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Are there any good ways to extend battery life besides the obvious stuff (no WiFi, GPS, screen brightness, etc.)? I just converted from my iPhone 4 to a Nexus S and battery life is pretty miserable - I can make it through a day but I have to plug in as soon as I get home. If I could stretch that 12 hours to 18 or so it'd be perfect. My iPhone could do 24-36 no problem, so I feel like 18 should be reasonable.
You can try different kernels for your firmware. The custom ones (good ones) normally consume less battery.
You can try to calibrate your battery, as well.
That is if you're rooted. If you're not there's not that much you can do. Install Current Widget from the market and let it be in standby for around 1 hour with WiFi and that stuff off, and check how many mA it's draining.
Other than that, turn auto sync off, and don't let everything send out push notifications (news readers, Facebook etc.) and if you're using a weather widget check that it's not updating every 30 mins or something.
BazookaAce, but having a smatphone like this without being rooted it's a waste of gadget...IMO.
Yeah, I'm rooted and running brainmaster's MIUI ROM. I do have syncing turned on for everything, I'll try messing with that since I certainly don't need FB or Twitter updates every 30 seconds.
just dont use any of battery saver tools. it doesnt work. wipe battery stat if ur phone rooted.
I have a similar problem. I am running an XT860 and am barely getting 12 hours and that's with an extended battery! I have read that keeping the software on your phone up to date usually improves the battery life.
What kind of droid do you have?
Root your phone, install cyanogen or miui.
Download setcpu app.
In setcpu, set it so your phone uses 500-600 mhz of processor speed when the screen is off.
That alone should help your battery life by at least 25%.
Not so sure setCPU is the end all solution here. I have this as well and I have mine actually down to 245mhz when in screen off mode, yet my battery life still is horrible. I have screen brightness pretty low and only gmail is setup to autosync, and checking the stats gmail does not use much of the battery.
I think it also has a lot to do with how good of a signal you get in your area. If your phone is constantly cycling through to get a signal that will eat up your battery as well and is pretty much out of your control.
Dropping the speed with the battery life sucks hd2 setcpu that does not taste at all
Hello, I`m new to this forum and wanted to ask if anyone knows why my HTC Legend drains battery so fast. My phone is rooted with Fuse ROM and unlocked bootloader but it was draining battery on stock ROM too. Even with the screen of it drains ( in 8 hours with screen off it drains almost 10%). I have 3G connection on all the time and when I`m at home i don`t have full signal in the house so it may be a network problem that affects the battery?
a weak network signal may be one reason for the battery drain (since your phone has to use more power to send data).
however when there's always synchronisation & exchange of background data going on in the background, i think 10% battery down in 8 hours isn't way out of the ordinary.
maybe you'll get some clue, what components are causing the drain when you go to settings > about phone > battery info...
Best solution to stop battery drain is turn every thing off if you're not using it eg GPS, wifi, Bluetooth, mobile data, auto sync, if you have them on they will chew up power.
On a stock legend, HTC would seam to have the CPU speeds set at 480 low and 600 for high, if you root and set your lower value to lower than 480 that will also help in cyanogen lowest value is 245.76, this seams to be ok, on other roms they can go as low as 19, this is not so good as phone can sometimes freeze. I never go below 122.
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My HTC legend battery life is 2 days. But I enable internet access only when I want, same for gps
Have you tried to calibrate your battery after installing custom ROM? Try the free battery calibration app from the market.
I'm using "[ROM] B 0.8.4 based on stock HTC FroYo (04/13/2011)".
Using the stock speeds the battery drain is quite fast, I get a day at best. I'm running 245 - 804 and this makes the battery last days. I'll try down to 122 to get a tiny bit longer battery life
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Hello, I`m new to this forum and wanted to ask if anyone knows why my HTC Legend drains battery so fast. My phone is rooted with Fuse ROM and unlocked bootloader but it was draining battery on stock ROM too. Even with the screen of it drains ( in 8 hours with screen off it drains almost 10%). I have 3G connection on all the time and when I`m at home i don`t have full signal in the house so it may be a network problem that affects the battery?
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it is a common problem... as long as your phone signal is not dropping to completely zero that it goes for finding alternative networks its fine.. but if it is dropping blank .. try using airplane mode (ya no other option )
or else as a quick thing try below options
- try installing infolifes battery defender (tweak their ignore list if required). along with their advanced task killer (jst set for auto kill when screen off and not interval kill
- get a cpu governor (I was using cyanogenmod inbuilt one) and set in conservative a low-400mhz and high-600mhz
-turn off auto brightness if u've it on and use it in low as required
hope these should squeeze some more extra standby time..
I went back to a stock rom after putting up with the battery issues.
a friend told me that there's a .bat file that helps with the battery issue, but I haven't been able to find it anywhere.
I also had freezing problems when I tried to adjust CPU settings, so my best option was to bake a rom through modaco without all the bloat crap.
Now it works a treat.. hope this helps
Bat files are for windows computers, not used on android....
However your friend might be talking about the "battery.stats" file deleting it is supposed to help "calibrate" your battery, I personally have not seen any benefit to battery life doing this. Once your phone goes flat (turns off) and you then fully charge it it seams to set the calibration automatically. The only way I can see it actually helping if your a phone user that never let's the phone go flat enough to turn its self off.
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IMO, battery life isn't bad on the HTC Legend if we compare it to High End phones. But there are ways to save it.
Ceebs typing the whole thing so I might as well link it to you from a similar topic: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1586022
Cheers ranger.
I asked him about it, and it was a .bat file that is used through the adb and he didn't say where he got his information.
Removing the battery stats file can be done with an app from the play store, and that wasn't anywhere near as effective as the move from cyanogen 7 back to the baked stock HTC rom.
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Has anyone noticed significant battery drain whilst the screen is off, my phone loses around 1-3 % every hour even when there are no programs running. I have monitored the running apps and uninstalled many that were running in the background. Does this mean that the 5th core is not activating or am I doing something wrong, google now, wifi, bluetooth, 3g, etc are all turned off, If anyone experiences similar issues or knows a solution please post, other than that the battery life on this device is actually pretty good despite all the people stating how horrible and unsatisfactory it may be.
I believe someone mentioned that the WiFi is the cause of the drain while the phone is on, is your WiFi on while it's sleeping?
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Google Now may cause battery drain while on standby, I think. You might want to install Better Battery Stats so you'll know what's eating up your battery while the phone is in sleep mode.
My WiFi, Bluetooth and 3g are all turned off and Google now has been disabled, don't know what is causing the drain but the people over at the original one X forum are sating that standby drain is higher as of the jb update which I find odd seeing that the battery life is better screen on.
Turn off auto sync & just enable it when you need to, or use an app that will enable it for you after a certain time period.
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Nah I can go a day and half on stand by with little use. I have 30+ apps installed and mods to firmware plus nik3r's custom elite kernel.
I'd say its one of your obscure apps you still have I stalled. Do a factory reset on your phone and install each app one at a time each hr monitoring the drain till you find the culprit.
Install nik3r's kernel.
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1) go to Facebook app, disable chat, disable location... disable auto updates/notifications too if you can. This crap (especially the latest version) can take 20% of your battery life easily.
2) go to Google Maps settings, disable all the tracking/reporting options out there (up to 15% battery life without ever even starting the map app)
3) install EliteKernel and use power saving if you need that extra standby juice (it actually saves power in my flavor compared to the stock version)
There - fixed.
Wifi is not the issue, I get better life on 100% wifi than on data connection. It's the apps that actually use tha data.
Thanks guys much better now!
turn off this, do not use that.....
if is this the solution what is this? a phone or what?
only hope a room that end with this battery drain, is not normal that my wife S3, the same battery (2100mA) like hox+ has more hours, and not only 1 or 2, 6 hours more battery life, both without use.... in the same place, we did it as a test and..... that´s the Q, why? we have the same apps installed, and we have the same on, wifi, data, gps, blutooth..... the same conditions
Hi everyone,
I have an lg optimus l9 p765, i mainly bought it for the battery thought it might b having a good battery life, but instead my device lasts for hardly a day with moderate - low usage. i just use whatsapp not even games, even i use it for calling (only 2g network not even 3g), is the battery life that bad? any solution for this? i'm on stock ics 4.0.4
wii4u said:
Hi everyone,
I have an lg optimus l9 p765, i mainly bought it for the battery thought it might b having a good battery life, but instead my device lasts for hardly a day with moderate - low usage. i just use whatsapp not even games, even i use it for calling (only 2g network not even 3g), is the battery life that bad? any solution for this? i'm on stock ics 4.0.4
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Check your battery usage. What is using most of your battery?
Turning screen brightness to 50% will obviously help more than just about anything else. Also make sure there aren't any issues with Media Scanner eating battery (sometimes it hangs in the background and does not let the device go to sleep--this made my battery behave very similar to yours).
Is your phone overclocked? Are processes running in the background? Once I solved my media scanner solution, my phone lasts for a couple days with moderate usage (games, wifi web).
Let us know what things are using the most of your battery (settings>power saver>battery use) and maybe we can go from there.
prankish said:
Check your battery usage. What is using most of your battery?
Turning screen brightness to 50% will obviously help more than just about anything else. Also make sure there aren't any issues with Media Scanner eating battery (sometimes it hangs in the background and does not let the device go to sleep--this made my battery behave very similar to yours).
Is your phone overclocked? Are processes running in the background? Once I solved my media scanner solution, my phone lasts for a couple days with moderate usage (games, wifi web).
Let us know what things are using the most of your battery (settings>power saver>battery use) and maybe we can go from there.
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Display uses 72% of battery..screen brightness is usually between 10-50% never more than that..i dont know abt media scanner issue can u help me with that n wats d solution for that? no overclock,did not even root,didnt even unlock my bootloader on stock ics 4.0.4
use only whatsapp,gmail with sync is on,calling is done mainly all on 2g gsm only (3g n wifi is switched off)
thnk u in advance
Try an hard reset
Well i just got the LG G3 and am using it on GSM.
prior to using i rooted ,TWRP and loaded jasmine 4.0 , also put in skydragon kernel 2.9.4 s 3.0 had crazy boot times.
I am trying to get the max out of the phone what ive noticed is that the phone just doesn't wanna deep sleep.
I have greenify , xposed (amplify) and noticed the issue of battery being drained when idle , i went to sleep and saw it was at 50% , woke up to 10% battery, my older phones never dropped more than 2% overnight,
To investigate loaded BBS and wakelock detector , nothing that pops up out of the ordinary
So my question is what do you guys do to max the battery outta this , what can i do ? i dont really see any apps causing it to wakeup . suggestions or any would be appreciated
any other stock rom also if you could suggest for battery life ? ive heard good about cloudy 1.2 as well.
I have really gotten great battery life out of sky dragon along with the 3.0.2 SD kernel (kernel is in the orig Dev section). Along with amplify ad greenify.
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cletusarrarr said:
Well i just got the LG G3 and am using it on GSM.
prior to using i rooted ,TWRP and loaded jasmine 4.0 , also put in skydragon kernel 2.9.4 s 3.0 had crazy boot times.
I am trying to get the max out of the phone what ive noticed is that the phone just doesn't wanna deep sleep.
I have greenify , xposed (amplify) and noticed the issue of battery being drained when idle , i went to sleep and saw it was at 50% , woke up to 10% battery, my older phones never dropped more than 2% overnight,
To investigate loaded BBS and wakelock detector , nothing that pops up out of the ordinary
So my question is what do you guys do to max the battery outta this , what can i do ? i dont really see any apps causing it to wakeup . suggestions or any would be appreciated
any other stock rom also if you could suggest for battery life ? ive heard good about cloudy 1.2 as well.
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Are you connected to WiFi when your phone won't deep sleep?
I work from home, so my phone spends 90% of its time on WiFi - I was getting terrible battery drain and only 50% deep sleep on a good day. One day, I left the house and noticed great battery life and plenty of deep sleep on a 4G connection (which is the opposite of what I expected).
After trying nearly everything, I discovered the fix was as a simple as turning on the "Battery Saving for WiFi" setting under Settings -> Wi-Fi -> Advanced Wi-Fi". I've been getting great battery life and deep sleep times when I'm at home now.
Give it a shot and see if it solves your issue.
Also, ever since daylight savings time went into effect, I noticed both my phone and my wife's phone keep randomly changing time zone for no reason. Looks like the phone is struggling to automatically detect the time zone from the carrier and causing battery drain as a result. I disabled the setting to automatically detect the time zone (and manually set it for PDT) and the battery drain stopped on both of our devices. Could be unique to my area but may be something to try as well.
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Are you connected to WiFi when your phone won't deep sleep?
I work from home, so my phone spends 90% of its time on WiFi - I was getting terrible battery drain and only 50% deep sleep on a good day. One day, I left the house and noticed great battery life and plenty of deep sleep on a 4G connection (which is the opposite of what I expected).
After trying nearly everything, I discovered the fix was as a simple as turning on the "Battery Saving for WiFi" setting under Settings -> Wi-Fi -> Advanced Wi-Fi". I've been getting great battery life and deep sleep times when I'm at home now.
Give it a shot and see if it solves your issue.
Also, ever since daylight savings time went into effect, I noticed both my phone and my wife's phone keep randomly changing time zone for no reason. Looks like the phone is struggling to automatically detect the time zone from the carrier and causing battery drain as a result. I disabled the setting to automatically detect the time zone (and manually set it for PDT) and the battery drain stopped on both of our devices. Could be unique to my area but may be something to try as well.
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i was connected to wifi , however i doubt that could be the issues , ive had other phones behave while on wifi as well,ive identified a few services that could be the issue. did some tinkering today, lets c how it goes tonight. what roms r u guys on ?
cletusarrarr said:
i was connected to wifi , however i doubt that could be the issues , ive had other phones behave while on wifi as well,ive identified a few services that could be the issue. did some tinkering today, lets c how it goes tonight. what roms r u guys on ?
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I thought the same as well which is why I discounted this as being a cause for 4 months....I have 15 other android devices and none have exhibited this behavior so I was surprised that such a trivial setting could have had this impact.
To answer your question, I am currently running:
- BeanTowns stock 11B ROM
- SkyDragon 2.9.7 kernel
- Xposed installed with Disabled Services running
- Selected stock apps/services disabled
I don't use greenify/amplify (don't see the need as my average daily drop is anywhere from 1.6% - 2.4%/hour with moderate use).