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I've had the 3vo since launch and lately my battery does hella fast. Whenever I check to see what has been using my battery it always says 60%+ screen and never 10%+ of anything else. I always have brightness dimmed and screen timeout at 30 seconds. Any ideas?
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i know what u mean, i had the same problem but it eventually improved a bit for whatever reason. I think the main culprit is actually a wake lock thats causing the ****ty battery, not the display itself. Do you also have a high awake time?
The display usage being that high is actually a good thing. It means none of your other components are draining your battery excessively. The screen uses how much it is going to use and can't really run in the background and kill the battery like the cell standby, media server, and android OS could. I get great battery life, during a 10 hour shift at work my battery drops maybe 30% if I'm getting a lot of missed emails, calls, text. My display usage is 85%.
A thing to consider is that this is a percentage of battery use, not a microvolt value, so it's not really that useful for diagnosis just identification. One thing you could do is click each item listed and compare time on and CPU times listed.
Do you actually let the screen timeout every time or do you manually turn it off? Do you spend a lot of time using the 3D feature?
Basically if your phone is dying fast and display is the highest consumer, it is probably dying fast because you are using your phone a lot.
It simply means that your actually using your phone. People with 30 display is pretty much sleep sleep sleep. I get about 3-4 hours of onscreen usage.
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I had one device that would drain way quick...same situation as you, with only a couple hours screen-on time. 70%+ display usage...
I took it back and forced their hand to give me a new one.
It has been working a lot better, I still use the phone just as much but it lasts much longer. It may have been a defective battery but it's probably easier to just exchange the whole device.
Good luck.
rdwing said:
I had one device that would drain way quick...same situation as you, with only a couple hours screen-on time. 70%+ display usage...
I took it back and forced their hand to give me a new one.
It has been working a lot better, I still use the phone just as much but it lasts much longer. It may have been a defective battery but it's probably easier to just exchange the whole device.
Good luck.
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oh yes, the old 'return it' solution. lol fail
I'm pretty well versed with most diagnostic techniques to pin down what was eating the battery; believe me I tried all of it.
Sleep time was good, no apps sucking cpu cycles.
When the display was draining 30% battery per hour I figured it was a faulty display or faulty battery. Easiest solution within 30 days was to exchange.
The new one works great.
2.3.4 eclipse 1.3 in my situation, so I don't understand what causes such ridiculous Phone Idle percentages, is it from ram being abused, an unreliable connection, android hating?
(everything else is commonly below 10%)
wifi is typically left disabled, and i keep it slightly underclocked
what else android, what else!
I swear...the phone never truly goes into sleep mode...it stays awake for large chunks of time doing god knows what...every other phones battery usage graph I have compared it to looks completely different and only has small tiny lines of awake time...mostly when screen on...my x2 shows huge chunks awake when the screen hasn't even been turned on and data disabled for over 4hrs...I don't understand it. Killing my battery
it's a kernel bug, reboot yer phone immediately after unplugging it, every time. or downgrade to froyo (i got my absolute best battery life from froyo
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it's a kernel bug, reboot yer phone immediately after unplugging it, every time. or downgrade to froyo (i got my absolute best battery life from froyo
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Me?
Yeah I have been doing that since that fix was posted...it helps with life and awake times but it is still horrific compared to other phones...whether I reboot from power menu..power of/on...or whatever....it needs to be fixed...I don't understand why it does this...im about to delete the things that allow it to communicate with moto databases lol...
compare the battery capacity of other phones, most other phones come with at LEAST an 1800mAH battery, this thing is 1500mAH if you're lucky, couple that with 2.3.4's reporting bug and you end up thinking you're going dead much faster than you actually are.
I spend over half my days hovering at 15% or lower according to the phone, but I've also realized that it lies, alot... like my ex.
what does that actually do? =o
like what if you reboot a couple hours after unplugging?
... Christ what was 2.3.4 for if they didn't even get some of this stuff cleaned up
it prevents the idle process from "running away" when you plug it in it essentially disables the idle process, when it goes to re-enable it, it never stops, it takes up CPU cycles and burns the battery down for no reason and it will do it from the moment you unplug your charger/USB cable until you restart the phone.
why? beats me.
I thought you no longer needed to reboot after unplugging on 2.3.4? I did it every morning on 2.3.3, but stopped after updating to .4
I'm confused with this. Wouldn't a phone idle of 70% mean you the phone has been sitting there not being used?
As far as sleep, i use a cpu monitoring app from time to time and it shows my phone in "deep sleep" for multiple hrs when I'm not using the phone; my phone idle will show an equal high %, too.
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that list indicates power consumption. if I reboot my phone in the morning, idle stays around 10-15%, if I don't, that number skyrockets 40-45% and by 5 or 6 pm, I'm hunting for a place to plug in.
my biggest boosts in battery life came from turning on "data saver" disabling "background data", anytime you can make the 3g radio shut off, you're saving TONS of power
I also just upgraded to a BH6X battery, it was the ONLY way I could make it through a full day when I was working in Cheyenne, Wyoming (cell service there, not so great) I also use wifi as much as possible 'cause it seems to draw less current.
battery life and signal strength definitely have a correlation. the less signal you have the quicker that battery dies.
also, "SuperDim" (available on the market) is a HUGE battery saver, not to mention the fact that the automatic light sensor just doesn't make the screen dim enough, ever. I kinda miss the semi transreflective screen in my G1, I never had to crank the brightness way up to see that one in broad daylight, made the colors funny but at least it was legible. but that's the price you pay for pixel density
I've never had bad enough battery life to try Juice Defender but my roommate uses it on his bionic and it does pretty well. His only complaint is having to load facebook or his browser twice to get data to come back on.
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I am getting amazing battery life! Coming from a myTouch4G which would last maybe half of the day, its amazing!
I was at 51% when I plugged in my phone today. I have been using it all day and pretty extensively.
No juice defender either...
This is a mysterious problem for me also. I could have phone booted
up full charge everything that load's up is started. I could turn on airplane mode not do anything else for the day. (So No data no phones) And every-time I bring up screen I will see the amount of apps running go's up (ghost apps)
battery down & less & less ram available.
Has anyone ever tried to go into Sleep Mode I click it just locks up.
What's This Phone Doing Behind My Back??
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ashclepdia said:
I swear...the phone never truly goes into sleep mode...it stays awake for large chunks of time doing god knows what...every other phones battery usage graph I have compared it to looks completely different and only has small tiny lines of awake time...mostly when screen on...my x2 shows huge chunks awake when the screen hasn't even been turned on and data disabled for over 4hrs...I don't understand it. Killing my battery
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it's a kernel bug, reboot yer phone immediately after unplugging it, every time. or downgrade to froyo (i got my absolute best battery life from froyo
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Yep, it's a kernel bug, from what I understand. Ugh.
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Has anyone ever tried to go into Sleep Mode I click it just locks up.
What's This Phone Doing Behind My Back??
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If you manually tell your phone to go to sleep, you have to long-press the power button for like 6 seconds to wake it back up.
This bug happens on multiple Motorola phones (bionic and d3). I know for a fact that this has been brought up multiple times to Motorola thru customer complaints, Motorola feedback program and carrier complaints. But for some reason they don't care or feel its a big issue. For issues like this, I wish they would unlock the bootloader.
I just installed this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1246822
Have just been running it for a little bit but what I can see is that it definitely has an impact on battery life (in the good way). My battery seems to be dropping slower.
Thanks to 0vermind two posts above me.
how is the BH6X battery for you?
how long does it kick for? =)
Watercycle said:
2.3.4 eclipse 1.3 in my situation, so I don't understand what causes such ridiculous Phone Idle percentages, is it from ram being abused, an unreliable connection, android hating?
(everything else is commonly below 10%)
wifi is typically left disabled, and i keep it slightly underclocked
what else android, what else!
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I cant for the life of me remember but I read somewhere that unchecking the "automatic" setting in "date & time settings" stopped that part from oversyncing and draining battery. I have had mine unchecked for a while and seems to help some. Might be worth a shot. oh I usually 19% +- 1-2% on my phone idle at pretty much all times
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I cant for the life of me remember but I read somewhere that unchecking the "automatic" setting in "date & time settings" stopped that part from oversyncing and draining battery. I have had mine unchecked for a while and seems to help some. Might be worth a shot. oh I usually 19% +- 1-2% on my phone idle at pretty much all times
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That was me in "phone awake" thread.
What it solved for me was the chunks of time phone is awake(when screen has been off) are extremely reduced compared to when the setting is checked.
Only thing is that once in a while(mainly after bootstrapper use or a battery pull) the date/time is messed up. Easily fixed by turning the setting on for 5-15 seconds til it fixes itself and I turn it back off
Ash,
Yea discovered that today when I put in new class 10 16gb sdcard. No worries easy fix like you said super find been using your discovery for a week know working great.
Hey guys,
How much battery life do you get on your X2?
I just installed CM7 and I'm down to 60% after 5 hours of LOW use :/. Could I need a new battery?
Are you doing anything with the settings of the CPU, such as setting minimum frequency, keeping both CPUs online at all time (this might be set via tweaking scripts)?
In fact, ARE you using any type of tweaking scripts (V6 Turbocharger, speedy, etc)?
I don't use any of them and my battery life is pretty good. I also have an extended battery as well, so that helps.
Let the ROM settle in. After two days you should get a better picture of what it's like. Don't forget to do a battery calibration. I haven't even done that yet and have been lucky enough to have great battery longevity. Can also look into managers like Juice Defender. There's also another app I have used in the past that can limit when an app can run. Like limit Facebook from always running in the background and syncing for data. Ithink it'd LGE or LBE security?
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Are you using the beta and not the alpha? The alpha has a problem with running the CPU at a high percentage when it shouldn't, which cause the battery to suck.
It is possible that you may need a new battery, but more likely is that the X2 simply has notoriously bad battery life. There are, however, things you can try to help. Go to your settings app, scroll down and click on "applications", and from there, open "running processes". Check out some of the processes. There may not be any, and if you see processes running for games or apps you haven't used in the last few minutes, it may mean that they are constantly running in the background. In that case, you may want to consider uninstalling. Try to use wifi over 3g wherever available. Screen brightness is a major battery killer, and as such, may want to keep it on the lowest setting; I've found it to be the most noticeable improvent in battery life. People are going to tell you to calibrate your battery, but I've done that many times on 2 X2s, never seen a difference. My friends and I agree its just a myth, but there's no reason not to try.
Honestly I don't know squat about batteries, but I remember hearing that the voltage of our batteries is 4.2 volts. If that's a measure of capacity like I think, you can try the app "battery left", which I believe has a voltage meter. If its less than that, maybe you should consider a replacement. Please don't take my word on this though, I can't confirm any of this to be true lol. Maybe someone else can offer their opinion on battery health.
This whole post probably seems like a big collection of thoughts. I'm tokin' right now, took me like 20 minutes to type this.
Hope I could help
To add to theredvendetta's comment, if you have your email set to check for messages, it can really have an effect on your battery. If you set it to never check, I'll bet you will see a difference.
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In fact, ARE you using any type of tweaking scripts (V6 Turbocharger, speedy, etc)?
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I have nothing of the sort extra installed (CM7 might of had this stuff, but I don't know).
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Are you using the beta and not the alpha? The alpha has a problem with running the CPU at a high percentage when it shouldn't, which cause the battery to suck.
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I am using the Beta.
@theredvendetta: I installed the Battery Left widget, and when I go into details it's saying some interesting things.
I'm at 50% battery right now. For one, its saying my battery is at 3787 mV. 3.8 volts I would say considerably lower then the 4.3 it should be. My battery is only ~6 months old, but, for 4 of those months it sat unused, uncharged, and in my hot/cold car. I've only run it down a bit and charged it up 4 or 5 times this week since then.
It is reporting "battery health" as good, but idk.
Under "Accuracy" it's saying the charge reading is "Inaccurate" and the bar is totally red, indicating that the estimation of charge is very inaccurate.
Where can I calibrate the battery? I'll look around under Settings for now. EDIT: It's likely I was only around 60% charged or so when I installed the rom.
And as for background tasks, aside from the default stuff and my few widgets (not a heavy user of those) there's just Facebook+Words with Friends, Songbird, GO Keyboard. Not too terrible, I think.
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I have nothing of the sort extra installed (CM7 might of had this stuff, but I don't know).
I am using the Beta.
@theredvendetta: I installed the Battery Left widget, and when I go into details it's saying some interesting things.
I'm at 50% battery right now. For one, its saying my battery is at 3787 mV. 3.8 volts I would say considerably lower then the 4.3 it should be. My battery is only ~6 months old, but, for 4 of those months it sat unused, uncharged, and in my hot/cold car. I've only run it down a bit and charged it up 4 or 5 times this week since then.
It is reporting "battery health" as good, but idk.
Under "Accuracy" it's saying the charge reading is "Inaccurate" and the bar is totally red, indicating that the estimation of charge is very inaccurate.
Where can I calibrate the battery? I'll look around under Settings for now.
And as for background tasks, aside from the default stuff and my few widgets (not a heavy user of those) there's just Facebook+Words with Friends, Songbird, GO Keyboard. Not too terrible, I think.
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I probably should have said this to begin with, but when I was talking about the voltage, I meant 4.2 was the charge when at full charge. I can see I worded my original statement poorly, apologies. Try charging up to full, and then check battery left.
When it says "innacurate", its reffering to the battery percentage reading its giving you. When you have cycled the battery once or twice, it will tell you it is "accurate", and the bar Williams turn green. You may notice parts of the bar turn green while first using the app; this means its picking up readings for the percentage of battery you're on at the time. I mean if you're on 50%, it will soon turn green halfway through the bar. After you have completely cycled the battery once or twice, it will stay green and accurate until you reset it or uninstall.
To calibrate the battery, you have to enter Android recovery. I can't remember 100%, but I believe that you hold the up volume button while booting up the phone. It may be down, you can try both. Hold it until you see text pop up that I think says "fastboot". When you see this, let go of the volume button, and now hit volume down until you see text that says "android recovery". If you accidently cycle past it, keep clicking volume down, as the list loops. When you stop on android recovery, press the up volume key. After a few seconds you will see a new screen with an exclamation mark. Press the up and down keys at the same time. A list of options will now appear. Don't use any of them unless you know what you are doing. There should be an option called advanced or something similar. Cycle to it by using the volume keys, and hit the power button to select it. There will be an option to calibrate you battery in there. Itbwill take a few seconds, and after that, return to the main menu and reboot the phone.
Good lord that took me ages to type. There's no hope with dope kids.
I feel like a broken record, but again, battery calibration does not do anything. If there's a chance the meter is off, just charge until your battery's voltage levels off and use the battery fully before charging again.
Stuckinabox said:
I feel like a broken record, but again, battery calibration does not do anything. If there's a chance the meter is off, just charge until your battery's voltage levels off and use the battery fully before charging again.
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I agree with you. He asked and I answered. 'Sides, there's no harm in trying it, as there are no negative aspects to it.
Im running cm7 and the only mod im running is the 8 touch points. I do have my screen set to the most dim setting thoough. My phone gets unplugged at 5:30 in the morning though out the day I'll talk send some text might play a few games and usually be on the internet about a hour or so. When I get off at 7pm my battery is usually anywhere from 75% to 69%. A few times it has gone 18 hours and only been down to 52%. Give it some time, CM7 has by far the best battery life that Ive seen for this phone.
Yeah, after clearing the davlic cache and going through a few charge cycles, it seems to of improve greatly.
I'm running CM7 and my phone has been unplugged for 23.5 hours with medium usage including 72 minutes total voice call time and I'm currently sitting at 23%, hence my signature lol and this is a stock battery.
SBF'd from my tasty X2 MAXX
give it a few days but cycle it hard, like don't plug it in until you're below 5%. I have the BH6X (1850mAh vs. 1600mAh) so it's not much of a jump in capacity... your voltage should start out right around 4.2v and drop to about 3.5 when it's close to dead. My phone sucks at telling me how much battery is left, it always has, I typically run this thing dead every day, but some days I'll have upwards of 40% left (voltage is still above 3.8v)
I honestly don't even pay attention to the percentage 'cause I can watch an entire episode of beavis and butthead in HD with the brightness all the way up using software rendering (more power consumption) when I'm below 10% and it won't shut off on me.
it takes me almost a solid two days to kill my battery and I've been on CM7 Beta for a week as of yesterday. at first my battery life was absolute crap, but it has improved... every time you wipe the dalvik it'll take a solid 2-3 days to rebuild it. that uses much more power.
I am prepping for CM7 now. With my mostly stock X2 using Juice Defender I am getting about 1.5 days between charges. When I charge I am about 20% or less on the battery and this is with mostly lite usage. I expect once I make the switch it could take up to a week for everything to level out as it will have to synchronize many things because it will be like having a new phone. When my X2 was new it took about a week to settle in and stop the random crashes. That was also about the time the battery improved from about 1 day between charges. I will write back in a week or two once I have my phone switched and stable.
I used juice defender for awhile but I realized I was really only using it to control data. I just keep a data toggle in the notifications bar. It's really not that much of a hassle to switch it off and it reconnects fast enough. Saves quite a bit of battery power. When I was doing that with my extended battery on liberty I could get about three days.
I am actually impressed with my x2's batt life (although it is a brand new batter when I got the phone a few months ago). I used to have the HTC Desire, and it wasn't the greatest with battery life. My bone stock x2 didn't have the greatest batt life when I first got it, and still wasn't a whole lot better with cm7 installed. But now that I have installed miui on it, and screen brightness is about 70% constant, with wifi ALWAYS enabled. I am going on almost 24 hours now (maybe more??) and I am at 57% with little usage. I've used the phone maybe 2 times today for a total of about 10 minutes talk time, I have no 3g/data, other then wifi when I am at home, so I'm sure that has alot to do with it.
Another tip, that probably everyone already knows, and some people say it doesn't matter, but it seems to for me. ONLY charge your phone when it is less than 10% left, and then make sure it is charged for at least 6-8 hours before you unplug it. I know they say the newer batteries are not effected by this but my wife had the HTC Hero (worst android phone ever IMO), but she would charge it every chance she got, even if it was at 80%. Now, the phone is lucky to hold a charge for 5-6 hours with NO USAGE at all (except wifi always turned on). Granted the phone is older than dirt, and so is the battery, but still. My desire still holds a decent charge considering how old it is. I can get maybe 14-18 hours with no use on it (or very little use) with wifi always on (granted, the phone is bone dead after this time though).
I just altered the cm7 performance settings... back to normal. This combined with a custom juice defender ultimate profile has easily tripled my battery life..
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I get about 3hrs max but im what u would call a heavy user lol
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Stuckinabox said:
I feel like a broken record, but again, battery calibration does not do anything. If there's a chance the meter is off, just charge until your battery's voltage levels off and use the battery fully before charging again.
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Yeah I've seen nothing come from battery calibration. I have problems with my meter some days draining really quick and some days just normal. If it's bothering my I'll do a reset and that will usually sync it up. I'll try the charged voltage level off and empty thing and see if that helps.
Thanks.
I get about 7 hours of battery everyday through medium usage and my battery drains quite a lot when I am revising and listening to music. I have a 1900 battery instead of the stock 1650 and it does improve battery life but is there anything else I can do? I find it a bit stupid that my battery drains so much when I'm just listening to music!
I am running CM9.
Whats the signal strength like in your area? Aside from the screen (put screen brightness down), 3g seems to drain my battery most in weak signal areas, where the signal bars are continuously on 1 or 0. I put my 3g / data off and my phone can easily go hours before any drop in battery percentage, I got 4 days battery life with 3g off using it sparingly or wifi when i could to check my emails. Only other thing i did was calls and texts, but that was just as a test.
But i like to keep data on, and gps, all the time. I often get 4 hours screen time and approx 24 hours battery life with my 2000mAh Samsung battery.
Aside from that, last time i checked cm9 was a battery drain, may have moved on a bit.
the only real way you can save battery "during use" is with some restraint. Ie turn brightness down if screen is on, listen at lower volumes if it's playing music. The more voltage it's using the faster it drains. So less brightness or volume output = less power used.
7 hours is around the average use for battery life savy users around here. Even with the extended battery I'd say your right about on the money for battery use (based on what I assume you do and don't know at this stage). But there is certainly room for improvement .
Now before I go on, you probably won't notice any significant difference to battery life during use from these steps. My only hope is that in-between use it'll save more power, and squeeze out a bit more usage time for you.
First/easiest thing would be go to check if it's sleeping properly. Just don't use it for say an hour, then go to the battery monitor in settings. Check the screen on and awake times, they should be almost idenical. If there are several awake records in between screen on's, then you have a problem.
If you use sounds like unlock sounds etc, go turn them all off.. this was/pretty sure still is an issue in CM9 (causes audio_out1 to continuously wake up the phone from deep sleep and drains the battery like a mofo). Also getting rid of facebook (if it's installed) will help.. it loves waking the phone for no obvious reason.. even with every form of sync, background data, and mobile data in general turned off .
^^ you don't have to do that step but I'm pretty confident you'd have to anyway, so it's just easier to do it straight up. Then you can look for other problems.
Next, install "better battery stats". If you like to support developers, you can quickly buy it off the market. Otherwise it's free here if you search for the official thread.
Reboot your phone, then leave you phone for an hour or two, then check out whats happening in better battery stats. I'm not going to pretend I unerstand what half of the stuff it bangs on about is, but I digress. Select "since charged" and then check each different tabs of data (partial wakelocks, kernel wakelocks etc). You are really just looking for anything that stands out as a red bar basically. small amounts aren't a real worry/bound to happen. If it's bigger than say 1cm long, it's probably an issue. Then it's up to you to find out what the app/process is doing the damage . So either google or the better battery stats thread will be your friend at that stage. It was obvious what is was for me cause it said facebook but you might have a different experience.
Hope that helps. But the only way that's going to make a real dent would be trying to use it less.. lol.
Oh and if possible, turning on airplane mode would save a bit of battery in use. And of course the obvious ones like turn of wifi, gps, bluetooth, data, auto sync, soft key backlight and anything else you can turn off
Just do it what i say .. Download the full version of app. called juice defender from play store..install it and then see the magic by yourself ..i have been using the same ..it almost double up the battery backup through its advance settings.
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So across all roms I have tried the display literally destroys the battery life of my phone. While the screen is off I get fine battery life. But when the screen is on I can watch my percentage decrease about 2-3% every minute so after a half hour of browsing my battery is gone.
I have an extended battery as well but that just prolongs it slightly. The brightness is about half right now. Is this normal?
Does not sound Normal but display is the largest user of battery( unless one can use the phone with display off
I had as video streaming yesterday for 30+ min from 80% it went to 14%
haven't tried keeping just display on should try that ...test for tomorrow
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So across all roms I have tried the display literally destroys the battery life of my phone. While the screen is off I get fine battery life. But when the screen is on I can watch my percentage decrease about 2-3% every minute so after a half hour of browsing my battery is gone.
I have an extended battery as well but that just prolongs it slightly. The brightness is about half right now. Is this normal?
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I have my brightness set to 15% and it still sucks about half of my battery use. The display is unfortunately nearly unstoppable when it comes to battery drain. HTC and others are like "BIG PHONE DISPLAY!!!1!111!" we're all like "I can haz batteries?"
That description is the best description of our issue.
But an answer to your question, drop you brightness to as low as you can stand it and if possible try to limit the amount of times you wake the display in a day the juice it requires to turn it on is greater than it needs to sustain the screen on.
I would say yes for the most part. We have a fantastic and power hungry display...the price for greatness?
That being said, its not so bad dropped down to 25% or so, and easily viewable, except if you're outside.
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Alright thanks. I just wanted to make sure my phone wasn't experiencing something that is atypical. Other than that I do love this phone and the developers
It's hard to say. With screen on I loose about 1% a minute even with auto-brightness turned off and the screen at around 25%.
There are others on the forum that have made rather amazing battery life claims so it may come down the the individual device.
I have debated about returning mine for a different one to see if I get any better performance.
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It's hard to say. With screen on I loose about 1% a minute even with auto-brightness turned off and the screen at around 25%.
There are others on the forum that have made rather amazing battery life claims so it may come down the the individual device.
I have debated about returning mine for a different one to see if I get any better performance.
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I'm not sure I would bother chasing longer battery life with new devices. A lot of those are very optimized use cases -- either all on wifi, all in areas with great signal, or lots of screen on time but they don't mention what brightness. The fact of the matter is the phone has a tiny battery and uses up a lot of power for the display and radios. I get somewhere between 12-16 hours on a stock battery, depending on where I am and how much I use the phone (generally I'm a pretty light user, but I do leave 4G and Bluetooth on all day).