I can't find an automatic power saving option on my S7 Edge on Nougat for when the battery drops below a certain persentage (eg. 15% or 5%).
All I can find is just a notification (for 30%, 40% and 50%) that prompts me to "tap there" to enable power saving which then opens another window with power saving options, I need to tap one, it takes a dozen seconds for it to change the power profile.. it's a drag.
So I'm wondering if there's anything automatic for power saving (like in all Android phones since lollipop) or maybe I somehow turned it off?
My phone was on 13% battery and still didn't switch to power saving (just the notification to tap there to turn it on).
Same here. I also can not find the automatic power save setting on Galaxy S7 / Nougat. How lame if Samsung took default Android feature out.
I see power saving mode on mine just fine.
Settings - Device maintenance - Battery - Battery Usage - /3 points upper right corner/ Optimise battery usage
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Szadzik said:
I see power saving mode on mine just fine.
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The thread is about *automatic* power saving when the battery drops below a certain persentage. Please learn to read.
Pet1981 said:
Settings - Device maintenance - Battery - Battery Usage - /3 points upper right corner/ Optimise battery usage
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Yeah, that list is kind of useless from a user's side. Also unrelated to my question.
atirage said:
The thread is about *automatic* power saving when the battery drops below a certain persentage. Please learn to read.
Yeah, that list is kind of useless from a user's side. Also unrelated to my question.
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Quite rude when people are trying to help.
So here's is a partial answer to my question: there is automatic power saving, it kicks in at 5% battery.
Anybody found an option to raise that 5% to 15% or 20%?
I checked everything battery and power saving related in settings and couldn't find it...
Device Maintenance> Battery.>App power monitor. There you can choose the apps you want to set power saving for and choose "Save Power".
It is not exactly the same as in vanilla Nougat, but if you want vanilla, Samsung is the wrong device.
Szadzik said:
Device Maintenance> Battery.>App power monitor. There you can choose the apps you want to set power saving for and choose "Save Power".
It is not exactly the same as in vanilla Nougat, but if you want vanilla, Samsung is the wrong device.
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No, that's not at all what I'm asking or looking for.
I know about this list, it is also present in vanila android, and it is completely useless...
I'm looking for an option to set the automatic power saving mode to kick in on higher battery percentage (20% or 25% or 30%), basically anything above 5% what the default is.
atirage said:
No, that's not at all what I'm asking or looking for.
I know about this list, it is also present in vanila android, and it is completely useless...
I'm looking for an option to set the automatic power saving mode to kick in on higher battery percentage (20% or 25% or 30%), basically anything above 5% what the default is.
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I understand what you are asking for because I myself would like the option, not sure why it's a manual process as seems daft to me.
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I understand what you are asking for because I myself would like the option, not sure why it's a manual process as seems daft to me.
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Right!? It's weird that auto-power saving only kicks in at 5% battery, but then again the battery is pretty impressive.
I'm getting used to manually turning on the power saving mode and tweaking the brightness if needed.
Yesterday I achieved 9 hours of screen on time, manually tweaking the phone as the battery drained.
Maybe they forgot the option with the 30/40/50% notification to also activate medium power saving.. a simple toggle is missing there :/
I hope they add it in a future update...
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Right!? It's weird that auto-power saving only kicks in at 5% battery, but then again the battery is pretty impressive.
I'm getting used to manually turning on the power saving mode and tweaking the brightness if needed.
Yesterday I achieved 9 hours of screen on time, manually tweaking the phone as the battery drained.
Maybe they forgot the option with the 30/40/50% notification to also activate medium power saving.. a simple toggle is missing there :/
I hope they add it in a future update...
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Yes the battery is pretty impressive and maybe they'll fix it like you say, hopefully!
I've not been one for power saving settings before but I like how this works, except for the one bug I've noticed is annoying me slightly.
When turning off the power saving and the resolution changes back from FHD to WQHD my keyboard (SwiftKey) size changes to really small so I have to adjust it each time; not sure if it's a bug or because the resolution is changing.
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Yes, it looks like they have added a short way to reach the power saving setting screen, but avoid an automatic activation of the mode, rather then at 5%.
To activate it easily and using that fast activation, you have to wait until you get a notification for low battery, then click on the notification and select manually MID or MAX.
I just loved the old fashion automatic power saving....
I noticed the same right after updating. It is extremely annoying. It's frustrating when useful options which used to exist are removed. "Updating" is meant to make stuff better after all...
I liked the 2 power saving options before the update. One decreased performance a little & my screen didn't change. It was a little slower and not as bright. It was perfect and it's gone. The other was Ultra Power Saving. Apps were very limited. It was great when I was in a crunch & couldn't charge it right away. The new "improved" Power Saving is horrible & I hate it!
Updated my S7 to Nougat, couple days and regretting the decision more and more everyday. Yesterday I've noticed hey I'm at 10% and not in power saving mode like why? Oh we thought it be great idea to kick in power saving mode automatically only at 5%.....
There is suppose to be a Battery Saver option that lets you choose between 15% or 5% when to automatically kick in power saver mode. But apparently Samsung removed this option?
Yes, I also hate this change...
If anyone has a link to a petition or something please post it. I used to go powersaving at 50% and kept my phone topped off, I hate even seeing 2x%.
And I dont see an ultra saving mode, you basically flip the customization options each time? I understand the concept -- but we all like to have the phone at full-everything at least for the glorious first 10% after charge.
Then OK for the next 40%.
Then frugal mode kicks in. Being frugal all the time is just no fun.
S7 user here, the same thing happened with android 7.0 update. Really miss the auto power saving feature... I had set it to kick in at 20% and it was what I needed to have my battery last for a whole day. Now with Nugat update the battery doesn't hold for whole day anymore because of this, what a shame!
So there is no option to set it to say extreme power saving when battery drops below 10 % ?
Nope
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The way that I understand power saving mode is that it saves juice by changing backlight based on what is on the screen. However in order to do this it.means cpu would be constantly used. So does power saving mode really save juice? Is the amount of battery saved by changing backlight more than the battery used by constant cpu usage?
That's a good question but I highly doubt that they would add the feature if they didn't test that it actually saved power. But, stranger things have happened.
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That's a good question but I highly doubt that they would add the feature if they didn't test that it actually saved power. But, stranger things have happened.
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I assume you aren't basing that statement on recent events of failed quality control on high-end phones
No, it does not.
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No, it does not.
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And this is based on???
From what I have read, having power saving mode on is another process the cpu has to worry about therefore possibly causing more battery drain. Personally I have disabled power saving mode and auto brightness and have experienced a slight improvement in battery life. I use the slide on taskbar feature to adjust brightness manually.
I have both Power Saving Mode and Automatic Brightness on, 3G off, and I get over 40 hours in normal use! I hope that tells you these settings don't drain the battery and you shouldn't worry about having them turned on.
It is NOT putting an undue burden on the cpu, and small amounts of CPU usage have MUCH less effect than powering the screen.
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I have both Power Saving Mode and Automatic Brightness on, 3G off, and I get over 40 hours in normal use! I hope that tells you these settings don't drain the battery and you shouldn't worry about having them turned on.
It is NOT putting an undue burden on the cpu, and small amounts of CPU usage have MUCH less effect than powering the screen.
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I have to ask what is normal use for you? Cant imagine getting 40 hrs on any device besides a BBerry.
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I find that the 'auto settings' takes away from a session - screen dimming and back again. Swipe to adjust brightness seems to work fine. As far as I'm concerned, the Vibrant is running normal when usage puts Screen at 83% or so.. After all, we bought it for the display to begin with
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That's a good question but I highly doubt that they would add the feature if they didn't test that it actually saved power. But, stranger things have happened.
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They released the phone without doing adaquate testing on the GPS.
HTC released the G2 without turning it upside down & seeing the hinge go a flyin.
Just because they threw a feature in doesn't mean that it's been tested.
We're the testers
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I have to ask what is normal use for you? Cant imagine getting 40 hrs on any device besides a BBerry.
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He keeps is 3G off, thats what's saving the battery. That and he probably was sleeping for 16+ of those 40 hours.
Just an FYI, I have been running my phone on automatic brightness + power saving mode for the past few days as opposed to my usual lowest brightness + no power saving mode; and usually I would get inbetween 3.5-4 hours of screen time (depending on what I did) but now I am getting 4-4.5 hours (same usage). Obviously the automatic brightness does not improve battery life over lowest brightness all the time, so power saving mode must be doing something right -- something aside from just lowering screen brightness as needed.
That is a feature of 2.1 that is intended to help people with LED backlit screens by turning off LEDs in areas that are black. We have SAMOLEDS, which are lit by pixel, and we get battery battery life by using black themes. That is why Fusion 1.1 is nearly all black, and gets insane battery life.
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I have both Power Saving Mode and Automatic Brightness on, 3G off, and I get over 40 hours in normal use! I hope that tells you these settings don't drain the battery and you shouldn't worry about having them turned on.
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Actually, that doesn't tell us anything. What is your battery life like with Power Saving and Auto Brightness off?
Firmware KE1 on Three UK
To reproduce:
Turn power saving mode on , with a battery at 50%, set to trigger at 70%
... the power saving mode turns on OK
Now set it to trigger at 10%, your battery still at 50%, and turn it on
... surprise! it's still on
In fact you won't be able to turn it off now unless you completely turn it off as part of the first option in settings, irrelevant of battery left.
cigaro78 said:
To reproduce:
Turn power saving mode on , with a battery at 50%, set to trigger at 70%
... the power saving mode turns on OK
Now set it to trigger at 10%, your battery still at 50%, and turn it on
... surprise! it's still on
In fact you won't be able to turn it off now unless you completely turn it off as part of the first option in settings, irrelevant of battery left.
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wouldn't it be just helpful when people post bugs/faults etc to write down what firmware they are on? especially ANYTHING that is vaguely related to software.
Updated. No need to act like a ****
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Updated. No need to act like a ****
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He's not acting like an ***, he's just pointing out that bugs should be reported where they belong. xda-developers doesn't write the official samsung firmware.
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He's not acting like an ***, he's just pointing out that bugs should be reported where they belong. xda-developers doesn't write the official samsung firmware.
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exactly and how can we help you when you didn't give us any info? We can't help you unless you help us.
Sorry if I sounded like a ***. Its just that there have been so many numpties on the original SGS forum and was dreading them overflowing over here. Tiring us out with same old questions and demands whilst they don't give us any basic obvious info to work from.
Regarding your problem I tried this last night before I went to bed and it worked fine for me (on both brightness levels)
Maybe I'm its because I'm on the updated firmware. You should do the same. KE2
OK no worries
I'm not a numpty I didn't expect to receive support from these forums, I just wanted to share that I had found this hoping it would help others.
But it's all water under the bridge now, I'll update to KE2 and will report back.
Cheers!
I found that it doesn't enable the stuff it disables either like background sync while I'm charging my phone, I'll try it on KE2 and see if it still behaves that way.
i have noticed this too..from running the KE1 and KE2 firmware.
i set my power save to battery less than 30% - reduce screen brightness to 10%, screen off time 5 secs and turn off everything [like wifi].
i have found that this works as expected, when the battery gets to 30% it informs me and asks if i want to switch to power saving mode, which i accept. then when i recharge my phone and unplug it keeps the 10% brightness setting and short screen off time.
to rectify this i have to go into settings and display and retun then to what i want. then when it dropps to 30% it activates, when charged, same thing happens.
duno whats causing this or how we could rectify it :-(
Some will say the battery is good others will say it sucks. I have hear them both for the Galaxy S6 so here is a few tips for increasing the battery life on your device. This works for any Android device.
1- Avoid Live wallpapers, instead set Dark wallpapers.
2- Set Brightness to " Auto " and lower Timeout Duration
3- Delete unused widgets
4- Toggle From 4G to 2G
5- Changing Application Sync Settings
6- Disabling Background Data
7- Close applications that you are not using
8- Turn off WiFi & Bluetooth when not needed
9- Disable unnecessary features & gestures
10- Enable power saver (Duh)
Here is a video guide on how to access and use these features on your phone if you dont happen to know how to.
So what you're saying is, buy another phone.
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Some will say the battery is good others will say it sucks. I have hear them both for the Galaxy S6 so here is a few tips for increasing the battery life on your device. This works for any Android device.
1- Avoid Live wallpapers, instead set Dark wallpapers.
2- Set Brightness to " Auto " and lower Timeout Duration
3- Delete unused widgets
4- Toggle From 4G to 2G
5- Changing Application Sync Settings
6- Disabling Background Data
7- Close applications that you are not using
8- Turn off WiFi & Bluetooth when not needed
9- Disable unnecessary features & gestures
10- Enable power saver (Duh)
Here is a video guide on how to access and use these features on your phone if you dont happen to know how to.
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Apparently if you switch the phone off the battery will last for months.
MobileBritain said:
Apparently if you switch the phone off the battery will last for months.
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I'd just like to add, if you keep it plugged into the wall charger, you can achieve over 20 hours SOT!
In other words, turn off all smart features of Smartphone and use it like a 3310
Add this to your tips:
Switch it on only when you need to use it, or expecting a call.
Also you can use ultra power saving mode all the time.
Yeah, I am amused by all the battery life obsession these days. Folks strap on suitcases to their phones in the name of extended batteries. Reminds me of the old motorola star tac days.
I am one of those people that is getting outstanding battery life. At the end of a typical workday with frequent testing and browsing while on the bus etc., I have about 40-45% left when I get home. That's only marginally off the Note 4 I had which would be around 55% at the end of the day. Only things I have done are disable stock amazon app, disable wifi scanning, disable wifi calling and set screen brightness to auto. My BT is always on, as is VoLTE.
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So what you're saying is, buy another phone.
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No, to me the battery is good enough. Yes you can use ultra battery saving, but I'm not saying to use all of these at once. Using a darker wallpaper will help with battery. Thats something I do and not the rest. If I needed more battery and cant get to a power source then I do a few other things that don't require me to turn my phone into a dummy. These are just a few tricks cause some where getting a bad battery life compared to others.
Lol there's no way I'm using dark wallpapers with this amazing screen.
A true black wallpaper is my favorite battery saver. Maybe it's just me but I love seeing the deep black super amoled allows us to have.
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apparently if you switch the phone off the battery will last for months.
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Thread Gone Off Topic significantly. Closed. There are plenty good (and better )Battery Saver Guides around here for those who want/need one.
Hello, I am the new owner of the LG G6. I noticed a fairly large consumption of the battery in this phone, especially during idle
That is why I would like for myself and others to gather in this topic all the ways to improve the G6 performance in terms of battery life, which do not require rooting and are safe for the phone.
First, disable LDB (MLT in older versions) in hidden menu (LG 24/7 tracking of phone)
Search for "LDB function LG G6" in Google, there should be a theme on Reddit about MLT with exact instructions. Maybe someone below will drop the link, because I do not have such a possibility
What else can we do in the hidden LG menu to improve the battery life?
Second, turn off bloatwear
The easiest way is to go to settings > applications and disable (uninstall) applications that you do not use. However, this way you can not get rid of all the bloatware.
What are the other methods for improving the battery life of the LG G6?
Battery standby drain on my G6 (H870DS) is also poor. I lose between 1.5-2.5% an hour when the phone is just sat on the table. I have tried many things to reduce this without success. I have AOD off, battery saver on, gmail sync off, aeroplane mode on (no mobile/cell signal at home), Bluetooth off, WiFi off when screen off. I have removed/ hidden most of the bloatware using ADB commands and experimented with apps such as greenify and forcedoze but nothing seems to make any difference to the high battery consumption when the phone is idle. I have done 2-3 factory resets and nothing has improved. Gsam battery app tells me that a lot of battery usage is caused by android os, kernel and google play services. My conclusions are that android 7.0 Nougat has poor battery idle drain. LG will only update this to 8.0 Oreo eventually which might improve battery efficiency. Some people are reporting better standby performance with their G6’s so it might have something to do with which model/regions firmware you have. I also have the latest TWN firmware and this improved idle drain slightly. I shall wait for android 8.0 Oreo then factory reset and probably be disappointed. Great phone apart from poor battery standby and not having a notification led.
The most amusing thing I've noticed is that the Always-On Display has virtually no battery consumption. Whether it is running or not, I had the same high consumption on idle.
Tomorrow morning I will check whether turning off LDB (MLT) gives something.
I am afraid of updating to Android 8.0, because reviews of other phones after the update are extremely different, some say that the battery life has deteriorated, and others that have improved slightly
I too have my doubts that android 8.0 will be bring any improvement to battery standby drain so will be waiting to see other people’s experiences before I update.
This is also fun, because for the same type of device people report different effects of upgrades. So usually Android upgrade is a high risk game
It seems that turning off the LDB (MLT) feature has reduced the battery consumption in idle 2x, now the phone uses about 0.25% per hour.
Very interesting, that's the first time I've actually heard or read something about MLT/LDB. I wonder what both stands for and also what's its literal function. Polish forums are flooded with threads about "LG's spying app!".
I gave it a try and turned it off. Also I've turned off logging services too. After rebooting, I've removed two apps that are mentioned here and had to force-reboot again as "MLT has stopped" started popping up after a minute or two and it prevented me from doing anything on the phone
Hopefully it will improve battery life... even slightly, but improvement is improvement. For me, battery life is the weakest point of this phone (damned Android 7.0 and its idle battery drain bug)...
RAM is not so important for me, 4 gigs are enough and I've never experienced any slowdowns even with 30 tabs opened in Chrome
Someone on Reddit suggested disabling background running services for apps that use it for no real reason. This can be done by following:
Device settings > Smart doctor > Tap Memory > Tap overflow menu > Tap conserve memory
Selecting the apps that you want to not run in the background and setting the toggle to ON will help. Maybe. Ish.
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I gave it a try and turned it off. Also I've turned off logging services too. After rebooting, I've removed two apps that are mentioned here and had to force-reboot again as "MLT has stopped" started popping up after a minute or two and it prevented me from doing anything on the phone
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Let me know what effects have turned off logging and uninstalling these applications. It is a pity that these applications can only be uninstalled on the root device.
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Someone on Reddit suggested disabling background running services for apps that use it for no real reason. This can be done by following:
Device settings > Smart doctor > Tap Memory > Tap overflow menu > Tap conserve memory
Selecting the apps that you want to not run in the background and setting the toggle to ON will help. Maybe. Ish.
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Thanks for the hint. I just did it. Too bad there are so few applications that I want them to not work in the background
adaimespechip said:
Device settings > Smart doctor > Tap Memory > Tap overflow menu > Tap conserve memory
Selecting the apps that you want to not run in the background and setting the toggle to ON will help. Maybe. Ish.
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I will try it too, thanks for the hint.
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Let me know what effects have turned off logging and uninstalling these applications. It is a pity that these applications can only be uninstalled on the root device.
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Manually turning MLT off should be enough, I removed these apps just in case but I don't think it makes MLT "double off" as it's already killed in service menu.
I will do some checks and report in few days, stay tuned.
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Can you tell me how, step by step, you have disabled the logs?
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Can you tell me how, step by step, you have disabled the logs?
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I don't have my phone with me but as far as I remember the steps are almost exactly the same as for MLT/LDB disable.
Only you click the button about logging instead of MLT, one or two rows below. Then you have to tap "disable" button until every logging service below is set to "Disabled".
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I don't have my phone with me but as far as I remember the steps are almost exactly the same as for MLT/LDB disable.
Only you click the button about logging instead of MLT, one or two rows below. Then you have to tap "disable" button until every logging service below is set to "Disabled".
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This option is called Log Services above the LDB function in the hidden menu. Unfortunately all these services I have already disabled :/
Another hint. Make sure that the built-in flash does not light when receiving calls and messages. You may not notice it, because the phone is always on the back.
This can be turned off: Settings> Accessibility> listening> Alarming flash
Tomorrow I will check how much battery I saved
My idle drain was over 60mAh per hour and over a day this was more than used by the screen. The Greenify aggressive doze helps, as does restricting mobile data in the background plus disabling all the bloat. Adding in the LDB hack has reduced idle drain to less than 40mAh per hour, not perfect but much better. To me it looks like LG thought the larger battery meant they could turn on all their rubbish and we wouldn't notice...
Going back to the subject, disabling the flash, acting as the notification light, did not bring about much improvement in battery life.
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My idle drain was over 60mAh per hour and over a day this was more than used by the screen. The Greenify aggressive doze helps, as does restricting mobile data in the background plus disabling all the bloat. Adding in the LDB hack has reduced idle drain to less than 40mAh per hour, not perfect but much better. To me it looks like LG thought the larger battery meant they could turn on all their rubbish and we wouldn't notice...
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Every big smartphone manufacturer throws a lot of his ****. The most important thing is to optimize your Android overlay for battery saving. Not every manufacturer handles it satisfactorily
https://youtu.be/iPpuYxJUGro
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https://youtu.be/iPpuYxJUGro
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Thanks for the link. Some interesting information was in this video. The most interesting, because I've never seen it before, was to turn off Bluetooth scanning, which works even when Bluetooth is turned off.
To do this, go to settings> location> three dots> scanning> Bluetooth scanning
It seems that there are no hard and fast rules about this. Without any modification whatsoever on my G6, idle goes about 1% every 2 hours or so, even with light use. I'm running the v11d update of Oct 21. The update improved battery life that was already good. At the end of a workday, with bluetooth active and light to moderate use and a trip with Waze I typically have 75% left. It may be a regional issue with firmwares running slightly different apps in the background depending on where you are, or maybe difference in cell tower distances-- with a weak signal the phone radio powers up higher. Maybe LDB isn't used in my region (Middle East/Israel)
Are people using apps such as greenify, force doze, hibernation manager or clean master and if so what benefits in standby drain are they experiencing? Are these apps any good and do they create any problems of their own? From personal experience removing QuickMemo using adb commands improved my battery standby drain a little. What changes should be made in developer options to improve battery life such as animations or limit background processes etc. Nougat is set up to manage battery life in a certain way, so I just want to make sure I don’t make any changes or install any 3rd party apps that make my battery life even worse. What I have come to realise is that the G6 and the snapdragon 821 are not set up for efficient battery standby. Previously, I had a vodaphone smart ultra 6 (rebadge zte blade) with a 3000mah battery on marshmallow that would last upto 4 days on a single charge!
My s10+ is with me since 2 or 3 weeks now
Now the adaptive power switches to medium power saving at just 68%
Is this correct?
Mohamad Gahed said:
My s10+ is with me since 2 or 3 weeks now
Now the adaptive power switches to medium power saving at just 68%
Is this correct?
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Should only do it under 25%
Notefan161 said:
Should only do it under 25%
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It was at 25% exactly when the phone was new
Now it switches randomly
From couple of days it switches at around 50% then today it switched at 68%
It switches based on your usage, if it notices your usage is lazy in certain apps or during certain hours of the day then it will enable power saving, it's nothing you have to worry about and it gets better with time.
Where are you seeing this information? The only thing I'm noticing is that my screen resolution keeps changing from the highest to medium. I'm getting great battery life and I'm never in a pinch so why it keeps changing is annoying more than anything.
Edit: I found it and turned it to high performance. Then I hesitated but turned on adaptive too. I'll watch it for a couple of days and may turn it off.
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Where are you seeing this information? The only thing I'm noticing is that my screen resolution keeps changing from the highest to medium. I'm getting great battery life and I'm never in a pinch so why it keeps changing is annoying more than anything.
Edit: I found it and turned it to high performance. Then I hesitated but turned on adaptive too. I'll watch it for a couple of days and may turn it off.
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You are seeing change in res and the phone switches to medium power saving mode and the default settings for this medium mode is FHD+ res
You need to change that then choose optimized again
Mohamad Gahed said:
You are seeing change in res and the phone switches to medium power saving mode and the default settings for this medium mode is FHD+ res
You need to change that then choose optimized again
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Turn off adaptive power saving, that thing automatically changes your power mode depending on your usage. When you turn it off it won't change your power mode anymore. View attachment 4735427
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Turn off adaptive power saving, that thing automatically changes your power mode depending on your usage. When you turn it off it won't change your power mode anymore.
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I have done that and it is not switching anymore
But am wondering is the adaptive power mode have any other benefits than just switching?
Mohamad Gahed said:
I have done that and it is not switching anymore
But am wondering is the adaptive power mode have any other benefits than just switching?
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Don't think so, I think it just monitors your usage and changes the power mode accordingly. Annoying this is that it changes the resolution too which it says that it won't do.
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I have done that and it is not switching anymore
But am wondering is the adaptive power mode have any other benefits than just switching?
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There's another adaptive power mode feature integrated in Android, they work well together.
If you set your Medium power saving resolution to the one you use by default then there's absolutely no reason for you to keep Adaptive power saving disabled, you won't feel any performance loss yourself, launching a game or app that is known to need the full performance will automatically switch back to Optimal, I recommend you keep it on.
Corv0 said:
There's another adaptive power mode feature integrated in Android, they work well together.
If you set your Medium power saving resolution to the one you use by default then there's absolutely no reason for you to keep Adaptive power saving disabled, you won't feel any performance loss yourself, launching a game or app that is known to need the full performance will automatically switch back to Optimal, I recommend you keep it on.
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My only problem is that it limit the CPU to 70% with no need while the battery is very high
Yesterday I recharged my mobile and it kicked in at 90% battery heheheheeh
Mohamad Gahed said:
My only problem is that it limit the CPU to 70% with no need while the battery is very high
Yesterday I recharged my mobile and it kicked in at 90% battery heheheheeh
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Do you even need to hit the highest frequencies?
Corv0 said:
Do you even need to hit the highest frequencies?
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Not at all just it affects overall smoothness of the ui
And it does not really conserve my battery as I don't use the full CPU power even in optimized or high performance modes
Mohamad Gahed said:
Not at all just it affects overall smoothness of the ui
And it does not really conserve my battery as I don't use the full CPU power even in optimized or high performance modes
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But it doesn't, the UI isn't even skipping frames on medium power saving, are you sure it's not just placebo?
Corv0 said:
But it doesn't, the UI isn't even skipping frames on medium power saving, are you sure it's not just placebo?
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I cant say for sure frankly
But it is not the ui it can be felt in some applications like Facebook for example or the xda forums app sometimes it skips frames when moving from page to page
Mohamad Gahed said:
I cant say for sure frankly
But it is not the ui it can be felt in some applications like Facebook for example or the xda forums app sometimes it skips frames when moving from page to page
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Well yeah, badly optimised apps are going to feel the lower frequencies, I personally don't use those two and everything else has been fine.