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Battery drain help

My battery on my dell streak drains very fast. For example i had it plugged in until 100% in the morning. Then about an 1 hour and a half laater without using it that much it draimed to 67 %. The battery usage says cell standby 49% and the screen was 17% and those were the highest. From my nexus one i kno that cell standhy should not be that high. What is causing this to be so high? And why is my battery draining so fast?
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Are you on1.6 or 2.1? mind was the same on1.6. Loads better on2.1. But I have also noticed that if you are in an area where 3g is poor it spend slot of energy trying to connect. I turn of data quite allot and it doubles battery life. BeforeI was getting less than a day now I get a day easily...... UnlessI have a load of widgets
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Im using 1.6, then 3g then probably is the problem. Did u do anything to fix this problem?
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I had similar problem and deleted my task manager, as amazingly it was using more battery than running applications
It also stopped 'fancy 'widget from updating, even when told to ignore it
'Appbrain' market was also another major problem, i also think that 'smooth calendar' doesn't help; but i'm still experimenting.

thanks for reply, im using advanced task killer, maybe i ll try taking it off to see if it affects the battery in anyway

If you look in the battery tab you should see where your biggest power hogs are.
Mine happened to be media.
I had removed all the media from my SD card, forced redection etc and it still drained the battery.
Eventually, I removed all ringtones and music from the SD card and did a hard reset, ran it for a full day monitoring the battery usage. Now I'm adding a bit of music back to see if it was a bad media file that caused the indexer to draw power.

For me the battery usage is almost 60% cell standby...then every other small thing piles in. Why is the cell standby so high. I would think that the display would be the highest
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I'm having the same problem on my streak that is running 2.1 in the USA.

so is there a solution for this problem??

Arkalos13 said:
so is there a solution for this problem??
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Delete ALL your apps
Weatherbug also drinks batteries, but it's so good this time the good outways the bad

I havent purchased my streak yet, does anyone know if 2.1/2.2 will have better battery consumption on this device?
you guys are scaring me..lol

Nobody can say for sure what the upgrade with have until it's released.

My experience is thus......
Widgets drain battery
T ask managers drain the battery, I now use watch dog
The biggest one by far.... The data connection drains battery. Especially if its a poor connection.
So first thing is to turn of 3g etc when not required. I get a day easily. If I add widgets I get a day just. This is with location gps and sync turned on all the time
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I was haviing normal smartphone battery life, about a day, then started having some trouble so I uninstalled some apps. But, I also let the battery die completely overnight then charged it full and am now on day three at 55%

Houndx said:
I was haviing normal smartphone battery life, about a day, then started having some trouble so I uninstalled some apps. But, I also let the battery die completely overnight then charged it full and am now on day three at 55%
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Day 3 at 55%? Do you have a SIM card in your phone? Data enabled? 3 days and only 45% battery life drain is unreal. I have a fresh restore and my Streak barely makes it through the day still, no widgets installed, no network-activity causing apps running in the back, no task managers. The battery life on this phone sucks.

3G has been on the whole time as well as wireless networking and gps. Bluetooth was turned off until about noon today. For widgets I've got Weatherbug Elite, Jorte Calendar, 3G Watchdog, System Info and Latitude. The phone has had pretty light use for the last few days because I was doing some work around the house, but I did use it for the occassional game of solitaire and as my ebook reader at night as well as a few short calls.
Today, on the other hand, I've made several phone calls (more than a dozen, some longer some short), have had bluetooth on half the day, wireless enabled and a small amount of surfing. I went from 55% at 8AM to 19% at 9PM.
I think the battery meter was in need of proper calibration and that's why I did a full discharge and recharge. I'm as shocked by what's happened as anyone else.
Oh, I've also had Juice Defender installed both before and after the full discharge/recharge. Before I did that I wasn't even getting 12 hours out of the battery and that's why I tried it.

Dolphin browser HD, no sh%t, my battery went from approx 95% to 3% overnight. 9 hours
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My battery life has been pretty good for me, when I go to bed it's at 100%, come morning after 2 alarms it's usually at 97%. I usually have 3G & Bluetooth on. Then throught the day I don't use the phone much besides the odd text and odd e-mail, with a couple games of Robo Defence, and come 9 in the evening I'm usually around 40% which is pretty good considering that I get crap signal at work (very weak signal with the occasional signal drop) and I know that usually uses a lot of battery.
However, the other night, I went to bed with 100% on the phone and some time between then and 6 hours of sleep, the phone had died completely. Couldn't turn it back cos there was absolutely no charge in it...need to charge it a bit before turning it on. Quite worrying as I use the phone as an alarm during work days (luckly it was the weekend) and I don't acutally know what caused the massive drain

Thought I'd share my experiences here with you guys....
I've had my Streak about 4 weeks now, it's a US Beta version, on TMO US so no 3G, only EDGE. The only widget that uses data is Weather & Toggle. I have had sync and Facebook sync turned off, and only use GPS sparingly.
I tried everything - I started turning off the data connection (3G/EDGE in the top right menu) and basically uninstalled every program I thought could be using battery. Still, it would go from 100% at bedtime to around 60% in the morning. I then tried Airplane mode. Still was draining! I then installed Juice Defender, and it actually went from 100% to 0 - it died that night! D'OH! The whole time is was a 50/50 mix between "cell standby" and "phone idle". It doesn't show any programs using battery. I also tried Drain-o-meter, but it didn't show anything else either.
Well here's what finally fixed it for me -- turn back ON the EDGE/3G data connection and leave it on!!!
I'm guessing there are things running in the background (my guess is Weather Toggle widgets but the drain was still there even after I uninstalled it), possibly system processes, that require a data connection. In my case, that fixed it... now it goes down from 100% to about 92-95% overnight. Now I just leave the data connection on and it's all good!
I'm not saying this will work for everyone else, but hopefully maybe there's at least 1 other Streak user who has the same problem.

I was not happy with my streak's batteryperformance either (stock ROM), until a recent discovery.. It seems the Mail client (not gmail or touchdown) caused a partial wakelock if I had set it to 15min intervals (have 2 accounts) Draining approx 10% every hour.
After I set it to sync every hour, I dramatically increased the battery time.
Today when I checked it I had only used 3% in 5 hours (normally it would be minimum 30% in the same time)
I suggest you check your settings if you have the Mail client set up with accounts.
This changed my perspective on batteryperformance TOTALLY!

Bad battery life after 107 update

Just like the title says. I have checked all my settins syncs which programs are running in the background and so forth.. so im sure its not that..
Anyways here goes.
Before the update I could get about 12-14 hrs of use out of a full battery charge, however after this update I can only get about 5-7 hrs out of a charge.. Nothing had changed.. my usage is the same, my wifi,bluetooth,gps,4g are all off. I don't have any programs syncing or updating in the background.. So i have NO CLUE as to why my battery life cut in half after this update.

I already posted this elsewhere......my battery life was really great before this update.
Same exact settings now as before, plus the phone was reloaded to factory settings by the Sprint store first as I was having some other issues...email not coming through timely, cell signal falling and dropping calls, etc.
My battery life is now 1/2 of what it was prior to the D107 update.

I would say wait and see. When I would flash roms on my HTC phone the battery would die quickly for awhile. After 2-3 full charges it would go back to normal.

Check Cell Standby in battery status. See if Time without signal is 50% or more.

Cell standby is 18% and time without signal is 7%

My time without signal is only 2% So I'm not sure what is going on to make my battery life soo bad.

i got 9 hours today with decent usage where before if say 12 or so ... since the update my time without signal is in the 30-50% range on average & it was 3-4% before .. im a little frustrated on that & i know its taxin the battery a little so . . .

my update has really screwed my battery life. I notice too that Juice Defender keeps reading at 1.00x instead of 1.6-1.8 before the update. I also notice my TWS was at 50-52%. I tried the Airplane mode toggle and it didn't do ****. I really love this phone, but i'm about to return it and try another before my 30 days is up.
So far, i'm concerned with:
back button is not consistent (works sometimes sometimes it sucks)
TWS over 50% of battery consumption.
upgrade made juicedefender not work
little wobble in the phone but not too bad
scratched screen just from rivet in jeans
AND pissed about the tv out that sprint omitted

jemarent said:
my update has really screwed my battery life. I notice too that Juice Defender keeps reading at 1.00x instead of 1.6-1.8 before the update. I also notice my TWS was at 50-52%. I tried the Airplane mode toggle and it didn't do ****. I really love this phone, but i'm about to return it and try another before my 30 days is up.
So far, i'm concerned with:
back button is not consistent (works sometimes sometimes it sucks)
TWS over 50% of battery consumption.
upgrade made juicedefender not work
little wobble in the phone but not too bad
scratched screen just from rivet in jeans
AND pissed about the tv out that sprint omitted
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The back button is a defect in an early batch of phones.. If you swap it, you will probably get a working model..
My email app didn't sync after the update, so I had to reinstall Roadsync. It might be the same thing with JuiceDefender.

My battery is getting much better. Not sure if it is the galaxy rom, the update or my battery is just getting conditioned better. I unplugged my phone this morning and have been on it constantly web browsing, music, 4g, 3g, lots of tapatalk use. 36% left and just approaching 4hrs of being unplugged.
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How do you roll back this update.
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after i re-flashed and updated, ive experienced big drops from the 90% zone to like 75% in a short amount of time but then the decrease stays pretty slow.
im using adv task killer on maximum and juice defender
this combo works pretty well for me, i cant explain the 25% loss. I think my battery still needs calibration, but i get around 14-18 hours normally.

I've noticed the increased battery drain also. I've been tracking it the past couple days with Spare Parts. If you open Spare Parts, click on Battery history. If your phone is running like mine is right now, the Running time is at almost 100%. That means that something is preventing it from sleeping. Next, click the tab that says "other usage", and change it to "Partial wake usage". Mine is showing that Android System is the culprit, causing the partial wake lock. It was not doing this before the DI07 update. I did a factory reset this morning and the only app I installed was Spare Parts, just to make sure it wasn't an app I was using. I get the same results on a fresh clean ROM as I do using noobnl's ROM. NOT COOL!

Well my full run through of the battery is over. I've turned a new leaf about the battery on this. I'm keeping the Epic.
Conditions: Was at zero brightness for about 4hrs of this. Set it to 0 after getting to work. You can see the screen perfectly fine at 0 indoors. (30 minute ride)
GPS - Off except the couple times I checked out google earth
Sync - full manual syncing / with background data on to use the market
Usage: Heavy heavy usage for all but 20 minutes. Total time with screen actually on was about 4 1/2 hours. Lots of tapatalk use, streamed about 20 minutes of CNN via Slingplayer, Streamed about 10 minutes worth of music via last FM. Dolphin browser usage. About an hour of total usage was over 4G
No task managers (well Androids but that doesn't count), no juice defender.
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After all that it has been sitting at 3% for 20 minutes (after taking the ss) with no usage as I wait for it to finally die and write this post. Just over 5hrs straight of near pure 3g/4g data usage over various applications and multimedia is perfectly acceptable to me. This is WAY longer than the average consumer laptop would get under similar usage w/ an aircard.
If I didn't use the phone like a miniature laptop so heavily and just kept it to normal use and some phone calls with auto brightness on I'd guesstimate I'd easily get 10 hours or so if not a lot longer out of it.
Running: Andromeda Galaxy Rom 1.0.3

the reason your getting bad battery life is because it reset all your battery stats. it's going to take a couple days til your battery life gets better. try the bump charging method.

3% battery drain

I just checked my note drains battery @3% per 5 hour. is it normal.?
i just locked my device n when i checked it was 3% down.. n in cpyspy it says phone was in deep sleep mode all the time.

3% in 5 hours? thats normal drain, what you expecting to have ?

dont know i read somewhere in note forum someone was getting 1% for 8hours. thats why i was asking.
BTW i am on rocket rom v22.

So you thinking your note should last 2 weeks without charging?
3% per 5 hour is super
1% per 8hours sounds unbelievable to me, unless you keep your phone off

Its normal bro. Don't worry, it would not drain your battery that really much in a day. I'm surfing the webs a lot in a day and my batt still not giving up to be drained out to zero
Sent from my GT-N7000

Are you connected to a wireless network?

SayWhat10 said:
So you thinking your note should last 2 weeks without charging?
3% per 5 hour is super
1% per 8hours sounds unbelievable to me, unless you keep your phone off
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It sounded unbelievable to me too...until last night that is. It was at 100% just before I went to bed and dropped 1% in over 8 hours. Thats 34 days on standby!!
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If you want to know it exactly, what's going on with your battery: Go to Market and install "Battery Monitor Widget" from 3C. This is a widget which shows every 60 seconds the actual drain. But more importently is the logging-function, called "history". I set mine to update every 60 seconds to get a good idea which thing consums what...
F.e. I got my Note yesterday and put it in flight mode over night. This morning I looked at the history and got a stable 7mA drain - not bad for a 1,4GHz DualCore...
For changing the update-rate of history:
-tab widget
-left sensor --> settings
-history
-update rate history --> 60 seconds
(I don't know the exact names cause I have the german version)

Sounds about right. Mine dropped 3% in 6 hours or so.
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I consistently get 1% down throught the night which is like 7 hours. During this time, Cellular data is off, wifi is off, AGPS is off. And after Note has been up for few days, sometimes it will get down by 10% through night due to rouse battery hungry app stuck in memory. Memory clear helps and it is back to regular next night and sometimes I have to reboot. The longest I can go without reboot is like 10 days by then something real battery hungry app is stuck somewhere.
Now I am using app called Tasker which is set to speak battery percentage for every change in unit, I get 3% down through night.

how do you guys avoid touching your Note for so long? i can't put mine down

Being asleep I guess ;-)

ok, if you have your radio turned off, and wifi turned off, and screen turned off, your note can last a couple/few days on standy
I misread, i thought the OP was actually USING his phone and the % only dropped like 1% in 8 hours or 3% in 5 hours which of course would be SUPER
but for me even when im sleep i leave wifi on
i could save more juice by not having the wifi on yeah sure

I have my phone drop into 'phone only' mode at 20% battery. From that point, the amount of battery use is negligible. I believe all the hype about 'standby time' now. I think it could last a week at least like that from a full charge.
The fact is it is good at conserving battery until you use the other features. Then it drains like crazy in comparison.
So to get great battery life:
Turn off WiFi
Turn off mobile data
Turn off auto-sync
Turn screen to 1% (I find 0% turns the screen off!)
Turn off GPS
Turn off bluetooth
Kill all unused apps & services
Turn the screen off.
Or, you could buy a 'dumb' phone, of course! That is effectively what you are doing by this.

Unlike Symbian where app is authorized to initiate said connection (wifi/cellular), it was possible to keep apps like email/fbook poll every 10/15 minutes. In Android, the design is such that apps don't initiate connection.
So during weekend days when email is not utmost important, I use Tasker to turn wifi/cellular/sync on every 15 minutes for short interval of time. This saves a lot of battery drain. But obviously suitable when you do not need to be on the edge of info highway.

Morning!
Second start of the day: 4mA drain in flightmode, 56mA on standby with WiFi on.
And after a full day of playing arround (no games) and getting used to the Note yesterday the battery was still at 50%...
Ah yeah, some more values:
Bluetooth on, doing nothing: 51mA (so it adds nothing more to the standard standby drain)
Bluetooth + Headset, doing nothing: 102mA

jeromepearce said:
I have my phone drop into 'phone only' mode at 20% battery. From that point, the amount of battery use is negligible. I believe all the hype about 'standby time' now. I think it could last a week at least like that from a full charge.
The fact is it is good at conserving battery until you use the other features. Then it drains like crazy in comparison.
So to get great battery life:
Turn off WiFi
Turn off mobile data
Turn off auto-sync
Turn screen to 1% (I find 0% turns the screen off!)
Turn off GPS
Turn off bluetooth
Kill all unused apps & services
Turn the screen off.
Or, you could buy a 'dumb' phone, of course! That is effectively what you are doing by this.
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I'm certain the Note could do a week on standby.
Doing the things you mention above, I once managed to get my Dell Streak to last for 5 days after I left my charger at my girlfriend's house. The battery was already down to 50% when I left her house, so it lasted 5 days on half a battery!
I think the battery life on my Note is about 25% better than my Streak, so it could easily do a week...
You know, if you wanted it to I can't think of any reason you would want it to, other than being without a charger like I was.

DEFINITE solution for battery on the arc (or any android actually) yes its that easy!

OK after i got my Arc S i already saw better battery than my old X10.
but after a while it started to get all "android" on me again in terms of ****ty battery.
after using better battery stats and digging all the web for solutions on the subject (yes i got pretty obsessed about battery ever since i had android), i've pretty much found out 3 simple stuff that pretty much takes up most of your battery on standby and even actual use of an android phone.
before i did that i woke up 8 hours later just to find out that at night on standby my battery ran from 100% to 86-90% when i woke up. (on my x10 i woke up with 76-80% lol)
keep in mind im a very heavy usage user on my android and i do literally EVERYTHING ON IT.
anyway 3 simple stuff to do:
1. log out of latitude, drains the battery like crazy.
2. disable auto sync for gmail, contacts and regular email (i use hotmail so i use the email app, dont have gmail)
3. be connected to your home or office wi-fi as much as possible.
keep in mind i do have whatsapp in the background and other regular apps that still ran as a service but they dont drain battery much apparently (i thought they were always the problem btw)
i unplugged my arc s from the charger with 100% fully charged battery at 4am and went to sleep..
..woke up 11 hours later at 3pm (yes weird day lol), had 18 missed calls, 6 sms messages and 5 voicemails which means the phone had the screen on for each call and the speaker played my ringtone every call and sms and even voicemail notification plus i had my alarm clock which i kept pressing the snooze on..
i was amazed to be with 96% after 11 hours!!!!! OMG
at the same day at 11pm i was left with 27% battery after all day had 1:20 hours voice calls, 2:50 hours screen display on.
i was also outside and im always on 3g and also used my gps on google maps for about 20 min.
finally happy about my frikin battery on my android device !!
edit:
my setup:
custom gingerbread rom with ice cream theme,
locked bootloader,
rooted,
supercharged V6
At&t usa
Sent from my amazingly gorgeous and sexy Pure White Xperia Arc S [=

Nice
I think this will help you. if it does please THANK me.
Sent from my Blade

"If you want to save battery on your smart phone, don't use it as a smart phone."
Of course background services will use energy, but I have them on for a reason.
The best battery saving tips (for those who use their phones)are brightness and keep an eye out of resource hogs and unwanted background services (Facebook app).
I found that rooting and removing all the bloat-ware vastly improved my battery life as it gave more RAM which meant my phone had to do less memory management.
Andy

mety333 said:
1. log out of latitude, drains the battery like crazy.
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But that would mean that Google can't track my location anymore
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On topic:
This app is a very convenient and simple way to view your battery usage.
Badass Battery Monitor
GSam Labs

mety333 said:
2. disable auto sync for gmail, contacts and regular email (i use hotmail so i use the email app, dont have gmail)
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If you have a android and have done the registration on the first time, you have a GMAIL acc.
Btw, add this solution. Works for every phone.
- Go to WiFi & network settings > Mobile Network > Networkmode > Set it to "ONLY GSM"
this will make the mobile-antenna to find one connection and stand there (Mostly this gives the best signal strenght), but the WCDMA and WCDMA/GSM will search for other connections all the time and consume more battery
the only negative side with GSM is that your calls will connect 1~2 sec. slower compared to WCDMA and if you fall out of the signal range, youre out untill the antenna finds new one (but the strenght is good so dont worry)

TheHaso said:
If you have a android and have done the registration on the first time, you have a GMAIL acc.
Btw, add this solution. Works for every phone.
- Go to WiFi & network settings > Mobile Network > Networkmode > Set it to "ONLY GSM"
this will make the mobile-antenna to find one connection and stand there (Mostly this gives the best signal strenght), but the WCDMA and WCDMA/GSM will search for other connections all the time and consume more battery
the only negative side with GSM is that your calls will connect 1~2 sec. slower compared to WCDMA and if you fall out of the signal range, youre out untill the antenna finds new one (but the strenght is good so dont worry)
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Or you can set it to WCDMA only. Setting it to GSM only would be disadvantageous as most smartphone users need a data plan and 3G has far better internet speed.
Turning off the auto sync helped me a lot. I just manually check my email at regular intervals.
Sent from my LT15i using XDA

Seiously, these are all the most obvious "battery tweaks". Tose are the first things that would come up in my mind...

I can safely say it's not a definite solution.
Most if not have already turned the Auto sync off.
Latitude for most users doesn't run to start with and even in some cases not even
installed.
Wifi and HSPA is a given this is pretty much ON all the time for most since were power users. (6gb data plan) can't complain for 20$.
Bluetooth in some cases but rare.
Full charge your phone and if your a power user within 14 to 16hours your usually left with about 10% battery usage.
Take into consideration that this is a rooted Xperia Arc S with bootloader locked.
If I leave it alone fully charge when I go to bed and wake up in the morning I usually have about 7% gone in roughly 8hours of standby that is taking into account your have the standard 1500mah battery.
I would highly suggest getting the 1700mah MUGEN battery it's worth the extra 50$. May not make much difference for some but it does for other.

zangetsu2188 said:
Or you can set it to WCDMA only. Setting it to GSM only would be disadvantageous as most smartphone users need a data plan and 3G has far better internet speed.
Turning off the auto sync helped me a lot. I just manually check my email at regular intervals.
Sent from my LT15i using XDA
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Thats right, but if you dont use the mobilenetwork, the GSM is best

mety333 said:
OK after i got my Arc S i already saw better battery than my old X10.
but after a while it started to get all "android" on me again in terms of ****ty battery.
after using better battery stats and digging all the web for solutions on the subject (yes i got pretty obsessed about battery ever since i had android), i've pretty much found out 3 simple stuff that pretty much takes up most of your battery on standby and even actual use of an android phone.
before i did that i woke up 8 hours later just to find out that at night on standby my battery ran from 100% to 86-90% when i woke up. (on my x10 i woke up with 76-80% lol)
keep in mind im a very heavy usage user on my android and i do literally EVERYTHING ON IT.
anyway 3 simple stuff to do:
1. log out of latitude, drains the battery like crazy.
2. disable auto sync for gmail, contacts and regular email (i use hotmail so i use the email app, dont have gmail)
3. be connected to your home or office wi-fi as much as possible.
keep in mind i do have whatsapp in the background and other regular apps that still ran as a service but they dont drain battery much apparently (i thought they were always the problem btw)
i unplugged my arc s from the charger with 100% fully charged battery at 4am and went to sleep..
..woke up 11 hours later at 3pm (yes weird day lol), had 18 missed calls, 6 sms messages and 5 voicemails which means the phone had the screen on for each call and the speaker played my ringtone every call and sms and even voicemail notification plus i had my alarm clock which i kept pressing the snooze on..
i was amazed to be with 96% after 11 hours!!!!! OMG
at the same day at 11pm i was left with 27% battery after all day had 1:20 hours voice calls, 2:50 hours screen display on.
i was also outside and im always on 3g and also used my gps on google maps for about 20 min.
finally happy about my frikin battery on my android device !!
edit:
my setup:
custom gingerbread rom with ice cream theme,
locked bootloader,
rooted,
supercharged V6
At&t usa
Sent from my amazingly gorgeous and sexy Pure White Xperia Arc S [=
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Nothing new actually. In standby/idle mode I loose hardly 4-5% in 7 hours during night.
These are the most common battery tweaks.
In fact if the phone is alive (with 10% left) after 20 hours of heavy use, then i am happy.
With my Rooted device with 0.58 firmware, i get a 18-20 hours [brightness set to 40% always] of heavy using that includes, 2hrs of browsing on WiFi, 2 hrs of music, 40 mins HDGame, 2-3 hours voice call, 30-40 mins of video (occasional) and i check email in every hour and and reply, so that's good for me.

I appreciate you sharing your advice, but there are some points that are not so convenient and here is why:
mety333 said:
before i did that i woke up 8 hours later just to find out that at night on standby my battery ran from 100% to 86-90% when i woke up. (on my x10 i woke up with 76-80% lol)
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Why not leave the phone plugged in while you're sleeping?
Stock Arc battery has overcharging protection, which means that there is no risk harming it if you leave it on charger for 8-10 hours.
It will charge to 100%, then decrease to 95% and start charging again.
As a matter of fact, those small charge cycles can turn out to be beneficial for the new technology Li-Pol batteries.
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1. log out of latitude, drains the battery like crazy.
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Agreed.
But there are cases when people use Latitude to their convenience.
For example, I tend to leave it on while travelling and I've taught my father how to use it on his (my old) X10 so that he won't have to call me all the time to see where I am.
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2. disable auto sync for gmail, contacts and regular email (i use hotmail so i use the email app, dont have gmail)
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Now that just doesn't make any sense.
One of the major Android features is that you can get your Gmail messages instantly and, in some cases, even substitute text messaging altogether.
I have 3 Gmail accounts on my phone and they are in autosync 24/7, because otherwise my phone is pretty much as useful as a Nokia S40 phone.
Not to mention that polling (refresh at a specified rate) drains way more battery than push notifications which Gmail utilises.
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3. be connected to your home or office wi-fi as much as possible.
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Agreed.
Especially in low signal areas, WiFi can save battery because the phone doesn't constantly trying to establish data connection. However, forgetting to turn WiFi off when leaving your home or office hotspot range can result in even bigger drain, as the phone will intermittently look for available WiFi hotspots.
mety333 said:
i unplugged my arc s from the charger with 100% fully charged battery at 4am and went to sleep..
..woke up 11 hours later at 3pm (yes weird day lol), had 18 missed calls, 6 sms messages and 5 voicemails which means the phone had the screen on for each call and the speaker played my ringtone every call and sms and even voicemail notification plus i had my alarm clock which i kept pressing the snooze on..
i was amazed to be with 96% after 11 hours!!!!! OMG
at the same day at 11pm i was left with 27% battery after all day had 1:20 hours voice calls, 2:50 hours screen display on.
i was also outside and im always on 3g and also used my gps on google maps for about 20 min.
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Personally, I feel you are sacrificing vital features just to stall your battery meter.
This is not as wise as you make it appear to be, because if each one of us carefully considers it, we will realise that there are very few hours within the day that a plug is not accessible. We have cars -there are car chargers, we are at home -obviously there are sockets, we are at the office -there are PCs thus USB ports. Heck, I've even charged my phone on a DVD player with a USB port in a presentation room once! In my opinion, it's about time we stop whining about how "our old phones lasted a week even if we were playing Snake all day" and adopt new charging habits.
Then again, how one uses their phone, it's their business.
However, the thread title can be considered misleading, as I reckon your advice is respectable, but in no way a widely applicable solution.

If I'm staying over at a bud's place/gf's place and have no charger/microusb handy, or I'm out and battery is running low, I do one thing:
1. Turn off data (I use a nice on-screen toggle for this).
This alone lets my battery last faaaaar longer.

Why dont you but a nokia 3310 and stop whining?
the reason we buy these phones is cause of the amount of things we do on them. disabling these features is just pointless and turns the phone back intoa dumb phone
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Standby drain

When you sleep, does your phone sleep, or does it stay up all night and crunch 1s and 0s? Rate this thread to express how you deem the speed at which the LG G7 ThinQ's battery drains under standby conditions. A higher rating indicates that when the phone is not in use, the battery drains minimally.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

Side note: according to the internal predictions (referring the "battery saver" statistics) of the device, the enabled always-on-display only causes a lack of some 30 minutes in a 24h period, so it seems like the impact is rather small.
Regarding other predictions, the display brightness and background data are the main drivers for achieving longer or shorter standby times while disabled vibration does save more than a disable AOD but still only gives you an extra hour or so. Now, disabled background data adds 5 or 6h. This, however, comes at a cost since even email push notices won't get through.

Personally I keep the background data always disabled, but I have added those apps into exceptions whose data I actually care about (gmail, hangouts, google play services and android wear). With these exceptions, the email push notifications and hangouts messages come through normally. Not sure how much battery I save, but I like the control this gives me over apps and what they are doing in the background.

Jeopardy said:
Personally I keep the background data always disabled, but I have added those apps into exceptions whose data I actually care about.
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Makes sense indeed.

It may sound a silly question but have patient...
According to you at what percentage I have to worry abot the drain?
Before the first update during the night I noticed that the battery never discharged (with Wi-Fi, Data and BT off). After the first update (to be clear the one that introduces the vertical icon for screen rotation) I noticed that the battery during the night discharges 3-5% that it's kind of accectable (Wi-Fi, Data, BT off). I've it may be the phone signal but it's always the same.
Same numbers:
Phone idle 20%
Screen 4%
Android System 2%
Mobile network standby 1%
Android OS 1%
Some apps
Instagram 6%
WhatsApp 6%
Google Play Store 3%
Google Play Services 1% for now. In the previous recharge circle it was 22%
Thank u in advance

LadySarah said:
It may sound a silly question but have patient...
According to you at what percentage I have to worry abot the drain?
Before the first update during the night I noticed that the battery never discharged (with Wi-Fi, Data and BT off). After the first update (to be clear the one that introduces the vertical icon for screen rotation) I noticed that the battery during the night discharges 3-5% that it's kind of accectable (Wi-Fi, Data, BT off). I've it may be the phone signal but it's always the same.
Same numbers:
Phone idle 20%
Screen 4%
Android System 2%
Mobile network standby 1%
Android OS 1%
Some apps
Instagram 6%
WhatsApp 6%
Google Play Store 3%
Google Play Services 1% for now. In the previous recharge circle it was 22%
Thank u in advance
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My phone always looses between 2% and 5% of battery overnight, with airplane mode and battery saver enabled (not in extreme mode though). I consider normal and acceptable values between 0% and 6/7% during a standby of 7 or more hours.
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Erpinoob said:
My phone always looses between 2% and 5% of battery overnight, with airplane mode and battery saver enabled (not in extreme mode though). I consider normal and acceptable values between 0% and 6/7% during a standby of 7 or more hours.
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Well, my values are more or less like yours. So I guess they are acceptable. I have also read about multiple Google accounts can drain battery through Play Services.
I was afraid that I have already to wipe. It's definitely not necessary

Does anybody knows what is the 'Home' app in battery usage?
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The stock launcher. And that is crazy high. Home doesn't even show on my battery life currently 14 hours

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The stock launcher. And that is crazy high. Home doesn't even show on my battery life currently 14 hours
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but i don't use stock launcher, that's why call my attention.... today i disable google assistant AOD and see if its one of this features that consume battery as hell

Full 24 hours for me
23 hours off the charger and still going strong with 35% remaining.

I have about the same lifetime from the G7 3000mAh battery as from my P9 Plus 3400 mAh battery because of better efficiency. Overnight drain is close to nothing.

Mine drains quickly overnight, it is like never enters sleep mode.
Last night went from 30 to 0%. I missed my wake-up alarms!

A quick fix is to disable notifications for all apps you just don't need notifications for in app manager, saves a ton of battery life ...

Mine lasts forever on standby. Even this morning. Barely used it and was in standby by for 3 hours. At 99%. I am very satisfied with my battery life.

I love my G7. Made some tweaks but not rooted.
At the moment I have 42 hours and 5h DOT and 23% accu.

I just fixed my standby drain. It was one MAJOR thing that most phones have on and kills standby. Google Location History.
TURN THAT CRAP OFF!! I keep all other sync stuff on, so it is a minor thing.

I've got my G7 for a few weeks, came from Xperia XZ Premium.
I don't charge my phone overnight, usually charge it to around 90% before sleep.
With my XZP the phone would use around 5% or less over night (About 6-8 hours give or take)
But my G7 would use at least 10% overnight
First thing I notice with G7 is that the battery life isn't as good as my XZP

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Mine lasts forever on standby. Even this morning. Barely used it and was in standby by for 3 hours. At 99%. I am very satisfied with my battery life.
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At night before bed. I give it a full charge. I then turn off wifi, bluetooth gps, and data.. Wake up in morning down only 3 percent. I always trun off stuff I do not use. If I'm at home, and primarily on the computer, all that stuff is shut off.

I just started noticing a slight drain on mine and I only got it a few months ago, refurb, and at first I was only getting 1% drain overnight (8hr)
Since I have some time off I decided to experiment a bit. I saved every personal photos and info, reset everything as if it was new, left out the SIM, didn't set up Google, didn't set up WiFi, turned off anything related to locations, turned off background data to all but the essential apps but they're not set up with anything so they shouldn't even be pushing anything but they're probably still trying because that's what they do. Anyway, so even the AOD is turned off, finally I left it on the table for 4hrs not even turning on the screen, it drained 2% in 4 hours. I imagine in 8hrs that would be 4% drain. That's probably normal. When I first got it and overnight I had it set up with all the apps I use and overnight it barely drained anything and I was amazed. But that's the nature of batteries, they decay over time. Sucks that it looks like a pain in the ass to replace just the battery. After that if the prices drop on the LG G8 ThinQ I might aim for that in a year. The headphone jack is a must for me.