I thought that the expanded desktop on this phone looks sick so I want to use it but I fear that it will drain more battery so I wanted to take other's opinion.
Will use it drain more battery than usual?
If so then how drastically will it change?
Thanks in advanced:good:
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now I know there are many software out there that measures battery life, but non of them works very well on wizard
so Im thinking about making a program that runs on background and quickly drain the battery
we can then time the battery drain and post it on xda developers to compair
this way we can have a good measurement of how healthy the battery really is, and can have a good measurement on how much battery does todays plug-in or oampclock really consume
OR if anyone knows a good way to measure battery life, please tell me.
Since battery widgets use battery I have been using a battery app that show the battery level only when i click on it.
Darchdroid has an option that puts thr battery percentage in the battery meter. Anyone know if this would use battery?
bob2300nx said:
Since battery widgets use battery I have been using a battery app that show the battery level only when i click on it.
Darchdroid has an option that puts thr battery percentage in the battery meter. Anyone know if this would use battery?
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Huh?
I've been using BatteryLife's widget and it doesn't use (hardly) any battery... It never even shows up in my battery usage menus... Unless the programmer isn't any good at making the widget, I see no reason that a battery meter should use that much battery...
And as far as I know, putting the battery percentage in the status bar uses none... It just takes the value that makes the little icon change the image and displays it...
Noticed that many people complain about ROMs bringing battery drain issues, but It's mainly the third party widgets that cause this, for example, I noticed whilst on standby the nice gtabSiMiclock drains around 4% battery life in 6 hours, not big difference, but remember whilst on standby, found that it constantly updates for god knows what reason, where as the HTC clock drains 0% on standby. The circle battery widget and setcpu drains 0% neither. So if everybody can keep an eye out on what apps drain more battery, whether it makes significant or insignificant changes, leave messages down below for others.
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Tazur Rahman
How did you determine the battery usage for a single app/widget? I'd like to try myself.
jon_f said:
How did you determine the battery usage for a single app/widget? I'd like to try myself.
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I used battery circle and my small brain, usually I have my HTC sense clock on overnight which drains 0% battery, whereas last night, I only slept 6 hours, woke up to find 4% missing thanks to SiMi clock. I wish there was an app that could do this.
Wow, it's easier for me to charge battery every few minutes than to calculate the source of the drainage
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Noticed that many people complain about ROMs bringing battery drain issues, but It's mainly the third party widgets that cause this
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You could be right, i'm also complaining but my DHD batterydrain issue even occurs without any widget installed\active.
Use ' Current widget' It can show/log your battery uses. When your playing or when screens off
I seem to be draining about 10% overnight at the moment and that's with an underclocked kernel and setcpu.
My widgets are not updating automatically either so can't see this being the cause. Running leedroid.
Any thoughts?
i uninstalled stuff like visionary, vlingo, and audio guru. audio guru turned out to be the beast. it was draining HUGE amounts of power (400mah+) on standby!! avoid like the plague. now that thats gone im down to 5mah on standby with wifi and 3g on.
SGS Vibrant flashed with Trigger 3.2 the battery lasts for 1 day with wifi usage and even if kept for overnight it drains about 18-20% of battery should i move to a different ROM ?
You could
Sent from a cell tower to the XDA server to you.
Trigger has had one of the best all time battery life for me a everytime.
I think you need to
A) recalibrate
B) re-check to see if any apps are using battery life.
C) flash a rom if none of that works.
Here we go again for the millionth time.....
But for me trigger had the best battery life.
I'm not on the gingerbread roms and it takes me from 100% to 5% in 8 hours overnight even WITH Juicedefender (seems to be about the same without it also).
If anyone has tips on THAT, I would much appreciate it. I've tried calibrating the battery.
There is a setting that you can turn your radios of from x time to x time overnight. I have mine set for 11-6. If I am on after 11, then I take priority. If not then the setting does.
There is also a setting that will open data/radio every 15m/30m/45m/1h/2h or something like that to get updates for somethings (i.e. Beautiful Widgets). I have mine set at 2h. If I want my data/radio open I will do it myself, hence my long interval.
Been using this app for well over a year so I know how to tweak it a bunch. If you have JD+ see my battery guide and it will tell you more about its tweakiness.
Trust me. This guy knows how to use JD, check out his battery guide. It will be worth your time.
Sent from my SGH-T959 (Samsung Vibrant)
i wish i could get my phone to last a whole day without charging, i just dont complain because i know for a FACT that the reason my phone only lasts 10-12 hours is because of ME. im too stubborn and refuse to switch to battery-friendly usage. the biggest thing that impacts battery is the user/user apps. not rom, not kernel, the battery difference from rom-to-rom and kernl-to-kernel is barely noticeable (unless in the rare case where there is a bug, or developmental defect). if there was ACTUALLY a rom in exsistence that TRULY had superior battery life, then you wouldnt get 5-10 different answers in every single "what is best rom/kernel for battery" thread.
the problem is, people want to believe that they can save battery without changing their usage habits. this simply is not possible. no rom or kernel will realistically do this for you. if you remove 1 brick from a bag full of 15 bricks, the bag will be lighter, but still very heavy. you need to download "spare parts" or "process monitor" from the market and start analyzing the way your apps are acting. also look into data syncs that are happening in the background. apps that stay open behind your back/what they are doing, (an app called "autostarts" can prevent apps from self-running under certain scenarios). animation speed. polling for notifications. gps. wifi scans. overclocking. cpu/ram usage. proper sleep. widgets. brightness. 2g/3g. data usage. call time. text volume. - THESE are the things that really affect your battery life.
bottom line is, if you truly want to save battery you are going to have to get your hands dirty...there simply isnt a one-click (or one-flash) solution.
Hmm so i'm now on MIUI and it seems to be giving better battery life, also have been thinking of getting the extended battery for Vibrant is it worth ?
If it sucks so bad, grab one of these. I have it and it has given me at least a 20% increase in battery life. BTW, you must listen to the instruction for the Battery if you get it. 4 or 5 full Drains to 0% and then charge to 100% while device is powered off and re-calibrate after each of these full charge cycles.
http://www.amazon.com/Anker-1800mAh...TNYE/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1325868638&sr=8-3
switch to Neo's ICS .
it rocks
Cellanos said:
switch to Neo's ICS .
it rocks
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But the gps doesn't work on it correct?
What about the extended battery which is around 3500Mah
I just got the 1800 mah batteries for the Epic 4g. They fit in the vibrant like a glove and my battery life has been significantly lengthened.
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dinjo_jo said:
Hmm so i'm now on MIUI and it seems to be giving better battery life, also have been thinking of getting the extended battery for Vibrant is it worth ?
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sent from my Sensation XD
i'm getting an average drain of 9.5% per hour and i've tried different kernels , upon flashing the kernel for the first day i'd get about 8 or 7.7 ℅ drain per hour but after a day or two it jumps back up to 9.5 - 10 is this too much for active drain?? can this be fixed with a kernel or a custom rom? Btw i forgot to mention i'm getting this active drain at about 10-15 % brightness and i'm also running the latest franco kernel with no limits rom, i would really appreciate it if someone could help me out .
Wait, this means you are getting SOTimes of about 10 hours?
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Wait, this means you are getting SOTimes of about 10 hours?
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nope only about 8 hours because of idle drain i guess
You are talking about drain while the screen is on? That doesn't seem like a high number to me. You might be able to extend that by choosing the most battery friendly governor, under clocking the CPU or some other things that will make the performance of the phone suffer--but I'm not sure why you would want to waste money on a powerful phone and then throttle everything to maximize battery life. I suppose you could also go into the Developer Settings and severely limit the number of background processes that are permitted to run and also keep the phone running in battery saver mode most of the time. It's ultimately your phone. I'm sure you can find some tips for extreme battery savings if you do a Google Search.
I get about 7.5-8% drain with my screen on based on AccuBattery and about .3-.7% with idle drain (screen off). The combined drain is about 2.8-4% per hour based on usage obviously.
For basic info, I'm on auto brightness, stock OOS and stock kernel and I'm a medium/heavy to heavy user. I use my phone A LOT for work and play.
If you do a lot of web surfing, I found that habit browser is the most feature packed browser and the lightest on battery drain, and it's free with an ad blocker! So that could help some.
Eric214 said:
I get about 7.5-8% drain with my screen on based on AccuBattery and about .3-.7% with idle drain (screen off). The combined drain is about 2.8-4% per hour based on usage obviously.
For basic info, I'm on auto brightness, stock OOS and stock kernel and I'm a medium/heavy to heavy user. I use my phone A LOT for work and play.
If you do a lot of web surfing, I found that habit browser is the most feature packed browser and the lightest on battery drain, and it's free with an ad blocker! So that could help some.
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wow you must be getting amazing SOT, thanks alot for your help i guess ill have to try stock rom and kernel