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Good heavens the battery is killer on this thing. I've been using it off-and-on for 24 hours (minus a few hours for sleep), and I still have about a quarter charge left.
I mean, I don't do really heavy-duty stuff with it... mostly Google Talk, Chrome, and Pulse, but for me, that's just the way I work.
Other thoughts, I like the keyboard, but I wish there was a small layer of number keys at the top, similar to HP's TouchPad.
Wifi performance has been great so far. No problems there.
Also, I read some accounts about text seeming blurry or something, but I honestly have no idea what those folks are talking about. Text is crystal clear.
When browsing, a lot of the sites I use revert to the mobile versions. This is maddening, especially when those sites don't create a clear way to get to the desktop version.
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Good heavens the battery is killer on this thing. I've been using it off-and-on for 24 hours (minus a few hours for sleep), and I still have about a quarter charge left.
I mean, I don't do really heavy-duty stuff with it... mostly Google Talk, Chrome, and Pulse, but for me, that's just the way I work.
Other thoughts, I like the keyboard, but I wish there was a small layer of number keys at the top, similar to HP's TouchPad.
Wifi performance has been great so far. No problems there.
Also, I read some accounts about text seeming blurry or something, but I honestly have no idea what those folks are talking about. Text is crystal clear.
When browsing, a lot of the sites I use revert to the mobile versions. This is maddening, especially when those sites don't create a clear way to get to the desktop version.
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Type "about:debug" in your browser, then go to the options and you'll see a debug menu where you can change the User Agent to desktop. This will fix the mobile website problem.
I tried this and no menu pops up. Your are supposed to type about:debug in the URL field correct? This has been driving me crazy as well
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I tried this and no menu pops up. Your are supposed to type about:debug in the URL field correct? This has been driving me crazy as well
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Nothing pops up. You type about:debug and then go to the regular settings tab and you have new options. took me a little while to figure out as well.
It drove me nuts too. Example on Facebook whenever you clicked HOME it reverted to a mobile version and said something on the bottom about downloading it for your Aria.
I downloaded HD Dolphin Browser and set it to DESKTOP in the settings and have been happy with it.
I'll try the DEBUG thing mentioned above though... I do like the stock browser better overall in performance.
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Thanks! This worked for me.
So HD Dolphin works on the XOOM?
That's great to know. I have always hated Android's stock browsers. They're so slow. Dolphin HD is so much better.
The Battery life is phenomenal i've been using it from 5:30 am and it's now 11:30 am and i still have 85% left . I'm not so sure about the keyboard , Swiftkey demo a keyboard made for the Xoom which looked great , i searched for it in the market but it's not there yet . The browser could be better but i'm not worried about that i know browsers will be coming out for it soon ,overall it's a great Tablet . Just tried FPse emulator and it works full screen on the Xoom only needs some minor adjustment for better picture frame rate is better than on my droid x ,man this thing has potential .
Standby test
Well I did my first standby test. After 8 hours on standby with WiFi turned on, I am still at 100%! The notification light was even blinking part of the time.
Yup, it's pretty solid. I used it constantly from the time I walked out of the store to the time I went to sleep last night around midnight and I still had 24% battery life, all on the charge the device had right out of the box.
Downloading apps, web browsing, watching a little video, light gaming, some email, YouTube, spread over 12 hours. Wish I would have checked the batt percentage initially, but that is still pretty solid.
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So HD Dolphin works on the XOOM?
That's great to know. I have always hated Android's stock browsers. They're so slow. Dolphin HD is so much better.
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this. i downloaded dolphin hd on my xoom but pinch to zoom is kinda wonky. i have a different experience with the stock xoom browser, its faster.
battery life is actually great! i love it!
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So HD Dolphin works on the XOOM?
That's great to know. I have always hated Android's stock browsers. They're so slow. Dolphin HD is so much better.
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I have a Viewsonic G-Tab with Dolphin...and Dolphin is definitely faster than the FroYo browser...
But the new HoneyComb browser is wayyy faster than Dolphin...
Just wished the HC Browser had some more of the cool features of Dolphin
At 9:00 EST, I took it off the charger from overnight charging. Since then, I watched 30 min of last nights Royal Pains xvid release in Rock player, played (give or take) 2 hours of Zenonia, took notes in a class with documents to go, typing with the screen on the whole time for 40 min, browsed Pulse for 30 min, Played Angry Birds for 10 min, and did some web browing/downloaded files from market for 20 min.
It is now 4:45 EST with 54% battery life left, and brightness is at about 75%. I turned off mobile network data since I never even activated it. I kept track of time intentionally so I would know approximately how much real world usage I could actually get.
Thats approx 4 hours of usage leaving me with a little more than half the battery. Call it what you want, moderate or heavy.. I wouldn't call it light use though. To me that is pretty good, and the battery level would probably be significantly higher if it was at say 50% brightness.
I also don't know about other people, but I don't have any force closes, except for the rabbit game that brings me back to the home screen every time I finish a level.
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It drove me nuts too. Example on Facebook whenever you clicked HOME it reverted to a mobile version and said something on the bottom about downloading it for your Aria.
I downloaded HD Dolphin Browser and set it to DESKTOP in the settings and have been happy with it.
I'll try the DEBUG thing mentioned above though... I do like the stock browser better overall in performance.
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I am torn between the two....performance does seem to be a +1 for stock browser though
What I love most about the battery life of the Xoom is that it doesn't drain much when idle. I just left it home unplugged for three hours and it's still at 100%
Is the battery on the xoom easily replaceable? I know in 2 or 3 years, the battery will not last as long and I would like an option to simply buy a $30-50 dollar batter and just replacement myself without having to send it in for service (ipad)
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Is the battery on the xoom easily replaceable? I know in 2 or 3 years, the battery will not last as long and I would like an option to simply buy a $30-50 dollar batter and just replacement myself without having to send it in for service (ipad)
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ifixit did a tear down and it looks as though its possible to get to the battery, albeit you'd have to unscrew up to 10 screws to get to it. and im very sure these batteries can be purchased separately, if not officially, then via eBay.
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Motorola-Xoom-Teardown/4989/1
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Nothing pops up. You type about:debug and then go to the regular settings tab and you have new options. took me a little while to figure out as well.
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Can someone please step me thru what to do here, which option?
Google Voice
Anyone figure out how to get Google Voice on the Xoom?
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What I love most about the battery life of the Xoom is that it doesn't drain much when idle. I just left it home unplugged for three hours and it's still at 100%
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ran it out 8 hours on standby + WiFi + blinking notification light was still at 100%. Amazing standby.
I was getting horrendous battery life on my new Nexus 7 stock and rooted / custom ROM.
I decided to wipe, install zero apps except Chrome and fire away at the battery. YouTube has streamed 3 hours worth of an HD video and I'm at 72%!!! Nice!!!!
I was using FB and FB messenger, Firefox beta and really that's about it. Needless to say I'll hold off on installing them until they've been optimized with 4.3
~A happy Nexus user
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I was getting horrendous battery life on my new Nexus 7 stock and rooted / custom ROM.
I decided to wipe, install zero apps except Chrome and fire away at the battery. YouTube has streamed 3 hours worth of an HD video and I'm at 72%!!! Nice!!!!
I was using FB and FB messenger, Firefox beta and really that's about it. Needless to say I'll hold off on installing them until they've been optimized with 4.3
~A happy Nexus user
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fwiw - i have chrome, fb and ff beta also installed - no battery issues. I dont use FF messenger though.
Its FB. Seriously. Its a horribly written website with horribly written apps. It sucks information all the time.
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I'm sure my battery life would be great with no apps installed too. I'm holding off on wiping mine though, because I'm sure after I root and reinstall my stuff, the battery life will go to crap again.
On my Nexus 7 Google Services has an inordinate amount of keep awake time. So I'm hoping updates will fix the issue.
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I'm sure my battery life would be great with no apps installed too. I'm holding off on wiping mine though, because I'm sure after I root and reinstall my stuff, the battery life will go to crap again.
On my Nexus 7 Google Services has an inordinate amount of keep awake time. So I'm hoping updates will fix the issue.
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I've heard people uninstalling Google Services helps. Might cause issues elsewhere though. I think certain battery savers can limit specific apps from keeping the device awake. Im on CM and my device goes into deep sleep quite often. Like 86% of the time.
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Better battery stats always helps finding the culprit. I had some issues with suspend_backoff and it seems chrome was the issue for me.
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Its FB. Seriously. Its a horribly written website with horribly written apps. It sucks information all the time.
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A thousand times THIS.
If you really want FB install tinfoil. You lose notifications, but it's FBs garbage constant notification polling that is keeping your device awake.
Not trying to defend Facebook but.... Its not like fb doesn't have the option to turn notifications off. Chat availability off. Refresh interval to never. Messenger location off.
At some point no matter how bad the app is it comes down to user error.
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Not trying to defend Facebook but.... Its not like fb doesn't have the option to turn notifications off. Chat availability off. Refresh interval to never. Messenger location off.
At some point no matter how bad the app is it comes down to user error.
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It doesn't matter. I turn that crap off and while it probably helps, FB is always eating up tons of memory and keeping the battery drained.
I use APW Widgets, setup a Facebook widget, and click through to the mobile Facebook page using Next Browser. The Facebook app has some perks over this but using this method, I know its not leeching my contacts and mobile usage.
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I believe you as I've had issues like this too with many apps.
What I don't understand is how two people with same hardware, same ROM, install same app, one will have drain and the other doesn't. For example I have FB installed on my N7 2013 and its fine (at least it doesn't pop up in the usage chart if I don't use it).
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It doesn't matter. I turn that crap off and while it probably helps, FB is always eating up tons of memory and keeping the battery drained.
I use APW Widgets, setup a Facebook widget, and click through to the mobile Facebook page using Next Browser. The Facebook app has some perks over this but using this method, I know its not leeching my contacts and mobile usage.
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Using memory doesn't = using battery,
With those settings the device should idle perfectly. Assuming the rest of your set up is well behaved of course.
While your device is up and running the process will run time to time but it shouldn't cause any noticeable battery drain.
Don't get me wrong I can go on and on about all the stupid things that app does but set it up that way and you should not suffer any battery issues / drainage.
Once the MBA and CEO Class got their hands on Facebook it was Game Over .....
Most MBA's and CEO's aren't well enough educated to run a technically/scientifically based operation .... Look what happened to Gateway, Yahoo, Dell and almost happened to Apple in the 90's before they brought the Brains back ....
Google is one of the few that haven't went that route which is why they are leading the pack on most things. .... As long as the Brains of Google keep majority share and thus control of Googler I'll stay invested but as soon as the MBA and CEO Class takes ovber (hopefully never) I'll dump all my Google stock just like I did with Yahoo in early 2000 .....
Just look at the Damage the MBA and CEO Class did in the late 90's (The wrongly named Dot Com Bust) and in 2008 ..... Mainly because they are too poorly educated to work the technology and their insane belief in disproven Economic Theories like Supply Side that falls completely to pieces in the Tech World ....
BrianDigital said:
Better battery stats always helps finding the culprit. I had some issues with suspend_backoff and it seems chrome was the issue for me.
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so what did you do about chrome to fix it?
ANigerian said:
so what did you do about chrome to fix it?
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Uninstalled it
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does a battery saver app like juice defender ultimate work or it just wastes 'more' battery?, i don't think my battery is all that great but i do have alot of apps installed
anyone installed snapdragon battery guru app?
gonna try to unistall chrome, but i find its the best looking browser interface for the sites i visit
I'm gonna tell you greenify changed my life, my battery life that is. Try it out and you will not be dissapointed.
an app that has not been used in over a day.. after a reboot yesterday should not be in top ten active apps and have near 7000 wakelocks when all notifications in the app are turned off. so yes, Facebook app sucks more than just itself
still. I'm at 22 hours unplugged, 4 and a half hours screen on time and only at 54% battery... I rate that as good
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cobyman7035 said:
does a battery saver app like juice defender ultimate work or it just wastes 'more' battery?, i don't think my battery is all that great but i do have alot of apps installed
anyone installed snapdragon battery guru app?
gonna try to unistall chrome, but i find its the best looking browser interface for the sites i visit
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I would have recommended JD a few years ago.. its victims abandon ware for almost 2 years.. (never updated for ICS let alone JB) you are better off having tasked handle the same functions.. or just removing apps that are poorly writted
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I haven't had any need yet on my Nexus 7, but I found Gemini App Manager to be a godsend on my Virgin Mobile phone. I can disable all the Intents that apps believe they ought to wake for and just allow them to respond to me actually running them. Much better battery life and more responsive phone without memory cluttered by all the bloatware that believes it needs to run all the time.
cobyman7035 said:
does a battery saver app like juice defender ultimate work or it just wastes 'more' battery?, i don't think my battery is all that great but i do have alot of apps installed
anyone installed snapdragon battery guru app?
gonna try to unistall chrome, but i find its the best looking browser interface for the sites i visit
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I just picked mine up yesterday and snapdragon was one of the first apps I looked for. Couldn't download because it's "not compatible with this version" I'm on stock BTW...
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albundy2010 said:
Not trying to defend Facebook but.... Its not like fb doesn't have the option to turn notifications off. Chat availability off. Refresh interval to never. Messenger location off.
At some point no matter how bad the app is it comes down to user error.
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so your saying that the app by default should run constantly in the back ground grab your location any time it wants. THen its user error that they dont dive in setting and change everything so it doesn't suck battery life
LOL yes its user error, now Im off to sound full of myself elswhere
Ive had a few questions when it comes to my trial with samsung devices and this is where my story starts..
So I have had a mirage of Samsung devices starting with the Note 2, to the Galaxy s4, and now currently the Note 3. I have put as much time and effort as my noob abilities will allow me to and I'm honestly trying to figure out a couple of things. Throughout all these devices in less than one year I have realized that I can only get my battery to supply modest results. I have torn through xda and have done almost every solution out there to in order to increase my battery life. With no impacting results I sit here truly wondering how is it that people can really get more than a day out of these phones. I have honestly never been able to get any of these phones to 5-6 hours screen on time and more than 24 hours off the charger. I evny the people that swear they are heavy users and still get great battery life, but I just dont see how this is possible from my experience...
I would say on a normal day i use the device moderatly and somewhat carefully as to retain the battery life to the fullest. I normally have my phone on WiFi for about half the day but I do browse and do a bit on LTE too. I use all kinds of social apps (twitter, instagram, fb, hangouts for sms, etc) that are all using push notifications. I have a university email that uses exchange and that is push as well. I stream all my music using Google play music daily but also a lot on WiFi. I search the web a lot and use flipboard constantly. I hardly use any games except at home when I know I have my charger. So one of my questions is, does this classify me as a heavy user comparing to all of you people?
I have tried almost everything.. Wake lock detector, turning off absolutely everything location based, app ops, power saver for when I'm at work (8+ hours), turning off all the smart features, low brightness, turning off bloat, etc. But still nothing too spectacular for results. Keep I'm mind I'm all stock and for now I dont really want to change that. So my main question after that long story is, am I missing something? Should I be getting better battery life after all these attempts? Is my battery life ok for how I use my phone? Are there any other options so I can be like the people getting monster battery life?
What made me write this post is because I was at BestBuy and one of the Samsung reps had the same Verizon note 3 that I have. I asked him if I could see his battery stats (which he did not know how to find.. Wow) and his phone had been on for over a day and had 7 hours of screen on time.. It blew me away that he was getting extraordinary battery life and obviously didnt do a thing to try to preserve it.
Keep in mind the battery stats posted are actually some of the best Ive had when it comes to screen on time so usually its dead after about 16 hrs and 3 hrs screen on time.
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junior_mafioso said:
Ive had a few questions when it comes to my trial with samsung devices and this is where my story starts..
So I have had a mirage of Samsung devices starting with the Note 2, to the Galaxy s4, and now currently the Note 3. I have put as much time and effort as my noob abilities will allow me to and I'm honestly trying to figure out a couple of things. Throughout all these devices in less than one year I have realized that I can only get my battery to supply modest results. I have torn through xda and have done almost every solution out there to in order to increase my battery life. With no impacting results I sit here truly wondering how is it that people can really get more than a day out of these phones. I have honestly never been able to get any of these phones to 5-6 hours screen on time and more than 24 hours off the charger. I evny the people that swear they are heavy users and still get great battery life, but I just dont see how this is possible from my experience...
I would say on a normal day i use the device moderatly and somewhat carefully as to retain the battery life to the fullest. I normally have my phone on WiFi for about half the day but I do browse and do a bit on LTE too. I use all kinds of social apps (twitter, instagram, fb, hangouts for sms, etc) that are all using push notifications. I have a university email that uses exchange and that is push as well. I stream all my music using Google play music daily but also a lot on WiFi. I search the web a lot and use flipboard constantly. I hardly use any games except at home when I know I have my charger. So one of my questions is, does this classify me as a heavy user comparing to all of you people?
I have tried almost everything.. Wake lock detector, turning off absolutely everything location based, app ops, power saver for when I'm at work (8+ hours), turning off all the smart features, low brightness, turning off bloat, etc. But still nothing too spectacular for results. Keep I'm mind I'm all stock and for now I dont really want to change that. So my main question after that long story is, am I missing something? Should I be getting better battery life after all these attempts? Is my battery life ok for how I use my phone? Are there any other options so I can be like the people getting monster battery life?
What made me write this post is because I was at BestBuy and one of the Samsung reps had the same Verizon note 3 that I have. I asked him if I could see his battery stats (which he did not know how to find.. Wow) and his phone had been on for over a day and had 7 hours of screen on time.. It blew me away that he was getting extraordinary battery life and obviously didnt do a thing to try to preserve it.
Keep in mind the battery stats posted are actually some of the best Ive had when it comes to screen on time so usually its dead after about 16 hrs and 3 hrs screen on time.
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if your doing graphic intensive stuff on the internet it will destroy your battery. The fact your chrome used almost as much battery as your screen makes me believe there's something wrong there..
My chrome browsing basically just consists of normal web pages and some embedded videos on news and sports sites. Is that enough to cause that much damage?
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It shouldn't. But just to be sure, whenever you're done using your phone at times you can go into task manager holding down the home button and click the clear memory button under the RAM tab. That will stop all processes from continuing to run when you're done using them
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LeftyGR said:
It shouldn't. But just to be sure, whenever you're done using your phone at times you can go into task manager holding down the home button and click the clear memory button under the RAM tab. That will stop all processes from continuing to run when you're done using them
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I would also consider giving chrome a break and using a different browser to see if you battery life improves. I'm currently using Boat Browser but there are several browsers.
junior_mafioso said:
Ive had a few questions when it comes to my trial with samsung devices and this is where my story starts..
So I have had a mirage of Samsung devices starting with the Note 2, to the Galaxy s4, and now currently the Note 3. I have put as much time and effort as my noob abilities will allow me to and I'm honestly trying to figure out a couple of things. Throughout all these devices in less than one year I have realized that I can only get my battery to supply modest results. I have torn through xda and have done almost every solution out there to in order to increase my battery life. With no impacting results I sit here truly wondering how is it that people can really get more than a day out of these phones. I have honestly never been able to get any of these phones to 5-6 hours screen on time and more than 24 hours off the charger. I evny the people that swear they are heavy users and still get great battery life, but I just dont see how this is possible from my experience...
I would say on a normal day i use the device moderatly and somewhat carefully as to retain the battery life to the fullest. I normally have my phone on WiFi for about half the day but I do browse and do a bit on LTE too. I use all kinds of social apps (twitter, instagram, fb, hangouts for sms, etc) that are all using push notifications. I have a university email that uses exchange and that is push as well. I stream all my music using Google play music daily but also a lot on WiFi. I search the web a lot and use flipboard constantly. I hardly use any games except at home when I know I have my charger. So one of my questions is, does this classify me as a heavy user comparing to all of you people?
I have tried almost everything.. Wake lock detector, turning off absolutely everything location based, app ops, power saver for when I'm at work (8+ hours), turning off all the smart features, low brightness, turning off bloat, etc. But still nothing too spectacular for results. Keep I'm mind I'm all stock and for now I dont really want to change that. So my main question after that long story is, am I missing something? Should I be getting better battery life after all these attempts? Is my battery life ok for how I use my phone? Are there any other options so I can be like the people getting monster battery life?
What made me write this post is because I was at BestBuy and one of the Samsung reps had the same Verizon note 3 that I have. I asked him if I could see his battery stats (which he did not know how to find.. Wow) and his phone had been on for over a day and had 7 hours of screen on time.. It blew me away that he was getting extraordinary battery life and obviously didnt do a thing to try to preserve it.
Keep in mind the battery stats posted are actually some of the best Ive had when it comes to screen on time so usually its dead after about 16 hrs and 3 hrs screen on time.
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Yeah I agree that something just doesn't seem right with Chrome using about as much battery as your screen. Try another browser, make sure you clear your recent apps, and turn off anything that you are not going to be using. I turn off all of the touch sounds and haptic feedback, as well as smart stay and air gestures, etc..I never really seemed to get the battery life that I thought I should be getting whenever I was on the Stock ROM.
Maybe chrome is the culprit but I do clear the ram and close apps all the time.. Its just frustrating that I'm trying everything and nothing seems to be changing much..
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Maybe chrome is the culprit but I do clear the ram and close apps all the time.. Its just frustrating that I'm trying everything and nothing seems to be changing much..
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I personally like Firefox and Opera Mini, it's a matter of personal preference though. There are a bunch of browsers out there. I also use Battery Doctor and Clean Master to clear cache, junk files and applications running in the background. If your rooted you can download "Greenify" which would probably help you as well.
Xanza89 said:
I personally like Firefox and Opera Mini, it's a matter of personal preference though. There are a bunch of browsers out there. I also use Battery Doctor and Clean Master to clear cache, junk files and applications running in the background. If your rooted you can download "Greenify" which would probably help you as well.
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I have the Greenify Donation app, and love it. Stopped using Chrome because it was tearing my battery life down, using the Stock Browser and Boat Browser at times. Greenify also helps with some other apps that just keep running even though I didn't use them during the day. The only thing I have as an exception, is my Blackberry Messenger to communicate with my family abroad during the day and that app has been behaving nicely. Everything else, minus HD Widgets, has been Greenified, and I can go all day (unplug at 7A, plug back in around 9P with plenty of juice left.
So this is what I get after a long period using wakelock detector. Does anyone have any insight as to what this all means. What does the x538 refer to and how does this app show how it's affecting my phone? One is the CPU wake lock and the other is the screen.
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The 538 is how many times it has woken the phone up (wake lock).
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Is that amount excessive is the question?
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So, I manually flashed the recent OTA. Felt like sharing what I have noticed.
For one thing, EVERYTHING is snappier. Going into recent apps is fast, home screen and apps don't take forever to load. That's a definite improvement. If it changes after running for awhile, I'll update.
Google Now's Always On voice recognition now works. I couldn't get it to work while away from the Google Now launcher before the update.
Uncertain about battery consumption with browsers yet. I'm hopeful, and the back of my tablet not being a toaster oven all the time while browsing on Xda gives me hope, but again, this is me just being hopeful.
Nothing for enabling the notification LED yet. Weird.
All I can see. Share what you've seen here.
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Uncertain about battery consumption with browsers yet. I'm hopeful, and the back of my tablet not being a toaster oven all the time while browsing on Xda gives me hope, but again, this is me just being hopeful.
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Thanks for the impressions. Hopefully the excessive power usage while using browser is fixed or will be soon.
I will note though that even though it shouldn't need to be used to avoid using Chrome, I think that using Tapatalk to browse XDA is a better experience. IMO, of course.
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Thanks for the impressions. Hopefully the excessive power usage while using browser is fixed or will be soon.
I will note though that even though it shouldn't need to be used to avoid using Chrome, I think that using Tapatalk to browse XDA is a better experience. IMO, of course.
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I noticed this too and im glad it wasnt only me. Certain websites cause the tablet to heat up, sometimes taking up as much as 40-50% CPU in the background until i force stop it.
Just flashed and rerooted. I hope its smooth now
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Just flashed and rerooted. I hope its smooth now
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can you confirm that CF-Auto-Root still works with the latest OTA?
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can you confirm that CF-Auto-Root still works with the latest OTA?
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Yes.
Will do a factory reset after this update to get a smooth new start
Any updates on the heated section next to the camera where the processor is at?
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Any updates on the heated section next to the camera where the processor is at?
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That heat is coming from the processor, that just means it's just under heavy load.
Sadly, WiFi 802.1x auth still doesn't work (PEAP) and the "Sign-in to Wifi network" screen is still blank for me. (Tested with Cisco Wireless LAN Controller at work.)
st33med said:
So, I manually flashed the recent OTA. Felt like sharing what I have noticed.
For one thing, EVERYTHING is snappier. Going into recent apps is fast, home screen and apps don't take forever to load. That's a definite improvement. If it changes after running for awhile, I'll update.
Google Now's Always On voice recognition now works. I couldn't get it to work while away from the Google Now launcher before the update.
Uncertain about battery consumption with browsers yet. I'm hopeful, and the back of my tablet not being a toaster oven all the time while browsing on Xda gives me hope, but again, this is me just being hopeful.
Nothing for enabling the notification LED yet. Weird.
All I can see. Share what you've seen here.
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I've noticed the same thing. Basically the stutter and lags have pretty much been fixed. For those wondering the home screen refresh has also been fixed.
I've been testing battery life today in combination with the chrome beta browser. Where I used to get 4/5 hours of sot with a single charge I'm now at 4.15 minutes of sot with 52% of battery left.
The new update has done wonders for the n9 and it just shows how much lollipop is still in it's infancy and still needs some updates to get everything sorted out. I'm sure it's the same for the Nexus 6.
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scandalousk said:
I've noticed the same thing. Basically the stutter and lags have pretty much been fixed. For those wondering the home screen refresh has also been fixed.
I've been testing battery life today in combination with the chrome beta browser. Where I used to get 4/5 hours of sot with a single charge I'm now at 4.15 minutes of sot with 52% of battery left.
The new update has done wonders for the n9 and it just shows how much lollipop is still in it's infancy and still needs some updates to get everything sorted out. I'm sure it's the same for the Nexus 6.
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IS this refresh the re-draw of the launcher when turning the device orientation in an app and then exiting?
KinetiClutch said:
IS this refresh the re-draw of the launcher when turning the device orientation in an app and then exiting?
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I think he is referring to the re-draw that seems to occur randomly when returning back to the home screen. Based on the impressions I may just flash the factory image to LRX21Q if these improvements are widespread. I still haven't received the OTA and can't sideload it because my tablet is still on the pre-release BL for some reason.
mbirth said:
Sadly, WiFi 802.1x auth still doesn't work (PEAP) and the "Sign-in to Wifi network" screen is still blank for me. (Tested with Cisco Wireless LAN Controller at work.)
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Was never a problem with my nexus 9. Working flawless.
It feels faster for sure, doesn't seem to get as hot either but maybe it does.
Yes I definitely see the improvement. I was one of the first buyers on the first day. But the unit I got has defected NFC chip. I returned it and got a replacement. Latest update definitely fixed the stutters and lags. I can vow for this.
scandalousk said:
I've noticed the same thing. Basically the stutter and lags have pretty much been fixed. For those wondering the home screen refresh has also been fixed.
I've been testing battery life today in combination with the chrome beta browser. Where I used to get 4/5 hours of sot with a single charge I'm now at 4.15 minutes of sot with 52% of battery left.
The new update has done wonders for the n9 and it just shows how much lollipop is still in it's infancy and still needs some updates to get everything sorted out. I'm sure it's the same for the Nexus 6.
Sent from my Nexus 9 using Tapatalk
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Is this under heavy usage?
Overheating and Screen Flickering
Do you think that the overheating issue near the camera and the issue where the screen is flickering when the device is not at full brightness, can be fixed by a software update or a firmware update?
ElementalXY said:
Is this under heavy usage?
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François Simond a kernel dev said this.
Francisco Franco9:36 AM+5
Just a heads-up, this OTA provides a VERY significant performance improvement - there was a Kernel regression that they fixed on this build regarding memory cgroups. Its very noticeable while using the tablet with this new patch.
I haven't noticed a difference yet but I didn't do s full wipe when I flashed.
Anyone else having problems with Chrome draining their battery?
macked said:
Anyone else having problems with Chrome draining their battery?
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Yep, my battery life has been very poor. I'm getting a replacement for a different reason, but hoping that I can unlock and flash updated images and see if it helps at all.
yes. same here. using Chrome Beta
Same, I hoped they would have fixed the mobile active radio bug, but apparently not.
bumping this thread. seems like when i was web browsing on my commute this morning, chrome used more "energy" than my screen did
This is driving me slightly mad, because I am loving everything about the Nexus 6P but for this bug. Two days ago, Facebook was logged as using more battery than my screen. I uninstalled the app and switched to using it on Chrome. That day, Chrome used more battery than my screen. I disabled Chrome as well, and downloaded Dolphin yesterday. And now I have the same problem with Dolphin!
I think it's some form of the mobile radio active bug that destroyed my HTC One M8's battery life - the drain is noticeable mainly when I'm on mobile data, and my battery stats indicate that the apps in question are keeping my mobile radio active longer than necessary.
It frustrates me greatly because this doesn't seem to be a widespread problem - other people have been getting much better battery life without having to remove basic apps like Facebook and Chrome!! What did we do to trip it? Do we need to trade our sets in for new ones or is there something you all have done that has successfully fixed it?
Um.... this isnt unique to the Nexus 6P guys. Chrome is well known to chew battery on pretty much every phone out there. Blame google for bad coding. If its really a big problem, use Titanium to remove it and install Dolphin browser instead
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Um.... this isnt unique to the Nexus 6P guys. Chrome is well known to chew battery on pretty much every phone out there. Blame google for bad coding. If its really a big problem, use Titanium to remove it and install Dolphin browser instead
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I tried to fix the problem with Facebook and Chrome being battery drainers. I uninstalled FB and disabled Chrome, and switched to Dolphin. Same problem on Dolphin. Dolphin and Android OS now use more battery than my screen. I'm barely going to get 3h SOT on this charge.
There are users who are using Facebook and Chrome as per normal, and reporting SOT of over 5 hours. So there must be something up?
Disable regular chrome and install chrome dev.
Zero issues and have done it on my last three phones.
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SilkyJohnson said:
Disable regular chrome and install chrome dev.
Zero issues and have done it on my last three phones.
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going to try this.
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was anyone besides me using the data saver feature on Chrome? could that be draining the battery?