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THIS THREAD WAS INSPIRED BY MOST OFF YOU WHO ARE TRYING TO GET MAXIMUM BATTERY LIFE WITH SOME CUSTOM ROMS.
Before Galaxy S3, I had Galaxy S2 which battery wasn't soo good. I was always searching for battery friendly roms and I was flashing one or two roms every day.After every custom rom I was thought like that: Why I done that, when every stock firmware gives better result(battery life and performance) then any custom rom. I know that there are some excellent custom roms, for me ,these are STOCK LOOK roms with bloatware deleted and some unused apps. But, we don't need to flash them when we can do that alone.
NOW,I HAVE GALAXY S3 :
Let's see my result on stock battery,stock rom (4.1.2 , DDELK1,XXELLC), and with some apps turned off in application manager,battery saving is turned on just for color of backoground,nothing else.That was heavy usage,I installed that firmware updated, all appps that I am using , and charged it. Viber,WhatsApp,Instagram,Sync,Wifi,3G,Facebook,Gmail, are always ON.
Results:
4h of screen on,phone was used(wasn't just screen on) , 52% battery left. I lose about 3-4% maximum during the night ( 7-8 hours) with wifi on.
See this on attachments.
Mostly ,my battery lasts for 2 days, I achieve min. 5,5 hours screen on in every charge with hd gaming,facebook,gmail,whatsapp,viber, about 40min-1h talk in 3g every day.
My tips for battery life improvement are:
-Turn the Energy saving(I turned it on just for background color i vibration,if you turn on full battery saving you will get much better result, but it seems to slow and laggy)
-Turn off apps that you aren't using in app manager( Settings,Application Manager,All > than find apps which are unusal for you. I turned off : All yahoo apps,samsung suggest,google +,flipboard,dual clock,chat on ,all samsung hubs because they doesnt work in my country, google maps(I use google earth).)
That's all. Enjoy that battery,that performance and that beauty of stock rom
I can get 7.5 hrs screen on over 3 days battery was better on ics but still pretty darn good
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Odp: Samsung Galaxy S3 *AWESOME STOCK BATTERY LIFE*
Hi Guys,
This is actually my 1st post, but I was looking around xda for couple of months now.
I am using stock rooted XXELLA with Siyah kernel. I can make my phone last easily for 2 days, with 2g mostly on, disabled lots of unused apps, lowest brightness, sync off, etc. and UC to 1200 mhz. I'm using pegasusq gov and noop scheduler.
But I can't imagine 4 hours screen on and get 52% battery left, or get 7,5 hrs totally. I always monitor the usage with BetterBatteryStats and when the screen is off I can even get about 4-6 hrs / 1%. But I can't reach >5,5-6 hrs screen on. Any suggestions? Do you think I can lower the min. brightness in build.prop?
Btw, I think if you share your battery stats, it would be nice if you also share your governor/scheduler and OC/UV values.
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p33t-r said:
Hi Guys,
This is actually my 1st post, but I was looking around xda for couple of months now.
I am using stock rooted XXELLA with Siyah kernel. I can make my phone last easily for 2 days, with 2g mostly on, disabled lots of unused apps, lowest brightness, sync off, etc. and UC to 1200 mhz. I'm using pegasusq gov and noop scheduler.
But I can't imagine 4 hours screen on and get 52% battery left, or get 7,5 hrs totally. I always monitor the usage with BetterBatteryStats and when the screen is off I can even get about 4-6 hrs / 1%. But I can't reach >5,5-6 hrs screen on. Any suggestions? Do you think I can lower the min. brightness in build.prop?
Btw, I think if you share your battery stats, it would be nice if you also share your governor/scheduler and OC/UV values.
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Everything is fully stock.
Suggestion for you: flash stock firmware, do wipe of everything from recovery and enjoy
Ausboy 2011 said:
I can get 7.5 hrs screen on over 3 days battery was better on ics but still pretty darn good
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How do you get 7.5 hours?
mariotg said:
THIS THREAD WAS INSPIRED BY MOST OFF YOU WHO ARE TRYING TO GET MAXIMUM BATTERY LIFE WITH SOME CUSTOM ROMS.
Before Galaxy S3, I had Galaxy S2 which battery wasn't soo good. I was always searching for battery friendly roms and I was flashing one or two roms every day.After every custom rom I was thought like that: Why I done that, when every stock firmware gives better result(battery life and performance) then any custom rom. I know that there are some excellent custom roms, for me ,these are STOCK LOOK roms with bloatware deleted and some unused apps. But, we don't need to flash them when we can do that alone.
NOW,I HAVE GALAXY S3 :
Let's see my result on stock battery,stock rom (4.1.2 , DDELK1,XXELLC), and with some apps turned off in application manager,battery saving is turned on just for color of backoground,nothing else.That was heavy usage,I installed that firmware updated, all appps that I am using , and charged it. Viber,WhatsApp,Instagram,Sync,Wifi,3G,Facebook,Gmail, are always ON.
Results:
4h of screen on,phone was used(wasn't just screen on) , 52% battery left. I lose about 3-4% maximum during the night ( 7-8 hours) with wifi on.
See this on attachments.
Mostly ,my battery lasts for 2 days, I achieve min. 5,5 hours screen on in every charge with hd gaming,facebook,gmail,whatsapp,viber, about 40min-1h talk in 3g every day.
My tips for battery life improvement are:
-Turn the Energy saving(I turned it on just for background color i vibration,if you turn on full battery saving you will get much better result, but it seems to slow and laggy)
-Turn off apps that you aren't using in app manager( Settings,Application Manager,All > than find apps which are unusal for you. I turned off : All yahoo apps,samsung suggest,google +,flipboard,dual clock,chat on ,all samsung hubs because they doesnt work in my country, google maps(I use google earth).)
That's all. Enjoy that battery,that performance and that beauty of stock rom
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i do exactly the same thing like you did. I am searching for custom roms giving the best battery life with good performance. But it seems like i cant get over 4 hours screen on time (especially with data turned on).
I dont know how you got that kind of amazing result... 4h screen on time with 52% battery left. wow...
I never turned on power saving mode cause i just dont like the laggy system performance. do u have any advice what to do to achieve the same battery life without having a laggy slow phone?
Odp: Samsung Galaxy S3 *AWESOME STOCK BATTERY LIFE*
mariotg said:
Everything is fully stock.
Suggestion for you: flash stock firmware, do wipe of everything from recovery and enjoy
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I don't think it would make any difference, since I have only few apps, I don't like putting garbage to my phone Could you maybe share kernel and partial wakelocks from BBS, maybe cpu states too?
And again about the 4h screen / 52% left - how did you use the phone? I can see no games, so only web surf etc?
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Everyone uses their phone differently so comparing battery life is not possible, someone who demands smooth scrolling and instant response is not going to get 2 days use or more than 4hr screen on time.
Personally I'm not worried by stutters or lag, I'd rather get 9hr screen on time over 48hr up time - this is with a super lite ROM, I have all the bell and whistles turned off and all power saving options on, as close to AOSP as a stock based ROM can get.
I'm very happy with this phone, compared to my old htc sensation I no longer worry about battery life, I have two batteries which get swapped over between phone and desk charger every two days, unless playing games when I only get 1 day life.
boomboomer said:
Everyone uses their phone differently so comparing battery life is not possible, someone who demands smooth scrolling and instant response is not going to get 2 days use.
Personally I'm not worried by stutters or lag, I'd rather get 9hr screen on time over 48hr up time - this is with a super lite ROM, I have all the bell and whistles turned off, as close to AOSP as a stock based ROM can get.
I'm very happy with this phone, compared to my old htc sensation I no longer worry about battery life, I have two batteries which get swapped over between phone and desk charger every two days, unless playing games when I only get 1 day life.
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On which rom you get 9hr screen? link?
p33t-r said:
I don't think it would make any difference, since I have only few apps, I don't like putting garbage to my phone Could you maybe share kernel and partial wakelocks from BBS, maybe cpu states too?
And again about the 4h screen / 52% left - how did you use the phone? I can see no games, so only web surf etc?
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Web surfing,facebook,viber,whatsapp. - always use them
Stock kernel,stock everything. I say again. If I need to repeat 10 times, ok.
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On which rom you get 9hr screen? link?
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Vikingway, search in development. Best not start a ROM discussion or this thread with get locked, try it yourself and see.
I'm inspired by your story. But i smell BS.
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Hd revolution 23, 3, 6 days 4h without sim card but wifi turn on, sync all my email and social accounts and dropbox and skydrive , took 243 pictures one movie with 10m, play some games for 15m per day. Go to facebook 15m per day
My battery Is better than ipad xD
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Ive done a cahrge and until now 9:30h 5% battery drain
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I don't think this is all that spectacular to be completely honest. 4hours screen on time with 5hour since unplugged - pretty much nonstop use. Just my opinion though.
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Hey op, sorry to say this but you might be wrong. For battery life it depends on kernels and tweaks rather than on roms. Roms are actually just themed/stock themed firmwares with additional apps/removed apps and pre-installed tweaks and kernels. Most roms use v6 supercharger tweak. For me I use phenomenal kernel which has undervolted and underclocked gpu and cpu. But if you want more options with oc/uv try boeffla kernel where there"s an app included that allows you to over/underclock you gpu and cpu. By underclocking, it will save more battery. My ohone lasted about 12+ hours of continuous use of my phone (gaming, watching videos) with the kernels I use
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Vikingway, search in development. Best not start a ROM discussion or this thread with get locked, try it yourself and see.
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which version of vikinway?
I have had over 8 hours of screen time, but that was literally not using phone just leaving screen on with videos playing for a lot of the time, but everyday usage using the Xperia Rom I get about 5 hours. I charge every night so don't need 2 day 3 day usage etc, unless my plane crashes onto a deserted island where I have to survive with no form of electricity anywhere.
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So to summarise op. You have created this thread to advise people to turn off a few apps and turn on power save mode. Ingenious.
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Mr Woolf said:
To summarise op. You have created this thread to advise people to turn off a few apps and turn on power saving mode. Ingenious.
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Agree, the op's a total noob. Turning on power saving mode and closing apps is what an average user with common sense would do. What's so awesome and special about that. This thread is rubbish for advanced users but somewhat useful for a no brainer
mariotg said:
How do you get 7.5 hours?
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That's right...i don't know how the battery can be used that long...
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Installed the Rogers 4.4.2 build. So far I am quite impressed. The active notification unlock is as fast as 4.2.2, if not faster.
The Rogers build does have some build specific features I really like - HSPA is displayed "H+" (not 4G) and the LTE is displayed as "LTE", not 4GLTE. I see there is also an option to specifically select 2G, 3G or LTE.
The only downside is the provider name is displayed in the upper left(why why why)
The signal meter is displayed using 5 bars, the tmobile/retail/dev firmware only has 4, again, why?
The new bootloader version to go with 4.4.2 is 30.B4
Steve-x said:
Installed the Rogers 4.4.2 build. So far I am quite impressed. The active notification unlock is as fast as 4.2.2, if not faster.
The Rogers build does have some build specific features I really like - HSPA is displayed "H+" (not 4G) and the LTE is displayed as "LTE", not 4GLTE. I see there is also an option to specifically select 2G, 3G or LTE.
The only downside is the provider name is displayed in the upper left(why why why)
The signal meter is displayed using 5 bars, the tmobile/retail/dev firmware only has 4, again, why?
The new bootloader version to go with 4.4.2 is 30.B4
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Cool to know! A quick question: is Google Now Hot Word detection being fixed? Thx!
ART fixed, no more calendar storage problems, FCs?
Cons
I've noticed the icons (in the notification bar) no longer turn blue when they are in use. I miss that.
I don't like the reduced size of the numbers on the dialer.
Pros
The full screen art on lock screen when playing music from Slacker or Google music
Much better and less vibration when unlocking the screen.
Is it me or does touchless control seem faster?
No longer a space between wifi icon and signal strength
Anybody notice touch input is faster/smoother?!
I haven't noticed anything else on 4.4.2 vs 4.2.2
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Camera? Low light performance, does it still crank the iso way up?
I haven't used ART, my fav app doesn't work with it so no point for me. Camera is the same as in 4.4 from what I can - so better then 4.2.2 but not amazing or anything.
The icons in the built in wifi/bt/gps/sync toggle widget have changed.
I see the phone also has boot services now, same as the Moto G, not sure what this all does but it is how they added the holiday bootup to the Moto G so perhaps they have more of that planned for us in the future.
I am still impressed with the speed things seem to be running at. So far in terms of performance 4.4.2 seems to be a winner.
Has Android OS drain been fixed?
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Has Android OS drain been fixed?
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I haven't used it long enough to say, although I never felt I had an Android OS drain issue. I think the Android OS drain usage may include the always listening feature. If you put the phone into airplane mode and just let it sit there it will run for less then a week with the always listening feature running, with it disabled the phone will run for nearly a month.(been testing this with my spare phone)
Steve-x said:
I haven't used it long enough to say, although I never felt I had an Android OS drain issue. I think the Android OS drain usage may include the always listening feature. If you put the phone into airplane mode and just let it sit there it will run for less then a week with the always listening feature running, with it disabled the phone will run for nearly a month.(been testing this with my spare phone)
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Guess you're one of the lucky few. Even with 3 hours of screen on time Android OS continues to be the top drainer on my phone
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Yap its still there, although I'm not running stock but Gummy ROM 4.4.2 and previously cm11 4.4.2 for over a month, only minor improvements from 4.2.2 and 4.4 which is was running stock, it ain't going away unless Google decides to remove location based apps and all their gapps from android
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Maybe that is it then, I leave the GPS off, only turn it on if I need to use google maps, also leave wifi off. I have never seen high Android usage yet.
Steve-x said:
Maybe that is it then, I leave the GPS off, only turn it on if I need to use google maps, also leave wifi off. I have never seen high Android usage yet.
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I have never seen high enough Android usage to cause worry and I leave GPS and Wi-Fi on all the time. Usually get 4.5 hours screen-on time, sometimes more if I don't use Google Maps Navigation or listen to a lot of podcasts. Today it's been off the charger for 9.5 hours with over 3 hours of screen-on time and I'm still at 48%. After the screen, Android OS is the top drainer at 20%, but who cares if I'm getting such amazing battery life?
I'm noticing worse battery life on 4.4.2 (using ART), I'm Only getting 2 and a half of screen on time vs 5 hours on 4.2.2.
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Jamolah said:
I'm noticing worse battery life on 4.4.2 (using ART), I'm Only getting 2 and a half of screen on time vs 5 hours on 4.2.2.
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Don't use ART unless you're willing to make a few tradeoffs. It's not even in beta form. It's more like an alpha build; it's mainly for developers to test for future Android builds that switch to a mature version of ART. The Moto X libraries are highly optimized for Dalvik, so this includes any Motorola optimizations for the S4 Pro and Moto features (Active Notifications, Touchless Control).
Alternatively, you can hunt for wakelocks and see what's keeping the phone awake. Personally, I've noticed the phone goes into deep sleep less with ART enabled. I like the idea of ART, but most apps just aren't completely ready for it and can behave differently. Most worked fine for me, but I also had more battery drain.
I can't wait for AOT compiling to be the primary runtime.
My phone no longer flickers gray after the fade out of an active notification. I wonder what they did...
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Jamolah said:
Cons
I've noticed the icons (in the notification bar) no longer turn blue when they are in use. I miss that.
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Yeah, some of the Kit Kat style changes take some getting used to.. SEE -> http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/1...nd-only-shows-connectivity-in-quick-settings/
Jason.DROID said:
Don't use ART unless you're willing to make a few tradeoffs. It's not even in beta form. It's more like an alpha build; it's mainly for developers to test for future Android builds that switch to a mature version of ART. The Moto X libraries are highly optimized for Dalvik, so this includes any Motorola optimizations for the S4 Pro and Moto features (Active Notifications, Touchless Control).
Alternatively, you can hunt for wakelocks and see what's keeping the phone awake. Personally, I've noticed the phone goes into deep sleep less with ART enabled. I like the idea of ART, but most apps just aren't completely ready for it and can behave differently. Most worked fine for me, but I also had more battery drain.
I can't wait for AOT compiling to be the primary runtime.
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You are so right. I switched to DALVIK last night and already notice better battery life.
Like I mentioned with ART I was on 3 hours of screen on time (SOT) and battery was 1%
With DALVIK I'm at 4 hours SOT and I'm at 46% battery life.
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Any changes to the camera performance, specifically low light quality, speed and is the LCD caused banding still there.
Jamolah said:
You are so right. I switched to DALVIK last night and already notice better battery life.
Like I mentioned with ART I was on 3 hours of screen on time (SOT) and battery was 1%
With DALVIK I'm at 4 hours SOT and I'm at 46% battery life.
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+1 on this; sadly, ART is not for daily use yet..
Can anyone comment as to whether "touchless controls" for music is better at playing songs with 4.4.2? Posters in the Nexus 5 forum stated it was better after 4.4.2 update.
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
Hey people. I've been using Alemtro95's international versions for quite a while now and i'm in love with them. Best ROMs.
I recently updated to the latest version. Battery life isn't very good for me
As i'm a new user i'm unable to post any screenshots :/
The battery has dropped from 100% to 60% in just 2 hours!
And this is with data DISABLED. Zero photography and no gaming at all. Only browsing XDA using chrome and now the XDA app
And i use Greenify too.
This thread is for battery life discussion of android 6 Marshmallow.
I took the plunge recently and installed cm13 nightly on my phone after a couple of days with sultan's cm13 ROM. One notice that the android team really got the battery optimisations right this time especially when coming from android 5.1. The cell standby and android system bug is now gone and the phone can now be in standby for a long time. My usage pattern is browsing, reading in Adobe reader, listening to mucisc with bluetooth headphones, facebook, wassup, some youtube videos, sms and few calls. I play farm heros sometimes but I don't play graphical intensive games.
Here are 2 screenshots of my phone. It was charged to 100% at 8:00am on 30/11/2015 and it still has 41% left as at 10:00am 02/12/2015 Granted I have only used it on wifi and I configured wifi to automatically disable 5 minutes after the screen is off.
You can post you battery life too.
We already have a thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2753354 @Darth @Heisenberg please close off this thread if need be?
Bobbi lim said:
We already have a thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2753354 @Darth @Heisenberg please close off this thread if need be?
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If a moderator deem it fit, he/she can close the thread but I felt it will be nice to make a dedicated thread for Marshmallow instead of looking through a big thread to get the relevant information needed for a particular android version.
lallolu said:
If a moderator deem it fit, he/she can close the thread but I felt it will be nice to make a dedicated thread for Marshmallow instead of looking through a big thread to get the relevant information needed for a particular android version.
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yes.
It still sucks on mobile data. Nothing changed from Lollipop in regards of mobile data battery drain and i wish google could do something about it.
That's it! It's still on LP niveau
i had around 2 hours of screen on time and less than a day's battery life. The MMS also didn't work with WiFi connected, so I switched back to CM12.
I finally charged the phone today but not before I took a screenshot. My usage is not heavy at all so for heavy users, I guess the SOT will be longer but the total number of hours the phone was on will be lower. My usage did not change form that of 5.1 but I can definitely see a great change in standby time.
Still doesn't beat out KitKat in terms of heavy usage IMO.
The performance(yield) of the battery essuperior to android 5.1. The cycle of load lasts approximately two hours more of screen.
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Still doesn't beat out KitKat in terms of heavy usage IMO.
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Try Omniron Herna build, it does wonders on my phone regarding battery usage
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6.0 has the same battery life as 5.x for me. about 4-5h SoT.
KitKat and early 5.0 builds were clearly better with 8h SoT
Currently running Sultan's ROM CM13:
My battery life has hugely improved when I'm not touching the phone, no one app is draining way to much battery while not in the foreground.
There is one problem some people including me have been experiencing which is that Wi-Fi doesn't switch of properly and drains the battery, the only solution I found was to reboot the device after switching it off.
Not sure if this is a CM problem or the specific rom but not AOSP.
But apart from that battery life is good.
On sultan CM 13 CAF
Getting 4-5 hrs of SOT
Still waiting on a fix for mobile radio active. Had to go back to KitKat after a year on 5.x and a week or so on cm13. The difference in battery is staggering. Here's hoping Google actually finds a solution for the drain, otherwise I'm gonna have to stick to KitKat until I get a new phone.
I dont worry much abt battery charge ..currently on CM13.. dont see much of difference ... expect charge to last for 1 day.. connect to charging when home
Tech guys suggest me best battery rom for OPO don't fun with me by saying cm11s 44s. Almost 1 year stick to cm11 I need some latest android version in my device,
I'm new to xda
Thanks in advance!
Just stole myself this glorious phone yesterday (not really.. got a smokin deal) after 3 years and a month on a Nexus 4 that was left stock the entire time. My OPO is already rooted/unlocked so I'm trying to test out and find the best rom for battery life as both of the cm lollipop and marshmallow roms I've tried are about equal in terms of buttery-ness and just stick with that rom indefinitely.
Is general consensus that cm11 kit kat is far superior to the later cm roms in terms of battery life? Which exact rom would you choose as the last rom you flash onto your OPO ever?
bachera said:
Try Omniron Herna build, it does wonders on my phone regarding battery usage
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Is really smooth, whats kind of SOT are you getting with this rom? Any tips
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tankhood said:
Is really smooth, whats kind of SOT are you getting with this rom? Any tips
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oh screen on time 6 hours with browsing and light resource using gaming
every other rom falls short.
I have to say it was the november builds that got me that. with some tweaking. same tweaking I do on all roms
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