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Hi guys,
After buying s2 i was worried about battery life. Because first two days it was like 12-14 hours of medium use.
But now its marathon :d
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Last image is usage of previous charge.
I was a die hard fan of lg phones from optimus one to optimus black but i am happy now that i switched to s2
Cheers guys and please show your records as well.
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I thought i was getting good battery life with medium to heavy usage (27 hours) on Cognition 1.15 but that is exceptional, can you tell me your set up as to how you achieved this amount of battery life.
cheers

Tegrak's kernel and underclocked.
Frozen samsung apps. and brightness mostly 0% as i am fairly fine with the lowest brightness it doesn't hurt my eyes.
also one more thing, i am using overclocking upto 1300 as well and you will be surprised most people will tell you to go underclock to save battery but i didn't and i am just happy with 1.3 Ghz blazing speed.
Here's a shot of running.
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Also i used camera for recording movie for about 50 minutes in 720P and 50+ photographs as well which is not mentioned in the above post. I will post once again when my battery will reach 1% because when its below 10% it drops really slow and allows me to use it more unlike when its full.

Sit it on a desk and stare at it. The average screen on time is 5 hrs. You can use that in a day or spread it across 3 days.
jonny68 said:
I thought i was getting good battery life with medium to heavy usage (27 hours) on Cognition 1.15 but that is exceptional, can you tell me your set up as to how you achieved this amount of battery life.
cheers
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One more thing, i only recharge battery when its below 5% or mostly under 2% to full turning it off. And ofcourse this only first week of using the phone, hope it will increase a bit more by next week.
[Note: I personally believe plugging in and out of charger makes the phone battery drop faster]

chaplu said:
Tegrak's kernel and underclocked.
Frozen samsung apps. and brightness mostly 0% as i am fairly fine with the lowest brightness it doesn't hurt my eyes.
also one more thing, i am using overclocking upto 1300 as well and you will be surprised most people will tell you to go underclock to save battery but i didn't and i am just happy with 1.3 Ghz blazing speed.
Here's a shot of running.
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Also i used camera for recording movie for about 50 minutes in 720P and 50+ photographs as well which is not mentioned in the above post. I will post once again when my battery will reach 1% because when its below 10% it drops really slow and allows me to use it more unlike when its full.
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You should blur out your IMEI number from the screenshot buddy.

What ROM are you using?
I usually have brightness set to auto, same as you all Samsung apps frozen, am not using Tegrak i don't believe it's compatible with Cognition ROM, are you using Juice Defender Ultimate or other apps,etc,etc, im on setcpu im 200 min - 800 max - on demand and screen off profile - 200 min - 500 max - consertivave - priority 100.
Seriously impressive all the same..

jonny68 said:
What ROM are you using?
I usually have brightness set to auto, same as you all Samsung apps frozen, am not using Tegrak i don't believe it's compatible with Cognition ROM, are you using Juice Defender Ultimate or other apps,etc,etc, im on setcpu im 200 min - 800 max - on demand and screen off profile - 200 min - 500 max - consertivave - priority 100.
Seriously impressive all the same..
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I am using stock KF3 rooted nothing else i am using except described in previous post.
Cheers.

That is the best battery life ive ever seen on XDA for any type of smartphone never mind one like the GS2, did you use the Internet/Wi-Fi/GPS/Bluetooth,etc, much,do you have any widgets on your screen, push e-mail,etc, im amazed your getting that amount of time without using Juice defender or some other similar app.

jonny68 said:
That is the best battery life ive ever seen on XDA for any type of smartphone never mind one like the GS2, did you use the Internet/Wi-Fi/GPS/Bluetooth,etc, much,do you have any widgets on your screen, push e-mail,etc, im amazed your getting that amount of time without using Juice defender or some other similar app.
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Bluetooth yes for 10 minutes transfering some files.
Gps yes for around 1 hour (you can see that in pics atleast it shows usage for ndrive there)
wifi yes around 1 hour but its always on mostly (mostly used for market to download and test applications, gmailing and also some browsing)
3g or edge no i didn't use it.
Games yes i played like drag race etc.
widget yes, battery widget and the running app widget and live wallpapers.

Mine, I think there's a little (big) problem :
Considering the first 8 hours were during the night so I didn't touch my phone :
Running on VR2.1, many things push or so (like 15/30mins refresh) [mails, fb, twitter, news, weather, etc], and good modem (KG2) and CF-Root 4.1.
Any idea/advice please ?
A better rom maybe ?
Thanks in avance

Intratech said:
You should blur out your IMEI number from the screenshot buddy.
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For those of us n00bs here, what or where is the IMEI number?
Also just to clarify, this is a unique number for each phone, yes?

intruda119 said:
Sit it on a desk and stare at it. The average screen on time is 5 hrs. You can use that in a day or spread it across 3 days.
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Nuff said.
@OP- What's that Widget is (temp, voltage of battery)? Forgot the name!
Regards.

intruda119 said:
Sit it on a desk and stare at it. The average screen on time is 5 hrs. You can use that in a day or spread it across 3 days.
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+1
The real secret to great battery life is to disable all the data connections and not use the phone. Since most people are pretty active with their phones, threads about stand-by time are pretty meaningless. Actually, with over a dozen battery life threads already running, you could say new battery life thread are pretty meaningless too.

diby_2000 said:
For those of us n00bs here, what or where is the IMEI number?
Also just to clarify, this is a unique number for each phone, yes?
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Individual to eachphone usedto identify phone on network.Blocked block after theft .Illegal to change. jje
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Ok thats along the lines of what I thought it was. Thanks.
Didn't know it was possible to change it, illigal. Huh
But can some one tell me where it is shown so I can block it if I ever post some screen shots?

I'm on stock K2-CL. I used 3G just a bit today while in a restaurant, wifi is always on, but I normally sit in front of the computer most of the day, or use my tablet at home, so I do very light surfing - mostly while on the can.
I've not installed "app freezers", nor underclocked the processor, nor rooted or removed anything that isn't stock android. Not stopping tasks in the task manager. In the screenshot below, I did play around a bit on Google Earth for 15 min or so, I'm surprised not to see the android market in there because I feel that's what I used most. I use a live wallpaper that's fairly bright (moving clouds).
Brightness on auto - automatic gmail notifications, contact syncs etc.
I'm going to go on a big trip next week, where electricity will sometimes be optional. I do have that Samsung battery case thinggie coming the mail next week - and already have an external battery as well for emergencies, because this phone will die in an hour or two using the gps, or playing games, or doing serious web surfing - or a combination of those things. It runs very hot too if you use it constantly several hours (drove 500 kilometers last week, the phone was very very hot - seemed unhealthy).

If you hold the power button along with the home button it takes a screen shot.
Thought id say to make it easier for ya in future!

thanks a millions

Don't mind the n00b Here.
Found the IMEI number in the status tab of about phone.
Goto remember to keep this out of public photos.

About the battery consumption

Hello, I am a happy owner of the DHD.
It 'a great phone, but as you know, the only drawback is battery life.
I've tried several (few) ROM so far, and one with which I am slightly better is the RCMIX.
Now with this post does not go into details about what set, how to optimize (Sync off, energy saving displays, etc. ...) but I ask all your experience based on the ROM that you have installed:
1 - how to use the terminal?
2 - how long you last on a full charge and use it to do?
3 - What kind of ROM you use?
Thanks to all. I think it will be useful for someone like me, prefer a long battery life rather than three thousand graphicals functions

cubases said:
1 - how to use the terminal?
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what !?!? which terminal do u mean ?
cubases said:
2 - how long you last on a full charge and use it to do?
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With normal usage (some SMS, about 30 minutes surfing and emailing during the day, 30 minutes music listening and wifi turned on all day) my Phone lives mostly a full working day. When i come home from work (mostly 8 to 9 hours) i still have 20 % left...
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3 - What kind of ROM you use?
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I'm using RCmix3D Runny 1.3 with Revolution Theme . My phone is overclocked with setCPU to 1,45GHz and the Batterylife is optimized with a good profile set from setCPU (downclocking when display is off...and so on...)

m0rbus said:
what !?!? which terminal do u mean ?
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Sorry... it mean: phone.... smartphone

m0rbus said:
Batterylife is optimized with a good profile set from setCPU
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sorry but.. batterylife is an app?

Battery life... it's been quite heavily documented on the DHD fora, but here we go:
1500mah is not enough for a huge screen, especially if you want to use the phone's capabilities. The versatility of this phone means you'll want to be browsing, doing emails, playing processor heavy games etc. Each to his own
So, limit the stuff you sync (mail/facebook, news, weather), or at least reduce the frequency. These things cause "partial wake locks", which stop the phone falling into a deep sleep, after which battery consumption is minimal. Watch out for wifi settings too. Search for BetterBatteryStats (by chamonix) on the Android Apps section of the xda forum for much more detail, and tips.
You should be able to get to the end of the day with a good ROM (eg Leedroid/Revolution - they are very popular, but the threads are immense, which makes looking for information difficult). These ROMs have over/underclocking built in (governors), and you can also undervolt (theoretically reduces consumption too).
Limit transitions, be reasonable with screen brightness etc.
And if all else fails, and you use the phone intensively and can't get to the end of the day, you could invest in a power pack (search Amazon for the New Trent 5000mah power pack, which costs less than €30)

my DHD lasts around 4 hrs continuous screen on, much longer screen off. IMO, LM based roms have the best battery life.
But you could always get cheap $3 batteries for the Desire HD off ebay.

Battery life on my DHD was very bad before i rooted it. I am now running RCMix3D Runny V1.3 and my battery has lasted over 30 hours with alot of use.

cubases said:
sorry but.. batterylife is an app?
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lol no....Battery life means how long the battery lasts... thats all. No app.

whistle81 said:
Battery life on my DHD was very bad before i rooted it. I am now running RCMix3D Runny V1.3 and my battery has lasted over 30 hours with alot of use.
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indeed! I can not believe it!... with a lot of use....????!!!!!!!
Your kernel? Radio? Ril?

with m0rbus called "normal usage" my phone lasts around 48h. using my rom and lordmod 7.2 cfs and my personal governor/undervolt settings.
edit: though this result is not really specific to MY miui rom. one should be able to achieve these results with that kernel and settings on every aosp rom.
edit2: with "my normal usage" it last around 24-30h. this includes gameing, emailing, testing settings for developing my rom, rebooting etc.

I've used alot of roms most of the sense ones seem to use about the same battery life better than stock (they get me through work stock needed charged at lunch) but for a week now I've been using miui I've been home about an hour played about 15 min of angry birds, watched a few min on youtube and surfed on xda for a bit and I just over 40% i think that's pretty good going.
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Android Revolution HD 6.1
cubases said:
Hello, I am a happy owner of the DHD.
It 'a great phone, but as you know, the only drawback is battery life.
I've tried several (few) ROM so far, and one with which I am slightly better is the RCMIX.
Now with this post does not go into details about what set, how to optimize (Sync off, energy saving displays, etc. ...) but I ask all your experience based on the ROM that you have installed:
1 - how to use the terminal?
2 - how long you last on a full charge and use it to do?
3 - What kind of ROM you use?
Thanks to all. I think it will be useful for someone like me, prefer a long battery life rather than three thousand graphicals functions
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Hi, I upgrade the ROM from the group Android Revolution, and my internet I put on 2G and work with WI-FI, GPS and SYNC ON. My battery life is working about 1,5 day.
Before I upgrade I use a Super-Wire patch from ARHD, I think this patch get this performace.
PS.: Sorry My English. I´m Brazilian.

I dunno guys.. I think all that is your subjective feeling and that ROM has no effect whatsoever on battery. Maybe small, but unnoticable. You never do things exactly the same or have battery charged exactly the same. In order to prove ROM has effect on battery usage you would have to make lab tests, i.e. make conditions the same. Moreover, if you look at the statistics of battery usage, it is clear that the most battery goes on SCREEN. And then GPS. Everything else is just a couple of %. All the talk of turning off wifi/3G to conserve power is simply not true. Just look at the statistics! Wifi takes like 2-3% of the power used, tops! The screen with it's 40%-70% is the problem, and there is no way to reduce that...

dalanik said:
The screen with it's 40%-70% is the problem, and there is no way to reduce that...
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exactly....

You could always try to lower auto brightness levels by way of a flashable patch. I found that after doing this the screen was only using between 30-40% of the battery. Even so, it is the screen that always uses the majority of the battery. All the tips regarding decreasing battery by switching off syncing, wifi, widgets, etc are in my opinion a bit misleading. If you have a good radio and corresponding RIL then this will vastly reduce battery consumption whilst still being able to sync emails, widgets, etc with the wifi on. I recommend Radio_12.54.60.25_26.09.04.11_M2 and it's matching HTC-RIL 2.2.0160HM. I'm currently on Orange in the UK and this combo works best for me across several different ROMs.

michael_duvalle said:
You could always try to lower auto brightness levels by way of a flashable patch.
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where could I found it?
If you have a good radio and corresponding RIL then this will vastly reduce battery consumption whilst still being able to sync emails, widgets, etc with the wifi on. I recommend Radio_12.54.60.25_26.09.04.11_M2 and it's matching HTC-RIL 2.2.0160HM. I'm currently on Orange in the UK and this combo works best for me across several different ROMs.
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I have the same your radio/ril.

cubases said:
where could I found it?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1034743
Also, dependant on what ROM you're using you might find it within the development section post relating to your ROM. I'm using Virtuous Unity 2.37 and within the post there's a flashable lower auto brightness patch.
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dalanik said:
I dunno guys.. I think all that is your subjective feeling and that ROM has no effect whatsoever on battery. Maybe small, but unnoticable. You never do things exactly the same or have battery charged exactly the same. In order to prove ROM has effect on battery usage you would have to make lab tests, i.e. make conditions the same. Moreover, if you look at the statistics of battery usage, it is clear that the most battery goes on SCREEN. And then GPS. Everything else is just a couple of %. All the talk of turning off wifi/3G to conserve power is simply not true. Just look at the statistics! Wifi takes like 2-3% of the power used, tops! The screen with it's 40%-70% is the problem, and there is no way to reduce that...
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Yes and no.
If you are using the device, you can limit transitions, underclock the processor (via a custom ROM), flash a patch to modify the brightness as mentioned below. That definitely will help reduce consumption while in use.
However, and this is not collected in the Battery Usage option in Settings, Partial Wakelocks are the main contributor to battery consumption. When the phone is inactive, it should be asleep as much as possible - applications like Phone, Mail, Latitude, alarms etc wake it up for either scheduled or ad-hoc events. If you install BetterBatteryStats you will see which processes are keeping your phone awake & hence in a higher state of battery consumption.
Oh, do NOT buy cheap ebay batteries. They lie about their capacity. The only battery which offers more capacity than the OEM one, is Mugen (search in the Accessories forum), it's 1500mah. That extra power could make the difference in making it to the end of the day, but it costs about $45 I think.

You think this behaviour is normal?
Keep in mind that my DHD are this morning on the deck, and only hotspot is active (with whom I connect from the notebook) and sync only 2 emails to connect every 15 minutes each
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The display is set:
animations all, auto brightness, timeout 15 seconds
Probably do you think may be due to the fact that until now has always been on the deck in charge?

paul c said:
...Partial Wakelocks are the main contributor to battery consumption. When the phone is inactive, it should be asleep as much as possible - applications like Phone, Mail, Latitude, alarms etc wake it up for either scheduled or ad-hoc events.
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If I charge the phone before going to sleep to 100% and leave it on, in the morning the battery it at like 60-70% which IMHO is really too much. I have sync set to between 1-2 hour intervals depending on service, but over night I set phone data to OFF so it shouldn't matter, should it? Then why such consumption? I understand it over the day when I use it, but at night the display is off, data is off so what could cause this? It can't be syncing since the data is off....

Live Wallpaper Battery consumption tested

So here it goes... people are always asking about how Live Wallpapers influence the battery consumption of the phone... in this case i tested on a Galaxy s3 i9300.
For this test i kept the screen on until the battery gone down to 30%.
This is how i made the test.
I used the Live Wallpaper Magic Bubbles, you can find it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apofiss.magicbubbles&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5hcG9maXNzLm1hZ2ljYnViYmxlcyJd
I think this LWP is good coded so there's no problem about that influencing the consumption of the battery.
I kept the brightness on full too. (100%)
To keep the screen on during all the process i also used the app, Screen On Toggler: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.malcolm.screenontoggler&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5tYWxjb2xtLnNjcmVlbm9udG9nZ2xlciJd
To keep the results fair as possible when doing the test Without the live wallpaper, i took a screenshot of it and then crop it and applied it as wallpaper so i could have the same colors coming out of the screen.
So this is all the details i think... the rom used was foxhound 1.7, although i think it doesn't matter.
This was the result then.
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So as you can see its a big difference and yes the LWP has a big hit on the battery consumption... although of course you will not keep the screen always on.. this was just a test so i hope its helpful to you. Next time i will had a test but with a black background... or a darker background... to see the difference between a colorful BG and a darker BG.
Please post your opinions and thoughts...

you must have bad screen burn in by now

a very useful test for our information, thanks very much.

Two posts on the same subject is a waste .
jje

thanks for the test..
i used to have a nice battery life when using jellybean wallpaper from google play
most of the time, the cpu stayed at 200mhz but since a few update, it hog cpu at 600mhz.. thr is where i left live wallpaper and never went back

Just my observation.
A well coded LWP will only consume battery when the home screen is showing, and to that end I don't think, unless you spend endless hours staring at your home screen, that the consumption is really fairly indicated by this test, although it's a useful bit of testing. Thanks

mwatson said:
you must have bad screen burn in by now
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with 7 hours?
i guess my screen,which always shows the notification bar since i bought it, must be useless right now.

JJEgan said:
Two posts on the same subject is a waste .
jje
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My fault, i clicked twice on "submit post"

slaphead20 said:
Just my observation.
A well coded LWP will only consume battery when the home screen is showing, and to that end I don't think, unless you spend endless hours staring at your home screen, that the consumption is really fairly indicated by this test, although it's a useful bit of testing. Thanks
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Yes, just like i said... no one will have the screen always on of course... but since there's no other way of testing this with fair results... Just a test for information...

Meraklis56 said:
with 7 hours?
i guess my screen,which always shows the notification bar since i bought it, must be useless right now.
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Yeah.. i thought that was a bit stupid... if you have a phone that cant stay on for more than 5 hours oO, although i did search about that matter and found that the people who got it have the phone turned on day and night.. lol. probably like in the stores...

nice test

Thanks for this :good:

I'm afraid the results of this test are not indicative of real-life experience. A well coded live wallpaper app does not consume CPU power unless it's visible (homescreen, lockscreen and app drawer). I wonder how much actual time an average user spends on those 3 elements. A more accurate measurement would be if you left your screen on any other app (wallpaper not visible) and then check the difference in battery life. Or leave the phone overnight on flight mode, screen off (no risk of burn-in) and then see if live wallpaper indeed increases the battery consumption by 200+%, which is what you claim... I am fairly certain that this is not the case at all.
That said, thank you for your efforts and for sharing your findings with us.
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Wow.
I'm just impressed by your screen-on time. It's amazing how you weren't plagued by Media, Mediaserver, Android System, and/or Android OS battery drain issues. Those processes are really eating away at my battery. I'm thoroughly annoyed.

Very well tweaked phone.
You could use cpu sleeper to turn off 3 cores of the processor when the screen goes off.
I use also lot of battery tweaks of the app pimp my rom
You have to turn off google search, location, auto save, and a lot of settings in all the apks...
You can use also ds eco batterie to have less wakelock
Battery reborn to turn on airplane mod the night
And finaly, turn off animations, have a black wallpaper...
After that the battery is like an iphone 4, joke
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Fredo13127 said:
Very well tweaked phone.
You could use cpu sleeper to turn off 3 cores of the processor when the screen goes off.
I use also lot of battery tweaks of the app pimp my rom
You have to turn off google search, location, auto save, and a lot of settings in all the apks...
You can use also ds eco batterie to have less wakelock
Battery reborn to turn on airplane mod the night
And finaly, turn off animations, have a black wallpaper...
After that the battery is like an iphone 4, joke
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You could even hold the power button until a menu pops up, hit power off, then hit yes this mod which is standard in all ROMs will give you days of battery life.
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iridaki said:
I'm afraid the results of this test are not indicative of real-life experience. A well coded live wallpaper app does not consume CPU power unless it's visible (homescreen, lockscreen and app drawer). I wonder how much actual time an average user spends on those 3 elements. A more accurate measurement would be if you left your screen on any other app (wallpaper not visible) and then check the difference in battery life. Or leave the phone overnight on flight mode, screen off (no risk of burn-in) and then see if live wallpaper indeed increases the battery consumption by 200+%, which is what you claim... I am fairly certain that this is not the case at all.
That said, thank you for your efforts and for sharing your findings with us.
iR¡[email protected]!* ? from i9300 via Tapatalk 2
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Well you are right and i actually thought of that when i was making the test... in the future i will add those situations, Thanks for the tips. Although we probably dont spend that much time in home screen like u said, but when we do, the live wallpaper is working, so what why wanted to show was exactly that in this first test, its impact...

DeadSOL said:
Wow.
I'm just impressed by your screen-on time. It's amazing how you weren't plagued by Media, Mediaserver, Android System, and/or Android OS battery drain issues. Those processes are really eating away at my battery. I'm thoroughly annoyed.
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Thats because foxhound has that covered... those wakelocks are fixed in foxhound roms...

Fredo13127 said:
Very well tweaked phone.
You could use cpu sleeper to turn off 3 cores of the processor when the screen goes off.
I use also lot of battery tweaks of the app pimp my rom
You have to turn off google search, location, auto save, and a lot of settings in all the apks...
You can use also ds eco batterie to have less wakelock
Battery reborn to turn on airplane mod the night
And finaly, turn off animations, have a black wallpaper...
After that the battery is like an iphone 4, joke
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda app-developers app
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well i dont use pimp my rom at all, coz i think that app is like a nuclear bomb lol and i dont want to get near it even with a Hazmat suit. That said. the only things i use to keep my battery up is the black wallpaper and disable the autosync settings in the apps i don't really care. I have a lot of "news" apps and i don't need them to notify me every time so i disable them all... actually the only one i keep turned on is the facebook notifications. I dont like to go extreme on the battery part because i dont want to compromise the functions on my phone, hey we paid a lot for this, if i wanted a more battery phone i wouldn't have bought sIII right? So try to have the max battery you can without really disabling a lot of the functions you paid for... Its a phone... the battery is supposed to go down xD and you are supposed to charge it i have a maximum of 2 days... not more... and sometimes 1 day... and im very happy with it.

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well i dont use pimp my rom at all, coz i think that app is like a nuclear bomb lol and i dont want to get near it even with a Hazmat suit. That said. the only things i use to keep my battery up is the black wallpaper and disable the autosync settings in the apps i don't really care. I have a lot of "news" apps and i don't need them to notify me every time so i disable them all... actually the only one i keep turned on is the facebook notifications. I dont like to go extreme on the battery part because i dont want to compromise the functions on my phone, hey we paid a lot for this, if i wanted a more battery phone i wouldn't have bought sIII right? So try to have the max battery you can without really disabling a lot of the functions you paid for... Its a phone... the battery is supposed to go down xD and you are supposed to charge it i have a maximum of 2 days... not more... and sometimes 1 day... and im very happy with it.
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How to save a ton of battery-life

Good day everyone. As you'll see, I haven't really made many posts, but I do use XDA a lot to find info about phones, to look up problems and solutions, and getting ROMs/kernels. So thanks a ton to this forum and to everyone who has made a post that has helped me (and thanks to those who have helped others of course).
So, I made this post to share with you guys my settings for getting the best battery life that I have seen so far on my device. The device is rooted, and I am not running a stock kernel or ROM. I always thought that I would stick to a Sense based ROM, as (to me anyways) of all the manufacturer skins, Sense looks by far the best.
But that was until I got my 2nd gen Nexus 7 a little while ago. I absolutely loved vanilla Android so much that I decided to put on a Google Play Edition kernel and ROM onto my One. Now, when doing that, you do lose some features; Infrared and the camera flash being 2 of them (there might be more, but I haven't noticed that).
The ROM I am running is the 4.3 GE by faux123, and the kernel, also by faux123 i believe, is the 007m. Very smooth, absolutely stable (thanks faux123!)
You can find them here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2255900
Here are some screenshots to show you how much life I got out of a full charge, and also how much Screen On time I got
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Here are some stats of things I did on the phone during this time:
Made/Recieved calls : 10min54sec
Sent/Recieved texts : 7
Sent/Recieved Whatsapp messages : 559
Photos taken : 2
Web pages visited : 64
I also checked some YouTube vids, updated Whatsapp, Tested out a few vids to test out the BubbleUPnP app, and spent some time on Facebook (I feel like this took up roughly 2 hours or so, but I'm honestly not sure).
Now, when I started, I wanted to see how much battery life I can get out of the device, but by keeping the same performance; so NO underclocking, nor did I overclock (I will share all the settings I used in this post).
So, without changing the clock settings, I had a go at doing some undervolting. I finally settled on some settings that were quite a bit under the default numbers, but the performance is still identical to standard (i'm getting the same score in Antutu of roughly 26000 as I did without undervolting), and it is perfectly stable.
The app I used to make the settings is FauxClock (thanks again faux123!).
I made some other changes as well such as switching off ALL syncing etc.
Alright, let's jump into it.
For various settings I used the same settings as recommended by faux123 in the post i linked earlier, so check them out. Also, If I don't mention a particular setting, then that is because I left it as default. These settings are all to be found in the FauxClock app (unless stated otherwise).
Clock Settings:
Clock range : 384mhz - 1.728ghz
CPU governor : Ondemand
Intelliplug Hotplug Driver : ON
Voltage Settings:
384mhz - 800000uVolts
486mhz - 812500uVolts
594mhz - 825000uVolts
702mhz - 837500uVolts
810mhz - 850000uVolts
918mhz - 862500uVolts
1026mhz - 887500uVolts
1134mhz - 912500uVolts
1242mhz - 925000uVolts
1350mhz - 950000uVolts
1458mhz - 987500uVolts
1566mhz - 1000000uVolts
1674mhz - 1037500uVolts
1728mhz - 1062500uVolts
CPU Idle/Stats:
C0 : ON
C1 : ON
C3 : ON
Thermal Manager:
PnPMgr OFF
I/O Scheduler:
Scheduler : fiops
Readahead Size : 1024
eMMC Entropy contribution : OFF
Memory Manager:
ZRAM Disk Size : 200
ZRAM Swap : ON
Clear VFS : ON
Auto FS Writeback Delay : ON
Swappiness : 100%
Miscellaneous:
Dynamic File Sync: ON
Next up was to disable a whole bunch of stuff. These settings are found in the Android settings.
Under WiFi settings, go into the Advanced section. Leave EVERYTHING unchecked except "Wi-Fi optimisation".
Turn off Mobile Data
Change the setting in Mobile Network Settings to only use 2G
Set the display brightness to AUTO
Display sleep in 30 seconds
Under location settings, set "Access my location" to OFF
Under Backup & Reset, set Backup My Data to OFF
Under Accounts settings, turn off ALL syncing
Under Developer Options, switch off all Window Animation and Transitions (set the value to 0)
Next up go to the Play Store, and then go into its settings. Turn off all notifications, and also turn off "Auto update apps".
Ok, you're all set. Hope this will help some of you!

Sweet guide mate , it'll hopefully help many ppl with battery issues , I myself kinda have different setup , didn't turn off locations / syncs etc , pretty much everything on , here few samples , last one from today testing new setup.
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im getting this on my Dual , no more saving, data, wifi, sync, gps are always on.

Shan89 said:
Sweet guide mate , it'll hopefully help many ppl with battery issues , I myself kinda have different setup , didn't turn off locations / syncs etc , pretty much everything on , here few samples , last one from today testing new setup.
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that looks pretty damn good. which settings are you using?

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that looks pretty damn good. which settings are you using?
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He has the freak htc one with a larger battery by accident.
He is the only person getting battery life anywhere close to this

Shan89 said:
Sweet guide mate , it'll hopefully help many ppl with battery issues , I myself kinda have different setup , didn't turn off locations / syncs etc , pretty much everything on , here few samples , last one from today testing new setup.
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What's your rom, kernel ?

This battery life is pretty average, you should be able to get 3 days out of a stock sense one with light use
Oops sorry missed the screen on time, yeah pretty good...
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Sweet guide mate , it'll hopefully help many ppl with battery issues , I myself kinda have different setup , didn't turn off locations / syncs etc , pretty much everything on , here few samples , last one from today testing new setup.
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Pretty good with that much screen on time.

criszz said:
im getting this on my Dual , no more saving, data, wifi, sync, gps are always on.
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awesome considering you got 2 sim cards
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that looks pretty damn good. which settings are you using?
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Crixley pretty much answered it tho I believe everyone can get this or near this.
crixley said:
He has the freak htc one with a larger battery by accident.
He is the only person getting battery life anywhere close to this
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the only weird thing about my hardware itself is I can uv -190 stable and -210 with some stuters, weird part is I'm bin 3 lol.
Note all screenshots were made with stock kernel , still waiting for the source before I move onto Ex kernel , pretty much same results except I use 500 gpu and 1.9 cpu.
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insertcoin rom 4.0.1 ( there's newer versions im just lazy to update since it's not really needed for s-off users ) anyway Rom cleaner with my script , some Xposed mods stock kernel and few other things I can't remember of right now , been setting up this Rom since it got out and battery became better and better.
Anyway I'm mainly getting this high scren time cuz of having zero wakelocks , pretty much only @ WiFi and good reception , as for brightness I'm @ 30/50% most of the time.
When I'm using phone outside with 3/4g on and no WiFi with brightness 50/100% I get around 24 hrs on battery with 6/6:30 up to 7 hrs screen time max , everything is always on , syncs etc.
Oh and this last screen shot was a surprise for me as well , I've pretty much only did this vs my standard usage , forgot to turn on power saver and charged phone from 60% to 100% via pc ... So I'm surprised myself I got almost 5hrs for 50% , usage was the same as always except my average is 3:50/4:10 per 50% I usually get down to 30/35% on battery with around 6 hrs screen time and 30/35hrs on battery , then I get bored and charge the phone.
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This battery life is pretty average, you should be able to get 3 days out of a stock sense one with light use
Oops sorry missed the screen on time, yeah pretty good...
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Pretty good with that much screen on time.
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Thx lol.
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Crixley pretty much answered it tho I believe everyone can get this or near this.
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Hey can you post a screenshot of your app percentages please?

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Hey can you post a screenshot of your app percentages please?
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Will do for next screen shots , rarely do that , anyway my usual daily usage : fb , blink feed , tons of chating via fb / viber , lots of sms texting ( around 200 a day if not more ) sometimes talking , usually for about 30 mins , most of the time @ WiFi , turning irself off @ night , I hate getting gazillion updates from xda and other sync apps , I also have sync for everything that has it , reading on xda few hrs a day 3 I guess , browser , YouTube , reading news uhmmm Skype sometimes but rarely , that'd be all I think.
Oh I also Odex every Rom I use.
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Found around 1month old screenshots with usage , anyway pretty much the same even today. And can't find other parts of app usage there were 2 more , this is actually 1st time I hit 7 hrs
You can see here I also had high wakelocks of total 41 mins , now on 4.3 I usually don't go above 5/15 mins depends how much on battery , anyway 20hrs on battery usually lead to 5/7 mins. So battery is better now.
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Will do for next screen shots , rarely do that , anyway my usual daily usage : fb , blink feed , tons of chating via fb / viber , lots of sms texting ( around 200 a day if not more ) sometimes talking , usually for about 30 mins , most of the time @ WiFi , turning irself off @ night , I hate getting gazillion updates from xda and other sync apps , I also have sync for everything that has it , reading on xda few hrs a day 3 I guess , browser , YouTube , reading news uhmmm Skype sometimes but rarely , that'd be all I think.
Oh I also Odex every Rom I use.
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Found around 1month old screenshots with usage , anyway pretty much the same even today. And can't find other parts of app usage there were 2 more , this is actually 1st time I hit 7 hrs
You can see here I also had high wakelocks of total 41 mins , now on 4.3 I usually don't go above 5/15 mins depends how much on battery , anyway 20hrs on battery usually lead to 5/7 mins. So battery is better now.
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I'm assuming you don't use the browser much. That is always the highest drain for me, and I'm starting to wonder if that is my issue.

I get like 10 hrs this phone is harsh on the battery even with JD
No data and staying on 2G? How is this even useful?
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I'm assuming you don't use the browser much. That is always the highest drain for me, and I'm starting to wonder if that is my issue.
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I'd say 30 mins a day , few days ago used it for about 1:30 anyway ended up with around 4hrs @ 50% , I don't really use hardcore browser when using it , just to find something then read that for 5/10 mins and so on.
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I'd say 30 mins a day , few days ago used it for about 1:30 anyway ended up with around 4hrs @ 50% , I don't really use hardcore browser when using it , just to find something then read that for 5/10 mins and so on.
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ahh that is where we differ, that makes up the majority of my usage!
That would explain a lot then, my browser is up around 50-60%

Well if we turn of all the features, then our smartphone turns in to a dumbphone again. There is no point in that, it costs a fortune so I wont reduce it to a medioker phone.
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Will this work on TrickDroid too?

jaypeg123 said:
Well if we turn of all the features, then our smartphone turns in to a dumbphone again. There is no point in that, it costs a fortune so I wont reduce it to a medioker phone.
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+1
OP i think you should concider the phone i linked. I think it will solve all you battery issues and since you have disabled all the other feature this phone fits you needs exactly. so you are actually using the same features which you want and you dont even have to disable anything elc!
https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=...=jNrzOckWIKr2Mr8aPW4JdQ&bvm=bv.53760139,d.dmg
and i forgot to add one more thing, You can get a Good deal too if you opt for this phone.

Shan89 said:
I'd say 30 mins a day , few days ago used it for about 1:30 anyway ended up with around 4hrs @ 50% , I don't really use hardcore browser when using it , just to find something then read that for 5/10 mins and so on.
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Shan it's me again! With regards to being held awake, I'm currently on 15 hours off charge, 60% charge with 2 hours screen on which is quite good for me. My help awake says 45 minutes though, is this bad? Google services has 223 next to it. I've turned off maps locations, contact sync, app store update etc. I only have calender and app data syncing, should I turn off auto back up?

crixley said:
ahh that is where we differ, that makes up the majority of my usage!
That would explain a lot then, my browser is up around 50-60%
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Ahh that could be it , but then again I use viber / fb chat and sms chat a lot if you're not on those then I have higher overall app usage ...unless browser uses more then it should ...but I didn't notice that , do you happen to use adblocker ? Cuz I do that might be the case as well.
Btw could you post some screenshots of your battery , preferably with screen screenshot from gsam , and app usage plz.
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Shan it's me again! With regards to being held awake, I'm currently on 15 hours off charge, 60% charge with 2 hours screen on which is quite good for me. My help awake says 45 minutes though, is this bad? Google services has 223 next to it. I've turned off maps locations, contact sync, app store update etc. I only have calender and app data syncing, should I turn off auto back up?
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I didn't turn off anything except " Google location search " all the syncs are up and running , although I unchecked " backup phone daily " from playstore when setting up phone , as for maps those can be a big time drainer if you don't have them hibernated via greenify ?
As for 45 mins awake in 15 hrs isn't "that" bad , it should be 20 at most but still pretty good , most of the ppl have literally 2+ hrs of wakelocks , lol once I had in 13 hrs on battery 12:40 of wakelocks haha , tho I did end up with 5+ hrs screen time.
Anyway I don't get how do you guys manage to spend 40% of battery to gain only 2 hrs screen time unless you're on 100% brightness or gaming for 30+ a8 for example , anyway could you type me your average daily usage.
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Best SOT ( Screen On Time ) on Asus Zenfone 2

Screen on Time (SOT)​ Hi Guys, This thread is for to find the Best screen on time ( SOT ) on our Asus Zenfone 2.
Everybody Known this is a Best mobile for the Bucks and one big problem with this phone is battery effeciency Because of lot of boltwares and the softwares itsself. Different User gets different SOT according to their Use. So if somebody gets the highiest SOT with the Right combination of Rom, Kernerl , Apps , tips and Other settings or Whatever, Please Post here in this thread Boz it will usefull for other to get the best experience in Zenfone 2 and we all know this is great phone​
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make sure please post the screenshot of battery page, apps usage, and Scree On Time page :good:
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My Screen On Time of ZE551ML 2.3Ghz 4GB/32GB model
Rom : stock rom v2.20.40.63
stock kernel
I only use Asus Auto-Stat Manager
Other than nothing, Got only 4 hrs of SOT with only light usage last for 1 & half day. some of the Asus boaltware are disabled, rooted, unlocked thats all.
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very nice

Record until now SOT 4H23
From 100% to 10%
About 25 minutes of Gaming and in that 15min of Asphalt 8 (Asphalt 8 is taking enormous amount of battery)
1h15 MP3 playing on bluetooth.
Then use browser and chatting, installing apps thought playstore.
Stock Rom.
It seems i cannot post links so i have to found a workaround

4GB/32GB storage model here, all stock, no root or anything, best SOT time i got is 4hrs 26mins. Sometimes if i use 3g/4g data i cant even reach 3hrs.
Great phone but this battery drain is way too massive. Pretty much putting a dent in what is a great phone experiance value/performance wise.

gontie said:
Record until now SOT 4H23
From 100% to 10%
About 25 minutes of Gaming and in that 15min of Asphalt 8 (Asphalt 8 is taking enormous amount of battery)
1h15 MP3 playing on bluetooth.
Then use browser and chatting, installing apps thought playstore.
Stock Rom.
It seems i cannot post links so i have to found a workaround
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just upload on Picasa get the link and Post here, but if you delete pic there then it will not here,

So tapatalk won't let me link to photos that I uploaded to their servers because I have less than 10 post.
I managed to get 5 hours and 18 min sot with the phone lasting about 14.5 hours before hitting %5 battery. The screen had used %9 battery according to my battery stats, and android had used nearly %50.
CM 12.1 and DeathlyKernal
Yankactive governor/sioplus io scheduler
Max CPU freq 2333/min 500
I played some fallout shelter for maybe 30 min, and other than that, I just read stuff and looked at funny pictures at work. That little time I charged was me transferring some stuff from my PC to my phone.
5 hours and 18 minutes isn't too bad, although this sot seems to be an outlier for me, I usually get about 3-4 hours sot if I don't use my screen as much. It seems that the battery drains fast no matter what I do on it, whether it be using it or not. So if I use it as much as possible right after charging it, I get the best sot. I can't really get my phone to last longer than about 18-20 hours even if the screen doesn't come on.
I plan on experimenting with different ROMs and kernals to find the best battery life. The battery is definitely my biggest issue with this phone.

Wow, I'll do it too soon xD

The problem is pretty clear. It's the Android OS. This is a typical Lollipop issue which isn't fully solved on 5.1.
There are some posts on XDA which might help. Specially one restricting the Google Services via Privacy Gurad or XPrivacy. Can't test it for myself because still waiting for my ZF2. Did someone tried this?
(I'm in hurry and will post the links later)

I can sometimes get around 6 hours SOT
Prism Barebone & Project T
Underclock to 333mhz-1250mhz
Yankactive and sioplus 512kb
Greenify almost all apps, leaving essentials
Power Nap too with quite a number of essential apps whitelisted
On Wi-Fi (I didn't try on mobile data)
I call myself I moderate heavy user ?
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Stock rom no root and no twrp

Prism Berbones v4, stock kernel. Also removed useless apps like Asus boost, auto-start manager, battery saver, as they are doing more harm than good.
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Prism Berbones v4, stock kernel. Also removed useless apps like Asus boost, auto-start manager, battery saver, as they are doing more harm than good.
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Whats the "ASUS boost" app?

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Whats the "ASUS boost" app?
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It's a stupid app which kills all applications on background to give you an extra ram.

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It's a stupid app which kills all applications on background to give you an extra ram.
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lol
I'll install Titanium Backup to remove it. But how? Whats is the internal name of this app?
EDIT: Uninstalling Task Manager, Energy Saver and Autostart manager, in fact, the phone is in deep sleep for more time. (screenshot attached)

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Can you give us more details ?
Thanks.

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7hours OMG.......... How you got, please tell the Rom, configuration and things you make. [email protected]&&@_$. So far you only got the higest SOT on Zen 2

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Thanks going to download this rom today.

Broke my own 'record'' today and reached nearly 5 hours. I will reach it if i dont charge it soon but i wanted to show the SOT at the same battery lvl as in my last post.
WiFi was on all day, chatting, some music and a few mins of gaming was today's session.

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