The Rez I'm using now is an Asurion replacement. Before, this thing was saving battery like a champ. Used to get a full 24 hours or more plus 2 hours screen on time.
Now it's just terrible. I'm 34% on battery after less than 5 hours off the charger with far less than an hour of screen on time.
I'm running Snuzzo's 2.2 funky kernel and Newt's One XxX 6.0.2 rom, S-OFF. CPU is tweaked, running dancedance governor and SIO. 386 MHz to 1 GHz (or whatever they exactly are) when in use. Various profiles are set to run lower, as ive always done.
I'd appreciatw the help, guys. Thanks.
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Yes, what he said. I'm running Newt's with ExtraFunky 2c and don't have any problems. In the past when my battery life suddenly nose dived, it turned out to be some app that decided to keep wakelock for some unknown reason. Check recently updated apps.
Yeah probably an app or service running in the background.
Turn off GPS and blue tooth when not in use
Use WiFi when you can
Turn off Google Now
Turn off location history and location reporting in Google maps settings
Make sure you have no widgets constantly refreshing
Increase the times between sync for Gmail, Facebook et al
Try running a more conservative cpu governor supported by your kernel, such as Wheatley or Intellidemand.
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I don't really use Bluetooth that often and keep it off, and gps is always off. And got rid of Google now for the regular Google search. Only the clock widget is running. Though, I should spacing sync times.
Uninstalling some apps seems to have helped for the most part (which makes sense, as I just recently restored a nand backup). But, it's still not as good as it was. I guess it's best to just keep tinkering at this point.
Thanks
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Well for example, I use fancy widgets for my clock/weather. If you use a program like better battery stats (search xda for the free version), you will see fancy widgets causing the device to wake up more than almost anything else.
That's when you can do stuff like spacing out weather sync to 3 hours, prefer sync over wifi, and maybe even setting a default fixed location for your weather.
But with the kind of battery loss you described, something more than a widget is grabbing power. Make sure you are on auto brightness, btw.
I also use a program called system panel to see what all background services are running. For example, you would be surprised to see services for Google Talk, social apps, even some games running in the background. Then you can use titanium backup to freeze them or un install.
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I've been using Gsam, but what I see use up more resources than anything is the kernel I typically uninstall anything I do not use. Stuff sitting higher up are things like the Kernel, Android System, Camera, Wallpaper Lockscreen and Android Core Apps. That's everything that goes 1% or higher. Everything is under 10%.
And, surprisingly, wake times aren't that high. Typically, screen on time is about equal to the awake time, so all seems well on that end.
I think removing and re-installing apps that were using excessive amounts of energy has probably done the trick, though.
What tuner app do you use?
You might just try running Intellidemand with no underclocking and see how that works for you.
The problem with underclocking is, if you don't give an app enough juice it will take longer to complete a task and the cpu will run longer.
Look closely at your deep sleep times. I barely lose any battery overnight bc I run Wheatley underclocked to 1242 for screen off only.
Glad removing the apps helped some, those buggers.
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I think I'm in a better area now.
I'm using setCPU (always has been reliable for me in the past). I'm running 385-1512 with dancedance and noop. I think this is where I need to be. It's kind I'd feeling like it used to again.
I'm going to try Funky 2.3 now.
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Screen On time is not that great for 8 pct battery left. But it could have been bc you were listening to music for part of that time. Otherwise your screen shot looks normal, good total life.
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I'm getting pretty crazy battery reports using the newest funky kernel for cm10. I could have the phone off charger for hours and it still reports 100% battery. Granted I wasn't using the phone that much, if at all,but to still see 100% battery after that long even idling is weird. Using dancrdance governer with deadline scheduler. It doesn't take much tho to get my battery draining. After about 4-6 hours of use (playing music, games, looking on forums and such) I'm down to about 25% or less. Any suggestions?
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Oooooh, yes. I listen to a lot of music during the day. That day, though, was while listening to less than usual. My deal is going screen on and watching the battery drain 2-4 percent in a 2-5 minute time frame. I understand that the screen is heavy on the battery, but it's never really been like this before. I'm sure I'll have this figured out sometime soon.
What kernel are you on? You might look into undervolting. For example, funky kernel is undervolted by 50 by default. Ermahgerd isn't undervolted by default but supports it. You can safely go down as many as 75-100 without stability issues. It does dramatically reduce battery drain.
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I'm using the Tonked world edition with the kernel that came with it and I get great battery life. About 34 hours with 6+ hours of talk time and just under 4 hours of screen time with Bluetooth wifi and mobile data (4g turned off) always on. And almost 3 days with light use. Does help to have the HTC extended battery.
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I'm using the Tonked world edition with the kernel that came with it and I get great battery life.
Does help to have the HTC extended battery.
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It's been a while since I last used 3.6, but why not. And yeah, I bet it does. They're just getting harder to find and more expensive.
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I'm on funky 2.3. I understand that underclocking can help a lot, though.
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What do you guys think about this battery stat pic? Is this good? I've been running Bluetooth while streaming Pandora almost non stop at work. Stats are from about 11:30am to now, at 4:15pm here. Phone on time is different because I was also messing with settings that required me to reboot a few times.
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I am quoting Neo, but here are extreme settings for maximum battery life.
A little something I suggested to someone earlier on the fly:
*Don't use auto brightness and keep your screen brightness low but not too low that causes you to strain.
*Undervolt all frequencies by -50mv using kernel tuner.
*Underclock the rom to 1,080mhz
*Change I/O scheduler to noop
*Change governor to Lionheart (if you have it) or DanceDance.
*Disable all haptic feedback including soft keys and keyboard
*Disable data or account sync overnight (unless you plug your phone into a charger over night)
*Enable 16-bit transparency
*Disable dithering
*Disable HW overlays
*Disable all animations
*Ensure GPS, WiFi, and Bluetooth are turned off when not in use
*Use WiFi where available instead of 4G
*Disable weather refreshing and leave it to manual refresh
*Disable wallpaper scrolling and animations if possible in the launcher
That's all I can think of at the moment.
-Neo
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Again, all the credit goes to Neo here, I have used these settings and they seem to help quite a bit
Since you have tested these settings provided by Neo, what is your battery life like? Better then what I have shown above?
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Drop your screen off profiles. They will hurt more than help. I already have max screen off cpu clock in place set to 432mhz.
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OK. My wife phone is really crazy draining battery like it's crack. Soo would like to know anyone using this. What's your set up. Should I do load on bootup etc? Scaling set to? When screen off so forth. She's on SC 2.9.2 with jt kernel lastest one. Thx for the help guys.
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Interactive. Ondemand. Conservative. Performance. Pretty much self explanatory right? Does anyone have a nice guide for fascinate? Maybe. I set up 400mhz on sleep and.it would power on after putting on lock.
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I'm not having battery issues and I'm running just the 2.2 leak with JT's 327-2 kernel. Just set CPU to conservative and maybe drop it down to 800 mhz. I spent the majority of my day today talking on my phone and playing cordy and I was at 50%.
You can give this a shot it could just be giving weird info on the battery level. while the phone is on, charge the battery to 100% full. Turn off phone plug it in and charge to 100% again. Boot phone into CWR and clear the battery stats. Start phone like normal.
Hope that helps.
Install spare parts and use the Battery History feature and check for a wakelock. Thats the prime reason why a phone will drain like crazy.
To check for a wake lock Spare Parts> Battery History >And look to see how long it's running. If it's a really high % and the screen has been off you have a wake lock.
To find out what's causing the wakelock click "other usage" and choose "partial wake usage".
If it's Android system it's probably the GPS doing it. So turn off the GPS unless you're using it.
Cool ill check those out.
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So setcpu useless then? Or does it even make a little difference with the battery? On sleep at least?
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I find the phone to do a good job of managing itself but I also haven't played with setcpu alot. A sleep profile probably wouldn't hurt things... but someone else is probably better suited to answering your question.
The only thing I'm using it for now is for a temperature profile to act as a failsafe if the phone/battery start gettting too hot.
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I find the phone to do a good job of managing itself but I also haven't played with setcpu alot. A sleep profile probably wouldn't hurt things... but someone else is probably better suited to answering your question.
The only thing I'm using it for now is for a temperature profile to act as a failsafe if the phone/battery start gettting too hot.
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Thx for the info. I'm running into screen freeze with setting up sleep profile... Grrrrr.
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Thx for the info. I'm running into screen freeze with setting up sleep profile... Grrrrr.
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Just speed up the minimum mhz for the profile. I believe 400 would be okay, try it.
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Just speed up the minimum mhz for the profile. I believe 400 would be okay, try it.
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No luck..... Freezes
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Freezes only on conservative. But ondemand works great
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So setcpu useless then? Or does it even make a little difference with the battery? On sleep at least?
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SetCPU may help with battery life however you are better off with JuiceDefender in my opinion. This will automatically turn off items not needed when phone screen is off.
If battery draining is your real problem, this thread may also help:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=987529
Set CPU isn't really fully compatible with the fascinate. The author says use a certain profile but it doesn't help much. When i used set CPU, my phone would go to sleep endlessly and I wasn't able to turn the screen on. This is because there was a bug causing it to go down to 19.2Mhz even though I set it at around 400. I had to pull the battery to solve this.
I have found that running Setcpu freezes mine up anytime it goes into sleep mode not matter what speed it is set at. The only way I was able to fix this was by removing the app, reflashing the kernel, and reinstalling it.
Have you tried to charge to 100% with the phone off, boot into recovery, and clear the battery stats? Run the battery to death before charging and you will have improved battery life.
Ill try to do all those advices guys. Thx for the info.
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Run the battery to death before charging and you will have improved battery life.
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Do NOT run the battery to "death". This actually is bad for the battery. Every time you do this you will kill cells that will never come back giving you less life per charge of the battery.
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Do NOT run the battery to "death". This actually is bad for the battery. Every time you do this you will kill cells that will never come back giving you less life per charge of the battery.
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You are right.
I meant run it super low, it may even display 0. This allows for better calibration of the battery.
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Set CPU isn't really fully compatible with the fascinate. The author says use a certain profile but it doesn't help much. When i used set CPU, my phone would go to sleep endlessly and I wasn't able to turn the screen on. This is because there was a bug causing it to go down to 19.2Mhz even though I set it at around 400. I had to pull the battery to solve this.
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The profiles definitely do not work on the SF. The app doesn't really get along well with any of the Galaxy S phones. I run mine at 800 max, 100 min and on conservative. It brings it down to around 100 mhz when sleeping, and back up to 400 or 800 when using it. Don't enable any profiles, as it will cause your phone to freeze when the screen goes off.
There are two things you can use SetCPU to change/edit that I have found won't cause problems. You can change the min/max clock speed the phone will run at and you can change the cpu governor. I had issues with Set on Boot enabled, though Profiles are the biggest issue. The info tab is also useful for looking at information about the kernel and system.
I just installed the new Rom TRIGGER 3.3-beta. This rom is very fast and the GPS is great. I also put on bali 1.8.4. But the battery drains fast. If you guys tried it out, and found a way to save battery can you please let tell us what you did to control it. I know its in beta version and is being tweaked on.
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Yea Im using the same Rom. Hate to break it to you but the battery life on most all android devices sucks. I have had 5 different android devices and the battery sucked on all of them. didn't matter if it was stock or custom Rom. ether way these devices just have ****ty battery life. You can make it a little better by turning down brightness and messing with other settings but when it comes down to it. it still sucks! Just my 2 cents!
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I just installed the new Rom TRIGGER 3.3-beta. This rom is very fast and the GPS is great. I also put on bali 1.8.4. But the battery drains fast. If you guys tried it out, and found a way to save battery can you please let tell us what you did to control it. I know its in beta version and is being tweaked on.
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Did you recondition your battery after flashing? I've had pretty good battery performance with the Bali kernels. I also tend to use the KB1 modem. It seems to give me the best battery. But each phone is a bit individualistic, and what works well for someone may not work as well for next person.
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Yea Im using the same Rom. Hate to break it to you but the battery life on most all android devices sucks. I have had 5 different android devices and the battery sucked on all of them. didn't matter if it was stock or custom Rom. ether way these devices just have ****ty battery life. You can make it a little better by turning down brightness and messing with other settings but when it comes down to it. it still sucks! Just my 2 cents!
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This is untrue as I have owned an android device since the G1. The battery did suck on the G1, but by no means does the battery suck on every android device. My guess is you probably never calibrated your battery or you just used it very heavily. There's also the possibility that every rom you tried sucked on those devices. I have consistently gotten a full day or more with Bionix NextGen V2 with the Bali kernel with moderate to heavy usage. It is true if you lower the brightness,turn off wifi,bluetooth and gps when you aren't using it that it will increase your battery life though.
I have reconfigured the battery and have the brightness turned all the way down. Dont use WiFi but battery still sucks compared to other smart phones.
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can any of you post a screenie of this rom pls
Battery usage is hard to compare since there are so many variables. In my experience I generally have better battery life when visiting my parents. The area I live in is somewhat of a black hole for signal and I notice more battery drain here with the same rom/kernal setup and similar usage pattern. I believe the weak signal here causes a higher battery drain over all.
Of course this might not apply to your situation but it could be worth considering.
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I have reconfigured the battery and have the brightness turned all the way down. Dont use WiFi but battery still sucks compared to other smart phones.
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Do you remember to put it on the charger when you go memes
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I have reconfigured the battery and have the brightness turned all the way down. Dont use WiFi but battery still sucks compared to other smart phones.
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I'm not going to argue with you, I'm just going to state what the facts are.
THE BATTERY DOES NOT SUCK, MOST LIKELY IS USER ERROR
Lol. It isn't user error. I think you might just use your phone more heavily than others. One thing you have to realize when comparing the battery life of the phones are a) battery size, b) screen size, c) smartphone or stone age phone, d)**** you've done to the phone including ROM's/Kernals/Apps/Sync.
Personally, on days that I am working, I get about 8-10 hours out of my battery before it dies. When I am not at work I get about 23 hours out of my battery.
what is the major difference between trigger 3.2 and trigger 3.3?
Try using overstock instead, I've had pretty good battery life with it.
Im running trigger3.3 beta with overstock and the battery is great.
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so any new tricks that you guys have found to boost up this rom?
might try this later, i could say the battery on my vibrant is better then the iphone and ive gone through all versions of the iphone.
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Yea Im using the same Rom. Hate to break it to you but the battery life on most all android devices sucks. I have had 5 different android devices and the battery sucked on all of them. didn't matter if it was stock or custom Rom. ether way these devices just have ****ty battery life. You can make it a little better by turning down brightness and messing with other settings but when it comes down to it. it still sucks! Just my 2 cents!
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bahaha you must be kidding. like someone else said, it depends on soooo many variables and phones. I was running trigger rom and overstock kernel and was going down about 1-2% battery every hour while screen was off. I listen to pandora every morning for an hour to hour and half and would go down 5%. I've sat on the web watching tv on TV shows stream app for about 1-2 hours and went down like 15-20% when brightness is lowered.
It's all about the brightness, killing apps that enjoy sucking battery life and enjoy run constantly, and running an OC/UV kernel. You can also change it from the usual 3g/H connection down to E (edge) which uses alot less power also. Turn off or turn down auto sync on certain apps like facebook from every 10 minutes down to every few hours.
The screen is the biggest power consumer, so lower that, set it to automatic or all the way down to lowest brightness to save quite a bit of battery when using the phone.
Usually the second largest power consumer (if ur not a huge user of just one certain app) is when the screen is off and the phone is syncing and just running android. the solution is If you can find a decent UV kernel (overstock for android 2.2 was what I was using when on 2.2), you can slow your CPU down. Like on my vibrant I made a profile (on the SetCPU app) to undervolt it from 1,000mhz down to a conservative 400mhz max and 100mhz minimum when screen is off. This is very easy to do. sometimes I'd watch shows on that. I usually left it at a conservative setting and 800mhz and 100mhz min all day long when screen was on, sometimes at 400mhz if i wasnt doing much. It worked wonderfully for me.
Moral of the story, there are plenty of things to make your phones battery last longer than it normally would. The big one probably to get a well known kernel that can UV, then get SetCPU and make a few profiles to make your phone use less power.
BOOM!
I've seen a lot of users' postings of battery statistics (screen shots) and they are all considerably better than what I am getting. The biggest difference I see is in the amount of battery drain from "Android System." What I see posted is between 9% and 13%. However, my batt stats show the Android System draining 60% of the battery.
So, what am I doing wrong? I'm still kind of new to Android. Is it the widgets? I've checked running processes verses what apps are draining battery life and nothing is running that drains like the system does.
Further info: I am currently running the 7.18.12 build of Diet ICS, but I was seeing this behavior on stock as well. Some widgets I use: Astrid premium tasks widget, Evernote, doubletwist, slacker, 3D clock/weather, a widgetsoid switcher, and APW Calendar.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
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How much screen on time over how long and what kind of use?
60% is high but there's known bugs in android OS reporting.
I'm asking because you we're saying your new. It takes a lot of power to power this 4.8 screen
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I've seen a lot of users' postings of battery statistics (screen shots) and they are all considerably better than what I am getting. The biggest difference I see is in the amount of battery drain from "Android System." What I see posted is between 9% and 13%. However, my batt stats show the Android System draining 60% of the battery.
So, what am I doing wrong? I'm still kind of new to Android. Is it the widgets? I've checked running processes verses what apps are draining battery life and nothing is running that drains like the system does.
Further info: I am currently running the 7.18.12 build of Diet ICS, but I was seeing this behavior on stock as well. Some widgets I use: Astrid premium tasks widget, Evernote, doubletwist, slacker, 3D clock/weather, a widgetsoid switcher, and APW Calendar.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
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How often do your widgets that gather info refresh? Try scaling down on some widgets and see if that helps. If not, try to flash stock with odin and start over. I was having some problems with my phone when I first got it (MTP specifically) and I falshed stock and everything started working fine. Also, if you are using Google Chrome, make sure you have the experimental feature of using the gyroscope for tilt scrolling set to off....it is known to drain battery.
Hope this helps :good:
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How often do your widgets that gather info refresh? Try scaling down on some widgets and see if that helps. If not, try to flash stock with odin and start over. I was having some problems with my phone when I first got it (MTP specifically) and I falshed stock and everything started working fine. Also, if you are using Google Chrome, make sure you have the experimental feature of using the gyroscope for tilt scrolling set to off....it is known to drain battery.
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Maybe I will try flashing stock if I have time today. I reset my battery stats in recovery mode when I took the phone off the charger this morning, so we'll see how today goes.
I looked into the widgets and the only one that refreshes data on a schedule is the clock/weather. I'll try a different one or just not use the weather.
Great tip about Chrome. Didn't know it did that.
Do I actually need to calibrate the battery? I tried the method of letting it die and charge back up a few times and I've tried recharging once it gets down between 70-80 percents life. I'm not sure which method helped, but I did notice an improvement.
Thanks again for the help.
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How much screen on time over how long and what kind of use?
60% is high but there's known bugs in android OS reporting.
I'm asking because you we're saying your new. It takes a lot of power to power this 4.8 screen
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Not sure how to know how long the screen was on. Is there a way to know that? If I had to guess I'd say 4 hours. I use the Smart Stay option as well. I wonder if wiping the stats will give me more valid data.
Thank you for the help.
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Not sure how to know how long the screen was on. Is there a way to know that? If I had to guess I'd say 4 hours. I use the Smart Stay option as well. I wonder if wiping the stats will give me more valid data.
Thank you for the help.
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settings>battery>click on the gray use bar & you can see screen on time.
It is because you are running touchjizz. Cm and aokp are the best :highfive:
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I have my display off auto-brightness and on a low setting, I probably utilize the task manager 50x a day and clear the ram as well, cpu sleeper is always activated, gps/sync/auto-rotate/wifi/bluetooth is always off unless I need them, and I have power saving mode on most of the time.
With all these settings off and I am a heavy texter/caller/browser/emailer, my battery lasts from 7AM-1AM and I am at 30-40% at the end of the day!
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I have my display off auto-brightness and on a low setting, I probably utilize the task manager 50x a day and clear the ram as well, cpu sleeper is always activated, gps/sync/auto-rotate/wifi/bluetooth is always off unless I need them, and I have power saving mode on most of the time.
With all these settings off and I am a heavy texter/caller/browser/emailer, my battery lasts from 7AM-1AM and I am at 30-40% at the end of the day!
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Great advice. Thanks. What do you use for "cpu sleeper"?
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I have my display off auto-brightness and on a low setting, I probably utilize the task manager 50x a day and clear the ram as well, cpu sleeper is always activated, gps/sync/auto-rotate/wifi/bluetooth is always off unless I need them, and I have power saving mode on most of the time.
With all these settings off and I am a heavy texter/caller/browser/emailer, my battery lasts from 7AM-1AM and I am at 30-40% at the end of the day!
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Never mind! Just searched" CPU sleeper" on the Play store and--voila!
On another note, I'm so glad I got a device with a huge support community. Coming from iOS, it's nice to feel part of a collective effort again and get such great advice. I know there are a lot of iOS forums and there is some great work done through those communities, but those seem so trivial compared to what is done through XDA and the level of helpfulness is unparalleled here.
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Great advice. Thanks. What do you use for "cpu sleeper"?
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Do I actually need to calibrate the battery? I tried the method of letting it die and charge back up a few times and I've tried recharging once it gets down between 70-80 percents life. I'm not sure which method helped, but I did notice an improvement.
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I read somewhere in the forum that these batteries actually like to be constantly charged up and not let die completely. There was no explanation for this but I will research it because I am curious. With my old Captivate, i let it die then fully charge to extend the overall life of the battery.
How is your battery so far?
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I read somewhere in the forum that these batteries actually like to be constantly charged up and not let die completely. There was no explanation for this but I will research it because I am curious. With my old Captivate, i let it die then fully charge to extend the overall life of the battery.
How is your battery so far?
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I've applied all the tricks folks have shared here and have flashed the Diet ICS rom. I am going to take screen shots of my usage data on a daily basis and see how things fair. I'll post my results here. Here is one from last night before really getting into all the tricks and the new rom. So, maybe this is my "before" shot in this documentary of a noob's journey to better battery life.
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I've seen a lot of users' postings of battery statistics (screen shots) and they are all considerably better than what I am getting. The biggest difference I see is in the amount of battery drain from "Android System." What I see posted is between 9% and 13%. However, my batt stats show the Android System draining 60% of the battery.
So, what am I doing wrong? I'm still kind of new to Android. Is it the widgets? I've checked running processes verses what apps are draining battery life and nothing is running that drains like the system does.
Further info: I am currently running the 7.18.12 build of Diet ICS, but I was seeing this behavior on stock as well. Some widgets I use: Astrid premium tasks widget, Evernote, doubletwist, slacker, 3D clock/weather, a widgetsoid switcher, and APW Calendar.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
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Have you tried using the CPU Sleeper app?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1745516
I found that it does a great job of preserving battery life when the phone is in standby. I used to notice my battery draining really fast over short periods on standby (phone would be hot to the touch). After installing this, I have not encountered that problem again. I get 16-20 hours of use on moderate usage. LTE, gps, and sync are always enabled. I DO NOT have the phone in power saving mode and I seldom use wifi. I used to get 10-12 hours of battery life on the same usage before. I am running the rooted version of the stock rom from my carrier.
CPU sleeper app works great for me. I am in a non LTE area but get incredible battery life, last all day usually with around 50% left. An order of magnitude better than my SGS2
jauwad.arshad said:
Have you tried using the CPU Sleeper app?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1745516
I found that it does a great job of preserving battery life when the phone is in standby. I used to notice my battery draining really fast over short periods on standby (phone would be hot to the touch). After installing this, I have not encountered that problem again. I get 16-20 hours of use on moderate usage. LTE, gps, and sync are always enabled. I DO NOT have the phone in power saving mode and I seldom use wifi. I used to get 10-12 hours of battery life on the same usage before. I am running the rooted version of the stock rom from my carrier.
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CPU sleeper app works great for me. I am in a non LTE area but get incredible battery life, last all day usually with around 50% left. An order of magnitude better than my SGS2
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I am using CPU Sleeper now, thanks to the advice of a previous poster on page 1. Good to hear it works for others.
I had the SGS2 as well and the S3 is definitely better.
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Hi all,
I also notice this and this were the steps that I did and seems to help me to reduce this process to like 5 %. I'm on Sprint S3 but should be the same for the all carriers.
Go ahead and open Talk application. You should see your account in green (I'm not using this application) then hit the menu and then select sigh Off. Make sure that your account changes to Offline (sometimes it is change back it self so open one more time make sure that it says Offline). Then what else I change is in wi-fi advanced options: under Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep I choose Only when plugged in option. then I reboot the phone and from now on (almost 2 days) my Android system process show up only 5% of usage and my battery life improve significantly. I hope this will helps.
Thanks
Those are great tips. Thanks. I will say I've gotten increasingly better life since employing other tips discussed here.
Something else I did was download a profile changing app. I got Quick Profiles, but anything should do. If anyone uses anything better, please share. I have a profile for power saving that turns down my brightness, and turns off wifi and Bluetooth. The app will let you put shortcuts on the home screen to instantly change the profile. I'd like to find one, however, that will also turn off gps and mobile data.
I decided to make a thread to see what kind of battery life and performance people are getting with their devices. Please include what build you're on, the kernel you're using, any special apps you're using, and any comments you have about your setup.
Guess I'll start..
Build: The Base 0.7.3 (4.0.4)
Kernel: sk8's 2.2 ICS kernel
Apps: Android Tuner Pro and SetCPU
I use Android Tuner for voltage control and governor settings. SetCPU is used for profiles to adjust the CPU frequencies for different apps. As well as a lot of tweaks I've applied. Forgot to take a screenshot before I charged my phone, but I'm able to push 36hours with about 6 hours of screen on time.
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Pure stock rooted, locked bootloader, frozen bloatware. 18000+ on average Antutu, over 7000 Quadrant average. Battery goes from 12 hours to 27 hours, my two broadest 'average' ranges. 12 had moderate use, 27 had light use, data off, power saver on.
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Make sure you also post your screen on time like the OP. Your ROM, kernel, tweaks, etc are important, but screen on time is the closest we can get to a constant variable.
On 12 hours, screen on was about 3 hours. 27 it was about 45 minutes. I've deleted the screenshots though.
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Great, Nice work
On ginsix v1.5. Only sync I have is my Google account and gps always on. Brightness set to 60%. I usually get 4 hours of on screen time and up to 30 hours depending on use.
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I am running rooted Stock ROM/Kernel (waiting for official JB update) with unlocked bootloader. I have been recieving terrible battery life though! I've tried calibrating it and still had issues. Besides that, I get like -5% every 7 minutes of low-mild screen on use even with Eco, Powersave, and underclocked at 384 MHz all enabled. About -10% every hour with the screen off. :/ I'm going to go ahead and factory reset/wipe and restore my apps. Hopefully this will solve my jacked up battery.
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I think the battery has improved just a tiny bit after factory resetting. It not exactly satisfactory (about -9% every hour with screen off), but I think that might be normal for smartphones, right?? Under battery stats, it shows "Android OS" as using over 40% of the battery. I don't think that's normal.
SeekerofLight.iz said:
I am running rooted Stock ROM/Kernel (waiting for official JB update) with unlocked bootloader. I have been recieving terrible battery life though! I've tried calibrating it and still had issues. Besides that, I get like -5% every 7 minutes of low-mild screen on use even with Eco, Powersave, and underclocked at 384 MHz all enabled. About -10% every hour with the screen off. :/ I'm going to go ahead and factory reset/wipe and restore my apps. Hopefully this will solve my jacked up battery.
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I think the battery has improved just a tiny bit after factory resetting. It not exactly satisfactory (about -9% every hour with screen off), but I think that might be normal for smartphones, right?? Under battery stats, it shows "Android OS" as using over 40% of the battery. I don't think that's normal.
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o_o
My AndroidOS is also higher than 40% but I only lose 1-2% per hour with the screen off. Have you tried FD toggle?
SeekerofLight.iz said:
I am running rooted Stock ROM/Kernel (waiting for official JB update) with unlocked bootloader. I have been recieving terrible battery life though! I've tried calibrating it and still had issues. Besides that, I get like -5% every 7 minutes of low-mild screen on use even with Eco, Powersave, and underclocked at 384 MHz all enabled. About -10% every hour with the screen off. :/ I'm going to go ahead and factory reset/wipe and restore my apps. Hopefully this will solve my jacked up battery.
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I think the battery has improved just a tiny bit after factory resetting. It not exactly satisfactory (about -9% every hour with screen off), but I think that might be normal for smartphones, right?? Under battery stats, it shows "Android OS" as using over 40% of the battery. I don't think that's normal.
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That's the main reason why I use The Base. On top of being speedy, there a "fix" option for fast dormancy which helped me tremendously seeing as I rarely use LTE. It's like.. It disables it when not in use, but enables it when needed.
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So what is defined as "On Screen time"? I charged my phone all night and this morning unplugged the phone and turned on my screen and told it to not go turn off ever. I was hoping to test out the heating issue, as the previous version would start to get hot after half an hour of screen time. I left it sitting on my desk all day and after about 7 hours it ran down to 15 percent but when i look at "on screen time" it shows only about 5 hours (it should be at 7 hours as i started this when i got to work 7 hours ago...). I literaly just left my phone on and didn't interact with it at all, all day. Seems a whole lot better to me than the phone i got this as a replacement for. But was just wondering what is calculated for on screen time.
BTW: This is stock phone, just pulled out of the factory box. Not rooted, not unlocked, don't even have any accounts tied to it or moved any icons around.
It's best to track battery life/screen on time with every day use. Or for those that are heavy users, with games and such. Just leaving my phone on idle with screen on I can get about 11 hours as all my cores but 1 go offline while one remains at 384MHz.
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I'm completely stock after using LGNPST after soft bricks and my battery life is like 6 hours for a 8 hour shift at the job
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I was having crap battery life on the stock Rom only unlocked by freegee. Now on the Canadian jelly and life is good again.
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After six hours my batter is at 87%.. this is much better than the five percent per hour I was getting before flashing jb. It was already doing well as far as I'm concerned... in line with my galaxy nexus using an extended battery... very happy
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I'm on slick ROM, screen at 63% brightness, constantly use my phone for gaming , fb, and browsing the internet and I usually get at least 10 hours of use before I get to about 15% , I have never had any battery life issues with this phone. I don't talk on it a lot, but constantly text throughout the day. I can let this phone sleep all night and maybe be at most 96% when I wake up as well
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Neroga said:
That's the main reason why I use The Base. On top of being speedy, there a "fix" option for fast dormancy which helped me tremendously seeing as I rarely use LTE. It's like.. It disables it when not in use, but enables it when needed.
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You can do the fast dormancy fix, even on stock ICS. There's a thread, in this section, that's dedicated to it (there's even an app, if you are unsure of doing the code submission that's outlined in the thread). It makes a HUGE difference, in my battery life.
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You can do the fast dormancy fix, even on stock ICS. There's a thread, in this section, that's dedicated to it (there's even an app, if you are unsure of doing the code submission that's outlined in the thread). It makes a HUGE difference, in my battery life.
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It's really easy. My rom has it as well.
Using a Note 2 the last few days. Turned on the OG yesterday to take some pics of it as I 'm trading the note 2 for HTC butterfly. Just noticed this a few minutes ago........
Phone is rooted, stock AT&T rom,
Pretty sweet. This is my favorite phone of all time.
Before anyone jumps all over me, I realize the phone has been in standby for all but 5-10 mins of this time. Still can't believe how little battery it has used on standby.
I hate to tell you maddog, but there's no way that's accurate.
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I hate to tell you maddog, but there's no way that's accurate.
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It does seem to good to be true. I've unplugged it at night before and when getting up 7 hours later noticed it was still at100.
Even thou I agree, this phone has great battery life on stand by.
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so i have been using set cpu with 2265 max, 729 min, interactive, test-iosched. settings....WITH the qualcomm batteryguru app...AFTER the app figured out how i use my phone, which took about 4 days. these are my current battery stats. please note the current time up and the % of battery left. granted i will tell you i have been at work all day and have not used it to call. i have used the camera, txt, my stock trading program, and chrome. but i think its fairly effective.
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so i have been using set cpu with 2265 max, 729 min, interactive, test-iosched. settings....WITH the qualcomm batteryguru app...AFTER the app figured out how i use my phone, which took about 4 days. these are my current battery stats. please note the current time up and the % of battery left. granted i will tell you i have been at work all day and have not used it to call. i have used the camera, txt, my stock trading program, and chrome. but i think its fairly effective.
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what is on screen time?
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what is on screen time?
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Yeah this!
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It is the amount of time the screen was on. Meaning you were looking at an on screen.
Sometimes, certain apps keep your device awake and increase the screen on time.
If you go to "menu > settings > battery", you can view what is using the battery. If you click on "screen on time", it will show you exactly how long the screen has been on.
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Download the app Wakelock Detector from the Play Store.
Open it for the first time right after you unplug your phone
After some deep sleep occurs for awhile, open Wakelock Detector and select the icon in the top right to select "Wakeup Triggers"
This will show you which app waked the device when it was trying to sleep(=screen off) and how many times it waked it. Figuring out Google wakelocks will probably help you the most unless you have some poorly written or rogue app
A good start would be to remove ALL google apps that you don't use, and turn off google ads as well as notifications and scheduled checks within say...Play Store and Youtube and Gmail
I use the Qualcomm Snapdragon Battery Guru, seems to be working great for me. 15 hours with moderate to heavy use and I am at 10%
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I just remove all bloat and anything else I don't use then I use greenify and gsam battery app and my battery will last a long time. As of now i have 17 hours on battery and still have 30%
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GSAM Battery Monitor is also great to see what apps are using more juice. I prefer it over Better Battery Stats but I use both
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Anyone get a TD SERVER app1.0 that drains battery? It's draining about 7% of mine. There's a long list of apps that it says uses it. Wondered if I could freeze it or leave it alone?
I use BetterBatteryStats and Wakelock detector to figure out what apps are eating my battery and then greenify to freeze them when they aren't in use. I've gotten great battery life with that combo on all my phones
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Blitzed26 said:
I use the Qualcomm Snapdragon Battery Guru, seems to be working great for me. 15 hours with moderate to heavy use and I am at 10%
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yeah, sorry for not putting that on screen time in here...it was low...barely used the phone...maybe 2 hours. i just thought this was pretty cool on the S3, while it was a great phone, even if i didnt use the device at all using the same setcpu and battery guru i would get about 15 hours max out of it. i get about the same time as blitzed26 with decent use...about 15-17 hours which i am extremely happy with!