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What on earth is draining my battery so bad? On 4 hour charge w/ screen on for a little over 1 hour and i got 47% battery left...display is 77% drain. Is there an app thats draining my batt like mad? I got 4g off, wifi off, gps off, and bluetooth off...and i've been in a strong Sprint area the whole time. What's the deal?
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evo3d comes with a task manager, check whats on and kill it. i do it often
Try watchdog.. it will notify you if an app is above threshold.
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i had a similar issue, nothing i did helped out... i ended up doing a factory reset and it seemed to resolve the issue. i have most of the same apps i had before and im getting great battery life now.
spunks3 said:
i had a similar issue, nothing i did helped out... i ended up doing a factory reset and it seemed to resolve the issue. i have most of the same apps i had before and im getting great battery life now.
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i'm just wondering, but... what's great battery life?
I get roughly 14 hrs max on my low - normal usage.
and a lot less when i actually use the phone
sailow said:
i'm just wondering, but... what's great battery life?
I get roughly 14 hrs max on my low - normal usage.
and a lot less when i actually use the phone
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About ~5 hours of screen on time is normal. I'm at 1 hour and 30 mins screen on and my battery is now at 20%. Horrid life...ill try a factory reset.
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Overstew said:
What on earth is draining my battery so bad? On 4 hour charge w/ screen on for a little over 1 hour and i got 47% battery left...display is 77% drain. Is there an app thats draining my batt like mad? I got 4g off, wifi off, gps off, and bluetooth off...and i've been in a strong Sprint area the whole time. What's the deal?
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Its the POS 3d effect you see. Garbagw huh? I returned mines. 3d is shat if even a old Galaxy S 1 device overperforms it.
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SINNN said:
Its the POS 3d effect you see. Garbagw huh? I returned mines. 3d is shat if even a old Galaxy S 1 device overperforms it.
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Lololol gtfo here then?
Overstew said:
What on earth is draining my battery so bad? On 4 hour charge w/ screen on for a little over 1 hour and i got 47% battery left...display is 77% drain. Is there an app thats draining my batt like mad? I got 4g off, wifi off, gps off, and bluetooth off...and i've been in a strong Sprint area the whole time. What's the deal?
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Try using OS monitor from the market. Go through the settings, change the sorting method to "load" and watch for BS running that shouldn't be.
Try and put.it.in ur car's battery to.see if.it last longer
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Try using CPU Spy to see if you're phone is going into deep sleep properly.
That sounds like you got a bad battery, even if the phone is not sleeping it should last longer than that. I would reset to see if maybe your batt stats got corrupted and if that doesn't do anything see if Sprint will give you another battery to try.
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That sounds like you got a bad battery, even if the phone is not sleeping it should last longer than that. I would reset to see if maybe your batt stats got corrupted and if that doesn't do anything see if Sprint will give you another battery to try.
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Agreed this was happening to me so i ent and had the phone replaced and am having no issues this time
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I'm having good life...its been on for around 13 hours and been used for about 5 hours. I have a little over half of battery left.
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Turn auto sync off, that seems to help a little. Set task manager on home screen and use it every time you exit an app. The battery life on this phone is disgusting.
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The only time I had really bad battery life was with the overclock kernal. I ghetto adb'd it to my phone around 12est and by 6pm est it was dead not low battery but completly dead. I poped the battery out reverted to stock temp rooted it without overclock now im back to the 12 hours heavy use 2 days with min usage.
anti-up said:
Turn auto sync off, that seems to help a little. Set task manager on home screen and use it every time you exit an app. The battery life on this phone is disgusting.
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Not bad at all for me. Of course it drops a hell of a lot quicker if you leave the screen on 24/7 but mine will still last 5-6 hours while listening to pandora over bluetooth and with the screen constantly on browsing the web. When not being used constantly it lasts a lot longer.
I have confirmed wakelock, started last night. I'm totally stock, no overclocking or anything.
How do I go about figuring out what's causing it?
Our you could just not use your phone. Then your battery will katy all day.
In all seriousness though, if you haven't already go to settings> wireless & networks> mobile networks & turn off always on data. You won't notice a difference in anything except your battery life will increase. Also, turn off automatic screen brightness & set it somewhere comfortable for you. All that brightness adjusting will drain on the battery. 3D movies, pictures & video will drain it as well. Also as someone else mentioned, check the built in real manager every once in a while. You would be surprised at some of the apps still running in the background even though you haven't used then in a while.
Just a few suggestions. If you have ashley tried all of this then wait until e can flash Roms & Kernels or buy the Seidio monster 4000mah battery.
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That sounds like you got a bad battery, even if the phone is not sleeping it should last longer than that. I would reset to see if maybe your batt stats got corrupted and if that doesn't do anything see if Sprint will give you another battery to try.
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Weird. I did a factory reset and now my battery is great.
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Just wanted to see what others are getting for battery life.
Name the rom you are on, your typical use, and tips for others to squeek out your awesome battery life.
I am running alpha 2
Heavy use ( constant sync two Gmail accounts, wifi on 24/7, friendcaster, and Hotmail)
As for battery advice I keep my screen brightness to a minimum unless I am going outside.
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I am running alpha 2 battery life seems better than ever.
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I restarted my phone in the beginning.
Medium-heavy use, Stock ICS leak.
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I am running alpha 2 battery life seems better than ever.
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Can't believe your screen is only at 33%
Huge sign of not using your phone
Guess you using the app to take your screen brightness down to 1 on top of that?
Alpha 2
Edit: first pic not showing for me=3 hr 10 min screen time. Also have over 2 hrs of music playing. Almost ss good as oc dagr8 oc to 1.8 GB. If could set min frequency to 192 think it would be the same
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Yeah can you fix the first pic?
I can't get 19hours, but I can get 3hr screen time
Playing music is easy with screen off for lil drain
Getting 5 hour screen time on a note is definition of great battery life
SayWhat10 said:
Yeah can you fix the first pic?
I can't get 19hours, but I can get 3hr screen time
Playing music is easy with screen off for lil drain
Getting 5 hour screen time on a note is definition of great battery life
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Have had 4.5 hours before. With 15 total hours. On the flip side, i have 1.5 hours with 6 total before. Hope those days are long gone!
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So after 2-3 weeks of playing with stock ics rom which i update over the air, i decided to root and install custom roms. I flashed Speed Rom 4.0. However, I feel like that the stock ics rom battery is just better than the custom rom. My use of amaze for a day is 2-3 hours of listening to music, 2-3 hours of web browsing, 2 hours of gaming ( tower defense ) and that's when I come back home and my stock rom battery is left with about 30%. However, when I flashed custom rom, I notice that my battery drain faster than before and after a regular day of using I only end up with about 10% left. Anyone has insight on such problem like this?
Check settings and see what's different between the two
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kaka1892 said:
So after 2-3 weeks of playing with stock ics rom which i update over the air, i decided to root and install custom roms. I flashed Speed Rom 4.0. However, I feel like that the stock ics rom battery is just better than the custom rom. My use of amaze for a day is 2-3 hours of listening to music, 2-3 hours of web browsing, 2 hours of gaming ( tower defense ) and that's when I come back home and my stock rom battery is left with about 30%. However, when I flashed custom rom, I notice that my battery drain faster than before and after a regular day of using I only end up with about 10% left. Anyone has insight on such problem like this?
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I suggest you flash the new 6/6 Energy ICS Rom as battery life is sweet sweet is a bad word to use It's AMAZING lol
June 6th, 2012 (6.6.2012)(ICS)
More tweaks for battery life
Decreased minimum CPU freq to 192Mhz
CPU 1 online
Added new links method thanks to thread found by boojay to fix some app associations
Fixed Voice Search and dictation
Increased Volume throughout ROM
Updated Play store, Titanium Backup, Maps, Adobe Reader... etc
Changed some colors around for popup menus and such
Added a couple of missing resources in framework-res
1 full charged from last night was at 100% say at midnight now it's almost 1pm so 13hr use % my battery it @ 97%
hope i helped
Jay_Rulen said:
1 full charged from last night was at 100% say at midnight now it's almost 1pm so 13hr use % my battery it @ 97%
hope i helped
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Any battery history screenshots to support that "13 hrs of 'use'?" Any Rom will run for days without charge when the screen is never turned on
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glacierguy said:
Any battery history screenshots to support that "13 hrs of 'use'?" Any Rom will run for days without charge when the screen is never turned on
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very true but my screen was on i have mine as never turn off in settings
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very true but my screen was on i have mine as never turn off in settings
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So no screenshots? Lol dohkay
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glacierguy said:
Any battery history screenshots to support that "13 hrs of 'use'?" Any Rom will run for days without charge when the screen is never turned on
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I mostly care that my battery can last through a day. My NRG ROM will give me a day easily, with about 1 - 2 hours of screen on time over the period. A lot of it depends on the strength of the 4G cell towers around you (in my experience); the phone uses more juice when seeking towers. The latest NRG is pretty good at not "hunting" for 4G.
Yeah... Looks pretty common I guess for a phone that's screen was hardly on
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Yeah... Looks pretty common I guess for a phone that's screen was hardly on
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If you look at the screenshot you can see the phone itself was barely used, merely for an hour at one point, if that much and not at all for the rest.
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If you look at the screenshot you can see the phone itself was barely used, merely for an hour at one point, if that much and not at all for the rest.
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That is what I said, about 2 hours of use over the day. That is my normal use.
EDIT: On GB that would not have lasted 8 hours. Did you guys read my text?
stevedebi said:
That is what I said, about 2 hours of use over the day. That is my normal use.
EDIT: On GB that would not have lasted 8 hours. Did you guys read my text?
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On GB your phone wouldn't last 8hrs with hardly using it?
Well I'm sold...
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I get that kind of battery life, well not that great but currently 7 hrs plus with 52% remaining, moderate use, lots of text, some FB, browser, lots of call today for some reason. Think you need a new battery, lol.
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On GB your phone wouldn't last 8hrs with hardly using it?
Well I'm sold...
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Nope, gb ate my battery every day...
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I am new to Android and very new to Samsung devices coming from iphone. Last night I was at 100% battery before bed and woke up at 71%. I didn't use the phone once. Is that normal? Should I be turning things off or something? 30% overnight drain seems wrong.
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dvinnola said:
I am new to Android and very new to Samsung devices coming from iphone. Last night I was at 100% battery before bed and woke up at 71%. I didn't use the phone once. Is that normal? Should I be turning things off or something? 30% overnight drain seems wrong.
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Seems like something is amiss. I left mine on all night lastnight at 33% I THINK and its at 18% right now. 1d 1h 55m 47s on battery with 3h 43m 23s of screen on time right now at 10:29AM
Hmm. I forgot to say I have power saving enabled and the usual battery saving tips too.
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That js a very big problem. as you can see i get alot of time on battery. The graph shows that it charged about 10% while I was sleeping (not true). Are you rooted?
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I am rooted. I checked battery usage and messaging was at the top? An exchange account is fully set to manual and nothing else.
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my device drains less than 2% over the course of 8hrs when sleeping...you have a app causing a wakelock.
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I am rooted. I checked battery usage and messaging was at the top? An exchange account is fully set to manual and nothing else.
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R u using chomp sms or comparable?
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Stock sms. However I noticed one of my contacts is on Google Talk and I was logged in to that. Would that stay open all night?
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dvinnola said:
Stock sms. However I noticed one of my contacts is on Google Talk and I was logged in to that. Would that stay open all night?
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No. There's something wrong. Force Close the messaging app and restart it. Wait a few hours and see if its battery usage goes down.
Possible...
The most likely culprit is the "wakelock" issue mentioned above.
Basically it means something... most likely a poorly written app (also most likely a 3rd party non-google app) is preventing the phone from entering its idle/sleep mode, in which it scales back the CPU to minimum, and other bits enter low power states to conserve battery life.
An app that likes to live on the internet or update frequently, or constantly wakes the device to do things, can cause large amounts of drain as well.
It is also possible that signal strength is a cause. Poor/low signal can keep the radio working at higher power levels and that drains battery fast.
Is there any way to check for wakelock applications causing issues? I have removed a few possible applications and force stopped others. I seem to be losing 1-3% battery per hour on idle. Normal now based on everyone's experience?
If it is a signal strength issue I can live with that but the drain still seems steep.
Sorry for the questions. Too new to this to be able to determine if there are issues and everyone is having great battery life.
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Several battery apps that can show that type of info, I've used Gsam battery monitor before myself.
gsam battery moniter is what i use on a daily basis. it will let you know what is draining your battery. Link is for the free version. I have the paid.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...bs.bbm&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
Gsam battery monitor is pretty amazing. Thank you. I have an application called "Media" that seems to be running at idle. I can disable it but it looks like I would disable the Download application. It includes a process com.android.providers.media and android.process.media.
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Ah wait. SD card issue? I think I found a thead on it
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dvinnola said:
Is there any way to check for wakelock applications causing issues?
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Check out "Wakelock detector" , it shows clear list of applications which using wakelocks,
Wakelock detector
I feel like I am doing something wrong with my gn2 because everybodu gets at least 24 hours. My screen is all the way down all unused connections are off and im really only browsing rhe web and playing a max of 30 minutes of gaming (typically candy crush) WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?!
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baileygrib said:
I feel like I am doing something wrong with my gn2 because everybodu gets at least 24 hours. My screen is all the way down all unused connections are off and im really only browsing rhe web and playing a max of 30 minutes of gaming (typically candy crush) WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?!
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If you turned the phone on and used it for 30 mins and then idle it for another 5 and 1/2 hours and it died... then something is wrong.
Rouge app causing wake ups 100% of the time?
Battery is a dud?
monkeyass408 said:
If you turned the phone on and used it for 30 mins and then idle it for another 5 and 1/2 hours and it died... then something is wrong.
Rouge app causing wake ups 100% of the time?
Battery is a dud?
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What do you mean by rogue app causing wake ups? Here is my battery page...
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Download Better Battery Stats and see if you have an app(s) causing wakelocks and not allowing your phone to sleep.
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Download Better Battery Stats and see if you have an app(s) causing wakelocks and not allowing your phone to sleep.
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Sounds to me like the NSA is on to you my friend.
From the looks of your screen shot you have alot of things running in the background. Emulator, torrent and media servers drain battery quickly. I can get 2 days with my setup. But if I play words with friends my battery is dead in 4 hours. Some apps are just battery leeches. What Rom n kernel are you running.
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I found out that my dhcp settings on my wifi are c wing causing my phone to do s WLAN wakelock alit. I'm currently in the hospital so when I get out I'm going to fix my network settings
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I'm fully running stock right now. No root or custom rom
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Noticed you said you were in the hospital... How is the signal in there? If you have no signal, your battery will drain looking for a signal.
On your battery stats, click on the graph and screen shot so we can see your wake time.
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Noticed you said you were in the hospital... How is the signal in there? If you have no signal, your battery will drain looking for a signal.
On your battery stats, click on the graph and screen shot so we can see your wake time.
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The wifi is always full strength here. I think this is what you wanted.
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Holy crap you have your screen on alot. What is your screen on time? If you are getting 4 or 5 screen on time, that isn't bad. Looks like your phone sleeps when screen is off which is good. I just think you are killing your battery with on screen time. Most people saying they get 1 to 2 day use don't have the screen on that much. I usually get 5 hours of screen time on 4g. However my 5 hour screen on time spands over 15 hours. Also depends on what you are doing when screen is on... Playing games drain vs checking email for example.
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Here is my battery states... Can tell when I got off work and really started playing around with the phone. Was on 4g about 80 percent of the time.
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Another app you can try (which) is free, is CPU spy to check if you is staying or stuck in a high speed frequency, say 1600 mhz
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