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We should be able to make a list of the notorious apps that we've experienced that cause battery drain. No, not some 3d launcher, not some game you play too much, but apps that when installed kill your battery without good cause..
This is an opinion thread, if you see the same app repeatedly than maybe that opinion should matter, and feel free to give your insight.. but no "you're an idiot, because blah blah"
I've used poweramp music player for nearly a year, I've emailed the dev because it will kill my battery at huge rates, but they claimed that it isn't the app. Even though there are tons of posts about the same thing(many about my phone the Samsung galaxy s).. I'm sure it does, but I love the functionality it has and can't give it up. Which is fine.
But I suddenly have battery drain really bad and tthe only change I made was switching to go launcher. Maybe it is the Widgets, but I have lost several hours a day of battery only after using it.
Either way, since I couldn't find a thread about apps people think cause needless battery drain I figured I'd post one. I bet there are a ton of apps people will hate on, but maybe qe can save someone from finding out the hard way, or maybe a developer will see their app listed and think they should work on it..
Regardless, what apps have you installed and noticed needless battery drain?
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Wi-Fi Finder from Android Market drains the battery of my HTC Desire HD
I hear the android IRC app drains battery pretty badly.
Go!chat is litteraly eating the battery of every android device i've put it on
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This thread is going to be full of complete nonsense.. There are badly written apps that are going to do stupid stuff, but there are also apps which have custom codecs which use more power to decode certain file formats (PowerAmp) and apps which by design are going to use power (Wifi Scanners).
The sorta new free warcraft type game, eternity warriors or something like that. Impossible to turn off
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This thread is going to be full of complete nonsense.. There are badly written apps that are going to do stupid stuff, but there are also apps which have custom codecs which use more power to decode certain file formats (PowerAmp) and apps which by design are going to use power (Wifi Scanners).
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The exact kind of comment that doesn't contribute. No, it may list some apps that cause NEEDLESS battery drain. According to the dev of poweramp it doesn't process the muscle any differently, and shouldn't drain more than the stock app. There's no custom codecs to read mp3s.
I wont waste anymore time on someone who isn't contributing, only trolling.
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The yahoo! Mail app with it's push only setting had been a HUGE battery killer!
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The exact kind of comment that doesn't contribute. No, it may list some apps that cause NEEDLESS battery drain. According to the dev of poweramp it doesn't process the muscle any differently, and shouldn't drain more than the stock app. There's no custom codecs to read mp3s.
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You clearly don't get that PowerAmp doesn't use the same codecs as most media players.. It has custom ffmpeg libs. The author can say they should be similar in cpu but doesn't mean they are.
And I agree that it does use more cpu.. Mostly notice it when I listen to music while sleeping, the phone gets much warmer than if I'm using stock codecs.
And watch your use of the word troll...
Back to my point..
Danzanzio said:
The yahoo! Mail app with it's push only setting had been a HUGE battery killer!
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NetCounter prevents the phone from enter sleep mode. Stay clear!
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+1 for the yahoo mail app.
I am using Go Launcher Ex, Launcher Pro + and ADW Launcher and cannot say that one consumes more battery than the other, it depends more on what widgets or live WP you use in the launcher, so i think we should focus on pinpointing what widgets and in what settings or conditions drain the battery, for example i found that Animated Weather was for me draining to much juice and replaced it by BeWeather, for the same reason i replaced Executive Widgets by Pure Widget.
On the other hand i removed K9 Mail and am using MailDroid, as in several occasions K9 climbed to the top of the list in battery usage, doubling even the screen usage.
At this point i never more experienced excessive battery drain, other than screen and phone cell standby (due to bad reception in my area).
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On the other hand i removed K9 Mail and am using MailDroid, as in several occasions K9 climbed to the top of the list in battery usage, doubling even the screen usage.
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Let me guess, you were using POP...
Actually I might as well complain about a widget I installed, but I uninstalled it a month ago and haven't been able to figure out exactly which one it is in the market... Doh.. I installed it and it literally woke the phone and my tablet up ONCE A MINUTE to update. Deep sleep was gone, battery life about 30% lower than expected. So beware of widgets that update often
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Let me guess, you were using POP...
Actually I might as well complain about a widget I installed, but I uninstalled it a month ago and haven't been able to figure out exactly which one it is in the market... Doh.. I installed it and it literally woke the phone and my tablet up ONCE A MINUTE to update. Deep sleep was gone, battery life about 30% lower than expected. So beware of widgets that update often
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Yes you are right i am using pop.
You point is also correct, there are widgets which wont let deep sleep the phone. A method to pinpoint them is to look at the logcat and see which app is waking up the phone constantly.
tunein radio pro and sensor
I had a problem with tunein radio pro. Even after I shut it down though (App Management), under battery use, tunein radio was listed as draining battery continuously under sensor usage.
No idea if it is a sensor issue or the app issue.
kik (gotten better with battery but still needs improvement)
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Go!chat is litteraly eating the battery of every android device i've put it on
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yup same here
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Let me guess, you were using POP...
Actually I might as well complain about a widget I installed, but I uninstalled it a month ago and haven't been able to figure out exactly which one it is in the market... Doh.. I installed it and it literally woke the phone and my tablet up ONCE A MINUTE to update. Deep sleep was gone, battery life about 30% lower than expected. So beware of widgets that update often
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why not IMAP?
FIRST KILLER,
GOOGLE MAP!
I disabled it to prevent it auto start via autostart app.
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I've noticed the Photobucket app likes to open itself up in the background at times (i.e. overnight) and use up to 5% of my battery power.
Maps, Google+, PURE News and Messager widgets, K9 for Pure, XDA App (unfoortunately)
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Since I changed to JB my battery is being drained by google services. I've tried turning off location services, all of google now, and everything that is using google to sync except for mail. I haven't found a solution anywhere online. I've also deleted my exchange and other mail accounts and I still have the problem.
I'm using MeanBean 2.3 and it also did the same thing on MB 1.4.
Any ideas?
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Since I changed to JB my battery is being drained by google services. I've tried turning off location services, all of google now, and everything that is using google to sync except for mail. I haven't found a solution anywhere online. I've also deleted my exchange and other mail accounts and I still have the problem.
I'm using MeanBean 2.3 and it also did the same thing on MB 1.4.
Any ideas?
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I am also seeing this and sometimes Maps or Poynt do the same thing as well. If I look in my power history it will show GPS ON as a full blue line. I also see a solid blue line in the wake portion sometimes when the phone has been sleeping. Both issues will cause the battery to drain very quickly. If I don't catch them in time, my battery won't make it all day. If I go a day without seeing these, the battery lasts all day with plenty to spare. A quick reboot fixes them but I never had these issues before Jelly Bean. My wife has an EVO LTE too and sees these issues as well. Anyone know what is causing these issues? Neither of us have turned on Google Now yet fearing that will make it worse.
Did you do a factory reset after the upgrade to jelly bean? Many reported that helping.
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Did you do a factory reset after the upgrade to jelly bean? Many reported that helping.
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No, but my wife just got hers and I updated to Jelly Bean before installing or setting up the phone. Guess I will try factory reset after installing Jelly Bean. Thanks for the help!
I did super wipe (factory reset) last night with clean install and today I'm not having issues yet
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It didn't work. Google services turned on again and keeps my phone awake and is draining the battery. Does anyone else have an exchange account? I just deleted mine to see if that might help.
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In case anyone ever comes upon this thread and wants an answer, I think the problem is with exchange. I made it manual DL and the Google services stayed on but didn't drain the battery. Reset, location, and other changes didn't seem to help.
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Maybe exchange cuz I don't have the issue...its not even on the history
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drdamond said:
In case anyone ever comes upon this thread and wants an answer, I think the problem is with exchange. I made it manual DL and the Google services stayed on but didn't drain the battery. Reset, location, and other changes didn't seem to help.
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I am having the same problem, but I don't have exchange. Just got my phone a week ago, not rooted, completely stock. Today was the first day that the battery abnormally drained, with google services using 50%. Not sure what changed or what happened. Trying to do some research into this as there seems to be a lot of questions out there, but haven't found any answers yet.
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I am having the same problem, but I don't have exchange. Just got my phone a week ago, not rooted, completely stock. Today was the first day that the battery abnormally drained, with google services using 50%. Not sure what changed or what happened. Trying to do some research into this as there seems to be a lot of questions out there, but haven't found any answers yet.
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I am having this problem every so often also. The phone stays awake 100% of the time due to the google services. I kill it a couple times and usually it stops for awhile. Very annoying, still looking for a fix.
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The best way to figure out what is draining your battery is to install Better Battery Stats from the play store. Let it run in the background for a day or two and then check out partial wake locks and alarms. See if there is an app or process that is running out of control. Check all of your settings for syncing gmail, chrome, news and weather, etc. If you can't find some app that is keeping your device awake when it should be resting, then it could just be the phone.
Is there any REAL solution for this issue?
"Google Services" keeps my phone awake 100% of the time sometimes and I get maybe 4 hours of bat till completely dead. I've tried turning off sync, gps, mail, etx still does it. I think it really the Play Store but I cant be sure.
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Is there any REAL solution for this issue?
"Google Services" keeps my phone awake 100% of the time sometimes and I get maybe 4 hours of bat till completely dead. I've tried turning off sync, gps, mail, etx still does it. I think it really the Play Store but I cant be sure.
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Turn off Autosync then turn it on again and force a full sync, then reboot, I've read somewhere I think in the sense 5 port thread about something like this and I think scottspa or Finz posted this as a solution, try it and let us know...
I've been having hella issues with this recently. Some of the fixes out there work some of the time. Best one I've found is to sign out of Google EVERYTHING, wipe caches, reboot, then resign in. Even sometimes that won't release the wakelock. Yesterday for instance I had to do that, then take it a step further and delete my data from everything with the word Google on it and do 2 reboots before it would go the hell away.
disable
I disable mine.
Use titanium backup. Make the services and play store user apps. Then use greenify on them.
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Turn off Autosync then turn it on again and force a full sync, then reboot, I've read somewhere I think in the sense 5 port thread about something like this and I think scottspa or Finz posted this as a solution, try it and let us know...
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I am running MeanBean with latest firmware. I had this issue yesterday and I tried your fix. So far today, google services has only used 2%. I am curious to see if it stays that way or if the issue will come back.
Thanks
clearing cache and delvik cache seems to work for a little while that it just starts again ok. I only staredt having this issue about 2 weeks ago. That's why I think its the Play Store cause that's when the Play Store updated. Also rebooting seems to relieve the situation temporarily. Its just a pain in you don't look at your phone for a few hours notice 75 percent of your battery is gone.
I had the Google services drain too. I was looking high and low for the cause. Finally solved mine by going to Quick Event app, clicked setting icon (top right), set both Default Reminder and Default Duration to none.. That solved my problem.
So I did a few things and have not had a problem in a week(ish) now. I cleared cache and dalvik cache. I also forced a sync then turned off sync tried to sync again then turned it back on.
I have not had a problem since. In fact I left this phone sitting all weekend from sat morning to this morning and it only used 22% battery. (there was NO use by me)
Just incase anybody is wondering I am on the latest Mean Bean with over clocking and over volt.
I have tried many options to try and anazlyze the best optimization for battery life out of my galaxy note 2 ..I noticed that when I was getting almost 2 days of battery life was when I had power saving mode enabled and I also had nova launcher installed but than I got to thinking that I wanted to give Touchwiz more of a chance because it is actually quite fluid and the animation is nice at 1x or .05x ...I was reading in threads that some users were not using power saving mode because it takes away from the beast of performance the note 2 possesses ...So my question is unlike other battery saving threads im not necessarily want pictures of your usage I want scenarios of what you ( the community of note 2 users) do to optimize and save battery life .... I will say that I am using cleanrom 3.5 I had 4.0.5 but I did not like that it took away some of the functions I liked ...So Ultimately I just want some advice on how to save battery life I have sync disabled and gps disabled but I keep google now enabled because its awesome ..I just need some advice and reccomendations please help im tired or buying apps that promise to save battery life only to find that they dont do much the most recent app I am trying and it sounds promising is DS Battery Saver and it seems promising because it actually turns off all background applications and wifi and data but wouldn't that do more harm than good to turn off background apps ,wifi and data ..
Have you ever thought about buying a bigger battery?
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Yes I have considered but I feel that I would like to try and explore the current options available to me seeing so many positive posy by other members saying there getting lots of battery life just out of the box without upgrading the battery, the battery on this thing is huge ,3100 ma ...Are these people keeping power saving mode on to gain the extra battery difference because I do notice a huge improvment in battery life when I put it in power saving mode but im thinking the people that are getting two days of battery life out of there device do not have power saving mode enabled
Not only that but I see screen time on some guys are at 8 hours screen time and still have like 50% battery or 6 hrs and have 68% battery thats insane ...I used my phone heavily today I had screen time on for about 6 hours and about two hours of phone calls and than alot of tweaking and trying options so restarting the phone drains the living crap out of this beast...So maybe ill try minimal use tomorrow and see what happens maybe ill see a difference I dont want to have to use ds battery saver most battery saving apps are crap claiming to help but in actually run in the background monitoring everything so it only enhances the battery draining issue or your phone will not go into deep sleep
I disabled haptic feedback. Keep the screen on auto.
Flashed perseus and am using a overclock/undervolt profile for stweaks from the thread that is here in general. There is a stweaks guide and stweaks profile thread if your interested.
Went through and froze or removed all startup and running services I didn't need. No sync apps that don't use push.
Anyway, that's what I did and get pretty good battery life.
Betterbatterystats isn't bloat either. It's pretty crucial if you want to troubleshoot power issues. I've used that as a reference for everything
In the end though, batteries are cheap. You can get 2 ankers and a charger for 20 on Amazon and they are great quality.
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Yes I am definitely intrested in sweaks Ive never heard of it and as far as freezing apps no problem there I just am afraid that if I freeze apps like Google Maps than my Google Now will not properly work I dont snyc anything if I want to sync I do it manually but im not familiar with what you mean by push ? Also i feel to under skilled when it comes to freezing certain background apps like Google Maps I noticed alot or the bulk of my battery drain comes from Location settings I have most of my apps not location enabled but if I were to say freeze google maps wouldnt that effect how Google Now operates ?
Also do you use a certain browser that uses less battery or is that a bit overboard I use mainly stock browser but I also have google chome because its fast and simple I use stock browser when I need to watch flash content and I use chrome when I want things simplified but I find myself using google chrome less and less I heard Opera makes a very nice simple browser ..What browser do you use most often for battery life or does it not matter much ...Oh and if you could possibly send me the link to stweaks I would greatly appreciate it ...
Thanks
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Yes I am definitely intrested in sweaks Ive never heard of it and as far as freezing apps no problem there I just am afraid that if I freeze apps like Google Maps than my Google Now will not properly work I dont snyc anything if I want to sync I do it manually but im not familiar with what you mean by push ? Also i feel to under skilled when it comes to freezing certain background apps like Google Maps I noticed alot or the bulk of my battery drain comes from Location settings I have most of my apps not location enabled but if I were to say freeze google maps wouldnt that effect how Google Now operates ?
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You can get an app called juice defender. You can set it up to turn wifi/data/bluetooth/gps off when you turn the screen off. You can set schedules to sync emails and other apps every 5, 10, 15, 30, or 60 minutes.. I have the pro version so I can control my entire phone..
If location settings is draining your battery, turn GPS off.
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So do you also keep power saving mode on your note 2 enabled ? or do you keep that off ..Also is there a video tutorial on how to use Juice Defender properly because I never fully understood some of its features do you have just the basic juice defender, the plus or the ultimate im only asking because I want to know if having juice defender plus will do the trick or do i need the ultimate to take full advantage ?
I only ask this because I already have juice defender plus on the note 2 but I have yet to use it on the note 2
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So do you also keep power saving mode on your note 2 enabled ? or do you keep that off ..Also is there a video tutorial on how to use Juice Defender properly because I never fully understood some of its features do you have just the basic juice defender, the plus or the ultimate im only asking because I want to know if having juice defender plus will do the trick or do i need the ultimate to take full advantage ?
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I leave my power saving off when I use my phone. Ultimate juice defender has all of the features you need. I don't know of any videos, but I know how to set it up, just ask your questions.
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Okay I'll give it a go so do you experience any battery drain in a 8 hour Window that's typically how long I sleep I was just curious Edgar percentage is lost within 8 hours with phone on deep sleep
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Okay I'll give it a go so do you experience any battery drain in a 8 hour Window that's typically how long I sleep I was just curious Edgar percentage is lost within 8 hours with phone on deep sleep
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I lose a percent about every 3 hours. Maybe 4.
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Are you able to tailor jd to work for you during the day as well I already juice defender plus is that enough or would you say get the ultimate ?
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What I mean during the day is when you have your phone on (on screen time ) are you able to signifiicantly reduce your anount of battery drain
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Do you know if juice defender ultimate works with rooted galaxy note 2
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Do you know if juice defender ultimate works with rooted galaxy note 2
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I use it. Works fine with root.
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Do you use the ultimate ? And also have you heard of ds battery saver alot like juice defenfer you can pick and choose which apps you want to run in the background I am only having a problem with network location locator but than I realized if I disable in location settingd wifi and data enabled than my accuweather touch wiiz widget does not update
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Do you use the ultimate ? And also have you heard of ds battery saver alot like juice defenfer you can pick and choose which apps you want to run in the background I am only having a problem with network location locator but than I realized if I disable in location settingd wifi and data enabled than my accuweather touch wiiz widget does not update
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Apps running in the background don't use battery unless they sync a lot. You should be able to manually set location in weather apps.. and juice defender ultimate has the ability to set night schedules, control brightness, cpu, gps, network modes, etc. I have mine set up to sync apps every 30 minutes and then keep data and wifi off. You can also set traffic limits up too, so when the screen turns off, you can have data/wifi stay enabled if you are downloading something.
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If I am using the stock weather and time widget that comes on the galaxy note 2 is it a signifigant amount of battery saving if I have it set to just one location and if you dont mind me asking how do I set it up for it to be set to one lication also if I have weather showing on the lock screen with that use even more battery I mean if its running than it shouldnt effect it if I have it on lock screen and home screen...My last question is regarding location settings that seems to be my biggest battery drain. I like using google now but I noticed if I disable in location settings data and wifi I save a ton of battery life ...I was trying to figure out how to disable maybe certain apps that are tracking my location or if I should just disable wifi and data location but than google now doesnt perform properly
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Some tips to help your battery maintain longer.
1) Turn off Google Now: tap google search or hold menu button>Settings(menu button)>Google Now OFF
2) Disable anything related to GPS/location access. Especially in maps, go to settings and uncheck auto check ins also clearing location history.
3) Download greenify from app store. (need root access).
I hope this helps!
Credits to simonbarnistr, and cmahendra for some tips.
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Activating Now usually triggers the location reporting settings in maps/latitude. If you go back into the location settings in maps, and disable updating your location, automatic check ins, and even location history, then you can use now with very little noticeable battery impact. In fact, go into the app info for maps, and disable the notifications check box too, I've heard that helps relieve map wakelocks.
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the T-mobile JB version is freaking wrong.
change to Canadian version 21b to save the life and battery
I haven't seen the poor performance or battery life yet.
I picked this phone up for my mom, set it up and shut off all the settings I know cause wakelocks, and decided to leave it uprooted on the stock 4.1.2 Tmobile firmware because it was running quite well.
So far she's been getting well over 15 hours on battery, with a couple hours of screen on time, with a little less than 50% battery left. That's damn good battery life! But then, she doesn't clog her phone up with a bunch of useless apps that she doesn't actually use, or try to play gpu intensive games. She just calls, texts, surfs, checks Facebook and uses maps and navigation.
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I haven't seen the poor performance or battery life yet.
I picked this phone up for my mom, set it up and shut off all the settings I know cause wakelocks, and decided to leave it uprooted on the stock 4.1.2 Tmobile firmware because it was running quite well.
So far she's been getting well over 15 hours on battery, with a couple hours of screen on time, with a little less than 50% battery left. That's damn good battery life! But then, she doesn't clog her phone up with a bunch of useless apps that she doesn't actually use, or try to play gpu intensive games. She just calls, texts, surfs, checks Facebook and uses maps and navigation.
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Could you please tell us what exactly did you turn off? that would be great ! Others might do the same and save a few %
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Activating Now usually triggers the location reporting settings in maps/latitude. If you go back into the location settings in maps, and disable updating your location, automatic check ins, and even location history, then you can use now with very little noticeable battery impact. In fact, go into the app info for maps, and disable the notifications check box too, I've heard that helps relieve map wakelocks.
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This up here is very important to stop gps wakelocks, if you don't disable those settings, latitude and now check your location every 15 minutes or so. I also disable any cards in now that I'm not interested in. I don't find the traffic ones that useful, for instance, and I don't care about nearby anything. I live here, I know what's nearby!
I also use the built in ability in jelly bean to disable system apps, and I get rid of anything I don't actively use. Stuff like play magazines, books, music (I'm not a fan of Googles music player), and Tmobile bloatware, especially stuff like the "my account" app that runs in the notification shade. Anything that's going to be updating on its own is going to cause wakelocks. I left Facebook on my mom's phone, but on mine I actually check Facebook and G+ using the browser, since those two apps are resource hogs.
I leave gps on, blue tooth on, 4g on, and still had great battery life, but I also tried to keep the screen brightness at the lowest it needed to be, and I don't use auto brightness.
Lastly (this has nothing to do with battery, but helps with lag) I go into developer settings and set all the animation scales from 1x to .5x. This makes the phone SEEM snappier due to the quicker animation speed, but also the phone seems to have less I/O stutter when rapidly swiping screens or doing other window animations.
Ok, actual last piece of advice; be picky with what apps you keep on your phone, don't hoard them! If you end up not using something, delete it! Don't waste space and increase memory read times by clogging your phone with useless stuff. Keep it lean.
Auto brightness? I don't have this...
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Auto brightness was a feature on ICS. I think they've removed it on JB update.
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Auto brightness? I don't have this...
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Try lux auto brightness download it from an 3rd party appstore cos it's incompatible for our device for instructions Google it
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Auto brightness was a feature on ICS. I think they've removed it on JB update.
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Auto brightness is in JB, it would be weird if the L9 didn't have it. I don't have my mom's phone nearby, but go into settings, then display, and see if there's an auto brightness checkbox. I hate auto brightness, and auto rotate. It's always changing too easily, and for little reason.
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Auto brightness is in JB, it would be weird if the L9 didn't have it. I don't have my mom's phone nearby, but go into settings, then display, and see if there's an auto brightness checkbox. I hate auto brightness, and auto rotate. It's always changing too easily, and for little reason.
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Are you sure?... I haven't seen it.
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I'm sure auto brightness is in JB, because I have a Galaxy Nexus and a Nexus 7, plus it's on my coworkers stock S4. But I wasn't positive it was on the L9. I'm surprised not to see it, but I like that it's not there!
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I'm sure auto brightness is in JB, because I have a Galaxy Nexus and a Nexus 7, plus it's on my coworkers stock S4. But I wasn't positive it was on the L9. I'm surprised not to see it, but I like that it's not there!
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LOL, L9 does not has the sensor.
that is why it is defined as entry level phone.
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LOL, L9 does not has the sensor.
that is why it is defined as entry level phone.
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I think of it more as a mid range, if performs up to par with the S2.
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It's a good phone, that's a superfluous sensor. The specs for flagship phones have exploded, which makes this a lower end phone, but that doesn't mean it doesn't perform just fine. Androids not optimized for quad core processors yet anyway.
greenify is best option to save battery juice.
Greenify is good, some apps you can get the same effect through settings, but for things like Facebook, Greenify is a good way to go.
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LOL, L9 does not has the sensor.
that is why it is defined as entry level phone.
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Maybe this could work trough camera (but probably not so battery friendly). It's stupid that there is no video calling trough 3g and front camera is useless (very poor/dark picture quality) anyway. I also missing volume control for media,notification and ringtones on volume keys(it's only system volume) and original JB battery consumption info(current graf is useless). But yes,it's a OK phone.
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My issue with battery drain is WiFi. P769 CM 10.1... When WiFi is off I get awesome battery life..when its on it drains like a mofo
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Jrkoffjonson said:
My issue with battery drain is WiFi. P769 CM 10.1... When WiFi is off I get awesome battery life..when its on it drains like a mofo
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L9 CM10.1 suffers from wlan_rx_wake kernel wakelock. The WiFi chip is somehow configured that it wakes the phone on every received broadcast packet, which is normally not necessary. Because of that on networks with a lot of broadcast traffic the phone almost never deep sleeps. Our phone is not the only one that suffers from it, there are others. I had to set WiFi to be On only when plugged in, then the battery life is better.
So I downloaded Asphalt 8 just today and I have this bad problem, when I launch the game and minimize it whenever, I can hear the speaker still hissing, and never stopping, while most games you minimize and the speaker turns off after 2 seconds. This app keeps the speaker on, also keeps the phone awake, and drains the battery.
Anybody experiencing the same issue?
Might want to contact the developer on that. In the mean time you can just force close the app (right next to uninstall).
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spunker88 said:
Might want to contact the developer on that. In the mean time you can just force close the app (right next to uninstall).
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Closing it from the multitasker works just fine, but it's still quite annoying. I very often close all of the opened apps, and I was just thinking about doing it less often, but this changes everything.
Can anyone confirm on having the same issue? Or is it only me?
This issue is really bad, as the battery drain is increased by twice as much if you have speaker on and phone is prevented from sleeping.
I NEED to know, because it's either the app, or bad combination of apps I have on my Phone + Games. I have a Nexus 4.
I also have this with Need For Speed Most Wanted, haven't had this with any other games.