Where is everyone getting that the DNA has bad battery. From my heavy usage I'm getting well over a days worth (20hrs) with moderate usage (1.5 hours calls, 2 hours screen time, 1 hour music and Pandora ) and screen on auto brightness always 4g. I'm stuck unrooted on the OTA and I've disabled a lot of apps so that may be why. This is way better then any stock device I've owned? Granted its not note 2 or razr max numbers but I can tell you working with people that have other Verizon phones in the hospital I work at get far less with just light to moderate usage. Has anyone whose rooted attested to better battery life (bc that's one of my primary reasons to root)?
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in my opinion it is a good battery...screen takes up a bunch of battery...maybe try lowering your brightness when you aren't outside if you want more...auto isn't always perfect.. and a new kernel would probably improve only some battery life because the screen takes the same amount of juice on any kernel and thats a big factor in battery life. a new kernel could solve wake lock issues, extending you batter life when your phone isn't being used. the cpu usage and governor could change improving the battery a bit. the cpu could also get less stress when the kernel is optimized. i'm going to make a guess and say with your usage it won't be a major improvement to battery with new kernel, maybe 1-3 hours? (just a guess)
i'm rooting to get CM 10.1 and a good kernel for s2w and battery/performance improvement... i'd suggest rooting and installing a rom and kernel even if its just another sense rom just for smoothness's sake. stock lags a bit...especially with keyboard.
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in my opinion it is a good battery...screen takes up a bunch of battery...maybe try lowering your brightness when you aren't outside if you want more...auto isn't always perfect.. and a new kernel would probably improve only some battery life because the screen takes the same amount of juice on any kernel and thats a big factor in battery life. a new kernel could solve wake lock issues, extending you batter life when your phone isn't being used. the cpu usage and governor could change improving the battery a bit. the cpu could also get less stress when the kernel is optimized. i'm going to make a guess and say with your usage it won't be a major improvement to battery with new kernel, maybe 1-3 hours? (just a guess)
i'm rooting to get CM 10.1 and a good kernel for s2w and battery/performance improvement... i'd suggest rooting and installing a rom and kernel even if its just another sense rom just for smoothness's sake. stock lags a bit...especially with keyboard.
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Unfortunately I got a DNA shipped with 2.04. But yea, way better life than my gnex or rezound.
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Battery life on my DNA is great. No complaints. I don't see where the complaints come from either. Definitely has better battery life than a 4S or any other phone I've owned previously.
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i think the complains came from some wake locks which basically stopped your phone from going to deep sleep. thus, instead of using 1% over hour of no screen time, it might use something like 3 or 5%...this can drain the battery quickly...you can go to your battery and look at whats taking up battery and it won't say anything like msm_wake_lock_blah_blah...so the whole battery issue seems to have been somewhat resolved? (the wake lock issue has been resolved)
I just got my second line with a DNA two days ago, and after charging it all night on my wireless charger, this is where my battery stats currently sit. I can't complain, I've been using it all day and its done wonderfully. Compared to my Note II it's not there yet in the battery department, but nothing much really is. But for a damn nice smart phone, the DNA is a great choice.
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in my opinion it is a good battery...screen takes up a bunch of battery...maybe try lowering your brightness when you aren't outside if you want more...auto isn't always perfect.. and a new kernel would probably improve only some battery life because the screen takes the same amount of juice on any kernel and thats a big factor in battery life. a new kernel could solve wake lock issues, extending you batter life when your phone isn't being used. the cpu usage and governor could change improving the battery a bit. the cpu could also get less stress when the kernel is optimized. i'm going to make a guess and say with your usage it won't be a major improvement to battery with new kernel, maybe 1-3 hours? (just a guess)
i'm rooting to get CM 10.1 and a good kernel for s2w and battery/performance improvement... i'd suggest rooting and installing a rom and kernel even if its just another sense rom just for smoothness's sake. stock lags a bit...especially with keyboard.
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Cm10 is not yet stable/working enough and that uses its own kernel anyway. Better off with viper 1.13 and custom kernel because 2.04 roms can't have custom kernel s.
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Cm10 is not yet stable/working enough and that uses its own kernel anyway. Better off with viper 1.13 and custom kernel because 2.04 roms can't have custom kernel s.
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i know it isn't stable yet but it will be soonish...i'm looking forward to it. and the kernel that is default with cm 10.1 is fine but we'll see how it works..i hope someone makes variant with s2w
Low usage w power saving On
That looks pretty damn good to me
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I hope on my next phone i don't have to toggle anything to save battery cause there will be enough for a long time... i wish a company understood that there are a lot of people looking for not a thinner phone but one that is powerful and has a long battery...droid razr maxx hd has giant battery but lacks power...dna is powerful but lacks big battery...lets just hope the nexus come back to verizon and all the geeks can be happy haha
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I hope on my next phone i don't have to toggle anything to save battery cause there will be enough for a long time... i wish a company understood that there are a lot of people looking for not a thinner phone but one that is powerful and has a long battery...droid razr maxx hd has giant battery but lacks power...dna is powerful but lacks big battery...lets just hope the nexus come back to verizon and all the geeks can be happy haha
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There is a very small percentage of users who need a battery bigger than what's in the DNA to last them a day. It's easier to sell a phone on how thin it is than on the fact that the battery will last a day and a half.
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There is a very small percentage of users who need a battery bigger than what's in the DNA to last them a day. It's easier to sell a phone on how thin it is than on the fact that the battery will last a day and a half.
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hmm...i see but i mean there is still a big market for a powerful phone with long lasting battery...like a bunch of people i know, like my parents, don't really care much more on having a battery that last them all day cause they are on the phone a lot...like at work and such... i know i'd buy a phone like that... ah well, i'll be fine for now but batteries need to improve... and soon... i think it'll be fine... new phones like S4 has a long lasting battery and the S3, which sold a lot, had a longer battery than the DNA and iPhone...
I was surprised by the DNA's battery for everything all the review people said so the other phones probably have an even better battery...but thank you. good point
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hmm...i see but i mean there is still a big market for a powerful phone with long lasting battery...like a bunch of people i know, like my parents, don't really care much more on having a battery that last them all day cause they are on the phone a lot...like at work and such... i know i'd buy a phone like that... ah well, i'll be fine for now but batteries need to improve... and soon... i think it'll be fine... new phones like S4 has a long lasting battery and the S3, which sold a lot, had a longer battery than the DNA and iPhone...
I was surprised by the DNA's battery for everything all the review people said so the other phones probably have an even better battery...but thank you. good point
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The general consensous is that the DNA has slightly better battery life than the s3. The DNA gets 4-5 hours of screen on time for mist users. And easily lasts a day.
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The general consensous is that the DNA has slightly better battery life than the s3. The DNA gets 4-5 hours of screen on time for mist users. And easily lasts a day.
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better battery? what do you mean? source?
as far as i know the s3 has a better battery life because of the bigger battery compared to small screen. for example, this video http://goo.gl/Gvh6i
Look the DNA will last a full day with heavy use especially for the lucky ****s that got a 1.** device and are rooted. Try that with a GNex
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better battery? what do you mean? source?
as far as i know the s3 has a better battery life because of the bigger battery compared to small screen. for example, this video http://goo.gl/Gvh6i
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Most comparison reviews state that the DNA gets better battery life, and mist posts on here say the same. And yes, the DNA has a marginally smaller battery and bigger screen, but has a far more efficient processor and screen, which saves battery.
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Battery last me from 8-5ish everyday. That's with light to moderate usage. Heavy usage is laughable but I didn't expect much.
Running the m7 custom Rom.
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What is the deal with this phone? The battery life is not very good at all. I came from a phone that had a 1150 battery and this one has 1600! I am getting almost identical battery life as my old phone. I am running a fully debloated rom at stock clocks with the display turned all the way down and can HARDLY make it through an 8 hour work day. I've narrowed it down to the screen.
I remember reading about amoled when it was first announced and they said it would consume significantly less power than any other display technology. I'm starting to second guess this.
Its either the screen or the dual core processor that's draining this decent sized battery so fast.
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I've been getting 12 hours on batter with almost 6 hours screen on time. Heavy usage. Every day. Better than my iPhone 4.
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Amoled does. From what ive beem read ing super amoled plus.is alot better. The darker the better. Slcd is.a.good option for battery mizers though.
I voided my warranty and your mum.
Yes ive also read that the way super amoled plus works, is there is no backlight and individual pixels light up, so its better to have simple wallpapers with mostly black, would probably give you better battery life, as most of the screen will no be using any energy.
All android devices murder their batteries. It's nothing new get over it lol.
This device gets decent battery life considering it's the most powerful option out currently though.
The general masses do not understand how to set these phones up for optimal battery life. There are threads all over XDA on how to do this.
This phone for android is probably the best or near best in its class. I am impressed. Its better than my captivate was. I can get through 15 hour days with heavy use all the time with average of 4 hours screen time and i listen to a lot of music when the screen is off. This phone rocks i dont even see the need for a extended battery
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Every app i use i set on black theme. Wallpaper black. Display all the way down unless IM out side or watching a movie. I get 12hrs plus using gtg's rom.
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I have no idea what you do with your phone or what . But I get more then enough battery with this phone, I do it all text talk surf web forums play and I make it home with enough battery to probably lend you some. Seriously we all know your not going to get iPhone battery life obviously the iPhone it just plain simple. But come on, this type of thread it's getting annoying there's a few already with help and tips on your issue search for them. Maybe you just got high hopes, or maybe it's not the phone it's you. BTW Amoled probably consume less battery but not enough for us power hungry users to see a different.
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I don't think is the screen alone itself but the dual-core running at 1.2Ghz might eat more battery than your old phone with an smaller battery
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What is the deal with this phone? The battery life is not very good at all. I came from a phone that had a 1150 battery and this one has 1600! I am getting almost identical battery life as my old phone. I am running a fully debloated rom at stock clocks with the display turned all the way down and can HARDLY make it through an 8 hour work day. I've narrowed it down to the screen.
I remember reading about amoled when it was first announced and they said it would consume significantly less power than any other display technology. I'm starting to second guess this.
Its either the screen or the dual core processor that's draining this decent sized battery so fast.
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You might want to install CPUSpy and BetterBatteryStats (BBS) so you can better diagnose where your battery issues are coming from. 8 hours seems very poor for this device. Use CPUSpy to see how much your device is running in deep sleep - with light usage I usually see around 80% deep sleep. You can use BBS to look for apps causing excessive wakelocks (BBS is available here on xda) to see if a particular app is causing the problem.
Unless you have a hardware problem, I don't think the display is your problem - the display on this device has a smaller percentage hit on battery use than my 3.2" LCD Aria.
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I've been getting 12 hours on batter with almost 6 hours screen on time. Heavy usage. Every day. Better than my iPhone 4.
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I'm lucky to see 3 hours of screen on time with MODERATE. Usage.
You are either lying or my phone needs to be warrantied.
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This phone for android is probably the best or near best in its class. I am impressed. Its better than my captivate was. I can get through 15 hour days with heavy use all the time with average of 4 hours screen time and i listen to a lot of music when the screen is off. This phone rocks i dont even see the need for a extended battery
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Again since I am unable to recreate these results I'm gonna have to go with my phone is defective.
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Again since I am unable to recreate these results I'm gonna have to go with my phone is defective.
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Yet you've completely ignored people who have told you to get CPUSpy and BetterBatteryStats to figure out what's keeping your phone awake.
Most likely your phone is not defective, but you've installed an app that's hogging the battery or set up a configuration option that kills it, such as:
Hotmail calendar sync is known to cause massive battery drain due to a Hotmail server side bug
Some Exchange servers are misconfigured and cause major battery drain
Skype is a battery-hogging nightmare. If you absolutely have to use Skype, make sure to take it out with a task killer when you're done with it.
I haven't really pushed my device with screen-on time, however what are your idle battery drain statistics? If you have drain more than 2-3% per hour when the phone is idle (such as overnight), something is very wrong. You should be getting drain on the order of 1% an hour if you leave the phone overnight in moderate signal.
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Yet you've completely ignored people who have told you to get CPUSpy and BetterBatteryStats to figure out what's keeping your phone awake.
Most likely your phone is not defective, but you've installed an app that's hogging the battery or set up a configuration option that kills it, such as:
Hotmail calendar sync is known to cause massive battery drain due to a Hotmail server side bug
Some Exchange servers are misconfigured and cause major battery drain
Skype is a battery-hogging nightmare. If you absolutely have to use Skype, make sure to take it out with a task killer when you're done with it.
I haven't really pushed my device with screen-on time, however what are your idle battery drain statistics? If you have drain more than 2-3% per hour when the phone is idle (such as overnight), something is very wrong. You should be getting drain on the order of 1% an hour if you leave the phone overnight in moderate signal.
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I havent ignored anyone. You assume that because I haven't responded to such comments that I haven't tried them. I frequently use cpuspy to make sure my phone is sleeping and I use bbs as well.
I'll leave the phone off the charger overnight to check it out though.
This still doesn't change the fact that HEAVY useage at 5+ hours of screen on time is absurd.
I am also planning to experiment with airplane mode and using only wifi tomorrow.
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I havent ignored anyone. You assume that because I haven't responded to such comments that I haven't tried them. I frequently use cpuspy to make sure my phone is sleeping and I use bbs as well.
I'll leave the phone off the charger overnight to check it out though.
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Make sure to do the following to get the most accurate data:
Top off to 100% (to the point you get the full-charged notification)
Remove from charger
Reset timers in CPUspy
Put phone down and go to bed
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I havent ignored anyone. You assume that because I haven't responded to such comments that I haven't tried them. I frequently use cpuspy to make sure my phone is sleeping and I use bbs as well.
I'll leave the phone off the charger overnight to check it out though.
This still doesn't change the fact that HEAVY useage at 5+ hours of screen on time is absurd.
I am also planning to experiment with airplane mode and using only wifi tomorrow.
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I'm not sure why you say 5 hour screen on time with heavy usage is absurd? Are you thinking that isn't possible with this device?
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This phone for android is probably the best or near best in its class. I am impressed. Its better than my captivate was. I can get through 15 hour days with heavy use all the time with average of 4 hours screen time and i listen to a lot of music when the screen is off. This phone rocks i dont even see the need for a extended battery
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+me, amazing battery life w/the SGS2
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I'm lucky to see 3 hours of screen on time with MODERATE. Usage.
You are either lying or my phone needs to be warrantied.
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You can still exchange with a new one under 14 days or 30 days. 6 hours with screen on is not absurd on this phone in 12 hours. I have been with screen on with 2:45 hrs and voice with 45 min in 1 day and 8hrs with still 15+ % battery juice left.
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IIRC, one of the review or comparison against iPhone4S benchmarked GS2 as 5 to 6 hours of internet browsing which means both screen on and using data. Wi-fi gives it a slightly longer battery life than cell data. Unfortunately, it didn't benchmark video playback time. iPhone4S spec says 8 hours of video. I hope GS2 is close to that. This is play video from local storage, not streaming. So, the data connection battery draw is out of picture. I managed to get 4+ hours of video playback with flight mode on with my old Captivate. Hopefully, GS2 will last longer, e.g. survive a coast to coast flight while still have some juice left for navigation.
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I'm lucky to see 3 hours of screen on time with MODERATE. Usage.
You are either lying or my phone needs to be warrantied.
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He's not lying. I have seen 5 hours of screen on time and still had a little juice left at the end of 16 hour days. And it wasn't a one time deal. Seen it several times, though I usually don't use my phone that heavily. Yesterday I barely used my phone at all and was only down to like 85% after 16 hours.
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Been debating for a month or so whether i should buy the SGS2 with a contract for free, or import the Galaxy nexus and sell whatever phone i can make the most profit on to offset the price of the Nexus.
Well i finally decided that the SGS2 would be a better choice, and was also cheaper, so i bought it about a week ago.
I love the phone except for these two huge deal breakers:
the first is battery life when im on a AOSP rom.
Im on CM7 KANG from 11-29. Battery life is pretty awful. When im home its decent about 3% standby drain per hour. I was at school where the service isnt that great and this is what happened:
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I dont see how anyone is getting decent battery life from this ROM.
Personally, one of my favorite things about android is being able to run different kinds of roms, particularly CM and MIUI. I really feel that if thats what you like then this is the wrong phone for it.
I have no doubt that i wouldnt be having these issues with a nexus phone. So im starting to come to the conclusion that maybe i should sell it, and import the SGS2, or try to get the nexus S for cheap, and then wait until the price drops a bit.
Do whatever you feel is right for you.
It took me about a week to identify and tune my gs2. I wasn't getting more than 14 to 16 hours before. I'm getting 24+ now.
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It took me about a week to identify and tune my gs2. I wasn't getting more than 14 to 16 hours before. I'm getting 24+ now.
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what rom/setup are you using?
I'm getting fantastic battery life with Siyah and KJ4. Easily 20+.....
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I'm getting fantastic battery life with Siyah and KJ4. Easily 20+.....
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Should i try out that kernel with cm7?
i have no doubts that other roms will have good battery life, (the ones designed for i777) but i get awful life when using cm7 and other aosp roms. This is my biggest problem.
And I'm getting better battery today than the other day. I'm down to 75% after 7 hours. But this is with minimal use and full service, and connected to wifi.
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I get 20+ hours easily with MIUI. When I first got the phone I was getting about 12 hours. Took me a while to tune it.
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I get 20+ hours easily with MIUI. When I first got the phone I was getting about 12 hours. Took me a while to tune it.
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Please explain your "tuning"
Are you changing voltages? Apps? Breaking the battery in? Etc? This would help
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What the hell is Dogg Catcher...seems to be taking a lot of your battery away xD
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What the hell is Dogg Catcher...seems to be taking a lot of your battery away xD
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Podcast player. And 8% is negligible. Non-issue.
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Please explain your "tuning"
Are you changing voltages? Apps? Breaking the battery in? Etc? This would help
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No voltage changes. Removed widgets that were causing some battery strain, switched email from push to poll, prevented some stuff from auto starting, froze some system stuff with Titanium Backup. I tested the drain last night, went to bed with 100%, woke up 6 hours later with 99%.
As far as 'tuning' to stop apps from starting I give a huge +1 for autostarts! Can't remember who recommended it first on this forum but noticeably added to my battery. I have at least 150 apps on my phone and there was a good number set to start 'after boot'.
Not too often does one change make a difference you can feel. I can't really give a number as I've just set it up yesterday and usually go through a full charge with an extended battery, 9+ screen on hours in one day, kinda sad when I think about it. It'll take a few more days before I can really tell the difference it's making. But it 'seemed' like it added a full hour more of screen on time yesterday. It'll blow me away if that's true. Hope the numbers repeat.
As a note I tried stopping 'camera' from auto starting and it did a hard reboot of the phone. Guess that was it's way of saying don't touch.
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Similar to everyone else I had to play with my settings and apps. I would also recommend checking out the thread on known apps that are battery hogs. I'm using CM7 with the latest Kang build and the battery life is MUCH improved. Running siyah 2.3 kernal oc'd 200-1600 ondemand. Try turning down the screen brightness some or put it on auto if you haven't. Also, I may be wrong but I bet the battery does get conditioned after a few drain/charge cycles and improves.
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Similar to everyone else I had to play with my settings and apps. I would also recommend checking out the thread on known apps that are battery hogs. I'm using CM7 with the latest Kang build and the battery life is MUCH improved. Running siyah 2.3 kernal oc'd 200-1600 ondemand. Try turning down the screen brightness some or put it on auto if you haven't. Also, I may be wrong but I bet the battery does get conditioned after a few drain/charge cycles and improves.
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Im coming from a captivate with a similar steup, so ive got everything almost down to a science.
Brightness has been another gripe ive had with this device. Auto brightness is way too low, and is also unresponsive. Auto on both my phones side by side shows the flaws (IMO) of the SGS2. When its dark, both are the same, when i shine light on it, the captivate reacts accordingly. As a result, I keep the phone at half brightness.
Ive had battery problems with both phones when running AOSP roms. My captivate would last for 36-48hours with minimal use on a captivate based rom, and then 10-14 hours on CM.
15 hrs. mostly in standby with some light web surfing and constant txt messaging. running at 200mhz-1200mhz on conservative with entropy's DD 12/01/11 release battery is at 72%
Not to mention you cant possibly believe you are going to get a brand new phone that already has similar battery life or maybe a little worse to this phone and flash brand new roms on it and get better battery life. I dont believe the cards are going to fall in your favor. Although the Nexus is a nice phone and would be pretty sweet to own...if battery issues like this are your reason for jumping ship....it may be a long swim to shore.
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Not to mention you cant possibly believe you are going to get a brand new phone that already has similar battery life or maybe a little worse to this phone and flash brand new roms on it and get better battery life. I dont believe the cards are going to fall in your favor. Although the Nexus is a nice phone and would be pretty sweet to own...if battery issues like this are your reason for jumping ship....it may be a long swim to shore.
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Lol ^^ very well said
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tylerdurdin said:
Not to mention you cant possibly believe you are going to get a brand new phone that already has similar battery life or maybe a little worse to this phone and flash brand new roms on it and get better battery life. I dont believe the cards are going to fall in your favor. Although the Nexus is a nice phone and would be pretty sweet to own...if battery issues like this are your reason for jumping ship....it may be a long swim to shore.
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sorry i read this a few times. I dont get it lol.
I'm not sure if this will help u, but try check ur google maps's setting and sign out of google latitude. My gs2 has been draining battery so fast lately, n now it seems back to 17+ hrs average.
just get another battery or keep more chargers around
My Battery was draining so dang fast.. 6 hours and it was dead... I looked in the usage and noticed that it was 40% Screen.. A quick look reveled that the rom defaults to full brightness with auto brightness off.. I turned it on.. put in my extra battery and it seems to be doing much much better with the screen only using about 15% now..
Just wanted to throw that out there for those that are having issues with their battery drain.
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I will fully test it today when I am at school. What I noticed so far was when I was at 20%, the low battery message popped up and said there was 14% or less battery.
battery life is awful. reporting says over 90% of my battery use is from the screen which is set to ~25% and im getting ~8 hours on a charge. i have noticed the backlight appears to be alot brighter as the typical light bleed looks a lot worse than when i was on gb
I've just switched over to the Amaze and have noticed a precipitous battery drain as well, the main culprit being the screen according to the "battery use" stats. Suffice it to day, I'm quite disappointed.
I'm rooted, S-off, super ID, running Energy ROM.
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I've just switched over to the Amaze and have noticed a precipitous battery drain as well, the main culprit being the screen according to the "battery use" stats. Suffice it to day, I'm quite disappointed.
I'm rooted, S-off, super ID, running Energy ROM.
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If you're running Energy Rom, it's based on the first leak (The old one). Many people were reporting bad battery life and phone overheating on the first leak.
My battery life is much better on any of the 2nd leak/official based roms.
based on this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1625871&page=2
battery life is awful if u didnt wipe battery stats or instlld leak without being fully charge
oh and there are 2 leaks the first one has horrible battery life ... the 2nd leak
i have it and it works the same as gb if not better by a tiny bit
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If you're running Energy Rom, it's based on the first leak (The old one). Many people were reporting bad battery life and phone overheating on the first leak.
My battery life is much better on any of the 2nd leak/official based roms.
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Which ROM are you currently using? I'll give that a shot and hopefully that was the issue because the drain's pretty bad.
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based on this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1625871&page=2
battery life is awful if u didnt wipe battery stats or instlld leak without being fully charge
oh and there are 2 leaks the first one has horrible battery life ... the 2nd leak
i have it and it works the same as gb if not better by a tiny bit
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I'll check that out after work. Thanks!
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Which ROM are you currently using? I'll give that a shot and hopefully that was the issue because the drain's pretty bad.
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I've been testing for RMS all day, I was running Iced bullet. Over on Android-dev.
If you want the stock feel, try fastamaze v2.1 It's based on the latest.
Miked (arhd) is rebasing his rom also, not sure when he's going to be done, I heard he was having some problems.
According to Google engineer battery stats hold only statistics about apps and parts that use battery and system resets these once phone is charged.
For me completely discharging, power up again until battery was 0 and then charging overnight helped a bit.
Screens below, the display is mostly browser. I just left screen on for 10min and the battery didn't drain at all. You need to be doing something, the screen on itself does not cause much drain, just a side note.
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I've been testing for RMS all day, I was running Iced bullet. Over on Android-dev.
If you want the stock feel, try fastamaze v2.1 It's based on the latest.
Miked (arhd) is rebasing his rom also, not sure when he's going to be done, I heard he was having some problems.
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Sweet, I'll try them all and report back. Thanks a lot!
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jjdeveau said:
My Battery was draining so dang fast.. 6 hours and it was dead... I looked in the usage and noticed that it was 40% Screen.. A quick look reveled that the rom defaults to full brightness with auto brightness off.. I turned it on.. put in my extra battery and it seems to be doing much much better with the screen only using about 15% now..
Just wanted to throw that out there for those that are having issues with their battery drain.
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6 hours....lucky bastard
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My battery life has improved sooooo much since flashing the official ICS. I disabled a crap ton of apps, and now I get 10-12 hours of normal use, when I used to get about 6 when I was rooted stock with no bloat.
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So this is what I've done so far, I'm still on Energy Rom, but I've done what calmtea & Hasoon2000 suggested:
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I fully charged it to 100%, booted into recovery (via 4ext Touch Recovery), and wiped the battery stats.
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Then flashed Sysctl.conf as instructed in this thread:
2) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1621808
Remember to do a nandroid backup before trying. Initially I thought I was in a bootloop, but eventually my phone did load up with no problems.
And finally, I tried this as well: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1628457
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...go to settings>developer settings>and change the background process limit to 4 or less..
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Thus far, I have not really noticed an appreciable decrease in battery drainage, but I have noticed the standby has dramatically improved. I went to bed at 22% and woke up with the battery at 19% after 6.5 hrs.
So I've also tested out other roms (FastAmaze, Iced Bullet, SpeedRom) and the drain rate seems to be the same as Energy Rom. CapRomCE may have performed slightly better than Energy, but not enough to make me switch.
I haz a sad now.
Is there any better way 4 long lasting battery?
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Maybe its not the Rom..maybe its your battery.
Batteries have came from the factory defective. It sucks but it does happen. I have no complaints about up time with this phone.
I'm running stock official ics .3 debloated.. no other tweaks except a theme. Getting a good 10-16hrs depending on use. Data on all the time unless the system shuts it off. I don't use a CPU tuner...just try to re-condition your battery and you should get better results....unless you're a heavy user.
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Double0EK said:
Maybe its not the Rom..maybe its your battery.
Batteries have came from the factory defective. It sucks but it does happen. I have no complaints about up time with this phone.
I'm running stock official ics .3 debloated.. no other tweaks except a theme. Getting a good 10-16hrs depending on use. Data on all the time unless the system shuts it off. I don't use a CPU tuner...just try to re-condition your battery and you should get better results....unless you're a heavy user.
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I've already ordered the Anker battery and am hoping that's the case because this is a quality phone and I love it!
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Anker batteries finally arrived today, gonna test them out and see if I experience better life. In the meantime, I've changed my usage habits to make due with the stock battery and am hoping the Anker batteries will give an extra boost.
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So after a day of using the battery, it has been noticeably better. However, the discharge rate is all wonky. I don't really care about that as long as the battery life lasts.
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We should generate our own thread with battery stats for the AT&T version of The HTC One X+ because we have the LTE version. I expect that our batteries will drain faster. I will post my stats as soon as I am through my 3rd charging cycle. +/- power saver will be interesting as well as overnight in sleep mode. I normally don't optimize a lot to keep my battery drain low. My GNex made it without a problem through a day and night.
I'm on my second cycle and the battery has been exceptional! 1.5 days on a single charge so far.
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We should generate our own thread with battery stats for the AT&T version of The HTC One X+ because we have the LTE version. I expect that our batteries will drain faster. I will post my stats as soon as I am through my 3rd charging cycle. +/- power saver will be interesting as well as overnight in sleep mode. I normally don't optimize a lot to keep my battery drain low. My GNex made it without a problem through a day and night.
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I'm on my second cycle and the battery has been exceptional! 1.5 days on a single charge so far.
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Really? I barely make it through 13-14 hours. Do you use the battery saver function? I will post some screen shots later.
I can't give you any good battery data yet, as I just got home from the store with it and I've been busy setting everything up the way I want it and installing apps. I was, however, very surprised after installing CPU Spy to see how low the processor will slow down...
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6 hours with slight/medium use and I am down to 50%: No battery optimizations. Screen is on auto-brightness. I will use better battery stats to get a better idea what drains the battery. I burn 10% of battery/hour with light/medium use that's too much.
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I can't give you any good battery data yet, as I just got home from the store with it and I've been busy setting everything up the way I want it and installing apps. I was, however, very surprised after installing CPU Spy to see how low the processor will slow down...
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Interesting. If I look at better battery stats CPU states the lowest my phone is going to is 475 even though it could go low as 50. Have to run the stats for an entire battery charge to get some useful information.
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This was hours after getting home with my new phone, just after installing tons of apps. So CPUspy didn't have much data to work with. Now that I unlocked my bootloader, I'm going to have to start all over again!
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6 hours with slight/medium use and I am down to 50%: No battery optimizations. Screen is on auto-brightness. I will use better battery stats to get a better idea what drains the battery. I burn 10% of battery/hour with light/medium use that's too much.
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So I tested again today and my battery performance is still bad I would say. Do you guys get similar result otherwise I will try to exchange my device. I didn't do anything special. I played 5 minutes riptide. Took some photos without flash and posted some stuff on facebook and XDA. Screen on time is low 1.5 hours. and I have only 28% left. Do you get similar result or much better battery performance?
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So I tested again today and my battery performance is still bad I would say. Do you guys get similar result otherwise I will try to exchange my device. I didn't do anything special. I played 5 minutes riptide. Took some photos without flash and posted some stuff on facebook and XDA. Screen on time is low 1.5 hours. and I have only 28% left. Do you get similar result or much better battery performance?
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First thing I notice when looking at your screen shots is the weak signal. That will eat into your battery.
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So I tested again today and my battery performance is still bad I would say. Do you guys get similar result otherwise I will try to exchange my device. I didn't do anything special. I played 5 minutes riptide. Took some photos without flash and posted some stuff on facebook and XDA. Screen on time is low 1.5 hours. and I have only 28% left. Do you get similar result or much better battery performance?
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How do you get that first screen shot that shows all the data? I can't figure it out in the Better Battery app. Do I need to be rooted for that one?
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First thing I notice when looking at your screen shots is the weak signal. That will eat into your battery.
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How do you get that first screen shot that shows all the data? I can't figure it out in the Better Battery app. Do I need to be rooted for that one?
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If I open better battery stats the overview is on the first screen I see. You only see it when the phone is not charging. You have to wait a while until it populates with data. No root necessary. Try to switch the view from since unplugged to since charged and back. That might help.
Interesting. I got my replacement device yesterday and I ran better battery stats: My battery drains now only 5%/hour instead of 10% and the CPU clocks down to 50Mhz while not in use. My first HOX+ never went below 500Mhz. Looks like not the battery was kaputt but the CPU had some issues I would say.
It's seems as if I'm now getting a average of 20 hours so. Constantly on wifi, a couple calls, some email and light gaming. I have to say coming from the vivid I'm highly dissapointed. I was expecting not to constantly feel like I'm tethered to wall but that doesn't seem to have changed.
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It's seems as if I'm now getting a average of 20 hours so. Constantly on wifi, a couple calls, some email and light gaming. I have to say coming from the vivid I'm highly dissapointed. I was expecting not to constantly feel like I'm tethered to wall but that doesn't seem to have changed.
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Is that on battery saver mode? 20 hours is pretty good.
mrbro0ks said:
It's seems as if I'm now getting a average of 20 hours so. Constantly on wifi, a couple calls, some email and light gaming. I have to say coming from the vivid I'm highly dissapointed. I was expecting not to constantly feel like I'm tethered to wall but that doesn't seem to have changed.
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20 hours on battery power makes you constantly feel tethered to the wall? I think your expectations are a bit unrealistic. You're on a quad-core device with a huge high-def screen. 20 hours seems very reasonable to me. Charging once a day is pretty standard for most modern portable devices. I think 16 hours is about the target I look for, that way it can be plugged in when I sleep and run unplugged the rest of the day.
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20 hours on battery power makes you constantly feel tethered to the wall? I think your expectations are a bit unrealistic. You're on a quad-core device with a huge high-def screen. 20 hours seems very reasonable to me. Charging once a day is pretty standard for most modern portable devices. I think 16 hours is about the target I look for, that way it can be plugged in when I sleep and run unplugged the rest of the day.
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I agree. Sixteen gets me through what I need for the day. But, I haven't gotten that yet. How's it shaping up for you?
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I agree. Sixteen gets me through what I need for the day. But, I haven't gotten that yet. How's it shaping up for you?
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I haven't had to use it for an extended day away from home, but after my 8 hour shift at work and commute to/from work, I still had 65%. Seems great so far!
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I haven't had to use it for an extended day away from home, but after my 8 hour shift at work and commute to/from work, I still had 65%. Seems great so far!
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Yes, that's pretty good. I am satisfied at the moment too. I get 15 hours with medium use (texting, facebook, music streaming via BT and internet) and 2 hours screen on time.I am just on my 2nd. charge cycle so I hope it improves a bit.
Great article I just found on Reddit...
How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries
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911jason said:
Great article I just found on Reddit...
How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries
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Nice find.
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So, Snapdragon's battery management app just came out of beta, any of you have any comments about your experience with the app on the S4?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiam.snapdragon.app&hl=en
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Saw this earlier, was kinda wanting to download but idk how itll react with faux kernel And fauxclock
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Saw this earlier, was kinda wanting to download but idk how itll react with faux kernel And fauxclock
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i don't think this impacts your kernel. Kernels modify how the hardware talks with the phone. This app is the contrary, it impacts how the software talk to the phone. I think its worth a try either way
In any case, i installed the app earlier, it takes about 2 days to learn my behavior, i will see how it work in a couple of days and i'll report back. Usually, i can get a full day of light to moderate use and still have 30 - 40 % when i get home. we'll see with this app
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i don't think this impacts your kernel. Kernels modify how the hardware talks with the phone. This app is the contrary, it impacts how the software talk to the phone. I think its worth a try either way
In any case, i installed the app earlier, it takes about 2 days to learn my behavior, i will see how it work in a couple of days and i'll report back. Usually, i can get a full day of light to moderate use and still have 30 - 40 % when i get home. we'll see with this app
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Trying it too .. If qualcomm didn't make it i don't think i would though lol.. Will report back and see what's what
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I can't believe people are spending 7 bucks on kernel adjustments and sound adjustments. Seems like robbery to me. Titanium backup is pretty much the most useful app ever and it doesn't cost that much.
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I can't believe people are spending 7 bucks on kernel adjustments and sound adjustments. Seems like robbery to me. Titanium backup is pretty much the most useful app ever and it doesn't cost that much.
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Whats $7? And tibu doesnt tweak kernels
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TechSilver13 said:
I can't believe people are spending 7 bucks on kernel adjustments and sound adjustments. Seems like robbery to me. Titanium backup is pretty much the most useful app ever and it doesn't cost that much.
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I believe most people are downloading the apps to support the dev. In this case namely Faux. He made a good kernel so why not support him..
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TechSilver13 said:
I can't believe people are spending 7 bucks on kernel adjustments and sound adjustments. Seems like robbery to me. Titanium backup is pretty much the most useful app ever and it doesn't cost that much.
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I can't believe some people don't support their developers.
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Whats $7? And tibu doesnt tweak kernels
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i think hes talking about fauxclock and fauxsound. I wouldnt pay for that, but i do trust the developper as hes been the best kernel maker since the S2
mine just got out of learning mode...will check back in 48 hours with some stats
this is why you pay for a kernel tweaker ,and thats overclocked to 2.1 and screen time of 2 hours and talk time of about 1 and half hours and still have 22 percent to go that will take me over 24 hours, ohh and i just started using battery guru yesterday still in learning mode
Interesting app, installed it and will test it over the next few days.
This should have come integrated with all factory roms, instead of gimiky junk.
Thanks for sharing.
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tbh 24 hours with 2 hours screen on is not that good. If i dont use wifi, just LTE every day i get 24-30 hours with about 2.5 hours screen on thats OC'ed just a tad. Now using wifi as much as i can i can get 5-6 hours screen on same time frame...
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Interesting app, installed it and will test it over the next few days.
This should have come integrated with all factory roms, instead of gimiky junk.
Thanks for sharing.
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While I completely agree with you that it should have come pre-installed, there's also the chance that this, too, is a gimmicky app! I've got 4 hours left in "learning mode," so we'll see.... I'm already getting incredible battery life, so I don't have much to complain about!
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F you for seeing the point in supporting devs. I spent 7hrs straight last night debugging my aospa build - all for free - no charge to you. Thanks.
well, very interesting results. I've been out of learning mode for about 2 days, and i have to say i really see a considerable difference. First, i would just like to point out i'm not a HEAVY user, more moderate to light. I'm an insurance broker, i'm on the phone from 9am to 5pm about 80% of the day (on land line), so my screen time is about 1.5 hour at 5pm, i mostly check social networks, emails, tapatalk, some youtube vids during breaks, my apps update automatically during the day. On a good day, i come home with 40%, on a day of heavy usage, about 20%, i'm always on lte tho. I also never disable wifi, bt, gps and most other features.
Today has really been the determining day because its the first day the counter was on. When i came home today, i had 1h17 mins of screen time and.................................68% left!!!! Then from about 6pm to about 30 minutes before bedtime bedtime and adding an another 30 mins of screen time (1:00am EST) i lost an extra 15% to bring me down to 53% just before i plugged it for the night. Thats a HUGE improvement. The great thing about this is that all day, i received all my FB notification instantly, all my emails and other stuff. I have not seen any cut in functionality.
So this phone was unplugged at 7am this morning, and in 17 hours, with just under 2 hours of screentime, and light to moderate use, i lost in total, 47% of juice and i didn't notice giving up any functionality.
I have to say i'm impressed. I hope this was not just a really good day, and that this app actually was the reason for the improvement.
myn came out of learning yesterday i am using fauxs kernel too but this is light usage but still this is great,14 hours and still at 78 percent wow
Mine came out of leaning about 10pm last night. I noticed using power saving mode helped a lot without sacrificing normal performance just using apps and checking messages and stuff. Standby with batteryguru my idle almost flat line which helps a lot. Usage with power saving on and off with battery guru was almost the same. Battery just seemed to stretch. Automatic brightness also seems to work better. Before battery guru kicked in auto brightness was all over the place or did not work very well, more of not working well. Now auto brightness is fairly consistent though the delay us often 1-5 seconds. Still much better than before. It also seemed to get better battery life with my at&t sim rather than T-Mobile. I think part of it is T-Mobile bloatware running in the background and probably the better reception. But in tmobile's defense I do have to say I am impressed with the network. I am seriously considering switching to T-Mobile now. Their dc hspa+ and lte were both fairly consistent at ~10mbps with low latency. Also am getting much better signal at my apartment. At work is a mixed bag though. Hard pulling signal in the reception challenged places where in would get a signal with atnt. At&t lte though is much faster. Hardly dipped below 10megs and often got 20-30mb/s. I am going to return my gs4 though and see what the Google edition brings. I have some issues with mine that I can't isolate to hardware or software any further unless I root and I won't do that becuae I haven't committed to the phone yet. Also have a two tone screen. One side is darker than the other. Was not a big deal until I started noticing how bad the black crush was on the darker/left side and loss of details in videos. I was not actively looking for this loss of clarity either. After extensive display testing now I can't shake the obvious disparity and hope i get abetter screen if I get a Google gs4. Anyways, went off topic, but battery guru is the real deal. Very noticeable.improvement in battery and phone got less hot and took longer to get to a borderline warmth level. Definitely worth looking into this app to improve battery. With the right tweaks, root access and optimizing some of the apps for black background (why the hell samsung went back to white backgrounds like email have no clue) this phone could probably get 6h in a heavy day of usage easily, provided no GPU intensive apps/games are played.
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Just some stats since downloading this app and it being out of learning mode and I'm amazed.. I normally get about 12-14 hours no charge with about 30% left.. Although I did put this on the charger for about 20 minutes last night the last full charge was 4pm yesterday and I'm just now putting it on the charger at 12pm today.. Now one problem is it learns how you use your phone and adjusts to your usage, that said, I work from 430pm to 430am Monday thru Thursday and 430 till 2am at the latest on Fridays so my phone isn't on Wi-Fi in those hours so when I got off work early last night this app automatically had my Wi-Fi off cause the 2 day learning period was during the week. So I didn't realize it and did some heavy browsing. But overall this app is amazing and a must have..
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