Hi all, I am looking for a battery widget and/or app that will let me see how long my battery will last. I used to have something like this on my OG Droid and it learned how I used my phone. At first it was really bad but after a few days it learned and was really good at telling me how much time I had left. I haven't been able to find anything like it since that app. This was also back when then OG Droid was still on Eclair... Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Haro912 said:
Hi all, I am looking for a battery widget and/or app that will let me see how long my battery will last. I used to have something like this on my OG Droid and it learned how I used my phone. At first it was really bad but after a few days it learned and was really good at telling me how much time I had left. I haven't been able to find anything like it since that app. This was also back when then OG Droid was still on Eclair... Any help is greatly appreciated.
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well, if u don't know, Asus has thier own battery widget that came with the prime. its in Widgets.
demandarin said:
well, if u don't know, Asus has thier own battery widget that came with the prime. its in Widgets.
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But that one doesn't tell you how much time you have left I'm looking for one too
tylermaciaszek said:
But that one doesn't tell you how much time you have left I'm looking for one too
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true. what I usually go by, in found to be true, is in balanced mode, battery drains about 10% or a lil less per hour with heavy usage. light usage, drains even less. battery savings mode, drains even less. Normal/full power mode, will drain a lil faster than balanced with heavy usage. I've pulled about 10-11% percent drain on Normal before. no matter whatnode you in, how much it drains is directly affected by what exactly you're doing and screen brightness level.
ill see if i can find a good one for what you all looking for though. I had some good apps like that on my Ipad.
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true. what I usually go by, in found to be true, is in balanced mode, battery drains about 10% or a lil less per hour with heavy usage. light usage, drains even less. battery savings mode, drains even less. Normal/full power mode, will drain a lil faster than balanced with heavy usage. I've pulled about 10-11% percent drain on Normal before. no matter whatnode you in, how much it drains is directly affected by what exactly you're doing and screen brightness level.
ill see if i can find a good one for what you all looking for though. I had some good apps like that on my Ipad.
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Usually drain 10% an hour but this morning I played an hour of shadowgun, hour of riptide and downloaded over 5 Games and tested them all out so I drained 35 percent in 2 hours in normal mode
Battery Indicator Pro
Battery monitor widget pro
I use both and are pretty accurate on estimating power life.
http://db.tt/J9R6JhBe
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jjdevega said:
Battery Indicator Pro
Battery monitor widget pro
I use both and are pretty accurate on estimating power life.
http://db.tt/J9R6JhBe
http://db.tt/vTbmxoqW
http://db.tt/LryzUdCP
http://db.tt/J9R6JhBe
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Thanks a lot. Now just to get the 2 buck for pro Haha.
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Does anyone know the settings for battery monitor widget ie the setting for the maH, I think the setting of the TF101 was 6600. Does anyone know if its the same as before.
mdpgc said:
Does anyone know the settings for battery monitor widget ie the setting for the maH, I think the setting of the TF101 was 6600. Does anyone know if its the same as before.
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12 hours; 25Wh Li-polymer Battery (4)
18 hours pad with dock ; 25Wh(pad) + 22Wh(docking) Li-polymer Battery (4)
From the spec list
battery capacity
mdpgc said:
Does anyone know the settings for battery monitor widget ie the setting for the maH, I think the setting of the TF101 was 6600. Does anyone know if its the same as before.
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In the teardown the capacity is shown as 25Wh, or 3380mAh. Hope that helped
If you do not have system tuner and battery monitor pro both by 3c from xda then you have no real info about what your transformer/prime is doing. IMHO.
the MAH is 3300 and I think 3380 for the prime. He also has a specific version of this for the transformer which takes into account the separate batteries when docked. I have been using them for a year. It will tell you the average estimate from use, the average estimate from current use, or the actual estimate from current use, and it will reset your battery stats file if rooted.
edit forgot. the system monitor will show what each cpu is doing, 2 for the OG and 4 for the prime
I've seen a lot of users' postings of battery statistics (screen shots) and they are all considerably better than what I am getting. The biggest difference I see is in the amount of battery drain from "Android System." What I see posted is between 9% and 13%. However, my batt stats show the Android System draining 60% of the battery.
So, what am I doing wrong? I'm still kind of new to Android. Is it the widgets? I've checked running processes verses what apps are draining battery life and nothing is running that drains like the system does.
Further info: I am currently running the 7.18.12 build of Diet ICS, but I was seeing this behavior on stock as well. Some widgets I use: Astrid premium tasks widget, Evernote, doubletwist, slacker, 3D clock/weather, a widgetsoid switcher, and APW Calendar.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
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How much screen on time over how long and what kind of use?
60% is high but there's known bugs in android OS reporting.
I'm asking because you we're saying your new. It takes a lot of power to power this 4.8 screen
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natefish said:
I've seen a lot of users' postings of battery statistics (screen shots) and they are all considerably better than what I am getting. The biggest difference I see is in the amount of battery drain from "Android System." What I see posted is between 9% and 13%. However, my batt stats show the Android System draining 60% of the battery.
So, what am I doing wrong? I'm still kind of new to Android. Is it the widgets? I've checked running processes verses what apps are draining battery life and nothing is running that drains like the system does.
Further info: I am currently running the 7.18.12 build of Diet ICS, but I was seeing this behavior on stock as well. Some widgets I use: Astrid premium tasks widget, Evernote, doubletwist, slacker, 3D clock/weather, a widgetsoid switcher, and APW Calendar.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
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How often do your widgets that gather info refresh? Try scaling down on some widgets and see if that helps. If not, try to flash stock with odin and start over. I was having some problems with my phone when I first got it (MTP specifically) and I falshed stock and everything started working fine. Also, if you are using Google Chrome, make sure you have the experimental feature of using the gyroscope for tilt scrolling set to off....it is known to drain battery.
Hope this helps :good:
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How often do your widgets that gather info refresh? Try scaling down on some widgets and see if that helps. If not, try to flash stock with odin and start over. I was having some problems with my phone when I first got it (MTP specifically) and I falshed stock and everything started working fine. Also, if you are using Google Chrome, make sure you have the experimental feature of using the gyroscope for tilt scrolling set to off....it is known to drain battery.
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Maybe I will try flashing stock if I have time today. I reset my battery stats in recovery mode when I took the phone off the charger this morning, so we'll see how today goes.
I looked into the widgets and the only one that refreshes data on a schedule is the clock/weather. I'll try a different one or just not use the weather.
Great tip about Chrome. Didn't know it did that.
Do I actually need to calibrate the battery? I tried the method of letting it die and charge back up a few times and I've tried recharging once it gets down between 70-80 percents life. I'm not sure which method helped, but I did notice an improvement.
Thanks again for the help.
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mike216 said:
How much screen on time over how long and what kind of use?
60% is high but there's known bugs in android OS reporting.
I'm asking because you we're saying your new. It takes a lot of power to power this 4.8 screen
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Not sure how to know how long the screen was on. Is there a way to know that? If I had to guess I'd say 4 hours. I use the Smart Stay option as well. I wonder if wiping the stats will give me more valid data.
Thank you for the help.
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Not sure how to know how long the screen was on. Is there a way to know that? If I had to guess I'd say 4 hours. I use the Smart Stay option as well. I wonder if wiping the stats will give me more valid data.
Thank you for the help.
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settings>battery>click on the gray use bar & you can see screen on time.
It is because you are running touchjizz. Cm and aokp are the best :highfive:
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I have my display off auto-brightness and on a low setting, I probably utilize the task manager 50x a day and clear the ram as well, cpu sleeper is always activated, gps/sync/auto-rotate/wifi/bluetooth is always off unless I need them, and I have power saving mode on most of the time.
With all these settings off and I am a heavy texter/caller/browser/emailer, my battery lasts from 7AM-1AM and I am at 30-40% at the end of the day!
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I have my display off auto-brightness and on a low setting, I probably utilize the task manager 50x a day and clear the ram as well, cpu sleeper is always activated, gps/sync/auto-rotate/wifi/bluetooth is always off unless I need them, and I have power saving mode on most of the time.
With all these settings off and I am a heavy texter/caller/browser/emailer, my battery lasts from 7AM-1AM and I am at 30-40% at the end of the day!
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Great advice. Thanks. What do you use for "cpu sleeper"?
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I have my display off auto-brightness and on a low setting, I probably utilize the task manager 50x a day and clear the ram as well, cpu sleeper is always activated, gps/sync/auto-rotate/wifi/bluetooth is always off unless I need them, and I have power saving mode on most of the time.
With all these settings off and I am a heavy texter/caller/browser/emailer, my battery lasts from 7AM-1AM and I am at 30-40% at the end of the day!
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Never mind! Just searched" CPU sleeper" on the Play store and--voila!
On another note, I'm so glad I got a device with a huge support community. Coming from iOS, it's nice to feel part of a collective effort again and get such great advice. I know there are a lot of iOS forums and there is some great work done through those communities, but those seem so trivial compared to what is done through XDA and the level of helpfulness is unparalleled here.
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Great advice. Thanks. What do you use for "cpu sleeper"?
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Do I actually need to calibrate the battery? I tried the method of letting it die and charge back up a few times and I've tried recharging once it gets down between 70-80 percents life. I'm not sure which method helped, but I did notice an improvement.
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I read somewhere in the forum that these batteries actually like to be constantly charged up and not let die completely. There was no explanation for this but I will research it because I am curious. With my old Captivate, i let it die then fully charge to extend the overall life of the battery.
How is your battery so far?
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I read somewhere in the forum that these batteries actually like to be constantly charged up and not let die completely. There was no explanation for this but I will research it because I am curious. With my old Captivate, i let it die then fully charge to extend the overall life of the battery.
How is your battery so far?
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I've applied all the tricks folks have shared here and have flashed the Diet ICS rom. I am going to take screen shots of my usage data on a daily basis and see how things fair. I'll post my results here. Here is one from last night before really getting into all the tricks and the new rom. So, maybe this is my "before" shot in this documentary of a noob's journey to better battery life.
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natefish said:
I've seen a lot of users' postings of battery statistics (screen shots) and they are all considerably better than what I am getting. The biggest difference I see is in the amount of battery drain from "Android System." What I see posted is between 9% and 13%. However, my batt stats show the Android System draining 60% of the battery.
So, what am I doing wrong? I'm still kind of new to Android. Is it the widgets? I've checked running processes verses what apps are draining battery life and nothing is running that drains like the system does.
Further info: I am currently running the 7.18.12 build of Diet ICS, but I was seeing this behavior on stock as well. Some widgets I use: Astrid premium tasks widget, Evernote, doubletwist, slacker, 3D clock/weather, a widgetsoid switcher, and APW Calendar.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
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Have you tried using the CPU Sleeper app?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1745516
I found that it does a great job of preserving battery life when the phone is in standby. I used to notice my battery draining really fast over short periods on standby (phone would be hot to the touch). After installing this, I have not encountered that problem again. I get 16-20 hours of use on moderate usage. LTE, gps, and sync are always enabled. I DO NOT have the phone in power saving mode and I seldom use wifi. I used to get 10-12 hours of battery life on the same usage before. I am running the rooted version of the stock rom from my carrier.
CPU sleeper app works great for me. I am in a non LTE area but get incredible battery life, last all day usually with around 50% left. An order of magnitude better than my SGS2
jauwad.arshad said:
Have you tried using the CPU Sleeper app?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1745516
I found that it does a great job of preserving battery life when the phone is in standby. I used to notice my battery draining really fast over short periods on standby (phone would be hot to the touch). After installing this, I have not encountered that problem again. I get 16-20 hours of use on moderate usage. LTE, gps, and sync are always enabled. I DO NOT have the phone in power saving mode and I seldom use wifi. I used to get 10-12 hours of battery life on the same usage before. I am running the rooted version of the stock rom from my carrier.
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CPU sleeper app works great for me. I am in a non LTE area but get incredible battery life, last all day usually with around 50% left. An order of magnitude better than my SGS2
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I am using CPU Sleeper now, thanks to the advice of a previous poster on page 1. Good to hear it works for others.
I had the SGS2 as well and the S3 is definitely better.
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Hi all,
I also notice this and this were the steps that I did and seems to help me to reduce this process to like 5 %. I'm on Sprint S3 but should be the same for the all carriers.
Go ahead and open Talk application. You should see your account in green (I'm not using this application) then hit the menu and then select sigh Off. Make sure that your account changes to Offline (sometimes it is change back it self so open one more time make sure that it says Offline). Then what else I change is in wi-fi advanced options: under Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep I choose Only when plugged in option. then I reboot the phone and from now on (almost 2 days) my Android system process show up only 5% of usage and my battery life improve significantly. I hope this will helps.
Thanks
Those are great tips. Thanks. I will say I've gotten increasingly better life since employing other tips discussed here.
Something else I did was download a profile changing app. I got Quick Profiles, but anything should do. If anyone uses anything better, please share. I have a profile for power saving that turns down my brightness, and turns off wifi and Bluetooth. The app will let you put shortcuts on the home screen to instantly change the profile. I'd like to find one, however, that will also turn off gps and mobile data.
I want to install a battery monitor app so I can keep track on which apps is using battery, if so does it uses more battery?
Also which is the best battery monitor app? BetterBatteryStats or GSam Battery Monitor
I use betterbattery and it's pretty good. you get to see all the processes as well as what apps are waking your phone.
of course, it does not use any significant battery.
heard about the gsam, but didn't try it myself.
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i don't know if it helps, but instead of installing another app. use the built-in battery monitor, it tells you the percentage of battery that each app/process uses...including display. one less app to run/install
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I want to install a battery monitor app so I can keep track on which apps is using battery, if so does it uses more battery?
Also which is the best battery monitor app? BetterBatteryStats or GSam Battery Monitor
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Ive used both. Betterbatterystats is better in my opinion.
That in combination with the stock is a good indicator of whats eating your battery.
I never noticed any additional drain in battery with it installed
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Hello, I have a question regarding my battery usage.
I tried leaving the phone with very little usage and see how long would it last. So far, it's been about 40 hours of mostly idle usage and the battery is at 13%.
Is this what others are getting?
Possibly alarming, about 80% of my battery usage is by Google services. Is it bugged or is it actually using so much battery?
Additionally, I'm using cm10.1 with syriah kernel. I manage my startup programs to avoid most of the bloat and I haven't tried bbs yet, unless this is abnormal.
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Seems normal to me. I'll try to explain why.
First of all your phone has been on for almost two days which is good battery life.
Second of all when your phone is in an idle state the only things or almost only things being used by your phone is google services. Nothing else is being used.
Which means that although google services use the lionshare of your battery, it's completely logical.
Screen uses 0%
Apps use 0%
Bluetooth uses 0%
Try for example to leave your screen on until the battery dies, then you'll see:
screen 90%
and the remaining 10% divided by the rest of the things running on your phone.
So if nothing besides google services is running on your phone, then it's only logical that's what using your battery.
Hope that this sounds logical to you.
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install betterbatterystats and see if it's causing any wakelocks
Nearly two days is extremely good battery life I don't see why your complaining
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He's not complaining, just asking the question as to why Google services had taken up so much battery.
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