Idk anyone having a problem with the battery life on atrix. I have juice defender and autokiller (the one suggested by juice defender) and my battery just drains away and away. Thnx
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I was having horrible battery life until I cleared the battery stats using tenfars cwm. Charge it full and clear the stats. Get an extra 6 or more hours off my device
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Drains away and away like how many hours?
Mine can last for a day with moderate use.
Be careful with task killers because they can sometimes close apps that will start again by themselves thus consuming cpu/power in the process.
What battery mode are you using?
I use maximum battery saver
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Hey marko how do I do that....just plug into a AC charger? And go into cwm and erase it that way?
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Hey rayan I would say I'm losing 2-3 hrs since I used tenfar rom.....and the only task killer I'm using right now is smart task killer...what gets me is none of the running apps show up I. It even after I kill them once and start them again and I don't see them Come back up
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I was having issues with my battery life at idle to. Had them for two weeks.
Then finally my SD card reformatted itself and I did some searching here and found this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1085214&highlight=internal+gingerbreak+deleted
Basically gingerbreak not only deletes the SD card but leaves it inconsistent. So for me it left a little timebomb that eventually got itself reformatted by the phone itself.
It took a long time b4 I saw anything odd other than higher than normal phone idle CPU usage. As high or higher than display if I wasn't using the phone much.
Finally 2 days ago I started getting random errors when trying to install things from market about not enogh free space. Then blam internal sd card reformat.
After I did a full (not quick) internal sd format from windows mounted usb drive I have awesome battery usage today. Phone idle CPU is WAY down. Now display is the primary power suck. As it should be!!
Note that have purchased systempanel and the historical CPU usage did NOT help me find this issue.
I guess I would have never saw it if the OS didn't just decide to reformat it.
Good luck!
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Hopefully w/o starting another debate on this I can say that many people, including myself, advise against using a task killer on the Atrix! Instead use Watchdog.
I frigging love u guys so much......thnx everyone
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Hopefully w/o starting another debate on this I can say that many people, including myself, advise against using a task killer on the Atrix! Instead use Watchdog.
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I tried Watchdog, but it ended up being the greatest battery hog behind Android System and Display. I figured it wasn't worth it.
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I tried Watchdog, but it ended up being the greatest battery hog behind Android System and Display. I figured it wasn't worth it.
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Not sure what setting you are using but it doesnt even register on my battery use stats, ever. I set it to moderate and didnt change any other settings.
Im curious what settings were you using.?
Have you tried "Battery Calibration"? I was getting 8 to 9 hours with heavy use, rooted and then used "Battery Calibration" and now I can easily get 15+ plus hours of heavy use. I use emulators, PowerAmp, have auto brightness on and no juice defender and am still getting great battery life. Highly recommend it!
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Ok so I've been searching and searching for something to fix this suck ass battery life. I've removed home from my apps. I've done everything.. I see that idle is at 80%, idk what else to do..
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Have you tried fresh install. Sbf back to stock then rooting again. I keep my battery settings on performance, didnt remove much bloat, just the crap games and kindle. Also get poor service which kills battery little but I only have a 20% idle and 5% cell standby. Also I calibrated my battery to help a little with the app and by charging all the way and wiping battery stats in recovery. If none pf that help dont know what else will but someone might.
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There's a couple threads on this same forum with the same issue. You might look at some of the suggestions there. When you upgraded, did you use the pre-root, sbf, factory reset, do it at full battery, etc.?
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No solution yet. I've found this issue in threads for a lot of other phones that received 2.3.3 update.
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battery calibration as well as bloat freezing took my 24 hours or less lasting gingerbread and made it go about 4 days now on a full charge with no worries on moderate use (not playing youtube videos for 3 hours straight)
Is 38% an acceptable percentage for Phone Idle after 18 hours? It's the #1 battery user on the list.
Well I had horrible battery with 2.2.2 so its the same crap for me. I might as well do ANOTHER battery calibration or just keep killing the battery and charging for a bit. I just did that for the first time since getting GB today so lets see how that goes. It doesn't seem to die from standbye that fast like others say but just simple things like texting.
What all did you freeze?
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I must have a very good battery. Running OTA GB. I unplug it from the charger at 0600 and don't plug in until 2230 at night. Charge is only down between 60% & 70%. Wi-fi is off most of the time but I do run BT all day. I get 4-7 phone calls that can last up to 10-20 minutes at a time, average number of apps running including the usual bloat.
How did u do it?
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And what is BT?
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How did u do it?
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After I got the phone, I used it stock for a bit. then rooted it with Gingerbreak. Ran Titanium *Root and backed up most of the items on the bloat list posted elsewhere. I uninstalled a couple but then decided I needed to get it back to stock as Gingerbread was rumored to be just around the corner. I SBF'd the phone per instructions in these forums. The SBF restored the APKs I had uninstalled. I took the OTA when it came out and my battery life is good. No scripts, nothing special installed. Two apps I recommend are Advanced Task Killer and Superbox - both from Market. I see roughly 125-140mb free memory with caches emptied.
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Ok so I've been searching and searching for something to fix this suck ass battery life. I've removed home from my apps. I've done everything.. I see that idle is at 80%, idk what else to do..
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idle at 80% is a good thing. The idle statistic means your phone is using the least amount of energy possible. 80% idle in the battery manager means 80% of the time your phone is turned on it's using only the minimum amount of power required to stay powered up.
Those percentages don't mean it's using 80%, it's a "time in state" percentage.
If android system or a user app is 80% then you have a problem.
As stated in previous posts, if you truly have battery drain (less than 15 hours on a standard battery) check out the main thread on battery issues in gingerbread.
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Ok so im quite new to android so im not 100% on the ins and outs on how what uses what battery and when.
Im running skyrom v9 and my battery was crap. To be honest its never been good. So i tried speedmod kernel and still got the same results.
Now iv disabled lockscreen widget and seems my battery is much better so iv put it down to that been the killer.
Iv read some people are using this app with no issues. My friend tried it with the same rom and kernel as me and it was fine.
Question is are these phones like performance independent? Like will each device act and behave differently to different thing or shud one sgs2 be the same as another sgs2 that is set up the same?
Long winded but i got there
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They're mass produced, they should be exactly the same. There may be really really slight performance differences. And tiny differences in screen quality. But this may depend on the batch.
What would be the case most likely would be the fact that you have a faulty battery. But it seems you were able to fix most of your problems by getting rid of an app.
There's a lot of things influencing battery life, dude! Every little thing you do and use can get the juice sucked dry in a couple of hours.
I thought as much. Just seemed odd. And although getting rid of that app seemed to work, its now gone back to its useual gonna die soon self. Gonna try another battery i think.
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In a way they are all different .
Different users with different apps and settings plus a different and varied level of user intelligence . That means phone A can be poor for user ZZ but give it to user YY and its working well .
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Well only thing i have left to try is battery. Im just waiting for my other to charge then i will swap and test it. Best i have had my battery is loosing 10% an hour. Which imo is a bad crack.
When i go to my battery stats it says cirtain apps are using x%. Some of the apps iv never ran. And some like maps for example is using battery. I stop the maps app and still its using battery. Why?
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Well only thing i have left to try is battery. Im just waiting for my other to charge then i will swap and test it. Best i have had my battery is loosing 10% an hour. Which imo is a bad crack.
When i go to my battery stats it says cirtain apps are using x%. Some of the apps iv never ran. And some like maps for example is using battery. I stop the maps app and still its using battery. Why?
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If your battery is cracked get it replaced under warranty as battery have a much shorter warranty .
better battery stats .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
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djmaz said:
Well only thing i have left to try is battery. Im just waiting for my other to charge then i will swap and test it. Best i have had my battery is loosing 10% an hour. Which imo is a bad crack.
When i go to my battery stats it says cirtain apps are using x%. Some of the apps iv never ran. And some like maps for example is using battery. I stop the maps app and still its using battery. Why?
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A good test is to stick it in flight mode and shut down as many apps as you possibly can. Then just leave it in standby for a couple of hours. You should really only lose 1-2% of your battery. If you do then you know something on the phone is responsible and you can start looking for and freezing the suspects.
I've had mine in standby for about 9 hours now (since I unplugged it) and it's at 91%, after only a few texts and emails. That's with data on most of the time and a little wifi earlier. I'm on 2.3.5 and KH3.
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A good test is to stick it in flight mode and shut down as many apps as you possibly can. Then just leave it in standby for a couple of hours. You should really only lose 1-2% of your battery. If you do then you know something on the phone is responsible and you can start looking for and freezing the suspects.
I've had mine in standby for about 9 hours now (since I unplugged it) and it's at 91%, after only a few texts and emails. That's with data on most of the time and a little wifi earlier. I'm on 2.3.5 and KH3.
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Thats some spot on advice there. Ill give it ago and see what happens. Cheerz bud
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The phone is the same, it really is all in the user settings and usage styles. If you want to prove this, just reflash any ROM and kernel (they are not that different) and do a full wipe of the phone. Don't set up a Google account or any email accounts or install any launchers/apps/widgets. Use a plain black background/lockscreen. Just use the phone, SMS and other stock apps for a while. You should be getting around 3 days or more of battery life with moderate usage.
I've gotten 3+ days of battery life before, but nowadays I get less than 1 day. So when I read that other people are getting great battery life, it's not because their phone is different than mine. It's because I need to use Exchange for my office email, or because I want to run a certain widget, or have some extra notifications, etc. So all you can do is keep experimenting, updating, etc. until you find a combination that works well for you.
I was hoping some of you guys could recommend some decent battery saving apps for me? Right now i'm using "easy battery saver" which is alright but not really gettin the job I need done, done. Thanks in advance
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Never use them. I set screen off profiles with set cpu and probably get 30% more battery. Battery saver apps run in background hence still using battery.
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Never use them. I set screen off profiles with set cpu and probably get 30% more battery. Battery saver apps run in background hence still using battery.
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Good point lol thanks for the advice!
Anytime bro, happy flashin an hit the thanks!
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The only one I have ever used is battery calibration......
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Been using Juice Defender. Was a bit touchy for a while, but has been pretty solid for roughly the last 6mo... The extra features you get with the "Ultimate" paid key are IMO, worth the few bucks, but you should give the free version a try first just to see if it helps. (Everyone has different use-patterns and JD can't help everyone's phone the same amount).
I also use SetCpu. I crank the upper speed down to about 768mhz and only rarely do I miss the extra zip, but it adds several hours to my battery...
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Battery Calibration is all I've ever used. The apps like Juice Defender are gimmicks now, they stopped being a feasible way to save battery after the same caching and app killing schemes were put directly into android. If anything battery saving apps kill your battery life now.
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Battery Calibration is all I've ever used. The apps like Juice Defender are gimmicks now, they stopped being a feasible way to save battery after the same caching and app killing schemes were put directly into android. If anything battery saving apps kill your battery life now.
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Juice Defender has nothing to do with "caching and app killing". You might want to take a better look at what it really does before you start making pronouncements...
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I use Set CPU profiles and JuiceDefender. Spend the time setting up JuiceDefender for your needs. I easily go 2 full days without plugging in.
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Juice Defender has nothing to do with "caching and app killing".
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Most of what JD does is to turn off the mobile data or WiFi radios when the screen is off. It turns them back on at regular intervals to sync apps. It does a ton of other things too, but caching and app killing are not among those features.
It also uses VERY little CPU. You can see this if you take a look at the CPU usage stats by process.
I been running cm7 for about two months. And idk y the battery life has gotten a lot worse the past week or two! At first it was good I'm trying to figure out y its gotten so bad now. I checked the battery stats and nothing really sticks out as a battery hog (nothing not normal) . Any suggestions of what I can do?
Mine seems to be the same. Have you added any new mods or apps?
I've only added one new app. Draw something.
I've been thinking about trying the mash up mod to see if it helps.
Yeah. New thread old topic. Lol. Battery saver, juice defender....
Cyanogenmod
Thanx. I've tried some stuff like that b4. Don't really like em. and not really the answer I was looking for. Maybe I worded it wrong. But what I was trying to ask is y is the battery life suddenly so much worse. For the first month and a half battery life was great now its sux!
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I been running cm7 for about two months. And idk y the battery life has gotten a lot worse the past week or two! At first it was good I'm trying to figure out y its gotten so bad now. I checked the battery stats and nothing really sticks out as a battery hog (nothing not normal) . Any suggestions of what I can do?
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Are you doing anything different with the phone as far as using an app a lot more than before? Definitely playing games will chew up battery life.
Have you left something on, like Blue-Tooth, etc? I know GPS doesn't really eat up battery life as it only is used when an app uses it.
Have you investigated the new app to see what it does? Is that when you saw the battery life start to go down?
Nothing out of the normal. I am a heavy user. And I don't play games that often. But I found out last nite in spare parts that Facebook is not letting my phone sleep like it should when not in use. I definitely think this is the prob. Imma turn off the refresh completely see if it helps. Thanx
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It that isn't the problem idk what it is. Cause nothing has changed. The app draw something isn't running all the time either.
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I am not currently running Cyanogenmod but I did for a long while. When I was I got great battery life with it constantly. My advice to you would be to wipe and reflash CM7 making sure you wipe dalvik and cache. If that doesn't do you justice, personally I'd SBF and have a super clean redo. And one quick thing, I would never use a "Battery Saving" app, they really aren't the greatest. Each phone is different and I don't believe a single app is capable of saving your battery without some drawbacks. Good luck!
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did you happen to update Google maps?
for some reason the newest version keeps holding a wake lock for network location, I uninstall updates on it AMD turn off vzw location and now it doesn't run constantly
I used the app, better battery stats to see what was causing the phone to wake so often from sleep, when idle
it didn't show in the stock battery stats tho
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I don't play draw something, but doesn't that refresh in background also or does it only connect when you open it?
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The draw something app doesn't have notifications or anything. I don't think it runs in the background. It shows nothing of it in the battery stats.
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Do you have 'Allow Purging of Assets' enabled?
Settings/ Cm settings / Performance Settings
Then check the box. It functions kind of like (and im being loose) an app killer and really does make a difference.
Just recently, I got rid of my battery saver and task killer and I swear to god my battery life has doubled; it's been fantastic.
Ive also got the Mash Up mod going, which if I might add, really clears up data problems and makes it noticeably faster.
I've seen a lot of users' postings of battery statistics (screen shots) and they are all considerably better than what I am getting. The biggest difference I see is in the amount of battery drain from "Android System." What I see posted is between 9% and 13%. However, my batt stats show the Android System draining 60% of the battery.
So, what am I doing wrong? I'm still kind of new to Android. Is it the widgets? I've checked running processes verses what apps are draining battery life and nothing is running that drains like the system does.
Further info: I am currently running the 7.18.12 build of Diet ICS, but I was seeing this behavior on stock as well. Some widgets I use: Astrid premium tasks widget, Evernote, doubletwist, slacker, 3D clock/weather, a widgetsoid switcher, and APW Calendar.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
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How much screen on time over how long and what kind of use?
60% is high but there's known bugs in android OS reporting.
I'm asking because you we're saying your new. It takes a lot of power to power this 4.8 screen
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natefish said:
I've seen a lot of users' postings of battery statistics (screen shots) and they are all considerably better than what I am getting. The biggest difference I see is in the amount of battery drain from "Android System." What I see posted is between 9% and 13%. However, my batt stats show the Android System draining 60% of the battery.
So, what am I doing wrong? I'm still kind of new to Android. Is it the widgets? I've checked running processes verses what apps are draining battery life and nothing is running that drains like the system does.
Further info: I am currently running the 7.18.12 build of Diet ICS, but I was seeing this behavior on stock as well. Some widgets I use: Astrid premium tasks widget, Evernote, doubletwist, slacker, 3D clock/weather, a widgetsoid switcher, and APW Calendar.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
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How often do your widgets that gather info refresh? Try scaling down on some widgets and see if that helps. If not, try to flash stock with odin and start over. I was having some problems with my phone when I first got it (MTP specifically) and I falshed stock and everything started working fine. Also, if you are using Google Chrome, make sure you have the experimental feature of using the gyroscope for tilt scrolling set to off....it is known to drain battery.
Hope this helps :good:
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How often do your widgets that gather info refresh? Try scaling down on some widgets and see if that helps. If not, try to flash stock with odin and start over. I was having some problems with my phone when I first got it (MTP specifically) and I falshed stock and everything started working fine. Also, if you are using Google Chrome, make sure you have the experimental feature of using the gyroscope for tilt scrolling set to off....it is known to drain battery.
Hope this helps :good:
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Maybe I will try flashing stock if I have time today. I reset my battery stats in recovery mode when I took the phone off the charger this morning, so we'll see how today goes.
I looked into the widgets and the only one that refreshes data on a schedule is the clock/weather. I'll try a different one or just not use the weather.
Great tip about Chrome. Didn't know it did that.
Do I actually need to calibrate the battery? I tried the method of letting it die and charge back up a few times and I've tried recharging once it gets down between 70-80 percents life. I'm not sure which method helped, but I did notice an improvement.
Thanks again for the help.
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How much screen on time over how long and what kind of use?
60% is high but there's known bugs in android OS reporting.
I'm asking because you we're saying your new. It takes a lot of power to power this 4.8 screen
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Not sure how to know how long the screen was on. Is there a way to know that? If I had to guess I'd say 4 hours. I use the Smart Stay option as well. I wonder if wiping the stats will give me more valid data.
Thank you for the help.
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Not sure how to know how long the screen was on. Is there a way to know that? If I had to guess I'd say 4 hours. I use the Smart Stay option as well. I wonder if wiping the stats will give me more valid data.
Thank you for the help.
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settings>battery>click on the gray use bar & you can see screen on time.
It is because you are running touchjizz. Cm and aokp are the best :highfive:
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I have my display off auto-brightness and on a low setting, I probably utilize the task manager 50x a day and clear the ram as well, cpu sleeper is always activated, gps/sync/auto-rotate/wifi/bluetooth is always off unless I need them, and I have power saving mode on most of the time.
With all these settings off and I am a heavy texter/caller/browser/emailer, my battery lasts from 7AM-1AM and I am at 30-40% at the end of the day!
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I have my display off auto-brightness and on a low setting, I probably utilize the task manager 50x a day and clear the ram as well, cpu sleeper is always activated, gps/sync/auto-rotate/wifi/bluetooth is always off unless I need them, and I have power saving mode on most of the time.
With all these settings off and I am a heavy texter/caller/browser/emailer, my battery lasts from 7AM-1AM and I am at 30-40% at the end of the day!
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Great advice. Thanks. What do you use for "cpu sleeper"?
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I have my display off auto-brightness and on a low setting, I probably utilize the task manager 50x a day and clear the ram as well, cpu sleeper is always activated, gps/sync/auto-rotate/wifi/bluetooth is always off unless I need them, and I have power saving mode on most of the time.
With all these settings off and I am a heavy texter/caller/browser/emailer, my battery lasts from 7AM-1AM and I am at 30-40% at the end of the day!
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Never mind! Just searched" CPU sleeper" on the Play store and--voila!
On another note, I'm so glad I got a device with a huge support community. Coming from iOS, it's nice to feel part of a collective effort again and get such great advice. I know there are a lot of iOS forums and there is some great work done through those communities, but those seem so trivial compared to what is done through XDA and the level of helpfulness is unparalleled here.
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Great advice. Thanks. What do you use for "cpu sleeper"?
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natefish said:
Do I actually need to calibrate the battery? I tried the method of letting it die and charge back up a few times and I've tried recharging once it gets down between 70-80 percents life. I'm not sure which method helped, but I did notice an improvement.
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I read somewhere in the forum that these batteries actually like to be constantly charged up and not let die completely. There was no explanation for this but I will research it because I am curious. With my old Captivate, i let it die then fully charge to extend the overall life of the battery.
How is your battery so far?
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I read somewhere in the forum that these batteries actually like to be constantly charged up and not let die completely. There was no explanation for this but I will research it because I am curious. With my old Captivate, i let it die then fully charge to extend the overall life of the battery.
How is your battery so far?
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I've applied all the tricks folks have shared here and have flashed the Diet ICS rom. I am going to take screen shots of my usage data on a daily basis and see how things fair. I'll post my results here. Here is one from last night before really getting into all the tricks and the new rom. So, maybe this is my "before" shot in this documentary of a noob's journey to better battery life.
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natefish said:
I've seen a lot of users' postings of battery statistics (screen shots) and they are all considerably better than what I am getting. The biggest difference I see is in the amount of battery drain from "Android System." What I see posted is between 9% and 13%. However, my batt stats show the Android System draining 60% of the battery.
So, what am I doing wrong? I'm still kind of new to Android. Is it the widgets? I've checked running processes verses what apps are draining battery life and nothing is running that drains like the system does.
Further info: I am currently running the 7.18.12 build of Diet ICS, but I was seeing this behavior on stock as well. Some widgets I use: Astrid premium tasks widget, Evernote, doubletwist, slacker, 3D clock/weather, a widgetsoid switcher, and APW Calendar.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
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Have you tried using the CPU Sleeper app?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1745516
I found that it does a great job of preserving battery life when the phone is in standby. I used to notice my battery draining really fast over short periods on standby (phone would be hot to the touch). After installing this, I have not encountered that problem again. I get 16-20 hours of use on moderate usage. LTE, gps, and sync are always enabled. I DO NOT have the phone in power saving mode and I seldom use wifi. I used to get 10-12 hours of battery life on the same usage before. I am running the rooted version of the stock rom from my carrier.
CPU sleeper app works great for me. I am in a non LTE area but get incredible battery life, last all day usually with around 50% left. An order of magnitude better than my SGS2
jauwad.arshad said:
Have you tried using the CPU Sleeper app?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1745516
I found that it does a great job of preserving battery life when the phone is in standby. I used to notice my battery draining really fast over short periods on standby (phone would be hot to the touch). After installing this, I have not encountered that problem again. I get 16-20 hours of use on moderate usage. LTE, gps, and sync are always enabled. I DO NOT have the phone in power saving mode and I seldom use wifi. I used to get 10-12 hours of battery life on the same usage before. I am running the rooted version of the stock rom from my carrier.
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CPU sleeper app works great for me. I am in a non LTE area but get incredible battery life, last all day usually with around 50% left. An order of magnitude better than my SGS2
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I am using CPU Sleeper now, thanks to the advice of a previous poster on page 1. Good to hear it works for others.
I had the SGS2 as well and the S3 is definitely better.
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Hi all,
I also notice this and this were the steps that I did and seems to help me to reduce this process to like 5 %. I'm on Sprint S3 but should be the same for the all carriers.
Go ahead and open Talk application. You should see your account in green (I'm not using this application) then hit the menu and then select sigh Off. Make sure that your account changes to Offline (sometimes it is change back it self so open one more time make sure that it says Offline). Then what else I change is in wi-fi advanced options: under Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep I choose Only when plugged in option. then I reboot the phone and from now on (almost 2 days) my Android system process show up only 5% of usage and my battery life improve significantly. I hope this will helps.
Thanks
Those are great tips. Thanks. I will say I've gotten increasingly better life since employing other tips discussed here.
Something else I did was download a profile changing app. I got Quick Profiles, but anything should do. If anyone uses anything better, please share. I have a profile for power saving that turns down my brightness, and turns off wifi and Bluetooth. The app will let you put shortcuts on the home screen to instantly change the profile. I'd like to find one, however, that will also turn off gps and mobile data.