Is there any way that i can disable the backlight on the touch sensitive dedicated buttons. Like the Home/Settings/Return/Search ones.
It might improve battery life by a significant amount.
It would be incredible if someone could help out. THe backlight gets really annoying while i am reading books on the thing at night.
I made this thread in Q&A originally, then someone suggested i ask devs. Hoping someone can help out.
I had this same question I hope some one can find a solution to this.
Samsung Vibrant
Nero V3 + Voodoo
I concur with the distraction when reading at night, but those kinds of lights dont tend to use up a lot of power. Its that damn screen thats killing it. Heh
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ozmulti said:
Is there any way that i can disable the backlight on the touch sensitive dedicated buttons. Like the Home/Settings/Return/Search ones.
It might improve battery life by a significant amount.
It would be incredible if someone could help out. THe backlight gets really annoying while i am reading books on the thing at night.
I made this thread in Q&A originally, then someone suggested i ask devs. Hoping someone can help out.
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Like removing the hood ornament on a hummer to improve gas mileage.
So let me explain what I mean:
The LEDs are surface mount LEDs. Typical forward current on such LEDs (even white ones) is 5 mA. At 3.3V (standard ttl voltage) and 4 of them, you're talking about consuming 0.066 watts. The CPU uses between 100-1000 mA at again 3.3V. Which means it consumes 0.33 - 3.3 watts. That's 20-200 times as much power as the LEDs use.
Now I could make an app that will shut these lights off immediately if they are on, but it will hurt battery life, not help it. I want people to understand the consequences of what their asking for, before giving it to them.
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Like removing the hood ornament on a hummer to improve gas mileage.
So let me explain what I mean:
The LEDs are surface mount LEDs. Typical forward current on such LEDs (even white ones) is 5 mA. At 3.3V (standard ttl voltage) and 4 of them, you're talking about consuming 0.066 watts. The CPU uses between 100-1000 mA at again 3.3V. Which means it consumes 0.33 - 3.3 watts. That's 20-200 times as much power as the LEDs use.
Now I could make an app that will shut these lights off immediately if they are on, but it will hurt battery life, not help it. I want people to understand the consequences of what their asking for, before giving it to them.
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Thank you for telling me this. I had no idea.
But i still think it would be cool if you could do this. My night reading would be greatly improved. no problem if you cant, you've already been a great help.
I've searched for an answer to this but I can't seem to find anything. When my GSII gets below 15% or 10% (can't remember which) it starts locking out functions like the ability to take pictures or video, and most annoying adjust screen brightness. I know this has been a problem on other devices, but does anyone have a fix or an idea of a fix for the GSII?
I'd much rather have the control to do what I want with my device than be forced to this power saving mode...which seems insane considering there is already a settings menu for a power saver mode.
I've heard this is fixed in the KE7 firmware upgrade. Not sure though
I had a topic abouth this too. It is just REALLY stupid!!!
You can say you only have 85 % of battery life, because after that, you are not in control of your phone...
If I want to watch browser info on the highest brightness with my last 15% i think I should be able too... And if I want to take a picture with the same 15% that should be possible too.
This is so stupid, does Samsung think we are kids?? If I want to save battery for something else, i will use power save mode.
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I've heard this is fixed in the KE7 firmware upgrade. Not sure though
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I'm on KE7, and unfortunately it is definitely still a "feature."
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I had a topic abouth this too. It is just REALLY stupid!!!
You can say you only have 85 % of battery life, because after that, you are not in control of your phone...
If I want to watch browser info on the highest brightness with my last 15% i think I should be able too... And if I want to take a picture with the same 15% that should be possible too.
This is so stupid, does Samsung think we are kids?? If I want to save battery for something else, i will use power save mode.
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Damn, there's already a topic? I swore I searched everywhere. Could you point me in that direction/did anything useful come out of it?
Go to the VRTweaks thread in dev forum
I've got an app that lets you replace these stupid restrictions in apps with my modded versions that don't do this.
As a bonus, you can listen to music while using camera too
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Go to the VRTweaks thread in dev forum
I've got an app that lets you replace these stupid restrictions in apps with my modded versions that don't do this.
As a bonus, you can listen to music while using camera too
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I'm liking what you've done so far, but it's really the removal of brightness control that's getting to me, and it doesn't look like you've approached that problem yet. I'm fairly ignorant - do you know if that's something that can be dealt with through the sorts of tweaks you're doing or is it something more complicated?
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I'm liking what you've done so far, but it's really the removal of brightness control that's getting to me, and it doesn't look like you've approached that problem yet. I'm fairly ignorant - do you know if that's something that can be dealt with through the sorts of tweaks you're doing or is it something more complicated?
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Hmmm... I thought your issue was the low battery and using the camera?
Anyway, I can look at the brightness issue, if you can let me know what appears when it happens?
It seems to me that you CAN control these settings from the power saving menu? Is that not correct?
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Hmmm... I thought your issue was the low battery and using the camera?
Anyway, I can look at the brightness issue, if you can let me know what appears when it happens?
It seems to me that you CAN control these settings from the power saving menu? Is that not correct?
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The biggest thing for me is not being able to control screen brightness once the phone decides it's battery is low, and to a lesser extent taking photos (it will play videos at any battery level though, which looked like one of the issues you fixed with your tweaks oddly enough).
I can't remember if it's 10% or 15% remaining, but at one of those points the phone warns of low battery and automatically dims the screen to 0%, among other changes. The brightness can sometimes be forced back up, but it's only temporary, reseting itself after a few seconds or after a screen lock. The power saving menu I don't understand the purpose of at all, because I have that turned off and these things still happen. If I turn it on and set the screen brightness to a higher level, it does what I mentioned above. It's as if there are 2 power saving modes that aren't cooperating.
Is that clearer?
Hey guys,
I just went from my iPad 2 to the Transformer Prime. I like it so far but I do have a couple of questions. I am not experienced with this unit so I am in the dark about a couple of things. Here are my quick questions that hopefully someone can answer for me real quick:
1. I notice that there are 3 levels for a "performance mood". My questions is how drastic is the battery consumption if I went from "Balance" to "Performance"?
2. I see under "Settings" and "Developer Options" there is something called "Force GPU rendering". Should this be enabled? If so does this drain the battery significantly as well.
3. The last question is that under "Settings" and then "Asus customized setting" there is something checked called "Use ASUS Quick Settings". What does this actually do if I leave it checked or unchecked?
Thank you in advance for your replies!
1). Battery drains fastest in performance mode but good enough battery life. Balanced is the best of both worlds, power n battery life
2) leave force 2d gpu rendering alone. If you not familiar with android then it might cause issues for some older apps. Its not needed at all. Just leave it unchecked. Device works great n fast without it. SoEtimes when enabled, it can make pages or apps load or draw faster. If you really want, you can expedient with it on. But as soon as you notice an issue or screen acts up, go cut it off.
3)leave Asus quick settings checked. Its the best setup
Tip; don't go messing with things or developers options you unsure of what they do.
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1). Battery drains fastest in performance mode but good enough battery life. Balanced is the best of both worlds, power n battery life
2) leave force 2d gpu rendering alone. If you not familiar with android then it might cause issues for some older apps. Its not needed at all. Just leave it unchecked. Device works great n fast without it. SoEtimes when enabled, it can make pages or apps load or draw faster. If you really want, you can expedient with it on. But as soon as you notice an issue or screen acts up, go cut it off.
3)leave Asus quick settings checked off. Its the best setup
Tip; don't go messing with things or developers options you unsure of what they do.
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Thank you so much for the replies, I deeply appreciate it. If you have the prime, what setting do you use mostly for "performance mode"?
demandarin said:
1). Battery drains fastest in performance mode but good enough battery life. Balanced is the best of both worlds, power n battery life
2) leave force 2d gpu rendering alone. If you not familiar with android then it might cause issues for some older apps. Its not needed at all. Just leave it unchecked. Device works great n fast without it. SoEtimes when enabled, it can make pages or apps load or draw faster. If you really want, you can expedient with it on. But as soon as you notice an issue or screen acts up, go cut it off.
3)leave Asus quick settings checked off. Its the best setup
Tip; don't go messing with things or developers options you unsure of what they do.
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Really? I think the Asus quick settings utility is much better than the stock ICS one. There's no down side to using it either
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Thank you so much for the replies, I deeply appreciate it. If you have the prime, what setting do you use mostly for "performance mode"?
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Of you want the prime to perform at peak performance all the time, just press performance mode. Battery will still last a long time. If you not as presses about running Max power use balanced mode. I always use balanced mode. Everything is still just as fast and hard to tell a diffence. Actually power difference between balanced and performance is not that far apart. Everything will work great on balanced and still give you great battery life. If you want the longest battery possible, use power savings mode. Things will still move great on it also. You can still play all your games n movies n this mode also with no issue. It does cut down contrast level n such in this mode so your display won't look as sharp. It all depends on what means the most to you. Long battery life or performance. Balanced is the bbest mode to use, IMO. If I'm not overclocked, I'm using balanced mode.
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Really? I think the Asus quick settings utility is much better than the stock ICS one. There's no down side to using it either
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Yeah, my fault OP. When I said checked off I mean leave it checked. If the box is empty check it to make sure its enabled. Asus quick settings is Way better than stock ICS. Thanks for pointing it out.
Thanks again for the replies. I don't want to be a pest but I had one more question that I just thought of:
I hear a lot of talk about recycling the battery right out of the box. I think thats the terminology they used. Some say drain it then charge it over night and then others say you dont need to.
What do people usually do to get the best battery?
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Thanks again for the replies. I don't want to be a pest but I had one more question that I just thought of:
I hear a lot of talk about recycling the battery right out of the box. I think thats the terminology they used. Some say drain it then charge it over night and then others say you dont need to.
What do people usually do to get the best battery?
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You don't need to do all the extreme extra steps some described. Just make sure to let the prime chafe up fully on first run. You can still use it plugged up. After its first full charge use tablet till almost dead again. Then charge up fully. A cycle is going from fully charged to dead or almost dead. Just make sure to do this this first few sycles then you battery should be good. It'll calibrate itself. Enjoy your device
Hi I have the pacman jb rom 4.1.2 works great just battery I notice don't last long or I am not doing something wrong. Are there any ROMs that have good battery saving or great battery life?
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Battery life on ROMs depends on a lot of things!
For one, how much you use your phone! If you're on it all day playing games, watching youtube videos, syncing facebook and making phones calls....you can't except it to last too long!
Here's a few things that could help you improve your battery life.
For one, turn off auto brightness and adjust it to something that's good for you in the room or environment you're in.
Apps like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and pretty much any social network app that syncs contacts, feeds and things like that are battery hogs! Turn your auto sync for these apps off! Only sync when you need to and just be smart about that kind of stuff.
NOW you have the kernel! You need to give this some time to settle in to really judge your battery life! What I do is let the ROM cycle about 2-3 times from full to empty before judging the battery life! If you flash a ROM, chances are that the battery life will fail to good standards on the first cycle, especially if you're flashing ROMs left and right
Check some of these guides to learn about battery saving tips
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1234264
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1936723
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1805636
I'm not going to recommend my ROM or any ROM for that matter because like I said, that really depends on you and how well you follow these battery saving tips!
Try a few ROMs and give them more then 24 hours before switching them and claiming they have bad battery life :good:
Okay will I'm using cm10 at moment seems great trying out before back to pacman I love the way it felt and looks. Thanks. Oh how is the miui 4.1.2 ROM is that a good one as well?
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Mazda said:
Battery life on ROMs depends on a lot of things!
For one, how much you use your phone! If you're on it all day playing games, watching youtube videos, syncing facebook and making phones calls....you can't except it to last too long!
Here's a few things that could help you improve your battery life.
For one, turn off auto brightness and adjust it to something that's good for you in the room or environment you're in.
Apps like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and pretty much any social network app that syncs contacts, feeds and things like that are battery hogs! Turn your auto sync for these apps off! Only sync when you need to and just be smart about that kind of stuff.
NOW you have the kernel! You need to give this some time to settle in to really judge your battery life! What I do is let the ROM cycle about 2-3 times from full to empty before judging the battery life! If you flash a ROM, chances are that the battery life will fail to good standards on the first cycle, especially if you're flashing ROMs left and right
Check some of these guides to learn about battery saving tips
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1234264
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1936723
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1805636
I'm not going to recommend my ROM or any ROM for that matter because like I said, that really depends on you and how well you follow these battery saving tips!
Try a few ROMs and give them more then 24 hours before switching them and claiming they have bad battery life :good:
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how about using a kernel for undervolting? with my current settings it gave me 2 more hours of moderate use , i always keep the brightness at 0 or 25 something like that and no games, just watsapp , nothing else really eats up the battery according to the battery usage
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how about using a kernel for undervolting? with my current settings it gave me 2 more hours of moderate use , i always keep the brightness at 0 or 25 something like that and no games, just watsapp , nothing else really eats up the battery according to the battery usage
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Sounds like you may have a wake lock or something. Go search for better battery stats here on xda and install it to check for that and much more.
As for UV, I recommend against that because it may cause random reboots if over done.
Also remember that every phone is not created equal and may react differently to things like that.
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Sounds like you may have a wake lock or something. Go search for better battery stats here on xda and install it to check for that and much more.
As for UV, I recommend against that because it may cause random reboots if over done.
Also remember that every phone is not created equal and may react differently to things like that.
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HEY thanks mazda, i found this thread, can i use anything on it? people reported 6+ hours of screen on time , my phones already dead around 3... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1909996
Hello the battery of my Note 8 was not that Great (4:30 Hours SOT) So I found a solution to battery issues and found a great solution.
1- From Setting Turn off :
Near By Device Scanning
Find My Mobile
Smart Capture
Direct Call
Those Sensors REALLY drains the battery and minimize screen on time.
2- Lower down the resolution to FHD Its not as bad as you think. (I am not sure if this saved my battery life but try it).
3- Delete Facebook Official App (or disable it) and install this App
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nam.fbwrapper&hl=en
4- Delete Facebook messanger and install facebook messenger (Lite)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.mlite&hl=en
5- Disable The Edge Panel (Turn it off, The Edge panel is useful I know but it drains the battery so much and you can live without it with alternatives)
6- Go To App Permission from setting ---> Check the permissions to use location and turn off any app you do not want it to use your location.
7- Put Brightness should be just below the warning level (80%)
Now Check These steps please and Get back to me.
Before these steps on Wifi I used to get 4:30 SOT Now I get 6:15-6:30 Hours of SOT.
Note :
Turning sync and vibration saves battery too.
We left home at same time, my wife's IP7P got 80% battery remained, mine is 30%.
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Turning sync and vibration saves battery too.
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It's even more amazing how much battery one can save turning the phone completely off.
Really dont like being sarcastic, but there are a few tasks/features that disabling them makes no sense, or at least none for a samsung phone.
Sync? That's mandatory. Find my phone? I did that mistake once, now my Note 3 is in some thieves hands. Edge Panel? Sounds common sense and fair enough, but one would spare 300$ for a phone just as good, without that feature.
It's a matter of what one wants to sacrifice, i get it. What amazes me is not being happy with 5h SoT, i get max 3 in 24h battery life, and i cant bloody find the drainer.
With all my respect, this guide, or tip, is a very personalised one and wont meet the criteria of many people, no matter how effective it is.
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It's even more amazing how much battery one can save turning the phone completely off.
Really dont like being sarcastic, but there are a few tasks/features that disabling them makes no sense, or at least none for a samsung phone.
Sync? That's mandatory. Find my phone? I did that mistake once, now my Note 3 is in some thieves hands. Edge Panel? Sounds common sense and fair enough, but one would spare 300$ for a phone just as good, without that feature.
It's a matter of what one wants to sacrifice, i get it. What amazes me is not being happy with 5h SoT, i get max 3 in 24h battery life, and i cant bloody find the drainer.
With all my respect, this guide, or tip, is a very personalised one and wont meet the criteria of many people, no matter how effective it is.
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We both, I feel are more experienced users.
These tips would then be useless to you, granted.
Just some people do not even know having haptic feedback on drains the battery.
Where you think it's a general view that turning features off is useless and that you have paid for it...
I also think it's a general view that people love to save battery life, just the tips will not be for everyone. Just if you do not use it, turn it off.
Currently at 70%, QHD, idle for 16hrs with 2 hrs and 45min SOT. I average 7hrs...
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It's even more amazing how much battery one can save turning the phone completely off.
Really dont like being sarcastic, but there are a few tasks/features that disabling them makes no sense, or at least none for a samsung phone.
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LMAO!! I guess I am a little insensitive to this as well. With quick charge , wireless quickcharge and what not I have never really worried to much about the battery life. I dont find the logic in buying an almost 1000 dollar phone full of features to then turn them all off and not use them. I would save the money and just get a Moto phone or an older LG if I was that worried.
Kinda like me complaining about my MSI gaming laptop only lasting 1.4 hours while playing Doom at ultra settings.
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We both, I feel are more experienced users.
These tips would then be useless to you, granted.
Just some people do not even know having haptic feedback on drains the battery.
Where you think it's a general view that turning features off is useless and that you have paid for it...
I also think it's a general view that people love to save battery life, just the tips will not be for everyone. Just if you do not use it, turn it off.
Currently at 70%, QHD, idle for 16hrs with 2 hrs and 45min SOT. I average 7hrs...
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I completely agree with you.
Three years ago i tested a guide from a guy that recommended using a combination of Greenify, Amplify and Power Nap. I did, and somehow i always responded late to messages, and my alarm would randomly wake me up 2 hours later than it's supposed to. Yes i had like 0.5% battery usage during night, 6h screen time, 48h battery life, but the phone wasnt doing anything the moment i put it on my pocket. Did i achieve anything, not really, i just learned the lesson that i stopped my phone from doing what it was supposed to do, and somehow created an anxiety if im missing out, checking my phone every 10 minutes if there was something that is not showing up.
Although, the original poster clearly stated i'd lose that functionality. The moment we twiddle around, it's always trial and error.
Ironically, i made a thread today on the General Android section for literary the same thing.
Battery life in this device is far from what it should be. Literary no recommendation around here proved any success for me. I factory reset twice, i reset all the app permissions, and i just recently rooted to make use of Greenify and similar apps, and im not gaining anything, literary nothing. In fact, this is the first time that rooting doesnt seem feasable, all the ad-blocking software that use root, somehow are useless compared to SABS, and now i wont ever be able to use it.
Every night i sleep with a 90-95% phone, and wake up with a 80-85% respectively, AOD is usually off at that time, and no battery statistics app seems to bloody see how the hell that 10% came to happen.
Never do i have brightness over 35-40%, AoD is scheduled, BLF is schduled (technically, this should add to saving), many apps are on either Samsungs Device Maintenance in always sleep mode, and those that are on the unmonitored ones never make a 5-10% combined daily. I do have the display to max resolution, cause hey, i've bought a device that has that resolution, if i was happy with 720p, id go with a 720p phone.
To whoever gets 4h SoT with 24h battery life, LUCKY BASTARD.
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It's even more amazing how much battery one can save turning the phone completely off.
Really dont like being sarcastic, but there are a few tasks/features that disabling them makes no sense, or at least none for a samsung phone.
Sync? That's mandatory. Find my phone? I did that mistake once, now my Note 3 is in some thieves hands. Edge Panel? Sounds common sense and fair enough, but one would spare 300$ for a phone just as good, without that feature.
It's a matter of what one wants to sacrifice, i get it. What amazes me is not being happy with 5h SoT, i get max 3 in 24h battery life, and i cant bloody find the drainer.
With all my respect, this guide, or tip, is a very personalised one and wont meet the criteria of many people, no matter how effective it is.
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In case of this subject, I wouldn't say U are sarcastic - rather a mindopen consciousness user of high-end device ?
And I won't even use my sarcasm as I do enough of that dealing with users 'here and there' (I can assure it would be even more rough). I would fully understand purpose of sharing those so called 'tips&tricks' if there was something really improving the battery life or a list of unnececcery apps/services with some usage stats as a proof (I guess no need to say how many of such Samsung put on their flagships)... But taking 4-point list is like a joke and I honestly threat this thread as such.
My tip for OP - buy a car battery and adopt it for charging ur device will improve ur battery a mile?
With the amount of complaining regarding battery life here on the threads, I think it's always welcome when users suggest tips and tricks that have helped them. There are some features that people don't use, but may not have thought to turn off. Sure, you can also go to the extreme and turn off things you actually use, but that's obviously too far. There is a balance though
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With the amount of complaining regarding battery life here on the threads, I think it's always welcome when users suggest tips and tricks that have helped them. There are some features that people don't use, but may not have thought to turn off. Sure, you can also go to the extreme and turn off things you actually use, but that's obviously too far. There is a balance though
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Idk its not that extreme. Removing facebook / messanger app and installing alternative apps is really important since we know facebook app and messanger drains battery.
And disabling the edge panels saves battery life.
I think the only extreme thing is lowering the resolution to 720p I must agree with that. I am not that sure if it saves battery life I will do some tests.
By the way the only way these settings do not matter to me because I am travelling via air port and. I am a gamer so these settings are really important to me when I am outside home.
What I would consider extreme is lowering brightness to 20 percent a lot of users do that. Through this guide Ypu can have high brightness and Good battery life.
Going through debloating procedures, i definitely get rid of Facebook itself, especially since i've read that they are even tracking users who never had a FB Account, having a system app facebook twiddling around even after you disable it is privacy worries let alone battery ones.
Fair enough, but on the other hand, i wouldn't trust a 3rd part Facebook Client either. Facebook (unfortunately) is my main social messaging access, whoever has the luxury to disable it, that's fine, but it's not a TIP.
Your guide would make perfect sense if it said "Battery tips for using the Note 8 for gaming purposes", but keep in mind that many Note 8 users have a "work environment" background.
I have 3 emails that i work daily with, two of them are very prioritized personally. I'll gladly get a tool that would limit its wakeup abilities where i would control the time frames, but anything more than that destroys my user experience.
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Sir, with all respect for OP and U, what kind of usuful 'tips&tricks' are here?? Then just please read few ROM threads and see what kind of bull**** is published without even reading an instructions on BASIC CUSTOM DEVELOPMENT USER. This thread is like a place, from where later some totally crazy issues and demands are born. There is Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and more, where this kind of show-off has it place, thx and sorry if U feel hurt :good:
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The ones included in OP... I thought that was obvious. Sharing tips isn't showing off either, it's what XDA is about: helping others. People complain about battery life ad nauseum, and then others complain when people try to suggest things to improve it. Neither is especially helpful to the community. We should be encouraging thoughtful dialogue, not discouraging it.
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Idk its not that extreme. Removing facebook / messanger app and installing alternative apps is really important since we know facebook app and messanger drains battery.
And disabling the edge panels saves battery life.
I think the only extreme thing is lowering the resolution to 720p I must agree with that. I am not that sure if it saves battery life I will do some tests.
By the way the only way these settings do not matter to me because I am travelling via air port and. I am a gamer so these settings are really important to me when I am outside home.
What I would consider extreme is lowering brightness to 20 percent a lot of users do that. Through this guide Ypu can have high brightness and Good battery life.
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Re-read my post, I wasn't saying your tips were extreme at all . It was directed to those who said they were against 'crippling a $1k phone'...my point was that yes some battery saving tips can too far, but being smart and simply tweaking the things you don't need still helps and doesn't cripple anything.
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Going through debloating procedures, i definitely get rid of Facebook itself, especially since i've read that they are even tracking users who never had a FB Account, having a system app facebook twiddling around even after you disable it is privacy worries let alone battery ones.
Fair enough, but on the other hand, i wouldn't trust a 3rd part Facebook Client either. Facebook (unfortunately) is my main social messaging access, whoever has the luxury to disable it, that's fine, but it's not a TIP.
Your guide would make perfect sense if it said "Battery tips for using the Note 8 for gaming purposes", but keep in mind that many Note 8 users have a "work environment" background.
I have 3 emails that i work daily with, two of them are very prioritized personally. I'll gladly get a tool that would limit its wakeup abilities where i would control the time frames, but anything more than that destroys my user experience.
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I have tried this with QHD. 70% Brightness and its really Good.
Bear in mind this is on Wifi.
The only extreme thing is 720p admittly.
But I switched to QHD Battery is still a beast.
sefrcoko said:
The ones included in OP... I thought that was obvious. Sharing tips isn't showing off either, it's what XDA is about: helping others. People complain about battery life ad nauseum, and then others complain when people try to suggest things to improve it. Neither is very helpful to the community.
Re-read my post, I wasn't saying your tips were extreme at all . It was directed to those who said they were against 'crippling a $1k phone'...my point was that yes some battery saving tips can too far, but being smart and simply tweaking the things you don't need still helps and doesn't cripple anything.
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No prob.
I think i tweaked things up instead of using 720p I am using WQHD 70 PERCENT Brightness. I am not seeing much loss 2.30 Hours SOT at 63 percent is pretty Good.
There are a lot of useless features turned off like edge panel,direct call,near by device scanning. And installing alternative facebook apps really solved all issues.
Sry for this . But isnt this post about saving battery life. You few moaning and *****ing at each other isn't for this thread and you've all used too much of my battery......so bigger off and start your own thread...why not call it ...*****ing and moaning to waste battery power.....
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I think as mentioned previously Facebook and other online social media are the worst culprits. I don't use twitter or snapcrap, just FB.
I've just installed Metal Pro and the results frankly don't seem that much different to FB's own app. Will give it a couple of days though as yesterday may have just been getting used to it and therefore using more battery than I would normally.
Viewing all photos in your folder is slow as it seems to load just 4 at a time. I can't find a way to cache them. Images also aren't zoomable in posts.
I also can't find a way to receive message notifications. I've fed both back to the dev so maybe further changes will be available in the course of time.
FB lite is very similar to Metal....
FB really needs to provide better options for sync and what I want to see.
MadmartUK said:
Sry for this . But isnt this post about saving battery life. You few moaning and *****ing at each other isn't for this thread and you've all used too much of my battery......so bigger off and start your own thread...why not call it ...*****ing and moaning to waste battery power.....
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We are debating, that's what we're here for, some learn, some debate, that does not mean i don't acknowledge OP's efforts, just cause i don't agree with them does not make him a target, i clearly expressed that many of the tips are out of the question for most of the users.
I stood corrected in this place more than once, rather than pulling pride out, i chose to learn.
You really should sharpen up your standards about "*****ing and moaning", and maybe add some useful input we all could learn from.
bonerp said:
I think as mentioned previously Facebook and other online social media are the worst culprits. I don't use twitter or snapcrap, just FB.
I've just installed Metal Pro and the results frankly don't seem that much different to FB's own app. Will give it a couple of days though as yesterday may have just been getting used to it and therefore using more battery than I would normally.
Viewing all photos in your folder is slow as it seems to load just 4 at a time. I can't find a way to cache them. Images also aren't zoomable in posts.
I also can't find a way to receive message notifications. I've fed both back to the dev so maybe further changes will be available in the course of time.
FB lite is very similar to Metal....
FB really needs to provide better options for sync and what I want to see.
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Yeah i tried the Lite's too, while Messenger is ok, the FB app itself felt like opening the Facebook page from my Symbian Nokia on 2005, that's time travel right there. Some people even use FB on Browsers...
I agree who ever want to try the tips should do it, i feel that the best way to save battery is with root and uninstalling all the bloatware i dont know what the hell is wrong with this companies and fb putting it as a priv app for sure that app is a battery hog, also manipulating the kernel and customizing it to your usage helps. before i had a Huawei p10 and i would get with out any touching around 3.5 or 4 hours of SOT i use Data most of the day so its hard on it once i got it root and started to handle the kernel and the bloatware with out limiting my phone functions it went to 6.5 6 hours on mobile data and almost 7.5 hours mixed with wifi. its a shame that im one of the lucky ones with the oem issue still waiting to root this note 8. with this note 8 im getting around 5.5 hours of SOT with mobile data and two sims in it which is not bad considering it has almost the same battery as my p10 but i bigger and better screen cant imagine what ill do once i get root on it.
lil_kujo said:
I agree who ever want to try the tips should do it, i feel that the best way to save battery is with root and uninstalling all the bloatware i dont know what the hell is wrong with this companies and fb putting it as a priv app for sure that app is a battery hog, also manipulating the kernel and customizing it to your usage helps. before i had a Huawei p10 and i would get with out any touching around 3.5 or 4 hours of SOT i use Data most of the day so its hard on it once i got it root and started to handle the kernel and the bloatware with out limiting my phone functions it went to 6.5 6 hours on mobile data and almost 7.5 hours mixed with wifi. its a shame that im one of the lucky ones with the oem issue still waiting to root this note 8. with this note 8 im getting around 5.5 hours of SOT with mobile data and two sims in it which is not bad considering it has almost the same battery as my p10 but i bigger and better screen cant imagine what ill do once i get root on it.
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Oh YES! This is my heavy usage, and this is my moderate one, and i am not conservative at all in display resolution and stuff. Some people seem to get a lot better results however, but this is more then enough for me, even though i do a lot of tweaking here and there.
The biggest factory to battery life is your signal strength. If you have a ****ty carrier or you live in an area where the signal is weak you will have worse battery life then someone living in a city with a carrier like Verizon.
Also for the ultimate battery life turn your phone off at all times. Only turn it on when u need to make a call. Lasts days