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So here's the situation...basically am getting about 12-14hrs of battery life. I have been switching roms, sticking mostly with bionix. However it doesn't matter what rom I still average about the same.
I'm not sure what I actually should be getting so I thought I would ask. I user my phone for basic use; texting, checking email, 30 min podcast, and an app or something. I don't game or watch videos.
Can we here what people are getting and if there is something that can be done to get more life on my battery?
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The other dozen threads on the same topic didn't provide enough information?
Use 2G/3G Network Switcher and stay in 2G mode unless you really need speeds faster than EDGE (downloading a podcast). For texting and email, 2G is fine and will help battery life. Also using Juice Defender can help as well.
Go download Auto Killer, and set it to whatever level you want.
Also, go wipe you battery stats.
See if that helps...
Yup I've done all the above. Just curious if I'm still getting what is standard. I've searched the forums but if you know the best place to look then point me in the right direction. Keep the advice coming
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12-14 hours is pretty good. Best I got was with Franken-Twiz 3. I think the J16 modem in Franken-Twiz 4 is killing my battery faster so you can flash Modem J12 or try Bionix 1.8 which has Modem J12 in it.
how do you wipe battery stats?
Yeah how do you wipe battery stats
The guy on the couch
Clockwork recovery
advanced
wipe battery stats
Welp with 3g and wifi off I'm easily getting 16hours and on average I'll have 50-70% left of my battery.
I just normally use it as a phone thou. You know some emails, text messages, some surfing.
Just in case you think I'm nuts heres a screen shot as of now. 98% with 3hours on the battery and 48% with 16hours on the battery.
Last night I went to bed at 10pm and my phone was off the charger since 6am and I had 72% on the battery.
I've learned the more you fiddle with your phone the more battery it uses obviously. I've had several phones so I don't have to constantly play with it. Play videos or stream and well it will eat batteries. Use GPS and wifi it will destroy your battery life. Of course I'm not a power miser, but honestly I use it when I need it and when I don't it just sits there until I do.
Got it thanks
The guy on the couch
kizer said:
Welp with 3g and wifi off I'm easily getting 16hours and on average I'll have 50-70% left of my battery.
Last night I went to bed at 10pm and my phone was off the charger since 6am and I had 72% on the battery.
I've learned the more you fiddle with your phone the more battery it uses obviously. I've had several phones so I don't have to constantly play with it. Play videos or stream and well it will eat batteries. Use GPS and wifi it will destroy your battery life. Of course I'm not a power miser, but honestly I use it when I need it and when I don't it just sits there until I do.
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I'm getting similar performance with the JI6 OTA, and I generally leave both GPS and 3G on all the time. I just checked my battery stats and my phone's been off the charger for almost 4 hours and my battery percentage is still at 99%. Granted, I've only made two short calls and checked e-mail a few times but I'd call this very good performance. I also woke at 7:30am and surfed around on my phone reading forums and web sites (my display was on for the ENTIRE hour+) for over an hour this morning and when I plugged back in at 8:45 am, I'd used less than 10% battery. I'm also noticing that my phone is charging WAY faster than stock or JI2.
Personally, I have posted about this topic many times but I'm ignored. My battery was terrible before I rooted and did OCLF. After root+lag fix my battery literally tripled in life. I could go 2 days with the same amount of use. Watch videos, surf internet, make calls, do whatever and it would barely use my battery. After this JI6 update I am back to square one. I 'reconditioned' my battery by running it down to zero then charging it back up completely. It definitely helped but I'm still losing a percent by the minute just having the screen on.
Dont waste your time telling me to use juicedefender, turning off wifi, switching to 2g only, task killers, blah blah blah, or any of that crap. I've done it all. I"m still looking into the JI6 radio draining my battery though. Theres a lot of talk about that being an issue.
The JI6 Modem does drain your battery. No doubt about it. I've switched to JI2 and yes my GPS appeared to have suffered a bit and sometimes my Edge connection isn't as good as JI6, but way better battery life.
Or you can do what I do and leave your headphones plugged in and leave the music playing overnight. Seems to make my battery last about 2-4 hours more than it regularly would. Hope that helps
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I have uninstalled any battery app because I noticed they drained my battery faster. What I have noticed about the phone, when I charge it with lets say 25 percent still remaining it charges faster,, naturally,, but the battery drains much much much faster. To remedy this,,i use the phone until the battery icon is blank and blinking before I start charging the phone. Naturally, this causes the phone to need a substantial amount of time to charge however the battery doesn't drain nearly as fast. I am a heavy user btw...give it a shot and confirm what I say.
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I flashed bionix 1.8 two days ago, charged it up, wiped the battery stats, and let it dry clean.
The phone was in Auto mode for EDGE/WCDMA, reinstalled/downloaded my apps and some more, tested GPS on a few occasions, watched some HQ content on Youtube, and tested VideoPlayer, a few calls, some SMS and MMS, I listened to my music for the most part on it. 30+ hours later the phone finally drained.
With any stock FW's I could not get through more than 24 hours of a regular use with 2G mode only.
Currently I am at 79% at 11hr mark since unplugged.
kizer said:
The JI6 Modem does drain your battery. No doubt about it. I've switched to JI2 and yes my GPS appeared to have suffered a bit and sometimes my Edge connection isn't as good as JI6, but way better battery life.
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True. You have to sacrifice something.
I know this has probably been asked hundreds of times and I have searched up and down the forums but have found no fix for my battery problem.
I always have my battery at the dimmest level. Mostly only text, the occasional 5 min phone call and web browse here and there. Yet when i look into the battery use the display is always at atleast 96% ive never seen it less than that. But i kno that it has to be something other than just the display though.
I stoped using beautiful widgets, and froze media hub (i read that it eats battery in the bg) recently ive been monotoring my system through system panel.
As of now system panel tells me that System Processes is at 5.7% and system at 2.6% The next highest thing is Swype at 0.4% and android.process.acore at 0.2% the rest of the things are at 0.0%
I was thinking that it might be the battery or just the phone itself...
Edit: im sorry idk why the app didnt post all my post <=(
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I know this has probably been asked hundreds of times and I jave searched up and down the forums but have found no fix for my battery problem.
I always have my battery at the dimmest level. Mostly only text, the occasional 5 min phone call and web browse here and there.
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.......and?
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Having your screen use that much (as a percent) isn't necessarily a bad thing. It means that everything else is using minimal power. You also shouldn't be checking your stats for useful info within moments of turning it on. Give it a whole day of use and check again. Your screen will have used less % after a day but it is totally normal for it to be the largest user of power.
So then what could be causing the battery drain?
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So then what could be causing the battery drain?
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How much drain?
You should expect to get 4-5 hours of use from your Vibrant. Total time could range from four hours to several days, which is what you hear people saying in most battery threads. What they often don't state is how much time the phone is actually in use and whether you get 5 hours or 24 hours before you hit 0% battery you probably are using the phone (screen on for anything, or screen off while listening to music or talking.) for 4-5 hours.
So is your phone getting less use then that? If so then you may have some other issue.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848207
The links are very informative
Of actual use, not just standy by I get just about 4 hours. Usually under 4.
And that link looks pretty interesting
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Fast Battery Drain
Bad News Everyone!
I have spent the last 3 days searching here and other forums trying to find out why my battery has been horrible. My battery goes to around 30% after only 3 or 4 hours of very slight use (2 or 3 texts and checking email once).
I have done two complete battery drain to full charge with the phone off the past two days to try and get a better reading.
The history of the drain, at the end of November I rooted and installed RyanZA OCLF, rooted, and lag fixed, no issues. Installed the basics of rooted (busybox, superuser) and SetCPU.
SetCPU presented problems with not coming out of sleep and freezing after reboots. The battery would give about 6 hours of moderate use. I played around with settings, but ultimately removed it and when I did my battery was lasting 3 hours longer with moderate use, facebook, twitter, browser, 20-30 mins of gaming. From 12:00 pm (leaving work) to 9:00 at night (leaving school) with 35-40% left before I got home.
About 4 days ago, my battery was draining very quickly. Wake up, unplug phone at fully charged, get ready for work, grab phone to leave for work and I am down to 90% after only 20 minutes of standby. When it use to have it around 96% by the time I got to work, about an hour with light use. Seeing this problem I went back and looked at updates and apps that I had. The only thing I could think was Launcher Pro, but no one else has reported battery drain issues and it wasnt showing in Battery Info.
In my attempts, I have done the following.
Went from 7 to 3 screens (one widget per screen)
Removed apps and bloatware with Titanium Backup
Doubled checked my account syncs, Facebook once a day, no twitter sync,
Screen brightness at ZERO
2 Battery Resets (fully drained to recharge phone off)
Installed Watchdog to find any heavy mem/cpu users, (none found)
And a crap-load of googling, forum searching (here and cyanogen forums), and I am still getting horrible battery life.
Today for example: Phone completey charged 10:30 am with only 3 texts sent and I am currently at 28% at 3:15. 5 hours of stand-by should not have drained that much battery. No GPS on.
If you have any ideas of what it could be, at this point I have alread bought a new battery, I would love to hear back.
edit: I am running stock rom 2.1-update1
I used to have poor battery life as well on stock 2.1 rom until i flashed the leaked jk6 update. Im now averaging about 25 hrs per charge with my phone pretty much always in use whether its calls, texting, music, gaming, web, movies ect...
Not to mention i also get 3g in places i havent before and faster DLs, less lag... This rom is awesome, i suggest giving it a try..
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dubbz106, thanks for the advice. I have not had a huge desire to flash a new rom because my phone had performed pretty good. But with my G1 I was keeping it alive through cyanogenmods.
I have been moving closer to flashing and this new battery issue my push me to do it.
Can you link the thread for the rom?
post your average battery life...i want some tips from the ones who have best battery lifes..
to get the best juice out of ur o1..
use devoif froyo-final..
i got about 3 and a half battery..
3 and a half days ?? are you kidding??
My battery only lasts maybe up to 12 hours... if I'm lucky
Tried removing widgets, using a batter saver... tried charging the battery, deleting the battery stats file, discharging it recharging it... shortened display on time, turned down volumes
I don't know what's up? I've tried wiping and reinstalling ROM's... I don't even use it as much as I'd like because of the battery life
Optimus V (VM670)
AOSPmod 20110601
16gb sdcard w/1gb ext4 partition
Don't use battery savers, they increase it drain...
Mine on devoid froyo only lasts one day..tried wiping battery stats many times..but same result..
Mine is on devoid.final with franco.kernel v16.1, and I get about one and a half day of battery on average use. I play at times, send quite a number of texts and make a call once or twice a day. I developed the habit of bringing my USB cable to charge my phone at work now. :/
my phone doesnt last even for about 18 hours if i am using it on average basis by which i mean 1 hour gaming...2 hours of time pass by simply changing settings and all...but i do text quite often and have around 100 apps installed on my phone...will it help if i keep only which are necessary and use titanium backup for others which i only use once in a while.....
my last hopes are on froyo final and the above mentioned solution...i am going to try it soon...
In my experience most of the battery takes 3G mode, especially when active HSDPA. If I am using only 2G mode phone can withstand more than 2 days, which is a good result, but in the 3G just 1,5 day. Remember that at the time did not use the Internet to disable the Internet connection, it should help you.
20-24 hours.
I'm using nessy right now and getting the best battery.
I call a lot so this is the right rom for me after around two to three hours of talk I'm still left with some juice. Turn my sync and use apn off application , least screen display brightness got a widget for turning it high when I need it. Use mostly wifi for internet.
on CM7... 12 hours and it's dead. without wifi
well my battery life has improved by these steps:
1. Wiped all my data,cache,battery stats ,everything(though i don't think this is necessary).
2.Flashed froyo final.(I am now on devoid forever and will test my battery life on it)
3. Checked 2g networks only in settings-networks-mobile networks.(Dunno how much that helped me )
4.Install only apps which are necessary (i have around 50 installed)..and the rest you can restore via titanium when you need it....
and now my phone eats just around 1% per hour of idle time....(it's improved)
I get around 2 days backup on Devoid final with franco 16.1. Only 2G, 1-2 hours calls, sms, bit of wifi tethering, Browsing on edge for 1-2 hours,facebook, and no gaming
In Cm7 maximum around 20hours that too without wifi, or any fancy stuff. Just 30minutes browsing on 2g.
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well my battery life has improved by these steps:
1. Wioed all my data,cache,battery stats ,everything(though i don't think this is necessary).
2.Flashed froyo final.(I am now on devoid forever and will test my battery life on it)
3. Checked 2g networks only in settings-networks-mobile networks.(Dunno how much that helped me )
4.Install only apps which are necessary (i have around 50 installed)..and the rest you can restore via titanium when you need it....
and now my phone eats just around 1% per hour of idle time....(it's improved)
and yeah install watchdog task manager to know if some app is using excess battery..
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Dude uninstall..that watchdog thing it runs in the background and eats up battery... don't use any kind of app..that is so called battery saver.. they should rather be called battery eaters... and yeah it is always recommended.. to wipe cache.. that saves battery..
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IMO it is hard to compare battery use when the phone is active because it depends on too many factors: widgets, wi-fi usage, 3g/2g, app, brightness, etc.
What can I tell is that my phone in sleep use 0.6315% battery/hour
Anyhow I charge my phone every day because I play a lot with it.
I'm using OpenOptimus 1.172.1 and franco's kernel 16.1
My routine usage goes like this: 6am to 7pm (13h) plays non stop music (fmradio or poweramp). No wifi no data, 2g only.
During that time, I use 3g data for browsing, chat, emails and youtubing for a couple of hours more or less
7pm to 10pm: 2g only, no data, wifi on. I do a few browsing around 30min top, synch stuff with dropbox etc
Finally after 16-17h of usage it has around 30% - 40% of juice left in it. Then I put it for charge, go to sleep and start over again next day
On weekends it's a completely different story. Especially when i'm fooling around with GB roms i might have to charge it 2 times a day
My battery
Hi
My battery lasted 2 days on CyanogenMod7
Now that I have Gingerbread 2.3.4 by andy572, it lasts 4 days on a minimal usage
hosseinriasati said:
Hi
My battery lasted 2 days on CyanogenMod7
Now that I have Gingerbread 2.3.4 by andy572, it lasts 4 days on a minimal usage
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That's weird. I flashed and reflashed andy's rom two times and I had the same issue. 10% battery drain every 2 hours. IN IDLE.
That meant my phone was dead in 20h in idle mode, 12-14 hours if used for texting and calls.
I am also using Andy's rom and kernel, with a normal use, daily 30-40 minutes with wifi on, 30-40 minutes talk and 9-10 sms. I mention that 3g is off data is usually off so since the last full recharge passed 3 days and i am still at 28%. performance is also great. Love this rom
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Hi everyone, I'm relatively new to using android devices, i've played with some of the devices my friends own as well as a tablet my brother owns but this is my first personal device.
Anyways, I've had the phone for around 3 days now? It's going great but I feel like the battery is draining a bit fast and I'm not sure if I'm "normal" by standards or if my phone is slightly problematic.
I've attached the two screen shots below
Man things I do on my phone are Gmail, Push email for work, browsing, WhatsApp, Gchat and occasionally music and maybe 20-30 minutes of video.
As you can see from the graph there were two very short moments where I was charging the battery as well due to transferring some files. Finally, I've had a chance to completely drain the battery once but haven't had a chance to do one of those long charges people talk about but have through multiple charging occasions gotten it to 100, although right when I unplug it it goes to 99%.
Thanks!
EDIT: My phone wakes up quite a lot I think because I quite a few work emails a day, around 80-100 in addition to another 20 or so gmail emails a day. Thanks.
I have my own problems about the battery life too. Specially on standby mode all turned off (wifi,sync,gps,data,etc) 93% when I sleep then when I woke up battery goes down to 80%
are you too experiencing this as well?
haven't tried that yet, I attributed my battery drain to email, could be another problem then.
Start with Better Battery Stats from the market and look for wakelocks .
jje
There are a few posts on battery issues.
I too had battery issues and in my case it was a couple of things.
I put the screen onto auto brightness and put wifi onto off when phone asleep.
These 2 things fixed my totally. I know lots of other people are having issues and its neither of these things but these are what helped me.
I also got an app to stop apps starting up. There are a suprising amount of apps that start when your phone starts up that you dont need to be running.
I think having wifi on constantly and getting 19 hours out of a charge is darn good for android.
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bordikun said:
I have my own problems about the battery life too. Specially on standby mode all turned off (wifi,sync,gps,data,etc) 93% when I sleep then when I woke up battery goes down to 80%
are you too experiencing this as well?
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I have experienced this after about a week of use. I left the phone when it was 95% and after an hour in stand by, it drops to the 80 something mark, b/w 84-86% any more people who experienced this?
Leilei_z said:
I have experienced this after about a week of use. I left the phone when it was 95% and after an hour in stand by, it drops to the 80 something mark, b/w 84-86% any more people who experienced this?
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Same here. Drain is about 2.5% per hour on stand-by overnight.
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I think having wifi on constantly and getting 19 hours out of a charge is darn good for android.
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Yup, I had WiFi on pretty much on at home and at work and it certain does chew through your battery! Started at 7am at 100%, back home by 8.30pm and at 20-30%. By 10-11pm, it's on charge again.
Usage is fairly average, x2 30 mins of music to and from work, emails on push, send and receive texts, a couple of calls here and there.
I didn't save snapshots of some tests I carried out, but I'll try to recreate the situations again and upload them.
It seems if you have your WiFi settings, Keep on during sleep to Always, it's constantly draining your battery, even if your handset is on standby. I've left mine to Never, but have found only a small improvement to battery life.
Attached is my current usage WITHOUT WiFi as much as possible, there are a few power spikes where I've had to use WiFi and to connect to PC to transfer some documents, download some Apps. Also I'm NOT at work for the last two days, so usage has drastically dropped. Loooking good at 2D 1H 50M, battery at 45%
You can see for most of the first day where I haven't used WiFi there is a slow, but steady drop, the first major drop was when I was playing a game on the way home, then it's steady again. The biggest drop was when I used WiFi to download the odd app or two, then I turned it off again.
Hope this helps the OP in answering some questions about finding out what is draining the battery.
Am envious to those who managed to use their phone for more than a day. I bought this phone for about 2 weeks now and have done the normal full charge for 8 hours on the first time. Since then, I have fully charged twice and let the battery gone flat once. I have flashed Neutrino rom and currently Latveyit rom, and the battery last best 12 hours so far.
I charged the phone to 94% at about 7pm and just made two calls and two text messages. I did a navigation on maps for about 15mins max. By about 11pm, battery is at 57%, I play some games for about 10mins and went to bed, in the morning it's about 35%. I realise that the first 50% really goes fast and after that it's pretty decent until less than 20% and it drains fast again. Background application I have are the normal chat programs, whatsapp, viber, kakaotalk, skype and ebuddy. I have waze running in the background although I think it shuts off after 15mins. I have a mix of wifi and 3g usage, usually on wifi though. Is this normal?
edit: I also have Lookout antivirus running
All your chat programs running in the back ground prevent your device to sleep correctly, they wake it up every time they check if there is a new message.
Try to keep only the apps you use and try for each app to increase the check delay or disable it.
The antivirus does help.
2 weeks is a bit early to make a comment about the battery.
Download Battericalibration from the market and use it every shift rom change.
Read about topic on the forum but not become a maniac in "battery life".
If the screen stays lit for 5-7 hours the battery will be empty in like 7-8 hours. If you only speak 1 hour at it the battery will be empty in 3 days.
All depends on how you use it!
Sorry for bad english.
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2 weeks is a bit early to make a comment about the battery.
Download Battericalibration from the market and use it every shift rom change.
Read about topic on the forum but not become a maniac in "battery life".
If the screen stays lit for 5-7 hours the battery will be empty in like 7-8 hours. If you only speak 1 hour at it the battery will be empty in 3 days.
All depends on how you use it!
Sorry for bad english.
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I thought that the chat programs will only cause problems if there are frequent messages since they're base on push?
2 weeks is early? How does that affect the battery's performance? I thought when it's new, it's most optimum and slowly degrades through time? The screen was off most of the time unless I was doing anything I mentioned or just checking the time which is just on, check then off. I don't think I am paranoid over the battery life, just curious how to get it over a day.
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I thought that the chat programs will only cause problems if there are frequent messages since they're base on push?
2 weeks is early? How does that affect the battery's performance? I thought when it's new, it's most optimum and slowly degrades through time? The screen was off most of the time unless I was doing anything I mentioned or just checking the time which is just on, check then off. I don't think I am paranoid over the battery life, just curious how to get it over a day.
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In my opinion the battery reaches her max in 3-4 weeks.
Download the app from the market and use it after every rom change.
I didn't called you paranoic, just that you mustn't be so worried.
My recomandation for a longer battery life is CM7.
GOOD DAY!
Read forum for more details.
Sorry for my english!
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You might try 1Ghz faux kernels as well. They seemed to have helped my battery life considerably.
Chek out what apps you have running in the background and be sure you set youre network yourself (my phone was always changing from 2g to 3g and after i selected the network myself it gave me a 1day + boost .
And you shoud know that the litium polimer batteryes are affected by cold temperatures.
I wish you luck!
I did use cm7 (neutrino) and got about the same battery life span as the current rom (laytveyit), and am currently on the faux 1ghz kernel. Anyway, I will see how it performance in the weeks to come and hopefully the newer version of the rom will improve it. I thought cold temperature helps preserve the battery's life span?
EDIT: Thanks for all the advice!
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Am envious to those who managed to use their phone for more than a day. I bought this phone for about 2 weeks now and have done the normal full charge for 8 hours on the first time. Since then, I have fully charged twice and let the battery gone flat once. I have flashed Neutrino rom and currently Latveyit rom, and the battery last best 12 hours so far.
I charged the phone to 94% at about 7pm and just made two calls and two text messages. I did a navigation on maps for about 15mins max. By about 11pm, battery is at 57%, I play some games for about 10mins and went to bed, in the morning it's about 35%. I realise that the first 50% really goes fast and after that it's pretty decent until less than 20% and it drains fast again. Background application I have are the normal chat programs, whatsapp, viber, kakaotalk, skype and ebuddy. I have waze running in the background although I think it shuts off after 15mins. I have a mix of wifi and 3g usage, usually on wifi though. Is this normal?
edit: I also have Lookout antivirus running
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Lol all those chats are you problem imo
The "standard" apps used to figure out what's eating your batteries are:
BetterBatteryStats: for wakelocks
CpuSpy: to tell if you phone is going into deep sleep or not
Built in Battery Usage: to see a pretty graph and tell what's using the most juice
SystemTuner: I just recently started playing with this, lots of information.
Look up BetterBatteryStats here up XDA. There's plenty of threads on how to use it. Look up wakelocks.