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alright, so I've recently started installing custom ROMs (Go Bionix!) and so I've been needing to "recondition" (I put it in quotes because it's not TECHNICALLY reconditioning) and since most of the ROMs increase my battery life, the step involving... you know... draining the battery... takes up to 3-4 hours.
So I got to thinking:
What if we could design an app that is basically a white screen that runs your GPS and pulls data, etc. so that we can kill our batteries faster. What do you guys think?
I was just thinking about that a couple nights age when I was trying to run my battery down. Just stream some Pandora while using the Google Maps Navigation and go for a drive. It worked pretty well for me
You wanna drain your battery fast as hell? Use media hub! That's a power sucker if I've ever seen one. Or, alternatively, get hopped up on energy drinks and play reckless racing for hours on end.
Not sure if I'm correct here, but I thought the best way to condition your battery is to let it drain out as natural and lengthy as possible; as in avoiding heavy data usage or heavy loads. This way it allows the battery stress to be less and successfully make it adaptive to long-time uses.
the thing that works the best imo is recording a video.
Just open up the HD camera, with the brightness all the way up.
It will drain it under 3 hours, and you can just delete the video after the reconditioning!
gravis86 said:
I was just thinking about that a couple nights age when I was trying to run my battery down. Just stream some Pandora while using the Google Maps Navigation and go for a drive. It worked pretty well for me
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Well, I don't actually have 3G... Our a car...
Mothafizzy said:
Not sure if I'm correct here, but I thought the best way to condition your battery is to let it drain out as natural and lengthy as possible; as in avoiding heavy data usage or heavy loads. This way it allows the battery stress to be less and successfully make it adaptive to long-time uses.
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I think that's for true reconditioning, but with Li-Ion batteries, you don't actually recondition... We're just giving the software some stats to work with
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myself i use CPU intensive apps like PSX4DROID and live wallpapers. I also keep the brightness up and screen always on. And...... what i like to do is turn all antenna's like WiFi and GPS on... 5-6 hours, its dead.
just start playing angry birds.
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just start playing angry birds.
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I agree! Angry Birds is a real battery killer, but so addicting.
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just start playing angry birds.
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yeah, I get about 2 hours playing Angry Birds
Did this yesterday for a new install of Bionix Fusion.
1. Install free app "Every Trail"
2. Turn blue tooth on.
3. Set screen off for 30 minutes.
4. Put brightness on full
5. Run Pandora. Stream high quality. (turn volume off if you don't want to hear it)
6. Launch Every Trail and start tracking a hike. This causes the GPS to continue locking on your position.
Drained the batter in ~ 3 hours.
I tried Angry Birds and it just wasn't draining fast enough (strange, huh?).
Trapster is another possibility.
Be careful leaving the screen on with full brightness. I have always kept my screens to never timeout and set to full brightness but I have minimal screen burn so I stopped. You can see it well on my phone when using a flashlight type app.
Just a little heads up..
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Be careful leaving the screen on with full brightness. I have always kept my screens to never timeout and set to full brightness but I have minimal screen burn so I stopped. You can see it well on my phone when using a flashlight type app.
Just a little heads up..
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When I leave the screen on, it's usually playing a movie or running a flashlight app.
Okay thats when your wrong, muting the sound wont drain as much battery, it has to be max to drain the juice out faster
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Okay thats when your wrong, muting the sound wont drain as much battery, it has to be max to drain the juice out faster
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yeah, i'll put it between a couple of pillows to muffle it.
Hi All, I have been using the Xda for long time and I am a bit greed and I never register, yep that's right, hate plz come.
But anyway, I have used too many phones that I can't even remember.
Last couples of week, I got rid off my Nexus one and got A Razr, but the disparagement start right with the battery life!
First a few days, I was using only wifi, as one of my number does not has Web pack on it, and I notice a horrible battery performance on the device and I am
Later on, I activied my internet on phone and here comes my theory.
I notice the Wifi is always running for some reason on the background even if I set it as turn of when screen off, when I check the battery usage, it shows almost every second that wifi is on. That should not be right, it should turn it self off when screen off, and it is not doing that.
Second of all, later on, I noticed something like *WIFI* shows under battery usage, and I was thinking what the heck is that, cause there is another "WIFI" still showing, and also something called" .com.motorola.contact. something like that is waking the phone and using the wifi as well.
And there also something like"motorola.home" running and using wifi for ages. Very strange.
OK, then I went out today, yes, I most of the time stay @ home, na I am joking..
I am mostly in a place with WIFI, home, work place, and Uni. All wifi here and there. Today, I took train 3 hrs total out and back from Birmingham to London for those who like stories. it was 1:30 afternoon battery @ 80% then I listen to music for 1 hr and use whatsapp quite a bit(battery hunger app even on iOS)
On the way back I played GTA 3 for one good hour. and it is now 9PM, and 15% left, as later on I tweet a bit, web a bit. which is good, also I took underground so signal is not always there.
After all these my question is for those who had the battery drain, are U in a wifi enviornment quite a bit time and use wifi?
If so, set the wifi sleep policy to Never(this actually will help) and while not using wifi to use heavy data stuff, turn it OFF and see what happen.
Also turn off GPS espically if you have facebook on phone and also the using wirelsess connection for location, turn that off as well.
BTW the GPS on Razr is reallllllly fast on location, it took 5 second to find me from cold boot. Awesome.
And I don't use task killer or smart action, I think using sensor and active these sensor to save battery while they are using a lot juice is not so smart.
BTW: due to I am on and off subway, my iPhone4s dropped a good 15% without any use, it just sitting in my pocket. (as for now, Android is the fun bit, iOS is the backup, as it does hold battery better a bit...lol)
I am on 2.3.6 (651.167.19.XT910.retail.en.EU)
I flash the rom couple of times, it all shows me WIFI is doing some strange thing.
Today still draining and I use a data usage checker and find that moto blur is using a hug a mount of data, WTF!?
I find battery performance vastly better on wifi than 3G. Mine has had atrociously bad battery life recently, so I'm backtracking through stock ROMs to see if I can replicate the setup I got 5+ hours of screen-on time with.
Gotta love those updates. The sooner data works properly in custom ICS ROMs for the XT912, the better.
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before a week i got v3c with version want to extend battery does any one know if it comes with door ??
give us a link have a look? I am looking for the Maxx to replace on my normal razr
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I've been using SetCPU to create profiles on the ondemand governor and extrapolating from my general usage during commute, news/texts/im, fair amount of screen on time, I'm getting around 10% drain per hour which is fairly nice. With screen off and 3g running leaving the phone to idle, it drops to around 3-4% per hour which is significantly better from what I was getting right out of the box.
Battery test for Motorola RAZR XT910
Yesterday I decided to do a simple test with my new smartphone, a Motorola RAZR, I shall not charge until he get just 15% of battery remaining. So here I will put the results and thoughts about it.
8:00 AM: I woke up and took XT910 off the charger. Wi-fi was turned on;
8:00 - 9:00 AM: I passed one hour using Pulse to read some news, once or twice I shared some news in the Twitter and Facebook, with the Wi-fi on, of course. The Battery got 85%;
9:00 - 10:00 AM: I started to use Whatsapp to chat with a buddy, took at least 45 minutes of intensive use, battery got 70%;
10:00 - 11:00 AM: Cellphone in stand-by, BUT with the wi-fi on, waiting for someone, battery got 60% yet!;
11:00 - 12:00 AM: That one appeared, so I used Whatsapp again for 30 minutes, and battery got 50%;
12:00 AM - 2:00 PM: Two hours with the cells blocked, but still with wireless connection, 40%;
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM: Motorola in stand-by, now with the wi-fi turned off, so, in the first hour, he keep 40% and in the second, he got 30%;
4:00 PM – 5:15 PM: The final test, I passed just one hour playing Ceramic Destroyer without stopping, the battery got 15% and then the phone asked for charging!;
Well, the battery last for 8 hours with wi-fi turned on almost all time, so I think it's was fair, BUT, the battery status is a bit fake, I don't think that the information was correct, but, it works when is a simple test, you know, right?
We all know about the 1,2 Ghz processor, this drains a lot of battery, but the real villain is the connection, wi-fi or 3G, they both spend so much energy of the cel.
My last thought is... always charge your phone when it's possible, even if you don't use in an intensive form, I hope that you'll not have problems because a low-batterys cell phone.
One thing I've found is that when my battery is draining like a tub it's has nothing to do with any data connection. In running apps there's a media process that keeps my phone running at full bore. If I just kill that I get dramatically better battery life. Normally when I don't have to deal with that I can last all day with a quick touch up charge during the middle of the day. This on my xt912.
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One thing I've found is that when my battery is draining like a tub it's has nothing to do with any data connection. In running apps there's a media process that keeps my phone running at full bore. If I just kill that I get dramatically better battery life. Normally when I don't have to deal with that I can last all day with a quick touch up charge during the middle of the day. This on my xt912.
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your right, certain apps can affect battery life so it is ok to kill running task. however just want to make sure other users know that using task killer to constantly kill many apps is not a good idea! most of the apps will prob restart and this cycle will only drain your battery more. whatsapp is a good example, even they state on their homepage you should remove from task killing as battery would drain not just from the constant restart of the app but also the fact that it would continue to regain connection to their server whenever it restarts.
try use a dark colour like black as you know white colour drains much more battery. if your a constant user of google (maybe even if its your homepage too) try use the black google version. save some battery.
i think personally for me 3g uses more battery than wifi. another factor is the network bars that drains battery if low as constantly hanging onto that low connection.
you should try flight mode and see how the battery fairs there so you can get a rough idea.
also come across an app called FreshNetwork which is a signal booster & finder. Android Market - 4.7 out of 5 Star overall rating! (9,152) as i speak, and it does work.. theres been times where ive had 1 bar connections but after using it i get like 3/4bars. so it helps ease the battery drain there as connection is much better.
hope its of some help guys!!
I know theres is some apps that drains battery, one tip is just deactive the auto-sync with your accounts, other thing, I want a batterystatus app, to know better that stuff.
And I will try this connection app, thanks
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Man I even turned off my smart actions, so far I only turn on things when I am really using them. Auto-sync only with wifi!
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your right, certain apps can affect battery life so it is ok to kill running task. however just want to make sure other users know that using task killer to constantly kill many apps is not a good idea! most of the apps will prob restart and this cycle will only drain your battery more. whatsapp is a good example, even they state on their homepage you should remove from task killing as battery would drain not just from the constant restart of the app but also the fact that it would continue to regain connection to their server whenever it restarts.
try use a dark colour like black as you know white colour drains much more battery. if your a constant user of google (maybe even if its your homepage too) try use the black google version. save some battery.
i think personally for me 3g uses more battery than wifi. another factor is the network bars that drains battery if low as constantly hanging onto that low connection.
you should try flight mode and see how the battery fairs there so you can get a rough idea.
also come across an app called FreshNetwork which is a signal booster & finder. Android Market - 4.7 out of 5 Star overall rating! (9,152) as i speak, and it does work.. theres been times where ive had 1 bar connections but after using it i get like 3/4bars. so it helps ease the battery drain there as connection is much better.
hope its of some help guys!!
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Its something stock with the phone. I just got a second and it still does it. I haven't figured out what starts it. But once I kill it, like I said my battery life is fantastic.
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Its something stock with the phone. I just got a second and it still does it. I haven't figured out what starts it. But once I kill it, like I said my battery life is fantastic.
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what did you kill?
there are some very important factors of battery draining follow
Display Timeout,Display Brightness,Bluetooth Inactivity
I've complied a list of battery saving tips and put them on my blog! Please do have a look!
The link to my blog is in my signature!
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I've complied a list of battery saving tips and put them on my blog! Please do have a look!
The link to my blog is in my signature!
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hey first of all nice site secondly your tips are pretty much on the dot.. just thought of these apps people might find useful
autostarts - helps with disabling apps from auto starting when phone boots up (may be slightly speed up boot?) & also prevent certain app event triggers (maybe an app permission u aint happy with?)
FreshNetwork - helps locate better signals in which in return would improve battery life
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In running processes, the vague media process. Auto starts and kills battery quickly.
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Mobzter said:
hey first of all nice site secondly your tips are pretty much on the dot.. just thought of these apps people might find useful
autostarts - helps with disabling apps from auto starting when phone boots up (may be slightly speed up boot?) & also prevent certain app event triggers (maybe an app permission u aint happy with?)
FreshNetwork - helps locate better signals in which in return would improve battery life
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Thanks for the suggestions! I have added them to the list of battery tweaks!
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I've tried a bunch of different combinations but I have gone back to GB every time. I don't even care about features anymore I just want to get the most out of my battery life. If you are getting great battery life will you post your kernel, firmware, and ROM please? Please post if you are on Ext Batt or not.
Thanks
I have an extended battery and I think my battery life is really good. Primarily, I turn off most automatic syncing and keep my screen turned down as low as possible at all times. I use a widget called Brightness Level and I keep it at 13% most of the time. I also keep GPS, Bluetooth, and WiFi off unless I specifically need them. Other than that, I'm not doing anything special. I'm on Clean ROM 4.5 Standard.
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I think the biggest culprit is the screen. I'll get varying battery life every day, anywhere from 2 to 12 hours on a standard battery, or 4 to 30 hours on extended.
The only common factor in each of these for me is screen-on time. I'll get 1.5-2 hours on standard or 3.5-4.5 on the extended battery before it dies.
However, as previously mentioned, turning off Bluetooth, wifi, GPS, mobile data, and sync will always help battery life. Too bad I rely heavily on some form of data, email, and Bluetooth headsets for my work.
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I've got a system...
I usually can get through the day with a regular battery; a few things to remember:
1) Mail/messaging/anything push
if you can deal with it, set peak hours from like 7am to 7pm and get stuff every two hours during peak and every four hours during off-peak. Push means your phone is actively waiting or doing something almost all the time. This one single thing will make the biggest difference, except for...
2) The Display
The biggest energy hog of all. Actually not much you can do here but set it to time out quickly (a minute or less) and set to either auto brightness or remember to turn it down indoors.
3) Audio
Running audio through the speakers also uses more battery. Try headphones.
Bluetooth audio is great but again bluetooth also uses more energy than headphones.
4) Networking startup services
Lots of games install startup services that run constantly in the background checking for data from the mothership and/or other players. Get rid of them or turn them off if you can. Some apps also do this, I dont have a list but a little Googling will enlighten you.
Any other tips? I'm always looking for other (reasonable) ways to save battery.
PS: as you probably know, the phone (and any smartphone) will charge about %500 faster if its completely turned off. Common sense, I know, but you'd be surprised...
this will keep you going all day:
http://www.amazon.com/Xantrex-XPowe...IC/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1337500958&sr=8-12
Seriously though, if you actually use your phone throughout the day, its probably better to just get the extended battery. Anytime you turn the screen on, it sucks battery.
You can try juice defender. I have it set to extreme and tell it which apps can turn on data with and without screen on, so 4g is only on when it needs to be.
I've heard ROM toolbox can keep apps from opening in the background but haven't paid for it yet. This would be good for games like draw something and WWF that seem to suck power constantly.
Thanks for the replies. I changed my power from performance to normal and that made a big difference because the phone won't sleep in performance mode. Just a note it will still sleep data even though my hotmail is on push. I am using the hotmail app not the htc mail app. I see people with 3+ hours of battery life in the battery thread and I don't see how they do it. I have the extended and I can make it through a day but I only use the screen for under an hour it seems. I'm not really seeing anything new in here I'm not doing but I do keep my screen auto a lot so I might jack that down. I keep every feature off when not in use.
I'm using stock rooted 3.14.605.5 with same firmware and over been getting better battery life since flashing.
I'm mad as hell about losing unlimited data!
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this will keep you going all day:
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Seriously though, if you actually use your phone throughout the day, its probably better to just get the extended battery. Anytime you turn the screen on, it sucks battery.
You can try juice defender. I have it set to extreme and tell it which apps can turn on data with and without screen on, so 4g is only on when it needs to be.
I've heard ROM toolbox can keep apps from opening in the background but haven't paid for it yet. This would be good for games like draw something and WWF that seem to suck power constantly.
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Man, That's some serious ****
I generally get great battery life-around 4 hours screen on, 4g, gps. However, a few days ago I noticed higher than normal temps, and poor battery life.
So what changed?
I traced it to the installation of one free app. Picsart-uninstalled and everything is peachy again.
This is my second rezound, the first one always ran hot and drained the battery.
If you're having problems with heat and drain, run a full ruu and see if it helps, if not you may have a bad device or possibly a bad sim. I don't think that the device is the problem in most situations. More likely a runaway app, bad radio/firmware/build combo, user error, or expectations too high.
My setup:
Latest ruu-cleanrom de 1.4-take it easy on the apps and widgets!
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This is pretty typical. I'm on newest leak and firmware and cleanrom pro 4.5.
We're pretty close.
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This is pretty typical. I'm on newest leak and firmware and cleanrom pro 4.5.
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Your issue may lay mostly in poor reception. I notice your signal strength thing is in yellow most of the time. Use WiFi if you can. I get pretty good battery life on
Ineffibilis GB
Feb OTA firmware. Don't remember the numbers.
Dsb 1.1.3 undervolted by about 100mv via incredicontrol (UV depends on the device, each is diff) and under clocked to 1188mhz and with interactive governor.
I think my power setting is on Normal.
Also I have weather sync every 3 hrs. Facebook every 4 and leave my Gmail accounts on sync.
I get between 3.5 and 5 hours every day of screen on time through out the day if I'm using my phone a lot. This would also be coupled with usually around 30 minutes of phone calls too. But usually I only charge it every other day (when it gets to around 30%). I get more time out of it on WiFi (5+ hrs and less on 4G (3.5 to 4 hrs at most throughout the day). I also never run my phone down to less than 20% if I can help it. I'm on stock battery too
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This is pretty typical. I'm on newest leak and firmware and cleanrom pro 4.5.
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That battery life isn't great if you're only using 9m of screen on time. 60% after 5 hours isn't unusual for me if I have medium usage of my phone. Like platinum mentioned, your signal is terrible. The Rezound (and most phones) tend to use a lot of battery if they're trying to constantly find a signal.
Right. Battery should only drop 1 to 2 percent per hour on good signal. Bad signal can kill it... If I was on 3G my phone would be around the mid 90s with the same usage.
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That battery life isn't great if you're only using 9m of screen on time. 60% after 5 hours isn't unusual for me if I have medium usage of my phone. Like platinum mentioned, your signal is terrible. The Rezound (and most phones) tend to use a lot of battery if they're trying to constantly find a signal.
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Does it matter if I turn off data or it will still drain looking for cell signal?
As long as you don't have partial wake issues, there are only two real concerns for battery.
It's not processor. Again, if the phone's not 'awake' while the screen is off, your phone's processor is not ramping up to full speed at all. While it's on and in your hand, 1.5ghz is a great speed for it to operate. Slower speeds than that significantly slow down how your phone operates, and you will have your screen on for seconds longer (Which uses WAY more battery than the higher clock speed).
In Facebook app, go to menu > settings > and change the refresh interval to NEVER!!!
As of Android 2.2, Facebook does push notifications. You don't need Facebook refreshing very 4 hours (OR EVER!). This wakes up your phone (ramps up processor speed, and so on), uses data (battery), and is unnecessary (since you get push notifications anyway). Turn that crap off. Same with Twitter. Turn it down to manual refreshing only (look in settings > accounts and sync as well as in the app). Same with Friendstream (which will automatically have its own refresh settings - fix them).
There are two things that use your battery.
1 - Screen. Turn your screen off when you're not using it. Stop turning your screen on every 12 minutes to 'see if you have any notifications'. Trust the green LED blinking light, or listen for your phone. You can stop checking it. You're using a TON of battery lighting up that 4.3" screen AND waking the phone back up (ramping up the processor, among other things, and it will stay awake for at least minutes, even after the screen goes back off).
2 - Data. Turn wifi off if you're not using it. Turn Mobile Network (GASP!) off when you're not using it. Pull down your notifications and hit Quick Settings, and turn Mobile Network off. Don't have that? Make the HTC Widget > settings > Mobile network. Turn it off when you're out with your friends after midnight. a) you're not going to post anything reasonable or coherent when you're out drinking anyway to Facebook, and b) call and text still works, so you can still mack on honeys all night (and text them drunkenly). You don't need your damn Gmail at 1am. I know you don't. Don't try to convince me otherwise.
If you keep your screen time to a minimum (and brightness down if you're not using auto brightness), and TURN OFF mobile network (internet) when not using it, your battery will last DAYS. Yes, the stock battery. Now, do you do 100+ texts per day? Sorry, your battery is going to die today. And tomorrow. Every day. The screen time murders the battery, and the Wake time that your phone will have as a result (like every time the phone lights up - for minutes at a time, it'll stay 'awake').
That's how you keep your battery going. On any android phone. Yes, an extended battery works great. I bought one (half price in a verizon store) AND got an EXTRA one for $4 (on amazon.com). Yes, it's for thunderbolt, but YES it's the same part number. It's running my phone right now. Keep it charged, and in your glove compartment. Your life will be better.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0055OTNK4/ref=pe_175190_21431760_C1_cs_sce_3p_dp_1
Go get it. Turn off your internet, and your screen. Trust your LED notification light. Stop using MMS Screen On. Your battery will last all day, every day. Unless you text a lot. Then, good luck.
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Does it matter if I turn off data or it will still drain looking for cell signal?
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In short, yes.
If u turn off data it will help. But you will still have poor signal, so Idk how much it will help. apps and processes that use background data won't be using it, that alone will keep your phone from reconnecting so much, so it will help.
It takes your phone longer to connect on poor signals and your speeds are slower so it takes longer to do the same things. This also keeps your processor running faster for longer times.
... Personally I find the battery life brutal. It's got to the point that I try not to even use it for fear of not making it even 10 hours with minimum use. I use my Nexus 7 more and more, even for texting with an app called Mighty Text. Even with stamina activated, battery life is short.
With one hour of listening to music at the gym, and a handful of texts, and reading maybe one or two emails, it is basically done in just under 9 hours. With the screen rarely on... My android system shows a higher percent than my screen time because I try to turn it on as little as possible.
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... Personally I find the battery life brutal. It's got to the point that I try not to even use it for fear of not making it even 10 hours with minimum use. I use my Nexus 7 more and more, even for texting with an app called Mighty Text. Even with stamina activated, life battery life is short.
With one hour of listening to music at the gym, and a handful of texts, and reading maybe one or two emails, it is basically done in just over 9 hours. My android system shows a higher percent than my screen time because I try to turn it on as little as possible.
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I seen you replied to my YouTube video.
Like i said there, you probably have a defective unit or there is something going on. My Z Ultra easily lasts 6+ hours of screen on time and i have no trouble making it through a full day.
Can you share some screenshots of app usage or other info?
There have been a few faulty Z Ultras sold from asia so it would not surprise me if you got one.
ScottishSwan said:
I seen you replied to my YouTube video.
Like i said there, you probably have a defective unit or there is something going on. My Z Ultra easily lasts 6+ hours of screen on time and i have no trouble making it through a full day.
Can you share some screenshots of app usage or other info?
There have been a few faulty Z Ultras sold from asia so it would not surprise me if you got one.
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Do this clear up ur recent apps
And turn off the syncs.
Set ur brightness 40-50 %.
And u'll get more batt. Life.
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ScottishSwan said:
I seen you replied to my YouTube video.
Like i said there, you probably have a defective unit or there is something going on. My Z Ultra easily lasts 6+ hours of screen on time and i have no trouble making it through a full day.
Can you share some screenshots of app usage or other info?
There have been a few faulty Z Ultras sold from asia so it would not surprise me if you got one.
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Same. Mine lasts me a full day with 5+hrs of screen time, most usage is FB, net surfing and messaging using data and some calls and video streaming. Stamina mode not used at all.
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Same. Mine lasts me a full day with 5+hrs of screen time, most usage is FB, net surfing and messaging using data and some calls and video streaming. Stamina mode not used at all.
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Yeah that sounds about right
I absolutely believe what the OP said though. I think he is really having bad battery life but, i put that down to the device being faulty or there is a rogue app consuming a lot of power it shouldn't be.
How are you enjoying the beast so far?
ScottishSwan said:
Yeah that sounds about right
I absolutely believe what the OP said though. I think he is really having bad battery life but, i put that down to the device being faulty or there is a rogue app consuming a lot of power it shouldn't be.
How are you enjoying the beast so far?
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It's rather difficult to tell, sure it could be just a rare unlucky defective unit or some other rouge apps but we can't tell for sure until he provides battery usage charts etc.
And yeah, totally enjoying this beast. Previously I was on Note 2, it doesn't have a FHD screen and I moved to S4 which is full HD but the screen size is a little small for videos while relaxing on my bed. Tried tablet options but there isn't really any good FHD tablets with 3G/LTE. I had the Samsung Ative PC Pro but it's a humongous 13.3'' and pretty heavy. I've thought about the Padfone Infinity but again, I rather look at Snapdragon 800 devices. I think Z Ultra came at the right time, with the right hardware and form factor for people like me. It's like owning a Nexus 7 2013 but with full phone functions. Awesome. :good:
Just do factory reset and give it a go again. Also install gsma battery or better battery stats from play store and see what is eating battery.
I am able to pull about 5 hours Screen on time with more than 15% battery left still.
It might be some app causing wakelock issue.
Turning sync off is not needed and it is pointless. We have a smartphone, turning sync off just makes it that little bit dumb. I am getting decent battery life with 3 email account syncing along with 14 sources hourly updated and synced in pule and twitter syncing every 15 minutes. Also signed into Whatsapp and Hangouts. No issues at all.
Screen I have adjusted to my liking. Not too dark.
If possible post your battery graph from gsam. (Along with the app usage screen).
I not sure can be done use this method. But I try my device before and now batt usage came to normal. Just press the power button n the volume up wait until the vibrant 3 time after all your device will suit off and goto charge yr device until full charged (don't. Switch on your device). After full charge prees the power button like normal start . Now try to use your device one day see the result.
Hope can help.
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This is how the battery lasted on my Z Ultra after the first charge.
Auto sync was turned on and so was everything else. I was using it very heavy throughout the day.
kkkok8051 said:
I not sure can be done use this method. But I try my device before and now batt usage came to normal. Just press the power button n the volume up wait until the vibrant 3 time after all your device will suit off and goto charge yr device until full charged (don't. Switch on your device). After full charge prees the power button like normal start . Now try to use your device one day see the result.
Hope can help.
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As i think...it's just that it need some time to settle down and calibrate to be set as per ur usage...
the best thing is ur under warranty u can go for replacement anytime u want...(That's the last Scenario..)
And Exactly....What u did is a simple reset so as it triggers to refresh the whole ui...
and do this after doing this let ur phone come to 0% and then plug in charge it to a full 100 % ,let it charge for 5-10 mins extra too,....would calibrate your battery fully....
Then use these.
1. Set brightness around 40-60 % which i guess is more than enough....as it Drains the battery quite heavily..
and try not to use the live wallpapers...
2.Always clear ur background apps...
3. No problem with syncs or data connection....use them as u like that's what they are for. as disabling would result in same or more wakelocks....
4. Check ur battery stats under power mangement and click on graph...The screen on time and the awake time bars should be parallel or closer to it...
Else You can do the things for what it stands for....
Want to ask this, how's the ultra what's ur view for it liked it or not, any best features u noticed.
and post here.. :good:
I'll try some of these sugestions.. yesterday my screen on time was only 1 hour 38 minutes.. I should have taken a screen shot sorry. Today randomly seems to be a little better.
kramdens said:
I'll try some of these sugestions.. yesterday my screen on time was only 1 hour 38 minutes.. I should have taken a screen shot sorry. Today randomly seems to be a little better.
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Ah no need to be sorry just take a random screen shot.
Just do this to observe charging from 0 to 100% after using the combi power + vol up. Till the 3 vibrations.
Would be helpful.
And post here.
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A couple of questions:
- Exactly what are you doing with your ZU? Are you playing games? Reading?
- Which apps do you have installed? There are plenty of apps out there that will suck the life out of the battery (Facebook etc.)
- When did you get it? New batteries aren't at max capacity right out of the box. A typical week will normally give you max output (so around 7 cycles)
And hows the ultra's response. ?
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A couple of questions:
- Exactly what are you doing with your ZU? Are you playing games? Reading?
- Which apps do you have installed? There are plenty of apps out there that will suck the life out of the battery (Facebook etc.)
- When did you get it? New batteries aren't at max capacity right out of the box. A typical week will normally give you max output (so around 7 cycles)
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- I listen to music for one hour during workout
- check email maybe once or twice a day with gmail
- 20 minutes youtube, used to do more with Note 2, but scaled back with this phone
- using google chrome for browser, usually will browse a bit, but keeping that to minimum
- text conversations
- at most one or two calls a day, don't talk much on the phone
- check facebook a couple times, instagram a few times, not much again since getting this phone
- installed apps are: FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, TWITTER, MIGHTY TEXT, GOOGLE APS, (MUSIC, PLAY BOOKS ETC), EBAY, NETFLIX, SHAZAM, TD BANK, ZEDGE, and Riptide game which i don't play.
this is day 5 with the phone.
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- I listen to music for one hour during workout
- check email maybe once or twice a day with gmail
- 20 minutes youtube, used to do more with Note 2, but scaled back with this phone
- using google chrome for browser, usually will browse a bit, but keeping that to minimum
- text conversations
- at most one or two calls a day, don't talk much on the phone
- check facebook a couple times, instagram a few times, not much again since getting this phone
- installed apps are: FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, TWITTER, MIGHTY TEXT, GOOGLE APS, (MUSIC, PLAY BOOKS ETC), EBAY, NETFLIX, SHAZAM, TD BANK, ZEDGE, and Riptide game which i don't play.
this is day 5 with the phone.
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Hmm, nothing unusual here. Keep using it until it hits 0% and charge it back to 100% without turning it on.
kramdens said:
- I listen to music for one hour during workout
- check email maybe once or twice a day with gmail
- 20 minutes youtube, used to do more with Note 2, but scaled back with this phone
- using google chrome for browser, usually will browse a bit, but keeping that to minimum
- text conversations
- at most one or two calls a day, don't talk much on the phone
- check facebook a couple times, instagram a few times, not much again since getting this phone
- installed apps are: FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, TWITTER, MIGHTY TEXT, GOOGLE APS, (MUSIC, PLAY BOOKS ETC), EBAY, NETFLIX, SHAZAM, TD BANK, ZEDGE, and Riptide game which i don't play.
this is day 5 with the phone.
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Let them run to get to 0.
But after that always force stop them..and clear the most recent from background.
And most imp.
ENJOY USING UR ULTRA.. :thumbup:
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LordManhattan said:
Hmm, nothing unusual here. Keep using it until it hits 0% and charge it back to 100% without turning it on.
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Is it ok to go all the way down to 0?
kramdens said:
Is it ok to go all the way down to 0?
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Yes, but don't do it to often.
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ADDICT.ANK said:
Let them run to get to 0.
But after that always force stop them..and clear the most recent from background.
And most imp.
ENJOY USING UR ULTRA.. :thumbup:
Be Humble and Hit thanks if you find the post helpful or if I helped u.
A click for u but rep for me
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Killing services will only kill the battery faster since Android will automatically start them again. Android is not Windows.
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kramdens said:
Is it ok to go all the way down to 0?
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yes but only for a purpose its ok to go down to 0...
coz the battery needs calibration so its better to reset the batt. stats and the device is new so it'll take a little time to settle...
no worries just enjoy using it....
And tell us the review atleast...its good to know coz we want to... :highfive:
2 days? I had a full charge in this at 6 am, now i just got a 14% low battery alert at 2:28pm...
Is this normal? I am not doing anything unusual at all, did not use it to make a single phone call, and am at work so ive only checked it a handful of times today...
what have yall experienced here??? this seems ridiculous!
Well took my gear s off charge at 7:30am and have checked it at regular points through the day including showing it off to work people and it's not 22:37pm and I still have 67% left of the battery so mines about right...
I have thus set to do Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, sms, twitter and a few other notifications so gets used fully through the day.
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Well took my gear s off charge at 7:30am and have checked it at regular points through the day including showing it off to work people and it's not 22:37pm and I still have 67% left of the battery so mines about right...
I have thus set to do Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, sms, twitter and a few other notifications so gets used fully through the day.
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hmm....
i just brought up the list of running apps and found that the music app was still open (though on pause) from this morning.
i have a hunch, playing or not, that if you leave the music app open in the background it may be the source of the battery drain.
no, i do not have the clock face set to always on as well. just music app running in the background on pause.
i'm hoping this is it, though since i killed tasks i went from 14% to 1% in as many minutes. I'm guessing not...
Took it off the charger this morning at 6:30am at 60% and as of right now at 5:30pm it has 33%.
27% in 12 hours
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p64imp said:
hmm....
i just brought up the list of running apps and found that the music app was still open (though on pause) from this morning.
i have a hunch, playing or not, that if you leave the music app open in the background it may be the source of the battery drain.
no, i do not have the clock face set to always on as well. just music app running in the background on pause.
i'm hoping this is it, though since i killed tasks i went from 14% to 1% in as many minutes. I'm guessing not...
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I cleared off my recent opened apps about 3 times during the day. that might have helped my battery
you may want to check out this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/gear-s/help/gear-s-battery-issues-t2935271)
100% @ 8:00am - 71% Now @ 7pm.
11 hrs = 29%. Used quite a bit.
I used it a fair amount today.
Took it off the charger at 7:10am (100%)
at 7:15pm it is 62%.
It seems to be getting better.
I turned off the Wifi. Maybe that has something to do with it?
dpeagle said:
you may want to check out this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/gear-s/help/gear-s-battery-issues-t2935271)
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Thanks for the link...
After i re-charge i'm going to try this:
Update on Battery Life for me
HUGE day of use primarily with notifications and texting. Up and fully charged at 7am and now at 5:30pm I'm still at 48% battery.
On Wifi
BT Tethered
Clock off
Brightness at 60%
Vibrate/no sound
GPS Off - which I think is a HUGE key to success. No need to have it on unless needed anyway.
p64imp said:
Thanks for the link...
After i re-charge i'm going to try this:
Update on Battery Life for me
HUGE day of use primarily with notifications and texting. Up and fully charged at 7am and now at 5:30pm I'm still at 48% battery.
On Wifi
BT Tethered
Clock off
Brightness at 60%
Vibrate/no sound
GPS Off - which I think is a HUGE key to success. No need to have it on unless needed anyway.
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how do you turn off gps? I do not see a specific option other then disabling the mobile network alltogether...?
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how do you turn off gps? I do not see a specific option other then disabling the mobile network alltogether...?
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on the GS go to settings, go to connections, scroll to the bottom turn off location
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on the GS go to settings, go to connections, scroll to the bottom turn off location
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TY! looks like it was already off though...
what does it mean:
Location - "gps only" ?
If it means to say location = gps, its a bit confusing...
additionally, the feature i disabled that so far has helped is the mute/pause motion option. This one option seems to be the culprit for my 100% - 0% in 8 hours issue. I'm never enabling that feature again! holy cow!
Just did my first full run down on the battery without charging, been running since yesterday morning and am down to 8%, so less than 48 hours so far, but still two full work days. I can at least forget to charge once in a while.
Not as good as my Neo's 4 dayss, but better than the 12 hours I was getting on the Moto.
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Just did my first full run down on the battery without charging, been running since yesterday morning and am down to 8%, so less than 48 hours so far, but still two full work days. I can at least forget to charge once in a while.
Not as good as my Neo's 4 dayss, but better than the 12 hours I was getting on the Moto.
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I heard it was brutal with the Moto
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Battery life for me is about a day and a half. I set the face to watch just to display black and white numbers I put a black background and that really helps. You don't need the full color watch background that drains a lot of battery when you decide to lift it up and down.
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on the GS go to settings, go to connections, scroll to the bottom turn off location
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Update:
i disabled motion for mute/pause and the mobile network (i use bluetooth) and my watch now finishes at about 70% after a full day's use. VAST improvement!
p64imp said:
Update:
i disabled motion for mute/pause and the mobile network (i use bluetooth) and my watch now finishes at about 70% after a full day's use. VAST improvement!
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Disabling Mobile network will improve battery life, i think. Check my post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56722962&postcount=32
I get only 6 hrs from 100 to 0%.
p64imp said:
Update:
i disabled motion for mute/pause and the mobile network (i use bluetooth) and my watch now finishes at about 70% after a full day's use. VAST improvement!
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gonna give that a try. this thing is getting crazy good battery life after its 6th full charge. after 13hrs yesterday with notifications, email reply's, multiple phone calls (two calls of 20 plus minutes) the damn thing had over 60% left. that's with GS to N2 via BT.
Battery life is getting better, been on for 14 hours and still at 75%
At work 13.5 hours and I'm at 51%. Turning off the wake up motion helped me today, and running tethered to my phone helped (although I will not keep doing that), biggest help was not running with gps (but this will not be a normal occurrence). I'm going to run with phone remotely connected and gps running tomorrow and see what just having the wake motion off will do for me.
6-7 hours on GSM
Most of the posts specify battery time while using it on BT thethering.
However I like to use it as a basic phone, no worrying about carrying everywhere regular phone.
Of course I have a phone in a bag (just for case, battery!, for emails, and browsing).
- So, when using it for regular talk it lasts from 9.am to 3p.m. Specifications:
a) about 1 hour talk
b) 2 sms
c) GPS Off, WIFI off, Move ON, not installing extra apps
d) BT and SONY SBH52 ON
This is not enough.
Charging is fast - (with no connecting to plug) i can get 50% batt in 30 minutes.