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Good battery application to check battery status? reason i asked is because my i usually charge my phone everynight and it last from 5 am until 11pm when i charged. by 11pm it has around 30% charge.. I installed SetCPU and is not 6pm, and is asking to be charged :O, so i uninstalled setcpu, btw i had it at 1k/1k
battery status shows 50% screen
BatteryLife by Curvefish.
i second the BatteryLife app
All I was looking for was an app to give me a percentage without taking up a lot of space. BatteryIndicator fit that need just fine. It shows a tiny battery icon in the top left corner of the screen with the percentage. Give it a download and see what you think.
BigWorldJust said:
BatteryLife by Curvefish.
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Been using that on all of my android phones, simply awesome. It gets the job done, light weight, and looks good. Check it out in the market, is free.
Inat said:
All I was looking for was an app to give me a percentage without taking up a lot of space. BatteryIndicator fit that need just fine. It shows a tiny battery icon in the top left corner of the screen with the percentage. Give it a download and see what you think.
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I downloaded battery indicator also but its annoying because of the notification in the middle of the night wakes me up to tell me my phone is fully charged. And then you can't even make the notification go away without unplugging the phone. If I keep it plugged in, the screen stays lit all night ....or I unplug it and by morning its lost a lot of its charge. Major flaw I think. I like it during the day but not at night. Anybody know of a similar app that will be in the notification bar up top but is not so annoying?
tacomaguy20 said:
I downloaded battery indicator also but its annoying because of the notification in the middle of the night wakes me up to tell me my phone is fully charged. And then you can't even make the notification go away without unplugging the phone. If I keep it plugged in, the screen stays lit all night ....or I unplug it and by morning its lost a lot of its charge. Major flaw I think. I like it during the day but not at night. Anybody know of a similar app that will be in the notification bar up top but is not so annoying?
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I've never noticed that particular issue so I contacted the author. Here's what he had to say:
Battery Indicator shows that the phone is fully charged in the same way that it shows whatever the battery status is -- there's an ongoing notification in the pull-down notification area from the status bar. It doesn't have a special notification that pops up when the phone becomes fully charged, though, so if [he is] seeing that, it is either another app, or perhaps it's a customization that [his] carrier added to the phone.
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sorry battery indicator just conflicts with the noled program. I'll post about the conflict in that thread. sorry for the confusion.
You might want to give Battery Watcher Widget a try. That's what I finally settled on after trying a dozen or so.
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BigWorldJust said:
BatteryLife by Curvefish.
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Best one out there imho.
tacomaguy20 said:
I downloaded battery indicator also but its annoying because of the notification in the middle of the night wakes me up to tell me my phone is fully charged. And then you can't even make the notification go away without unplugging the phone. If I keep it plugged in, the screen stays lit all night ....or I unplug it and by morning its lost a lot of its charge. Major flaw I think. I like it during the day but not at night. Anybody know of a similar app that will be in the notification bar up top but is not so annoying?
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This is a TouchWiz thing. I dont have any battery apps installed and it has done this since day 1 of getting the phone.
I have battery status and it is a very small clean app that just leaves you a small battery in your top notification bar that tells you the percent.
"Battery widget" can be found in the market...and it works perfectly for me. It shows your battery status by 1% intervals.
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I personally use battery indicator pro, I liked it enough to use the "pro" or donate version. Great lightweight app, only $0.99. Shows percentage in the top status bar and never had an issue with it, you can set custom percentage relevant to the color (green,yellow,red).
I've being trying with a number of apps/widgets lately and have found some of them have a big impact on my power usage. I think we should make a list of these apps/widgets just so ppl are aware of these things.
I'm currently trying 3G watchdog and Time Widget. I felt having them impacted my battery, anyone else having the same issue?
If we could make a list here, that'd be great!
List:
- Advanced Task Killer (this made a HUGE difference to my battery usage).
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I've being trying with a number of apps/widgets lately and have found some of them have a big impact on my power usage. I think we should make a list of these apps/widgets just so ppl are aware of these things.
I'm currently trying 3G watchdog and Time Widget. I felt having them impacted my battery, anyone else having the same issue?
If we could make a list here, that'd be great!
List:
- Advanced Task Killer (this made a HUGE difference to my battery usage).
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Thats a good idea but i find some chew the battery and don't chew the battery on other devices take BATTERY LEFT WIDGET a lot of people use this i did and it drained my battery now its gone I'm OK
But their are some out their that we can list i suppose
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Thats a good idea but i find some chew the battery and don't chew the battery on other devices take BATTERY LEFT WIDGET a lot of people use this i did and it drained my battery now its gone I'm OK
But their are some out their that we can list i suppose
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Use this battery widget, doesn't use hardly any powerhttp://apps.androidtapp.com/#battery-widget/id/com.geekyouup.android.widgets.battery
I found that any task manager i installed used more battery than leaving apps running!!!
Dolphin 2 browser ate 97% of my battery overnight!!!
any decent weather widget not using too much battery?
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'Weather forecast widget'
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.org-koxx-forecast_weather-v2-jipz.aspx
FRING - a good app but drains battery seriously
bitziz said:
I've being trying with a number of apps/widgets lately and have found some of them have a big impact on my power usage. I think we should make a list of these apps/widgets just so ppl are aware of these things.
I'm currently trying 3G watchdog and Time Widget. I felt having them impacted my battery, anyone else having the same issue?
If we could make a list here, that'd be great!
List:
- Advanced Task Killer (this made a HUGE difference to my battery usage).
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In 3G Watchdog you can set the checking frequency of your usage, as default it is set to check every minute, i have changed mine to update to the maximum time @ 1 hour intervals [i think]
A good weather widget to use that doesnt kill the battery is beautiful widgets, well worth the £2 or whatever it costs in the market
If you or anyone else wants to get PHENOMENAL battery life of let's say 15 hours of use and still have 40%-50% battery left on a regular stock battery on the Rezound, just follow these steps:
1. Go to Settings - Power - Power mode Choose "Economy"
2. Back at Power options, Click on "Economy mode setting" I left the setting as "Normal" which means that the only box that was unchecked was "Disable background data"
3. Back at Settings, Click on "Accounts & sync" Uncheck the "Auto-Sync" box, but leave the "Background data" box checked.
4. Using whatever Screen Brightness tool you want to, set the screen brightness to no more than 20%. The only exception to this is if you are out in the sun and really need to see your screen while in the sun (navigation or etc...). Other than that, I never need it to be brighter than 20%.
5. Because of these changes, you will have to manually "Refresh" your email app to check for new mail. Other than that, everything data wise should work as normal.
I always have my 4G LTE and GPS on and ever since I did this, I have been getting RIDICULOUS battery life! This best it has been is when I charged it completely and unplugged it at 10pm and the next day around 1pm I still had 62% battery left. On a normal basis where I take it off the charger at 8am, with normal use (3 hrs of music, 1 or 2 of web surfing and video watching, 1 hour of phone calls, and Google Talk and Google Voice and GMail all day *literally*) I have about 50% battery left at 7pm.
Disclaimer: I have "Bump Charged" my battery before making these changes. However, I never saw this type of battery life until I made the above changes. Also, if you constantly watch video (Youtube or etc..) you will not see quite this performance, but it will still be much better than what you are currently experiencing.
Enjoy
Turn off data and you can get multiple days on battery
Screen Filter
You can also use the app Screen Filter to turn off the bottom row of leds.
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Disclaimer: I have "Bump Charged" my battery before making these changes.
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So you have an extended battery then? If so, might be good to include that info in your post just to be clear. Not that that wouldn't help any battery, but the stats will make more sense and the answers to your poll may be more accurate since people might think their results aren't as good as yours if they're using a regular battery.
I'll change my settings and try it since I don't need instant notification of emails atm. Thanks for the tip.
When I change the power setting to Economy, I lose 4G.
I am eager to try this, but I gotta have my 4G. Any suggestions??
Turn it back to 4g in network settings
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feralicious said:
So you have an extended battery then? If so, might be good to include that info in your post just to be clear. Not that that wouldn't help any battery, but the stats will make more sense and the answers to your poll may be more accurate since people might think their results aren't as good as yours if they're using a regular battery.
I'll change my settings and try it since I don't need instant notification of emails atm. Thanks for the tip.
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You can bump charge the normal battery as well.
So what exactly do the power modes do? Are they just presets for certain settings? or do they control CPU scaling or anything else? I've always just left mine on normal with auto sleep enabled
Edit: I also wonder what affect the "auto start task manager on startup" option does exactly, and if having that on improves battery life, or if it is referring to the task manager in the notification bar quick settings
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dccoh said:
You can also use the app Screen Filter to turn off the bottom row of leds.
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i just downloaded this as app, and it made me fall on love with my phone again lol. The only time i could ever see the light leakage on my phone was at night when reading Tapatalk. Now i can dim the screen and turn of the LEDs with the app. Ugh amazing
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Screen Filter info
platinumrims said:
i just downloaded this as app, and it made me fall on love with my phone again lol. The only time i could ever see the light leakage on my phone was at night when reading Tapatalk. Now i can dim the screen and turn of the LEDs with the app. Ugh amazing
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I used that app for quite sometime on my Incredible when I ran a sense rom (cm7 allowed me to set the buttons leds off on its own).
Fyi though, when screen filter is active, I am unable to install an app. When you go to install an app, and you are on the screen that shows the permissions with the install button on the lower right, I have been unable to click the install button with screen filter running. I just run screen filter again to deactivate it and the install goes fine, then I just run screen filter again to get it running again.
It's a hassle, but a small price to pay to get those led's off if you dont want / need them.
feralicious said:
So you have an extended battery then? If so, might be good to include that info in your post just to be clear. Not that that wouldn't help any battery, but the stats will make more sense and the answers to your poll may be more accurate since people might think their results aren't as good as yours if they're using a regular battery.
I'll change my settings and try it since I don't need instant notification of emails atm. Thanks for the tip.
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I am not using an extended battery. I am using the regular stock battery that came with the phone. This is stated in the first sentence of the original post.
Marine6680 said:
You can bump charge the normal battery as well.
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Correct
smartbusiness2003 said:
I am not using an extended battery. I am using the regular stock battery that came with the phone. This is stated in the first sentence of the original post.
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Oh, I see I missed that in your post, sorry. The thread that explains bump charging makes it sound like it's only for extended batteries so I had that idea in my brain when reading it.
Carry on.
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platinumrims said:
So what exactly do the power modes do? Are they just presets for certain settings? or do they control CPU scaling or anything else? I've always just left mine on normal with auto sleep enabled
Edit: I also wonder what affect the "auto start task manager on startup" option does exactly, and if having that on improves battery life, or if it is referring to the task manager in the notification bar quick settings
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I am curious about this as well... I know the kernel supports multiple governors for CPU scaling.
I am also not sure what the task manager is that it refers to. It might just start the app in the background.
No one know?
I guess not :-(
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Beginning to think the biggest hindrance to good battery life for me is poor signal strength at work in the hospital. Here's a screen shot for me today at home and running around so a combo of wifi and good 4g. Extended battery.
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nrfitchett4 said:
Beginning to think the biggest hindrance to good battery life for me is poor signal strength at work in the hospital. Here's a screen shot for me today at home and running around so a combo of wifi and good 4g. Extended battery.
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Tap the graph and it shows a bar that shows signal strength over time. That would help to figure it out.
I just use the extended battery and have everything set to high performance and can easily get though the day. Good tips though.
nrfitchett4 said:
Beginning to think the biggest hindrance to good battery life for me is poor signal strength at work in the hospital. Here's a screen shot for me today at home and running around so a combo of wifi and good 4g. Extended battery.
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what's that icon with the green circle from? Wondering if it's something cool that I need to put on my phone.
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feralicious said:
what's that icon with the green circle from? Wondering if it's something cool that I need to put on my phone.
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The youmail Icon?
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Does anyone know any current news about this function and battery consumption? Really it consumes more battery? I believe it was something to consume more battery, Sony would report this to enable the option!
It seems negligible. The phone still goes into deep sleep.
hi.im check .do not exceed battery consumption
I don't think this feature consumes a lot of energy. It's a great feature for me, btw. So why disable it? I'd rather use my phone 10 mins less than not using this feature.
Thanks guys for the reply!
I believe if consuming battery, Sony put a warning when activating this option!
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hi.im check .do not exceed battery consumption
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@behroozexe, how did you check?
I'm pretty sure it doesn't use battery either. Still goes into deep sleep for me. But if ever it DOES use battery life, it's probably very minimal anyway.
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@behroozexe, how did you check?
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hi dear. i disable all other app and check at 2 period. first with 2 tap enable and then without 2 tap.
There was no significant change
Well I think it just keeps your digitizer on and uses a negligible amount of power ..but correct me if I am wrong !
In a device from Nokia that I can not remember the model has the same function and activate it the user is informed that this option will consume more battery than normal!
Simple! If you want to use such tech then enable it and take risk (if there's any like battery consumption and such), and if not, DISABLE it, cased closed.
I don't notice any further battery consumption using this feature. 3-4h with 1% battery consumption is really good.
Take it easy, pals! Why are you so serious about battery consumption? Be happy and use it.
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Take it easy, pals! Why are you so serious about battery consumption? Be happy and use it.
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It once raised this doubt in a thread and I had that in mind! I find it strange it consume more battery and Sony always worried about the battery do not put any advise to enable this option!
How do I activate this double tap to wake feature??
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@azeter go to settings - display - tap to wake up.
Just to let you know, I have completely forgotten about this feature and started using it since this Wednesday, after comming across this thread.
I have not noticed any effect on the battery life, not noticable as my usage pattern is quite consistant daily and I could tell...
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Just to let you know, I have completely forgotten about this feature and started using it since this Wednesday, after comming across this thread.
I have not noticed any effect on the battery life, not noticable as my usage pattern is quite consistant daily and I could tell...
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Tks for the info, man
Deep sleep
How do I tell if my phone enters deep sleep?
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How do I tell if my phone enters deep sleep?
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Use this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bvalosek.cpuspy.realgpp
The battery graph can't display on one screen afik. Perhaps someone knows how to shrink the graph so that one does not have to scroll 2-4 screens' worth to see what the battery has done?
Not seeing why this would be needed?
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The battery graph can't display on one screen afik. Perhaps someone knows how to shrink the graph so that one does not have to scroll 2-4 screens' worth to see what the battery has done?
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Other than installing another app which will probably drain battery i don't think maybe when root is available and we can use xposed then maybe there is a module
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Anarchist77 said:
Not seeing why this would be needed?
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Well, as said, don't want to scroll through many screens to see battery graph. Very hard to get a sense of what has been happening to battery with this requirement. EVERY android device I've ever seen has a single screen with the battery graph. Even the G4 used the android standard. Sheesh.
Was hoping someone would say, eg, oh, slide the foozits slider in settings/lg/randombs.
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Well, as said, don't want to scroll through many screens to see battery graph. Very hard to get a sense of what has been happening to battery with this requirement. EVERY android device I've ever seen has a single screen with the battery graph. Even the G4 used the android standard. Sheesh.
Was hoping someone would say, eg, oh, slide the foozits slider in settings/lg/randombs.
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Well, it's really.. to be realistic, inconsequential. Your looking for a saving of literally a few seconds scrolling a screen?