I now have this phone for a week and I'm globally satisfied, it's reactive, good navigation, htc quality... but it seems that the autonomy is very bad. For instance, I fully charged it and unplugged it at midday, I sent 5 or 6 SMS, 15min of navigation, no Wifi or bluetooth activated and I already have to charge it. Hardly 7-8h of autonomy for a high-end phone, it a shame..
I hope it comes from a poor optimization of Windows Phone 7 and we will have better results soon...
Do you experience the same issue?
No major GPS usage?
GPS & WiFi are the main battery drainers. Intensive use of 3G / apps also contribute. Reviewers are still holding with full day statements without much GPS or WiFi usage.
No I almost never use GPS on my phone. Today I've disabled 3G to see if it's better (it should be). Nevertheless I've read a few reviews telling that the processor could be responsible for this as it's an old generation one and not really power efficient.
From a few texts and 15 minutes of navigation, I find it hard to believe the device drained primarily in standby before 7 hours.
I know some people who said that it seems the life got better after a few charges, but you say you've used it for a week.
That's weird, I get almost no batt drain unless I use the net/apps or make phone calls. It's midnight right now, and after a few sms today my batt is still at about 90%.
I'm experimenting a bit to see if the Omate TS would be a usable replacement for a phone (ie if it would work well during the day to read notifications, use for sports tracking, recieve calls and such).
It started out well - when I took the watch off charging in the morning I activated the phone, WiFi, bluetooth and paired my bt headset, and turned off cell data. I played around with the phone a bit (installed an app, played with that for a few minutes, checked settings and tried some new things there for maybe 10 minutes or so, and so on). I recieved two calls that lasted about 5 minutes each, and checked mails, facebook and such a few times. After lunch the battery showed 78% remaining, which sounded very good.
I decided to take a walk, so I turned off WiFi, enabled cellular data, and turned on GPS. Listened to podcasts through BT headset for the entire walk. One hour walk with RunKeeper, where I checked mail and facebook a few times during the walk.
After returning, the battery was down a lot, to about 25%, ie 50% battery drained in one hour. I checked the battery stats, and it looked like this: (not a link as I can't post links yet due to forum restrictions): imgur.com/WPQJNd4
I'm not surprised about WiFi and BT consumption as I had those enabled and used them quite a lot during the day, but what surprised me is the cell standby adding up to almost 50% of the battery usage, most of which seemed to be drained when I enabled cell data. Is GPS drain included in cell standby as well? Is this to be expected, or what's causing the excessive drain when using cell data connection? Any tips on how to improve this?
My cell coverage during the walk was decent, as I was outdoors and had at least 3-4 bars of reception the entire time.
cell standby is also the highest drain on mine. was on 2g only as well
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Mine usually says that too. Although it still easily lasts me the day with the cell on.
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Mine usually says that too. Although it still easily lasts me the day with the cell on.
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I get about 2 days of battery with emails only, light apps use. 3g and wifi on, no bluetooth connected, zero calls.
8 calls, some messages, BT always on with headset, on 2G GSM, light app usage with brightness on min and i ended on 4th day still with 40%battery left.
sethxp said:
8 calls, some messages, BT always on with headset, on 2G GSM, light app usage with brightness on min and i ended on 4th day still with 40%battery left.
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That's quite impressive!
I tried again today, took watch of charger when leaving for work. 1 call, 10-15 minutes of "play" (installed an app, changed some settings, re-arranged some icons and such). BT with headset, WiFi and phone enabled all day, mobile data connection off. Recieved quite a few notifications during the day that I checked briefly, but other than that quite idle. When leaving the office at the end of the day I had 52% battery remaining.
Not too bad, but out of that the cell standby and phone idle together consumed half of my battery. Reception is ok, ranging from 2 bars to full (goes a bit up and down). I can't complain about the wifi / bt / screen battery drain, seems the phone standby is the only major battery hog for me.
Cell Standby is a battery hog for me too : about 10% an hour. Cell signal is good. Will try now to disable the mobile data to see if it helps.
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8 calls, some messages, BT always on with headset, on 2G GSM, light app usage with brightness on min and i ended on 4th day still with 40%battery left.
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That's amazing, what is your setup (hw revision, firmware, settings, etc)?
Disabling cell, wifi, bt, gps, lowest brightness on modified stock (the 2014 testing as a base, ensec, xposed) and I can just make it barely back home on 2nd day with light usage (check the time mostly).
In comparison, my Pebble gets to 30-40% on the 4th day and will die out completely by the 6th day.
Even though the cell standby seems to drain a ton of battery, overall it's acceptable. For normal usage (WiFi on, BT on, paired with headset, phone on, a few widgets and apps that are pulling info from the web, receiving a couple of notifications per hour, checking time/notifications a few times, making a few calls and such) I seem to average about 6-8% per hour. Half of that is for the cell standby, so turning the phone off would probably double my battery life.
I know there are a number of "battery saving apps" out there that modify settings and behavior to save power. Mostly stuff like turn wifi off when screen is off, enabling it once every few minutes to check notifications, and similar. Anyone know if these apps can tune the phone power consumption in any way?
stingray454 said:
Even though the cell standby seems to drain a ton of battery, overall it's acceptable. For normal usage (WiFi on, BT on, paired with headset, phone on, a few widgets and apps that are pulling info from the web, receiving a couple of notifications per hour, checking time/notifications a few times, making a few calls and such) I seem to average about 6-8% per hour. Half of that is for the cell standby, so turning the phone off would probably double my battery life.
I know there are a number of "battery saving apps" out there that modify settings and behavior to save power. Mostly stuff like turn wifi off when screen is off, enabling it once every few minutes to check notifications, and similar. Anyone know if these apps can tune the phone power consumption in any way?
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I started running Deep Sleep Battery Saver as I had prior experience with it working well on an SII as a set it and forget application, where other similar programs require much more customisation. keep in mind my omate is not a daily driver, it spends half the week on the charger and the other half on my wrist, and I only use a sim card in their sparingly. as such, I don't have proper data, but I've definitely been able to make it through the day with light usage, occasionally forgetting to recharge until the next day
I think there may be something wrong with either the battery or the circuitry which monitors and reports on the status. I can watch an hour long video with negligable 4% battery loss one day, and another day a similar video draining over 20%.
Certainly with all the radios switched off and very light usage my TS was on 92% well into it's 2nd day...
However soon as you use it... it gets murdered.... lol....
From wednesday till now, few calls, bluetooth on, some texts, very light usage.
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From wednesday till now, few calls, bluetooth on, some texts, very light usage.
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Still amazing! Which model hardware do you have? what rom? are you running any additional apps or just what's default? I'd love to replicate your setup on my 1/8 1900
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Truesmart, EU 512-4 2100 working sensors firmware with patch, removed some bloatware, all auto sync off (manual), switched to 2G gsm only, brightness to min, bluetooth always on because crappy mic. Additional apps:facebook, my budget book, hangouts, es file, airdroid, quikpic, teamviewer...
Ok so i have a HTC one 32gb at&t unlocked which i use in St.Lucia on LIME
Issue 1...my battery life is generally horrible,,,between 6-12hours tops average - light usage
Issue 2... whenever using Mobile Data/ making/ receiving voice calls.. my battery surges up to 54 degrees celcius
should i consider replacing battery..or does this sound like a radio issue? doing anything else my battery runs at typical normal temperatures 32-42degrees even when playing games 43-44 highest.
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Ok so i have a HTC one 32gb at&t unlocked which i use in St.Lucia on LIME
Issue 1...my battery life is generally horrible,,,between 6-12hours tops average - light usage
Issue 2... whenever using Mobile Data/ making/ receiving voice calls.. my battery surges up to 54 degrees celcius
should i consider replacing battery..or does this sound like a radio issue? doing anything else my battery runs at typical normal temperatures 32-42degrees even when playing games 43-44 highest.
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For starters, you can't replace the battery in an HTC ONE. If it goes bad the phone has to be sent in for service.
As for the drain make sure your connection is stable and you are staying on only one type of connection. if it is constantly changing and searching for connections then it will drain your battery and get hot.
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For starters, you can't replace the battery in an HTC ONE. If it goes bad the phone has to be sent in for service.
As for the drain make sure your connection is stable and you are staying on only one type of connection. if it is constantly changing and searching for connections then it will drain your battery and get hot.
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i understand that but will just network searching allow your phone to go up to 50degrees+... and also voice calls.. it instantly heats up on voice calls and only continues to rise with the duration of the call.
and i have changed batteries on many uni-body devices before.. The phone only has to be dis-assembled to replace battery. opening this device is not an easy task i know. but it can be done.
Just curious what kind of talk times people are getting when using the gear as a standalone device? I find when using it with a bluetooth it will drain the battery in as little as an hour when fully charged. I have even experienced the watch going dead when using the phone for an extended time while pulled in...just wondering what times other users were getting?
I don't know what settings you are using. But I have achieved much long times. I havent done several tests to see how long, I don't talk long on the phone. But I once got over 2.5 hours using my Gear Circle headset on a phone call. It was a very important call where my cell had died and I switched to my Gear S for the rest of the call. On top of that, I was at about 60 percent battery when I started the call. I keep my GPS turned off till I need it, motions turned off, screen time out at a minute, and don't use WiFi.
Very interesting, and a little worrying. I'm curious if the paired device and circle would make that much of a difference? Much like yourself, I turn off wifi, motion...pretty much everything unless I need it. I also use a plantronics headset during phone calls. Does anyone out there know if different BT devices pull on the battery differently or if that even matters?
It depends a lot if you are on 3G or GSM network. According to manual on 3G is up to 2h (in best network performance/signal) compare to 5h on GSM...
I haven't used it that much yet but I noticed that when I'm connected to 3G and talking through my Gear S it's... HEATING up :silly: a little...
Also I noticed that antenna must be pretty weak. When I'm calling from basement at my work from Note3 connected to GSM everything is perfectly fine (nearly all signal bars) but when I want to do the same on Gear S, calls are dropping or I need to stand pointing to the ceiling what is craaazy
Hey, I have the SM-G850F on 5.0.2. I just rooted it to fix some problem I've been experiencing:
Bad Reception:
The signal strength shows -95 dbm 9asu, usually 2 or 3 bars. I don't mind that, the speed of internet and quality of calls are ok. The problem is that it randomly cuts off calls with no reason or change in location. It's an recurring problem. Happens a lot to different callers. Some people say that when they call me it beeps as occupied while I know for sure that I wasn't and I don't even get an alert of missing a call.
Bad battery drain:
Without any battery apps the phone drains from 100% to 30% in one night, completely untouched. I don't have more than 4 pages worth of apps. Avast battery app saves a lot of battery turning wifi on and off everytime i unlock it and it doesn't find homewifi. Greenify has prolonged the battery to satisfaction too, but then I got a new problem.
Lagging menus!
It's a second way too long. I'm not being whiney, it really is slower than it should be or even was stock, 4.2 something.
How can I setup this rooted phone for optimal experience? I'm 100% noob.
Should i look into custom OS (Roms?)? How can that help me?
How long battery time should i expect out of this phone if i set it up properly and how do i do that? Is there a less battery taxing way than avast battery app?
Is there a way to test this call cut of reception thingy? Should it be included under warranty? should i unroot my phone and turn it in?
What other root apps are essential for optimal alpha usage?