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Anyone noticed any battery drain with the ADW Launcher? I had it for like 2 days and my battery seemed to drain faster then usual so I removed it
What else have you got installed? It's the only launcher I use and have never had battery issues with it.
I use adw and its great. Because of adw my batt lasts 4days without charge. Remove all the stuff on Ur original home. This prevents the phone from needing to remember stuff on its own home screen. I think.
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I dont have any problem here either, tho i have often wondered if i should kill the original home app to prevent it being useless in the background?
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@iphonepimo
4days!! U must b kidding..or i think u r not using ur phone for 4days
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To All..
Instead of using home replacement app..just try 'launch-x' widget along with 'smartbar' and 'multicon'..
Use ur original x10 home..its Best
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yess it drains my battery and slows my phone down
even if i kill all the tasks
i once installed waether widgets along with ADW lanucher
and my phone wouldnt last for 17 hours without charging
@jojo1212
Read my above post..give it a try and let me know..
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I use ADW and Juice Defender (just to toggle my APN/Wi-Fi when I turn the screen off), and with light-moderate usage (send like 100 texts, about an hour of browsing) I can easily get 2 days out of it.
I had pretty decent battery life with ADW...although Im now running Live Home as I find it much nicer.
But something weird I noticed I guess I could mention...I do like the default launcher but when I use it as home I have notice SIGNIFICANT battery drainage and I mean fast! When I go to check battery use my 'cell standby" is like 85% give or take a couple even when the phone has been just sitting there for a few hours. Its like it never goes to sleep...however when I use Live Home or even ADW for that matter my "cell standby" is usually around 30% or less.
Anyone else get the same thing?
I actually just checked my cell standby and its only at 14%....where as with the default home its 80% or more.
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I don't really call people much. Mainly text fb, Twitter, browsing, and fiddling. Maybe that's why I can get my phone running for 4 days? Mind u I do browse a lot
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Mind u I do browse a lot
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Then I think that will be your biggest issue, screen and wifi/data being used for prolonged periods of time is going to drain the battery, but some apps have been known to be battery killers too, but it's trial and error pinpointing them.
XperiaX10iUser said:
Then I think that will be your biggest issue, screen and wifi/data being used for prolonged periods of time is going to drain the battery, but some apps have been known to be battery killers too, but it's trial and error pinpointing them.
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Yeah, I'm with XperiaX10iUser on this. More than likely it's your data usage. I've been using ADW for a few months and haven't noticed any impact on my battery because of it.
This past weekend I was at the cottage and thus had no signal. So I threw the phone in Airplane mode, and my battery was dropping at like 1% every few hours of non-use. I'd think if ADW was the culprit the battery would've been draining quicker than that, since it was running the whole time.
ADW's been great for me.
I've routinely posted that I can go three days of light use with wifi/3G/BT on.
I also experienced extreme battery drain with ADW. I installed it about 2 months ago and it killed my battery in a couple hours, tried reinstalling it and changed a few settings around, same thing. Needless to say I uninstalled it and went back to Helix and have been using that ever since. Maybe I'm one of the only other few out there to experience it, but ADW did drain my battery very very quickly, so you're not the only one!
gupta.anurag08 said:
To All..
Instead of using home replacement app..just try 'launch-x' widget along with 'smartbar' and 'multicon'..
Use ur original x10 home..its Best
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thanks gupta
in 3 hrs i went from 91% to 71% and all i did was send max 10 texts while in class
Don't have battery issue so far.. It's the best launcher I've tried so far. so smooth compare to the stock one even in 2.1
I noticed that launcher pro is a bigger battery hog than adw
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What everyone thinks or notices is not important.
Use a battery profiler and you will see where is the problem.
In my case: face recognition, learning client and drm something.
I froze all of them and now top battery is Touiteur because is doing updates every 5min,
Anyone else get terrible battery life with go launcher? I absolutely love the launcher but its almost not worth it for the extra battery drain im getting. Id like to see what everyone elses experiences are with this launcher
i dont use it anymore but when I did have it, my battery did not drain any faster (at least not that I noticed).
I just went to go launcher ex and it seems to be draining a bit faster but too early to be entirely sure
I wouldn't say terrible, but the battery drain rate did increase. When installed, I saw 2-3% drain during idle. I switched back to LauncherPro and it has gone back to <1%.
I'm in a bad service are at the moment but I can for sure say it's absolutely guzzling it right now with internet significant use. I think I'm going to just go back to touchwiz or try adw or some other one. 5 rows for apps and customizable themes isn't worth the drain.
yes I have notice a atleast 3% drain on idle. I absolutely love that launcher but cant do that. In 3 hours I was down to 88% with little use...
Is there not a way to get an extra row of apps on TW Launcher? How about the bottom row at least?
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Is there not a way to get an extra row of apps on TW Launcher? How about the bottom row at least?
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I'm using this tweak on unnamed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19070298
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I love Go on this phone, but I don't use any widgets and keep syncing off. Overnight after 8hours I only loose ~2-3%
So you're saying everything setup identical between Go and TW or another launcher you see a noticeable idle drain? Would love to see some numbers showing that.
Yessssss!!!! Between the launcher and all the stupid Widgets I found myself force stopping constantly...extremely annoying if I may say so...
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My battery life has dropped DRASTICALLY in the last week or so.
I have two 2750 batteries and until rcently one of them was easily lasting me a whole work day even with audio streaming. Now, all of a sudden I am killing the battery in 1/2 a day.
The ONLY thing I have done to the system recently was add the new version of ADWLauncer EX (when it was on sale for $.10) with an ICS theme & some custom icons etc.
I swap betweeen ADW & Sense with home manager.
It's not the end of the world as I always carry a spare battery with me but I just wonder what's going on??
~John
jmorton10 said:
My battery life has dropped DRASTICALLY in the last week or so.
I have two 2750 batteries and until rcently one of them was easily lasting me a whole work day even with audio streaming. Now, all of a sudden I am killing the battery in 1/2 a day.
The ONLY thing I have done to the system recently was add the new version of ADWLauncer EX (when it was on sale for $.10) with an ICS theme & some custom icons etc.
I swap betweeen ADW & Sense with home manager.
It's not the end of the world as I always carry a spare battery with me but I just wonder what's going on??
~John
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Look at your battery stats and see if an app(s) is using a disproportional amount of battery.
I have 'de-bloated & de-sensed' my rezound and use ADW EX and haven't seen any particularly bad effects.
Using ADW & Juice Defender, it get HUGE battery life if I don't touch the phone As soon as I play a few games (curse those $0.10 games!) my battery starts to take a dive.
ADW only drains the more animations you use. As with any launcher the more graphic heavy you set it up, the more intense CPU/GPU cycles is uses. It shouldn't really drain that much more than sense launcher.
Usually ADW should drain less than the Stock Sense launcher.
What does your settings > about phone > battery > battery use have to say about ADW?
Hi folks, is there any way to see the battery percentage on the Note? It appears when the phone is charging, but I'd like to see it at other times too. Is there a way to do this?
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On the stock ROM/stock theme, the only way is to go to Settings -> About Phone -> Phone Status.
You can also flash one a ROM, mod or theme that includes a percentage indicator, which you can find in the development or themes/apps forum.
Battery indicator or battery Widgets helps for now, but I heard this Widgets eat up the battery too.
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You'll have to download one of the tons of custom Android battery widgets that are found in the Play Store. That's what I'm currently using right now.
There are two I can recommend and they dont affect battery life in a noticeable amount (they use probably less than 2% in a twelve hour period which is likely not even noticeable).
The first is a free one called battery solo widget.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...xLDEsIm5ldC5tYWljYXMuYW5kcm9pZC5iYXR0ZXJ5cyJd
Its a very simple 1x1 circle that starts full and slowly removes bits of the circle as your battery get lower and lower. The colour also changes from green to yellow to red as the battery level drops and inside the circle is a clear readable number showing your battery status.
It should be noted that if you search for circle battery widget, you can find some nicer looking widgets than the one mentioned above but this is the one I used and it worked well for me (I used it for over a year on the Captivate).
However, if you are looking for something a bit more fancy, I strongly recommend Battery Monitor Widget Pro by 3C.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...ult#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNjYzcxLmJtdy5wcm8iXQ..
Features everything you could possibly want to know about your battery status, tons of graphs and charts, whats been eating your battery, statistical information, temp, etc. It has a very nice widget that is very customizable.
3C also has another app called system tuner pro that is essentially the same thing for everything else (cpu, ram, gpu, etc). I strongly recommend BOTH apps, my main homescreen has both Battery Monitor Widget and System Tuner Pro.
Thanks for all the info guys! I went with solo widget for now.
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Hi folks, is there any way to see the battery percentage on the Note? It appears when the phone is charging, but I'd like to see it at other times too. Is there a way to do this?
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I use battery circle. its FREE, simple, easy to use and it works. http://bit.ly/GPf4pK
If you're rooted, cook up a simple battery icon mod in UOT kitchen. Pretty straightforward.
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I don't understand why its never included with stock.
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Battery indicator or battery Widgets helps for now, but I heard this Widgets eat up the battery too.
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Yeap, most widgets are "Live", meaning they update, and depending on the interval, could and does use up some battery.
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I don't understand why its never included with stock.
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I know this thread is old, but I came across it. i have been using Badass Battery Monitor for a few months on multiple devices and it is great for this purpose, without noticeable battery drain
I use Battery Indicator Pro. Works great!
It looks like battery percentage will be included on the official ICS release - I've loaded three of them so far, and every one of them has had an option to "Display Battery Percentage" under display settings.
Hey guys,
so i was just playing around on my Ultra and decided to install Nova launcher. Normally i always do this but i have been very happy with Sonys launcher that i have not found a reason to change.
I wanted to play around with skinning some icons and you know, making my device look pretty
Anyway,having been using Nova launcher for the last 3 days now my battery life has improved a lot!!
I am getting at least 1 hour extra battery life compared to the Sony launcher and i have not changed any of my usage. If anything, i have more widgets etc running now than i did before.
Today i got 7 hours screen on time, and this was with screen brightness on at least 50% and around 25 hours standby time total.
So yeah, maybe a few of you can try using Nova for a few days and see if you notice the same thing. I am hugely surprised
Thanks and have a great day
ps. i am running .475 firmware non rooted.
I always run nova launcher prime on all my android devices I just updated to the 510 firmware and rooted I changed a few settings on the governer etc. And will post my battery life tomorrow night when I can have a good chance to run it tomorrow
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Hey guys,
so i was just playing around on my Ultra and decided to install Nova launcher. Normally i always do this but i have been very happy with Sonys launcher that i have not found a reason to change.
I wanted to play around with skinning some icons and you know, making my device look pretty
Anyway,having been using Nova launcher for the last 3 days now my battery life has improved a lot!!
I am getting at least 1 hour extra battery life compared to the Sony launcher and i have not changed any of my usage. If anything, i have more widgets etc running now than i did before.
Today i got 7 hours screen on time, and this was with screen brightness on at least 50% and around 25 hours standby time total.
So yeah, maybe a few of you can try using Nova for a few days and see if you notice the same thing. I am hugely surprised
Thanks and have a great day
ps. i am running .475 firmware non rooted.
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Whoa whoa. Can you please specify what is the 7 hours screen time consist of? Maybe some gsam or betterbatterystats statistics?
I'm still running stock launcher on rooted 510. Typical usage is 4 hours screentime, which is 1 hour heavy gaming, 1 hour browsing, a bit of gps, and other light usage. The rest is standby with total time of 9-15 hours, depending on signal strength.
The screen is one damn power sucker.
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How long did you use your phone before switching to Nova? Cause there is a battery improvement after about 10 cycle of charge.
Not that I say you wrong. It really plausible to have slightest battery life improvement with Nova as the launcher do not use Xperia framework. But Xperia framework look kinda lite so not so much battery consuming. Would be glad to see a screen of detailed battery usage.
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Ok, I tested the Nova launcher today. I did feel that have much better battery life than the stock launcher. Give me about 1-2 hours screen on time more. Good.
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Hey guys,
so i was just playing around on my Ultra and decided to install Nova launcher. Normally i always do this but i have been very happy with Sonys launcher that i have not found a reason to change.
I wanted to play around with skinning some icons and you know, making my device look pretty
Anyway,having been using Nova launcher for the last 3 days now my battery life has improved a lot!!
I am getting at least 1 hour extra battery life compared to the Sony launcher and i have not changed any of my usage. If anything, i have more widgets etc running now than i did before.
Today i got 7 hours screen on time, and this was with screen brightness on at least 50% and around 25 hours standby time total.
So yeah, maybe a few of you can try using Nova for a few days and see if you notice the same thing. I am hugely surprised
Thanks and have a great day
ps. i am running .475 firmware non rooted.
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Ok, I tested the Nova launcher today. I did feel that have much better battery life than the stock launcher. Give me about 1-2 hours screen on time more. Good.
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Damn I guess I'll do nova prime ^^
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Typical usage is 4 hours screentime, which is 1 hour heavy gaming. The screen is one damn power sucker.
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Lol...1 hr of heavy gaming kills most phones... You'll also probably get 5-7 hours if you didn't do this.
I was on nova for a few days. Didn't notice any difference.
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I used nova launcher for experience since i read this post.. the result is in attached capture.. still have 43% of battery
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I used nova launcher for experience since i read this post.. the result is in attached capture.. still have 43% of battery
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Would you say you are happy with Nova launcher then?
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Ok, I tested the Nova launcher today. I did feel that have much better battery life than the stock launcher. Give me about 1-2 hours screen on time more. Good.
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Amazing what a different launcher can do right?
i got 7.5 hours screen on time yesterday and i was using the phone alot - i was on wifi almost the entire day - i personally dont believe that nova will get you much better battery life there are alot of other things involved in battery life besides the launcher - i always use nova as i just prefer it, i was not on wifi as much today and i have alot less screen on time - currently at 10 % battery remaining with 4 hours and 45 minutes screen on time - which is acceptable to me - it wont make it through the day but i can live with that - i will probably buy the battery case even though it is expensive as i use the phone alot and like to make it through a day without worrying - which was no problem at all with my note 2 with the 9300 mah zerolemon extended battery but cant go back to the note 2 after using this phone for a few days !!
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Would you say you are happy with Nova launcher then?
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I just follow your post to see if there is any battery improvement when using nova.. Still now i think there is improvement, but not sure if that due to nova. I always thing that it is best to use the stock launcher, i am not a fan of custom ones....
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I just follow your post to see if there is any battery improvement when using nova.. Still now i think there is improvement, but not sure if that due to nova. I always thing that it is best to use the stock launcher, i am not a fan of custom ones....
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Nova change nothing. Only thing that change is that the battery need time to reach its full capacity. I can see improvements on the battery since I bought it. Usually need to be serious on battery charge for about a week after buying your phone, and you'll see that the battery life improved. This is not about Android battery calibration but about the battery itself.
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Nova change nothing. Only thing that change is that the battery need time to reach its full capacity. I can see improvements on the battery since I bought it. Usually need to be serious on battery charge for about a week after buying your phone, and you'll see that the battery life improved. This is not about Android battery calibration but about the battery itself.
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No offense, but i have owned my Z Ultra for 5 weeks now.
Nova launcher improved the battery. That is a fact. This is not my first phone, i know how batteries etc work but thanks
Nova has significant improvememt especially in launcher screen on mode. For internet browsing mode, it's better too.
But if you are a heavy gamer, then you won't feel much difference on it.
Nova will reflash the widget correctly. But the stock launcher has problems to reflash the widgets when rotating the screen. You can tell easily that the stock launcher is not fine tuned and that may be the reason for the worse battery performace.
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Nova change nothing. Only thing that change is that the battery need time to reach its full capacity. I can see improvements on the battery since I bought it. Usually need to be serious on battery charge for about a week after buying your phone, and you'll see that the battery life improved. This is not about Android battery calibration but about the battery itself.
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nova
all other functions work ok under nova? like using pen etc.
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all other functions work ok under nova? like using pen etc.
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Yes.
The nova launcher cant make your battery last longer, I dont see how anyway its just a launcher. Ill say it is a cool launcher but your better off trying to get a battery saving app to get more battery life and if that doesnt work you need a new battery. All smartphones use lithium ion batteries which naturally degrade and charge less from the day there first used.
Just like other bad programing app, a launcher will affect the battery life for sure. How it manage widgets and how it reflash the screen all will reduce or improve your battery life. If you ever used Go launcher before, you will understand what I meant.
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The nova launcher cant make your battery last longer, I dont see how anyway its just a launcher. Ill say it is a cool launcher but your better off trying to get a battery saving app to get more battery life and if that doesnt work you need a new battery. All smartphones use lithium ion batteries which naturally degrade and charge less from the day there first used.
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