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What's the best battery settings for stock rom?

I keep seeing all these threads about how people are getting rediculous hours on 1 charge, but mostly all the post I see are people with rooted phones. What are the best ways to increase battery live on a epic with stock rom?

Those crazy battery life u see is ppl putting their phone in airplane mode and with very limited use. They don't mean anything. But some tips to improve batt life are keep screen brightness down, turn off 4g when not in use, maybe use juice defender to automatically turn off 3g whenever the screen is off.
Sent from my Epic 4G

I'm 100% stock, unrooted.
Turned off Auto-Sync
Brightness set to auto
Wifi on, since I'm usually within range of work or home wifi
Swapped Wifi policy to never drop when asleep. (prevents wifi from dropping and going to 3g)
Killed that absolutely stupid DRM process
Activate Airplane mode after initial boot and turn it back off. (Due to Samsung bug)
Have any program that syncs set to sync at 2hr intervals
My battery life with heavy usage will last over 6 hours (games, txts, browsing, app downloading). With moderate usage it usually can go 15 hours (sans app downloading), and with light usage I've pushed it 2 days (games and txts).
Mind you I don't use the browser much since 90% of my day is in front a PC, Mon-Fri.

I'm 100% stock, no root as well.
1.Train your battery!
when I got my phone I did at least 3 full charge/complete discharge cycles
2.I do not use any Task Killers or JuiceDefender (tried and uninstalled for ineffectiveness), I just use built in tool to monitor running programs and kill off the one I do not need. I prefer not to install application that do not have clean exit programmed. I do use JuicePlotter to monitor battery charge/discharge.
3. After each reboot toggle airplane mode on and off(Airplane trick)
4. Go to Menu/Settings/Applications/Running Services and shut down all services that not needed (DRM, MediaHub, etc)
5. Set brightness to minimal possible value (works fine for me), not auto set - when I need it on the street just slide the finger across the status bar and raise the level as needed.
6. All 4G, GPS, Wi-Fi are off and on only when needed. I use Wi-Fi home, 4G at work, rest of the places 3G or whatever is available. My data/sync is always on. Wi-Fi set to never sleep.
7. I have Roaming Guard off since my house in the very poor reception area so it's roaming most of the time but there is wi-fi for data.
8. Use dark background/wallpaper (I use Star Wars light speed jump live wallpaper)
IMO the battery life is depend on the type of use. From my 2 month experience the following battery killer tasks are:
1.Streaming video, music with screen on (will discharge the battery even when plugged in.
1a.Streaming music with screen off.
2. I haven't tried tethering (hot spot mode) but would think it's a killer as well
3. Browsing web, especially over 3G
4. Roaming
5. Game playing.
6. GPS
Obviously you can have a bad (defective) battery, but it's likely less then 1%.
Good luck!

nikon120 - What do you consider moderate? I consider my usage to be moderate, but I can't go 15hrs. Yesterday after fully charging the phone from mid point, my phone completely died after 5hrs, with very light usuage as most of that time I was busy. Today with light to moderate usage, my phone is indicating that it needs to be charged at roughly hr 10.
stud_muffler - I'm not familair with this airplane trick you're referring to. Can you enlighten me?
I'm doing most of the things suggested in this post, but I still don't think the battery usage I'm getting is up to par. The battery life on my Epic is much worse then what I was getting on my WinMo TP2, with roughly the same amount of usage.

noreboy said:
stud_muffler - I'm not familair with this airplane trick you're referring to. Can you enlighten me?
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After you reboot the phone press and hold Power button until it buzz.
Menu will appear.
Select and touch Airplane Mode option. It will turn off all radio and show plane icon in the status bar.
wait few seconds and repeat to turn radio on.
that's all.

[HOW TO] Solve battery drain issue of YU Yureka.

If your YU Yureka's battery last upto only few hrs. Try this :
First check Battery status (Settings->Battery)
If you find Mediaserver listed number one battery drainer with more than 50% battery uses, then there is issue with Media storage
Now go to Settings-> Apps ->All, select Media Storage & disable it. Clear data & reboot. Now enable it & reboot.
Check battery uses after some time Mediaserver will not be number 1 & may not be in the list also. Even if it is listed , it will not take much battery.
Credit : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5JFZDywtIM

Greenify
If you have rooted your Yureka, you can use Greenify app from play store to enhance battery life.
Here are the steps (4 image files attached).

How to save battery life on your Android device: 20 Tips
Most smartphones have either a Lithium Ion battery or a Lithium Polymer battery. Both are Lithium Ion though, and as such, do not have a ''memory'' which means you don't have to fully charge or discharge them at the beginning, and partial charging is fine throughout their life. In fact, these types of batteries suffer from low voltage, so it's actually much better to charge them, even if only a little, whenever you have the chance rather than to fully charge and fully drain them.
1. Use a dark colored background
2. Make apps darker too
3. Get rid of auto-brightness
Don't use display auto-brightness. It may sound good, but auto-brightness is usually way brighter than you really need. It's much better to manually set a super low brightness level that is still comfortable, and then just bump it up when necessary. This is one of the main ways to improve your battery life as the screen is one of the biggest battery suckers.
4. Vibrate away!
Switch off vibrate. Unless you really need that added awareness, turn off vibration. It actually takes more power to vibrate your phone than it does to ring it. Turn off haptic feedback too. Sure it feels cool, but it doesn't really add anything to your experience, and it's another battery drainer.
5. Don't use a knockoff
Only use original batteries or respected third party manufacturer batteries. Saving a few bucks on a battery that might damage your beloved smartphone is a poor choice indeed, and may also deliver sub-standard battery performance.
6. Having a timeout is good
Set your display's screen timeout to as short a time as is practical for you. Just think, if your screen timeout is set to a minute, it'll use four times the amount of power to have it on, every time you switch your screen on, than if your timeout is set to 15 seconds. Studies report the average smartphone user turns their smartphone on 150 times a day, so anything you can do to limit that frequency (through self-control or other methods listed below) will help keep your battery running for longer.
7. Get your notifications to leave you alone at night
Set ''sleep times'' or ''blocking mode'' to switch off Wi-Fi and mobile data when you don't need them. If your phone is basically off limits at work, set your device to not ring, vibrate or connect to the internet while you're at work. Likewise, you can set your phone to airplane mode when you're asleep or use sleep or blocking modes to set up limits for what your phone does during certain times of the day, whether that's while you're asleep, at work or in a meeting. Get to know the specific settings your ROM offers. Not only will you have to fiddle with your phone less throughout the day (or night), but you'll be saving on battery life too.
8. Your phone doesn't have to be smart all the time
Turn off smart features like air gestures, smart scrolling and the like, Unless you really use these features every day, they're just using battery power for a feature you don't use.
9. Nor do you need to be connected 24/7
Turn off GPS, Bluetooth, NFC, Wi-Fi and mobile data whenever you don't need them. Turning off location data, or setting it to use Wi-Fi or 3G data rather than GPS works perfectly well. Only turn on Bluetooth and NFC as long as you need them, and there's no need to have both Wi-Fi and mobile data turned on at all times. If you use Wi-Fi a lot though, say at home and at work, then it makes sense to keep set your Wi-Fi to ''Always on during sleep'' as this uses less power than to have your Wi-Fi reconnecting every time you wake your phone.
10. Try out Dynamic Notifications
Use lock screen widgets or notifications if your ROM supports them, or install an app that does it for you like Dynamic Notifications. You'll be able to get basically all your content without having to unlock your phone fully and navigating around. You still need to light your screen up, but you'll have it on for much less time than normal. using a lock screen notification app with a black background can save your battery life significantly.
11. Don't get bogged down by widgets
Ditch widgets you don't really need, especially those that are connected to the internet like weather widgets.
12. Don't let your apps fall behind the times
Keep your apps updated. There's a reason developers constantly update apps, and many of these reasons are memory and battery optimizations. Keeping your apps updated also means you have the best optimizations available. Likewise, delete old apps you no longer use, as these may be running background processes that chew up RAM and battery life.
13. Use your battery saving mode, now!
If your phone has a battery or power saving mode or other battery management option, make use of it.
14. Explore the battery saving features on your phone
All ROMs, whether it's stock Android, OEM UI's like TouchWiz or custom ROMs like CyanogenMod, have various settings in the menu to help conserve or optimize battery consumption here and there. Find these various options for your device and ROM and make them work for you!
15. Choose when you sync your data
Turn off auto-syncing for Google accounts. If you don't need every single Google account updated every fifteen minutes, just go into your Settings and Google account and turn off auto-sync for those apps you don't need constantly updated.
16. Be the master of your app updates
Set apps to update only when you launch them. If you rarely (or very frequently) open an app, it might be better to only have it update when you do so, rather than updating automatically all the time via push notifications or sync intervals. If you only check email once a day, why not let the app update then only, and if you're on a widget or app every couple of hours anyway then why not have it update each time rather than every fifteen minutes when you're not even looking at it
17. Be app update savvy in the Google Play Store
Change your Google Play Store settings to manual update your apps. If you have the Play Store set to auto-update, you might have fifteen apps updating when you least expect it, destroying your battery life (and data plan) without you realizing it. If you use even half of these battery saving tips you'll see a marked improvement in your battery life.
18. Turn off Google hotwords
Stop your phone from always listening. Google's "Ok Google" voice searching is a fantastic and often very functional feature. The problem is that it can play havoc with your battery. Go into "Google settings" from your app drawer and tap the "voice" heading. On the next page, select '"Ok Google' detection". In this menu, the best option for battery life would be to untick all boxed, but if you are a fan of "Ok Google", tick only the "From Google Search app" box to ensure your device is only primed while in the Google app.
19. Get rid of animations
Disable animations. This process may differ slightly from device to device but the crux of it should remain the same. Go to your settings and to the "about phone" page. Tap on the "build number" around 7 times. You will be notified that you have become an "Android developer" (don't worry, enabling the Android developer options doesn't have any adverse affects, it just adds another option in your settings menu). Go back to your settings and tap on the newly inserted "developer options" menu at the bottom. On the next page, scroll down to where it says "window animation scale," "transition animation scale" and "animator duration scale", and switch all of these off. Your device's interface may no=longer look as pretty, but the battery life will be better.
20. Make your location services more battery-friendly too!
Turning off location services isn't just a fantastic way to save on your battery, it saves on your data plan too! Go into your settings and you will find "location" under the "personal" heading - tap on it. At the top of the next page it you will see "mode" in this menu you will be able to set the options for how your smartphone determines your location. Select "battery saving" on the following page.
#Courtesy to Android Pit.

The temporary solution for the YU Yureka heating problem is to switch the mode of phone from performance/balanced to battery saver mode. This reduces the continuous heating of the device
Hit thanx if helped.
@avs from MMX canvas 4

Scheduled power on and off option yu yureka- any codes
there is no inbuilt scheduled power on and off option in yu yureka. It is possible to write code from developer options?

laxmiitz said:
there is no inbuilt scheduled power on and off option in yu yureka. It is possible to write code from developer options?
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Check here.
Here also .
Hit thanks if it helps.

I own a Yureka Yu since April 2015. From the beginning there was a problem of heating and phone would randomly reboot. The Battery life was ok after the update Of late the battery drains fast and doesn't charge 100%. Even after keeping for charge overnight the battery shows only 89%.
Attached screen shot of battery. Please help.

Location battery drain

Hello,
I have a huge battery drain on my phone because of bad working of location services. I have it "on" with "battery saving but this keep awake the system when the screen is off. If I turn off the location the battery doesn't drain anymore. Why "battery saving" doesn't work properly?

Wouldn't say I've a huge drain on my battery with Location services ('Access to my location' enabled) on battery saving mode, but I have these 2 set to disabled in Settings:
Location services > Menu (≡ at the bottom) > Scan settings > 1. Wi-Fi scanning (disabled), 2. Bluetooth scanning (disabled) - are these enabled/disabled for you?
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Also, I often use 'Ultra' battery setting if phone is not in use for more than 10-15 minutes. This saves a lot of battery throughout the day, plus one can still receive & send texts/messages with this enabled.
For quick & easy access to 'Ultra' battery setting, you'll want to edit the drop-down Shortcuts menu to place the 'Ultra battery' shortcut in a better position (please see pic enclosed to view where I've placed it in my drop-down Shortcuts menu).
Exiting this 'Ultra' battery mode is also easily done from the main screen, & it takes only a few seconds to return the phone to full functionality.
To emphasise how good this is, my P8 loses only 1-2% charge overnight with this setting enabled.

Standby drain

When you sleep, does your phone sleep, or does it stay up all night and crunch 1s and 0s? Rate this thread to express how you deem the speed at which the LG V30's battery drains under standby conditions. A higher rating indicates that when the phone is not in use, the battery drains minimally.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

I've noticed that the standby uses up quite a bit of battery compared to others i've used. Its right up there with my SOT percentage wise. Still has plenty of battery left though so not a huge concern. I also have the Always on Display turned off to help it along as well.

I noticed that standby drain is increasing when you choose 4g mode but the coverage is not good, or when you are on the move it keeps switching between 4g radio and 3g radio and that drains a lot. If you don't need 4g or the coverage is hit and miss you can just switch to 3g for better battery. I get around 20 mbps with 3g and it is mostly ok.

No drain. Battery life is incredible. If you have drain, I suggest you install Wakelock Detector Lite and find the app responsible.

Disable Volte. Problem solved

LG V30 US998 ( Converted from H931)
HI,
So I converted to US998 from a stock ATT H931 using ChazzMatt process from another thread. The reason I went this way was because I could not use wifi calling on my new carrier, T-Mobile. After a fair amount of difficulty getting LGUP to behave, I now have an incredible phone.
After 48 hours off the charger, I still show 79% battery remaining. Now, I do not make or receive a lot of calls and I am not on the phone all day as I have a regular job. I also don't know if there is a battery calibration issue here. All I can say it lasts way way longer than it did with all of the AT&T bloatware installed.
Gie it a rip. I think you will find the same results.
Mark

Battery life is very good on this phone both standby and SOT. But there is a catch. There is a huge problem with doze mode and notifications not comming in time. This actually is a very common problem with all manufacturers. As I have two apps that recieve alarm notifications both from work and home systems, it is crusial for me to get this notifications on time. As it turns out this is mission impossible. I don't know if the problem is in the apps or the os, may be both. So I had to completely disable doze mode from adb with this command - adb shell dumpsys deviceidle disable
The problem is that it survives till next reboot on non rooted phones but it is still something and solves the problem. But it increases slightly standby drain.
More on doze mode here https://developer.android.com/training/monitoring-device-state/doze-standby

dzver1 said:
Battery life is very good on this phone both standby and SOT. But there is a catch. There is a huge problem with doze mode and notifications not comming in time. This actually is a very common problem with all manufacturers. As I have two apps that recieve alarm notifications both from work and home systems, it is crusial for me to get this notifications on time. As it turns out this is mission impossible. I don't know if the problem is in the apps or the os, may be both. So I had to completely disable doze mode from adb with this command - adb shell dumpsys deviceidle disable
The problem is that it survives till next reboot on non rooted phones but it is still something and solves the problem. But it increases slightly standby drain.
More on doze mode here https://developer.android.com/training/monitoring-device-state/doze-standby
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You can exempt any apps your wish from the LG battery optimization. It's in the interface. You don't need ADB.
Go into Settings and search for Power Savings Exclusions.

Tried that first. Not working properly. Sometimes was ok sometimes I was getting notifications when I unlocked the phone.

45 hrs on standby

US998. No drain. The key to this is simple. I have my phone set to turn off Always on display from 10pm to 6am. It's too bright at night and causing the phone to lose battery needlessly for 8 hours.

Trickymaster said:
US998. No drain. The key to this is simple. I have my phone set to turn off Always on display from 10pm to 6am. It's too bright at night and causing the phone to lose battery needlessly for 8 hours.
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Why is your phone screen on during those hours unless you're using it?
Sent from my LG-US998 using Tapatalk

My P10 Plus battery life sucks...any clue?

Those with good battery life could you share your settings with me? With SOT 1hours 30minutes my battery reduce 40% which is very bad for me.

- Use battery saving location settings
-Turn off wifi scanning
-close power intensive apps during screen lock
-turn off Wi-fi+ if you don't need it.