Hello guys,
My battery lasts for just around 10hrs.
2G is active throughout.
30 mins of surfing.
Some messaging n calling.
Brightness on lowest.
I use whatsapp and facebook app but not throughout the day.
Is it normal or should it last more?
Rajhans said:
Hello guys,
My battery lasts for just around 10hrs.
2G is active throughout.
30 mins of surfing.
Some messaging n calling.
Brightness on lowest.
I use whatsapp and facebook app but not throughout the day.
Is it normal or should it last more?
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Hey, just read the forum, before posting a new thread. You spamming the forum in this way:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1088948
This is quite normal, Calling takes away the biggest chunk of battery life, followed by the screen.
Disable use wireless networks from location and security settings, that should improve battery life significantly. Also make sure that the phone isnt set to auto search for 3g.
thanks very much!!!!
Turn off Background data & u wil save a hell lot of battery. mine gives me a day and half.
VillainROM installed!!!
After installing VillainROM 1.0 and calibrated battery, it goes already 4 days(of course have left only 18% for now). But I´am very fulfilled with that. Before in Froyo and calibrated battery I get only like 2 days. I recommend you to try it(VillainROM 1.0).
CHEERS!
It depends of how much apps are running in background and if you use push notification, 2G or 3G, wifi...
casiocas said:
After installing VillainROM 1.0 and calibrated battery, it goes already 4 days(of course have left only 18% for now). But I´am very fulfilled with that. Before in Froyo and calibrated battery I get only like 2 days. I recommend you to try it(VillainROM 1.0).
CHEERS!
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hi anyone
i have Villainrom 1.0, battery goes very fast!!
how can i calibrate battery?
thanks in advance!
artie3 said:
hi anyone
i have Villainrom 1.0, battery goes very fast!!
how can i calibrate battery?
thanks in advance!
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You can get it here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1102602
ENJOY!
My galaxy ace is just three days old yesterday i installed the battery calibrator and then removed the bin file used the phone till it died, then with the phone off kept it for charging and went to sleep got up after 7 hours, still my battery sucks
1 hour of drag racing ( brightness lowest + data off)
1 hour facebook ebuddy etc again brightness lowest
voice calls 15 mins
20 text sms
and the battery is at 7 % isnt this really bad please help me shall I visit the svc center!!!!
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You can get it here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1102602
ENJOY!
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thank you very much!
installing and trying!
artie3 said:
thank you very much!
installing and trying!
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You welcome! Its worked for me very well.
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Hey guys,
what rom have the best battery life?
any fav?
and
are there any tricks or tipps to improve the battery life?
Greetz
Jonas
I think its the firmware 1.5, sensehero / modaco!
arjuunz said:
I think its the firmware 1.5, sensehero / modaco!
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Yes... none of the 2.1 ROMs currently provide long battery life times. I believe that one of the chefs said it was because of the kernel and that it won't be fixed until HTC releases or leaks an official Hero kernel for Android 2.1.
However it also depends on what you think would be a good/adequate battery life.
Personally I charge every night so as long as the phone lasts circa 24 hours it is fine with me.
All 1.5 based roms should give you battery life over 24 hours even with everything turned on.
as for tips:
-turn of wifi when not using it
-turn of mobile internet when not using it
-turn of gps
-always put phone in sleep mode (end button) when not using it
- screen time out turned low
- backlight on low
- kill tasks that run in background
- don't have a bright wallpaper
Just depends how extreme you want to go
I have a decent battery life on the rom I am on (see sig) and I use a brightish wallpaper and auto backlight but always turn wifi off when out of the house.
Flashing a new radio file can also help battery life.
Edit: with a bit of use I have lost 5% in the last 8 hours on my phone today
Mhm too bad i like to use 2.1
Does 2.1 Roms drain the battery so much more?
Battery life is very important for me...
I am running the original Rom and i had to charge my hero every night, too.
But one day is okay...
Thank you for your tipps (bright wallpapers *lol*, but it make sense^^)
So what are you fav. 1.5 roms?
Greetz
Jonas
P.s. Does HTC want to upgrade the hero to 2.1 ??? Would be awesome...any dates?
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Mhm too bad i like to use 2.1
Does 2.1 Roms drain the battery so much more?
Battery life is very important for me...
I am running the original Rom and i had to charge my hero every night, too.
But one day is okay...
Thank you for your tipps (bright wallpapers *lol*, but it make sense^^)
So what are you fav. 1.5 roms?
Greetz
Jonas
P.s. Does HTC want to upgrade the hero to 2.1 ??? Would be awesome...any dates?
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indication is yes they are updating to 2.1 however they have not released any official confirmation of when.
rumors are March and/or April, but don't hold your breath
SenseHero 1.6 is awesome 1.5 ROM
Also it uses a nice theme, and can last for more than a day
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indication is yes they are updating to 2.1 however they have not released any official confirmation of when.
rumors are March and/or April, but don't hold your breath
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Latest rumour says end of April
To me BeHero has the best battery life of the 2.1 roms and Villain had the worst (the life would literally go from 100% to 50% in 4hrs and I barely touched the phone).
HomerSp said:
To me BeHero has the best battery life of the 2.1 roms and Villain had the worst (the life would literally go from 100% to 50% in 4hrs and I barely touched the phone).
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See I am on Villain and have been on every version of it and never had battery life that bad, and VillainRom 3.4 is very good battery life.
Lennyuk said:
See I am on Villain and have been on every version of it and never had battery life that bad, and VillainRom 3.4 is very good battery life.
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Yeah, must be something else, though I'm not sure what.
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Yeah, must be something else, though I'm not sure what.
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I put on 3.4 yesterday and ya my battery life was terrible. The only thing is that I hadn't ever updated my radio. Now instead of it being dead within 4-5 hours I've gone over a dozen and my battery is down to 45%, which is pretty good for me. I'm a pretty data intensive with my phone.
if you want to test the battery life, test it 2 days or more!, because the first day every rom(almost..) is draining fast, because then it needs to set up everything etc(idk excactly why)
incomer said:
if you want to test the battery life, test it 2 days or more!, because the first day every rom(almost..) is draining fast, because then it needs to set up everything etc(idk excactly why)
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i agree...using 3.4...i feel the battery is not all that bad..(yes not as good as 1.5) but just about manageble..
if anyone has any more tips please let us know
Lennyuk said:
However it also depends on what you think would be a good/adequate battery life.
Personally I charge every night so as long as the phone lasts circa 24 hours it is fine with me.
All 1.5 based roms should give you battery life over 24 hours even with everything turned on.
as for tips:
-turn of wifi when not using it
-turn of mobile internet when not using it
-turn of gps
-always put phone in sleep mode (end button) when not using it
- screen time out turned low
- backlight on low
- kill tasks that run in background
- don't have a bright wallpaper
Just depends how extreme you want to go
I have a decent battery life on the rom I am on (see sig) and I use a brightish wallpaper and auto backlight but always turn wifi off when out of the house.
Flashing a new radio file can also help battery life.
Edit: with a bit of use I have lost 5% in the last 8 hours on my phone today
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Wow I find it very hard to believe that you only lost 5% battery in the last 8 hours with little use...do you have mobile data on or off?
Even with no use at all I can never get 5% decrease in 8 hours, regardless of whether its a 1.5 or 2.1 ROM. I keep my mobile data on all day and night and with no use at all i lose like 20% battery life in 4 hours.
If you want 2.1 firmware with good battery life, go foe BeHero_v1.3.2, I am using it without any trouble!
aziz831 said:
Wow I find it very hard to believe that you only lost 5% battery in the last 8 hours with little use...do you have mobile data on or off?
Even with no use at all I can never get 5% decrease in 8 hours, regardless of whether its a 1.5 or 2.1 ROM. I keep my mobile data on all day and night and with no use at all i lose like 20% battery life in 4 hours.
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Trust me I was not lying I have no reason too.
Will report on what it does today.
Yesterday I had mobile internet mainly off but turned it off at certain times of the day.
So far today (3 hours since fully charged)
-wifi for about an hour
-use wifi things during that time (seesmic and News Rob mainly)
- bluetooth for 45 mins (journey to work)
- mobile internet for about 40 mins
- downloaded an app and tested it (used barcode scanner to scan a barcode (twice) and go to the download link)
- synced emails
- sent a text
- mobile internet now off and back asleep
And a reboot as my connection was lost for some strange reason
lost 2%
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So far today (3 hours since fully charged)
-wifi for about an hour
-use wifi things during that time (seesmic and News Rob mainly)
- bluetooth for 45 mins (journey to work)
- mobile internet for about 40 mins
- downloaded an app and tested it
- synced emails
- sent a text
- mobile internet now off and back asleep
And a reboot as my connection was lost for some strange reason
lost 2%
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i can only say that perhaps ur battery is a special one..
i cant even get half of that with 1.5 rom (with the same usage)..i will surely lost like 10% with that kinda usage on phone..
no offense..but..unbelievable...
my current setting :
GPS , WIFI & Bluetooth off..
brightness around 15%
dark wallpaper..
mobile internet on when browsing needed
@aziz831
Lennyuk´s battery consumption is real. My battery would last 216 hours just in idle. But that would mean just asleep and waiting for a call.
I use WiFi 18/7, I have in that time mobile data enabled, I have a brown wallpaper and my backlight is on lowest level (but I can still see everything). My average loss is 1-1,5 % a hour if I´m in idle with all this enabled. Over night I do disable WiFi and auto sync, that saves a lot of power.
My average time of usage with one load is about 80-96 hours.
Is there anyway to put the Touchpad to sleep?
The battery is drain 5 to 10% just sitting there with screen shut.
Thanks.
You aren't giving a whole lot of context with your post. 5-10% per....? Hour? Day? Minute?
Mine came to work with me and wasn't plugged in. 10 hours later when I got home I was still at 85% battery. Not fantastic, but certainly tolerable.
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Sorry. 5 to 10% per hour.
So is there a way to put it to sleep? I fully charged it the other day, was gone for two days and it completely drained when I checked just now. iPad is at 70% since I last used it 3 weeks ago.
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Sorry. 5 to 10% per hour.
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I would say that's definitely not normal. Did you make any changes to govnah? I'm using the Warthog kernel at 1.7ghz and left my TP in my bag all day at work. Total of 14 hours away from a charger and was still at 95% battery this evening.
Are you near WiFi where it's checking email or other apps that check for updates?
5 - 10% per hour is not normal. I've been using my touchpad since I came home from work so approximately 6 hours. It was on the charger, turned off before I came home. I have applied the kill logging patches, and all the common speed up patches, and am running the latest F4 Phantom kernel that was released today with an OC to 1.728 GHz. My WiFi is always on but my BT is not. My battery dropped 14% over that time period, or just over 2% an hour (with irregular use, not just sitting there).
Have you done all the patches in Preware and what not?
this is exactly why I wished we had a program that could read battery consumption
i have applied the common patches in preware but not overclocked.
my TP is now lying the 2nd day on my desktop with no app running and in standby. just looked and it shows still 100% (that might not be true, will be smth. >90% imho).
the problem is: what is running on your touchpad? when you have twitter/facebook and stuff running its like pn the smartphones draining your battery.
and when you use it all time the touchscreen needs alot battery, too.
have you tried changing the wifi sleep settings in the WiFi settings panel?
there's two options for it:
keeping it on all the time (even when the screen is off)
turn it off when the screen sleeps
I've found that setting it to the latter improves battery life
could be the solution to your woes,
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5 - 10% per hour is not normal. I've been using my touchpad since I came home from work so approximately 6 hours. It was on the charger, turned off before I came home. I have applied the kill logging patches, and all the common speed up patches, and am running the latest F4 Phantom kernel that was released today with an OC to 1.728 GHz. My WiFi is always on but my BT is not. My battery dropped 14% over that time period, or just over 2% an hour (with irregular use, not just sitting there).
Have you done all the patches in Preware and what not?
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wow that sounds amazing! i'm a very new webOS user (since yesterday), would you mind sharing all the patches and tell me exactly what and how to do everything that you did to get such great results?
much appreciated thanks!
erick161 said:
this is exactly why I wished we had a program that could read battery consumption
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Try DRBattery from preware, its an older app, but works to track the battery
Bluetooth - Battery Drain
charlieben said:
have you tried changing the wifi sleep settings in the WiFi settings panel?
there's two options for it:
keeping it on all the time (even when the screen is off)
turn it off when the screen sleeps
I've found that setting it to the latter improves battery life
could be the solution to your woes,
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Thanks! I changed the WiFi settings to turn off when screen sleeps. I had a big drain in sleep mode.
My question is about Bluetooth in sleep mode. Is the only option to manually turn it off when not in use? I am using Motorola Android Bluetooth keyboard and Sony Bluetooth headset. Using this keyboard now to type this. Have my headset physically turned off. Since headset is shown in normal while keyboard is bold, does that help with battery drain?
Wait so there is no standby or sleep mode? I changed the wifi setting to turn off and that helped battery drain a little. I don't have email setup or any im programs at all. With the screen off it drained about 25-30% in 5 hours of doing nothing.
striker199 said:
Wait so there is no standby or sleep mode? I changed the wifi setting to turn off and that helped battery drain a little. I don't have email setup or any im programs at all. With the screen off it drained about 25-30% in 5 hours of doing nothing.
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That seems like a lot. Mine with email/wifi left on seems to use about 5% to 10% a day.
Are you still on the first/second charge? I've noticed my battery life improving a lot after the first few charges.
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Sorry. 5 to 10% per hour.
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Something's wrong with yours. Mine's nothing like that. Are you using an app for measurement or how are you coming up with these numbers?
striker199 said:
Wait so there is no standby or sleep mode? I changed the wifi setting to turn off and that helped battery drain a little. I don't have email setup or any im programs at all. With the screen off it drained about 25-30% in 5 hours of doing nothing.
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Are both your cores accidentally overclocked all the time?
I have all the tweaks, 1.7 OC, wifi always on / never sleep, and my battery doesn't drop at all overnight.
seboj said:
Are both your cores accidentally overclocked all the time?
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I did the log patches, and have the F15C Eagle Kernel. Govnah shows both at 1.7, then 432MHz when idle. Sorry I'm still new obviously.
Hi guys
I've been playing around with my galaxy s3 for several days and I'm very pleased.
But one thing is still very annoying as a previous iphone owner. That's the battery life.
I just attached a screenshot. For 9 hours 12% drains during sleeping thus basically screen has turned on for only few mins.
Is it normal??
Wanna hear you guys opinion.
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jorkobe23 said:
Hi guys
I've been playing around with my galaxy s3 for several days and I'm very pleased.
But one thing is still very annoying as a previous iphone owner. That's the battery life.
I just attached a screenshot. For 9 hours 12% drains during sleeping thus basically screen has turned on for only few mins.
Is it normal??
Wanna hear you guys opinion.
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Hello,
i don't think is normal here is my use over night.
It's without sync and wlan, with sync and wlan it takes 2-3%
If you turn off wifi, data and GPS and put the phone on energy saving mode (its on the top bar menu, just drop it down and you will see it) then after 8 hours the phone is almost 0% drain.
m33ts4k0z said:
If you turn off wifi, data and GPS and put the phone on energy saving mode (its on the top bar menu, just drop it down and you will see it) then after 8 hours the phone is almost 0% drain.
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Thats correct. It seems like for most people its the cellular data that is killing the battery. If I turn off 3G data, I get good battery as well but with cellular data turned on, battery will not last a day.
yuhaohuang said:
Thats correct. It seems like for most people its the cellular data that is killing the battery. If I turn off 3G data, I get good battery as well but with cellular data turned on, battery will not last a day.
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I use "tasker" to switch on the sync only every 30min for 3min. Like this I have ~ 50-60% left in the evening.
Thank you guys!! I'll test it out today
I'm going to turn everything off such as wifi, sync..
I don't use 3g often though. I'm a pretty heavy user like 4-5 hours screen on and I get 14-15 hours battery life.
Anyway I'll see how it will affect on my battery.
Thanks!
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I actually just tested this over night. Wlan and sync off but 3G on, it drained only 4% during night. My old iphone 4 drained only 2% in the same conditions. However, I find 4% acceptable.
Am envious to those who managed to use their phone for more than a day. I bought this phone for about 2 weeks now and have done the normal full charge for 8 hours on the first time. Since then, I have fully charged twice and let the battery gone flat once. I have flashed Neutrino rom and currently Latveyit rom, and the battery last best 12 hours so far.
I charged the phone to 94% at about 7pm and just made two calls and two text messages. I did a navigation on maps for about 15mins max. By about 11pm, battery is at 57%, I play some games for about 10mins and went to bed, in the morning it's about 35%. I realise that the first 50% really goes fast and after that it's pretty decent until less than 20% and it drains fast again. Background application I have are the normal chat programs, whatsapp, viber, kakaotalk, skype and ebuddy. I have waze running in the background although I think it shuts off after 15mins. I have a mix of wifi and 3g usage, usually on wifi though. Is this normal?
edit: I also have Lookout antivirus running
All your chat programs running in the back ground prevent your device to sleep correctly, they wake it up every time they check if there is a new message.
Try to keep only the apps you use and try for each app to increase the check delay or disable it.
The antivirus does help.
2 weeks is a bit early to make a comment about the battery.
Download Battericalibration from the market and use it every shift rom change.
Read about topic on the forum but not become a maniac in "battery life".
If the screen stays lit for 5-7 hours the battery will be empty in like 7-8 hours. If you only speak 1 hour at it the battery will be empty in 3 days.
All depends on how you use it!
Sorry for bad english.
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clod007 said:
2 weeks is a bit early to make a comment about the battery.
Download Battericalibration from the market and use it every shift rom change.
Read about topic on the forum but not become a maniac in "battery life".
If the screen stays lit for 5-7 hours the battery will be empty in like 7-8 hours. If you only speak 1 hour at it the battery will be empty in 3 days.
All depends on how you use it!
Sorry for bad english.
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I thought that the chat programs will only cause problems if there are frequent messages since they're base on push?
2 weeks is early? How does that affect the battery's performance? I thought when it's new, it's most optimum and slowly degrades through time? The screen was off most of the time unless I was doing anything I mentioned or just checking the time which is just on, check then off. I don't think I am paranoid over the battery life, just curious how to get it over a day.
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I thought that the chat programs will only cause problems if there are frequent messages since they're base on push?
2 weeks is early? How does that affect the battery's performance? I thought when it's new, it's most optimum and slowly degrades through time? The screen was off most of the time unless I was doing anything I mentioned or just checking the time which is just on, check then off. I don't think I am paranoid over the battery life, just curious how to get it over a day.
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In my opinion the battery reaches her max in 3-4 weeks.
Download the app from the market and use it after every rom change.
I didn't called you paranoic, just that you mustn't be so worried.
My recomandation for a longer battery life is CM7.
GOOD DAY!
Read forum for more details.
Sorry for my english!
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You might try 1Ghz faux kernels as well. They seemed to have helped my battery life considerably.
Chek out what apps you have running in the background and be sure you set youre network yourself (my phone was always changing from 2g to 3g and after i selected the network myself it gave me a 1day + boost .
And you shoud know that the litium polimer batteryes are affected by cold temperatures.
I wish you luck!
I did use cm7 (neutrino) and got about the same battery life span as the current rom (laytveyit), and am currently on the faux 1ghz kernel. Anyway, I will see how it performance in the weeks to come and hopefully the newer version of the rom will improve it. I thought cold temperature helps preserve the battery's life span?
EDIT: Thanks for all the advice!
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Am envious to those who managed to use their phone for more than a day. I bought this phone for about 2 weeks now and have done the normal full charge for 8 hours on the first time. Since then, I have fully charged twice and let the battery gone flat once. I have flashed Neutrino rom and currently Latveyit rom, and the battery last best 12 hours so far.
I charged the phone to 94% at about 7pm and just made two calls and two text messages. I did a navigation on maps for about 15mins max. By about 11pm, battery is at 57%, I play some games for about 10mins and went to bed, in the morning it's about 35%. I realise that the first 50% really goes fast and after that it's pretty decent until less than 20% and it drains fast again. Background application I have are the normal chat programs, whatsapp, viber, kakaotalk, skype and ebuddy. I have waze running in the background although I think it shuts off after 15mins. I have a mix of wifi and 3g usage, usually on wifi though. Is this normal?
edit: I also have Lookout antivirus running
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Lol all those chats are you problem imo
The "standard" apps used to figure out what's eating your batteries are:
BetterBatteryStats: for wakelocks
CpuSpy: to tell if you phone is going into deep sleep or not
Built in Battery Usage: to see a pretty graph and tell what's using the most juice
SystemTuner: I just recently started playing with this, lots of information.
Look up BetterBatteryStats here up XDA. There's plenty of threads on how to use it. Look up wakelocks.
Hello! 1st sorry if this has been awnsered before.
Very briefly, my phone only lasts about 150 hours on standby ( 1% drain in about an hour or little more )
Ive searched everywhere and couldnt find an anwser. Im familiar with the case of the xml profile or what its called xD and its not the case
Specially considering that otherwise the phone works perfectly ( I get about 4 to 6 screen hours on 3G using facebook, browsing, various games, etc ) I have also watched a 1h 26 minutes film on max brightness and only drained 20 %
But the standby battery is not what it used to be. When I 1st got the phone, I unplugged it at 7am and it stayed at 100% till like 2pm, delivering the claimed 700 hours of standby time
Now, I unplug it at 7am and by 11am its at 97 with 0 use at all ( I kill all apps and wifi and only check the time every other hour lol )
I didnt flash it or install a custom ROM, using ADW launcher now,but this happened before I tried a new launcher. I have used battery stats app thingie, it said facebook drained the battery, uninstalled it, same thing. Only thing I can think of is my apps parafernalha ( Nearly 9 GB occupied of the 11 available lol )
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
Yes your post answered multiple times .
Download and run Better Battery Stats as your starting point .
You are looking for wakelocks that keep the phone awake .
jje
Wow, and I thought my battery life was OK until I saw this
I get about 96 hours with nothing running on background, I will try to improve it now.
Tormeister said:
Wow, and I thought my battery life was OK until I saw this
I get about 96 hours with nothing running on background, I will try to improve it now.
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Turn it off
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Turn it off
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Wow, my battery life just increased by many months by doing that :silly:
No, seriously now. I care about standby consumption because it takes away what could be some hours of useful usage when you're around, it only makes sense trying to improve it.
Turn off auto-sync, disable location services, low brightness, power saving mode, airplane mode when not using, delete apps you don't use, don't use messaging apps, etc.. And keep your screen off
I downloaded BBS and Ill leave it idle over night, see what it does