Hello,
I was wondering, there are a few topics regarding battery life on the x10, about gutting apps out, now I done so, but what is odd is I have heavily, heavily used my phone, wifi never shuts off, even when the screen is off, listened to music for a few hours, a few phone calls, installed/uninstalled 15+ apps, sent texts, literary sat in bed and used my phone for over 6 hours straight, then an hour here, hour there, etc and my battery is at 50% after 17 hours since being plugged in.... Is this normal?
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You are lucky, I do the same as you and my battery is nearly dead in about 12 hours.
How have you managed to get your phone to last that long???
Did you play any games at all?
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No I haven't played any games.. ive launched one for two minutes, (paradise island).. So I passed out forgot to plug my phone in, out was around 40%, my battery is now at 28% no charging yet,
1 day 6 hours 22 mins so far.
I will have to post what I gutted on 2.1 when i have a moment
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I think, that is normal, i usually surf the web on mobile internet(3g) around an hour or 2(except weekend which i usually browse for 12 hrs, not straight though), play games(about an hour). flow updates(30 minutes interval). I usually get 1 day and a half. but for very heavy intensive use of games, I usually got around less than 24 hrs.
though 3g is extensive than wifi, as long that your cpu & gpu doesnt get crunching too often then you'll get the best out of x10's battery life. for example reading an article on a website, about 2-4 tabs.
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I know this has probably been asked hundreds of times and I have searched up and down the forums but have found no fix for my battery problem.
I always have my battery at the dimmest level. Mostly only text, the occasional 5 min phone call and web browse here and there. Yet when i look into the battery use the display is always at atleast 96% ive never seen it less than that. But i kno that it has to be something other than just the display though.
I stoped using beautiful widgets, and froze media hub (i read that it eats battery in the bg) recently ive been monotoring my system through system panel.
As of now system panel tells me that System Processes is at 5.7% and system at 2.6% The next highest thing is Swype at 0.4% and android.process.acore at 0.2% the rest of the things are at 0.0%
I was thinking that it might be the battery or just the phone itself...
Edit: im sorry idk why the app didnt post all my post <=(
ultrav.icious said:
I know this has probably been asked hundreds of times and I jave searched up and down the forums but have found no fix for my battery problem.
I always have my battery at the dimmest level. Mostly only text, the occasional 5 min phone call and web browse here and there.
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.......and?
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Having your screen use that much (as a percent) isn't necessarily a bad thing. It means that everything else is using minimal power. You also shouldn't be checking your stats for useful info within moments of turning it on. Give it a whole day of use and check again. Your screen will have used less % after a day but it is totally normal for it to be the largest user of power.
So then what could be causing the battery drain?
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So then what could be causing the battery drain?
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How much drain?
You should expect to get 4-5 hours of use from your Vibrant. Total time could range from four hours to several days, which is what you hear people saying in most battery threads. What they often don't state is how much time the phone is actually in use and whether you get 5 hours or 24 hours before you hit 0% battery you probably are using the phone (screen on for anything, or screen off while listening to music or talking.) for 4-5 hours.
So is your phone getting less use then that? If so then you may have some other issue.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848207
The links are very informative
Of actual use, not just standy by I get just about 4 hours. Usually under 4.
And that link looks pretty interesting
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Fast Battery Drain
Bad News Everyone!
I have spent the last 3 days searching here and other forums trying to find out why my battery has been horrible. My battery goes to around 30% after only 3 or 4 hours of very slight use (2 or 3 texts and checking email once).
I have done two complete battery drain to full charge with the phone off the past two days to try and get a better reading.
The history of the drain, at the end of November I rooted and installed RyanZA OCLF, rooted, and lag fixed, no issues. Installed the basics of rooted (busybox, superuser) and SetCPU.
SetCPU presented problems with not coming out of sleep and freezing after reboots. The battery would give about 6 hours of moderate use. I played around with settings, but ultimately removed it and when I did my battery was lasting 3 hours longer with moderate use, facebook, twitter, browser, 20-30 mins of gaming. From 12:00 pm (leaving work) to 9:00 at night (leaving school) with 35-40% left before I got home.
About 4 days ago, my battery was draining very quickly. Wake up, unplug phone at fully charged, get ready for work, grab phone to leave for work and I am down to 90% after only 20 minutes of standby. When it use to have it around 96% by the time I got to work, about an hour with light use. Seeing this problem I went back and looked at updates and apps that I had. The only thing I could think was Launcher Pro, but no one else has reported battery drain issues and it wasnt showing in Battery Info.
In my attempts, I have done the following.
Went from 7 to 3 screens (one widget per screen)
Removed apps and bloatware with Titanium Backup
Doubled checked my account syncs, Facebook once a day, no twitter sync,
Screen brightness at ZERO
2 Battery Resets (fully drained to recharge phone off)
Installed Watchdog to find any heavy mem/cpu users, (none found)
And a crap-load of googling, forum searching (here and cyanogen forums), and I am still getting horrible battery life.
Today for example: Phone completey charged 10:30 am with only 3 texts sent and I am currently at 28% at 3:15. 5 hours of stand-by should not have drained that much battery. No GPS on.
If you have any ideas of what it could be, at this point I have alread bought a new battery, I would love to hear back.
edit: I am running stock rom 2.1-update1
I used to have poor battery life as well on stock 2.1 rom until i flashed the leaked jk6 update. Im now averaging about 25 hrs per charge with my phone pretty much always in use whether its calls, texting, music, gaming, web, movies ect...
Not to mention i also get 3g in places i havent before and faster DLs, less lag... This rom is awesome, i suggest giving it a try..
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dubbz106, thanks for the advice. I have not had a huge desire to flash a new rom because my phone had performed pretty good. But with my G1 I was keeping it alive through cyanogenmods.
I have been moving closer to flashing and this new battery issue my push me to do it.
Can you link the thread for the rom?
Has anyone else had relatively poor battery life? I can barely get through a day of mediocre user and it s saddens me greatly.
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I get about 8-10 hours with moderate use. That includes a bit a Facebook, Internet and texting every hour. Thats good enough for me since im usually not away from a charging port for 8 hours.
If all i do is Facebook and texting then I get about 4-5 hours with it before it goes to 20%.
I recommend to make sure you phone is almost dead, or wait for it to die, put it on the charger for the night while it's OFF. It seamed to help me, another thing i noticed if you have bad signal, you battery will get used A LOT more. i am at 69% after 6 hours and 52 min. display is at 63% so i guess that's moderate use.
Mine starts getting bad after its been on for 5 or 6 days without a reboot.
Don't know if that relates to you guys but it does me
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Moderate use, my up time 44 hours and I still have 30%.
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Moderate use, my up time 44 hours and I still have 30%.
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what is moderate use for you? could you post picture with the graph.
Moderate use for me I mean: played game about 30 min, you tube about 30 min, a few phone calls and texts, xda application used about 20 times , downloaded some applications.
Now you can root (!) and use SetCPU to get longer life via the profile settings.
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Moderate use, my up time 44 hours and I still have 30%.
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Up time does not reset after charges. Some how i doubt you got 44 hours unless it's just been sitting there doing nothing
Make sure wireless network setting is in Sprint Only mode and uncheck the enable always on mobile option. I get through a whole day easy.
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Ok, wanted to gage opinion on what you guys think my battery life is like?
I have recently upgraded to XXKG5 via ODIN - and so far not noticed much difference in battery life compared to before. I am not rooted.
At time of writing 16:45 my battery has 23% left and I took it off charge around 6.30 this morning and was using it from 7.30am. I played music for around 30 mins in morning and watched a video on tube on the way to work for approx 35 mins. At work I listened to music for maybe 90 mins and have been browsing the internet using phandroid app on and off all day.
Wifi is on, 3g is off, I have tasker switch off 3g when wifi connects. It has disconnected from wifi as Ive moved around a fair bit all day too.
Brightness is set to 25% and has been like that all day, except for 10 minutes when I was showing a colleague photos.
No phone calls.
Battery usage is Display - 39% Android os - 28% Cell Standby - 12% Maps - 7% Android System 3%
Update at 18:30 and battery has 4%. I was able to watch around 30 mins of video on the way home. But I would like to get more than 12 hours a day from it.
What do you think ? Is this decent? Should I be getting more? Can I get more?
There are hundred of battery related threads mate.
You don't have to post that much info, just check if you are getting around 5-5½ hours screen on time, if you are, you don't need to ask anything
Regards.
I'm not sure how I can tell from the graph.
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I had a Rezound way back when, I have the Nexus now, bad battery life is no stranger to me, I have an upgrade next month and unless the Note 2 drops in price, I have others to choose from between the DNA, Maxx HD, and SGS3.
Obviously the Maxx wins battery but I'm looking at pure power also, so DNA would win there.
I'm looking through all options currently but I'm starting here.
I want to know a realistic idea of battery life/screen time on for this phone for someone who does not game and mostly does texts, web browsing, tapatalk, Google Now, and very little radio streaming.
Basically is it better than the Nexus?
Thanks.
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My battery life is amazing I was scared of the battery life on this device but after using it for 3weeks I can say I get on average 10-12 hrs of use with about 3-4 hrs on screen time with a little of everything being used such as facebook, YouTube, espn scorecard, Google now, web browsing, and of course the xda app
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I get through a day just fine. Only time I see a bit of a stretch is on a heavier use day followed by a night out. A midday juice up relieves any worry, but you won't be tethered to a wall outlet like some other phones.
A typical day for me:
30 minutes of reading feeds on Google Currents on morning commute, 3-4 hours of music throughout the day, news check over lunch, 30-40 texts/emails during the day, and another 30 on Currents on the commute home. Usually back home with 50-60% left on the battery.
I came from the Rez, too, and was frankly amazed at the battery life on my DNA. It simply lasts twice as long as my Rezound - no kidding.
FWIW, I think there are at least a couple other threads on this same subject.
Since you don't game this phone will last you a day easy. With anywhere from 3-5 hours screen on time.
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I get about the same battery life as I do from my S3, which is about 14 hours on a full charge with 4 hours of on-screen time. Using aqua mail with 3 accounts, 1 gmail, sync is always on, weather updates every hour, about 1 hour of calls and about 30 minutes of killing zombies.
I've been getting battery life similar or slightly greater than my Rezound with an extended battery. Very impressed.
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My DNA has been off the charger for 12 hours and 50 minutes and I'm at 17 percent left... and I'm a pretty heavy user.
After it passes the 50% threshold...or do I have a bad battery. I'll have 3 hours screen on time at 50%. But barely make it to 5 hours screen on time. Was the same way on my s3. Got 2 hours of screen on through the first 50%, barely got 3 hours screen on the last 50%. Noticing the same on this battery. Either the way the phone reads the battery is incorrect or the last half of the battery is messed up
I enjoy the battery very much but I see some people getting 7-8 hours screen on and I'm assuming it's because their batteries don't do what mine does
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I got 5 hours screen on time out of mine with no wakelocks. However my coverage is never in the green it's always just moderate.
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Never understood the big deal why people care so much about screen on time. As long as I can wake up at 4:30am and my phone last me the entire day, which includes texting, phone calls, web browsing, a few emails here and there, listening to some music.....and I can go to sleep at 10:30pm with about 30% battery left, sometimes more, I'm good. I have gone over 24hrs with regular to moderate use a few times. Battery is great in my opinion. I guess people have their own way of judging battery life...
my battery life is killer
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Never understood the big deal why people care so much about screen on time. As long as I can wake up at 4:30am and my phone last me the entire day, which includes texting, phone calls, web browsing, a few emails here and there, listening to some music.....and I can go to sleep at 10:30pm with about 30% battery left, sometimes more, I'm good. I have gone over 24hrs with regular to moderate use a few times. Battery is great in my opinion. I guess people have their own way of judging battery life...
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I agree I'm just curious why my battery dies quickly after it hits 50% I ended up with 5 hours screen on time and about 14 hours off the charger which is good. I'm assuming if the bottom half of the battery didn't die off so quick then thus battery would be even better
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I can easily get 20+ hours with 4-5 hrs screen time with auto brightness. With moderate usage, texting, games, browsing and YouTube.
its definitely something with your phone. i can run this phone with heavy use the whole day and be right around 45% before bed. people talking about extended batteries im like huh?
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its definitely something with your phone. i can run this phone with heavy use the whole day and be right around 45% before bed. people talking about extended batteries im like huh?
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It's all in how you use your phone. Be smart with your brightness, sync settings and charge cycles and you should't have any issues at all. I got over 35 hours on my HTC One by using auto bright and doing light to moderate usage. Everyone will have different results. Also if you are rooted use "Greenify".
I work on 3rd shift (11pm-7am) and I charge my phone when I get home around 830, let it charge to 100% and unplug it before I fall asleep and I am good to go until the next morning.
Think your phone might be messed up.............
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I'm able to go a full day with moderate usage easily. I am very pleased with the battery.
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Starting day 4 and I think the battery is great. No complaints from a moderate to heavy work/social user...
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After it passes the 50% threshold...or do I have a bad battery. I'll have 3 hours screen on time at 50%. But barely make it to 5 hours screen on time. Was the same way on my s3. Got 2 hours of screen on through the first 50%, barely got 3 hours screen on the last 50%. Noticing the same on this battery. Either the way the phone reads the battery is incorrect or the last half of the battery is messed up
I enjoy the battery very much but I see some people getting 7-8 hours screen on and I'm assuming it's because their batteries don't do what mine does
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I think mine might be bad too. I can't seem to get more than 9 hours usage unless i leave it in airplane mode all day. Im going to try returning it on Friday.
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I think mine might be bad too. I can't seem to get more than 9 hours usage unless i leave it in airplane mode all day. Im going to try returning it on Friday.
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My battery is great because of the top 50% last a long time. But once I pass that it seems like it drains fairly quickly. My first note didn't do that. Plus when I unplug my phone, it drops to 98% within 10 minutes of no usage
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phyba said:
My battery is great because of the top 50% last a long time. But once I pass that it seems like it drains fairly quickly. My first note didn't do that. Plus when I unplug my phone, it drops to 98% within 10 minutes of no usage
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Try watching your phone and unplugging at 99%. Its probably dropping to 98% because when your phone reaches 100% it does a trickle charge where it drains a little then charge again. You might be removing it during that cycle.
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nolimit06 said:
Try watching your phone and unplugging at 99%. Its probably dropping to 98% because when your phone reaches 100% it does a trickle charge where it drains a little then charge again. You might be removing it during that cycle.
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Testing today and I'm at 90% after 3 hours and have an hour of screen time. Pretty amazing. yesterday I was at 40 minutes screen time. I also killed the battery off last night. I read it wasn't good, and I read that it was. So far so good. Will run it all day and see how the bottom 50% works today.
This is all on 3g while listening to music
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Mine sucked starting out once I started getting rid of all the bloat sprint packed on here its gotten a lot better
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phyba said:
After it passes the 50% threshold...or do I have a bad battery. I'll have 3 hours screen on time at 50%. But barely make it to 5 hours screen on time. Was the same way on my s3. Got 2 hours of screen on through the first 50%, barely got 3 hours screen on the last 50%. Noticing the same on this battery. Either the way the phone reads the battery is incorrect or the last half of the battery is messed up
I enjoy the battery very much but I see some people getting 7-8 hours screen on and I'm assuming it's because their batteries don't do what mine does
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First day I had it while setting everything up, screen on, apps chugging away... After 6 hours it had only drained 40% from a full charge.
Second day, rooted. Playing with a huge variety of apps to find the right ones for me. 5-6 hours screen time, 5% from a 85% charge. I was however downloading a massive collection of large files over WiFi, that will use a chunk of battery.
Last night I adjusted all my settings to optimize power consumption and improve battery life, installed Greenify and hibernated apps that like to linger after closed. Removed all unnecessary apps and Stopped useless imbedded apps. Will report at the end of the day my results.
So far it seems that the battery life you get out of a stock battery is based on how you use your phone, what you use it for and how long you use it. Turn off any features you're not currently using, such as Bluetooth, GPS, WiFi or put the phone in Airplane Mode when you're not in service so it's not constantly searching for a signal.
I watched half of a 1080p movie with a Bluetooth stereo headset, basic functions running in the background and only dropped 10% (45mins). This AMOLED screen uses much less power than that of my previous phones, the CPU seems to process quickly and efficiently, I would have assumed a 1080p video would use more resources to decode.
Just charged my phone from 40%, I got 21 hrs out of it with 4 hrs screen time, music, texting and general browsing. I will post a screenshot tonight when I get low again.
Oh I also ran Antutu like 10 times showing friends.
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