Does anyone know what each mode does to the tablet besides the obvious of saving battery?
Also do you recommend downloading Juice Defender to increase battery life?
chin_a_ling said:
Does anyone know what each mode does to the tablet besides the obvious of saving battery?
Also do you recommend downloading Juice Defender to increase battery life?
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check out this thread I made. if it doesn't answer, post any other questions there n ill answer best to my knowledge. Answer should be in this thread I made though.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1412819
chin_a_ling said:
Does anyone know what each mode does to the tablet besides the obvious of saving battery?
Also do you recommend downloading Juice Defender to increase battery life?
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From what I understand, it adjusts the Tegra 3 processor with how much power to give meaning lower the power selection, the slower the processor will perform but will give you better battery. I believe that is all the power settings are designed to do.
also Juice defender not needed as this device has great battery life. Actually the best battery life of any Android device. Right up there with ipad2.
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as title says. I am assumig I do not use the OS power Saving mode because I am useing an app Juice Defender. Am I correct?
CHarlie C
You can keep it. Device won't crash. I've used JD with Power Saving Mode on. Besides, why did you install JD?
JD
I thought JD would help battery life even more is the internal energy saver good enough?
Charlie
cc999 said:
I thought JD would help battery life even more is the internal energy saver good enough?
Charlie
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I was wondering the same thing, after the pone charges though does the brightness, etc settings return to normal?
JD
I am running today with JD ONLY. Seems to be better than both running.
Heavy usage, from 7 am to 6 pm so far I have 46% left.
Charlie C
I hve been using my phone on power saving mode from 2 days to save battery and to hve more life out of it. I wana ask tht it is ok to use it continuously on power saving mode forever??
Any ideas??
No problem in using power mode all the time. It's a feature Samsung enables to save battery
Yep. Can't see a problem except the expected performance downgrade etc.
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Personally I hated the power saving modes in every smartphone i had cause it affects performance. I will buy a spsre battery and a charger. If you are ok with the performance in power saving mode you should use it!
Enjoy your phone to its maximal potential. Don't let the battery saving issue to disturb your user experience.
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My phone doesn't decrease in performance with saving mode enabled. It is always fast.
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CreekDirt said:
My phone doesn't decrease in performance with saving mode enabled. It is always fast.
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Not the case with mine, I notice a decrease in performance. It most likely under clocks the CPU...
In regards to the original question, no there is nothing wrong with leaving the phone in power saver mode. In fact you could probably argue that its better as the phone creates less heat.
Ideally I'd like to overclock mine
Well there is no such thing as saving power without sacreficing preformance. (unless you undervolt it or use more power effectient drivers)
But you should be ok running in power save mode all the time, although I do question why you bought a top of the line smartphone then. I think you would have saved more power (and money) buying a lower end phone.
It does govern the cpu. You can uncheck it. I leave mine checked.
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Truely speaking i cant see diiference of even 1% in comparison to power saving and normal mode. Any one knows y battrey depleting though good but at same rate in both modes??
juice defender app does a good job for me. i use the basic settings but you can tweak it to save more battery.
Power saving appears to cap the clock speed at 1.0 GHz rather than 1.4 GHz and it may also disable cores, too. Most of the time it feels just as responsive to use. It is less snappy for some apps and benchmarks quite a bit slower, but I feel I'm splitting hairs as it still feels quicker than my last handset.
I see two days of moderate use with Power Saving on. I don't quite see two days with it off, but the difference is probably not statistically significant and the device is still new.
Power Saving
im using a power saving application on Xperia S ... is it okay to keep it working all the time??
thank you ....
ButterMaker: first of all, wrong forum, also battery saving apps are known to interfere with androids way to handle memory so I would say no
CuttyCZ said:
ButterMaker: first of all, wrong forum, also battery saving apps are known to interfere with androids way to handle memory so I would say no
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Yes, should not use battery/ram optimization apps. They interfere with androids core system.
I uninstalled all these apps after trying and researching. They eat more battery then they save. I only use battery stats apps to keep a log of battery drain.
Now I easily get 40+ hours on my S3 with moderate uses.
Hi I have really low battery life even I turn off everything. I play games alot but 4h is just not normal.
I really like to have more battery even if you think its enough because it cost me alot for charging and annoying.
thnxxx
I KNOW THERE A TONS OF SMILAIR QUESTIONS BUT I COULDNT FIND ONE SPECIFIC FOR MY PHONE
I had 4h of gameplay, finished 9MM, battery from 100% down to 10%, so as you can see, games are hard on battery, don't play games so much.
Buy an extra battery, you double your battery life for €8. I bought it here: http://www.e-giftshop.nl/a-25154890...j-accu-ba700-voor-de-sony-xperia-ray-1500-mah
Put screen birghtness as low as pleasant, use stock kernel, or stock based kernel.
And I agree with Madfysh ^
sdk16420 said:
Buy an extra battery, you double your battery life for €8. I bought it here: http://www.e-giftshop.nl/a-25154890...j-accu-ba700-voor-de-sony-xperia-ray-1500-mah
Put screen birghtness as low as pleasant, use stock kernel, or stock based kernel.
And I agree with Madfysh ^
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then I ahve to carry an extra battery everywhere I go...I thinkt hats not handy at all.
But arent there tweaks for optimizing the battery???
And if I go back to stock kernel I have NO recovery mode AND root anymore
you cant boost battery life.
There is no app which can do that.
In my opinion even roms which claim to boost battery life are fake.
You can Root the delete all the pre-installed SE stuff.
Use V6 supercharger
Calibrate you battery (to prevent any bad values-calibration wont increase battery life but will make sure it is at its MAXIMUM_)
Now there are some kernels which use a technique in order to charge your battery even more
example: Your mobile allows the battery to be charged at 100% and then they discharge it to 90% after 10 min.
This kernel will not reduce battery from 100 to 90. What is more it will increase the maximum value from 100% to 110%.
BUT (YES THE HUGE BUT) it can destroy you battery (yes fire or blow up).
So i don't really recommend it.
I wont risk my life or my house either just for 20% more battery
OR EITHER INSTEAD OF DOING ALL THESE...
BUY A BATTERY FROM HERE
http://www.mugen-power-batteries.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=neo+v
to tell the truth i never bought a battery from there but i found posts which were saying they are good.
Unfortunately more life time means bigger battery which means for a 3100mAH( the standard battery of neo v is 1500 which means this one lasts x2.08 more time)
or a 3400mAH you will need bigger cover.
Or you can buy the 1700mAH which is not a huge boost(just 13% more) and stay with your current cover.
It is up to you to decide .
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you cant boost battery life.
There is no app which can do that.
In my opinion even roms which claim to boost battery life are fake.
You can Root the delete all the pre-installed SE stuff.
Use V6 supercharger
Calibrate you battery (to prevent any bad values-calibration wont increase battery life but will make sure it is at its MAXIMUM_)
Now there are some kernels which use a technique in order to charge your battery even more
example: Your mobile allows the battery to be charged at 100% and then they discharge it to 90% after 10 min.
This kernel will not reduce battery from 100 to 90. What is more it will increase the maximum value from 100% to 110%.
BUT (YES THE HUGE BUT) it can destroy you battery (yes fire or blow up).
So i don't really recommend it.
I wont risk my life or my house either just for 20% more battery
OR EITHER INSTEAD OF DOING ALL THESE...
BUY A BATTERY FROM HERE
http://www.mugen-power-batteries.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=neo+v
to tell the truth i never bought a battery from there but i found posts which were saying they are good.
Unfortunately more life time means bigger battery which means for a 3100mAH( the standard battery of neo v is 1500 which means this one lasts x2.08 more time)
or a 3400mAH you will need bigger cover.
Or you can buy the 1700mAH which is not a huge boost(just 13% more) and stay with your current cover.
It is up to you to decide .
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This is what I was looking for, LIFE SAVER!!
But about the supercharger, I read it is for smoother device, DOES IT ALSO OPTIMIZE BATTERY A LITTLE BIT??
And some people say stock kernel is better for battery, is that true? Currently im using riyal's ultima kernel.
martirio3000 said:
Calibrate you battery (to prevent any bad values-calibration wont increase battery life but will make sure it is at its MAXIMUM_)
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Every time when you charge your battery to 100% battery stats got deleted/recreated. So any process of calibration is useless.
martirio3000 said:
Now there are some kernels which use a technique in order to charge your battery even more
example: Your mobile allows the battery to be charged at 100% and then they discharge it to 90% after 10 min.
This kernel will not reduce battery from 100 to 90. What is more it will increase the maximum value from 100% to 110%.
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Your example only happens if you leave your phone on charger(for some time) after it's been filled to 100%, but even then Sony is pretty good in this point, some other manufactures are even worse. I think HTC Evo had biggest problem with that.
Do you understand what happens in that case, and that it's normal, or else you would have fried your battery keeping it on charger.
There is one great post in XDA, showing you how charging goes, try finding it, if I remember where it is, will post it.
Also, please tell me where is that kernel which will charge your batter to 110%, because it's simply a big BS, and a totally useless thing
And another thing, @OP: phone(even if it's smartphone) is not made for gameplay, HD or not HD, it literally kills battery so bear with it.
Only thing you can do is get another battery and risk your phone with some cheap batteries.
i cant find the post(it was on XDA) it was talking about different features of kernels and there was a kernel which was over charging your battery and wasnt reducing it to 90% too.
That way you had A good enough boost but YES a lot of users had problems because the batteries were "FRIED" i saw one which his phone was in smoke and burned at the back cover, someone's else battery died.
Hmm.. Just noticed when my phone says 100% charged its not! If I pull battery & reboot its 96%.. Is this a bug or what??
But does Supercharger REALLY help your battery [little bit]???
And could I destroy my battery if I always has to charge it?? [1x per day]
Im still gonna try calibrating battery but I also think it wont work.
xperiap said:
Hmm.. Just noticed when my phone says 100% charged its not! If I pull battery & reboot its 96%.. Is this a bug or what??
But does Supercharger REALLY help your battery [little bit]???
And could I destroy my battery if I always has to charge it?? [1x per day]
Im still gonna try calibrating battery but I also think it wont work.
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rebooting eats up a LOT of battery power, so thats why it drops to %96 after booting.
Ah yes, here it is: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=871051
xperiap said:
But does Supercharger REALLY help your battery [little bit]???
And could I destroy my battery if I always has to charge it?? [1x per day]
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Supercharger is not about battery
And no, you won't destroy your battery, indeed you will shorten her life, but hey, you are using smartphone, and it's making your life easier, if you will gonna spend time on thinking to much about battery, you're missing the point
X10 mini pro's battery charged aprox. 2X a day, is still live and kicking like first day
I would be more worried about playing games so much, which means, your CPU is high all the time.
Madfysh said:
Ah yes, here it is: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=871051
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Thanku very much for link!!
codephos said:
rebooting eats up a LOT of battery power, so thats why it drops to %96 after booting.
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Hey but does that also happen when I power down my phone, and power on?
xperiap said:
Hey but does that also happen when I power down my phone, and power on?
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Battery and battery percentage calculations are pretty abstract.. don't try to understand it, and don't bash your head so much about it. It's affected by many variables, and it's not 100% correct.
Sometimes shut down/turn on can take few % of your batter, sometimes it won't take a single %. Same as I have examples where my phone was on standby and in 7h didn't spend one single % of batter, while other day it spend 2,3%
Try to undervolt, but carefully.Can you Read threads about that.
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Try to undervolt, but carefully.Can you Read threads about that.
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I undervolted from 1GHZ to 900MHZ. And why is it 'dangerous'?
Thanks for reply btw!!
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I undervolted from 1GHZ to 900MHZ.
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Underclock and undervolt are not same things.
What you did is underclock.
Madfysh said:
Underclock and undervolt are not same things.
What you did is underclock.
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Hey friend can u plz tell me what the difference is and how to undervolt?
Thnx thnx thxn!!
My battery life used to be better but my touch pad has gotten its fair use.
I would like to be able to survive the day on a charge if possible with moderate use. I'm on fat and creamy with juice defender and that has helped loads but I was wondering if anyone else has some good battery saving tips or maybe a from with even better battery life.
Also my touch screen seems less sensitive than when I got the tablet (okay so maybe my tablet is more than just moderately used), and I was wondering if anyone has a keyboard with buttons easier to tap than the stock.
Some use Juice Defender to save battery. You can achieve many of the same savings by setting up profiles. One sure way to improve battery life is to use RootDim (free app) to lower screen light level (the TP screen is very good so lowering level below 25 % saves battery and still looks good.
You may to consider RandomROM's Falcon ROM... gets great battery life.
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i was looking for a long time to increase my touchpad battery life on android and i found that option that did it like magic so i wanted to share it with u
settings > developer options > don't keep activities
is this in the stock rom or it is cm option and is there any app makes the same function
the only disadvantage of this it is mess with multitasking but it isn't annoying .. i prefer the battery life
thanks for the tip
im gonna try this today and see how much better the battery life is.
thanks for the info
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the only disadvantage of this it is mess with multitasking but it isn't annoying .. i prefer the battery life
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It screws up shutdown widgets because they close as soon as they're activated. The only way to shutdown or reboot the tablet is with the power button- for me at least. I deactivated it.
dude
Dont post things like this in DEV SECTION.
I dont know if some moderator is gonna close it. Idnc
But just for the info. It goes more in general section
How does this safe battery life? As far as I know this option will prevent background processes from running, so if you have something wasting CPU cycles in the background it could improve battery life. But any decent app should sit idle in the RAM using a marginal amount of power.
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How does this safe battery life? As far as I know this option will prevent background processes from running, so if you have something wasting CPU cycles in the background it could improve battery life. But any decent app should sit idle in the RAM using a marginal amount of power.
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Seems to me that this question is irrelevent. It is so simple the try that who cares how it works? Either it extends your battery life without hurting your "user experience" or it doesn't.:laugh:
spunker88 said:
How does this safe battery life? As far as I know this option will prevent background processes from running, so if you have something wasting CPU cycles in the background it could improve battery life. But any decent app should sit idle in the RAM using a marginal amount of power.
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i think there is no longer decent apps out there .. tron style