I'm very concern with my battery performance due to i've read there are people that the battery reach more than 1-2 days, it's true? because my battery only reach 15 hours with a regular operation.
Same mate, depends on what you call normal usage tho, and what you got on the phone. If i dont use it for anything but txts it will last 2 days, otherwise no chance. Use atk pro and kill all non essentials at screen off and cpu master set to powersave to give you bout 25% longer run time.
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The rom Im using is rendeiro Cyanogen 6.1.3 V1, camera fix.
When I said that my operation with the phone is normal, because it is. Let see.
20 minutes on voice.
Email sync always on
Xda app many times at day
30 minutes in the web
Twitter sync each 30 minutes
2 or 3 facebook uses at day
And watch a few small videos
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I do everything u do except for the facebook sync and twitter sync. Thats probably doing that to ur battery. My battery last probaby for two days but i drain it every night to really low then charge it over night. Try turning off facebook and twitter sync and see what happens for a day
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I charge every night, but while in tours, I make sure, I keep my data traffic / wifi / GPS turned off while phone is on standby to extend the battery life.. That helps to push it on for around 2 days at max..
While in roaming, the Network signal strengths also eats a lot of battery, some one told me to use 2G network only, dont know how effective is that..
My phone goes for about one day but i am a heavy user. Youtube browsing using messneger on phone , texting with girlfriwnd . etc i dont mind though ots plugged in each time i go to bed. So when i wake up i have a fully charged phone again to repeat my daily usage
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I m using cm7 009. Goes 1 day. Normal use. Its better than stack se rom.
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Anybody knows why the battey drain faster on 3g than wifi.
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Obviously it all depends on what you've done while the screen was turned on but it'd be an interesting statistic.
Overall battery:
26hrs on stock rom 1.8.3
16hrs on gingerblur 3.1
Both with more than 3:30hrs of display on
About 24hrs on battery with 4hr15min with the display on. I think I have a screenshot on FB, lol.
I might be on to something here then..
Am using GladiAtrix 3 b0.2, before I installed it I did a battery stats reset through CWM
(advise from KennethPenn, dev of Gingerblur):
"""- Reset battery in CWM (under Advanced)
- Drain your battery to 0 percent and let it turn the phone off, then charge it back up to 100%."""
On my phone are more than 120 apps installed. Battery Manager is on "Maximum ".
The result is fairly amazing; the display time of almost 7 hrs is under heavy use; wlan & sync constantly on, Xscope & XDA app non-stop checking, market downloads, etc!! I have never had such good battery!
I advise everyone to do the above, it really helps.
Vangelis13 said:
I might be on to something here then..
Am using GladiAtrix 3 b0.2, before I installed it I did a battery stats reset through CWM
(advise from KennethPenn, dev of Gingerblur):
"""- Reset battery in CWM (under Advanced)
- Drain your battery to 0 percent and let it turn the phone off, then charge it back up to 100%."""
On my phone are more than 120 apps installed. Battery Manager is on "Maximum ".
The result is fairly amazing; the display time of almost 7 hrs is under heavy use; wlan & sync constantly on, Xscope & XDA app non-stop checking, market downloads, etc!! I have never had such good battery!
I advise everyone to do the above, it really helps.
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are u using only GSM/EDGE?
about the battery mannager on maximum... if i leave my phone for more than 15 mins on the table... that means i wont get notifications or recive my Whatsapp and Facebook Messages??
are u using any task mannager?
Budske said:
are u using only GSM/EDGE?
about the battery mannager on maximum... if i leave my phone for more than 15 mins on the table... that means i wont get notifications or recive my Whatsapp and Facebook Messages??
are u using any task mannager?
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That's right, only 2g unless I need 3g for data. I'm always around a wifi though.
No task manager, android 2.2 does all that automatically.
Not sure battery manager is so aggressive, I think it takes a bit longer than 15 minutes.
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nice.. ill do the same....
u use *#*#4636#*#* to change the data connection to 2G??
How do u change 2g-3g ext?
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nice.. ill do the same....
u use *#*#4636#*#* to change the data connection to 2G??
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Download Any Cut in the market. Put a shortcut to the above on your home screen.
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6hrs is my personal best, straight stock phone.
I've just put mine on charge, prob got about 40-50 hours, mostly standby. Seems a lot but I just unpacked my charger from going away for the weekend.
Prob about 4 hours talk time, prob 3 hours web. No GPS, no wifi.
Strange thing is, the battery thing said '5 hours since unplugged' which is definately not the case, is this a known issue? 5 hours since I rebooted it maybe.
when you reboot - the time since unplugged counter is reset.
Is there a way to do the battery stats reset without CWM?
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Is there a way to do the battery stats reset without CWM?
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That one worked 100% for me.
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Here is mine
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a little off topic but howd you get that 1% battery mod and not the ugly circle, this looks kinda nice sitting at 33%, can one get that without gingerblur , stock plus root would do?
on topic, i get about 2 days on a medium usage on my battery , 1.5 days on heavy, i dont think i could use another phone after getting this much battery life, i just wonder what gingerbread would do to this phone
5 1/2 hours, with 3G turned on. Although the last 45 minutes of that it was just sitting at the launcher, I was waiting for the battery to die on it. I usually average 2-3 hours, but when I charge my phone I usually still have about 50% left.
Seeing as I rarely use data, I may have to try that 2G trick. Maybe I could charge it every other day instead of each night.
My best "Screen On" time is close to 4.5 hrs running Greyblur. For those just posting "time since unplugged"..screen on time is a much better indicator for battery life imo because it means actual use. The phone sitting idle in your pocket or on your table for 48 hrs is misleading to some people because then they wonder why they're only getting 12hrs with 5hrs of actual "useage" (screen on time).
For my style of use..battery saver modes and apps don't do me any favors because then I miss out on my IM's which I rely on for most of my communication. And unfortunately 2G isn't an option any more for most of us Canadian users..as 2G has been pretty much phased out.
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My best "Screen On" time is close to 4.5 hrs running Greyblur. For those just posting "time since unplugged"..screen on time is a much better indicator for battery life imo because it means actual use. The phone sitting idle in your pocket or on your table for 48 hrs is misleading to some people because then they wonder why they're only getting 12hrs with 5hrs of actual "useage" (screen on time).
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With you on that, I keep asking people to post screen usage time (also in other threads); anything else is fairly misleading on how long the battery lasts.
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At the moment screen time 2hrs 50mins battery stands at 55%
That's with wifi or 3g when screen is on
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So I've had it since November 8th, that was a while ago... and I've been at work today and lightly texting, using gochat fb from time to time, reading RSS, calendar, minimal brightness, hspa+, and after 8 hours my batteries at like 15%, does this seem like normal usage/battery drainage to anyone? I'm at work so ill extend on this a little more later, but people were saying you should see battery improvements after a week or two ..
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So I've had it since November 8th, that was a while ago... and I've been at work today and lightly texting, using gochat fb from time to time, reading RSS, calendar, minimal brightness, hspa+, and after 8 hours my batteries at like 15%, does this seem like normal usage/battery drainage to anyone? I'm at work so ill extend on this a little more later, but people were saying you should see battery improvements after a week or two ..
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There's a lot of factors that go into battery life it might be the Facebook chat constantly using data and killing the battery it might be other things...I would recommend juice defender beta it really helps me out. I usually just keep my phone on 3g unless I really need the speed and that helps tremendously. I'm going on 14 hours with more use than you've described above with 29% battery left.
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With the usage described, by the time I was getting to the end of the thread I thought you would mention you had 15% after 5-6 hours.
I am not sure what phones you have had in the past and if they were Android phones, but what you just described is GREAT battery life.
Take into consideration these things:
1. 3G
2. Screen on
3. Phone not sleeping because of chat
4. Huge screen
5. Fast CPU
Did you really expect battery life to be the same on this as on your Nokia 6310i almost 10 years ago?
Now regularly getting just over 48 hours between charges (this morning I've still go 20% left in the tank)..
..3g off, but wifi on during daytime (with background sync for email, weather, uknews widget, xbox live stats widget etc), a few calls here and there (inc using speakerphone) moderate texting... using 3g when away from home e.g. commuting to work a couple of days a week.. regularly checking fb etc.. smart action to disable wifi, 3g and background sync over night but that's about it..
pretty..
damn..
awesome!!!
I guess you're right, I do expect too much usage from the phones these days it seems.. anyway, lightly (read: barely) using the phone today, 6 hrs usage so far and its kicking at 70% still, not bad.. I also installed JuiceDefender (sounds like a condom brand lol) so that seems like its helping I think, ill start setting up my smart actions and stuff too.
Even with my brightness all the way down it seems like its using a whopping 46% of the battery, jeeeesus
I also do feel like my smartphone is my primary device these days, I mean, I don't even use the desktop I just bought.. gonna sell it and get an HDTV + HD station + wireless keyboard w/ touch pad.. and I will be set!
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Don't know if this helps but I've now been listening to music for 6 hours straight and still have 40% battery left, that's checking 5 mail accounts every hour, going on book face and 2 google accounts. The battery rocks
+ charged it to 100‰ as I knew tonight would be music night
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My battery on my Razr is excellent
Ok I'm here to tell ya z battery on this here Razr is fine. I spent 4 hours on the golf course with the screen and gps on the whole time with my SkyDroid golf range finder app, had several calls and even surf the web a few times while waiting to hit my next shot and I only lost 32% on my battery. I can go 24 hours easily with heavy use.
Now I'm rooted...use Battery Calibration and AutoKiller Memory Optimizer and I'm golden. Both those apps need Superuser Permission so you have to be rooted and maybe I'm just lucky but I'm pleased with the battery life so far. Now ask me in a year after 300+ battery charges and maybe it will different as I'm not a big fan of non-replaceable batteries. I do like my Razr however.
Good Luck
I was getting terrible battery life when I first got the phone. Did 3-4 battery cycles (let the phone die completely, charge to 100%, use phone and let battery die completely, rinse, repeat) and my battery life has improved dramatically.
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i like to keep my gs3 connected to wifi and muted while i'm sleeping but when i wake up i always get 8-10% battery drain (in 8 hours app), i come from a motorola atrix which in the same conditions i get no more than 2% drain over night.
i've tried many roms (omega, foxhound, ultimarom...), many kernels (stock, galaxsih, siyah, phenomenal medium and extreme...), and also some basebands (modem, radio) but i keep sticking with the XXLH1 'cause i get less drain with this one. but in any combination i always get 8-10% battery drain during night.
i've seen some of you say that you get 2-4% drain in the same context so i would like to know what am i doing wrong :/
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im using the leaked stock 4.1.2 there now, and i had 3% drain in 11hrs between overnight and not using it this am.
seems v good for battery life so far. i know your pain though. its non usage time i want to be high batterylife. id expect 2-3 days from the phone when not playing games etc... im hoping this is gonna fix that now. most reports are good about battery so heres hoping.
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How is it sleeping overnight? check settings > battery and check how much it's awake when the screen is off, then check better battery stats to see what is waking it up, I would probably say you have too much synced.
you're right, i have too much synced, 3 google accounts, plus facebook, twitter, whatsapp, skype and others but those are the same settings i had on my old motorola atrix and even there i got 1-2% drain, although i was on gingerbread.
i will install some battery stats application to see in details whats draining it so much, 'cause under settings it only says that idle and standby time are the draining reasons.
gonna try the leaked 4.1.2 to see if i get better results, thanks!.
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you're right, i have too much synced, 3 google accounts, plus facebook, twitter, whatsapp, skype and others but those are the same settings i had on my old motorola atrix and even there i got 1-2% drain, although i was on gingerbread.
i will install some battery stats application to see in details whats draining it so much, 'cause under settings it only says that idle and standby time are the draining reasons.
gonna try the leaked 4.1.2 to see if i get better results, thanks!.
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Better battery stats is the best, but that is a lot to sync, I would imagine it's not sleeping well because whenever an app decides to sync it will wake the phone up, and let's not forget the S3 has a 1.4GHz quad core CPU, if it wakes and uses all cores it will drain the battery faster than a single or dual core CPU. I notice the Atrix has a 1GHz dual core, so you should expect a lot more drain especially with that much synced, honestly you shouldn't need Skype syncing unless you always want your skype contacts to be up to date in the contacts app, and Twitter just syncs to pull the latest tweets through, you can just do that manually every time you open the app.
Before 4.1.1 I got 9 hours 99% overnight no 3g or Internet, now it's 90%
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Before 4.1.1 I got 9 hours 99% overnight no 3g or Internet, now it's 90%
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does that mean that jelly bean is making you experience worse battery life?.
maybe it's because the atrix has 2 cores but if the gs3 uses all 4 cores to fetch or sync some data, that would mean it's not very well optimized for simple tasks, thanks anyway i'll try better battery stats
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does that mean that jelly bean is making you experience worse battery life?.
maybe it's because the atrix has 2 cores but if the gs3 uses all 4 cores to fetch or sync some data, that would mean it's not very well optimized for simple tasks, thanks anyway i'll try better battery stats
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Android doesn't fully support multi-core CPUs yet, which is the main problem, all you can try if you need all the apps syncing is download a custom kernel and change the CPU governor this will change how the system uses the CPU and it can help.
Well for starters, Google Now should be disabled if you are concerned about battery life. Also check for and disable latitude and location reported from maps (they are getting activated by google now) Even if data/sync/gps are off google now constantly polling for updates thus draining battery.
With my HD2 running GB/Froyo for over 2 years, and methodical testing to achieve the lowest battery drain in standby (testing for 8hrs at night) the best I could do in AP mode was .35% per hour which is less than 3% over 8hrs.
I have owned and tested my S3 for 4 months and usually get 1% per hr and in AP mode....I get similar to the HD2 above at .35% per hour but I haven't tested to crazily.
I find it hard to believe and would love to be convinced, that any S3 owner can get less than 3% per hour drain without going into AP mode. Please prove me wrong and state your methods for all to learn.
Finally, I do not find the battery drain to be Linear. I am guessing that a battery charged to 100% sometimes may actually be a bit stronger than 100%. So doing a random single test may result in low drain numbers but that may be misleading. That same test performed at 20% level, may yield worse results if in fact my theory that the battery does not drain linearly...is true. But for consistency, I always perform the test at 100% battery and let it sit in the charger for an extra 2hrs before unplugging it. This way, at least the test is more consistent and more directly comparable.
I now have Green Power app installed and it is able to automatically turn off wifi/data in standby under conditions set by me, the user. I am performing some nightly drain tests. I would be thrilled if I could get between .35-.75% per hour. My first 2 nightly tests failed thanks to Slacker Radio....which held a Wakelock even though I bloody killed it!
I think this could be due to fast dormacy
http://www.androidnz.net/2012/06/at-your-own-risk-how-to-disable-fast.html?m=1 there is an app to disable this.
Read this link first though
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A bit off topic but just reminds me of my old Nokia N95 because whenever I was in a network dead spot or just have no signal for whatever reason (Gif fgaff) the battery would completely run dry within maybe 6 hours, and you'd think because it has no signal it should last longer than the few days standby I normally got.
And I've never had a SIM in any of my Android phones that lost service for long so has anyone seen this happen on an Android or is it just a Symbian thing?
Geordie Lad said:
A bit off topic but just reminds me of my old Nokia N95 because whenever I was in a network dead spot or just have no signal for whatever reason (Gif fgaff) the battery would completely run dry within maybe 6 hours, and you'd think because it has no signal it should last longer than the few days standby I normally got.
And I've never had a SIM in any of my Android phones that lost service for long so has anyone seen this happen on an Android or is it just a Symbian thing?
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When a phone has no signal it has to scan all frequencies for a signal, this constant switching of frequencies drains a lot of battery, it also increases the power to the mobile networks chip to try to pick up even a weak signal, which also drains the battery faster, it happens on all phones.
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im using the leaked stock 4.1.2 there now, and i had 3% drain in 11hrs between overnight and not using it this am.
seems v good for battery life so far. i know your pain though. its non usage time i want to be high batterylife. id expect 2-3 days from the phone when not playing games etc... im hoping this is gonna fix that now. most reports are good about battery so heres hoping.
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Could you please share your settings to get these results.
Thanks.
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Could you please share your settings to get these results.
Thanks.
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It's the new 4.1.2 xxelk4 firmware
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It's the new 4.1.2 xxelk4 firmware
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Which I am running but 3% over 11 hours?
Any e-mail accouunts? What do you have enabled/disabled? What is syncing?
The best I have ever managed was about 1%per hour and that was with everything off apart from the cell.
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Which I am running but 3% over 11 hours?
Any e-mail accouunts? What do you have enabled/disabled? What is syncing?
The best I have ever managed was about 1%per hour and that was with everything off apart from the cell.
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Read the link I posted above about fast dormacy and if this is your problem then get the app fast dormacy from play store
If you're worried about wifi while sleeping also have sync turned off and location in settings and disable notifications from play store and disable notifications from apps also
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Read the link I posted above about fast dormacy and if this is your problem then get the app fast dormacy from play store
If you're worried about wifi while sleeping also have sync turned off and location in settings and disable notifications from play store and disable notifications from apps also
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Will give it a try but I have never seen it show up in BBS in the past hence never tried it (I was aware of it) and as far as I am aware O2 (UK) does support Fast Dormancy.
It is not that I an dubious about the 3% drop over 11 hours I just want to get to the same level!
EDIT: To get the 3% drop do you disable everything you mention above? I use Tasker to disable everything including sync, wifi etc...except the cell. But I do not disable play store notifications seperately.
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Which I am running but 3% over 11 hours?
Any e-mail accouunts? What do you have enabled/disabled? What is syncing?
The best I have ever managed was about 1%per hour and that was with everything off apart from the cell.
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This is what I have come to expect. 1% per hour is reasonable and typical. 3% over 11hrs...hmmm...I don't believe it.
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Read the link I posted above about fast dormacy and if this is your problem then get the app fast dormacy from play store
If you're worried about wifi while sleeping also have sync turned off and location in settings and disable notifications from play store and disable notifications from apps also
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I have messed with this before without positive results. But anyway, since it seems like you have it working...what is your typical % drain over 8hrs?
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This is what I have come to expect. 1% per hour is reasonable and typical. 3% over 11hrs...hmmm...I don't believe it.
I have messed with this before without positive results. But anyway, since it seems like you have it working...what is your typical % drain over 8hrs?
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I usually turn mine off overnight but if I do want it left on I turn my location settings off and everything that requires wifi and don't lose much.
I'd suggest trying better battery stats from play store then after leaving your phone off overnight dump your results (in settings) and then go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809 to ask about your results
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Hey guys, I installed Cm 9.1.5 by hephappy, when adding the google account, I turned off Google Account Backup, and from then my phone does not drain battery like hell... Beware these are just my findings... Your milage may vary.
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Never used google backup and my battery drains only when gaming or watching movies. Display is the eater.
If I use phone only for ril and internet it last all day, during night sucks only 5% in 8hrs with 2G on.
I used CM9 without Gapps, even then the maximum I could get was 2 days, with Oxygen-GB its more than 3 days with heavier use than ICS. The reason for poor battery on ICS is our outdated hardware, on high end phones ICS/JB increase battery timings.
if i use my phone for calls(1-2hours a day) and sms (30 sms a day) it lasts for 5 days on icy snap 1.5. i only deleted some apps in system and added only those files needed for play to work oh and i have caf kernel.
if i use it a lot it lasts for 2 days.
i think the 25% brightness setting helps a lot to.
Hey guys, how to find out what keeps my phone awake, how to make it go to in deep sleep mode! Am using stock rom! I know Its wrong place to ask but still!
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Use the app Better Battery Stats - it helps figure out what's keeping your phone awake
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Google Account Backup? Doesn't it works only when sync is enabled?
Guys my battery in cm9 only for 1 day but same usage in my other phone(htc explore) battery goes for 3-4 day.both have same hardware but htc is amrv7.but i am satisfy with my p500.
I've searched and searched, then when I felt like I could search no more and my fingers were calloused and sore from texting and searching I did it some more! I don't know what to do, trying to avoid sending my phone in as its the only way I can communicate with my family while I'm away. This is my issue. Battery drain! Shock horror. I've been on my phone for two hours now, phone has drained 70%. All I did was Skype my wife, text only, for about an hour and a half then a half hour Skype call, with some Internet surfing in the background. Everything is off, literally, besides mobile internet. Facebook is disabled, Twitter is disabled, every other app I don't use is disabled, everything has auto sync off, I have lux installed so was running on - 50% for most of the time, kill all apps as soon as I'm done with them, battery saver on, tried gsam and wld, no dice, sleep is on, the only app I have running in the background is mobie.
Please help me!! I feel like I have a smartphone but I can't use it. Might as well have a 1999 Nokia for all the good this one does me.
That sounds not bad at all, you ARE using Skype after all and it will take a toll on your battery, seems to me you are expecting dumb phone level battery while using a known battery killer
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That sounds not bad at all, you ARE using Skype after all and it will take a toll on your battery, seems to me you are expecting dumb phone level battery while us that sen battery killer
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I've looked at others Skype battery consumption. Doesn't seem illogical to lose 40% over a couple hours with only a half hour call, but 70%? When most of it was just essentially texting? That seems inordinately high. Should two episodes of a TV show on Netflix kill my battery as well? Doesn't seem like a useful phone if you get about two hours of screen time.
Try getting your battery to 0% turn it off, charge it to 100% while the phone is shut off.
If that does not improve it your Rom is having issues and you will need to flash the stock Rom via RUU, if you battery still sucks then your battery is no bueno
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Try getting your battery to 0% turn it off, charge it to 100% while the phone is shut off.
If that does not improve it your Rom is having issues and you will need to flash the stock Rom via RUU, if you battery still sucks then your battery is no bueno
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Thanks for the advice mate. I've heard that draining these new batteries to zero does more harm than good though?