I've done some searching and seen mixed answers, so I thought I'd ask here. I'd like to be able to leave my Vibrant's screen on at night. It's always charging on my dresser right beside me, but because we use our phones as our alarms, we don't have a clock in our room.
I was wondering if setting it to stay on while charging with either an analog type clock or a flip clock would have any impact on my screen or on my battery. I don't want screen burn-in or to adversely impact my battery life.
What are your thoughts and/or experiences with this?
I doubt you would experience screen burn as such, because that was only a problem on old crt monitors, not lcd screens like your phone.
The main issue I would be concerned about would be overheating.
I would not think it would cause any battery issues either.
I would suggest to try it for a couple of hours constantly on when you are awake and see how hot it gets, if it seems to be fine, then I would guess that it should be fine to leave it like all night.
I have a Motorola Defy work phone with screen set to stay on while on charge and I have no issue with it, but I will mention that it is only usually a couple of hours at a time while it is plugged in to the car kit.
Hope this helps.
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You can experience burn in on this device. I bought my vibe used so I don't know how it was used before me but on white or light colored screens I can see burn in from froyo dock icons and the status bar. Obviously leaving screen on all night will cause more battery drain but as far as long term battery life a I can't say.
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AMOLED are known to suffer from burn in so I think it is possible if you leave it on for a long time, I've had some that have retention issue where the previous shape will disappear quickly, I haven't had any long term burn in though I never leave my screen on for a long time.
Uptill now there are not any perfect SAMOLED screen I have seen, I have owned nearly 12 by now, they all suffer from the black spots, some people aren't aware of it or don't know how to detect them. Banding issue is also very prevalent, but if you are lucky you might get one that suffer from very little of it. Point is I can't say I've owned any AMOLED screen that is perfect.
How about a regular LED clock from Target?
screen on
Burn in is a definite possibly. When I was still on stock JDF I used to have mine set to stay on during charging . I did get some burn in but it has seemed to lessen over time. The screen on is generally the biggest battery drain to your phone
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So across all roms I have tried the display literally destroys the battery life of my phone. While the screen is off I get fine battery life. But when the screen is on I can watch my percentage decrease about 2-3% every minute so after a half hour of browsing my battery is gone.
I have an extended battery as well but that just prolongs it slightly. The brightness is about half right now. Is this normal?
Does not sound Normal but display is the largest user of battery( unless one can use the phone with display off
I had as video streaming yesterday for 30+ min from 80% it went to 14%
haven't tried keeping just display on should try that ...test for tomorrow
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So across all roms I have tried the display literally destroys the battery life of my phone. While the screen is off I get fine battery life. But when the screen is on I can watch my percentage decrease about 2-3% every minute so after a half hour of browsing my battery is gone.
I have an extended battery as well but that just prolongs it slightly. The brightness is about half right now. Is this normal?
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I have my brightness set to 15% and it still sucks about half of my battery use. The display is unfortunately nearly unstoppable when it comes to battery drain. HTC and others are like "BIG PHONE DISPLAY!!!1!111!" we're all like "I can haz batteries?"
That description is the best description of our issue.
But an answer to your question, drop you brightness to as low as you can stand it and if possible try to limit the amount of times you wake the display in a day the juice it requires to turn it on is greater than it needs to sustain the screen on.
I would say yes for the most part. We have a fantastic and power hungry display...the price for greatness?
That being said, its not so bad dropped down to 25% or so, and easily viewable, except if you're outside.
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Alright thanks. I just wanted to make sure my phone wasn't experiencing something that is atypical. Other than that I do love this phone and the developers
It's hard to say. With screen on I loose about 1% a minute even with auto-brightness turned off and the screen at around 25%.
There are others on the forum that have made rather amazing battery life claims so it may come down the the individual device.
I have debated about returning mine for a different one to see if I get any better performance.
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It's hard to say. With screen on I loose about 1% a minute even with auto-brightness turned off and the screen at around 25%.
There are others on the forum that have made rather amazing battery life claims so it may come down the the individual device.
I have debated about returning mine for a different one to see if I get any better performance.
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I'm not sure I would bother chasing longer battery life with new devices. A lot of those are very optimized use cases -- either all on wifi, all in areas with great signal, or lots of screen on time but they don't mention what brightness. The fact of the matter is the phone has a tiny battery and uses up a lot of power for the display and radios. I get somewhere between 12-16 hours on a stock battery, depending on where I am and how much I use the phone (generally I'm a pretty light user, but I do leave 4G and Bluetooth on all day).
Hi there fellas using s3 like me its been 2days since i've bought this beast and i really wanted to know if using smart stay and keeping bln on does affect the battery much or not, as i couldn't come up to the conclusion yet. So what do you guys think who have owned this phone for some time now??
Smart stay affects battery consumption.
Well it affects battery file but not to the point that it drains the battery. Plus its a very useful feature
Some, but negligible affect on overall battery life.
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whats "bln"?
Back Light Notification a thing of the past with S3... think op is thinking of notification led...
I guess i'll have to agree with you guys because i kept it on for a day and off the other, there wasn't any noticable difference
Yes and no, if you constants get text messages / notifications then the BLN might have an effect on battery, same as if you stare at the screen for a long time the Smart stay might have an effect but in general compared to other apps,etc i wouldn't think it's what one would deem to be a big problem.
It's hard to tell since I've only had the phone since for 2 days and have been using it constantly, but I think it may be a light load on the battery. I had one instance already where it think it was wake-locking the phone. (seen using betterbatterystats)
I will report back later after I have investigated a little further. It may not even be worth it to me...I'm pretty well trained in turning off my screen immediately after I use it, I don't let it time out on its own.
Hi guys, I got my new LG P769 at Bestbuy two days ago and I think my phone have a huge problem with battery life.
As you can see a picture, it discharges so fast. There are three cliffs of its batter life in the picture, two big cliffs and small one.
It seems to be abnormal. further, battery was 75% when i went to bed last night but i noticed it went down by 35% while i was sleeping.
of course i didn't use it at all for 6 hours. The second cliff was occurred at that time,
Do I need to go to complain? Please let me know how to deal with that. Thank you!
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Hi guys, I got my new LG P769 at Bestbuy two days ago and I think my phone have a huge problem with battery life.
As you can see a picture, it discharges so fast. There are three cliffs of its batter life in the picture, two big cliffs and small one.
It seems to be abnormal. further, battery was 75% when i went to bed last night but i noticed it went down by 35% while i was sleeping.
of course i didn't use it at all for 6 hours. The second cliff was occurred at that time,
Do I need to go to complain? Please let me know how to deal with that. Thank you!
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Hello Mate,
I too felt same feeling when I purchased this phone first.
But later I realised few things.
1) When you have inactive card with no signal, It keeps on searching for the network and drains a lot
2) The DISPLAY is by default at 100% and if you take it to 50% that is sufficient for indoor use, You save A LOT battery.
Now when I take the display to 100% it feels too much for me. When you are outdoor, you can raise it to readable level.
3) Keep on cleaning tasks and running apps. They DO EAT power even when you are not using the phone.
4) Same applies to the widgets. I really could not find personal implication of Weather widget that have storming animations and lightening data usage. (I am not a pilot nor sailor. No pun intended)
5) When your battery is new, you have to charge it to 100% at one go and use it till it discharges completely before you charge it for the next time. I read its called Conditioning of the battery. means telling it its limit of upper and lower value. This helps long lasting battery life.
6) last but not list and common. When Not in use keep WIFI, Bluetooth, GPS turned off.
They are hardware on our fone and demand their share of power. If you are too wary you can disable the autorotation also, that means one more sensor off and boon to battery. I dont turn it off. I need it a lot and often.
Some Few Tips I did more
1 Disable the Vibration
Vibration = mechanical Motor = Horse Power to eat your battery grass
2 Keep a dark wallpaper.
Light = Power to Light White bulbs on screen
Remember you are running a Dual core 4+Inches beast so you can not expect battery specs like simple fones. You can only smartify it to last longer through the day.
Bipin
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2 Keep a dark wallpaper.
Light = Power to Light White bulbs on screen
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False information. This device does not have an OLED screen so the pixel color has no effect on battery life.
Somehow Nokia Lumias are managing to have an always on screen using plain ol LCD and not OLED tech... apparently the battery drain is minimal something like 1% a day.... the author reckons that it's something to do with the screen brightness being really reduced or something...
Is this possible to implement with the Truesmart because this would really be a killer feature!!!
http://allaboutwindowsphone.com/features/item/18191_Nokia_works_a_LCD_miracle-Glan.php
That is pretty damn cool
The nearest i could find was clock view, this allows you just to show the time with a mainly black screen and with the brightness turned right down...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kimscom.clockview
Im going to see how much of a drain it is, but the backlight is still on so prolly plenty; Thing is on a lumia the battery is gonna be pretty bad compared to a smartwatch so a days worth of battery is good for a phone but terrible for a watch..
Why does LG think it's ok to ship a watch with a 12 hour battery life, with minimal use. Just setting up the watch took %40 battery
Without sacrificing screen brightness is there anything to be done?? Is there any sort of root + cpu app we can lower CPU speed with??
Did you uncheck always on screen? Only option I have off and notice decent battery life for the entire day.
Mine goes for 16 hours once completely setup. If you start downloading and setting up this will surely tax the battery on any watch. The 240MAH doesn't help, but once setup it should be fine afterwards.
I had the LG G Watch R (w/ 420MAH) prior and setting up took a good deal of the battery but at EOD was at 65%, while the Style is at 40%.....understandable given the size of the battery.
I found mine was going dead by mid afternoon with little use.
I found turning auto screen brightness off and just leaving it on 4 helps. Also think after a couple of weeks use it's got better anyway. Usually on about 40-50% by the time I leave work.
Main problem I have is the little dial on the side is in a crop place, so my hand keeps pressing it an making assistant listen, eating up battery.
Really wish there was a screen rotation option so I could wear the watch with the dial on the opposite side.
Oh well!
I would like to see more options for ambient mode. I think the brightness is too high. I've only found one watchface that lets you control the color in ambient mode. It's called "line". I changed the ambient color to just red and decreased the opacity of the lines and complications. I've been off the charger for about an hour, received a few notifications and I'm still @ 99%. Might be a fluke, but I'm sure using a single color uses less battery than using white, which is all 3 colors combined.
This is my third smartwatch in 2 weeks. I've downgraded twice because others are just too bulky. I'm sure there's a solution out there. I hope battery life gets better in time with updates. I hate this range anxiety.
I just bought one and it is still too early to tell but battery life is fine for me. If I disable Bluetooth (which I know defeats the purpose of it) and WiFi with no ambient, it lasted me about 2 1/2 days (but I do turn it off at night since I have no need to keep it on while I sleep). If I keep Bluetooth on, no WiFi, and no ambient, it lasts the entire day (13 or 14 hours) with about 40% left. I have to do more testing (especially with ambient). You don't want the watch face on all the time anyway because it will cause screen burn-in. Some of the watch face apps allow you to use an ambient where it is usually black and white with less information showing.
Hello. Can anyone help with a battery model? Need to search for a replacement one but there is no info at the internet about its battery nor where to buy it....
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Hello. Can anyone help with a battery model? Need to search for a replacement one but there is no info at the internet about its battery nor where to buy it....
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Same here.
I looked everywhere. My battery is dead, it drops from 100% to around 30% as I disconnect it from the charger.
Even if we find the battery, the replacement looks hard. I was hoping to just get the Pixel Watch but I guess that's not going to happen.
Hi guys. Today I made a short video with opening of this device.
Enjoy.
https://youtu.be/LJ0vkpAjmjY