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I recieved an infraction of 5 points from xda finally got my pics up... lol. Lets see what we got out there.
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stebomurkn420 said:
I recieved an infraction of 5 points from xda finally got my pics up... lol. Lets see what we got out there.
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Are you stock? I'm getting nothing like that, dropped 2% idling in gsam in 50 minutes!
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What band is everyones phone using? Go to dialler and enter *#*#4636#*#*, select 'phone information' and scroll down to 'set preferred network type'. Mine is set to WCDMA only which means I'm using full power to find a signal all the time I believe! This could explain my lack of battery life.
Could everyone check their network type and report back and see if we can get a correlation between battery life and network type. I might try changing it to WCDMA preferred or CDMA/GSM auto.
More research is required!
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Are you stock? I'm getting nothing like that, dropped 2% idling in gsam in 50 minutes!
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What band is everyones phone using? Go to dialler and enter *#*#4636#*#*, select 'phone information' and scroll down to 'set preferred network type'. Mine is set to WCDMA only which means I'm using full power to find a signal all the time I believe! This could explain my lack of battery life.
Could everyone check their network type and report back and see if we can get a correlation between battery life and network type. I might try changing it to WCDMA preferred or CDMA/GSM auto.
More research is required!
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I am on stock at this moment.. debloated/deo/rooted.
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razr maxx has the best battery life for a mobile that I know
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Most def...
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Mine is GSM Auto (PRL)
Myrmidon83 said:
Are you stock? I'm getting nothing like that, dropped 2% idling in gsam in 50 minutes!
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What band is everyones phone using? Go to dialler and enter *#*#4636#*#*, select 'phone information' and scroll down to 'set preferred network type'. Mine is set to WCDMA only which means I'm using full power to find a signal all the time I believe! This could explain my lack of battery life.
Could everyone check their network type and report back and see if we can get a correlation between battery life and network type. I might try changing it to WCDMA preferred or CDMA/GSM auto.
More research is required!
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Btw, my network type is set to lte/cdma/evdo/wcdma... the long one... lol.
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My record was 6 days from 1 charge. But in last 2 days phone just used for a few calls.
Here's what I'm seeing on this recent charge. Hope these pics ain't too big.
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Mine is GSM Auto (PRL)
Daniel, that's quite interesting you're on gsm auto prl. What region are you and which network? I tried changing it to WCDMA preferred and it appears to snap to gsm auto prl, with only a half loss in speed.
Note the sensor useage time.
In a-95dbm 4G service area. Auto brightness enabled. No battery saving tricks. Drops 1% every 2hrs while idling overnight.
I would call this moderate to light usage. No streaming music. Web browsing primarily.
Restarted to cause the vertical battery drop.
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adrialk said:
In a-95dbm 4G service area. Auto brightness enabled. No battery saving tricks. Drops 1% every 2hrs while idling overnight.
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Mine must drop 2-3% every 2 hours and that's with mobile data & sync off with smart actions overnight. :/ Battery monitor widget shows I'm drawing around 51-77mA screen off idling. With around 41-47mA with mobile data off.
Some quick maths shows that I should get roughly 40hrs data on and 68hrs data off. I was expecting nearer 68 with no battery tricks idling though. Maybe I should debloat some of the installed apps, dunno how much of a difference that would make.
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Here's what I'm seeing on this recent charge. Hope these pics ain't too big.
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Mine is GSM Auto (PRL)
Daniel, that's quite interesting you're on gsm auto prl. What region are you and which network? I tried changing it to WCDMA preferred and it appears to snap to gsm auto prl, with only a half loss in speed.
Note the sensor useage time.
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I would start by getting rid of "app sucker" ... lol
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stebomurkn420 said:
I would start by getting rid of "app sucker" ... lol
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Lol, that's a part of gsam battery monitor though, it's used to find out what is consuming battery. Unless you're telling me that it's not good? Must admit, I've always used battery monitor widget and never had any issues.
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Lol, that's a part of gsam battery monitor though, it's used to find out what is consuming battery. Unless you're telling me that it's not good? Must admit, I've always used battery monitor widget and never had any issues.
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I dont like battery monitor widgets <<<<… just my opinion
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stebomurkn420 said:
I dont like battery monitor widgets <<<<… just my opinion
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I like to know what current draw and other things are, must be the EE side of me.
Anyone any idea what the ics equivalent of the 'enable always on mobile data' setting is? On GB you could switch this off but keep background sync on and apps would only update due to their sync interval setting. That greatly helped with battery life on my old HTC devices. A scout around ics seems to have removed this feature and we're left with the data useage mobile data setting & restrict background data which is confusing to say the least as it seems to only allow data on wifi and not interval setting. Or we have background sync which is essentially the google sync and switching this off appears to have little to no effect on current draw. Mobile data off decreases current draw by up to 30mA which is significant but the interval settings don't work.
Any ideas on this without resorting to juice defender as it's not very quick at re-enabling mobile data. Maybe a smart actions profile for screen off would be better, but again you would have the interval problem. Also with mobile data off, you ain't gonna receive mms messages. Aaargh, lol.
Myrmidon83 said:
Mine must drop 2-3% every 2 hours and that's with mobile data & sync off with smart actions overnight. :/ Battery monitor widget shows I'm drawing around 51-77mA screen off idling. With around 41-47mA with mobile data off.
Some quick maths shows that I should get roughly 40hrs data on and 68hrs data off. I was expecting nearer 68 with no battery tricks idling though. Maybe I should debloat some of the installed apps, dunno how much of a difference that would make.
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Those current draws are too high for idle overnight usage unless you are in a poor signal area. If signal is similar to or better than mine, then you have an app killing your battery. You should be around 10ma with data off and 20ma with data on. My maxx and my gf's og RAZR are in that ballpark
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adrialk said:
Those current draws are too high for idle overnight usage unless you are in a poor signal area. If signal is similar to or better than mine, then you have an app killing your battery. You should be around 10ma with data off and 20ma with data on. My maxx and my gf's og RAZR are in that ballpark
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I have never owned a smartphone that had less than 28mA current draw. I find 10mA and 20mA to be very small for a dual core device. It seems to have settled to around 50mA screen off. The thing using the most battery seems to be the kernel, I don't know whether changing kernel would help. It easily lasts me through the day with my use, it's just not the 2-3 days I had hoped for.
What are you doing to limit current draw to 10-20mA?
Stock ics... verizon...
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Myrmidon83 said:
I have never owned a smartphone that had less than 28mA current draw. I find 10mA and 20mA to be very small for a dual core device. It seems to have settled to around 50mA screen off. The thing using the most battery seems to be the kernel, I don't know whether changing kernel would help. It easily lasts me through the day with my use, it's just not the 2-3 days I had hoped for.
What are you doing to limit current draw to 10-20mA?
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Signal is a big driver. My overnight idle stats are in a-95 dbm area. At work I am in a -105dbm area and sometimes see occasional cycling to 3g. At work I see more like 40-50ma usage with data on. Hard to tell because I usually check email or something once in a while and I find it takes a while for the current measurement to settle in.
What signal are you seeing?
I am running 215 with simplex 1.2 and hotplug governor. My gf's stock 211 RAZR gives similar current draw though.
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Is juice defender worth installing and if it is what are the best setting
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ttieder said:
Is juice defender worth installing and if it is what are the best setting
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I think so. The defaults work very well. I have the Ultimate version, which allows it to automatically turn on WiFi in all the places I regularly manually connect. I can tell a big difference in battery life with it.
Starting using it Monday more than doubled battery life using default settings 14 hrs and 37 mins 60% left with moderate use seem great.
ira9700 said:
Starting using it Monday more than doubled battery life using default settings 14 hrs and 37 mins 60% left with moderate use seem great.
Its Ultimate version pM me if u want it
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The free version and the Ultimate are both available in the Market. Why would he need to PM you?
I also use the smartass CPU govenor, although idk if that's available on any other phone than the HTC Aria. It gives me insane battery life, those two.
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Honestly, I don't know. I've gone a week without it and a week with it and my gains haven't been much with the Evo 3d.
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Honestly, I don't know. I've gone a week without it and a week with it and my gains haven't been much with the Evo 3d.
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During your week without, how much did you manually manage radio settings, etc.? Were you in strong signal areas? How did you measure your gains (% left at end of day, time before a certain %)? Did you standardize use patterns for the test?
I know JD doesn't necessarily do much if you always have good signal and if you manually manage radios, etc. But if you don't, then it can make a difference. How much? I'm not sure, particularly with the amount of headroom the 3D gives you if you're not a heavy user and you charge daily anyways.
Right now, I'm checking to see how much difference there is between managing the BT radio and leaving it on all day. Right now, it accounts for 3% battery usage almost 7 hours off charger, and phone's at 88% overall still.
ira9700 said:
Starting using it Monday more than doubled battery life using default settings 14 hrs and 37 mins 60% left with moderate use seem great.
Its Ultimate version pM me if u want it
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If you're planning to give him the Ultimate verion it won't work on both phones. JD periodically checks the license so that one copy can't be run on multiple phones. I have a solution though, STOP TRYING TO GIVE AWAY PAID SOFTWARE FOR FREE!
mevensen said:
During your week without, how much did you manually manage radio settings, etc.? Were you in strong signal areas? How did you measure your gains (% left at end of day, time before a certain %)? Did you standardize use patterns for the test?
I know JD doesn't necessarily do much if you always have good signal and if you manually manage radios, etc. But if you don't, then it can make a difference. How much? I'm not sure, particularly with the amount of headroom the 3D gives you if you're not a heavy user and you charge daily anyways.
Right now, I'm checking to see how much difference there is between managing the BT radio and leaving it on all day. Right now, it accounts for 3% battery usage almost 7 hours off charger, and phone's at 88% overall still.
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On week days, I use my phone exactly the same way every day.
8:20am Wifi ON, BT on, GPS off, BT headset connected.
I have excellent signal, it sits in the same 3ft area at work for all the "tests".
Every "syncable" app is enabled and set to 1 hour if possible except for push gmail.
At 5:30, tasker turns WIFI off, leaves gps off, and leaves BT on.
At 6:30, WIFI on, GPS off, BT off
at 11:30, WIFI off, GPS off, BT off
Repeat procedure Every day
Any variation, Wifi goes off and use cell for data. But if I'm in Wifi range, I'll use it over cell since it's so much faster.
I'll say tho, I've had better battery life with this than I've had with prev phones. Evo, Evo shift, TP2, Pre.
I never use the 4g as it's pretty weak in my area.
I suspect that my use of tasker to automate the radio functions is probably negating what JD would do for me
Never mind just trying to be nice
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I suspect that my use of tasker to automate the radio functions is probably negating what JD would do for me
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Sounds about right. You're way more organized in using Tasker than I am, and I suspect JD would be pretty redundant if I set up Tasker with more detail. I like JD because it is kind of "fire and forget" without extensive setup.
I do, however, like the periodic checks JD can do. I think Tasker could do the same, but I never tried.
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I'm not 100% sure about it on the 3D but I used it on my Evo 4g and barely noticed a difference. I'm guessing it'll be the same way with the 3D.
Does juice defender affect the phone performance
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ira9700 said:
Starting using it Monday more than doubled battery life using default settings 14 hrs and 37 mins 60% left with moderate use seem great.
Its Ultimate version pM me if u want it
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Pm me that man!!
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Anyone else experiencing horrible battery life?
at 30% after 5.5.hours and no use. Sync off display at 20%. I understand I'm not in a gear signal area at work, but this is bad
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How strong is your signal at work? If you have a weak signal, the phone turns up the power to the radios and will drain your battery trying to keep that weak signal connected.
That's pretty atrocious.... Can you switch? What mods do you have?
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welchertc said:
How strong is your signal at work? If you have a weak signal, the phone turns up the power to the radios and will drain your battery trying to keep that weak signal connected.
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It shows 2-3 bars, but notice on my ss the signal history.
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dsmitty166 said:
at 30% after 5.5.hours and no use. Sync off display at 20%.
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5 hrs 54 min -- 66% left. I had the display on auto brightness, just switched it to 20% not too long ago. I'd say moderate use today. Maybe 15 emails so far, 10-15 texts. Display on time is 1 hour 30 min for 52% of my battery usage.
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It shows 2-3 bars, but notice on my ss the signal history.
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Yeah, I saw that, but I'm not familiar with what the colors mean. I assume green is where it's using signal, and grey is where it's not? Or is grey low signal?
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Yeah, I saw that, but I'm not familiar with what the colors mean. I assume green is where it's using signal, and grey is where it's not? Or is grey low signal?
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The lighter the lower signal i think. I'm hardly ever without a signal...
I'm actually having great batter I just got my note yesterday and took it off charge this morning have like 6-7 hours on battery and 1.5 hours screen on and battery level is like 80%
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Something is odd on this one.
We have similar signals and usage it looks like. I work in a cinder block factory with terrible signal. I try to keep it on airplane mode if I know Im going into poor reception areas for awhile. But I usually dont remember. I have plenty of widgets and auto syncs on.
Ive had 1.5 hours of screen time. Battery is 52%
Did you charge it from a computer? Maybe the cpu isn't entering the deep sleep mode.
It's your cell signal. I had terrible reception with my Verizon Nexus and since switching I am shocked at how much better my battery life is. I don't use the device more or less, but this is amazing.
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dsmitty166 said:
Anyone else experiencing horrible battery life?
at 30% after 5.5.hours and no use. Sync off display at 20%. I understand I'm not in a gear signal area at work, but this is bad
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ranick01 said:
Something is odd on this one.
We have similar signals and usage it looks like. I work in a cinder block factory with terrible signal. I try to keep it on airplane mode if I know Im going into poor reception areas for awhile. But I usually dont remember. I have plenty of widgets and auto syncs on.
Ive had 1.5 hours of screen time. Battery is 52%
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What are you guys using to display battery percentage on the toolbar? I'd like an app that can do that, but the best I found was battery notifier. I'm not rooted, on stock ROM.
And, to the original poster, I normally get anywhere from 15-28 hours on battery, depending on how many emails, texts, games, photos, etc I do. I have managed to kill it in about 4 hours, but that was on a marathon plants vs zombies session.
over2land said:
What are you guys using to display battery percentage on the toolbar? I'd like an app that can do that, but the best I found was battery notifier. I'm not rooted, on stock ROM.
And, to the original poster, I normally get anywhere from 15-28 hours on battery, depending on how many emails, texts, games, photos, etc I do. I have managed to kill it in about 4 hours, but that was on a marathon plants vs zombies session.
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They're rooted with cwm and used UOT kitchen to cook up a custom battery indicator that shows percentage. You're gonna have to root and get cwm to do this
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They're rooted with cwm and used UOT kitchen to cook up a custom battery indicator that shows percentage. You're gonna have to root and get cwm to do this
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Bummer, but thanks for the response.
For maybe the first time ever, I have no desire to root the phone.
over2land said:
Bummer, but thanks for the response.
For maybe the first time ever, I have no desire to root the phone.
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I am right there with you. No root for now.
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I'm gonna try running only stock apps tomorrow, with a couple of exceptions...just to rule anything out. However I've had the same issue on 3 roms, so not sure that its anything besides a signal issue. I wish there was a 2g toggle on the note
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Try Battery Indicator. Puts a permanent notification in the status bar but that's the best you are going to get w/o rooting. That app is fairly small and the numbers are easy to read - others I've tried are much bigger and are hard to read.
Turn off your Wifi if you've been leaving it on. Also install CPU Spy and see if the phone is entering Deep Sleep - or not.
techntrek said:
Try Battery Indicator. Puts a permanent notification in the status bar but that's the best you are going to get w/o rooting. That app is fairly small and the numbers are easy to read - others I've tried are much bigger and are hard to read.
Turn off your Wifi if you've been leaving it on. Also install CPU Spy and see if the phone is entering Deep Sleep - or not.
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Here's CPU spy from this afternoon
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This is what I got first charge..still testing but looks promising
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Hey everyone..
Trying to figure out if I got a bad unit or not.. here's a screenshot of my battery life
I'm running ZERO Widgets. And no live wall papers
The only thing giving me notifications even is Facebook.
My screen brightness is 40% and I have Bluetooth turned off.
I saw a post where the Guy said he was on like 85 brightness and his battery life was great..mine doesn't seem.to great...is something wrong?
PS I'm on the. 84 leak.
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How long had the screen been on in that picture?
If that's a regular Razr, you're doing fine. If it's a Maxx... turn off Facebook background sync
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Its the Max. I mean will I still get notifications? Is this normal to just turn everything off like this with a 3200 mah.battery?
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I don't use Facebook. I use friend caster pro. I get 5+ hours screen on time w my maxx. I would only guess a regular RAZR should get 2 1/2-3 hours screen on time. Sync and data always on and auto brightness
Wow dude that's amazing ...
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computermilk said:
Wow dude that's amazing ...
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Use battery indicator. You may have more than you think. Do u have a maxx?
Yeah I have a Maxx
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To give u an idea I spent all day yesterday on 4g/3g and had 0 issues. On bread I had near the same. You look likecu have a runaway program. Try to get in the habit of hitting back instead of home. Maybe it will help. If u flash the 84 leak set background processes to 4 max and it should help. On top of disabling as manyxaps as you dontcuse
computermilk said:
Hey everyone..
Trying to figure out if I got a bad unit or not.. here's a screenshot of my battery life
I'm running ZERO Widgets. And no live wall papers
The only thing giving me notifications even is Facebook.
My screen brightness is 40% and I have Bluetooth turned off.
I saw a post where the Guy said he was on like 85 brightness and his battery life was great..mine doesn't seem.to great...is something wrong?
PS I'm on the. 84 leak.
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well i noticed wifi and 4g are on. have in smart actions to turn mobile data off when wifi is connected. turn brightness down, Android System and facebook are the culprits. well else is on and causing wakelocks? get betterbatterystats and baddass battery monitor to see your culprits and report back! i will show you good stats when i upload mine!
Yeah! BadAzz!
3 plus days without charging and i was still at 19% prob could of when 4 days but i needed it charged Enjoy
facebook... 23%... there's your problem. facebook is a known destroyer of battery life. This is with plenty of use on 4G:
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facebook... 23%... there's your problem. facebook is a known destroyer of battery life. This is with plenty of use on 4G:
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Android os should not be that much 30 percent is way to much. Mine is at 6 percent at worst!
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I am getting pretty much the same battery life as the OP. I thought it was defective hardware or something. Perhaps I just have runaway apps draining my battery.
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I say this post about an idle smart action.
Triggers
Display off
Not charging
Motion detector
Actions
Bluetooth off
GPS off
Background sync off
Mobile data off
Wifi off
I set up the rest of my smart action roles to prevent a conflict with this. I could provide details later if you would like.
With these settings i get well over a day on the original razr.
I still get phone calls and texts.
When the phone is just sitting there, I'm on the PC any way when I'm working or at home, so i don't need email.
Once i pick the phone up it syncs up and fetches my email.
I also use a force sync widget created with extended controls to sync my device at will.
I get roughly 48 hours from the OG razr.
Just sharing my experience.
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Can anyone help diagnose my problem? I believe it's maps, but I have no way of being sure. Any how, if someone could me what's up that'd be great. I'm on Snuzzo's 1.8 sense kernel set on Wheatley: 11800 max and 384 min. I shouldn't have lost 13 percent in 3 hours.
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considering our screens suck up juice 13% for 3 hours isn't bad period. lots of users can't even get past 4 hours of on-screen time with a standard battery. from looking at the partial wakelocks that maps is definitely a culprit. checking apps running in the foreground in the management area helps to.
I just un installed maps since he didn't want to behave
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dyetheskin said:
considering our screens suck up juice 13% for 3 hours isn't bad period. lots of users can't even get past 4 hours of on-screen time with a standard battery. from looking at the partial wakelocks that maps is definitely a culprit. checking apps running in the foreground in the management area helps to.
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Lol I had 48% battery left this morning on an extended battery with 90 minutes screen on time. Granted I was gaming, but still.
dyetheskin said:
considering our screens suck up juice 13% for 3 hours isn't bad period. lots of users can't even get past 4 hours of on-screen time with a standard battery. from looking at the partial wakelocks that maps is definitely a culprit. checking apps running in the foreground in the management area helps to.
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4 hours of screen on time??!?!?! Are serious?
I get maybe 1 hour of screen on time on a full charge, right now I'm at 55% with 29 minutes of screen on time. I can literally watch my battery decrease at least 1% per minute that I am doing anything with my phone.
Maybe I need to see if I can get a replacement... I do have some dead pixels.
Kelton Rivas said:
I just un installed maps since he didn't want to behave
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just turn off google locations from stettings > locations and this will not happen.
the setting uses google maps to figure where you are at.
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YTHero said:
4 hours of screen on time??!?!?! Are serious?
I get maybe 1 hour of screen on time on a full charge, right now I'm at 55% with 29 minutes of screen on time. I can literally watch my battery decrease at least 1% per minute that I am doing anything with my phone.
Maybe I need to see if I can get a replacement... I do have some dead pixels.
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turn down brightness. this is the number 1 killer on a screen like ours.
What do you guys use to back up your text messages between ROMs?
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Kelton Rivas said:
What do you guys use to back up your text messages between ROMs?
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tibu
download gsam.... and run that for a day
if you have google now, make sure its disabled. it sucks up battery. same with maps.. open maps, settings, location and make sure everything is unchecked and location reporting is off.
finally if you have the facebook app installed, uninstall it ans wipe cache and delvik. fb was waking my device over 700 times a day killing my battery and robing resources making my phone slow. gsam will tell you what it is for sure. try it.
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What do you guys use to back up your text messages between ROMs?
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tibu
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Yup. AFAIK the free version doesn't allow this, but you should buy the pro key anyway so that Titanium Backup continues to be supported and gets better and better. With the pro key, you can back up SMS and MMS.
well your bbs log shows you had no signal for the entire up time basically. and your wifi was only on for about half that time. if your phone is having to search for signal, battery drain is going to happen. if you're in a poor lte coverage area, switch to 3g only.
bik2101 said:
well your bbs log shows you had no signal for the entire up time basically. and your wifi was only on for about half that time. if your phone is having to search for signal, battery drain is going to happen. if you're in a poor lte coverage area, switch to 3g only.
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yuppp on average out od school, data on, i get about 2hrs screen on and about 12hrs total. in school everything shut off so data wifi sound etc, i get 1 hr of screen on and about 7-10 hrs on. i have a mix between 0-2 bars all day. depending on what class im in lol
Taking a close look at the long battery review thread, while there is a lot of information there regarding individual battery usage, the screen-on and overall usage times vary by a lot. It is impossible to draw conclusions regarding why the results vary so much, because most people did not give enough relevant information there.
I think it will be very interesting if we all used the same *comprehensive* method to compare our battery usage. We could really discover important things about our individual usage and how it compares to others (and how to make it even better).
It is important to note that when battery life is low (in comparison to other G2 users), sometimes this could be because we are taxing our device with heavy usage (and nothing is actually wrong), but other times something is definitely wrong (wakelocks, bad phone reception, etc.). This thread will help each and every one of us (that get lower than expected battery life) understand which of these two possibilities is correct for him (something wrong VS taxing usage).
In order to do this, let's use the excellent "GSam Battery Monitor" app, which could be downloaded freely from the Play Store.
Please post your results when your battery becomes low (around 10 percent), after it was fully charged.
If you want an accurate opinion about your battery behavior, with tips on how to improve things, please provide all the attached screens (please provide the graph image in landscape mode, and sort it by "other"):
Is this really necessary? The G2 has a fat battery. But any amount of power can be drained if you drain it. Enough said.
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RiverdALIEN said:
Is this really necessary? The G2 has a fat battery. But any amount of power can be drained if you drain it. Enough said.
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I say let's give this a shot. This phone has a beefy battery indeed, but still, some of us are posting 7 hours screen-on times, while some of us only 4. Let's see what this thread will provide us with. I have a good hunch this will be a very revealing thread.
Noam23 said:
I say let's give this a shot. This phone has a beefy battery indeed, but still, some of us are posting 7 hours screen-on times, while some of us only 4. Let's see what this thread will provide us with. I have a good hunch this will be a very revealing thread.
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Okay Well in the interest of troubleshooting good luck. I get 1.5 days easily with a good amount of music play. I always suggest people delete the Facebook app and use it in the browser, and disable data/sync while you're in a bad reception building/area
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RiverdALIEN said:
Okay Well in the interest of troubleshooting good luck. I get 1.5 days easily with a good amount of music play. I always suggest people delete the Facebook app and use it in the browser, and disable data/sync while you're in a bad reception building/area
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Waiting to see your GSam results here
Don't delete face book...use greenify. Turn off location sharing unless on WiFi. No Google now. Simple
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Don't delete face book...use greenify. Turn off location sharing unless on WiFi. No Google now. Simple
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Yep, these are some solid good general advices.
I could only drain the battery to 50% today, so I'm posting this for now to get this thread running (and tomorrow I'll post the 10% results). It's funny because I have no trouble finishing the battery everyday, yet today it's giving me "problems". It's like it knows it is being monitored, and the battery hogs are afraid of being greenified...
Let's get over my results in the main screen:
Phone: yes, I did not use the phone to make phone calls. Not unusual for me...
Screen: almost 4 hours screen time, pretty impressive considering the phone has been running for more than 13 hours, and the battery is at 50%. On the other hand I did not make any phone calls, so this could be part of the reason for that excellent screen-on time. Btw, I'm using "Lux brightness control" instead of the LG2's pathetic brightness control feature, the Lux app itself drew practically zero power (as can be seen at the "App Sucker" screen, or actually, you can't even see it because it's too down in the list).
Phone Radio: At 7.9%, I don't really know whether it's good or bad, although this is definitely not a major battery user. I've attached the cellular reception screen too, just so people could reference with theirs. I think overall the reception is pretty good according to that image.
Wifi Active: The Wifi has been on the entire operating time. Most of the time it was connected to my home router, and some of the time it was not connected at all, but still on (when I was out of the house). I'm attaching the Wifi screen so people could see how much traffic the phone had through wifi, for reference. With only 3.9% battery usage, I think there is no need to turn the wifi off, ever.
Held Awake: The phone was awake for 1 hour (while the screen off, that is). Out of 13 hours being awake for 1 hour, I'm not sure whether this is good or bad. This will become clearer when more people will post their result here. It says that the power that was drawn during this 1 wake hour is 0.0%, I'm not sure if this is true, or some kind of inability of GSam to calculate battery usage for this awake period (if GSam IS correct, then I guess I don't understand what's the point of deep sleep, if the phone draws practically zero power even when awake...).
Bluetooth: The BT was on the entire operating time, but connected to a device only a short amount of time. In any case it drew no power according to this screen... like wifi, I think there is no need to turn the BT off, ever.
Regarding the "App Sucker" screen, I can't really say anything intelligent about this, no app seem to drain the battery too much. The 4 hours screen-on time was mainly spent browsing the internet, using Whatsapp, watching youtube, using XDA app (not even listed in the first screen) neither of which seem to drain the battery too much...
So, now that we have some reference (and a reference for a pretty good battery behavior, I think) It will be interesting to see how your results compare...
Just a quick question. I work in a building where there is terrible service. I mean so bad sometimes I get none at all. How does turning off mobile data save battery. Essentially your phone is still trying to connect to the mobile network all the same. I'm kind of looking for a technical explanation not just the 4g uses more battery type.
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Don't forget, the vzw version will throw a wrench into these comparisons.
Thanks Devs. From my VZW G2.
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Just a quick question. I work in a building where there is terrible service. I mean so bad sometimes I get none at all. How does turning off mobile data save battery. Essentially your phone is still trying to connect to the mobile network all the same. I'm kind of looking for a technical explanation not just the 4g uses more battery type.
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If you have bad cellular reception, turning off mobile data can help, but as you said it won't completely solve the problem because the phone still needs to connect to the network so you could talk and send SMS. I think switching to airplane mode (and using WIFI) is the best solution for battery life in this case. Still, I think you should use GSam to really see how much battery is drained by your bad cellular reception.
I am using it now. Waiting until it drops to around 20% to post my results. Will get back.
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Here are my statistics. You think my phone just has bad reception and is in a bad area or there is something wrong with my antenna? My old Droid Razr HD was the same way, barely any service. I'm definitely not staying with Verizon. I pay out the noodle for "the best service" and I get crap. I live on Long Island outside New York City, my service should be amazing.
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Ok, as promised, here are my 10% results:
Phone: did have some phone calls today, though nothing significant. I guess my usage can't really tell how significant phone calls are going to be with the G2, though this should not be a significant battery drainer for most.
Screen: As you remember, yesterday, after 13 hour phone usage, I had 50% battery, I had 3 hours 47 minutes of screen-on time. At that point I thought I might get over 7 hours screen-on time, but here I show about 5 hours 25 minutes. I guess that if I completely drained it, I would have gotten close to 6 hours, not bad.
Phone radio: seems similar to yesterday, about 10% of the battery... I still get good reception, as the image shows.
Wifi active: Wifi had been on the entire time, using 5.6% of the battery.
Held awake: So, yesterday after 13 hours of usage, the screen was held awake 1 hours. Today, after a total of 31 hours, the phone was held awake a total of 3 hours. It seems that the phone consistently is held awake for about 1 hour, every 10 hours of operation time (under my specific configuration, that is). I still find it weird that this "held awake" time did not tax the battery at all. How is this possible ?
Bluetooth: was on the entire time, not connected most of the time. Zero impact on battery.
Regarding the App Sucker screen, similar to yesterday, can't say anything special about this. This day I kept browsing the interned using Opera browser, and added another hour using Runkeeper with GPS tracking (with screen off). After a full cycle of battery usage, the main battery draw comes from the Home launcher, next is Opera browser, and then the apps become pretty much insignificant in terms of battery usage. Maybe two last points here: I'm using both Lux brightness control (to control auto brightness) and Delayed Lock (to remove the lock when connected to certain wifi points and BT devices), both of these apps always run in the background, yet consume practically zero battery, so high recommendation for both of these (they also work great with the G2). Last point, I'm using all the google location access services (everything is turned on there), and I really don't see this taxing in any way, using this GSam report.
That's it for now. Waiting for your results for comparison.
djraimondi said:
I am using it now. Waiting until it drops to around 20% to post my results. Will get back.
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Here are my statistics. You think my phone just has bad reception and is in a bad area or there is something wrong with my antenna? My old Droid Razr HD was the same way, barely any service. I'm definitely not staying with Verizon. I pay out the noodle for "the best service" and I get crap. I live on Long Island outside New York City, my service should be amazing.
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Interesting results. I thought this thread would be revealing, and it doesn't disappoint already.
Your phone reception is pretty bad, much much worse than mine. BUT, you can see that the difference in battery draw is not really significant between my case (I have great reception) and yours, in both cases the phone radio took about 10% of the battery. It seems that the phone reception qaulity doesn't make much difference on the battery (whether it's pretty good, or pretty bad. Maybe this will change if the reception is horrific... like 0 and 1). Comparing my GSam report to yours, you will gain practically no battery advantage by making your phone reception better (at least considering your current phone usage - you barely made phone calls, but still phone reception is also important in order to keep the phone connected to the network, and also for mobile data...). This is REALLY surprising, I thought that when comparing my excellent reception to your very bad one, if I got 10% battery usage (for phone radio), you'll get something like 30%. This did not happen at all, surprisingly!.
Your Held awake time is pretty much similar to mine, as evertything else is similar to mine (wifi active, etc.), yet you seem to get significantly less screen-on time than I. I can think of one explantion: I see you are using G2's automatic brightness control, which is pretty horrible, while I use Lux brightness control, which can reduce the brightness much much more, when it's appropriate. I really can't think of any other major contributor to your battery drainage in comparison to mine...
One thing still keeps me bewildered: why doesn't the "held awake" period tax the battery ?? I mean, the phone is awake, yet no battery is being used... how could this be possible ? Is this a problem of GSam which can't read this information right ?
djraimondi said:
Just a quick question. I work in a building where there is terrible service. I mean so bad sometimes I get none at all. How does turning off mobile data save battery. Essentially your phone is still trying to connect to the mobile network all the same. I'm kind of looking for a technical explanation not just the 4g uses more battery type.
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When you turn off mobile data the phone stops searching for a data connection, thus this battery draining process is halted
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Barely read through the details but I charged my phone to 100% last night, pulled it around 6am today. Been texting and tweeting moderately. Made a few phone calls, checked voicemail. Used the flashlight a couple times and took a few pictures, flash off.
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This is true but look at the sent part of data of the phone radio. My received data is much higher then yours but I can assure you I only receive data via WiFi because my phone signal is so bad. Your sent in comparison much more data then me probably via your phone signal.
This is also very important. I had my mobile data OFF while at work today. I have a shift tomorrow where I will keep the mobile data on and post new results.
Edit: Also about the phone being kept awake and not using any battery. It does seem odd. Perhaps we should also use the orginal screenshots of the stock battery app (pending you still have stock rom).
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djraimondi said:
This is true but look at the sent part of data of the phone radio. My received data is much higher then yours but I can assure you I only receive data via WiFi because my phone signal is so bad. Your sent in comparison much more data then me probably via your phone signal.
This is also very important. I had my mobile data OFF while at work today. I have a shift tomorrow where I will keep the mobile data on and post new results.
Edit: Also about the phone being kept awake and not using any battery. It does seem odd. Perhaps we should also use the orginal screenshots of the stock battery app (pending you still have stock rom).
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But, I don't see how the stock battery app will shed any new light on the kept awake period, if anything, the stock battery app is less detailed regarding almost everything...