So I noticed that my Amaze has been reporting that my screen is using a very high amount of my battery under battery usage and I was wondering if this is average or this is abnormal usage?
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MidnightXZ said:
So I noticed that my Amaze has been reporting that my screen is using a very high amount of my battery under battery usage and I was wondering if this is average or this is abnormal usage?
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Screen always uses a lot of battery power, but if you wanna reduce this, you can lower you brightness.
My screen always uses the bulk of my battery. Even with brightness almost all the way down. I had been getting about the same battery life as you with minimal usage. Then I bought a 1900mah Anker battery and get 14 hours with 50% still left.
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My screen always uses the bulk of my battery. Even with brightness almost all the way down. I had been getting about the same battery life as you with minimal usage. Then I bought a 1900mah Anker battery and get 14 hours with 50% still left.
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I'm not really worried about how long my battery lasts, but if 88% for screen is normal or not.
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I'm not really worried about how long my battery lasts, but if 88% for screen is normal or not.
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Its normal.
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Its normal.
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If you call that normal, what do you call this?
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If you call that normal, what do you call this?
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Someone who doesn't use their device much.
Dark Nightmare said:
Someone who doesn't use their device much.
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But still, 2 days and 10 hours!
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But still, 2 days and 10 hours!
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I got one day once, but that was a busy day, lol, most I ever got otherwise was about 16-18hrs. Gotta say it's a hell of a feat, lol.
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I got one day once, but that was a busy day, lol, most I ever got otherwise was about 16-18hrs. Gotta say it's a hell of a feat, lol.
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Yeah, and even more, I didn't use juice defender or any similar apps, and still had my sync enabled and everything.
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Yeah, and even more, I didn't use juice defender or any similar apps, and still had my sync enabled and everything.
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Lol I don't use that either or ever take my sync off, I depend heavily on my emails, especially for school and my little phone fixing venture. :cyclops:
Please note that those values are relative. If for example wifi uses up more energy than the screen, the screen will show a lower % value although using the same amount of energy. So in one of the previous Screenshots I would be rather more concerned about my idle usage being higher than the screen usage
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ok so i hate to start another battery thread but i'm a little confused...this is my first android phone and to me my battery won't even last 12 hours...i feel that's pretty low....i've read stuff about wakelocks and stuff but how do i find out how to stop them? here are my specs.... i'm rooted with UnNamed and siyah kernel....heres some screen shots taken when battery was at 3%....maybe you guys can help??
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ok so i hate to start another battery thread but i'm a little confused...this is my first android phone and to me my battery won't even last 12 hours...i feel that's pretty low....i've read stuff about wakelocks and stuff but how do i find out how to stop them? here are my specs.... i'm rooted with UnNamed and siyah kernel....heres some screen shots taken when battery was at 3%....maybe you guys can help??
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How much screen on time did you have? how long has it been since you flashed your current set up?
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sorry forgot that shot....i rooted and flashed on either Sunday or Monday this week.....now i do use bluetooth for work so i'm thinking that kills the battery big time....
That is kind of good battery life considering you got almost four hours of screen on time. If your really worried then you should get one of the 3500 mah batteries. I have this one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21589969. This battery gets me through at least a day and a half of heavy usage, and it works great for the price.
yeah i wasn't sure...i always keep reading about people getting 1.5-2 days on a battery...it's a new toy so hopefully when the excitement wears off that screen won't be on so much
That's exactly what will happen. You have new phone syndrome. I did too, when I first got my Galaxy S2. Except that I, unlike you, was running stock unrooted, and my battery life was more like 8 hours. I'm now running stock rooted with Entropy's kernel, plus I don't use my phone as much, and I get between 15 and 20 hours.
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Yeah...with almost 4 hours screen on, and mostly on cell data (assumption based on your 2.x hours of wifi on) that isn't too horrible. Your total awake time is about an hour more than screen on, so assuming you had phone calls, music playing, or some other screen off background task to account for some of that, you're doing pretty good...
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LOL so I'm guessing the best way to really conserve battery is to keep the screen off. Just outta curiousity (which I will test tonight after full charge) what is an acceptable drop rate when phone is fully asleep for say 8 hours or so. Like what 1-2% an hour?
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LOL so I'm guessing the best way to really conserve battery is to keep the screen off. Just outta curiousity (which I will test tonight after full charge) what is an acceptable drop rate when phone is fully asleep for say 8 hours or so. Like what 1-2% an hour?
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I think the best I have seen reported is 0.5% per hour. Mine on wifi has been as good as about 0.8% per hour, but usually a little over 1%.
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LOL so I'm guessing the best way to really conserve battery is to keep the screen off. Just outta curiousity (which I will test tonight after full charge) what is an acceptable drop rate when phone is fully asleep for say 8 hours or so. Like what 1-2% an hour?
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2%/hour idle drain I consider bad - that's why I haven't released a kernel since 1/2/2012 - I have a power management regression that pushes drain to a bit over 2%/hour when connected to wifi.
I strive for 0.5%/hour and get very close to that frequently when in a good signal area. In a weak signal area (like at my desk at work), it's around 1%/hour.
4.5%/hour or so is the idle drain you'll get if the phone is unable to enter deep sleep.
My rate of battery loss is insane. I can sometimes lose more than 14% an hour while using it. That's with cm7 and the extended/fat battery! Is this normal for heavy use or is there something inherently wrong with my phone.
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what apps and hardware (bluetooth, etc) are you using? what is your birightness set at? are you using 4G?
No bluetooth. Mostly baconreader for reddit. 4g strangely makes no difference. Normally it is off, but I have found that the angle of descent is not impacted by switching. Brightness always sub 40%
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Something else has to be running. I get better than that with stock battery and heavy use.
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Here is today.
Keep in mind that this is with the 2750mA battery
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Is that an antivirus in the first screen?
My brightness (in a profile) is set to 15% and I run that 24/7 unless I'm outside making a phone call or something to see the screen . . .
Could be the antivirus. Have you tried battery calibration by nema? (In market) I'm running infected and using the same battery (OEM right?) And I get about 5% drain an hour with 4g on and screen on about half the time. Sometimes more or less depending on usage.
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Is that an antivirus in the first screen?
My brightness (in a profile) is set to 15% and I run that 24/7 unless I'm outside making a phone call or something to see the screen . . .
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Where? The shield? If so, that's juicedefender
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Could be the antivirus. Have you tried battery calibration by nema? (In market) I'm running infected and using the same battery (OEM right?) And I get about 5% drain an hour with 4g on and screen on about half the time. Sometimes more or less depending on usage.
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Doesn't that just clear the batterystats file on the Sd card? That doesn't affect use unfortunately.
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I could be wrong, but isnt juicedefender an app constantly running? Have you tested your battery without that app?
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First off thanks, I now feel better about my battery life. in my opinion battery life depends on a lot of things. Juice defender didn't seem to play well with my phone. I only turn on wifi when I need it. Also I would charge to phone to 100% and reboot into recovery and clear the battery stats. Not sure if any of that would help, but it can't hurt to try.
I've noticed a bit more accurate readings when resetting battery stats, which is why I suggested it.
Otherwise, you could try a complete backup of all your apps and trying a different rom?
My battery lasts about 14 hrs with regular to heavy use. 11 hrs on the fat battery seems like its way too low. Have you rooted and unclocked?
I would unistall juice defender. You can set up the phone just as well without it and have one less app running (which uses battery)
I have an avg of about 12 hrs fully cycle since i bought my phone over a year ago. I have to make sure that all the setting (i.e. GPS off, wifi off, screen turned all the way down) are always correct to push anything past the 12 hr mark.
Your best bet is do like the rest of us and make sure you have a charger always ready if you are ALWAYS using it.
Here is my result with a fair amour of use after maybe 5 cycles on my batt.
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from my LTEvo that will not have 4G coverage utill after I buy my next phone ......
That looks promising. My battery life on my OG Evo is severely lacking.
Finally starting to get great battery life.
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Not too shabby for light use and snooze time...
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I spent a lot of my time outside this weekend so I would say my phone usage was "lite" but I got over 36 hours and still had 30% left. Today I've been on it all day and im at 55% and I've been off the charger for 10 hours. The battery is a LOT better than my OG Evo but I'm SERIOUSLY impressed with this phones ability to "sleep"
I'm reading 59% after 7 hours and my first day of usage. My EVO 4G would have kicked the bucket hours ago. Though I haven't ran any hogging apps today, I have had my phone on a lot.
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Also, I'm not sure if anyone has noticed, but in the sprint zone app, under my device and power, it lists what is using power the most and has a quick button for putting your phone into a low power mode for saving battery. Neat.
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I really want to test to see how my phone handles everything at once. This is not how i usually use the phone at all. I normally do everything manually when i need it or just not link it to my phone period. I am liking these kinda of results.
Screen autobrightness
4hrs screen on time
2 emails push
Facebook push
Weather update every hour
switched between wifi and 3g but stayed on 3g most of the time
Took lots of pictures out with the family and uploaded some to facebook
This is crazy!
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Thats quite a bit of screen on time ... not bad results
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This is my goal right here. Im sure once this baby gets some nice ROMS ill achive this like on my E4GT
After a few cycles, this is a beast with stock.
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The phone sleeps well. Just woke up to this! Granted was at work yesterday so moderate use over all but nice to see.
Oh, almost forgot. This is with LTE running.
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The phone sleeps well. Just woke up to this! Granted was at work yesterday so moderate use over all but nice to see.
Oh, almost forgot. This is with LTE running.
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ur on wifi
I'll have to grab some screenshots later, but I'm averaging some pretty solid use and breaking 20 hours. Love it.
played alot of angry birds trying to run it down....not bad overall i think...
Pretty light usage but thought I'd throw it up anyway.
Also, the screen isn't on during my talk time.
Phone sleeps incredibly well.
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Great looking battery life all around. I don't know how some reviewers were draining the battery in 6 hours.
Any tips on how I can get thus sort of battery life? Currently getting around 6. IM at 80% screen. Thanks
I read a lot while streaming Pandora,
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On Wifi, my battery life is fine. It takes a couple hours to fall off the 100% mark. At work my battery will fall 8-10% within a couple hours. This only seems to be since going from ZV4 to ZV6. At 1st I thought is was the trade off for better performance, but I don't think that's the case now. Greenify doesn't seem make a difference outside of my home wifi. My gsam battery app shows android system is the main culprit after screen. Could it be the ZV6 radio to blame?
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On Wifi, my battery life is fine. It takes a couple hours to fall off the 100% mark. At work my battery will fall 8-10% within a couple hours. This only seems to be since going from ZV4 to ZV6. At 1st I thought is was the trade off for better performance, but I don't think that's the case now. Greenify doesn't seem make a difference outside of my home wifi. My gsam battery app shows android system is the main culprit after screen. Could it be the ZV6 radio to blame?
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I average about 5.5hr of screen on time with mild to heavy usage (ZV6), which on this high power screen I think is pretty great. This is with me barely ever being on wifi since I'm hardly ever at home to use it being due to my profession as a field insurance adjuster. And I use my phone literally all day long whether its emails, phone calls, texts, or surfing for general information. So, Im not sure what you are considering "bad" as far as battery, but I am not complaining at all.
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I average about 5.5hr of screen on time with mild to heavy usage (ZV6), which on this high power screen I think is pretty great. This is with me barely ever being on wifi since I'm hardly ever at home to use it being due to my profession as a field insurance adjuster. And I use my phone literally all day long whether its emails, phone calls, texts, or surfing for general information. So, Im not sure what you are considering "bad" as far as battery, but I am not complaining at all.
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Right, mine used to have pretty amazing battery life too. Now, not so much. I have decent 4g at work, so my phone doesn't have to shop for a signal. On wifi, business as usual.
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I know clearing battery stats has been dismissed as voodoo by the TWRP devs, but it seems to have helped a lot. I'll keep watching and make sure no placebo in effect.
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Usually, charge the phone up to 100%, run it down to about 10% charge it back up and it usually has to learn how the ROM runs.
But glad you got it working.
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For some reason see the first wakelocks thats a huge number is it normal???
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I know clearing battery stats has been dismissed as voodoo by the TWRP devs, but it seems to have helped a lot. I'll keep watching and make sure no placebo in effect.
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It's not the devs here who say it's voodoo, it's Google: http://www.androidcentral.com/wiping-battery-stats-doesnt-improve-battery-life-says-google-engineer
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It's not the devs here who say it's voodoo, it's Google: http://www.androidcentral.com/wiping-battery-stats-doesnt-improve-battery-life-says-google-engineer
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If I recall it used to be an option in TWRP and Clockwork. Never knew why they took it out. In my case, clearing stats seems to have worked. That was a good read you provided with interesting comments.
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It's amazing how much we actually use our phones in a given day, especially when we watch "videos"! Rate this thread to express how many hours of screen-on time you can get on the Xiaomi Mi A1 before depleting the battery.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
Good. I'm getting a consistent 6hrs+ SOT on average usage.
Battery life is excellent getting 6hrs+ sot with jio network and 64 GB card. Really impressed with 3080 mAh battery.
6hr+ sot with 18 to 25hr of standby and with 2hr + voice
First discharge cycle
1 hr of voice calling apart from the screen on time
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6 hrs with heavy use , also got 7 and 8 few times without much of standby ! On wifi even more
Yeah easy 6-7 hours SOT which is plenty for me
A picture is worth a thousand words
Around 5 hour SOT and 52% battery remaining. Data on airtel 4g all time and around one hour on hotspot. The network strength is also poor.fully satisfied with battery life
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6 hours sot on an average with 12-13 hours on standby
How the hell are you guys getting 6_8 sot with medium even heavy use... I nearly get 3.5h with light to medium use... No power saver all on like wifi 4g etc. 1 sim.
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How the hell are you guys getting 6_8 sot with medium even heavy use... I nearly get 3.5h with light to medium use... No power saver all on like wifi 4g etc. 1 sim.
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Hey mate drain your battery until your phone shuts off then charge it fully and that should help
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It is very damaging to the battery what you are suggesting ...
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It is very damaging to the battery what you are suggesting ...
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Really, I never knew that. Why does it damage it?
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I don't know why but some one who knew his way around batteries told me is damaging and that a phone is good to charge in small intervals and not from 0-100. More like from 10-90
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I don't know why but some one who knew his way around batteries told me is damaging and that a phone is good to charge in small intervals and not from 0-100. More like from 10-90
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I heard the same thing but I've also heard that doing it once in a while can calibrate/condition the battery
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It is very damaging to the battery what you are suggesting ...
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Totally nonsense.
Btw check your apps, some app is badly misbehaving and it drains your battery.
It is not really, I am using only Google apps, Twitter and Reddit, and everything in the battery manager is behaving totally normal.
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It is not really, I am using only Google apps, Twitter and Reddit, and everything in the battery manager is behaving totally normal.
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Well I guess that you can try to reflash the ROM with preserving data, wait couple of days and see if it gets better.
Or your signal reception is very bad.
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How the hell are you guys getting 6_8 sot with medium even heavy use... I nearly get 3.5h with light to medium use... No power saver all on like wifi 4g etc. 1 sim.
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yes we get it.:laugh: Just check this..