Database Users

For those who say....

Light to med usage or med t heavy usage.......care to explain what that entails?
sent from my epic 4g with no 4g

For me using stock OS and not rooted:
Settings
Autosync on
Wifi on 95% of the time and policy set to never drop
Brightness set to auto
DRM process killed
All syncing applications set to 1 hour or greater, except Gmail.
Light usage = no web browsing, very few phone calls (5 mins or less), 0 - 20 txts, staying off the market, and no or limited game playing.
Medium usage = a few phone calls (no longer than 10mins each), 0 - 50 txts, sporadic market downloading/searching, checking Gmail and Facebook occasionally and getting down with some Angry Birds and World War (games).
Heavy usage = no limit to phone calls, my phone blowing up with txts, browsing the web more than 5 times, using the Facebook app a bunch and cracking out on some games.
I find it strange that I finally upgraded to a smart phone and now I hardly get phone calls. I at least put a hurting on my bandwidth usage, ha ha.

To me light usage would be if I were at work for an 8 hour period where I wouldn't touch my phone except maybe on break or to check an email or two.
Medium would be if I were web browsing texting and a few phone calls here and there.
Heavy would be sitting at home on a day off playing Galcon, fruit Ninja, web browsing, Ap downloading ect.

I do heavy usage use about 2 and a half batteries a day. This is what I got
Brightness 100%
About 3 hours of pandora
3 hours music player
Total maybe 2 hours webbrowsing
Live wallpaper and widgets on homescreen.
Use xda app a lot througout day
Play angry birds and homerun battle 3d for like 2 hours.
Youtube 30min
Like 50 texts
2 or 3 calls
Sent from my Epic 4G

I'm heavy usage, 5-10 phone calls abou 10 mins each, at least 100 texts a day, wireless hotspot with 4g. Social apps update at 1hr intervals though I'm constantly having to get on every 30 minutes or so. Music player on all the time. Gmail updates constantly. It's mostly a personal phone, but I've been doing a lot of work related activities with it. Lasting about 6-8 hours. Brightness set at min. Drms removed. I'm well over 5gigs for data. Lol
When I was all stock... I would be happy if I was even getting a couple hours of battery life.
"My Epic Experience is an Emoitonless Beast with a heart of the Phoenix"
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guess im a heavy user
battery usage is crap right?

Battery Temperature while streaming radio

Hi,
I got a little bit freaked out by my phone temps this afternoon. I streamed radio using the web browser for 20-25 min and the temp indicator showed 51deg C!!!!
Is this normal temp during this type of usage? Granted that I had to leave the screen on (lowest brighness) during the streaming and that it was hot int he car, still...
Just for info, The phone temp is usually ~30 deg C outside (ambient temp) and 27 inside with AC. While charging it goes around ~39. Are these temps normal? What do you get for this type of usage.
Oh not sure if it matters but I was using 3G+ connection when streaming.
Any input would be welcome.

Streaming like that is using the screen, 3G data radio, cpu to process the audio, and audio amp to give sound output. All those things are bound to be chewing through battery power and therefore creating some heat...
Have no comparison data for you though. Hopefully someone else will confirm their stats.
Mike
Garbled meaning induced by swype when posting from XDA app on SGS I9000.

Thanks for the input. Yes I hope owner will share their experience!

mine is going hot like yours while im using navigation software. first time i was a little afraid, but seems to be normal with some load.

Mine reached 56°c!!! I was surfing the internet and listening to music... take a look at the screenshot i posted
bye

Wow that's hot. are those things supposed to get that hot, it's as hot as my laptop! it's crazy. I guess this is normal temps then.

Battery Temps (Stock ROM)

I running a few test on my wife's phone. Her phone is getting warm/hot to the touch during fast wireless charging. It seems this might be a known problem but I will start by switching the wireless charger to the one I use on my Note 5 which does not overheat.
I am running test for battery temps under different operating conditions:
Specs:
Samsung Galaxy Edge+
ATT SM-G928A
AndroSensor Battery Monitor
Stock ROM
Andriod 5.1.1
Typical Usage:
Lots of texts and emails
Lots of Internet browsing
45 mins of talk time per day
Never closes apps
Bluetooth, WiFi (5G), GPS, 4G cell connection (~-100dbm)
Quick Temps Check:
Screen on Browsing 82-88°F
Screen off couple mins 79°F
Will update as time goes on. Please share your experiences.

Hello there.
My usage is pretty simmilar:
1. reading emails a lot (few accounts without self check)
2. Around 4 hours web browsing per day via tapatalk or uc browser
3. 40-60 mins. talk per day (not aways)
4. no closing apps until the next recharging
5. Most of the day I use ONLY hapa or hspa+
6. Around 1h music with stock player with my Denon on-ear headset at max volume level
My device is non-rooted with very good sot around 8h! No fb or fbmessanger installed. only viber ofc. i can get 8h+ sot with this usage. no games installed
Max cpu temp reached is 37C, max battery around 29C

S5 web browsing battery life

Please advice how much battery you are using per average during web browsing over WiFi?
With me it is 20-22% per hour no matter what I do - screen brightness set to min for example has very little effect. I did try some screen dimmers with the same result, even using a web browser which uses dark grey background (UC browser) still gets 20+% of the battery per hour.
I wonder how in the benchmark tests the web browsing is shown as 9.5h (the link below):
http://blog.gsmarena.com/benchmarking-android-5-0-lollipop-battery-life-samsung-galaxy-s5-lg-g3/
On standby the battery life is great! It can last all day loosing only 20 to 30%.
I am running on stock ROM android 5.0.
Thanks!

thanks

musabcel said:
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Please someone to share their experience, I am loosing hope...
As far as I remember on KitKat battery life was bit better - 17% per hour.
I have tired the stock browser, chrome, UC - same result.
I did run couple of days on CM12.1 - same result with UC and the build in browser!
What I am doing wrong and how it is possible that the benchmarks are achieving such scores - 9+ hours!?
Screen mode - adapt display, auto adjust screen tone - ON. Have tired changing those - same result.
Is there some battery test for WiFi browsing I can use to compare?

I feel I am talking to myself here...
Looks like I am the only one that browses on his S5 for (more then) an hour :angel:
Anyways - it could be useful to someone - I managed to get back to 16% per hour just by disabling "OK Google" hot word detection when the screen is on.
Apparently that one was using a lot of power...

Galaxy A5 2017 (A520F) overheating issue

Hi guys and girls,
I've got my A5 a few days back, and at start it worked great. I've messed up with a lot of software, tried everything out, and instead of uninstalling everything I thought it'd be best to do a factory reset. That's where my problems started.
While I set up the phone and installed all the apps (updated) that came with the phone, connected to a 100Mbps optical internet via AC wifi, I lost about 15% of battery. Okay, who knows what the phone needed to do, lets move on.
Next day I was just using Whatsapp, messaging with my gf, and the phone was a bit warm with 20-25% brightness (auto-off). The battery temperature was 32-33C, and I used an infrared thermometer and measured 33.5C on the back of the phone at the Samsung logo. Then I just browsed the settings, setting up my phone a bit more, and it was still getting warm, getting anywhere between 31 to 33C on the battery and around 33C with an IR thermometer. I still can't say much about battery drainage but the phone is getting pretty warm even while browsing the web or doing non-intensive tasks.
Does the A5 2017 get warm or is it just me? Should I RMA it?

Have a520f, 33C is near average. But it's also dependent on the weather. Fast charging or charging with the screen off will raise it. If it wasn't always like that, maybe something in the background is using the CPU, checking for updates or notifications. The CPU/GPU is like a car engine, running at various 'speeds' and 'weights it is carrying', and it does get warm. Only if it gets hot, then it's a problem. Many apps could do those checks once the screen is turned on. Uninstalling/changing settings will only help with battery life (percent drain), the temperature is ok. The a520f (and a510f) also has touchboost, temporarily raising the CPU clock when the screen is touched. Might be noticeable with background tasks while using a keyboard.

Thanks friend. Didn't know about "Touchboost", you opened it up for me a bit there.
While the screen is off, It's perfectly fine. Once I take it in my hands, it starts to get warm around the Samsung logo. It's probably screen + apps + nowhere to dissipate heat, but I wasn't noticing it at start. I've only had it for a couple of days now. I don't know about the battery drainage, with a charge lasting me ~40hrs with 7h SOT I wouldn't say it's draining at all - though my screen is at low brightness, 1/4 max.
Just wanted to see what you other guys are getting as I thought it was high. My ambient is around 24-25C all year long. I've seen tests where people weren't getting more than 30C at all, but as you said, it's the ambient that dictates that.

Idk if this is only with mine but sometimes I turn the phone off completely and put it to charge and it happens that it can reach like 35°C without touching it. Now the phone is plugged, I only browse with chrome facebook.. and it is like 37°c. That can happen when it is not plugged too. Using wifi seems to be better though.
I dont think I have an important battery drain because it can last about 6-8h SOT normal usage.
Onr other thing, when I turn on the mobile hotspot, the battery drains way more than usually and heats up too.