
I recently got a razr HD and i noticed my battery barely lasts a day. I had a flip phone before and it would last a week on one charge, i know i wont get the same type of battery life. I downloaded juice defender and set it to turn off my wifi/data when not in use. It has helped a bit since before that my phone would lose 2% battery an hour just in standby. I haven't downloaded any task killers, but when i'm done with my apps i go in to the settings and close them.
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Two things to fix,
one, adjust your brightness to auto. The higher the brightness, the faster your battery dies, that is massive screen use.
two, poor wifi/cellular reception = ****ty battery, the phone uses more power to lock onto signal.
Dont use task killers, they do more harm than good.
I adjusted the brightness on my tbolt and I doubled battery life
Borderpatrol1987 said:
Two things to fix,
one, adjust your brightness to auto. The higher the brightness, the faster your battery dies, that is massive screen use.
two, poor wifi/cellular reception = ****ty battery, the phone uses more power to lock onto signal.
Dont use task killers, they do more harm than good.
I adjusted the brightness on my tbolt and I doubled battery life
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Hmmmm. i wasn't very through with my post, but i have mine set on auto brightness. My wifi at home is usually 4 bars and 3 if im in the basement. I get 4 bars LTE for 95% of my day. In the main building on campus i get 1 bar if im lucky but usually its out of service so i depend on the wifi. The only thing i use my phone for is listening to music on my way to school, texting, email (but i set it to sync every hour), some light internet browsing, and calls.
Edit: Also on a sidenote is the smart actions useful? It seems like it does the same thing like juice defender.
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Hmmmm. i wasn't very through with my post, but i have mine set on auto brightness. My wifi at home is usually 4 bars and 3 if im in the basement. I get 4 bars LTE for 95% of my day. In the main building on campus i get 1 bar if im lucky but usually its out of service so i depend on the wifi. The only thing i use my phone for is listening to music on my way to school, texting, email (but i set it to sync every hour), some light internet browsing, and calls.
Edit: Also on a sidenote is the smart actions useful? It seems like it does the same thing like juice defender.
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yes, smart actions does the same thing with less battery,
UP your sync time! The more often you sync the more battery you use! I would put it on 4 hours and only sync if you need something important.
Turn of your cellular radios at school and that will help battery
Clearly your screen is consuming most of the battery. Try lowering your brightness, If you used it to text and kept the screen on for long time.. it might have consumed battery in that period. Not sure if its helpful or not .. but here are my battery stats after a normal usage day.
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yes, smart actions does the same thing with less battery,
UP your sync time! The more often you sync the more battery you use! I would put it on 4 hours and only sync if you need something important.
Turn of your cellular radios at school and that will help battery
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The 3 hours in sync shouldn't be eating up my battery though, but i guess every bit helps.
This is after taking it off the charger at 0800, I use my phone all day with limited smart actions.
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This is after taking it off the charger at 0800, I use my phone all day with limited smart actions.
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Do you think its my battery? I got suckered into the futureshop warranty and they said since my battery can't be replaced if anything happens to the battery they will replace my phone for one of an equal value or greater if i pay the difference.
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Do you think its my battery? I got suckered into the futureshop warranty and they said since my battery can't be replaced if anything happens to the battery they will replace my phone for one of an equal value or greater if i pay the difference.
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nah, just change the sync settings to longer and set your brightness to auto and see what happens over the next few days and report back.
I noticed the biggest difference when turning off WiFi and mobile locations.
Also 4.1.2 seemed to increase my battery life dramatically too.
I don't think setting the brightness to Auto is the best for saving battery. When in auto, the light sensor is turned on and some processing has to be done to define the brightness every time the screen is turned on. And that consumes energy.
I always keep mine at 50% and, when in very bright places, I go for 100% brightness.
Hi again, today i disabled my wifi and data manually whenever i wasn't using them and manually enabled it whenever i needed it. It worked a lot better and i left my house with 85% charge and i used my phone a little bit more than yesterday and it used up a little bit over 25%. I also played around with my juicedefender settings and hopefully it will work better. I will set my brightness to 50%. I'll post back in a few days. And is my battery working properly, because i honestly expected it to last a lot longer. Also thanks for the suggestions.
I really like 2x battery for controlling battery usage by data connections. There a light version as well. It basically turns off mobile data when the screen is off and turns it on when the screen is turned on. It can do the same for wifi as well. The light version will reconnect and sync everything every 15 minutes (or you can turn sync off). I paid for the full version and it allows you to change the sync time to longer increments. I use it mostly because I don't want to have to remember to toggle and where I work the 4G signal isn't so great.
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steve221 said:
I recently got a razr HD and i noticed my battery barely lasts a day. I had a flip phone before and it would last a week on one charge, i know i wont get the same type of battery life. I downloaded juice defender and set it to turn off my wifi/data when not in use. It has helped a bit since before that my phone would lose 2% battery an hour just in standby. I haven't downloaded any task killers, but when i'm done with my apps i go in to the settings and close them.
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Have the same problem! Brightness is low, internet is off, when I don't need it, still the battery is weak!
You said you had a flip phone before and the battery lasted a week, is this your first smartphone?
Smartphones have a 24 hour battery life at best, This phone has an above average battery I have had 48 hrs out of it..
other things to get in mind is the ROM you are using, I see you are on stock Ice Cream Sandwich, ICS have a good battery life, I have tried Telstra Jellybean and it was not as good, I also get excellent battery life with epinter's CM10
I am very satisfied with the battery life! I also recommend x2 battery, which seems to prolong battery life with little to no impact on the usability of the phone (at most a potential short delay on emails when not on wifi). I generally use wifi whenever possible which use much less battery than the mobile modem. Also I have disabled a few stock apps that I don't use e.g. the non-gmail (stock) email app. The phone is not rooted and using stock o2 JB rom.
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I am very satisfied with the battery life! I also recommend x2 battery, which seems to prolong battery life with little to no impact on the usability of the phone (at most a potential short delay on emails when not on wifi). I generally use wifi whenever possible which use much less battery than the mobile modem. Also I have disabled a few stock apps that I don't use e.g. the non-gmail (stock) email app. The phone is not rooted and using stock o2 JB rom.
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Wow sick battery life, do you have the MAXX HD?
I think it is as well. I admit it may be a little "inflated" by using Wi-Fi mainly rather but impressive nevertheless. Wi-Fi or not I generally experience good battery life. I have the normal non-Maxx edition bought in Germany September last year.
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Love my RAZR HD
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Also have a look using Better Battery Stats app to see what your most battery hungry wakelocks are, especially Kernel wakelocks.
I had issue when I first got my razr as I was using it on a network that doesn't have Fast Dormancy yet the phone has fast dormancy enabled, so i had to freeze it and battery life improved a little.
But unfortunately fo me the main problem was where i live. I'm in a city, so it's not a lack of cell towers, but for some reason at home my battery usage is insane while connected to mobile data, 9%-11% an hour with no use compared to 2%-5% elsewhere around the city. (Am thinking it must be getting bounced from tower t tower trying to get a better H+ connection) As soon as I switch over to wi-fi tho (which I have set to always on,) my battery usage drops to about 0.8%-1.2% per hour in standby.
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I am only getting around 5-6 hrs of screen on time with moderate usage. Android system and android os are probably the main problem that is causing this battery drain. Can you guys show me how ur battery life is and if u are having the same problems.
Also does ur battery stats show mobile data turned on even when it is off??
That's not bad, it is average for a phone with such power. The Note 3 was the same way. That is why they made and sold the Zero lemon battery and case for it. Which was three batteries combined.
Mines been up 13 hours and is down to 57% with the screen being 37% of the load becuase I keep brightness on max at a times. I also have bluetooth on all the time for my car as well as SPARK looking for a connection all the time.
Yeah 5 to 6 hours of screen on time is pretty good. I would say if you want anything more you need to get an extended battery.
Let your WiFi sleep when screen is off.
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Let your WiFi sleep when screen is off.
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If your wifi sleeps when the screen is off, it will use 3/4G to collect data. I wonder if that is better or worse?
I believe the wifi scanning will drain the battery more. If you are truely concerned, you can download deep sleep battery saver and it will turn everything off.
I consider that Pretty good battery life coming from the n5.
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That's pretty good battery life. I've never had a phone that could make it more than 4-5 hours screen on, not without disabling half the **** I use.
Im at 39 percent after 16+ hours
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I get the same 4 to 5 hrs screen time, which is amazing. what are u smoking, OP?
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I got 24 hr screen on time today.....plugged in. I'm sure I can get longer screen time too!
I used the 50% off coupon code Samsung sent me for buying the phone to order the spare battery and charger from their store... After code it was only $20! Now I'm not worried about battery life lol. Just arrived yesterday
And THIS thread is the reason I'm looking forward to my upgrade date Nov 1st. My Nexus 5 tapped out after 6 hours with only 2 hours of screen on time.
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I've had 8 hrs of screen on time with moderate use on my note 3. Even the s5 that I've used gotten better screen on time than the note 4
Tried installing better battery stats, required install as system app and wasn't working.
Now it won't uninstall, reboots phone!
Can someone help?
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Tried installing better battery stats, required install as system app and wasn't working.
Now it won't uninstall, reboots phone!
Can someone help?
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Remove it from your system apps
I'm actually very happy with my battery life. I had a rooted GS3 before the Note 4 and I bought the ZeroLemon extended battery for the S3. I had decent battery life on that but I use my phone so much, with the screen on, that I wanted to stay off the charger for more than 4-5 hours at a time.
I was concerned about the battery life with the Note 4 before I got it because I've never had a Galaxy Note before. I have to say that I absolutely love the phone and the battery life I've been getting! I'm not rooted, at least not yet. I'm getting 6.5 to just over 8 hours of screen on with moderate to heavy usage. I am on WiFi almost all the time. I hardly make or receive phone calls but I do text and use WhatsApp a lot. No Bluetooth, no NFC, haptic feedback turned off for everything, brightness turned down very low. Mobile data turned off when I'm home since I'm on WiFi. I use the s-pen quite a bit. I use Tasker to change some settings when I go out, come home, etc. I play games (Restaurant Story, Stand O' Food, and some others daily), watch YouTube, Facebook, XDA app, lots of reading articles using Chrome Beta, lots of apps that I'm sure don't tax the phone too much. I use the black background for every app that has it as an option. Now if I've been playing GTA: San Andreas then the battery crashes fast. LOL But that's expected.
Anyway, I'm just trying to give an idea of what I do on my phone. I consider my usage to be pretty heavy but everyone has their own opinion of what heavy or moderate usage means.
Edit: amazingly I just hit 9 hours of screen on. I'm down to 2%. Now that I hit 9 hours I can plug my charger in. LOL Saw it getting close so I waited.
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Dont know about you sir but the battery is amazing on my end.....moderate use at work all day and the phone is still on 92%.....
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I'm actually very happy with my battery life. I had a rooted GS3 before the Note 4 and I bought the ZeroLemon extended battery for the S3. I had decent battery life on that but I use my phone so much, with the screen on, that I wanted to stay off the charger for more than 4-5 hours at a time.
I was concerned about the battery life with the Note 4 before I got it because I've never had a Galaxy Note before. I have to say that I absolutely love the phone and the battery life I've been getting! I'm not rooted, at least not yet. I'm getting 6.5 to just over 8 hours of screen on with moderate to heavy usage. I am on WiFi almost all the time. I hardly make or receive phone calls but I do text and use WhatsApp a lot. No Bluetooth, no NFC, haptic feedback turned off for everything, brightness turned down very low. Mobile data turned off when I'm home since I'm on WiFi. I use the s-pen quite a bit. I use Tasker to change some settings when I go out, come home, etc. I play games (Restaurant Story, Stand O' Food, and some others daily), watch YouTube, Facebook, XDA app, lots of reading articles using Chrome Beta, lots of apps that I'm sure don't tax the phone too much. I use the black background for every app that has it as an option. Now if I've been playing GTA: San Andreas then the battery crashes fast. LOL But that's expected.
Anyway, I'm just trying to give an idea of what I do on my phone. I consider my usage to be pretty heavy but everyone has their own opinion of what heavy or moderate usage means.
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Edit: amazingly I just hit 9 hours of screen on. I'm down to 2%. Now that I hit 9 hours I can plug my charger in. LOL Saw it getting close so I waited.
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Wow that is awesome. I have never seen a device get that much screen on time without being rooted. Is it a software problem for me then that is causing a battery drain ?