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What on earth is draining my battery so bad? On 4 hour charge w/ screen on for a little over 1 hour and i got 47% battery left...display is 77% drain. Is there an app thats draining my batt like mad? I got 4g off, wifi off, gps off, and bluetooth off...and i've been in a strong Sprint area the whole time. What's the deal?
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evo3d comes with a task manager, check whats on and kill it. i do it often
Try watchdog.. it will notify you if an app is above threshold.
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i had a similar issue, nothing i did helped out... i ended up doing a factory reset and it seemed to resolve the issue. i have most of the same apps i had before and im getting great battery life now.
spunks3 said:
i had a similar issue, nothing i did helped out... i ended up doing a factory reset and it seemed to resolve the issue. i have most of the same apps i had before and im getting great battery life now.
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i'm just wondering, but... what's great battery life?
I get roughly 14 hrs max on my low - normal usage.
and a lot less when i actually use the phone
sailow said:
i'm just wondering, but... what's great battery life?
I get roughly 14 hrs max on my low - normal usage.
and a lot less when i actually use the phone
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About ~5 hours of screen on time is normal. I'm at 1 hour and 30 mins screen on and my battery is now at 20%. Horrid life...ill try a factory reset.
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Overstew said:
What on earth is draining my battery so bad? On 4 hour charge w/ screen on for a little over 1 hour and i got 47% battery left...display is 77% drain. Is there an app thats draining my batt like mad? I got 4g off, wifi off, gps off, and bluetooth off...and i've been in a strong Sprint area the whole time. What's the deal?
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Its the POS 3d effect you see. Garbagw huh? I returned mines. 3d is shat if even a old Galaxy S 1 device overperforms it.
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SINNN said:
Its the POS 3d effect you see. Garbagw huh? I returned mines. 3d is shat if even a old Galaxy S 1 device overperforms it.
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Lololol gtfo here then?
Overstew said:
What on earth is draining my battery so bad? On 4 hour charge w/ screen on for a little over 1 hour and i got 47% battery left...display is 77% drain. Is there an app thats draining my batt like mad? I got 4g off, wifi off, gps off, and bluetooth off...and i've been in a strong Sprint area the whole time. What's the deal?
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Try using OS monitor from the market. Go through the settings, change the sorting method to "load" and watch for BS running that shouldn't be.
Try and put.it.in ur car's battery to.see if.it last longer
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Try using CPU Spy to see if you're phone is going into deep sleep properly.
That sounds like you got a bad battery, even if the phone is not sleeping it should last longer than that. I would reset to see if maybe your batt stats got corrupted and if that doesn't do anything see if Sprint will give you another battery to try.
xHausx said:
That sounds like you got a bad battery, even if the phone is not sleeping it should last longer than that. I would reset to see if maybe your batt stats got corrupted and if that doesn't do anything see if Sprint will give you another battery to try.
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Agreed this was happening to me so i ent and had the phone replaced and am having no issues this time
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I'm having good life...its been on for around 13 hours and been used for about 5 hours. I have a little over half of battery left.
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Turn auto sync off, that seems to help a little. Set task manager on home screen and use it every time you exit an app. The battery life on this phone is disgusting.
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The only time I had really bad battery life was with the overclock kernal. I ghetto adb'd it to my phone around 12est and by 6pm est it was dead not low battery but completly dead. I poped the battery out reverted to stock temp rooted it without overclock now im back to the 12 hours heavy use 2 days with min usage.
anti-up said:
Turn auto sync off, that seems to help a little. Set task manager on home screen and use it every time you exit an app. The battery life on this phone is disgusting.
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Not bad at all for me. Of course it drops a hell of a lot quicker if you leave the screen on 24/7 but mine will still last 5-6 hours while listening to pandora over bluetooth and with the screen constantly on browsing the web. When not being used constantly it lasts a lot longer.
I have confirmed wakelock, started last night. I'm totally stock, no overclocking or anything.
How do I go about figuring out what's causing it?
Our you could just not use your phone. Then your battery will katy all day.
In all seriousness though, if you haven't already go to settings> wireless & networks> mobile networks & turn off always on data. You won't notice a difference in anything except your battery life will increase. Also, turn off automatic screen brightness & set it somewhere comfortable for you. All that brightness adjusting will drain on the battery. 3D movies, pictures & video will drain it as well. Also as someone else mentioned, check the built in real manager every once in a while. You would be surprised at some of the apps still running in the background even though you haven't used then in a while.
Just a few suggestions. If you have ashley tried all of this then wait until e can flash Roms & Kernels or buy the Seidio monster 4000mah battery.
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xHausx said:
That sounds like you got a bad battery, even if the phone is not sleeping it should last longer than that. I would reset to see if maybe your batt stats got corrupted and if that doesn't do anything see if Sprint will give you another battery to try.
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Weird. I did a factory reset and now my battery is great.
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Ive been browsing the web for 2 and a half hours now on 1% battery and thats with full brightness
I wish it always took this long to lose 1% lol
Anybody with this?
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negrobembon said:
Ive been browsing the web for 2 and a half hours now on 1% battery and thats with full brightness
I wish it always took this long to lose 1% lol
Anybody with this?
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Has happened to me sometimes too a few times, but generally, when my phone hits 5% I plug it in.
iridaki said:
Has happened to me sometimes too a few times, but generally, when my phone hits 5% I plug it in.
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Guess its normal then, nothing to worry, thanks
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I put in a new fully charged battery and took a nap and after 4 hours of just stand by my phone was down to 95%. I checked badass battery monitor and saw this. Don't really understand it though. It seems this is what was waking my phone keeping it awake.
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That's not a big decrease at all if your phone was on for 4 hour just sitting there ..
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Check your app manager to see if it constantly running in the background. I tried using a monitor and app killer but I just got too anal and when back to doing everything manually. Check all the variables as well for usage like screen brightness, is the phone on vibrate, etc?
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If you want your phone to drop less then 1% per hour try a car battery instead...
can you connect the note to your car battery?
There is a known issue with the calculation of Android System in 4.0.3:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1456265
1% battery drop per hour is normal if you have synching enabled and are on wifi or 3g/4g.
cgibsong002 said:
If you want your phone to drop less then 1% per hour try a car battery instead...
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I thought when people talked about the 1% per hour they meant while in use.
My note seems pretty good while on standby but when I use it it tends to drop 1% every ten minutes. I guess my disappointment stems from this being a 2500 mah battery. If I remember correctly my rezound extended battery was around there and lasted forever. I guess I just expected more.
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EvoXOhio said:
1% battery drop per hour is normal if you have synching enabled and are on wifi or 3g/4g.
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Is it better to keep wifi off while asleep or on? I don't have lte in my area.
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SkizzMcNizz said:
I thought when people talked about the 1% per hour they meant while in use.
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So you expected your phone to last 4 days (100 hours) with constant usage?
Come on man.. I hate to rag on people, but use your brain!
cgibsong002 said:
So you expected your phone to last 4 days (100 hours) with constant usage?
Come on man.. I hate to rag on people, but use your brain!
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Thanks
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This phone does way better than my EVO 4G. So i can't complain
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SkizzMcNizz said:
Is it better to keep wifi off while asleep or on? I don't have lte in my area.
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If there's no wifi its pointless to keep it on...
Just drains battery more...
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SdRasta said:
If there's no wifi its pointless to keep it on...
Just drains battery more...
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I have wifi but don't have lte
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SkizzMcNizz said:
I put in a new fully charged battery and took a nap and after 4 hours of just stand by my phone was down to 95%. I checked badass battery monitor and saw this. Don't really understand it though. It seems this is what was waking my phone keeping it awake.
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5% discharge in standby mode over a 4 hour period is actually pretty good. I wouldn't be too concerned about it.
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PeartFan40 said:
5% discharge in standby mode over a 4 hour period is actually pretty good. I wouldn't be too concerned about it.
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Yea I had my battery replaced and got an extra one. After putting them through their paces it seems to have helped. I've debloated quite a lot of junk and set up auto starts through room toolbox
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Your cells won't 'break in' and exhibit their best life before a few cycles.
To get the best out of your batteries, fully charge them initially, then run them down to 20%. Always try and charge your battery at 20%, running Lithium cells down flat shortens the life of the electrolyte more than anything except excessive heat.
Once your battery hits 100%, take it off the charger. Modern chargers usually switch to 'trickle' mode or turn off completely at 100%. Trickle charging overnight won't hurt the battery too much, so this second part is optional. Some people will tell you that continually 'topping up' Lithium cells is the best thing for them. While not entirely true, the impact is so minimal as to be negligible.
A mistake a lot of users make is to draw conclusions about battery life within the first week of owning a phone. There's no way your cell has had enough time to 'hit its straps' within a week, unless you're discharging two or three times a day.
Hope these few little hints help!
Here's a screen so you can see I'm not just blowing smoke
That's the ICS leak, rooted, with 384/1512 clocks and the conservative Governor. In and out of fringe 3G all day at work, no WiFi.
juzz86 said:
Your cells won't 'break in' and exhibit their best life before a few cycles.
To get the best out of your batteries, fully charge them initially, then run them down to 20%. Always try and charge your battery at 20%, running Lithium cells down flat shortens the life of the electrolyte more than anything except excessive heat.
Once your battery hits 100%, take it off the charger. Modern chargers usually switch to 'trickle' mode or turn off completely at 100%. Trickle charging overnight won't hurt the battery too much, so this second part is optional. Some people will tell you that continually 'topping up' Lithium cells is the best thing for them. While not entirely true, the impact is so minimal as to be negligible.
A mistake a lot of users make is to draw conclusions about battery life within the first week of owning a phone. There's no way your cell has had enough time to 'hit its straps' within a week, unless you're discharging two or three times a day.
Hope these few little hints help!
Here's a screen so you can see I'm not just blowing smoke
That's the ICS leak, rooted, with 384/1512 clocks and the conservative Governor. In and out of fringe 3G all day at work, no WiFi.
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I thought you couldn't change the governor our anything on the stock ics kernel. Every time I try to change it it just goes back to min and max at 1566
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SkizzMcNizz said:
I thought you couldn't change the governor or anything on the stock ics kernel. Every time I try to change it it just goes back to min and max at 1566
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Screen alone takes more than 73% of my battery usage lol
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Do you guys think it's normal to be unplugged for 2 hrs and be at 85%? This is without even turning the screen on.
Something is wake locking your phone.
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Yep - sounds like a lot is happening on your phone. The other night I left my phone on while sleeping, and it drained from 100% to 85% over 7-8 hours.
CappyQ said:
Yep - sounds like a lot is happening on your phone. The other night I left my phone on while sleeping, and it drained from 100% to 85% over 7-8 hours.
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Yeah. It looks like Android System % is real high on the battery stats.
U stock? This happened on the newest blazer rom for me
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phyba said:
U stock? This happened on the newest blazer rom for me
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I'm on the newest Blazer Rom too.
I feel like I am doing something wrong with my gn2 because everybodu gets at least 24 hours. My screen is all the way down all unused connections are off and im really only browsing rhe web and playing a max of 30 minutes of gaming (typically candy crush) WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?!
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baileygrib said:
I feel like I am doing something wrong with my gn2 because everybodu gets at least 24 hours. My screen is all the way down all unused connections are off and im really only browsing rhe web and playing a max of 30 minutes of gaming (typically candy crush) WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?!
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If you turned the phone on and used it for 30 mins and then idle it for another 5 and 1/2 hours and it died... then something is wrong.
Rouge app causing wake ups 100% of the time?
Battery is a dud?
monkeyass408 said:
If you turned the phone on and used it for 30 mins and then idle it for another 5 and 1/2 hours and it died... then something is wrong.
Rouge app causing wake ups 100% of the time?
Battery is a dud?
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What do you mean by rogue app causing wake ups? Here is my battery page...
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Download Better Battery Stats and see if you have an app(s) causing wakelocks and not allowing your phone to sleep.
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Download Better Battery Stats and see if you have an app(s) causing wakelocks and not allowing your phone to sleep.
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Sounds to me like the NSA is on to you my friend.
From the looks of your screen shot you have alot of things running in the background. Emulator, torrent and media servers drain battery quickly. I can get 2 days with my setup. But if I play words with friends my battery is dead in 4 hours. Some apps are just battery leeches. What Rom n kernel are you running.
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I found out that my dhcp settings on my wifi are c wing causing my phone to do s WLAN wakelock alit. I'm currently in the hospital so when I get out I'm going to fix my network settings
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I'm fully running stock right now. No root or custom rom
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Noticed you said you were in the hospital... How is the signal in there? If you have no signal, your battery will drain looking for a signal.
On your battery stats, click on the graph and screen shot so we can see your wake time.
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koreankabachy said:
Noticed you said you were in the hospital... How is the signal in there? If you have no signal, your battery will drain looking for a signal.
On your battery stats, click on the graph and screen shot so we can see your wake time.
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The wifi is always full strength here. I think this is what you wanted.
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Holy crap you have your screen on alot. What is your screen on time? If you are getting 4 or 5 screen on time, that isn't bad. Looks like your phone sleeps when screen is off which is good. I just think you are killing your battery with on screen time. Most people saying they get 1 to 2 day use don't have the screen on that much. I usually get 5 hours of screen time on 4g. However my 5 hour screen on time spands over 15 hours. Also depends on what you are doing when screen is on... Playing games drain vs checking email for example.
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Here is my battery states... Can tell when I got off work and really started playing around with the phone. Was on 4g about 80 percent of the time.
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Another app you can try (which) is free, is CPU spy to check if you is staying or stuck in a high speed frequency, say 1600 mhz
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