I've been using my Titan II for about 10 days now and I've encountered a weird battery drain issue that I first noticed this past Friday during my battery test/monitoring activities.
I left my house with a full charge and 5 minutes later I already lost 2% battery charge. I normally could check Facebook and Twitter, check a couple of webpages and still be at 100%. The phone then started losing 3-5 % charge every hour without any use. I normally lost 1% every hour/2 hours.
Nothing has changed between my first days of usage and now. It's still 1 push email, another email polling every hour and the wpcentral app, weather app and iss tracker app in the background. Before the first full day of use, I had installed all my apps that I had on my Focus and let the battery drain then gave it a full charge. I don't think it's an issue with the radio being LTE because this problem would have manifested itself during the first few days.
I let the battery drain to 3 % tonight and it's on the charger. If that doesn't do the trick, I will delete then re-add the email accounts. After that,my only choice is a hard reset and hope that works.
If anyone has any ideas, I'd be grateful
karelj said:
I've been using my Titan II for about 10 days now and I've encountered a weird battery drain issue that I first noticed this past Friday during my battery test/monitoring activities.
I left my house with a full charge and 5 minutes later I already lost 2% battery charge. I normally could check Facebook and Twitter, check a couple of webpages and still be at 100%. The phone then started losing 3-5 % charge every hour without any use. I normally lost 1% every hour/2 hours.
Nothing has changed between my first days of usage and now. It's still 1 push email, another email polling every hour and the wpcentral app, weather app and iss tracker app in the background. Before the first full day of use, I had installed all my apps that I had on my Focus and let the battery drain then gave it a full charge. I don't think it's an issue with the radio being LTE because this problem would have manifested itself during the first few days.
I let the battery drain to 3 % tonight and it's on the charger. If that doesn't do the trick, I will delete then re-add the email accounts. After that,my only choice is a hard reset and hope that works.
If anyone has any ideas, I'd be grateful
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To me this looks like the 3G/LTE coverage in your area.
The easiest way to test this would be switch to 2G network and see if you see the same drain. Hopefully you won't.
The more fluctuating 3g/LTE in your area = burning radio = draining battery.
HTC don't have strong radios like Nokia.
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Hi,
I've been noticing that my Hero has been gulping battery down VERY fast.
In general, the battery lasts 7-8 hrs, which is not acceptable (I'm out for 12+ hrs).
My usage is not heavy. Wifi, Bluetooth and GPS are rarely, if ever, on.
I do read some news and surf the web a little but only for 2-3 of those 7-8 hrs.
Is my battery life normal?
I've been reading people achieving 12+ hours with their stock battery...
2 or 3 hours websurfing is very heavy on the battery, much more so than phone calls. One of the biggest drains is the screen and you having it on for 2 - 3 hours is going to drain the battery I guess
Seems very poor, much poorer than my iDevice that I use more frequently.
Today, after flashing the 2.1 ROM, it has gotten worse.
Battery's down to 40% in 6 hours, and Battery Usage shows 50% phone idle, 50% cell standby.
I've not even touched the phone since unplugging it 6 hours ago ;S
Is it possible I've a defective battery?
If your battery is down to 40% after 6 hours of it being idle (no screen but switched on) then either you have some power hungry app(s) running in the background or the battery is defective.
At the moment my battery is showing 40%. It was last charged about 40 hours ago, and I have had it switched on the whole time with some light use, picking up emails in the background and occassionally switching the screen on.
I ran task killer and sync was off.
One thing I didn't do was charge it for 10-13 hours straight on first charge; I just unplugged it when the led turned green in ~4 hours (impatient...).
Could this have affected battery life?
Nope - when the LED is green it is fully charged. No minimum charge times suggested in the manual.
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At the moment my battery is showing 40%. It was last charged about 40 hours ago, and I have had it switched on the whole time with some light use, picking up emails in the background and occassionally switching the screen on.
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That is amazing battery life, I never get more than 24 hours with similar use... what ROM and radio are you using Peter? Also, where are you and what network are you on?
I am in UK on Orange, and have standard Orange ROM and Radio - not the latest one but the one they had before 2.73.61.5.
I have read lots of complaints about battery life, but I think mine is fine for a smartphone. I am a relatively light user of a phone - don't do lots of surfing or watching videos. A few phone calls, very few texts, checking emails and listening to some music is all I normally do with it. The other thing I do use it for is I always have the sat nav on while I am driving, but in that case it is plugged into my Brodit mount and charging from the car.
This latest spell may have been helped because I have not been out over those 40 hours - spent the weekend at home, which means that the Hero has been logged into wifi rather than trying to use mobile data. And not used it to make calls or texts or used the music player.
I notice keep Internet connection active take a lot of battery. Go to settings and turn it off and try to see whether the problem exist. It'll will take you a few seconds to re-establish the connecting whenever you need it... not so unbearable considering it'll save a lot of battery.
Same, I notice the mobile chip is using abnormal amounts of battery.
In the morning I watched a 40 minute episode of drama.
Battery dove from 100% to 65%.
To preserve battery life, I turned Airplane mode on.
When I was done with the episode, there was still 55% battery left!
I'm pretty shocked at the battery drain.
I'm using one of the new 2.1 ROMs. They're known for having a bit of a battery-hunger. I solved it by installing the app Ultimatejuice from Market. it's a pay app, but it's worth it. It's also another app called juicedefender (free, less options) that I used before I bought the Ultimate. It also worked good! Now my battery lasts the whole day without any problem
Hi, all. Purchased my Vibrant back in July and always had some battery issues. I figured I'd try one last thing before asking T-Mobile for a battery replacement, so here's what I did. Can someone tell me whether or not this seems normal?
Two days ago, I ODIN'd to JFD to start completely from scratch, then flashed Bionix-V 1.3 non-TouchWiz edition (wiping in the process). The flash was on a completely full battery (plugged into AC, unplugging for the first time after booting into Android).
Here are my usage stats for today:
WiFi off, GPS off, Bluetooth off, auto-rotation off, 3G enabled, brightness around 25%, power saving mode enabled
Gmail/Contacts/Calendar - push, Exchange email - every 15 minutes
Google Talk logged in the whole time
No other syncing applications
Usage consisted mainly of web browsing and around an hour of listening to music through PowerAMP
Charged to 100% overnight
Unplugged for 5 hours, 30 minutes (8:30am to 2pm)
Battery stats: Display 97% (display on 1h 35m), cell standby 3%
Final battery at the end of period: 30%
So, does anyone else get similar battery life on a nearly untouched installation of Bionix? A 70% battery loss with only 1 hour and 30 minutes of screen time seems a little high to me.
That seems like a lot. Try downloading an app called battery left from the market. Charge up to 100 percent and let the app calibrate. It will show you how long a full charge should last. With moderate use I get about 15 to 20 hrs of life with bionix.
Exchange Sync? With what app? I've heard that touchdown is a really bad drain on battery and refreshing every 15 minutes might be a problem. Poweramp for an hour probably cost you 20% battery as well. I'd give a few more cycles to judge your battery life. Compared to my phone, been off the phone since about 8 AM, 20% battery now around midnight. This included 30 minutes of music with the TW player, about 3 hours of display time, a few photos, and about 5 minutes of phone calls, 15-20 text messages. Also some web browsing on 3G and wifi.
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Exchange Sync? With what app? I've heard that touchdown is a really bad drain on battery and refreshing every 15 minutes might be a problem. Poweramp for an hour probably cost you 20% battery as well. I'd give a few more cycles to judge your battery life. Compared to my phone, been off the phone since about 8 AM, 20% battery now around midnight. This included 30 minutes of music with the TW player, about 3 hours of display time, a few photos, and about 5 minutes of phone calls, 15-20 text messages. Also some web browsing on 3G and wifi.
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Just the Samsung Email app. And I don't think 15 minute polling for new email could cause that much drain... that's something I only enabled recently. This is after a few full battery cycles.
I've also never observed PowerAMP using much more battery than the stock music player.
Sounds like your phone is getting much better battery life.
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Exchange Sync? With what app? I've heard that touchdown is a really bad drain on battery and refreshing every 15 minutes might be a problem. Poweramp for an hour probably cost you 20% battery as well. I'd give a few more cycles to judge your battery life. Compared to my phone, been off the phone since about 8 AM, 20% battery now around midnight. This included 30 minutes of music with the TW player, about 3 hours of display time, a few photos, and about 5 minutes of phone calls, 15-20 text messages. Also some web browsing on 3G and wifi.
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An hour of PowerAMP drains about 3-4% with flipping through songs, and I have been using this app for several weeks.
Check out system panel also, see what apps you have running in the background.
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Check out system panel also, see what apps you have running in the background.
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As I mentioned, this is a fresh installation of Bionix-V 1.3-- I haven't added on any apps that could possibly be responsible for the battery drain. I've used System Panel in the past to evaluate battery issues with little success.
I've had bionix-v 1.3 for about 3 days now.
This afternoon i pulled it off the charger at 90%. Now, 7 hours later, i'm at 69% with:
display: 79%
cell standby: 16%
phone idle: 4%
Today was pretty light use though. Just about 20 texts, 30 min. of web browsing, 5 min. on phone calls. I also put my display brightness down all the way and freeze a few apps using TiB.
Normally though, i make it through the entire day (18 hours) with one charge and what i consider to be 'average' or medium usage.
I'm just curious if anyone else has experienced excessive battery drain from this ROM?
In about 2 hours I dropped a good 30% from a 100% charge with very little use. When looking at my battery usage statistics I of course saw the screen taking the most which is normal, but the second was Maps?
I did have my location services on, does the htcsense.com deal burn through battery life because it's updating the location constantly?
That's the only thing I could think of.
After turning off gps and htcsense sync I've lost maybe 7% over the course of 8 hours?
me too, my battery life is Horrible i was down 30 percent within an hour, I do have htc sense hub on maybe i will turn it off, otherwise i need to look for other options
12h 9m and I am at 17% Bamf Remix 1.6.3
I would say that is pretty good especially since about 3 hours I was in a horrible signal area bouncing form 1x-4G.
To answer your inquiry yes anything that needs to constantly update your location whether it is through Dedicated GPS, or triangulation will use more battery. Two known culprits for this device and battery life are HTCsense.com account, and even more IMO is Facebook for HTC sense. Sometimes it seems to get stuck while syncing Facebook contacts.
What I do is add my account let it sync everything and then turn off contacts sync. I ended up turning it off completely and just turning it on once in a while because I don't use any social widgets so I check Facebook through browser.
1.6.2 ran 4.4.6 kernel and I would say that it more efficient on battery then 1.6.3 which runs 4.4.7 kernel. Each device has it's own personality though.
not a big fan of 1.6.3. just doesnt seem to run smooth and sync right.
I think I was better off on 1.6.1 too.
Not sure what I have going on or if its related, but I put my phone on the charger overnight (8 hrs or so) and it's 100% when i wake up. Within 3 minutes of taking it off the charger it drops down to 94%. If I put it back on the charger, it will charge for about 10 minutes till 100% and then the same thing happens.
Running 1.6.3/4.4.7
Any thoughts?
mrlisk said:
Not sure what I have going on or if its related, but I put my phone on the charger overnight (8 hrs or so) and it's 100% when i wake up. Within 3 minutes of taking it off the charger it drops down to 94%. If I put it back on the charger, it will charge for about 10 minutes till 100% and then the same thing happens.
Running 1.6.3/4.4.7
Any thoughts?
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This has been discussed a billion times yes. Check the common battery calibration threads.. this is very normal
I am running 1.6.3 coming from previous BAMF roms.
I had lots of reboot issues with the new radio (.7 CDMA and .6 LTE fixed that) but battery life is ok. I am only on 3G in my area.
Full day of normal use at work and i am still over 50% before bed.
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This has been discussed a billion times yes. Check the common battery calibration threads.. this is very normal
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Alright. Thanks!
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Had similar issues where battery would drop to 95% right after a full charge. Charged to 100%, did battery stat reset and then rebooted. Now battery is acting normal.
Upgraded to KE7 yesterday using Odin.
Before going to bed around midnight, I had the phone connected to charger for a couple of hours, so the battery was fully charged at a hundred %.
Before turning in, I disconnected the charger, and disabled Wifi (generally battery life is worse on mobile data then Wifi, in my experience atleast). Around 8 am I woke and found the phone had switced itself off, completely drained. The phone that was fully charged, should've been on idle most of the time. I have 2 exchange account configured for Push, 1 F/book account, Whatsapp, Tango, NO live widgets. I think these are the main users of data/background processes. The phone had died in 8 hours, possibly less as I'm not sure exactly when it had switched off.
Put it back on charge again, left it charging for a few hours, around noon time, it was back up to a 100%, so, disconnected charger, now. 8 hours, 21 minutes later, the battery is sitting with 44% left, so, I would get circa 15 hours of usage on Wifi.
Under Wifi, 60% of the battery usage comes form Android OS...
Has anyone else noticed the same, iis there any fix for this... has Samsung fixed anything worthwhile in the jump from KE2 to KE7??
Riz
Hadn't quite figured what was causing pretty good battery in some circumstances and very poor in others. This would explain it and would be consistent with the stuff I was doing when I noticed the quickest drain.
Can't offer definitive proof, but certainly a very plausible working hypothesis. Solution anyone??
RizSher said:
Upgraded to KE7 yesterday using Odin.
Before going to bed around midnight, I had the phone connected to charger for a couple of hours, so the battery was fully charged at a hundred %.
Before turning in, I disconnected the charger, and disabled Wifi (generally battery life is worse on mobile data then Wifi, in my experience atleast). Around 8 am I woke and found the phone had switced itself off, completely drained. The phone that was fully charged, should've been on idle most of the time. I have 2 exchange account configured for Push, 1 F/book account, Whatsapp, Tango, NO live widgets. I think these are the main users of data/background processes. The phone had died in 8 hours, possibly less as I'm not sure exactly when it had switched off.
Put it back on charge again, left it charging for a few hours, around noon time, it was back up to a 100%, so, disconnected charger, now. 8 hours, 21 minutes later, the battery is sitting with 44% left, so, I would get circa 15 hours of usage on Wifi.
Under Wifi, 60% of the battery usage comes form Android OS...
Has anyone else noticed the same, iis there any fix for this... has Samsung fixed anything worthwhile in the jump from KE2 to KE7??
Riz
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I think you should test it a few more times before concluding that it's due to mobile data vs wifi...?
I have just logged on to this forum to complain about the same issue! After KE7 battery has gone worse than before!!!!
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Boogweed,
Normally yes.. but I've always noted worse battery performance on gprs/3g than WiFi, which is why I tested the phone mobile data at night.
Its a recurring problem.
Riz
Anyone using the S3 for work? With my S2 my battery life BLOWS when I have an account setup to receive my work emails on my phone. For instance, Saturday, I had 22 minutes of screen on time and 16 minutes of talk time. In 9 hours my battery life was down to 12%. This is common for me on this phone using several different roms and kernels. Just curious if the S3 seems to have the same problems.
It should be noted that Better Battery Stats shows a wakelock for the Android Mail service for a time of 1 hour 46 minutes. So i know it's the mail service that's the problem. this happens all the time, this isn't just a one time event.
exchange, push mode ?
Correct. Subfolders I had on a schedule to pull every hour because if they were on push my battery was lucky to last 8 hours without hitting a charger.