U get about 6 hours of battery life on stock 2.2 froyo with my vibrant. I want to know what settings to use, what I could flash, what apps to use, basically whatever I can do to extend battery life on this phone. I should add thats with heavy texting, pretty much non stop, some moderate gaming, words with friends and psx emu, and light music use. I get 6 hours even with no use, but I wanted to know any way that would help me get more. Any help would be greatly appreciated once again
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I am putting together a guide on this as I type since this is such a common question. Should be done this weekend.
Ok thank you so much I love the phone it just dies way to fast.
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Can't wait for the guide to be posted bro. Also, OP, seeing as you are using Froyo 2.2 (which Woodrube uses) expect to get 20+ hours when his guide is posted next week.
Holy cow thats insane! I cant wait im dying to see it cause I neeeeed this phone to last longer and I really like froyo stock because I stay with the stock camera, get wifi tethering, and get flash player. Those 3 alone made me want an android phone I think the camera on this is amazing and games look awesome too and with someone like me, who texts and plays game non stop it kinda sucks keeping a charger on you 24/7 or forgeting and having to ration phone use haha
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Does anyone have experience with this app on the ThunderBolt? I just purchased it and was really impressed with the advanced options.
I have it but I haven't used it in awhile. It helps a little, but don't expect miracles. I don't think it's worth $5. You are better off buying a spare or extended battery.
I've used it since I had the incredible use it on the droid x and now i use on the thunderbolt I've always had good results with it's always got me quite a bit of extra battery life but the same time I am using an extended battery on the thunderbolt I can push a good 18 to 22 hours and that's running 4 g consistently
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In my opinion its a joke
you can get the same results by doing everything manually
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Turning off your data connection when you aren't using it will help a lot of people in 4g areas...sure you can do it manually, but this is eaiser...
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In my opinion its a joke
you can get the same results by doing everything manually
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This is just an unhelpful reply. Sure you can always do almost everything manually that an app does but alot of people like automation, which you generally are going to pay for. Does the App help, I used it a lot on my OG Droid and it did help, I have not installed it on my TBolt but I think I will and give it a try again, it also has a free version so give it a try and see if it help, the worst thing you have to do is uninstall it.
didnt help much for me. I am bamf 1.86 with control freak kernel and its saving batt very well.
I regret spending the money on it. Definitely try the free version. It seemed like a good idea but a few days after buying the app, I learned how to use my phone and android and ended up liking manual configuration A LOT more, and getting way more battery life without sacrificing anything I need.
Rooted Thunderbolt on BAMF Sense 3.0 RC 4 with MR2 radio and latest dreamKernel.
Sometimes it helps, but other times it kills the battery. Turning the radio on and off seems to kill the battery too.
My ADR6400L is just as good as your PG86100.
I have seen where it will fail to turn the mobile data back on without a reboot
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I'm just wondering, does it really helps a lot? Because I'm running the free ver and it's not that effective.... does it really worth $8? I;ve been thinking this back and forth..
not much for me,
I tried JD on my TB when I got it, then paid for the upgrade, a few roms later I uninstalled it for all the reasons mentioned. Worse battery life, at times it would not re-enable mobile data. To be completely honest, once you pay for the extra stuff, you may not use it as much as you think you would (I didn't).
The competitor Green power is more user friendly, updated often and in my experience provided slightly better battery life. The "pro" version of that is less than JD and the only difference between free and PRO is the night functions. If you plug you phone in overnight, you don't need the pro version of green power.
In the end, I don't use either anymore. Once I got to know my phone I set things up manually.
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I've used it since I had the incredible use it on the droid x and now i use on the thunderbolt I've always had good results with it's always got me quite a bit of extra battery life but the same time I am using an extended battery on the thunderbolt I can push a good 18 to 22 hours and that's running 4 g consistently
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That is horrible, unless your are using your phone every second.
i installed the free version and it has dramaticallly helped my battery life. and i am constantly using my phone
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i installed the free version and it has dramaticallly helped my battery life. and i am constantly using my phone
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the free version is all you need
just enabled the free version after you install it that's all you need
it does helps
This is a question to the masses of the Photon community. Just wondering if anyone is having bad laggy-ness with this device? The reason I ask is because I am coming from the epic touch because I need a world phone now and have watched the dog fight part 2 and seemed the phone they were using was laggy especially on the internet.
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Laggy yes. But not if you don't use the stock launcher. Download any other launcher and the phone should be fine. It does feel a tap Laggy neitherless. But it handles somehow gaming and media stuff in general better. And the reception is awesome unlike when I had the Samsung epic touch.
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Laggy yes. But not if you don't use the stock launcher. Download any other launcher and the phone should be fine. It does feel a tap Laggy neitherless. But it handles somehow gaming and media stuff in general better. And the reception is awesome unlike when I had the Samsung epic touch.
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Did you not like the epic touch?
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Laggy yes. But not if you don't use the stock launcher. Download any other launcher and the phone should be fine. It does feel a tap Laggy neitherless. But it handles somehow gaming and media stuff in general better. And the reception is awesome unlike when I had the Samsung epic touch.
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I agree hole heartedly on this one , ditch motos and use something else and this phone is a bamf
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Mine runs Fast as Puck with Launcher Pro Plus.
and with the qHD screen I can easily configure Launcher pro to allow 5 rows of icons or widgets without looking crappy
Thanks for all the replies but how is the browser?
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Also does this device have an nfc chip?
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No NFC unfortunately. I use Dolphin Browser HD on this and seems very fast, the only slowdowns you may see would be in Sprint's 3G Network.
Well I did like the Epic Touch. Beautiful device fast light. But the bad reception and the loss of service issues where a pain and the slow data on it was a pain too and not being able to handle games and media as well sucked to. And the random error with sd cars mount were all a pain in the butt. The photon is great just sometimes Laggy. Specially when scrolling to pages and my battery is horrible. It drains it like hell even the 3500 mah battery is dead within 11 hours in slightly use wtf.
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Well I did like the Epic Touch. Beautiful device fast light. But the bad reception and the loss of service issues where a pain and the slow data on it was a pain too and not being able to handle games and media as well sucked to. And the random error with sd cars mount were all a pain in the butt. The photon is great just sometimes Laggy. Specially when scrolling to pages and my battery is horrible. It drains it like hell even the 3500 mah battery is dead within 11 hours in slightly use wtf.
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Sounds like you have something draining it. No way an extended battery won't last longer than 11 hours. My regular battery will do that with slight use no problem. The Photon has excellent battery life for an Android phone. Even my ogEVO could get a day & 1/2 with extended battery under heavy use and it was terrible with battery life.
Stock browser is just OK. So many better browsers on the Market. I have used them all and still go back to Miren for everyday usage.
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Sounds like you have something draining it. No way an extended battery won't last longer than 11 hours. My regular battery will do that with slight use no problem. The Photon has excellent battery life for an Android phone. Even my ogEVO could get a day & 1/2 with extended battery under heavy use and it was terrible with battery life.
Stock browser is just OK. So many better browsers on the Market. I have used them all and still go back to Miren for everyday usage.
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Agreed..maybe you need to recalibrate that battery?
+ 1 for Miren browser
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Did recalibration a few times. I also can't find anything draining the battery strange thing is that it gives me a lot of idle that says that it has in average like 80% of times no signal even though my coverage is great.
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Did recalibration a few times. I also can't find anything draining the battery strange thing is that it gives me a lot of idle that says that it has in average like 80% of times no signal even though my coverage is great.
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I've had the same thing happen where the battery drained extremely fast and showed majority of use as phone idle. Battery pull/reboot took care of it for me. If you can't get it to stop might have to do a factory reset. Either that your battery/device is defective.
Battery pull seemed to work so far. I even had it so bad happen today that the battery didn't get recognized and gave me no power reading. Now it works. Have to see how long. Thanks for your reply and idea and input. I appreciate it.
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I played with my bros stock photon today giving him some tricks and stock is still snappy but yes get blur off it. If you're an android user, its just nature to modify anyways so its no buggy. Solid radios in the phone, great construction. I'm impressed w them.
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So I might be trading my Gnex for an Amaze + cash, but my main concern is battery life. That, and learning a different process of flashing roms/radios, since I've only ever tinkered with Samsung/LG devices.
So my fellow members, what screen on time (best way to measure battery life I think) do you guys get? I get around 5 hours on my Gnex. Mention what rom/radio as well if you can.
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Moderate use on stock, change a few settings, no unnecessary background programs, I get a decent 12-16 hours with moderate use, though to be honest, I text a lot, check my facebook, be on xda and stuff quite a bit. I set my screen timeout to 15s. So you gotta tweak it and mess with it a bit. Some custom roms have reported better life.
On speed Rom I get a full day with 40% to spare with a lot of browsing and playing games through the day, I'm sure you could get that with other roms as well. The amaze has no custom radio or kernel for ics at the moment
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To be honest I've never measured/calculated my Screen On Battery Life. But total battery time for me is a good 12-16+ hrs.
Also its recommended, but not necessary, to S-Off your device. It makes flashing Roms much easier to flash. But if you don't want to perform that then use 4EXT Recovery and it can flash kernels without the use of fastboot to flash a kernel.
If the Amaze you get isn't updated to ICS then you're better off upgrading first before rooting and etc... Have Fun!
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Thanks guys! Definitely seems like its closer to what I got with my G2x.
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+1 for speedrom. With moderate use throughout the workday Im left with 30-40%
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Getting good battery from speed Rom 5.0 about 3 hours screen on
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Getting good battery from speed Rom 5.0 about 3 hours screen on
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Care to show a screenshot of the screen on time too?
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I am just stock ICS and generally get 9-11 hours. Screen is usually on 2 plus hours and do a lot of Internet, XDA, FB and the like. Actually use my phone for phone calls too.
Gingerbread was so much better for me, but used to it now.
That is with Juice Defender on as well.
I will say if not using the phone much, stand by time is phenomenal! I have gotten 24 hours on ICS, but I barely used the phone.
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So I've been struggling with battery life on this rezound since I purchased it. It does get hot every now and then sometimes for no reason. I was waiting for aosp to come along to determine if it was just sense or the phone itself but since its not fully operational and makes my rezound hot as hell, I've stuck with sense roms for my day to day. The following screen shots are venom Rom desensed by me, including no weather, or facebook. The only thing syncing manually is gmail. That's it. No gaming here either. Downloaded a 7mb song, listened to mp3s with headphones and cruised the web a bunch.
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That's about what I had using viperrez, although it seems your phone is discharging quickly when screen is off. I'd recommend under clocking when screen off to about 500mhz that works for me. Doesn't help with the screen on time though
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So I've been struggling with battery life on this rezound since I purchased it. It does get hot every now and then sometimes for no reason. I was waiting for aosp to come along to determine if it was just sense or the phone itself but since its not fully operational and makes my rezound hot as hell, I've stuck with sense roms for my day to day. The following screen shots are venom Rom desensed by me, including no weather, or facebook. The only thing syncing manually is gmail. That's it. No gaming here either. Downloaded a 7mb song, listened to mp3s with headphones and cruised the web a bunch.
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1.) sense 4 is a MAJOR battery hog. id advise not to use ut unless your showing off
2.) i usually get 2hrs screen on, so id say NOT defective
3.) if you want like an extra 30-60 mins, try aosp. its fast and good on battery
hope this helps
Thanks for the replies guys I appreciate it. I did forget to mention something though... This is with the extended battery I know 2 hours would be about right on standard but I would think the extended should yield more no?
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metalmike6 said:
Thanks for the replies guys I appreciate it. I did forget to mention something though... This is with the extended battery I know 2 hours would be about right on standard but I would think the extended should yield more no?
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Most likely yes, isn't the extended battery 1.5x? Either way, battery consumption is hard to perfect. Like I said maybe underclock or find a battery saving build. Prop script to try I know system tuner pro has one built in.
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I thought we shouldn't underlock yet because of the perflock bug? Or did that get fixed?
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I thought we shouldn't underlock yet because of the perflock bug? Or did that get fixed?
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Some people experience overheating, I personally have never experienced negative effects from using a cpu governor
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Obvious total noob here. I've read all the thunderbolt reference material here and have followed a couple of tutorials on how to root my thunderbolt, but I keep finding broken mirrors. I just keep finding dead ends. Can someone point me to a current root method for this device. My goal is to try the leaked ICS rom. Thanks.
The closest I got was with revolution.
It did see my device and I was on the last step but it seemed like my rom was not compatible. There was a nice video and followed all the steps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1703455
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Thank you for the link. I had to use that with revolution to achieve root. I am on Liqiuid now and my god its like a new super awesome phone.
Thanks again.:good:
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Thank you for the link. I had to use that with revolution to achieve root. I am on Liqiuid now and my god its like a new super awesome phone.
Thanks again.:good:
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Yeah. Rooting and having ICS is quite nice. Lol.
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Welcome to the rooted club! I just joined this week myself.
I hadn't seen the all in one tool but I think I'll snag it. Revolutionary worked great for me. The only thing I had to do was temp root since I was running the .19 ROM. It was smooth sailing after that.
I'm running SkyRaider 1.3 now. I'll probably flash to ICS next month after playing with SR for a bit.
What has SR been like for you?
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So far I'm digging it. It's been considerably faster and seemingly more reliable than stock. The past two years have been hateful and I wish I would have rooted a long time ago.
I'm still trying to figure out what things have changed (like what new options I have and where to find some things) but it's been a fairly easy ride. I did have to flash twice to get it to work but now it seems to be solid.
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I just started using the thunderbolt and is this battery performance is terrible. I'm not going to make a full day at work. If you want to keep 4G on do you have to use a extended battery.
I am liking liquid Ics should I try another rom or is this just how LTE is
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Alright..... at 7am I was fully charged and now is about 1pm and now I'm at 14% so on the charger I go. Perhaps a bad battery? I bought this phone used
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Sounds like a battery. I typically charge overnight and I'm good from about 7-4. Then I charge on the 30 min drive home and I'm good until the nightly charge. I've never seen exceptional battery life even with JuiceDefender. Right now it's bad but not quite like yours. I was on a third-party battery, though. I just swapped to the HTC battery and I'll see how it is. I think I'm going to turn JD off as well to see how SkyRaider managers on its own.
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Alright..... at 7am I was fully charged and now is about 1pm and now I'm at 14% so on the charger I go. Perhaps a bad battery? I bought this phone used
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This was typical for me.
I recommend turning off 4G. It's not really useful anyways unless you're trying to download something. Calibrate the battery also. Turn down your screen brightness and backlight timing. Also adjust how often accounts sync. Slow your CPU speeds.
You should be set after that.
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Yeah, I only use 4G if I'm doing file transfers or tethering. I need to look at underclocking. How often do you sync? I have a number of accounts that I check every 15 min. I could probably increase that to 30.
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Yeah, I only use 4G if I'm doing file transfers or tethering. I need to look at underclocking. How often do you sync? I have a number of accounts that I check every 15 min. I could probably increase that to 30.
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I increase mine to 4 hours.
Some of these are apps you can change within the apps settings, such as Facebook. I usually sign on before it syncs anyways.
Definitely checks your social apps and change the update intervals. It's basically the same thing.
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I unplugged at 7:30 and it's almost 4pm now. On 3G with some forum browsing and regular email checking I'm at 38%. So if you were dropping to 14% I'd definitely try a new battery. This is with JuiceDefender disabled as well.
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I finally hit 14% 12 hours after disconnecting from the AC charger. I guess that's not too bad.
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I unplugged at 7:30 and it's almost 4pm now. On 3G with some forum browsing and regular email checking I'm at 38%. So if you were dropping to 14% I'd definitely try a new battery. This is with JuiceDefender disabled as well.
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I finally hit 14% 12 hours after disconnecting from the AC charger. I guess that's not too bad.
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I just bought a 1600 battery. We'll see how that goes.
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You need to realize the stock battery is only 1450. So very small for a 4g phone. I have found juice defender only made my wallet lighter. You might want to look in to an aosp ROM as it gives you better battery life. I personally disable auto sync and turn off GPS. Also while I am at work I disable data as SMS and MMS doesn't come over mobile data part. In the end some people carries more than one battery on them if they won't be in a place they can charge.
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You need to realize the stock battery is only 1450. So very small for a 4g phone. I have found juice defender only made my wallet lighter. You might want to look in to an aosp ROM as it gives you better battery life. I personally disable auto sync and turn off GPS. Also while I am at work I disable data as SMS and MMS doesn't come over mobile data part. In the end some people carries more than one battery on them if they won't be in a place they can charge.
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I'm on liquid ics so I'm good there. I will be swapping batteries once it comes in.
I used to swap batteries in my old blackberry days.
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