Hey everyone, need help pleeze! Last night, i fully charged my x2.. I have a custom night time saver on that it doesnt really sync at night anything except my work email every hour..
So went to bed was 100%.. Woke up it was 17%.. What the heck is that?!? I looked at running applications found nothing out of the ordinary.. I have seesmic's sync turned totally off..
Im running launcher pro, but i had widgets on the motoblur screen when i installed could they still be running? How can i find truly what is killing my phone? I looked at the battery settings in settings and it shows like phone idle and such but nothing taking up THAT much battery?
I also am using the extended battery.. I have to keep it constantly plugged into the wall charger right now or it will die, it even loses juice on the USB...
I dont think its a defective battery, but just incase i still have the original battery i can try too.
Just an FYI, the only things i have running right now in Task manager:
LauncherPro 0%CPU 21MB
Better Keyboard 8 0% CPU 7MB
Scanner Radio Pro 0% CPU 3MB Ram (its not an open app)
Battery Circle 0%CPU 2MB
Digital Clock Widget 0% 2MB
BluetoothDUN 0% CPU 2MB (Have it on Autoend List)
Now the weather channel and espn scorecenter was running, but i ended them and added them to autoend list.. It definatley feels like something was running and tryingto update or grab net stuff and was not shutting down.. Has to be.
I had a problem with something not allowing the phone to sleep. but the battery would still last 8-10 hours. I ended up using the SBF file and doing a factory restore. Rerooted and supercharged now I can go 36 hours with moderate use. Also using juice defender app has helped a great deal.
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I have thought about going the SBF route as well.. if it doesnt improve tommorow or by weeks end, on the weekend ill wipe it and start over..
Right now its fully charged here in the office, i have it on the wall charger.
Try a battery calibration with the extended battery?
Is there a built in callibrate tool? Or do i need a download?
nbm, im downloading the battery calibrator free from the app market.. ill give it a try.. Thx dude
Nothing is working .. I calibrated to no avail.. I was using my phone, was at 47%, it turns off (supposedly to go to sleep), i turn it on 3 mins later, its at 41%. Im gonna restore it to factory with the flash from RSD and start over.. Somethin isnt right.
SuBDivisions said:
Nothing is working .. I calibrated to no avail.. I was using my phone, was at 47%, it turns off (supposedly to go to sleep), i turn it on 3 mins later, its at 41%. Im gonna restore it to factory with the flash from RSD and start over.. Somethin isnt right.
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Bad battery would be my bet how old is it?
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3 weeks? Its a brand new extended battery... No something was running i know it that wasnt letting go of system resources.. i SBF'd and fully restored, now freezing bloatware and its running better already
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3 weeks? Its a brand new extended battery... No something was running i know it that wasnt letting go of system resources.. i SBF'd and fully restored, now freezing bloatware and its running better already
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Use system panel next time it cost money but it will save you headaches in the future when figuring out what apps are chewing your battery
Will do Lance ty.. I will say this, after i SBF'd the phone, did a full system restore, the battery issue has been solved, and my phone is running much better overall then it did before..
I fully charged it last night, then this mornin sent some emails (exchange), and had to take a train to work, so was listening to winamp and setting up some apps that i didnt finish last night, sent a few texts, used the camera once, and i have only lost about 15% battery.
So far so good..
This time i deleted the bloatware (froze) before i did anything, and i think the key is that i did not setup facebook or twitter inside of blur... instead using their own apps (facebook / Seesmic) so i can tell them i want them to sync manually.. Plus i used that SyncmyPix to grab the facebook pics into my contacts, and again manual sync..
So far so good..
WHat i installed on it last night:
AndroIRC
Astro
Battery Circle
Better Keyboard 8 pro
bloat freezer
blogger
busy box
digital clock widget
facebook
fartdroid full (woot!)
gingerbreak
google+
hd wallpapers
big lebowski soundboard
mobile hotspot
scanner radio pro
scoremobile (had ESPN Scorecenter but i think that was one app that was consistantly hitting the net cause the widget would never update right)
sd speed increase
script manager
superuser
syncmypix
spare parts
winamp
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Has anyone solve the problem on the battery issue after upgrading to 2.1? I'm not even using the Live wallpapers. I fully recharged my phone this morning and now at 18:46hrs, its about 45%. And I didn't use the phone at all today. Only received 1 call and 3-4 msgs and that's it. I've even closed the recent applications using task killer
Update:
I was having the battery issue after using the Flash Tool and updated with the Global Shipped firmware.
The battery issues usually happens when updating on a shipped firmware or a custom firmware. This happened to me also when I was using my HTC Hero. Installed a custom 2.1 firmware from a 1.5. And the battery life was horrible.
I recently updated my X10i officially from Sony's website and now do not have any issue with the battery.
Believe me or not, sounds weird but the wallpapers DO have an effect on the battery. And I ain't talking about the Live Wallpapers. My phone was fully charged (100%) last nite and the battery went down to 88% in about 30 minutes. I was using a Green-3D wallaper which I downloaded from Zedge. I switch the wallpaper to a different one and the battery stays at 86% for about 30 minutes. And 72% at 7am this morning.
I somehow did, don't know what made it work though, after rebooting the phone 2-3 times, letting the battery go down to 10%, I recharged it with the wall charger, since then everything is fine even a looot better than it used to be with 1.6. It seems that after installing 2.1, the battery and the camera (it stopped working) were completely dead, after rebooting a couple of times, emptying the battery and using the wall charger instead of the computer to recharge it made it work.
Is it luck, maybe... I'm also running a task killer... For my part that's all I know, hope you figure it out
Seems to be totally random.
I'm currently running at 14% battery, and its been unplugged for 28 hours (since 6:30am yesterday). Its been used quite a bit.....
Around 40 texts, a ten minute phone call, around 4 hours worth of music yesterday afternoon, a ten minute game of Angry Birds on a break yesterday, and around half hour of catching up on the news/twitter last night.
It also has "Smart Alarm Clock" running through the night.
I use Task Killer Pro, Set CPU so that when the screen is off, the CPU is clocked down to 245/245, and when the screen is on its clocked up to 768/768.
Screen brightness is set to maximum, my live wallpaper is aniPet Aquarium always on and I use extended controls and have turned off data, wifi, GPS, bluetooth and 3G signal unless needed, when I want to browe the internet I then swipe right and press data on, 3G on,
try juice defender. with JD you can stop 3g while your screen is off.
Check that the face recognition service isn't running. It was eating the most battery on mine though I haven't fully solved my battery issues yet.
Denil Wong said:
Has anyone solve the problem on the battery issue after upgrading to 2.1? I'm not even using the Live wallpapers. I fully recharged my phone this morning and now at 18:46hrs, its about 45%. And I didn't use the phone at all today. Only received 1 call and 3-4 msgs and that's it. I've even closed the recent applications using task killer
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I had this problem using X10i 2.1 firmware on my X10a phone, when I installed X10a the problem went away. Did you also do that?
I seem to be having problems, well i say prolems. Battery using aout 1% an hour. Using GSM, Nothing syncing in background either!
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when I installed X10a
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Where is the download for x10a? didnt mean to highjack the thread.
As far as my phone, after 2 days of use and letting the battery drain, I see a big improvement on the battery.
I have not set anything up to control the phone, like task killer.
all my services are running, like blue tooth, gps, wifi and 3g.
My phone now last a full day, so around 8 to 10 hours.
Never got this with 1.6
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Where is the download for x10a? didnt mean to highjack the thread.
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If you're running 1.6 for X10a (debranded) just update with SEUS or PC Companion (it's available for Brazil, not sure about the others). Else, if you already have 2.1 for X10i installed, use the debrand/rebrand method, they updated the codes for 2.1 where available.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=824711
I used this code: 1234-4836
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I had this problem using X10i 2.1 firmware on my X10a phone, when I installed X10a the problem went away. Did you also do that?
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Unfortunately for me, I am using the X10i hehehehe.....
Denil Wong said:
Has anyone solve the problem on the battery issue after upgrading to 2.1? I'm not even using the Live wallpapers. I fully recharged my phone this morning and now at 18:46hrs, its about 45%. And I didn't use the phone at all today. Only received 1 call and 3-4 msgs and that's it. I've even closed the recent applications using task killer
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Here's what I did with my battery and now it's much better than before the upgrade!
1. I rooted the phone.
2. I charged it fully, to 100%.
3. Using Better Terminal Emulator application, I typed:
su
rm /data/system/batterystats.bin
4. Reboot.
5. Let it fully discharged until it shuts down (NO connection to the PC as it would charge while there).
6. I charged it fully, to 100%.
7. Let it fully discharged until it shuts down (meaning, repeat step 5).
Now my battery with constant GPRS, for Gmail Push and Gtalk, moderate to heavy usage, lasts for 24-30 hours.
There is no solution for batery drain, if you use the phone the batery will run out in 8 hours if not it will last 36 hours.
The work arround is something that will block data connection like JuiceDefender.
I know battery has been diacussed before but i think this isnt normal. I left the office with almost full charge, listened to music on the.way with bluetoith headset for an hour. Got home and browsed for like half an hour. And here is my battery.
3 hours and the phone is almost dead. I have no apps running. I had 3g on when i left the officw and at home i used wifi.
Is this normal or should i take the.phone back for an exchange?
Regardless, i still love the phone.
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RETURN ZE PHONE
get a new shiny in exchange
btw when u return the phone what do u say exactly
Thats ridiculous man. Maybe you're battery is broken.
That said mine has just drained 35% in 3 hours with almost no usage so maybe it is just the phone.
I think there is 100% guaranteed a software problem and we need samsung to fix it.
It says you've had the display on for quite a long time, music needs the display on? Also that wifi sharing is another culprit.
It drained because you had the screen on nearly the entire time not because anything else
Unless thats a case of the 'phone staying awake' bug. You can freeze wifi sharing with titanium backup to save some juice
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I too am facing the same issue battery drain from 100% to 60% in a span of 3 hours.
I am having a mediocre usage of battery with touchdown as my mail client talking to my corporate exchange. Still it doesn't warrant a drain of 40% in 3 hours.
I dont have much apps installed. Even with juice defender I am not getting better results.
Niket
ale922 said:
Is this normal or should i take the.phone back for an exchange?
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You could say it's normal because if you haven't yet rooted and frozen the wifi sharing process this is the exact behavior everybody else is also having. A new phone will behave in exactly the same way if it's using the current firmware.
You can do two things.
1. root and freeze the process with titanium backup or similar.
2. wait for the next official samsung firmware which may include a fix.
The rooting process takes about 15 minutes and is not too difficult. You may or may not get in to warranty trouble in case of repair, but as I and several of my friends saw it, there really is no other way unless you want a phone with 3-4 hours of battery compared to the 19-23 hours we all get now after the freeze.
Another thing, it won't matter if wifi is turned on or off, the bug and wifi sharing process will still be there.
You will probably read around the net that several processes has to be frozen, but it really only is the "wifi sharing" one that needs to be frozen for the battery drain issue to go away.
What is the "wifi-sharing"?
Mine GS2 is a bit different from the OP's. Android OS occupied 45% while Display only 19%. And charging time is unusually long. Very long. I plugged my GS2 into PC at 9am with 30% left, and by the time I left work 6pm it only got up to 75% something. That's half a day charge.
The rooting process takes about 15 minutes and is not too difficult. You may or may not get in to warranty trouble in case of repair, but as I and several of my friends saw it, there really is no other way unless you want a phone with 3-4 hours of battery compared to the 19-23 hours we all get now after the freeze.
Sorry, whats the freeze. I haven't heard this before ?
Thanks
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What is the "wifi-sharing"?
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I don't really know. But I haven't found a feature not working after the freeze. Even dlna sharing, hotspot etc.. Everything seems to be fine.
You can read more about the issue here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1069295
Regarding the unusual long charge time, I haven't heard about that before. It takes my phone about 3 hours to fully charge.
I can recommend this application for monitoring if the phone really sleeps when left on the table and which processes uses your juice in general. It's history based and you will be able to figure out a lot of useful stuff with it.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/systempanellite-task-manager/nextapp.systempanel
I'm also have a similar problem, but mine was after one hour and an half of web surfing using dolphin HD and wifi... it was full, it's now about 25% remaining... Is it normal that the dolphin browser used 39% of the battery ? It's even more than the display... !
Ps: it's actually really hot on the back of the phone, on the top, just under camera... Normal ? ? ?
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whats the freeze. I haven't heard this before ?
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Well. When you have rooted your phone, you are able to do a lot of usefull stuff:
-Freeze processes
-Disable the camera shutter sound with a simple property/text file
-Make the middle home screen the real home (like htc sense) with a simple property/text file,
-Replace camera.apk and get higher quality sound in video, actually also higher video bitrate if you want that.
-Replace talk.apk and enable the upcoming google talk with video chat
-Install chainfire3d driver to be able to play tegra2 gpu based games
...and probably a lot more, but above is the only things I've done.
Freezing means : that you lock a process you don't want to run ever. You are also able to "un-freeze" if you decide to revert.
So:
1. you root your phone
2. you install titanium backup or other application that has the "freezing" ability.
3. open the freezing app, go to the process list, find "wifi sharing", press freeze, reboot
Problem solved, "wifi-sharing" will never run again.
You want to revert: Launch titanium, go to process list, find wifi sharing, unfreeze, reboot. Everything back to where you were before.
Yarymo said:
I'm also have a similar problem, but mine was after one hour and an half of web surfing using dolphin HD and wifi... it was full, it's now about 25% remaining... Is it normal that the dolphin browser used 39% of the battery ? It's even more than the display... !
Ps: it's actually really hot on the back of the phone, on the top, just under camera... Normal ? ? ?
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I really don't think anything matters as I can see you have the wifi-sharing bug.
You must understand, that it's everybody with the current firmware that has this bug. You must either wait or root and freeze.
Sucking up your battery in a couple of hours and making the cpu run at full speed which makes the phone get hot is exactly what this wifi-sharing bug does.
There is absolutely no way you can change anything in the settings or say, not run dolphin browser to fix this problem. You simply have to freeze the process or wait for samsung to fix it. As long as the wifi-sharing process enters your battery usage list you have the firmware that has the problem (and it's more than one) and your doomed until you freeze or upgrade to a future firmware where the bug may be officially fixed.
Just another "wifi-sharing" discussion link:
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=16721
Alright then, it's just that it doesn't seem me to be that much of the battery (~20%...)
I did just freeze that process and will see once my phone is fully charged... Thanks.
Try the lite'ning rom. It is much better!
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isnt this pretty normal looking battery drain? most people on this forum are getting about 4 hours screen-on time, sometimes 4.5 hours. yours seems to have the screen on about 4 hours from your graph picture. isnt this normal? if it was all gaming usage it definitely would be normal...
@OP, You mind to mention the Screen On time please?
Regards.
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Try the lite'ning rom. It is much better!
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oh, was that a constructive comment?
Hi,
For those of you that have Battery Monitor Widget installed, what kind of average usage are you seeing with the phone idle, screen off?
On my old Desire it'd sit at something around low double digits, 10mA or so idle with the screen off...
On my new shiny SGSII it's at about 180mA odd, which may explain why I struggle to get a days usage out of it. I've tried different ROMs (stock rooted, lite'ning, currently on villain 2.4.2) and different modems (currently KG6) and have used Ti to freeze all of the samsung bloatware without any improvement...
What kinds of values are others seeing?
Thanks
Jon
in idle , i get average of 50-60mA .. but after 3,4 hours of idle , i can get it as low as 9-10mA .. running on sensation rom 1.4 .. in normal use , it will hike from 100+ma to 400mA ..
it's actually a bit higher than my last desire HD. which in idle can get as low as 4-5 mA .. i guess that's all depend on the kernel ..
seeing at your idle usage about 180mA, that's definitely have something wrong somewhere. gotta find what apps draining the battery
Just did a test while I was down the gym - with mobile data off, but streaming music to a bluetooth headset, it was down to 60-80mA. Turn it back on and it's gone back up again...
Gtalk is frozen, Latitude isn't signed in... Nothing obvious shows up in Better Battyer Stats.. Other than removing apps one by one, any bright ideas as to how to work out which is the culprit?
I think i read that HTC phones actuality give true mah battery rates where on the S2 it is only get`s estimated.
I fully charged it last night, and left it alone overnight. Perfect signal (local picocell about 10 ft away), pretty much everything disabled, all user apps, samsung stuff frozen - only google apps unfrozen. Background data disabled, bluetooth, gps, wifi off.
After a few minutes, after a short while at 60mA odd it sat idling at about 9mA pretty much all night - used about 8% overnight. I re-enabled background sync, now sat on my desk at work with a reasonable 3G signal it's sat at about 60mA.
Time to start unfreezing apps and see what's draining it!
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Time to start unfreezing apps and see what's draining it!
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Install 'Better Battery Stats' for that.
Regards.
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Install 'Better Battery Stats' for that.
Regards.
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It's installed - I get a lot of events/0 and suspend listed in process, and not that many wakelocks listed...
I've just frozen the samsung email client (exchange) and the associated processes, and my usage has dropped from 60-100mA at idle to under 20 - looks like this may be the culprit!
Going to try unfreezing it and seeing if it goes back up again...
I gave up trying to freeze / unfreeze stuff - too much hassle.
So - did a factory reset this morning, so back to a totally fresh villain install. I even removed my 32G sd card in case that was causing issues..
Disabled automatic app re-installing, and have been slowly setting things back up while watching the juice usage.
Currently with touchwiz and all of the samsung crap frozen, no widgets running, my 2 gmail accounts and exchange activesync configured, and it's idling at about 50-60mA.
It's going to be a pretty drawn out process working out what's causing the drain
Hello,
Since a few days or propably even more, i have some problems with battery life. The reason is the facebook for android app. I uave already turned off the automatic sync, so the app shouldnt start itself but here is the partial wakeup spareparts shows me after a day of very light use (i have sometimes closed the facebook process when i saw that my battery made jumps of 10% without touching it for an hour, hoping this would help):
Can somebody confirm this drainage or help me how to get rid of it?
Regards.
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Ive seen it befoe. Clear data, unistall, reboot, and reistall. That fixed it fo me
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Go to settings->application->manage application->all->facebook and tap "force stop".
I uninstalled Facebook for this exact reason.
Installed friendcaster and sync my pix and I get the exact same (if not better) user experience with far less battery wastage. Best thing I did for my handset (except root it ) the only downside is having two apps to replace one. But hell, it works!
I'll try friendcaster and syncmypix now. Hopefully these apps wont drain as much as facebook did
Thank you for your reply
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unistall facebook for this reason.You can use friendcast
I am going to try taking Facebook of off my wife's phone and putting Friendcaster on. We have identical phones, roms, and kernels, yet her phone eats up way more battery than mine on standby (10% an hour). I put Watchdog lite on both of our phones and it popped up with a notification on her phone that said Facebook was using quite a bit of CPU. I even force stopped Facebook and it seems her phone is still draining battery.
Thanks for the suggestions in this thread.
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I am going to try taking Facebook of off my wife's phone and putting Friendcaster on. We have identical phones, roms, and kernels, yet her phone eats up way more battery than mine on standby (10% an hour). I put Watchdog lite on both of our phones and it popped up with a notification on her phone that said Facebook was using quite a bit of CPU. I even force stopped Facebook and it seems her phone is still draining battery.
Thanks for the suggestions in this thread.
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What you did ? was less battery drain with friendcaster ?
facebook app on android is evil
old thread but I will contribute and confirm this was the case for me.
I didn't track the stats with any app, however recently the facebook app stopped syncing my contacts. After re-installing it one day, my battery life drained twice as fast even though it was idle for most of the day. I recently got rid of the facebook app completely and my battery life it miles better when idle, it is such a big difference and this facebook app is evil.
I have it periodically check for updates, however I have several other apps that check as well, but facebook itself seemed to be such a battery hog compared to other apps.
sorry to bump an old thread ...but i can confirm this too.
my galaxy S2 is on XWLP3 ..and it's rock solid.
except for the fact last weekend i was on holiday away from my office desk (and it's usb charger cord) and i noticed that my phone was rapidly draining, from 100% at 9am in the morn ..to completely dead by midday :/
thought my s2's battery had started to die ..but then come tuesday, my mate popped over and asked if i had noticed the FB app chewing up ton's of cpu time lately.
and sure enough ... that was it. he too was seeing his s2's drain aay to nothing ..and this is a guy who usually could make his stock s2 run two whole days on a single charge :/
so i think unless you back out of the app ... and stop it. it will kill yr battery in no time flat at all :/
I am starting this thread to see how you fell about new OS and do you have significant battery life change after 8.1 update.
Mine experience is not so good, at least to say, noticable battery drain...on slight use I manage to hold about 15h on NL 920, with battery saver and disabling backgroud apps as it was on WP 8.
Tell us your experience!
My battery life is also gone for the worse. With very moderate usage it barely keeps 16-17hrs, anything else is killing the battery dead.
my battery also worse but i make hard reset and do new settings manually (not restored from backup) and battery is much better
Battery life sucks on 8.1
I used to only charge every 2 (two) days and even managed to get 3 full days now and again depending upon work, but now it needs charging every night before bed . I charged it last night and went to bed and woke up today and 75% charge remaining, so it used 25% power doing nothing but hiding in my pocket. It used to only use 1% or 2 % charge overnight but not now.
Other thing i noticed is background tasks config page is missing and now the calander once open stays as a runnning task in task switcher.
I know after a firmware update the battery needs a few charge cycles to sort itself out but i am about to start the 4th cycle now and its still seems to be sh1t
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Just found background tasks again. yeehaaa
open battery saver app
swipe to usage tab and tap on the desired app to see its background settings
Yeehaa time ti kill some apps again and save some juice
in my lumia 920 battery life is terrible after the 8.1
ie and whatsapp are sucking my battery juice as hell
guys, you must make hard reset and you must set all settings from fresh, not use old backup settings and dont forget block unnecessary apps in background... after this battery work much longer. this worked for me...
dxdy said:
guys, you must make hard reset and you must set all settings from fresh, not use old backup settings and dont forget block unnecessary apps in background... after this battery work much longer. this worked for me...
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But.... but.... I just flashed the ROM two weeks ago, I don't want to have to reload everything AGAIN!!!. That said, with most of the settings synced, I'm willing to give it a go. Will report back tomorrow.
After a few tweaks in the background settings and an empty to full recharge everything is now back to normal. Yeehaa 2 days between charges and 1%-2% drain overnight. SWEET so no need to hard reset unless you have major problems. just sort the background apps and see how it goes
Im having a nightmare after 8.1 battery drain is the least of my worries..
my phone becomes unresponsive and only a hard reset brings it back to life .
I also get the screen crash and it looks like a old tv not tuned in
but it is an early release so hopefully ms will look and fix he problems because the update is worth it
Hey, I have the same problem. But not only the battery draining, the phone heats up. And I mean REALLY heats up. I gets hotter than my Laptop. Yesterday, while videocalling on skype over WIFI, the camera went dark, and 10 seconds later the picture was green. I don't mean just a completely green picture, It still showed me, but I was green. I then ended skype, opened the camera app and it was just awfully bright. With the flash off, the lights in my room out I could still see everything through the camera, but it was corny as hell. I then had to reboot the phone and everything worked again, but still. It's quite concerning, specially considering the heat.
did you make hard reset and set phone setting without using old backup settings?
phone work much better if you setup all from fresh beginning... seems old WP8.0 settings sometimes mess up things...
CBDSonline said:
After a few tweaks in the background settings and an empty to full recharge everything is now back to normal. Yeehaa 2 days between charges and 1%-2% drain overnight. SWEET so no need to hard reset unless you have major problems. just sort the background apps and see how it goes
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Hi there,
can you tell me please were is the option to set up background apps?
In Lumia Black and older versions the "background tasks" was in applications menu.
In 8.1 preview I can't find it.
Thanks!
Find in App list Battery Saver :victory:
dxdy said:
did you make hard reset and set phone setting without using old backup settings?
phone work much better if you setup all from fresh beginning... seems old WP8.0 settings sometimes mess up things...
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Well, I did reset it a few times. The first time I got it it had 8 on it, upgraded to 8.1. Then reflashed it, upgraded and used the backup. You really think it could help? If so, I may try it later today.
The skype thing frightened me the most to be honest.
I never used the 920 before the 8.1 update as I bought it on the 8.1 release day so can't compare the battery life before & after.
So far ive found the biggest hog on battery was the intermittent glance screen though proximity glance is ok but the biggest culprit was having 3 email accounts set to push receive emails. After changing to sync 2 email accounts manually & the other every hour I noticed a big improvement in battery life & its now similar to my previous Galaxy Nexus.
Worse battery life
My battery life was terrible, but after the last update it is much better and with 3-5 minutes of calls a day and HSDPA internet enabled it can last for 24 hours.
My battery life has increased significantly. With 8.0, the battery life was frankly pathetic. I couldn't even get a day out of the phone, and that's with only having 3 mail accounts and Facebook active (NFC & BT off), and only moderate use. It was bad enough that I couldn't use it as my daily phone.
After 8.1, it's a dramatic change, it easily lasts me a whole day - used it moderately today, and now 15 hours since taking it off the charger, there is still 45% battery left. I love 8.1
learn more about update
to know more about the update and for the link follow http://appsforlumia.com/nokia-lumia-920-software-update/
I agree, 8.1 has extended battery life... Not that I had any issue with it lasting the day before!
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For me battery life has become alot worse after 8.1. And there's nothing I can turn off in battery saver