Batter use only shows Display, Cell standby and Phone idle.
Can't figure out way to change this, for others it seems to show apps too, would really help on controlling battery usage.
Same here, (cronosdroid 2.1.1)
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Hi.
After my upgrade to android 2.1 my battery starts to decrease rapidly...
i had 52 percent in the night around 11 p.m when i woke up in te morning 7 a.m it was 11 percent..
Is ter a way to improve battery power..?
Is it possible to monitor which app drains te battery power?
Pls do help me..
Thanks
I had same problem. Try not to charge ur phone via pc to phone usb cable. Try and get a proper wall socket charger. And if u cant then try replacing ur usb cable.
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Stop using autokiller apps. If you want to kill apps, do it manually.
I've never had better battery life since the 2.1 upgrade. Here are some suggestions from my experience.
1. Get Juice Defender free from Market, do setup and change nothing.
2. Get Startup Auditor free. Disable face recognition, download manager, google talk service, mediascape update.
3. Get Advanced Task Killer and exclude ATK, Startup Auditor and Juice Defender. Kill everything else whenever you go to lock your phone after doing something.
4. Only use Wifi when you need to, otherwise turn it off, GPS as well.
5. A 3G toggle wouldn't hurt either.
6. Use a wall charger as indicated otherwise if from PC charge in airplane mode.
7. Put your screen brightness below 50%.
8. Widgets like weather apps on your homescreen suck up batt life.
If I get into the 70% range of battery after a day's use now it's rare.
Good luck!
mpasanthosh said:
Hi.
After my upgrade to android 2.1 my battery starts to decrease rapidly...
i had 52 percent in the night around 11 p.m when i woke up in te morning 7 a.m it was 11 percent..
Is ter a way to improve battery power..?
Is it possible to monitor which app drains te battery power?
Pls do help me..
Thanks
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Try going to SETTINGS, ABOUT PHONE, BATTERY USE.
You will be able to see what the top drains are, I do not use any special apps to limit battery use and get only 4 - 8% drain over night. Leave Bluetooth off and turn off display.
Just for the record, juice defender makes no difference to battery life on either of my x10i's since 2.1.
I just trimmed out junk apps and use a task killer to manually kill a few apps I don't often use.
Finally, make sure twitter, facebook, etc are not set to check automatically unless you wish them too. I only check stuff like that a few times a day, no need for them to check x times an hour.
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hi...
@Lord Takyon,Tony_C,Smoked33,pabling19,xateeq, thanks for the reply will try out the steps mentioned..
i at first had poor battery life with the x10 2.1. that was actually when i used task panel x and juice defender on it... after a couple of days, though, i figured screw it and rooted the phone and uninstalled all useless apps on it. then i just went and uninstalled juice defender and task panel x. they actually caused battery drain on my phone lol. now i have no battery saving apps running on my phone and it lasts me at least 18 hours of medium usage.
my advice is let android do the battery saving. don't d/l battery saving apps since they run in the background and cause more battery drain.
Yeah - I've been through the whole juice defender, task killer, start up auditor things..... waste of time.. they do more harm than good..
You need to use something like Task Manager (by Rhythm Software) to see what's running - set any persistent tasks/ apps to ignore, and ONLY use it to kill apps which you think are stopping the phone from sleeping..randomly killing things will at best cause your battery to drain quicker (because the processor then has to restart them).. or at worst cause instability because critical tasks aren't running.
Set auto update frequencies to less frequent.. consider how often you view the app during the day and go along those lines.. don't put too many auto updating widgets on your homescreens..
Read this thread by xeviro...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=844256
I've got a ? From one of your fellow Thunderbolt users... he has installed only a few droid market apps, weather bug, juice defender(free), and the UC browser. He thinks its eaten his battery right now... are these assumebly the culprits? Should they be removed? Thanx for your help from another style.
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The rapid battery loss is probably stemming from browsing using 4G. Nothing to do with the actual browser. He could switch to 3G to save battery life by using the app LTEonoff. Other than that, he's pretty much out of luck. Either plug in the phone while browsing the web or get the extended battery.
If you don't turn off "background update" in WeatherBug it will eat up your battery. When you turn this off, it will still update when opened, so the only thing you lose are weather alerts.
Edit: This should be moved to "Questions".
Browsers arent the problem or any particular piece of software running in the background. Poorly coded software (which tends to be a problem at times on android, but it's improving all the time) is the problem. In the spare parts application, you can see what's using partial wake lock (what kills your battery when the phone is not in use) and you can also see what eats up your cpu, etc. A good application should be doing essentially nothing in the background unless you instructed it to (or was assumed it should be) and should be more or less hibernating in cache until activated.
As mentioned, LTE will eat your battery. Opera mobile browser has a known bug in it that caps your LTE connection at 120KB/s, though it doesn't affect wifi/3g, so browsing LTE with it is pretty useless.
Hi,
I was using facebook (3g) for about 5mins while listening to the radio on my galaxy s2 (i9100p), and obviously battery life drains during that time.
The weird this is that, once I've closed the facebook app, turned off 3g and screen, battery life continues to drop (about 6%h, usually about 1%h on stand-by) for a few hours. After a few hours, it goes back to normal.
is this normal?? Nothing is running, it doesn't even say the phone was awake (according to battery history details chart).
Note: I'm using battery widget monitor which displays the battery %
I apologize in advanced if this has been discussed already, but I couldn't find this topic anywhere.
Maybe Facebook app is still running on background as a service. After sometime, possibly Android kills it?
Make sure you sign out of the app and exit before disabling data.
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Thanks for the reply.
I'll give that a try next time.
I hate how you have to go to the applications settings to force close everything, otherwise it will keep running in the background even if you close it from "Running" tab.
I got told all you have to do is hold the home button and slide it to remove running apps, but that just deletes the history.
I recently installed LS 4.0 on my Razr Maxx and noticed on my break at work i was at around 35% battery, then 2 hours later when i got off work i was at 3%, in that time i didnt have any apps open so the drain dosent make any sense. I took a screenshot of the battery graph for reference: http://i.imgur.com/MyUDnNT.png
As you can see on the graph it randomly drops off there and then goes down at a pretty brisk pace. I wasent using the phone from 6pm to 8pm, right around the time it dropped all that battery.
Could this be due to my battery just dieing out or is it possibly a issue with the rom?
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I recently installed LS 4.0 on my Razr Maxx and noticed on my break at work i was at around 35% battery, then 2 hours later when i got off work i was at 3%, in that time i didnt have any apps open so the drain dosent make any sense. I took a screenshot of the battery graph for reference: http://i.imgur.com/MyUDnNT.png
As you can see on the graph it randomly drops off there and then goes down at a pretty brisk pace. I wasent using the phone from 6pm to 8pm, right around the time it dropped all that battery.
Could this be due to my battery just dieing out or is it possibly a issue with the rom?
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Please describe more information like:
1. was your network set in 3G? LS battery isn't really good with 3G
2. what number of app you are using? social media apps that always updating their data i.e google+, fb, etc --> would increase data usage when they synchronize.
3. please check whether your razr went to deep sleep.
Solution:
1. Set to 2G always and go to 3G if you want faster speed (download the 2g/3g toggle widget for L)
2. Uninstall those app if you're not using it or limit their synchronize routine by the app itself or using profile in Tasker (advanced method)
3. you should installed wakelock monitor app from Play Store
If battery drain were persist when you have done those troubleshoot and solution, you should try to calibrate your battery (leave it shutdown automatically after reaching low level and then charge it until 100%, go + 1 hour to make sure, go to recovery to check the % and then boot to your system and calibrate using calibration app from the Play Store).
Last one, if calibrate doesnt work, then the battery might be already dropped.
Also do check that location services etc are set to power save mode.
Use an app to check wakelock and disable that annoying app.
or may be you are right... lets hope not for your own wellness!
I also remember having that problem when I was on cm12. After my battery dropping insanely low, it kept long before the little juice left in it run out.
So i thinks its something with the 5.0 ROMs
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Anyone know why my g3 gets really warm even when doing simple tasks like texting and basic web browsing. Ive restored I've also had the latest update I installed a different rom the only thing I haven't tried is aosp rom but I don't know how good that works. When I've looked in battery status or cpu apps there's nothing really using my resources it just warms up like if I was charging the battery I don't know if it's normal anyone have a clue?
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Turn down your brightness and when your done with a app clear it from your recents. You could also go into g3 tool box and make it to when you long press something it totally closes the app. Just try to closes every single app when your done and also make sure to keep your ram down.
Closing every app when you're done is bad advice. Android isn't Windows. Android abhors a [memory] vacuum, and will simply keep reloading apps into unused memory to keep them available for rapid use. Background apps, with few exceptions, aren't really "running." They just in standby mode, ready to be activated when called upon, and use no cpu. Constantly killing and reloading apps uses more CPU and battery than just letting Android do it's thing.
If your device is running really warm when not doing much, it could be a hardware issues, it could be an app or process running out of control. GPS will heat up the phone when actually in use, but shouldn't have any impact otherwise. What's your battery life like? In the battery screen, what apps are shown as using the most battery?
My brightness is down and I don't really do much on My phone it starts getting warm when I open an app and I've used it for at least 5 minutes it gets warm gps is always off only things I have on is either wifi or data everything else is usually off
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Your data may be the problem, lets say you set your phone to "lte only" mode. Then the phone has to try harder to get lte. So maybe try changing network mode(s).