I recently bought the oneplus one and was a lot disappointed with the battery life! The max I got with many combination of ROMs and kernels was 3 hrs.
But finally after experimenting a lot, this is the best combination-
- Install stock cm11s ( Latest Version, in the screenshot ).
- Unlock the bootloader, root and install TWRP recovery.
- Install the latest franco kernel ( Latest Kitkat version, in the screenshot )
-Now in the settings go to PRIVACY -> PRIVACY GAURD -> Press the button in the top right and select SHOW BULIT-IN APPS -> Long press on GOOGLE PLAY SERVICES -> And now disable the options WAKE UP, KEEP AWAKE , AUTO START ( if available ) .
-Do the same for power hungry apps, for ex- Facebook.
-Switch off settings like Bluetooth and GPS when not in use ( Don't keep them on forever ).
-Try to keep brightness as low as possible ( Till the proper visible level, don't get addicted to brighter screens ).
The following activities had been done to produce the output in the screenshot given-
-From morning 9 to 2:15 till the next morning the whole battery lastet ( Till 4% )
- 4 GOT episodes were seen.
-2 hrs of continuous music.
-Heavy chatting all day.
-Heavy browsing of Facebook and instagram.
-Many you tube videos were seen.
-Wifi was kept on all the time.
-Average brightness was about to 20%.
The only bad thing is that you have to stay on lollipop only- Till now kit kat gives the best battery life. Do now update the phone, ignore/cancel the ota updates!
No bugs or so- Sometimes small bugs might irritate you ( Common in all android phones )
Questions/Suggestions all acceptable.
Best hack for battery life is keeping your phone in charge...
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Really surprised but this is by far the best stock ROM I've ever had on any phone ever. The UI is not really to my liking but I can work around that with a different launcher and whatever but man the ROM itself is just amazing - it has all the features I'd flash a custom ROM for built right in. I really don't find myself wanting to root to flash custom ROMs.
Some things I've noticed that remind me of custom ROMs (cyanogenmod, AOKP, etc.) and tweaks that people usually do:
- Battery percentage in status bar is just an option - simple
- Vibration profiles - different types of vibration and can even do custom
- Vibration intensity for all haptic feedback
- Extended power widget that scrolls in notification bar
- Notification that phone is fully charged and to unplug
- Notification that you've connected to Wifi and a hidden ongoing notification (only see when you pull down shade) of the name of the Wifi AP that you're connected to
- Power saving mode that includes CPU downclock, GPU downclock, etc. Never seen that before on stock ROMs
- You can still have a shortcut screen and then go to a lock screen. Stock ICS doesn't allow this - if you have security you lose features of shortcuts, etc.
Anybody found others? I'll update as I find things.
good feedback, i am just thinking if you have the notifications running won't that drain your battery faster? how you doing on battery life with the features you running?
I had 3 hours of screen time last night (I only got it yesterday) from a full charge and it was only down to 50% so pretty good. Standby is great so far and overall battery seems very very good IMHO. Will need a week of use to know for sure.
www.theverge.com/2011/08/15/samsung-hires-cyanogenmod-founder-steve-kondik/
It's nice to see that Samsung utilized his input in their flagship product.
I had someone state that their battery life was not so hot while using Lollipop and thought I would post some stats in hope that others would do the same. These can be somewhat ambiguous because of certain settings but should provide a good look if everything is noted as outlined.
1. Device: V510 GPE
2. Android version: 4.4.4 KitKat
3. Kernel, Stock or Custom: sleekai7.0KK
4. Screen on time: 7:23 minutes with 17% battery remaining
5. uses: about 5 hours kindle, 1.5 Dolphin with a little video play, and the rest in Facebook and weather apps.
6. Other running apps: Xposed, knock-on, weather widget, greader pro widget.
7.Screen Brightness Average: about 1/3 - not very bright.
8.Total time on: only 12.5 hours. (A little purposeful just for this report).
Not very scientific I know. But should give a reasonable idea of what devices, Roms, Versions, and Kernels are doing.
I numbered these so you don't have to write out everything.
Hope others will take a minute or two to respond!.
I with my v500 seem to have a change with lollipop as well. I am going to install better battery stats and see what I can find out.
Cm12 infected
RedKernel
HD widget
More details as I gather them
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Ok, I have settled in to cm12 now and after a clean reinstall and a newer nightly my battery life is now only slightly worse than before lollipop.
I am rebooting regularly however due to the memory leak I have heard discussed (tasker automatically reboots for me at 3am...)
Hi guys
Iam using redmi note 2.
I noticed since the update of late june or early july, that the phone close any app in the background, even just after seconds of switching to another one.
I tried to adjust the setting at the permission, yet nothing happens.
Any idea?
Go to developer options and turn off miui optimization to off and turn off advanced layouts option in dev option... Then after reboot go to battery and performance option in settings and select ( manage apps battery usage) then tap on advanced like 7 times and u will get ultimate option then select it and reboot..I hope it reduces ram consumption... In my redmi 2 it works good now and battery backup is improved.
We all know that the Z3+ battery is quite disappointing, it barely reaches 5:30 hours of SOT in best case scenario.
I've tried every little trick in the book, including modified kernels, different ROMs, underclocking CPU cores, and so on.
And all of these methods seemed to squeeze a max of 30 extra minutes of battery life, it isn't worth the trouble.
But finally, I managed to get 8 hours of SOT in my Xperia E6533, I'll share the method with you "Although it might seem a little basic, but this is the only method that actually made me get whole two extra hours of SOT".
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What I did was:
- I started by doing a clean install of 32.2.A.5.11 ftf "By clean I mean I wiped everything, Userdata, Cache, everything"
- I flashed the stock kernel with TWRP included and DRM fixed "I'll include the kernel I modded using Serjar's rootkernel tool in another thread", I tried several other kernels, but for me, the stock one was most suitable.
- Installed Xposed and SuperSU from TWRP "Optional"
- Installed "Hide Stamina Mode Icon" Xposed module from Xposed Repository "Optional"
- I enabled Stamina Mode "Always"
- I went to Battery Optimization and ticked the apps that I want them to have internet access all the time "Even when the screen is off".
- Stamina Mode works like a charm in android M, Unlike android N, it doesn't seem to cause any lag, it only removed unnecessary animations.
- I went to about phone > Build number > 5 times > Developer mode.
- Removed any other animation from Developer mode like Transition, Window, and Animator duration.
- Went to Settings > More > Mobile Network.
- Changed preferred network type to WCDMA/GSM instead of LTE/WCDMA/GSM "Keep it on if you have an LTE connection"
- Went to my router settings > changed the channel bandwidth to 20MHZ instead of 20/40MHZ.
- Removed any third-party kill apps like greenify, etc, while I highly appreciate its effectiveness, Stamina mode seemed to work better on its own.
- Went to Settings > Display > Tap to wake up / Smart backlight control / Daydream / Image Enhancement > Disabled "Image enhancement really doesn't seem to make a noticeable difference".
- Removed weather widget.
- Disabled NFC "optional".
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All of these basic and simple steps seemed to work better than the complicated ones, and thanks to them, I was able to get full 8 hours of normal SOT "Wifi, Facebook, Messenger, YouTube, Social Media, Movies" on my Xperia Z3+ "Screenshots in attachments"
Would this affect the camera quality since it uses Stamina?
I would like to charge the mobile twice rather to lose beauty of OS and carry a spare feature phone with loooooooong battery time for use in emergency.
Nokia 1208
Exactly. I too carry along a good old Nokia 1208 that I only use for GSM based services, and I only gotta charge it ONCE a week. Incredible! I use my Xperia Z3 heavily of course and that one is charged daily.
waseemakhtar said:
I would like to charge the mobile twice rather to lose beauty of OS and carry a spare feature phone with loooooooong battery time for use in emergency.
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It's all about preferences, for me the beauty was never in these small animations, because I used to disable them from developer options anyway.
story said:
Would this affect the camera quality since it uses Stamina?
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Not that I know of, I didn't spot any difference
Hi guys,
My phone is having sleeping problems. He's just not relaxed and is constantly bothered by something and this tension keeps waking him up many times, even though he is supposed to rest! I've tried my best to give him the right conditions - no Wi-Fi, no BT, full Airplain Mode, yet it is simply not enough.
I attach some images to make it clear.
[edit: why is Google Play Services doing all that? Could they just stop messing up with my hardware - GPS, CPU and so on?]
YD-206 with software for 201
root
TWRP
Xposed - Greenify
NovaLauncher
Nothing special
Is there any hope?
Thanks
Absolutely the same problems on my YD-201 6.0.1 with the same configurations (TWRP, Xposed, Greenify, NovaLauncher + Stock Battery Optimization). Besides, my wifi cannot be disabled, it is always active whatever i try. It is always on search mode even it is disabled. Hey, how do you get the dark theme for stock settings menu? And is your Battery Optimization Settings active?
Android Version?
What's the android version do you have? Lollipop or Marahmallow, i have YD206 with YD201 software, it has some issues with lolli and others with Marsh.
Do you have the hybrid Radio? The european or the chinese? If you dont even know then i suggest you to install the hybrid radio, it solves problems with the battery drain and the warm issues (yota hell xD).
I dont use greenify, i just use the freezing mode from titanium backup.
sozen said:
Absolutely the same problems on my YD-201 6.0.1 with the same configurations (TWRP, Xposed, Greenify, NovaLauncher + Stock Battery Optimization). Besides, my wifi cannot be disabled, it is always active whatever i try. It is always on search mode even it is disabled. Hey, how do you get the dark theme for stock settings menu? And is your Battery Optimization Settings active?
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An update: THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER [after installing Better Wifi on/off (read below)]
1. I'm using Greenify and have hibernated many applications - this might be one of the solutions to the Wi-Fi usage. (See attached zip file for which apps are hibernated)
2. I installed an app called Better Wifi on/off version 2.1.0.0 from Google Play Store and have set the rules how to turn on/off (See also attached zip file for the exact set-up).
3. The Wifi sometimes appear to be ON on Battery Usage Graphic, but actual battery consumption is not noticed. The the normal consumption for 'Phone idle' is about 3-4% per day (around 120 mA). This would suggest that the phone will be able to last around 20 days if totally idle.
4. BLUETOOTH BUG - somewhere in this forum I read that after connecting the phone via Bluetooth to some external gadget (in my case UE Roll 2 music box), even after disconnecting, the Bluetooth causes Wakelock and this dramatically drains the battery!!! (See screenshot) The solution is Restart of the phone. On the Battery graphic you can clearly see the drain from Awake and after that I did a Restart and let the phone stay idle - the usage dropped immediately!
5. I'm using stock Battery Optimization
6. [OFF-TOPIC] To make background color for menus dark I use projekt.substratum_490_minAPI23.com.apk (attached to the post) and after installing it, I downloaded the theme InversionUI from Google Play Store. (I can't stand white/bright colors on my screen, especially at night, and knowing what it does to my battery since I'm on AMOLED display).
KoneB said:
What's the android version do you have? Lollipop or Marahmallow, i have YD206 with YD201 software, it has some issues with lolli and others with Marsh.
Do you have the hybrid Radio? The european or the chinese? If you dont even know then i suggest you to install the hybrid radio, it solves problems with the battery drain and the warm issues (yota hell xD).
I dont use greenify, i just use the freezing mode from titanium backup.
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All your questions are answered by the Screenshots in my first post - have a look.