I haven't had the chance to try out any roms yet but I was curios if anyone has had even better battery life then the stock .181. And what about performance?
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Stock .181 with an hour and a half talk time and about 50 minutes screen on time unplugged from charger Saturday 5/12/12 at 2pm local time sitting about 12-13 percent right now (friday 5/18/12 8 pm local time), Smart Action "battery Extender" reprogrammed to trigger by screen off only and to turn off background sync and DATA (3G/4G radios). Added 2 days to my battery with that reprogramming.
Eclipse 1.3 rom is by far the best and smoothest experience
Everything works...its not ICS
But the smoothness and battery life more than make up for it
Verizon RAZR here
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I have been running stock and had a smart actions setup that saved me a lot of battery on my OG RAZR.
Ex: From 5:30am to 5pm, my typical working hours, battery gets to 60% remaining on a single charge.
This week i tried an experiment based on a video i saw on poketnow.com's android guy weekly.
My battery is now at 80% when my work day is done.
I usually have 1 hour of talk time, 30 minutes of web browsing, and maybe 15 minutes of mobile gaming throughout the work day.
I also disable LTE since it is not accessible from where i work.
I don't use a task killer because it actually slows down, eats a lot of power on this phone as well as caused the phone to overheat and act buggy. It causes this problem when installed on the phone. It doesn't even have to be running.
I also found it affects every motorola device i tested running 2.3 android.
I hope this helps you out.
dellenrules said:
I have been running stock and had a smart actions setup that saved me a lot of battery on my OG RAZR.
Ex: From 5:30am to 5pm, my typical working hours, battery gets to 60% remaining on a single charge.
This week i tried an experiment based on a video i saw on poketnow.com's android guy weekly.
My battery is now at 80% when my work day is done.
I usually have 1 hour of talk time, 30 minutes of web browsing, and maybe 15 minutes of mobile gaming throughout the work day.
I also disable LTE since it is not accessible from where i work.
I don't use a task killer because it actually slows down, eats a lot of power on this phone as well as caused the phone to overheat and act buggy. It causes this problem when installed on the phone. It doesn't even have to be running.
I also found it affects every motorola device i tested running 2.3 android.
I hope this helps you out.
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Well what was the experiment? or at least a link to the video. Don't just tease people saying you basically doubled your battery life and not tell them how.
I've been running my battery down to 20% each day before I put it on the charger at night.
When I do put it on the charger, I only charge it up to 80 percent.
About an hour or two before I leave each morning, I charge it the rest of the way for work.
He talks about extending the longevity of battery life and says that batteries operate best between 20 and 80 percent.
You can view the article for yourself in the link below.
Herehttp://pocketnow.com/2012/05/14/android-guy-weekly-how-to-make-your-batteries-last-longer/ is the link to the page.
dellenrules said:
I've been running my battery down to 20% each day before I put it on the charger at night.
When I do put it on the charger, I only charge it up to 80 percent.
About an hour or two before I leave each morning, I charge it the rest of the way for work.
He talks about extending the longevity of battery life and says that batteries operate best between 20 and 80 percent.
You can view the article for yourself in the link below.
Herehttp://pocketnow.com/2012/05/14/android-guy-weekly-how-to-make-your-batteries-last-longer/ is the link to the page.
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The basic premise of under charged and over charged are possible, but to "under charge" (drain) your battery to damaging levels you would have to sit there powering the phone back on after it shut itself off and if your using the stock charger (ecomoto) it has circuitry to prevent over charging.
My last phone was an Env Touch I had for over 2 and a half years and still held 80% of its original battery life when I traded in for my RAZR MAXX, I followed the basic rule of run it till it shuts off, charge and unplug within half an hour of charge completing, my mom who got an env touch months after me, and got it stolen and replaced several months after that got a new phones a few months before me because her battery life was so bad, her charging method was to plug it in when she went to bed and unplug when she got up.
so the concept he explains is valid but his percentages are WAY off.
Don't ask me why but if you routinely power off and back on (at least once every 2 weeks) ,you'll get better battery life between charges.
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The basic premise of under charged and over charged are possible, but to "under charge" (drain) your battery to damaging levels you would have to sit there powering the phone back on after it shut itself off and if your using the stock charger (ecomoto) it has circuitry to prevent over charging.
My last phone was an Env Touch I had for over 2 and a half years and still held 80% of its original battery life when I traded in for my RAZR MAXX, I followed the basic rule of run it till it shuts off, charge and unplug within half an hour of charge completing, my mom who got an env touch months after me, and got it stolen and replaced several months after that got a new phones a few months before me because her battery life was so bad, her charging method was to plug it in when she went to bed and unplug when she got up.
so the concept he explains is valid but his percentages are WAY off.
Don't ask me why but if you routinely power off and back on (at least once every 2 weeks ,you'll get better battery life between charges.
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When u say power off do u mean run it dead or just power down and back on
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When u say power off do u mean run it dead or just power down and back on
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With my env touch it was till it cut off on its own but with my RAZR Maxx its once "circle battery widget" shows about 2-4% battery remaining I will power down and back up then hook it up to charger (I do it every other charging cycle), It will be less glitchy (as those of you who never power off notice the lag build up after about a month) as soon as I started "power cycling" as I like to call it, and I will admit I'm a fairly light user, I went from 3 days to 4 maybe 4 and a half days then with the other smart actions tweaks mentioned above I went 6 DAYS 14 hours and some odd minutes off charger and that was with about an hour and a half talk time a dozen texts and 50+ minutes screen on time.
Pulled of the charger earlier today been off the charger for 19 Hours 8 minutes, sent/recieved 17 texts screen on time 17 minutes with some web browsing, power is at 90% (circle battery widget reading).
That's pretty awesome. Unfortunately black widow rom doesn't have smart actions which really sucks. Idk y u wouldn't include it. But its a pretty awesome rom other than that
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That's pretty awesome. Unfortunately black widow rom doesn't have smart actions which really sucks. Idk y u wouldn't include it. But its a pretty awesome rom other than that
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I checked out the page for black widow, it looked sweet, but knowing from the time of purchasing my phone we would be getting official ICS one day I have kept my phone bone stock so I wouldn't have any problems updating, can you not simply install the smart actions app https://play.google.com/store/apps/...S5tb3Rvcm9sYS5jb250ZXh0dWFsLnNtYXJ0cnVsZXMiXQ..
or is there something missing from the ROM causing it to not work?
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I checked out the page for black widow, it looked sweet, but knowing from the time of purchasing my phone we would be getting official ICS one day I have kept my phone bone stock so I wouldn't have any problems updating, can you not simply install the smart actions app https://play.google.com/store/apps/...S5tb3Rvcm9sYS5jb250ZXh0dWFsLnNtYXJ0cnVsZXMiXQ..
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Its gotta be missing something cause when I open the link it says my device isn't compatible with the version. I do know the rom is missing the motion detection feature found in the triggers, so maybe missing that makes it not compatible
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Its gotta be missing something cause when I open the link it says my device isn't compatible with the version. I do know the rom is missing the motion detection feature found in the triggers, so maybe missing that makes it not compatible
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I see in your sig how it says "DROID SPYDER", does your phone say that name under Model Number in the about phone menu? if it does that COULD be why it shows as incompatible, there other possibilities but thats what jumps out at me.
dellenrules said:
I've been running my battery down to 20% each day before I put it on the charger at night.
When I do put it on the charger, I only charge it up to 80 percent.
About an hour or two before I leave each morning, I charge it the rest of the way for work.
He talks about extending the longevity of battery life and says that batteries operate best between 20 and 80 percent.
You can view the article for yourself in the link below.
Herehttp://pocketnow.com/2012/05/14/android-guy-weekly-how-to-make-your-batteries-last-longer/ is the link to the page.
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Best way to increase longevity is to decrease the number of times you need to charge it.
daniel644 said:
I see in your sig how it says "DROID SPYDER", does your phone say that name under Model Number in the about phone menu? if it does that COULD be why it shows as incompatible, there other possibilities but thats what jumps out at me.
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Wow I never noticed that before haha. Its back to normal cause I went back to stock rom until the data issues are fixed on spyder.
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prsterero said:
Wow I never noticed that before haha. Its back to normal cause I went back to stock rom until the data issues are fixed on spyder.
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The reason I asked is because I also have a samsung galaxy player 4.0 and some of the ROMs for it make show as an I9000 instead of the player which adds compatibility with some apps but also breaks some apps.
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I like my Android Touchpad (Cyanogenmod 9 Alpha 0 Build) very much and i love every minute I play with it. But the real deal breaker is that the battery is dying like anything and within 2 hours all the juice is dried up. I tried every possible method (Battery calibration,Charging and discharging) but nothing worked out. I dont want to leave android and go back to web os someone please help me on this
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I like my Android Touchpad (Cyanogenmod 9 Alpha 0 Build) very much and i love every minute I play with it. But the real deal breaker is that the battery is dying like anything and within 2 hours all the juice is dried up. I tried every possible method (Battery calibration,Charging and discharging) but nothing worked out. I dont want to leave android and go back to web os someone please help me on this
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Wow thats insanely fast. Head over to Rootzwiki thread, where the original post Dalingrin made is, or join IRC:
#cyanogenmod-touchpad
Devs hang out at those places
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vijayansn said:
I like my Android Touchpad (Cyanogenmod 9 Alpha 0 Build) very much and i love every minute I play with it. But the real deal breaker is that the battery is dying like anything and within 2 hours all the juice is dried up. I tried every possible method (Battery calibration,Charging and discharging) but nothing worked out. I dont want to leave android and go back to web os someone please help me on this
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What is your charging practice exactly?
I would normally charge to 100% and wait till it goes down to 0...at first it took around 3 hours for full charge but now its almost taking 5 hours go get a full charge
I would normally charge to 100% and wait till it goes down to 0...at first it took around 3 hours for full charge but now its almost taking 5 hours go get a full charge
vijayansn said:
I would normally charge to 100% and wait till it goes down to 0...at first it took around 3 hours for full charge but now its almost taking 5 hours go get a full charge
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You know there has been a charge fix released like half a day after alpha 0 was released to the public. In fact the newest build is now 0.5 alpha, which makes your issue a problem of not updating. Seriously though, update to the newest build.
Samsung Galaxy S Captivate ICS CM9, Glitch Kernel | HP TouchPad CM9
vijayansn said:
I would normally charge to 100% and wait till it goes down to 0...at first it took around 3 hours for full charge but now its almost taking 5 hours go get a full charge
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I am not surprised.
NEVER let it get to zero! You will ruin the battery.
Keep it on charge as much as you can.
You may already have done damage.
Oh my bad Yes i did install the charger fix since i was getting UI error....let me see how it goes for the future charges..i will keep it in charge hereafter before reaching 0%...
pa49 said:
I am not surprised.
NEVER let it get to zero! You will ruin the battery.
Keep it on charge as much as you can.
You may already have done damage.
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Are you serious? These batteries degrade with each charge. Constantly charging is a bad idea.
But the battery degrades when left on zero. When I was on xron I left my touchpad dead a lot. Now I can definitely feel it not lasting as long anymore. Although it could be cm9
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Thats odd... I can go days with my TP on one charge... I don't use it during the day (at work), but it's on, screen off. I used it alot at night and read before I go to bed, but just turn the screen off. I also bought setcpu and have some profile set up so when I don't need the computing power I underclock it and when I need it I overclock it. Do the same with my phone and it really extends battery life.
I'm seeing really good battery life with A 0.5. I saw good battery life with A 0 too, and evervolv. Like 6-8 hours of screen on actual browsing use. I see almost no battery drain with the screen off. I can easily go a few days between charges. I don't know the charge time because I have a Touchstone. So, when it drops to less than 50% I leave it on the touchstone overnight. I use the app dock nothingness so that it won't wake up and keep the screen on.
Check you don't have any apps preventing sleep. BetterBatteryStats should identify any apps causing a wake lock. CPUspy will also help you verify the CPU is entering deep sleep when you turn off the screen. The very first build had a wake lock that wasn't caused by any app, but the charge fix fixed it. I noticed on the very first build the light on the button of mine was always on, even with screen off.
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bp_ said:
Are you serious? These batteries degrade with each charge. Constantly charging is a bad idea.
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I'm afraid you're incorrect.
Allowing a lithium battery to repeatedly go low will cause serious damage and pull down usable life and capacity.
Constantly charging to Max and the monitoring circuits will take what's needed and no more so you are only putting back what's used.
It's not charging any more than you use so there is no added degrade.
Plus if you have the device on charge as much as possible then the cells attain their max capacity.
About 3hrs with CM9, from full charge. Wifi and display pull all the juice.
I would reflash and start from scratch. Sounds like a process going rogue, I get 12 hrs or so on a full charge reading and browsing.
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dan-fish said:
But the battery degrades when left on zero. When I was on xron I left my touchpad dead a lot. Now I can definitely feel it not lasting as long anymore. Although it could be cm9
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I have no idea how to explain your situation but I know my battery life is better with CM9 than it was with CM7 - and that wasn't bad to start with.
for me battery still working good, is holding all day whit the wifi, no using hard way and in sleep mode i can be 2 days whitout chargin, i just use it to browse some webs
Long story short, I bought the HTC EVO 4G LTE (The US carrier, Sprint's variant on the HTC One X). Sprint has a 14 day return policy. For me, it ends on Saturday. I'm considering the GSIII.
But the most important thing is, how's the battery life? How well does it do when you're using 3G?
But most importantly, how badly does heavy texting (as in, new text messages every minute for about 4 hours) effect the battery?
I text all day long from 8am to 8pm (medical school ) and WhatsApp/xda app. Lasts the whole day. But I run in edgge not 3g
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Mine lasts all day too. Very impressed with the sgs3
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WiFi_N said:
Long story short, I bought the HTC EVO 4G LTE (The US carrier, Sprint's variant on the HTC One X). Sprint has a 14 day return policy. For me, it ends on Saturday. I'm considering the GSIII.
But the most important thing is, how's the battery life? How well does it do when you're using 3G?
But most importantly, how badly does heavy texting (as in, new text messages every minute for about 4 hours) effect the battery?
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I'm in the same boat as you. I love the screen on the Evo but the battery life and multitasking issues have got me strongly considering the GS3.
I've been haunting the forums here and it seems like people are getting amazing battery life. There are many people posting screenshots of 5-6 hours screen on time. I've even seen some that exceed that. By contrast my Evo has been running 3.5-4 hours. That's less than what I was getting on my OG Evo (of course it was rooted and running a custom ROM/kernel ).
I just went and spoke with my Sprint representative about what I'd need to do to make the exchange. I'm 95% sure I'm going to pull the trigger on this switcharoo.
Best of luck in your decision!
Was quite bad at first, but something changed.. now it's awesome. 15 hours and 70% left. Moderate usage and 3G/HSPA+
Do you know what changed to your phone?? 15 hours with 70% left is amazing How often were you using the phone ?
The battery life is fantastic. Just turn off the crappy S-Voice features that wait for your voice input.
How long is the screen-on time? I seriously doubt texting requires heavy usage of the radio. So, the screen is obviously going to be the biggest drain on the battery.
Battery life is misleading straight out of the box. The starting charge is completely out of sync with the phone.
I had to run my battery dry and full charge it to calibrate the battery properly. Once I did, then battery% values balanced out and phone has been a dream ever since.
Lpuboy87 said:
Do you know what changed to your phone?? 15 hours with 70% left is amazing How often were you using the phone ?
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it was with moderate usage (lots of texts, a few calls, a bit of game play, but not much) and I turned on power saving when I wasn't using the phone(don't know whether this actually does anything when the phone is asleep anyway... and off when I was). Don't have s-voice running (disabled it manage applications menu), turned off motion as I never used it, turned off NFC, S-Beam and Wifi-Direct (some of which were turned on by default! and this is SUCH a battery killer)...
Basically turned off everything that I don't use.. and saved a hell of a lot of juice.
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Battery life is misleading straight out of the box. The starting charge is completely out of sync with the phone.
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Ill have to try that with my phone to see if I notice a difference.
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Basically turned off everything that I don't use.. and saved a hell of a lot of juice.
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I think the longest I got was almost 30 hours, thats using whatsapp, heywire, facebook and skype here and there and tinkering around in the marketplace. I had most of the settings switched off as you did...just noticed I had nfc on...switched that off too now. I just joined the android community, switched over from my Iphone this week when I got the SG3 so im still getting used to it
I think because of the quad procesor the 2.100mah wasent enough.It is very good!All day from the morning with 100% with full brightness,wifi,download gameloft games,gps, and i had 20% the next morning!!With custom roms will improved more!!
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I think because of the quad procesor the 2.100mah wasent enough.It is very good!All day from the morning with 100% with full brightness,wifi,download gameloft games,gps, and i had 20% the next morning!!With custom roms will improved more!!
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Amazing!
WiFi_N said:
Long story short, I bought the HTC EVO 4G LTE (The US carrier, Sprint's variant on the HTC One X). Sprint has a 14 day return policy. For me, it ends on Saturday. I'm considering the GSIII.
But the most important thing is, how's the battery life? How well does it do when you're using 3G?
But most importantly, how badly does heavy texting (as in, new text messages every minute for about 4 hours) effect the battery?
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check thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27351690#post27351690
24 hours gets me to about 20%. That's with WiFi on all the time. Pretty good yea?
Almost 24 hours with heavy usage, on my previous S II it took two charges or extra battery for same (smsing, surfing, calling, half of time on wifi etc...) always on 3g
There's a whole thread on battery life here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1681873
Probably didn't need to start a new one..
sent from my Galaxy S III
I will agree with the above statements. I use the 2x battery app and I have moderate daily use which gets me at the end of the day around 10:30 from 8am to around 45-48%. That is with 3g when the screen is unlocked a bit of wifi, web browsing and tapatalk, a phone call or 2 etc. I have disabled all apps i don't use as well and run the stock kernel and no roots
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I managed to get the 99% battery issue sorted!
I have used he external battery charger on my 2nd battery and today I thought of trying the new battery for the first time to get some cycles on. Guess what?
The samsung desktop charger powers the battery all the way. I have now 100% on the new one and it dropped as I'm typing now after a good 5minutes of operation, unlike it used to do which was immediatelly after unplugging the charger from the phone.
So I presume that goes with the original assumption that the phone does not overcharge the battery for lifespan purposes. Why would the desktop charger would though?
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I managed to get the 99% battery issue sorted!
I have used he external battery charger on my 2nd battery and today I thought of trying the new battery for the first time to get some cycles on. Guess what?
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I'm now giving this method a try.
Charging up my spare battery with the Samsung desk stand/charger.
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Interesting.
I've found the same as above with the 99% issue.
Having charged my spare battery up in the phone, I've then put it in the external charger, which after another 10-15 minutes charge, the LED turned from red to green.
Having now put that battery back into the phone, the battery is still on 100% after being unplugged for more than 30 mins.
Usually, the battery would have dropped to either 99% or 98% as soon as it was unplugged.
So, it would seem that the desktop charger does charge the battery up to the full capacity, while the phone itself, seems to stop at 97-98%. Weird.
Just wondering if anyone else has very poor battery life with the new ICS. Any fixes?
just sharpening my RAZR
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Just wondering if anyone else has very poor battery life with the new ICS. Any fixes?
just sharpening my RAZR
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My battery life has definitely suffered.
I've also noticed under the battery section of my settings that it says that media is taking up most of it. I've never seen that before I upgraded. Any ideas?
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Just wondering if anyone else has very poor battery life with the new ICS. Any fixes?
just sharpening my RAZR
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ethan.r.besbris said:
My battery life has definitely suffered.
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I've also noticed under the battery section of my settings that it says that media is taking up most of it. I've never seen that before I upgraded. Any ideas?
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Guys, it's because you've probably spent every millisecond that your eye lids were parted from each other playing around with new features, thus using the phone more often now than you probably were prior to the ICS update........ Oh wait, sorry that was an evaluation of my own battery issue.
Strange hearing this. I was more than a month on ICS china leak and battery was great. Now i went back to oficial 2.36 due to waiting for genuine ICS and bat life is terrible. Clean system, no apps installed, no play, just couple of calls and emails, phone didnt last 14 hours. Where is this ics!
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Guys, it's because you've probably spent every millisecond that your eye lids were parted from each other playing around with new features, thus using the phone more often now than you probably were prior to the ICS update........ Oh wait, sorry that was an evaluation of my own battery issue.
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You're probably for the most part right, but I still think my battery life on ICS is less than GB. I managed to use up the entire battery in less than a day, on my first day with ICS. This is something that never happened with GB, even on the first day I got my Maxx. My battery usage doesn't show anything unusual. 60% of it was used by the screen (auto brightness).
NOt sure what builds we are talking about but here are my stats using the baddass battery monitor.
OTA GB (.181) = 2days average battery life
.79 Moto leak = 1 day average battery life
So in reality my battery lif is half what it used to be, with the Android OS using about 20%.
Here's to hoping the ICS OTA update is better than the 4.0.3 .79 build.
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NOt sure what builds we are talking about but here are my stats using the baddass battery monitor.
OTA GB (.181) = 2days average battery life
.79 Moto leak = 1 day average battery life
So in reality my battery lif is half what it used to be, with the Android OS using about 20%.
Here's to hoping the ICS OTA update is better than the 4.0.3 .79 build.
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I'm on the OTA, and the Android OS is using 10%.
I'm rooted on the .211 leak and noticed a considerable drop in battery life when I first flashed. I did some digging using the 'badass battery' app and found that winamp had been draining my battery for some reason. After uninstalling winamp my battery life immediately returned to normal. I highly suggest getting that app and looking at the 'app sucker' breakdown to see which apps are using the most battery as opposed to androids stock usage breakdown.
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It says my screen is taking up 74 percent of my battery and my battery life is significantly less after the ICS update
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Questions belong in Q&A. Moved
Cheers
For me, it's working really good I'm in the latest ota retail Brazil update!
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refuse2bstopped said:
Guys, it's because you've probably spent every millisecond that your eye lids were parted from each other playing around with new features, thus using the phone more often now than you probably were prior to the ICS update........ Oh wait, sorry that was an evaluation of my own battery issue.
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You're probably for the most part right, but I still think my battery life on ICS is less than GB. I managed to use up the entire battery in less than a day, on my first day with ICS. This is something that never happened with GB, even on the first day I got my Maxx. My battery usage doesn't show anything unusual. 60% of it was used by the screen (auto brightness).
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Well actually, this is kind of scary. I got off work at 6 am this morning, came up and went to sleep somewhere between 7:30 and 8 am. I woke up around 3 pm and my batter was left charging via usb from the computer with about 80% battery THEN. So I woke up at 3 pm and my battery was COMPLETELY DEAD. I had to plug it up to a power outlet. I understand that, but what I DON'T understand is how in the heck did the battery die in the FIRST place when all it was doing while I slept is being charged from my computer (which I ALWAYS do) and was already at 80% when it was plugged up?
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Well actually, this is kind of scary. I got off work at 6 am this morning, came up and went to sleep somewhere between 7:30 and 8 am. I woke up around 3 pm and my batter was left charging via usb from the computer with about 80% battery THEN. So I woke up at 3 pm and my battery was COMPLETELY DEAD. I had to plug it up to a power outlet. I understand that, but what I DON'T understand is how in the heck did the battery die in the FIRST place when all it was doing while I slept is being charged from my computer (which I ALWAYS do) and was already at 80% when it was plugged up?
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Sounds like your maxx was charging your computer...
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refuse2bstopped said:
Well actually, this is kind of scary. I got off work at 6 am this morning, came up and went to sleep somewhere between 7:30 and 8 am. I woke up around 3 pm and my batter was left charging via usb from the computer with about 80% battery THEN. So I woke up at 3 pm and my battery was COMPLETELY DEAD. I had to plug it up to a power outlet. I understand that, but what I DON'T understand is how in the heck did the battery die in the FIRST place when all it was doing while I slept is being charged from my computer (which I ALWAYS do) and was already at 80% when it was plugged up?
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Sounds like your maxx was charging your computer...
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:laugh: IKR lol
They took out task manager. In developer options there is a choice " destroy app as soon as you leave it" interferes with go launcher tho
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It says my screen is taking up 74 percent of my battery and my battery life is significantly less after the ICS update
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I have the same issue. I fully charge my phone every night. I drive a truck for UPS so I don't look at my phone too often throughout the day. By end of day, I have about 30% battery left and over 70% of it has been consumed by the screen!?
Also, I have noticed the battery takes MUCH longer to charge. Usually, when I had GB, I would get home from work, usually with about 60% battery left. I would plug it in and go take a shower. When I got out, it would be fully charged. About 30 minutes. NOW, I get home with a 30% battery and 30 minutes of charging gets me up to about 45% battery. I don't get it. Is there anyway to go back to GB?
My issue was, I was rooted on GB and I could NOT update to 4.0.4. It would download, get about 1/4 way installed and fail. I unrooted the phone and got the same results. Used rootkeeper etc. So I had to sideload the OEM ICS from Verizon. Nothing but horrible battery life ever since.
Some people are having battery issues, but it's not a universal thing. I'm getting great battery life. I was about a day and a half with moderate use on my Maxx and was down to 60%.
People having these issues, I'd look at all your installed apps and maybe you guys can find a commonality. It's a known issue that Facebook's apps is a battery killer, maybe others are under ICS.
Try epsilon V2.
My battery life is pretty bad. It was bad on stock and still not any better with eclipse. It dies after about 6 hours and I only use it for 5 minutes every hour in that time. I even exit apps before putting it in my pocket. Badass battery and stock battery app both give similar info. The screen accounts for 70% or more even though its only on for a total of 30 minutes in those 6 hours. Charging is also incredibly slow. With gingerbread it would last for 8+ hours and usually only be at 30-40% by then.
I'd like to take as much bloatware and battery draining apps as possible off of the phone, I usually do that with CM but I read you can't root the DNA with the OTA installed so what can I do and how can I get these free games installed (FF, etc)
Wait patiently like the rest of us.
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Run for the hills!
You can "disable" the bloatware apps so at least they won't run and you won't have to see them.
Return it.
You can disable them. It's like freezing a app in tibu. But what do you mean by free games?
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damn that's what I thought, since the battery is so bad and since I get little freezes on messages/homescreen things/the clock I would really want to root the phone. that's not an option sadly and i can still trade it back to best buy for $50 and the s3, which I might
xvsanx said:
damn that's what I thought, since the battery is so bad and since I get little freezes on messages/homescreen things/the clock I would really want to root the phone. that's not an option sadly and i can still trade it back to best buy for $50 and the s3, which I might
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The battery is pretty good, and there shouldn't be force closes.
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If you enjoy it, keep it and wait for the ota to be unlocked, rooted, and s-off'd. If you don't, dont go back to a dual core SGS3(OPINION), I would at least recommend the note 2 with the quad core, big fancy screen, and Spen setup(STILL 100% OPINION).
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xvsanx said:
I'd like to take as much bloatware and battery draining apps as possible off of the phone, I usually do that with CM but I read you can't root the DNA with the OTA installed so what can I do and how can I get these free games installed (FF, etc)
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Disable what you dont want to look at for now, and then when the new method comes out you will be able to root. Its very frustrating that i cannot root and custom rom this phone. With that said, it runs really smooth on stock rom.
Bigandrewgold said:
The battery is pretty good, and there shouldn't be force closes.
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How long does the battery last you? Can you go a full day with above moderate use (3hrs screen time+) without a wall outlet? I'm asking cause my first full day with it only gave me 7hrs and so when it reached to 20%. That's not too good. I'm using it on tmobile hspa so no lte either.
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it played dead trigger perfectly, took 1% battery from playing for 3 minutes or so. I read the dna's usage battery is 7 hours
i went from a full charge yesterday at 7am to 20% this morning around 11am, I didn't do any gaming I was at work for 8 hours then driving and watching a movie so it wasn't but light usage, but it's supposed to get 7 hours nonstop usage and the lock screen conserves battery like crazy
I guess I'm a little puzzled. I work in an environment where after the drive to work (typically with my DNA plugged in), I work at a desk all day (a lot of the time with my DNA plugged in), and drive home (typically with my DNA plugged in).
Am I the only one on this board who does this?
The very first day I had the DNA, I tested the battery to see how long it would go with my normal use. It went about 5 - 6 hours before I felt the need to plug it in (about 20%).
But, this isn't what is typical. How many on this board actually NEVER plug their phones in during any part of the day? To me it doesn't make sense that anyone would do this. Even for those of us that travel, we can always plug in at the airport, bus station, taxi...etc.
The battery wasn't designed to last us an entire work day, and we have to use some common sense here.
Yehudah said:
I guess I'm a little puzzled. I work in an environment where after the drive to work (typically with my DNA plugged in), I work at a desk all day (a lot of the time with my DNA plugged in), and drive home (typically with my DNA plugged in).
Am I the only one on this board who does this?
The very first day I had the DNA, I tested the battery to see how long it would go with my normal use. It went about 5 - 6 hours before I felt the need to plug it in (about 20%).
But, this isn't what is typical. How many on this board actually NEVER plug their phones in during any part of the day? To me it doesn't make sense that anyone would do this. Even for those of us that travel, we can always plug in at the airport, bus station, taxi...etc.
The battery wasn't designed to last us an entire work day, and we have to use some common sense here.
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It usually lasts all day easily for me. 5ish hours screen on time and 15 hours off charger.
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Yehudah said:
I guess I'm a little puzzled. I work in an environment where after the drive to work (typically with my DNA plugged in), I work at a desk all day (a lot of the time with my DNA plugged in), and drive home (typically with my DNA plugged in).
Am I the only one on this board who does this?
The very first day I had the DNA, I tested the battery to see how long it would go with my normal use. It went about 5 - 6 hours before I felt the need to plug it in (about 20%).
But, this isn't what is typical. How many on this board actually NEVER plug their phones in during any part of the day? To me it doesn't make sense that anyone would do this. Even for those of us that travel, we can always plug in at the airport, bus station, taxi...etc.
The battery wasn't designed to last us an entire work day, and we have to use some common sense here.
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Mine will last all day for me but I generally keep it on the wireless charger when I'm at work.
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xvsanx said:
it played dead trigger perfectly, took 1% battery from playing for 3 minutes or so. I read the dna's usage battery is 7 hours
i went from a full charge yesterday at 7am to 20% this morning around 11am, I didn't do any gaming I was at work for 8 hours then driving and watching a movie so it wasn't but light usage, but it's supposed to get 7 hours nonstop usage and the lock screen conserves battery like crazy
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I've heard disabling fastboot helps some wake lock issues, but idk if thats true for sure...give it a try?
I wouldn't switch to the S3..its a much inferior device when it comes to specs (minus battery life) as it is an older device...
I run stock 7.1.1 on my Moto Z and lately I have seen that the battery life is terrible. If I take the phone off the charger at say 7am I will be lucky to get to 3pm before needing charging. I don't play games or watch videos using the phone primarily for phone calls (!), texts, email, news reading (I use Google Playstand) and the occasional social media (no Facebook).
The only "customisations" I have are using the Pixel Launcher 3 instead of the Motorola one, the Google camera and the native AOSP dialer rathen than the Motorola one.
I had seen a few posts from folks saying a factory reset might fix it but I want to avoid that if I can with many work apps having quite convoluted processes to get then to authenticate and sign onto to Enterprise servers again,
Thanks
Maybe reflashing the stock ROM via fastboot avoiding the line "fastboot erase userdata" because if you'll avoid this line your personal data wouldn't be erased
lchiu7 said:
I run stock 7.1.1 on my Moto Z and lately I have seen that the battery life is terrible. If I take the phone off the charger at say 7am I will be lucky to get to 3pm before needing charging. I don't play games or watch videos using the phone primarily for phone calls (!), texts, email, news reading (I use Google Playstand) and the occasional social media (no Facebook).
The only "customisations" I have are using the Pixel Launcher 3 instead of the Motorola one, the Google camera and the native AOSP dialer rathen than the Motorola one.
I had seen a few posts from folks saying a factory reset might fix it but I want to avoid that if I can with many work apps having quite convoluted processes to get then to authenticate and sign onto to Enterprise servers again,
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Check your battery wear using Accubattery.
I have the same issue. Did you find any solution?
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the only thing that help me with this problem, was a factory reset with a fresh install of all the apps, avoiding the restore
You could try to install Greenify https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oasisfeng.greenify if the phone uses a lot of battery when the screen is off.
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Check your battery wear using Accubattery.
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I've been running that app for a few days now and it says my battery is 91% of health which is pretty poor for a phone and was purchased new in April of last year.
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I've been running that app for a few days now and it says my battery is 91% of health which is pretty poor for a phone and was purchased new in April of last year.
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It is?
Then what about mine?
87%, purchased about the same time (about a month later).
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Loader009 said:
It is?
Then what about mine?
87%, purchased about the same time (about a month later).
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Given both our phones are less than one year old I wonder if Motorola will replace the batteries under warranty?
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Given both our phones are less than one year old I wonder if Motorola will replace the batteries under warranty?
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I first let the app run for a month... my first value was 83%, which was awfully low...
I could live with anything nearby 90%.
My phone has 1 year and battery was terrible. I've got it replaced and it's working fine now.
leofa said:
My phone has 1 year and battery was terrible. I've got it replaced and it's working fine now.
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HOw did you about that? I went to the Lenovo support forums and a senior agent replied as follows:
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Moto-Z/MOTO-Z-battery-life-terrible/m-p/3927759#M4349
Only one day but after deleting the cache partition, today's usage is much better - almost 14 hours.
However battery health is only 90% which seems low.
If you follow accubattery recommendations you should keep your phone ideally between 40-70% or at most 20-80% and don't ever let it run to zero unless you're recalibrating the battery and don't charge it to 100%. My Z Force is from August 2016 is at 95%, but even with that there's been a reduction in battery life.
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HOw did you about that? I went to the Lenovo support forums and a senior agent replied as follows:
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Moto-Z/MOTO-Z-battery-life-terrible/m-p/3927759#M4349
Only one day but after deleting the cache partition, today's usage is much better - almost 14 hours.
However battery health is only 90% which seems low.
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I went to a local repair shop and paid something about 50$ to get it replaced.
I was playing a Daydream VR game that froze up and had to hold the power button to restart. Battery was around 70%, when the phone restarted it showed around 15%. My battery has been downhill since. This was last week. Today I have my phone plugged in charging with the Incipio battery back on and both showed 100% with the phone on. Powered the phone off while still plugged in and the power off screen shows the mod as 100% but my phone battery shows 78% and will continues showing 78% after 15 minutes of charging. Powered it back on and the mod is still at 100% and the phone battery is at 78%. Not sure whats going on. Accubattery shows 57% health after about a week of use. I have a battery replacement ordered...
First signs of the phone going to catch fire like my Z force did.
Took an update and it caused massive issues. Battery life was horrible and started to over heat. Not long later sitting at the Android set up screen about 1% battery drain per minute. Motorola said it's normal and no issues. Phones frame was getting to 90c again Motorola said ots normal and withen spec. Then other caught fire. Can't comment any more due to legal process. I'm just posting stuff I already have when I first seen the issues.
Be careful. Lucky at that point I was charging my phone in a metal pot. So if you see a huge battery drain and start to see overheating and reboots keep it in a metal pot. The pot is what saved my house from burning down.
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I was playing a Daydream VR game that froze up and had to hold the power button to restart. Battery was around 70%, when the phone restarted it showed around 15%. My battery has been downhill since. This was last week. Today I have my phone plugged in charging with the Incipio battery back on and both showed 100% with the phone on. Powered the phone off while still plugged in and the power off screen shows the mod as 100% but my phone battery shows 78% and will continues showing 78% after 15 minutes of charging. Powered it back on and the mod is still at 100% and the phone battery is at 78%. Not sure whats going on. Accubattery shows 57% health after about a week of use. I have a battery replacement ordered...
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I think that the incipio mod is the problem, O noted the same behavior using the mod, some weeks ago I purchased the turbo mod and it works better than the incipio.
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I'm having the very same problem and will send the phone in for battery replacement.
Hundreds of users are complaining over there in the Lenovo Forums about this problem that came with 7.1.1.
Motorla recommended one user to clear the cache partition, but I don't think this will finally solve the 7.1.1 problems.
Let's wait for a software fix from Lenovo/Motorola or hope for Android 8.0/OREO
I think It's from some weird bug from 7.1.1
I got this problem after flashed 7.1.1 and now, it's in the warranty for battery replacement :/
and with my experience, nothing will fix if you flash back to 7.0.0
Check this too:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-z/help/issue-2-crazy-battery-behaviours-t3680766
I replaced my battery. Before the battery would give 1.5-2 hours screen on time (57 percent drain an hour). Now I'm getting 4-5 hours of screen on time (17 percent drain an hour). Both measurements are on the same Android version 7.1.1 and same settings