Hi, all. Purchased my Vibrant back in July and always had some battery issues. I figured I'd try one last thing before asking T-Mobile for a battery replacement, so here's what I did. Can someone tell me whether or not this seems normal?
Two days ago, I ODIN'd to JFD to start completely from scratch, then flashed Bionix-V 1.3 non-TouchWiz edition (wiping in the process). The flash was on a completely full battery (plugged into AC, unplugging for the first time after booting into Android).
Here are my usage stats for today:
WiFi off, GPS off, Bluetooth off, auto-rotation off, 3G enabled, brightness around 25%, power saving mode enabled
Gmail/Contacts/Calendar - push, Exchange email - every 15 minutes
Google Talk logged in the whole time
No other syncing applications
Usage consisted mainly of web browsing and around an hour of listening to music through PowerAMP
Charged to 100% overnight
Unplugged for 5 hours, 30 minutes (8:30am to 2pm)
Battery stats: Display 97% (display on 1h 35m), cell standby 3%
Final battery at the end of period: 30%
So, does anyone else get similar battery life on a nearly untouched installation of Bionix? A 70% battery loss with only 1 hour and 30 minutes of screen time seems a little high to me.
That seems like a lot. Try downloading an app called battery left from the market. Charge up to 100 percent and let the app calibrate. It will show you how long a full charge should last. With moderate use I get about 15 to 20 hrs of life with bionix.
Exchange Sync? With what app? I've heard that touchdown is a really bad drain on battery and refreshing every 15 minutes might be a problem. Poweramp for an hour probably cost you 20% battery as well. I'd give a few more cycles to judge your battery life. Compared to my phone, been off the phone since about 8 AM, 20% battery now around midnight. This included 30 minutes of music with the TW player, about 3 hours of display time, a few photos, and about 5 minutes of phone calls, 15-20 text messages. Also some web browsing on 3G and wifi.
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Exchange Sync? With what app? I've heard that touchdown is a really bad drain on battery and refreshing every 15 minutes might be a problem. Poweramp for an hour probably cost you 20% battery as well. I'd give a few more cycles to judge your battery life. Compared to my phone, been off the phone since about 8 AM, 20% battery now around midnight. This included 30 minutes of music with the TW player, about 3 hours of display time, a few photos, and about 5 minutes of phone calls, 15-20 text messages. Also some web browsing on 3G and wifi.
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Just the Samsung Email app. And I don't think 15 minute polling for new email could cause that much drain... that's something I only enabled recently. This is after a few full battery cycles.
I've also never observed PowerAMP using much more battery than the stock music player.
Sounds like your phone is getting much better battery life.
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Exchange Sync? With what app? I've heard that touchdown is a really bad drain on battery and refreshing every 15 minutes might be a problem. Poweramp for an hour probably cost you 20% battery as well. I'd give a few more cycles to judge your battery life. Compared to my phone, been off the phone since about 8 AM, 20% battery now around midnight. This included 30 minutes of music with the TW player, about 3 hours of display time, a few photos, and about 5 minutes of phone calls, 15-20 text messages. Also some web browsing on 3G and wifi.
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An hour of PowerAMP drains about 3-4% with flipping through songs, and I have been using this app for several weeks.
Check out system panel also, see what apps you have running in the background.
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Check out system panel also, see what apps you have running in the background.
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As I mentioned, this is a fresh installation of Bionix-V 1.3-- I haven't added on any apps that could possibly be responsible for the battery drain. I've used System Panel in the past to evaluate battery issues with little success.
I've had bionix-v 1.3 for about 3 days now.
This afternoon i pulled it off the charger at 90%. Now, 7 hours later, i'm at 69% with:
display: 79%
cell standby: 16%
phone idle: 4%
Today was pretty light use though. Just about 20 texts, 30 min. of web browsing, 5 min. on phone calls. I also put my display brightness down all the way and freeze a few apps using TiB.
Normally though, i make it through the entire day (18 hours) with one charge and what i consider to be 'average' or medium usage.
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Hi,
I've been noticing that my Hero has been gulping battery down VERY fast.
In general, the battery lasts 7-8 hrs, which is not acceptable (I'm out for 12+ hrs).
My usage is not heavy. Wifi, Bluetooth and GPS are rarely, if ever, on.
I do read some news and surf the web a little but only for 2-3 of those 7-8 hrs.
Is my battery life normal?
I've been reading people achieving 12+ hours with their stock battery...
2 or 3 hours websurfing is very heavy on the battery, much more so than phone calls. One of the biggest drains is the screen and you having it on for 2 - 3 hours is going to drain the battery I guess
Seems very poor, much poorer than my iDevice that I use more frequently.
Today, after flashing the 2.1 ROM, it has gotten worse.
Battery's down to 40% in 6 hours, and Battery Usage shows 50% phone idle, 50% cell standby.
I've not even touched the phone since unplugging it 6 hours ago ;S
Is it possible I've a defective battery?
If your battery is down to 40% after 6 hours of it being idle (no screen but switched on) then either you have some power hungry app(s) running in the background or the battery is defective.
At the moment my battery is showing 40%. It was last charged about 40 hours ago, and I have had it switched on the whole time with some light use, picking up emails in the background and occassionally switching the screen on.
I ran task killer and sync was off.
One thing I didn't do was charge it for 10-13 hours straight on first charge; I just unplugged it when the led turned green in ~4 hours (impatient...).
Could this have affected battery life?
Nope - when the LED is green it is fully charged. No minimum charge times suggested in the manual.
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At the moment my battery is showing 40%. It was last charged about 40 hours ago, and I have had it switched on the whole time with some light use, picking up emails in the background and occassionally switching the screen on.
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That is amazing battery life, I never get more than 24 hours with similar use... what ROM and radio are you using Peter? Also, where are you and what network are you on?
I am in UK on Orange, and have standard Orange ROM and Radio - not the latest one but the one they had before 2.73.61.5.
I have read lots of complaints about battery life, but I think mine is fine for a smartphone. I am a relatively light user of a phone - don't do lots of surfing or watching videos. A few phone calls, very few texts, checking emails and listening to some music is all I normally do with it. The other thing I do use it for is I always have the sat nav on while I am driving, but in that case it is plugged into my Brodit mount and charging from the car.
This latest spell may have been helped because I have not been out over those 40 hours - spent the weekend at home, which means that the Hero has been logged into wifi rather than trying to use mobile data. And not used it to make calls or texts or used the music player.
I notice keep Internet connection active take a lot of battery. Go to settings and turn it off and try to see whether the problem exist. It'll will take you a few seconds to re-establish the connecting whenever you need it... not so unbearable considering it'll save a lot of battery.
Same, I notice the mobile chip is using abnormal amounts of battery.
In the morning I watched a 40 minute episode of drama.
Battery dove from 100% to 65%.
To preserve battery life, I turned Airplane mode on.
When I was done with the episode, there was still 55% battery left!
I'm pretty shocked at the battery drain.
I'm using one of the new 2.1 ROMs. They're known for having a bit of a battery-hunger. I solved it by installing the app Ultimatejuice from Market. it's a pay app, but it's worth it. It's also another app called juicedefender (free, less options) that I used before I bought the Ultimate. It also worked good! Now my battery lasts the whole day without any problem
Hi all,
Just curious if any Bell users are experiencing the same battery performance as I am.
My phone is complete stock. The only change I've made is using launcher pro.
I leave for work on a full charge at 7am and by 5pm, I'm down to 30% after light to moderate use. By this I mean, sending 20-30 txt msgs, checking my email and twitter half a dozen times.
It seems like poor performance to me.
Thanks in advance for any comments.
your battery is bad because you have emails, calendar, weather, and news constantly syncing throughout the day. theres so many battery threads, do a search and and check out the developer forums and you will find out what you can do.
Try changing your browser settings on the phone to load plug-ins "on demand". This made a significant improvement for me. I went from 20-30% by 5pm to having 70+% by 5pm. I'm on day 2 of light useage and still at 50% (24+ hours so far)
If that doesn't fix it, charge that beast to full, unplug it, and do a factory reset. Then let it drain till she powers off.
Do a full charge (8-10 hrs) up and full drain (use phone till it shuts off by itself) a couple of times and you should get amazing battery life. When doing the charging turn your phone off and just plug in the wall charger.
When the battery has finished charging do a factory reset once (don't need to do it every time you cycle battery).
I didn't do this initially and my phone had like maybe 8-9 hrs of battery life on the very first charge. After I did a couple of full cycles my phone would last me almost 2 days with moderate use. I have the Bell version of the phone as well.
So I have narrowed down why my battery dies even when I'm not using my phone...for some reason when I look at the stats under battery usage, the battery seems to be awake almost 60 to 70 percent of the time, EVEN when I'm not using the phone...my battery lasted a total of 15 hours...I made a 20 minute phone call and screen usage was 25 minutes on lowest settings....4g was on wifi was on...automatic background data was off...gps on....everything else was off....why is the phone waking when it is not being used???? any way to find out?
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So I have narrowed down why my battery dies even when I'm not using my phone...for some reason when I look at the stats under battery usage, the battery seems to be awake almost 60 to 70 percent of the time, EVEN when I'm not using the phone...my battery lasted a total of 15 hours...I made a 20 minute phone call and screen usage was 25 minutes on lowest settings....4g was on wifi was on...automatic background data was off...gps on....everything else was off....why is the phone waking when it is not being used???? any way to find out?
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Have you tried restarting your phone and then tracking the battery usage?
Just my .02 here, I installed Earth HD live wallpaper and the phone went crazy. I keep it plugged into my laptop during the day and noticed that the battery was slowly draining instead of maintaining, not much only a couple of percent. Toward the end of the day I noticed the the battery charge was in the 50% range and dropping fast, you could see the go down so I did a reboot and the charge came back at 4%. So you may want to look at what you have installed and try removing apps that may cause issues. I removed the app and now no problems, I'm also using Beastmod.
I've been using my Titan II for about 10 days now and I've encountered a weird battery drain issue that I first noticed this past Friday during my battery test/monitoring activities.
I left my house with a full charge and 5 minutes later I already lost 2% battery charge. I normally could check Facebook and Twitter, check a couple of webpages and still be at 100%. The phone then started losing 3-5 % charge every hour without any use. I normally lost 1% every hour/2 hours.
Nothing has changed between my first days of usage and now. It's still 1 push email, another email polling every hour and the wpcentral app, weather app and iss tracker app in the background. Before the first full day of use, I had installed all my apps that I had on my Focus and let the battery drain then gave it a full charge. I don't think it's an issue with the radio being LTE because this problem would have manifested itself during the first few days.
I let the battery drain to 3 % tonight and it's on the charger. If that doesn't do the trick, I will delete then re-add the email accounts. After that,my only choice is a hard reset and hope that works.
If anyone has any ideas, I'd be grateful
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I've been using my Titan II for about 10 days now and I've encountered a weird battery drain issue that I first noticed this past Friday during my battery test/monitoring activities.
I left my house with a full charge and 5 minutes later I already lost 2% battery charge. I normally could check Facebook and Twitter, check a couple of webpages and still be at 100%. The phone then started losing 3-5 % charge every hour without any use. I normally lost 1% every hour/2 hours.
Nothing has changed between my first days of usage and now. It's still 1 push email, another email polling every hour and the wpcentral app, weather app and iss tracker app in the background. Before the first full day of use, I had installed all my apps that I had on my Focus and let the battery drain then gave it a full charge. I don't think it's an issue with the radio being LTE because this problem would have manifested itself during the first few days.
I let the battery drain to 3 % tonight and it's on the charger. If that doesn't do the trick, I will delete then re-add the email accounts. After that,my only choice is a hard reset and hope that works.
If anyone has any ideas, I'd be grateful
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To me this looks like the 3G/LTE coverage in your area.
The easiest way to test this would be switch to 2G network and see if you see the same drain. Hopefully you won't.
The more fluctuating 3g/LTE in your area = burning radio = draining battery.
HTC don't have strong radios like Nokia.
In the past, my Gear S has given me amazing battery life. I was getting (with light-to-average use) around 1.5-2 days per charge, on really light use I got 2.5-3 days!
Now I struggle to get 1 long day...
Here was my Gear's Day:
got up at 9:15, took it off the charger
at 9:30 my SGN4's alarm went off so the Gear notified me and alarmed, I shut it off after a few seconds.
Morning: checked the time a few times (probably 5, max 10)
Lunch: set the alarm on my gear, alarm went off, I turned it off after probably 5-10 seconds
Afternoon: checked the time another 5-10 times.
Tonight: couple skype notifications (8 total) and 1 eBay notification
2am: 20% battery
17 hours of light useage to almost completely drain the battery.
Previously I would use my gear to remote-control the music on my phone or my PC, surf the net on it some, use the flashlight (screen to max brightness for upto a couple minutes) and make long calls (upto 2 hours) and still ahve a good 40% or more at night, sometimes as much as 80% (as I said it lasted roughly 1.5-3 days)
Anyone have any ideas what's going on? This has been happening for a couple days now. Suggestions? (and yes, I have done a soft-reset)
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In the past, my Gear S has given me amazing battery life. I was getting (with light-to-average use) around 1.5-2 days per charge, on really light use I got 2.5-3 days!
Now I struggle to get 1 long day...
Here was my Gear's Day:
got up at 9:15, took it off the charger
at 9:30 my SGN4's alarm went off so the Gear notified me and alarmed, I shut it off after a few seconds.
Morning: checked the time a few times (probably 5, max 10)
Lunch: set the alarm on my gear, alarm went off, I turned it off after probably 5-10 seconds
Afternoon: checked the time another 5-10 times.
Tonight: couple skype notifications (8 total) and 1 eBay notification
2am: 20% battery
17 hours of light useage to almost completely drain the battery.
Previously I would use my gear to remote-control the music on my phone or my PC, surf the net on it some, use the flashlight (screen to max brightness for upto a couple minutes) and make long calls (upto 2 hours) and still ahve a good 40% or more at night, sometimes as much as 80% (as I said it lasted roughly 1.5-3 days)
Anyone have any ideas what's going on? This has been happening for a couple days now. Suggestions? (and yes, I have done a soft-reset)
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Yeah, that sounds pretty bad. I had that problem once and a reset fixed it. If you already tried that then you might want to try a complete reset along with odin flashing the stock firmware.
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Ashton_Durkhun said:
In the past, my Gear S has given me amazing battery life. I was getting (with light-to-average use) around 1.5-2 days per charge, on really light use I got 2.5-3 days!
Now I struggle to get 1 long day...
Here was my Gear's Day:
got up at 9:15, took it off the charger
at 9:30 my SGN4's alarm went off so the Gear notified me and alarmed, I shut it off after a few seconds.
Morning: checked the time a few times (probably 5, max 10)
Lunch: set the alarm on my gear, alarm went off, I turned it off after probably 5-10 seconds
Afternoon: checked the time another 5-10 times.
Tonight: couple skype notifications (8 total) and 1 eBay notification
2am: 20% battery
17 hours of light useage to almost completely drain the battery.
Previously I would use my gear to remote-control the music on my phone or my PC, surf the net on it some, use the flashlight (screen to max brightness for upto a couple minutes) and make long calls (upto 2 hours) and still ahve a good 40% or more at night, sometimes as much as 80% (as I said it lasted roughly 1.5-3 days)
Anyone have any ideas what's going on? This has been happening for a couple days now. Suggestions? (and yes, I have done a soft-reset)
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Just curious, reading between the lines it looks like you leave it on charge all night. My experience with leaving things charging all night is not good, I know people can argue all day about the tech capabilities of modern day charging , but, no system is 100% perfect 100% of the time, and if anything is going to go a wry, it seems to bring it to a head and some times rather quickly, by all night charge or different/higher capacity chargers, and this watch doesn't take long to charge.
The software upgrade one time on my gs1, caused it to backwards drain immediately after full charge was reached, if it was still left on charge.
With your watch , you could try, draining it fully at the evening leaving it for an half hour, then charging it only till its full, with its own charger then pull it strait out. A couple of full drains/100% charge and disconnect cycles with its own charger might do it.
Forgive me if I've misread your words so nothing here would apply.
Ps I've been tempted to use my tab s rapid charge but the power of the watches unit is quite low so I'm stocking with its own power rating. Good luck
Wich watchface ?
Example : WatchStyler -> 5% by hour
Original Samsung Analog face with eco mode -> 2% by hour (and sometime 1.6%)
Keep an app in background, ex SportStopwatch -> 8% by hour....
Well, it works now. I'm still not sure what caused it though (especially since I'm careful to use the "close all apps" at night and whenever I think of it) However, I do have several somewhat-intensive programs loaded that could have been triggered like Zensou (sp?) Youtube player (though no video was loaded that I'm sure of) as well as Opera Mini. I also have Gear Remote (controls PC though a mated app on my phone) . Any could have triggered since they're all on my homescreen (using the Launcher Face in 8-button mode)
I've been charging using a cheep $10 eBay charger (bought two and one broke within a week so I opened it up and from the looks of it, it literally just turns traces direct from Power +/- and Data +/- on the USB to the Watch, absolutely nothing else in there. I've only used the charger that came with my gear (or my PC's data connection while loading up media)
Charging was overnight and sometimes longer, I'll try charging it less time next time I notice trouble again just in case (though so far not seen a difference in my experiences, usually both methods drop from 100% to ~97 percent in ~2 hours)
One other thing I noticed was I started getting a "SIM not Provisioned" error (apparently my H2O service expired and they didn't remind me) but my thoughts are that it would have no effect on the battery life since I'm in bluetooth mode 99% of the time
Thanks everyone!
What advantage do I have with a stockroom ?
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What advantage do I have with a stockroom ?
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Keep clothes in.