Just a quick question, how do you guys feel about live wallpapers?
Too much of a battery drain? Ruins performance? Anyone use them?
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I don't use them, I think they slightly impact battery life.
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They are pretty, and in some cases they are even useful... but they certainly impact battery life.
They impact battery life, but the screen is so much better to look at. I personally use the nexus live wallpaper. I get through the day with about 30% battery left on moderate use so no biggie.
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This is hilarious, I just installed the free matrix one to see how cool it looked. Setcpu bounced back and forth from 200-800, with a normal picture wallpaper it sits at 200 at idle. lol I used to use beautiful live weather(or whatever it's called) and loved that because it showed the current weather for my area in the wallpaper...so cool. That was always my favorite by far.
its my understanding that they only use more battery when being displayed, and stay idle when not displayed, correct?
I use Ice Galaxy wallpaper and get around 12-15 hours with moderate to heavy usage.
i could be wrong here but it almost seems like they use more battery regardless of whether the screen is on or not. anyone have any input on this?
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This poll is to see how many people actually use a live wallpaper.
Not really, they look nice but I get better battery life without.
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No. I just haven't found one that I love.
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i get bored with them too quickly. plus i think i get bettery battery results without it
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for the most part... no.
i mean i use them from time to time maybe for a day or two. but i always find myself going back to normal wallpapers.. unless im showing off then i'd be like check this out lol
I've used microbes for a month. It looks good with gingerbread themed beautiful widgets. Also my battery lasts from 630 to 9.
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I usually keep an empty (black) wallpaper. But that's just me
I used one from time to time until I found Solar Winds and I have been using it since (about 2 weeks) I have not seen any adverse effects on battery life. I still get 20-25 hours.
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This poll is to see how many people actually use a live wallpaper.
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I use them.
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I use them, I usually have the Nexus S live wallpaper, but just switched over to the Solar Winds one. I have a hard time using a stationary wallpaper now, I sigh when I see my boring desktop wallpaper!
Nope. It's nice to show off your Android phone Live Wallpaper to your friends, but for practical use, I would still just use a static wallpaper.
I think this poll should have more options because I barely use Live Walls but from time to time I do and keep it for a while.
I voted No but only because its only every so often that I do.
I use Live Wallpaper on my Samsung Vibrant its called Solar Winds its so cool!!!
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Sometimes, but mostly I just keep a static one.
I mean, they look nice and all, but they drain your battery faster.
I used 8-bit waterfall for a while (recommended for game nerds) but it was harshing my battery. Then I used solar wind for a while but I just got over looking at moving **** all the time.
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Yes. I'm using Original Flurry. Goes good with my black theme (Obsidian v5 beta).
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I use microbes and the swirling galaxy. I bought the phone to use it, f all about batterylife, im where it can be charged usually and have the spare battery pack. I have no idea what battery life will be with a static wallpaper. My phone works great with nero, I was about to give up on it until I started putting roms on it
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I too use a live wallpaper. I find my self partial to the nexus and nexus s style wallpapers so I use this one called pl3x highly customizable to the point where I experience little to no additional battery drain. On an average day I still get 16-20 hours worth of battery (50-100 txts, ~40MB web usage, no gps, no wifi, occasional tethering)
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Not really, they look nice but I get better battery life without.
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+1 i do like the live wall paper especially the microbes but it drains the battery more than normal wall papers
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+1 i do like the live wall paper especially the microbes but it drains the battery more than normal wall papers
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Poorly made live wallpapers have poor battery life. Well made live wallpapers like solar winds, however, have virtually no effect on battery life at all.
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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The phone awesome but you'd think with a large battery. ..battery life would be stellar! !
It sucks on stock and unofficial Rom.
Are we all gonna have to lean to a EXTENDED BATT?
Any tweaks options opinions Specific ssettings or Roms that You don't just see drain 2% every two minutes
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Before you bash learn how to use your phone and apps that show you what is ratting your battery.
If your that disappointed get a droid maxx
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My battery life improved signifigantly with the ICS rom Revamped, go look for it on the development forums if you don't mind flashing a new rom.
Your phone goes dead every hour and 40 min?
I'm going on 17 and a half hours with 73% battery left. Not a ton of on screen time but a lot of deep sleep but still good to me
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The biggest drain is the screen, while in use, and this is my suggestion. Definitely has increased my screen-on time.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1544757
Screen filter helps with display and the new revamped rom is back up.
My wife might be a B but she can at least help herself and use the search box
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I use my note running Saurom RC7.1 with overclocking from 5am until 11pm everyday, I am doing various tasks throughout and have alot going on with different widgets running and such...
5am = 100%
10:15am = 73%
Not sure what your doing but maybe your battery maybe not holding a charge like it should?
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Do not use Hyperion, QCell or any other cheap ebay/amazon batteries. They are only about 1700mah at best and will kill your phone under moderate use in about 60 to 90 minutes. Maybe less.
I'm on stock GB rooted with all bloat frozen via TB and I can get through a whole day of use on one Samsung OEM batt with light to med usage.
kevinjgray88 said:
Your phone goes dead every hour and 40 min?
I'm going on 17 and a half hours with 73% battery left. Not a ton of on screen time but a lot of deep sleep but still good to me
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This is no where near the average!
And you seriously must not use your phone, like at all
17 hours at 73% is a bit extreme, but so is 2% per minute drain.
I think I can represent a fairly average user. I usually check email, weather and a little reddit during my morning routine. BT is always on and connects to my car while I drive to work for about 30 minutes. I average about 2 or 3 long phone calls a day on my phone. Some text messaging throughout the day and some short internet sessions on my phone while at work. Plus a few minutes here or there for Draw Something. I stream Google Music every day on my way home for about 30 minutes. Once at home my usage varies depending on what I do for the evening. But so far I usually find I have about 50% battery life when going to bed. I actually made it through Friday and Saturday on a single charge.
So I would say that this phone has above average battery life for an android device. It isn't stellar, but it isn't bad either. My Infuse could eek out about the same life with less use. My N1 never made it even close to this length. My buddy's MyTouch 4g can't usually make it a full 24 hours.
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This is no where near the average!
And you seriously must not use your phone, like at all
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Yeah that was over night with a lot of deep sleep. It sounded impressive lol
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The phone awesome but you'd think with a large battery. ..battery life would be stellar! !
It sucks on stock and unofficial Rom.
Are we all gonna have to lean to a EXTENDED BATT?
Any tweaks options opinions Specific ssettings or Roms that You don't just see drain 2% every two minutes
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In a word: no
In a picture:
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Considering the screen size, the battery isn't actually that big. It sounds enormous due to other phones with almost a thousand less mAH, but I just bought a bunch of extra batteries. The removable battery feature is the biggest reason I switched to Android.
LTE is a HUGE battery killer. I turned off wireless since LTE is SOOOOOO much faster than any wireless connection I'm on. I'd be lucky if I could get through a workday without it being below 50% by the end of a work day and completely dead by 7pm.
Turn on wireless and it's now almost 3pm and still have 78% left.
Lets face one fact everyone is different. .everyone claims this and that and regardless of what carrier or what device people will.never see the batt life they would really.like to see.Say like 50% after 3 days heavy usage that would be a thing we.may see in.smartphones in a few years. Android o.s will always be battery harsh.Its a huge topic.
Another point.on all the claims of Great and terrible batt life has to do with the fact. .people just dont truly get how others may use there devices so heavily..streaming vid...music...downloads...mail sync...Some maybe few truly use there phones 24 hrs non stop. There probably will never be a batt drain solution for those people.So telling one person that batt is fine with all this moderate usage coming from a person who uses there data more like "lightly" rather than heavy, doesnt help a person who is a heavy heavy data user.Neither sides will ever come to an agreement.
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The phone awesome but you'd think with a large battery. ..battery life would be stellar! !
It sucks on stock and unofficial Rom.
Are we all gonna have to lean to a EXTENDED BATT?
Any tweaks options opinions Specific ssettings or Roms that You don't just see drain 2% every two minutes
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best thing to do... use setcpu or some other overclock program. make a profile so that when your phone is sleeping it runs at the very minimum. my battery can last me up to two days depending on use. heavy use at the very least 7 hours
This is about how much screen time I get a day with the new collective ics rom
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Screen filter helps with display and the new revamped rom is back up.
My wife might be a B but she can at least help herself and use the search box
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lmao....
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This is no where near the average!
And you seriously must not use your phone, like at all
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Wow that is awesome! I'm getting home with a full days use at around 50-60%- It seems to be better than my captivate was on life that's for sure.
I have had mine for two weeks- On side note? hehehe Does cycling a battery really prove to get better life as time goes by or is it a old school story about batteries use to have memory etc... and now they don't?
Modern batteries don't have memory but their battery meters can become decalibrated which can be fixed with a full change cycle. Nonetheless, I don't recommend doing that too often (I only do it like once a year) since that's bad for the battery.
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My rezound is rooted. I am on clean rom 4.5 with the 3.13 kernel. Everything runs very smoothly and just how I like it.
I also have the OEM HTC extended battery in my phone and my battery life is still bad. It doesn't get through a day.
Am I missing something here? Maybe a bad setup? Any suggestions? Comments will be greatly appreciated!
Thank you in advance.
996
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How much are you using it? The screen seems to be a big drain on our Rezound.
I'm at 55% 12 hours into the day with the stock battery. Usage has only been a few calls, some FB, Tapatalk, google finance checks and several times into gmail but WiFi has been on all day except when driving for about 1hr (with 3g and bluetooth turned on).
Just went s-off and installed CR4.5 yesterday.
HTC REZOUND / S-OFF / CleanROM 4.5
I'm using it a good amount. Constantly using fb and the browser. Texting a lot also. Question.
Do you think it will make a difference if I switdh to s-off?
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How much is your screen on time? You using 3G or 4G?
Most people get a hour and a half to 2 hours of screen on time with the stock battery.
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As jazzy said 4g is really hard on the battery too. Google 'Extremetech 4g' to read their article to understand why. It's more to do with how 4g networks are configured than with the actual phones.
HTC REZOUND / S-OFF / CleanROM 4.5
...and no, I don't think S-Off will make a difference.
Here's the 4G / battery life info I mentioned:
http://www.extremetech.com/mobile/110711-what-is-lte/5
CxP
S-OFF in itself will in no way effect your battery life.
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Thank you all for your inputs. Yeah I use 4g heavily and my screen a lot. I take full advantage of the phones capabilities. I have another question though.
Is there a script to flash in order to recalibrate your battery? I know there are some apps. I've tried a few and I didn't notice much of a difference.
Thanks!
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there's no such scripts. battery calibration isn't visible regardless of a script, app, recovery or charging to full capacity
Did acquiring a larger battery solve your problem, or did you opt for a ROM to aid you?
go back to gingerbread, problem solved.
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...and no, I don't think S-Off will make a difference.
Here's the 4G / battery life info I mentioned:
http://www.extremetech.com/mobile/110711-what-is-lte/5
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Interesting read. Thanks
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Getting a bigger battery did solve my problem somewhat. I think I will be switching back to GB for a while to see if there is any difference. I will definitely keep you guys posted. Also my battery now lasts about a day. Depends on my usage. But it does last a decent amount. Wish it could go more than a day.
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I don't know why people get such terrible life on ics. I just got this today on stock battery. 4g off.
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I don't know why people get such terrible life on ics. I just got this today on stock battery. 4g off.
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Errm because you're underclocked to 500 mhz?
Seriously, that's like running ics of an LG optimus one lol. What's the point of having such a high-speced phone if you're gonna opt for battery over performance?!
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Errm because you're underclocked to 500 mhz?
Seriously, that's like running ics of an LG optimus one lol. What's the point of having such a high-speced phone if you're gonna opt for battery over performance?!
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I actually was underclocked to 540mhz because I don't need 1.5ghz to browse the web. That test was mainly to prove good battery life is possible if you really need it sometimes. Todays results week be more real world use. I never run my phone like that. But I know I will still get good battery life with higher clock,4g, and bright screen
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go back to gingerbread, problem solved.
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I think you're right about that.
Last Friday, I switched from the setup in my sig to the newer innefilibis v1.0 ICS ROM & my battery life seems to have dropped quite noticebly. I set up the new ROM with the EXACT same apps etc as the old one to get a fair comparison.
I do a lot of audio streaming at work which is really hard on battery life, but with the 2750 extended battery I do make it through a full day at work. Now, today my battery dropped to 50% charge in only a couple hours use & I only turned the screen on briefly to text a couple times........
Go to the phone menu and set it to LTE mode (w/voice) will use less because there is no 3g connection running at the same time.
996 said:
Thank you all for your inputs. Yeah I use 4g heavily and my screen a lot. I take full advantage of the phones capabilities. I have another question though.
Is there a script to flash in order to recalibrate your battery? I know there are some apps. I've tried a few and I didn't notice much of a difference.
Thanks!
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There is a script to recalibrate the battery. I looked inside the script, and it just wipes battery stats, so you don't have to do it inside Recovery. However, the apps that wipe stats on the Market do the exact same thing as the script.
I personally am S-Off with the latest leaked RUU. I am on the latest CleanROM DE ICS with the OEM extended battery. I get great battery life. If I wasn't using my phone much, I'd easily make it through two days. The way it is now, I get moderate to heavy use and easily make it through a single day.
I don't run live wallpapers, I keep the widgets to a minimum, I only use Gmail for email, no Social networking services are active, and I have some system apps frozen.
I do have a crapton of apps installed, but very few that have notifications. I remember back when K-9 Mail was eating up battery like crazy. Look for culprit apps like that, there is usually something.
Honestly, coming off my old OG Droid Incredible, anything more that 4 hours of battery impresses me. I am an -extremely- heavy user. 4G, auto brightness, lots of web browsing and games, and my battery temperature often hits 115-120 degrees fahrenheit when gaming. I can pull 4-6 hours on a stock 3.8v or 3.7v battery. I have a second battery and a charge cradle, as well as a 1 amp car charger. I find I'm never away from a power source for longer than that. Further, I just bought a 5000mah battery pack to emergency charge all my gadgets. My recommendation is to drop $50 on a second battery and charge cradle. Battery becomes irrelevant.
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Ignoring live wallpapers, is there a good "blank" wallpaper that would minimize battery usage? all white? all black? My phone is a tool, I don't really care about fancy backgrounds, and I saw something on cnet about certain wallpapers causing greater battery drain based on the screen technology. (Obviously live wallpapers would).
Black or dark ones
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Yeah just get a totally black wallpaper, that would be best. CM9 and 10 even have a "no wallpaper" thing built in for totally black. that would use the least. Though as the poster above said, preferably ones that are darker tend to use less battery life.
I've been using android since I've had my HTC dream/g1. And back then things would help with battery life. I've played with sync on, sync off, brightness on low, wallpapers, dark themes, etc etc you get the point.
At this point in my android "career" I have come to the conclusion that if i keep sync on, Bluetooth on, have whatever i want for a background and the battery life will always be the same.
If you want good battery life buy an extended battery, or don't use your phone. With eveyything on except wifi(I don't have it) I only drop a bit over half a percent every hour. That's on my sgs3. The next step is rooting and running different kernels which can make a difference.
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