I am interesting in any ways to make the battery life longer. I have searched and came up with the thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=502694&highlight=battery , but I am still asking as I think nobody has actually asked what I want.
As an example, how is it better ... to have a black screen or another colour, or it dosn't matter. I mean, every colour probably consumes a different portion of the battery. Which is the least consuming? Black is my guess, but I am asking
I am interested in these kind of ways. If anyone knows and good links etc. (my TD2 is alive almost 3 days, but still, there is space for improvement)
display on LCD does not effect power consumption (black screen = sawing power was true for old kathot tube displays)
all I can say is that my D2 has battery for a day and a half...somethimes less (but I'm a heavy user), so 3 days doesent sound so bad now
alfabirdy said:
display on LCD does not effect power consumption (black screen = sawing power was true for old kathot tube displays)
all I can say is that my D2 has battery for a day and a half...somethimes less (but I'm a heavy user), so 3 days doesent sound so bad now
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A day and a half!!
Left home at 10:00 with music on using headphones provided not BT.
On the way 30 min of internet via HSDPA and couple of sms. Then tube so no signal. Then another hour of internet via HSDPA plus some sms messages. All the time MP3 on via headphones provided with D2. All in all trip lasted around 2h 15min one way. By the time I got there battery was at 40% so 60% in 2h 15 min. I think there might be something wrong.
I have BT off, wifi off and screen highlight on automatic.
Yeah same thing happens with me ruscik.
Leave my house, hour and a half journey with abit of internet, music constantly and battery nearly goes to around 50% i think.
Its the internet that really sucks the battery life i think cause i managed to watch a video for hour 15min and battery went from about 45% to 3% and i just made it home which i thought wasn't too bad compared to usually going down by 50% with music and internet.
I have tried a lot of the tricks posted on this forum... and they DO help... but I was still loosing a battery life. So I have a new list of things you can try:
- Don't turn on your phone every 5 mins to look at it
- Don't try and show every single feature available to every person walking by
- Don't check every 10 mins to see if your area suddenly has 4G
- Don't play games on it for hours at a time
I realize that this may be hard to do... but eventually as the phone gets more mainstream (and it will once the iphone 4 and droid X come out), you will notice that your phone can go a lot longer on a single charge.
Hello,
I have loaded my Focus with 3 movies each one of them were 1 hour and 45 minutes and was able to view all of them before even getting the last quarter of the battery.
I played mp4's of 5 hours and 20 minutes and their size was almost 3 GB of videos.
The phone had every connectivity option disabled except the cellural one (The location services and the feedback also disabled).
Also I had the mobile for a week without putting the sim card and the phone lasted for the whole week before recharging.
Conclusion:
Video playback time is more than 5 hours and you should have the phone working till the end of the day.
Standby time without the sim is 7 days.
Standby time with the sim around 3 days ( Don't last the 3rd day).
Average standby when heavily using it is 1 to 2 days.
The above information is my experiment with the phone after 1 month of playing it.
The battery life is improved compared to the 1st time I used it.
Hope that helps
Is that normal that I have only 4h30 screen on when using my phone only for texting and like 1h of internet browsing .. Plus 10 minutes of clash of clan .. Nothing more ..
I'm very skeptical about my battery life because I see that everyone having more than me with more heavy usage..
I installed wake lock detector and the top one is 1013 ( audio mix ) and the second one is android system which is audio mix too .. Don't understand why I have so " poor " battery life ..
PS : location and sync are off all the time !
tlf55 said:
Is that normal that I have only 4h30 screen on when using my phone only for texting and like 1h of internet browsing .. Plus 10 minutes of clash of clan .. Nothing more ..
I'm very skeptical about my battery life because I see that everyone having more than me with more heavy usage..
I installed wake lock detector and the top one is 1013 ( audio mix ) and the second one is android system which is audio mix too .. Don't understand why I have so " poor " battery life ..
PS : location and sync are off all the time !
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BetterBatteryStatts from Play will give you info of the top power consumers. If you are on 3/4G a lot then the phone will use more power too.
i`ve got max 5hours screen on, on stock ane2 with root
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BetterBatteryStatts from Play will give you info of the top power consumers. If you are on 3/4G a lot then the phone will use more power too.
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OK then I see in partial wake lock right ?
tlf55 said:
Is that normal that I have only 4h30 screen on
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It's not typical of course. That is obvious when you compare your time to the vast majority of other posts. You are clearly on the short end. But not unheard of either.
Why is impossible to discern since you haven't provided many details. 4.5 hours of screen time.. but how much time overall? How much connection time to Wifi and a lot of other things? Detailed battery stats showing how much time various apps and services are on would offer hints. If your net and texting are LTE connections and you have a few piggish apps, there you go.
You may have GPS off, but audio apps can be heavy draws because music play will spin hundreds or thousands of wakelocks. Some players are worse than others. But you didn't tell us which ones you are using or how much music play either. Some apps like Tunein can be abysmal. Apps that constantly poll the net like Google Now or poll the camera like Skype can put dents in your run time.
Perhaps you have a bad, damaged or third party battery. And so on and so forth. We don't have nearly enough details. All we can say for certain is that you appear to have a very short run time. But that wouldn't be at all unexpected if half of a dozen of your heavily used apps tend to be heavy draws. If you debloated your system, optimized a few things and made some tweaks, you might well find that your run time increased 50%.
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It's not typical of course. That is obvious when you compare your time to the vast majority of other posts. You are clearly on the short end. But not unheard of either.
Why is impossible to discern since you haven't provided many details. 4.5 hours of screen time.. but how much time overall? How much connection time to Wifi and a lot of other things? Detailed battery stats showing how much time various apps and services are on would offer hints. If your net and texting are LTE connections and you have a few piggish apps, there you go.
You may have GPS off, but audio apps can be heavy draws because music play will spin hundreds or thousands of wakelocks. Some players are worse than others. But you didn't tell us which ones you are using or how much music play either. Some apps like Tunein can be abysmal. Apps that constantly poll the net like Google Now or poll the camera like Skype can put dents in your run time.
Perhaps you have a bad, damaged or third party battery. And so on and so forth. We don't have nearly enough details. All we can say for certain is that you appear to have a very short run time. But that wouldn't be at all unexpected if half of a dozen of your heavily used apps tend to be heavy draws. If you debloated your system, optimized a few things and made some tweaks, you might well find that your run time increased 50%.
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Yeah you're right, i'll try to give more information,
for now all i can give it's that i'm on 3G/2G (no LTE) because i'm a Train driver and i travel a lot.. I plug off the phone from the charger at 9AM and at 9pm i have like 15-20% left.. with ~ 4.5 screen on
I'm not using music player because i'm listening music with my ipod. Google Now desactivated, Skype not installed, Facebook not installed too !
Location off and sync off all the time.. Wifi off too
All i do between 9Am and 9pm it's approximativly 300 text (sms) 50 whatsapp messages, 10 - 15 minutes of Clash of clan, maybe 1 or 2 Snapchat and like 1hour of internet browsing.. Essentialy News website..
That's a normal day for me ! Sometimes i might take 2-3 picture of place i like.. And maybe play an other game to pass the free time (but that wasn't included yesterday report and that's occasionally)
I'll try to take some screenshot of BBS and battery info today or maybe tomorrow to give a better report
Thanks for helping guys
Thanks for the details. That actually doesn't sound that bad.. after 12 hours of run time, you've got 15 - 20% left. The 4.5 hours of screen time is misleading.. giving a vague impression that your battery only lasts ~ 5 hours.
But actually, it's been on 12 hours.. with enough battery remaining to run several more hours so.. your overall run time is something like 15 hours, during which you sent 300 SMS, 50 miscellaneous messages, some Snapchats, 15 min of gaming, an hour on the net and 4.5 hours screen on. Nothing wrong with that at all. If you happened to use your apps differently you could easily see 7 or 8 hours screen on while more or less doing what you currently do. It's just that your usage happens to involve less screen time.
If I missed something, perhaps you could narrow down or elaborate about your concerns? Is there some use that you want to do during your workday that you don't feel you can?. But it you were just concerned that 4.5 hours didn't sound that good.. I don't think that is anything to worry about. Your overall usage when you explained at length sounds perfectly normal to me. If you want to aim for a straight number, you could tweak your phone, use inverted apps, etc and etc and gain another 3 - 4 hours screen or run time.. but to what end? Your current usage takes you through your workday with 20% remaining.. I'd say mission accomplished.
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My Nexus Player exhibits a behavior that unnerves me a bit, and I was wondering if it occurs for anyone else. I use my Player to watch Youtube, and that's basically it. I'm running PureNexus 6.0.1. A lot of the time, when I leave the room, I'll just pause the current video. Probably about the past two months, I've noticed that when I return to the room...half hour, five minutes, six hours later, it will sometimes resume playing on it's own. Not every time, but often enough. I won't even go near the piece of furniture the remote is sitting on, and it'll just resume playing about 30 seconds after I return. However, it has never resumed playing before I come back into the room. It's kind of creepy.
You are not alone. I mean literally...