I use this phone just like I use any other phone. But the battery life is terrible. It loses battery faster than you can read this sentence. My phone was at 10% when I started typing this and it's already at 7... The performance is also terrible. It lags at every turn. It even gets caught up on typing. Oh hey look. Now we're at 6. What the heck is the deal? Am I doing anything wrong? I'm on unadulterated stock. 5% now. Like seriously. The standby time is so much worse. Help me please
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I use this phone just like I use any other phone. But the battery life is terrible. It loses battery faster than you can read this sentence. My phone was at 10% when I started typing this and it's already at 7... The performance is also terrible. It lags at every turn. It even gets caught up on typing. Oh hey look. Now we're at 6. What the heck is the deal? Am I doing anything wrong? I'm on unadulterated stock. 5% now. Like seriously. The standby time is so much worse. Help me please
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What's your screen on time for a full discharge? The stock software has a lot to be desired. I see in your sig that you flashed roms on your g2, I'd consider going that route again. Expect about 4-5 hours screen on time with jasmine rom, eclipse, or skydragon stock based roms with nearly no lag except in settings and the stock lg messenger app (both horrendous use textra etc). Or choose an AOSP lollipop rom and deal with some minor bugs, but they're smooth as butter.
Really trying not to go that route. I need my phone to be fully functional. I have gotten about 4.5 hrs sot on this one but the stand by discharge is terrible
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Really trying not to go that route. I need my phone to be fully functional. I have gotten about 4.5 hrs sot on this one but the stand by discharge is terrible
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Try rooting & installing recovery(you need to roll back to 10b to do it) and flashing a stock based ROM. Install xposed, amplify wakelock blocker to help your standby time, and greenify to shut apps down from running in the background. If you dont like xposed greenify can run without it but amplify cannot. Also, there is a stock based kernel from skydragon you can flash which will make your phone fast & lag free, the over sharpening is corrected, and the battery life will be much better.
My stock based backup is Jasmine 4.0 to keep all the lg features + the latest skydragon kernel and battery life/performance is vastly better than when I bought it.
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Really trying not to go that route. I need my phone to be fully functional. I have gotten about 4.5 hrs sot on this one but the stand by discharge is terrible
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Really? I can have my phone fully charged before I go to bed at night and I wake up 5+ hours later, and it's still at 100%.
I was using Greenify and such, but I've since removed those just to test out a theory and wow, I do not need it what-so-ever.
I'm also now running on Eclipse ROM and I'm getting the same if not better performance.
Not sure what is going on. Are you syncing everything (Google+, Gmail, contacts, pictures, etc)? I basically backup photos, sync contacts and that's about it. I don't automatically sync Facebook, Google+, Google Music, Google Books, etc.
Battery life is great for me. I can get through an entire day and still not charge it until almost a day later.
As other have commented. I recommend a custom ROM. Sky dragon ROM+Kernel was a pretty killer combo.
Stock Based Custom ROM is the Way To Go
Jasmine and Skydragon are both very good. Also use the latest Skydragon Kernel (2.9.4). I can get 6 hours of screen time and standby is fantastic as well. I would also install Greenify, Amplify (requires Xposed), and if you are in an area where 4G doesn't have a good signal Leandroid or Juice Defender. I don't do any heavy gaming, but I use the phone a good amount. After unplugging in the morning I can usually get a couple hours of screen time and have 70% left when I get home from work. maybe 11 hours later.
I see you are worried about the phone not working well with a custom ROM. These stock based ROMs work fine. There are no issues with the ROMs not working just as well as stock. Lag is gone as well.
The biggest issue I was having is that lg has been incredible about great battery life. I did come from a nexus 6 and even though there is the memory leak in the official software, the battery life puts this phone to shame. I'm now running cm12 and loving it. Power consumption isn't terrible but still better than stock
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Using Jasmine and I have amazing battery life. Better than anything I've ever had on a phone (smartphone at least). I take it off the charger in the morning and stream music in my car for over an hour, surfing the net at lights, and when I get in I'm at 98 percent.
Maps/constant GPS is the only thing that gets my battery to move. This phone is amazing for me.
Use something like Gsam Battery monitor to look for wakelocks. Other than that, if you want to stay stock, consider a factory reset and then reload apps slowly to see which one is causing the problem.
Had my G3 about a month now, and I find the battery life to be glorious - currently full stock ROM, but I've rooted and frozen a bunch of stuff with Titanium (virtually of the VZW bloat and other crap). I don't have any other power-saving apps going, screen brightness is set to auto/~90%, and right now my phone is at 68% after taking it off charge this morning around 08:00 (right now it's 23:00). I work in a call center so I don't do what I'd call heavy usage, but I do send a bunch of texts, make calls, take pictures (mostly Snapchat when I'm bored out of my skull), and spend a good amount of time looking at the internet. It *is* possible to get great battery life on stock, and in my experience the answer has been root + freeze all the crapware. My phone uses virtually no power when it's sitting idle in deep sleep, probably something like 1-2% per hour if that - often I'm still at 90% by lunchtime.
I hesitated on installing a custom ROM for this very reason - the stock ROM I find works great, and I've warmed up to its color scheme. I do like the look and some of the features of CM12 more, but I know my phone is rock-solid and everything works. My advice would be root, look up the safe-to-freeze-bloatware thread, fire up Titanium and go to town.
I have managed to drain the battery though, but only through using power-heavy stuff like lots of Google Maps + music streaming over 4G (in places where the signal is crap, such as the lower NYC subways). It's not invincible, but with a little tweaking I'll be you can extend your battery life significantly :good:
Ive been running Skydragon and the battery life has been incredible, way better than my gfs S5
I definitely use my phone quite a bit during the day and it's usually still at 40-50% by the time I got to bed.
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I use this phone just like I use any other phone. But the battery life is terrible. It loses battery faster than you can read this sentence. My phone was at 10% when I started typing this and it's already at 7... The performance is also terrible. It lags at every turn. It even gets caught up on typing. Oh hey look. Now we're at 6. What the heck is the deal? Am I doing anything wrong? I'm on unadulterated stock. 5% now. Like seriously. The standby time is so much worse. Help me please
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I don't know what is going on with your phone, the battery life on mine is fantastic! I'm running Jasmine 4.0 and I can't complain.
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That's not normal, I know someone who has a completely stock G3 and his battery life is amazing. My guess is something is preventing your phone from entering deep sleep. Post a screenshot of your battery stats, otherwise we are clueless.
You might want to try Snapdragon Battery Guru app. It has given me two days on one charge.
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Here's my battery results. I didn't really used it much when i took the screen shots. This weekend will be a true test. Running LP/Liquidsmooth
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This is my last desperate attempt before I decide to permanently stay on JFD until froyo comes out. I've tried pretty much all of the JI6 ROMs out there: stock, Bionix 1.9.1, two from eugene, and another AOSP-looking one. In every single ROM I've flashed the JI2 radio, removed the DRM services, removed anything else that looked like it could be using battery, etc. Followed all of the advice I've found on the forums so far.
On JFD with all of my usual apps installed and everything (3G, background data) on, my battery drains about 10% overnight. On a fresh JI6 install from any of the ROMs, with all of the bloat removed and everything on, I have at best gotten 30% drain overnight, and usually much worse.
Does anyone have any ideas of what else the problem could be? Other people seem to be reporting decent battery life with JI6, so I'm looking for what else I could do to get my battery to be as good as JFD. Thanks!
Why is overnight drain important? Most people charge their battery overnight. What is your daily usage time? I charge mine up at night, unplug around 7am. I can get to around 2-3pm before the low battery warning comes up. I have 3 accounts syncing and get 30+ txt a day, leave 3G on, and BT. If im near a power source I plug my phone in, especially if im working at my desk.
What battery life are you expecting? Not pointing fingers but some people expect far to much from a smartphone.
^ wow, perhaps you are a heavier user but I took mine off at 5am, and its 3:45 here now... sitting at 58% (though it was plugged in on my 5 minute commute for lunch).
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Why is overnight drain important? Most people charge their battery overnight. What is your daily usage time? I charge mine up at night, unplug around 7am. I can get to around 2-3pm before the low battery warning comes up. I have 3 accounts syncing and get 30+ txt a day, leave 3G on, and BT. If im near a power source I plug my phone in, especially if im working at my desk.
What battery life are you expecting? Not pointing fingers but some people expect far to much from a smartphone.
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Heh, I have 4 accounts syncing, but do less than a third of your texting.
With JI6 I get just short of 12 hours on average. Which is not enough to last through the day.
My wife does about 30 texts on her iPhone 3Gs, but syncs 2 accounts. She gets about TRIPLE the battery life I get.
So, I am expecting battery life which is at least close to the last generation iPhone.
(Because of the crappy battery life, I am considering selling my Vibrant (already sold my international Galaxy S) and going back to my old iPhone 3Gs, until something better comes out.)
I guess I didn't explain what I meant very well. I'm getting much worse battery life with JI6 than with JFD, even with all of the known battery drainers (modem, DRM service) removed.
The reason I mention overnight battery life is that it's a good objective test. Why should JI6, when it's just sitting there, use over three times more power than JFD with the same phone configuration (apps, settings, etc.)?
As far as actual use, during the day with my normal use I rarely drop below 50% on JFD but with any of the JI6 ROMs I've tried I typically can't make it through a day without charging. Although, based on what you guys are saying, it seems like that's pretty normal? Did you have better battery life with JFD?
Does anyone have any ideas, other than that things I've mentioned I removed, about why JI6 could be using so much more battery for me than JFD? I'd love to upgrade to get all the little fixes (although I've probably done most of them manually on JFD by now), but the battery life it's so bad that it's holding me back.
Thanks!
I would try a compromise. A JI6 build but with the JI2 modem files like bionix final.I last night I had 0 drain overnight went to bed like 11 and woke up like 7 and still at 100%. Then I listened to an hour worth of music over the speaker at max volume and have made and hours worth of call and received a few gtalk messages with vibrate on.
Its almost 6pm here I have been off charger since 11pm last night and am currently at 51%
Bionix fusion 1.1 and the bionix final that I am running both run the full JI6 just with a change of modem files for battery life. Also team whiskey as taken a lot of time to customize and tweak this build even further. It is literally IMHO as good as an eclair rom will get. I forgot to mention I am using the JAC (non voodoo) kernel.
Give it a try if this doesn't cut it for you nothing will.
I've tried exactly that. Bionix 1.9.1 with the JI2 modem. It drains over 30% overnight, and I could never go through a full day with usage like yours. For comparison, my JFD with all of my apps/services installed drains less than 10% overnight.
That's exactly what I'm trying to figure out. Others, like yourself, aren't having any issues, yet I have awful battery life. I've even tried going completely stock and not restoring my backups with a few of the ROMs. Basically just flash it and let the phone sit overnight after I remove some of the bloat. It's still bad. Everything points to a bad battery or bad hardware, but then why does it work fine with JFD?
You could try juice defender, set it to disable data connection when screen off or locked your pref. It's default will enable data 2minutes every 15 minutes so you can sync. This will at least save you drainage while idle. I constantly.surf the web, Toiteur,mkt etc. And I may pull 5 hours. People keep reporting batt stats of minimal to no usage, I want to hear reports with normal to heavy usage. That would be more relevant IMHO. I'd like to see different rom stats with countinous usage,screen on etc.
if your phone is Loki, use Odin, you'll be Thor.
This is missing the point. My phone works great on JFD, and awful on JI6. I'm trying to find out why, and I'm trying to avoid bending over backwards and having to turn off 3G and whatnot to get decent battery life with JI6. I get great battery life on JFD with everything on and no Juice Defender. What I'm trying to figure out with this thread is why this might be the case (since it's none of the usual suspects which I've already removed). Any ideas? Thanks!
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This is missing the point. My phone works great on JFD, and awful on JI6. I'm trying to find out why, and I'm trying to avoid bending over backwards and having to turn off 3G and whatnot to get decent battery life with JI6. I get great battery life on JFD with everything on and no Juice Defender. What I'm trying to figure out with this thread is why this might be the case (since it's none of the usual suspects which I've already removed). Any ideas? Thanks!
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Are there any notifications on screen when you wake up? What are your screen timeouts like? The only time I saw something like this was when an alarm app decided to go gonzo and poll the CPU every ten seconds.
My battery drain with bionix final stock rom was caused by the puzzle lockscreen. Once I switched to the glass unlock screen, my standby battery drain problem disappeared.
Nothing obvious stands out. No notifications, battery stats shows nothing but cell standby and system idle. Screen timeout is 1 minute, which is the same that I use in JFD where it works fine. I do always have an alarm set, but again that works just fine in JFD.
I did have the 50% cell standby bug in most of the JI6 ROMs, where I get 50% time without signal and cell standby drains my battery like crazy, but that's fixed by toggling airplane once after each reboot which I make sure to do before getting these battery stats.
I'm trying to get across that I've tried pretty much everything suggested on the forums so far, and my battery life is still much worse than JFD. Looking for maybe some out of the ordinary ideas of what it could be, because I can't explain it :\
Thanks for your help and ideas everyone!
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My battery drain with bionix final stock rom was caused by the puzzle lockscreen. Once I switched to the glass unlock screen, my standby battery drain problem disappeared.
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Hmm, I always use the unlock pattern lock screen. Is that the same as the puzzle lockscreen, or something totally separate? Maybe I'll try another flash with the glass unlock screen to see if that's the culprit.
Are you using the standard glass unlock screen? If not, try it.
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Hmm, I always use the unlock pattern lock screen. Is that the same as the puzzle lockscreen, or something totally separate? Maybe I'll try another flash with the glass unlock screen to see if that's the culprit.
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Bionix comes with 4 different lockscreens. Default is puzzlelock. That was causing my idle battery drain. Once I selected glass which is the default Vibrant lockscreen, the problem dusappeared.
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I did have the 50% cell standby bug in most of the JI6 ROMs, where I get 50% time without signal and cell standby drains my battery like crazy, but that's fixed by toggling airplane once after each reboot which I make sure to do before getting these battery stats.
Thanks for your help and ideas everyone!
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Try turning on airplane mode before going to bed and see if it still drains that badly. If that's not feasible, Juice Defender comes with a widget called "Toggle Mobile Data." It lets you turn off all mobile data, although you can still get SMS and phone calls.
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Try turning on airplane mode before going to bed and see if it still drains that badly. If that's not feasible, Juice Defender comes with a widget called "Toggle Mobile Data." It lets you turn off all mobile data, although you can still get SMS and phone calls.
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But again that's not what I want at all. I don't want to bend over backwards and remember to toggle stuff all the time to make JI6 work. I don't need to do that with JFD and it works fine. I'm trying to figure out what it is about JI6 that would make me need to do all this stuff to get it up to par with JFD. I'm fine with 10% drain overnight (the whole point of this thread isn't that my phone drains a bit overnight, it's that I'm using that to measure how much worse JI6 is), but > 30% is huge and leads to my phone dying during the day even if fully charged in the morning.
You can also try disabling/uninstalling mediahub in titanium backup or something
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You can also try disabling/uninstalling mediahub in titanium backup or something
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Did that too (along with the DRM services). Didn't help at all (in fact some ROMs I've tried don't even have it).
Isn't this fun? Pretty much a guessing game, but like I said I've really tried all of the obvious suspects, except for maybe the lockscreen which was mentioned in this thread. But I'd like to keep the pattern unlock if I could so I'd rather not have to use the glass one.
Here is my battery life via: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=820119
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As the title says I haven't seen anyone actually test the battery for a couple days, it's usually review and move on.
So how is it?
Well it hasn't been mentioned so it probably isn't worse than we expect it to be.
Also interested to know. Of course since this will be the first few days people have it, they'll be using it a ton so it may not be the best estimate on battery life but I would love to know an idea of how much to expect.
They haven't had time to calabrate yet.
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First charge with heavy use got greater than expected life. I will still buy an extended one, but thats cuz i hate charging. 7 hours of heavy use on 3g only.
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7 hours of heavy use isn't bad. So idling with 4G off probably isn't terrible then. That is what I am most concerned about. Hopefully we will get kernel source and just get some undervolt going.
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7 hours of heavy use isn't bad. So idling with 4G off probably isn't terrible then. That is what I am most concerned about. Hopefully we will get kernel source and just get some undervolt going.
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yeah not to mention that after you root you can flash leaner kernels and ROM's. But we'll have to wait for development to pick up, I really hope we see some good developers here.
So right now it's 1am and I took the phone off of the charger at 8:21 with 85% battery life. It is now at 47% with some steady texting, exchange activesync, some web browsing, and a 7 minute video all on 4g. I'm not sure what to make of that but it seems decent.
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So right now it's 1am and I took the phone off of the charger at 8:21 with 85% battery life. It is now at 47% with some steady texting, exchange activesync, some web browsing, and a 7 minute video all on 4g. I'm not sure what to make of that but it seems decent.
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DAMMIT I WANT!!! 3 more days...
I don't know that I've charged it fully since I got it. It was close to fully charged before I went to a wedding tonight. Lasted all 6 hours or so I was there, but was tuckering out (~20%) by the time I left. But I did spend a bit of time playing with the phone. And 4G was on the whole time. And I turned live wallpaper on, played with my weather and clock widgets, tried to get a wifi connection that wouldn't work, browsed the web a bit.
I recharged on the way home to about 50%, and sitting around playing with it for the last hour to 1.5 hours, it's still at 40%.
If it makes you feel any better, the biggest battery hog was the display, BY FAR. Like 80-something percent to the <20% combined for the other functions. I'll try and remember to post my impressions from my first "normal" day of use tomorrow and let you know how the battery fairs.
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I don't know that I've charged it fully since I got it. It was close to fully charged before I went to a wedding tonight. Lasted all 6 hours or so I was there, but was tuckering out (~20%) by the time I left. But I did spend a bit of time playing with the phone. And 4G was on the whole time. And I turned live wallpaper on, played with my weather and clock widgets, tried to get a wifi connection that wouldn't work, browsed the web a bit.
I recharged on the way home to about 50%, and sitting around playing with it for the last hour to 1.5 hours, it's still at 40%.
If it makes you feel any better, the biggest battery hog was the display, BY FAR. Like 80-something percent to the <20% combined for the other functions. I'll try and remember to post my impressions from my first "normal" day of use tomorrow and let you know how the battery fairs.
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I got mine yesterday and I can say it is about 25-30% better than a rooted thunderbolt....My logic says once rooted we will get really good battery life.
I am a heavy user and I can say I turned off fast boot and bump charged it 3 times on Thursday night. I gave it a heavy use all day on Friday.
Took it off the charger at 10 am around 8 pm I was on 35%. So that was 10 hours of heavy use and still had 35% left. If I was using the rooted bolt I would have been dead around 5:30 and a stock bolt...even sooner.
hope all these battery estimates are true, sounds like this will be my next phone!
Took it off the charger at about 11am today... Was close to 100%, maybe 95%. Just hooked it up to charge about 10 minutes ago (so off charger completely for ~10 hours). It had ~10% battery life left when I hooked it up.
Had Wifi and/or 4G on the entire day, including an hour and a half in a bad service area, where it fought for a bit to find service until I logged into the wifi network. Played about 1 hour worth of Pandora on high quality setting. A couple minutes of 4G Youtube. Tons of tinkering with games and downloading apps and playing around. Screen brightness was set to something like 30%. live wallpaper enabled. Weather and clock widget enabled. Data tracking widget enabled. Did a few seconds of video Skype too. I would say it was consistent use all day, but not necessarily heavy for most of the day.
EDIT: I forgot. One short phone call. I'm sort of a bad guinea pig for battery life on a phone because I really don't make a lot of phone calls. Consider my use representative of someone who uses data during his commute and for texting/games/forum/app usage.
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Took it off the charger at about 11am today... Was close to 100%, maybe 95%. Just hooked it up to charge about 10 minutes ago (so off charger completely for ~10 hours). It had ~10% battery life left when I hooked it up.
EDIT: I forgot. One short phone call. I'm sort of a bad guinea pig for battery life on a phone because I really don't make a lot of phone calls. Consider my use representative of someone who uses data during his commute and for texting/games/forum/app usage.
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I have very similar usage habits. Glad to hear that this seems to have relatively good battery life.
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Had Wifi and/or 4G on the entire day, including an hour and a half in a bad service area, where it fought for a bit to find service until I logged into the wifi network.
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Bad/No service areas will kill a battery so fast. My office is in a windowless reinforced concrete room inside a reinforced windowless room inside a reinforced building. (Yo dawg)
I get no service at all. If I leave the 3g on, phone won't make it past 5 hours. Turn the 3G/WiFi off and battery percent goes down a few points.
I need one!!!
Kellex over a Droid-Life has gotten just over 10 hours of normal usage (all in 4G) for the past couple of days. He also stated he is not a heavy user by any means.
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Seems like it isn't as bad as most thought it would be.
Battery - Caution
I remain interested in the phone but undecided due to some really bad hardware failures I have on my Dinc.
While I am very interested in battery life like everyone else, please everyone keep in mind that "how is the battery" is as personal a question as "which radio is the best one to use."
There is no way one person can truly tell you how the battery will be for you. If you sit in an interior office without wifi, and have sync contacts and facebook set for every hour, that ALONE will cause a drain that may not be comparable.
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I remain interested in the phone but undecided due to some really bad hardware failures I have on my Dinc.
While I am very interested in battery life like everyone else, please everyone keep in mind that "how is the battery" is as personal a question as "which radio is the best one to use."
There is no way one person can truly tell you how the battery will be for you. If you sit in an interior office without wifi, and have sync contacts and facebook set for every hour, that ALONE will cause a drain that may not be comparable.
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What does this phone have in common with a year old phone.
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What does this phone have in common with a year old phone.
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Yay, you got another post!
That aside ... just please everyone keep that in mind when making battery life decisions based on what others experience; battery life can be GREATLY impacted by things well outside what programs you might run and how many texts you might send.
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Yay, you got another post!
That aside ... just please everyone keep that in mind when making battery life decisions based on what others experience; battery life can be GREATLY impacted by things well outside what programs you might run and how many texts you might send.
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Yay, so did you.
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Hi, this issue is specific to my NON-ROOTED Samsung Galaxy S2. I have seen other simsilar issues for other phones and they don't seem to help. My Battery doesn't seem to last more than a few hours. No more than 5-8 and it's dead. I turned off the Data and wi-fi. I set my Wallpaper to a Black background. It just sits on the desk and after a few hours it's almost dead...
What can I do to fix this?
Rooting is not an option at the moment.. I'm still reading and learning about it as I don't want to create a paperweight and/or void my warranty...
No offence mate but for a start you can search the forum and you will literally find dozens of threads on the very same subject which have been posted on here over the last few months.
Search and you'll find the answers your looking for, a tip freeze the Samsung bloatware in Titanium Backup and your battery life will improve substantially, there are many other methods to improve battery life you can find them yourself.
I get over a full day on heavy usage...
No offense taken, but most point to Rooting my phone...This is not an option for me at this time....I'll look some more, I guess...
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No offense taken, but most point to Rooting my phone...This is not an option for me at this time....I'll look some more, I guess...
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Oh right well then your options are limited if your not going to root your phone as regards battery life.
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Oh right well then your options are limited if your not going to root your phone as regards battery life.
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I know...that's why I posted, but I should have said that in my original post...I'll edit it....but I did find something that I will try when I can..Phone is charging in a wall outlet right now, and I don't want to unplug it. lol...I do thank you for your effort and understanding...
I have unrooted phone and get around 17-20 hours heavy usage.
I would suggest you flash a 2.3.5 Rom via Odin as they seem to have better battery management if you haven't done so
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075278
you dont need to be rooted to flash new roms via odin
Also advisable to charge battery till full then use till its like 1% then recharge full and so on to calibrate it a bit.
Rogue apps can eat your battery life as well so If you can afford it do a full wipe and reset if you can and see if it makes a difference.
tfn said:
I have unrooted phone and get around 17-20 hours heavy usage.
I would suggest you flash a 2.3.5 Rom via Odin as they seem to have better battery management if you haven't done so
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075278
you dont need to be rooted to flash new roms via odin
Also advisable to charge battery till full then use till its like 1% then recharge full and so on to calibrate it a bit.
Rogue apps can eat your battery life as well so If you can afford it do a full wipe and reset if you can and see if it makes a difference.
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Looking into this one. Thanks!
I just wipped it to "
Out of the Box" state Tues night..only installed 25 apps :
APPS
Adobe Flash player 11.1
Angry Birds
Angry Birds RIO
Angry Birds Seasons
Books
Calendar Quick Add
Calendar Snooze
Facebook
Gmail
Hangman Classic
Keeper
Key Ring
Market
MyFitnessPal
Pool Master Pro
Solitaire
Tic Tac Toe Free
Visual Voicemail
WordSearch
all for my wife....she dont have data plan..
If her wifi is on and its constanly looking for wifi, will that be the cause? i just told her to turn that off.
What is a Rogue?
Chat applications like Google Talk or Facebook (if you go into Chat) tend to drain battery.
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i have the same problem with s i9100 and when connect using my galaxy the battery charged very slowly but charged very quick in galaxy s
the battery in s i9000 more better
You guys need to give more information if you really want decent assistance, there is an app called better battery stats, you want to look at your partial wakelocks section in that particular app, go get it either on this forum or in the Market, post screenshots of your battery graph in Settings>About Phone>Battery Usage and click on the time, also a screenshot of your partial wakelocks will reveal the issue 90% of the time
Also, there is no need to root your phone to achieve good battery life, unless it is found that a system app may be the cause of the poor battery which is hardly ever the case, anyone who points you to rooting to get good battery life has very limited knowledge of android and what is the cause of poor battery life...
Usually downloaded apps and user settings are the cause of poor battery, there is absolutely no need to root to be able to fix those problems.....
I noticed this one too...My stock DXI2 room tend to be a battery hogger and the display consumes around 60% of my entire battery life...
agreed I'm getting nigh on 2 days battery life nowadays maybe one and a half of moderate to high usage! certainly don't need to root and install a new ROM.
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You guys need to give more information if you really want decent assistance, there is an app called better battery stats, you want to look at your partial wakelocks section in that particular app, go get it either on this forum or in the Market, post screenshots of your battery graph in Settings>About Phone>Battery Usage and click on the time, also a screenshot of your partial wakelocks will reveal the issue 90% of the time
Also, there is no need to root your phone to achieve good battery life, unless it is found that a system app may be the cause of the poor battery which is hardly ever the case, anyone who points you to rooting to get good battery life has very limited knowledge of android and what is the cause of poor battery life...
Usually downloaded apps and user settings are the cause of poor battery, there is absolutely no need to root to be able to fix those problems.....
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Ok, so I am attaching my screen shots for you to look at..There are 2 of them, as I can't figure out how to take a scrolling screen shot, which I don't think there is a way...but I'm still in the learning process...lol
These were taken at 2am EST after a full battery charge...It says 22 hrs on the top...I'll be lucky if I get 6...
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The time is now, 10:15 am EST. I have turned off GPS. Force Stopped Solitare (Wife likes to play that)and it says: 4h 52m 35s on battery..not sure how to read this? Is this how long it's been on? or that I have battery left?
Display 49%
Cell standby 15
Phone idle 10
Android 8
Clock 5
Android system 4
Messaging 2
Calendar 2
The reset 2
that's the length of time since it's been unplugged.
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that's the length of time since it's been unplugged.
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Ohhh,, good to know
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Ok, so I am attaching my screen shots for you to look at..There are 2 of them, as I can't figure out how to take a scrolling screen shot, which I don't think there is a way...but I'm still in the learning process...lol
The time is now, 10:15 am EST. I have turned off GPS. Force Stopped Solitare (Wife likes to play that)and it says: 4h 52m 35s on battery..not sure how to read this? Is this how long it's been on? or that I have battery left?
Display 49%
Cell standby 15
Phone idle 10
Android 8
Clock 5
Android system 4
Messaging 2
Calendar 2
The reset 2
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Charge your phone fully and use it as you would normally, the screenshots you provided doesn't show much, what you have to do is click on the very top where it says 22h 52m, that would take you to another shot that shows your "screen on" time in a linear graph just below "Awake" time, that's the screen that would tell us if you are having wakelocks.
Secondly, get better battery stats from the market or from this link here then set the display options to "Partial Wakelocks" "since unplugged", remember you do this after using your phone normally from 100% to 50%, this should be able to give us some insight into what is eating your battery, it may be better to let the phone sleep as much as possible, but I know it's pretty hard to leave the device alone......
You should definitely try better battery stats app. It helped me to identify the app that kept my phone awake continuosly. My battery life increased from 8-9 hrs to 15-17 hrs after uninstalling that app. I even bought the paid version from market after that. Must have app!!! Give it a shot. Its free for XDA users. But if it helps you then please do consider buying it to support the developer.
yup. My SGSII is on KJ3 stock & I get easily around 1 day & 16-17 hrs before i need a charge. This is with moderate to heavy usage (depends on your perspective) which includes:
1. Display is on roughly 1.5 to 2 hrs
2. Voice calls roughly 2-3 hrs
3. 100 odd texts
4. 30-40 mins of listening to music
5. 20-30 mins of browsing
6. 30 mins of running benchmarks
7. 10-15 mins of gaming
8. Downloads for 30 mins
8. Auto-sync & background data enabled for 9-10 hrs
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Charge your phone fully and use it as you would normally, the screenshots you provided doesn't show much, what you have to do is click on the very top where it says 22h 52m, that would take you to another shot that shows your "screen on" time in a linear graph just below "Awake" time, that's the screen that would tell us if you are having wakelocks.QUOTE]
Ok, I had the phone plugged in to the laptop to transfer my Memo's from my BB/Outlook over to the phone, so it only says it has been unplugged for 3 min..If you want longer, let me know, as I'll do another one tomorrow.
This one is from 49 min unplugged...
As far as that app. I'll download it now and run it for a day or two and see what happens...will post back soon!
Thanks for all your help people!!!
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.Secondly, get better battery stats from the market or from this link here then set the display options to "Partial Wakelocks" "since unplugged", remember you do this after using your phone normally from 100% to 50%, this should be able to give us some insight into what is eating your battery, it may be better to let the phone sleep as much as possible, but I know it's pretty hard to leave the device alone......
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My non rooted galaxy s ii lasts at least on full day of heavy usage, including 3g, music, and gps. Will last 2 to 3 days if i use it conservatively turning off 3g when not in use.
make sure u have latest update thats basically all i did.
good luck.
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trying to troubleshoot S2 right now, if you want to help me go to my other thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1375803
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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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rhost said:
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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K Rich said:
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.
21cdb said:
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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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
http://www.mugen-power-batteries.co...-t-mobile-htc-amaze-4g-with-battery-door.html
I am quite poor but desperately need better battery life as i am pulling 12hr shift's and my battery dies around the 7-8 hr mark.
i would appreciate being pointed to any ones review's on this product.
Ty
With the weird connecter on this phone who makes a durable car charger for it ?
Truck'nfool said:
http://www.mugen-power-batteries.co...-t-mobile-htc-amaze-4g-with-battery-door.html
I am quite poor but desperately need better battery life as i am pulling 12hr shift's and my battery dies around the 7-8 hr mark.
i would appreciate being pointed to any ones review's on this product.
Ty
With the weird connecter on this phone who makes a durable car charger for it ?
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reflash the RUU at 100% battery, and see if you still have problems
I'd rather get a powerskin with an external battery that I can choose to use or not(or remove)... but the powerskin won't be as efficient as you need to convert from 4.2V->5V(USB) back to 4.2V
paperWastage said:
reflash the RUU at 100% battery, and see if you still have problems
I'd rather get a powerskin with an external battery that I can choose to use or not(or remove)... but the powerskin won't be as efficient as you need to convert from 4.2V->5V(USB) back to 4.2V
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How I am using my phone is like this, pick up off charger phone has full charge, go to work, listen to music from phone, once I arrive at work I put it into airplane mode (this I believe kill's all the radio's ) then use the phone as an mp3 player every once and a while waking up the screen to pause etc. the battery is the original that came with the phone I got this phone like on the 2nd day it was available from T mobile. I am sure the battery by now should be suffering from constant use. I have the full version of juice defender and I have that killing everything I can think of to save power.
I can't remember the name of the ics rom I have on it now but I did install the new graphics driver as well. the phone is rooted ,s-off and has super cid.
I am waiting for a newer stable ics rom with jellybean hopefully with a kernel that I can play around with under clocking.
With my current financial situation i can't afford to make a mistake on this purchase so I am being extra paranoid about checking all my options, thank you for your suggestion.
Haven't used that particular battery, but used mugen with g2 and didn't notice much of a difference. It was 1800 instead of 1200
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hello mate! i would suggest getting rid of sense as much as possible there are about at least 3 senseless roms out there,or at least the launcher, it uses to much resource with all the pretty animations and widgets! but there is something wrong with you phone somehow, i get up in the morning around 8 and go to work with my phone fully charged, listen music in the car for about 40 mnts until i get to work! after things settle down i watch at least 3 50 minutes video on netflix, youtube, play listen to music again, i'm on fb, instagram, skype chatting with some friends outside the country, texting and a little more, back to listen to music on my way back home, by 6 o'clock i'm with 30% or so! i'm running energy stock look rom, tweaked with ultrasmooth rosie, and the only widget i have running is the clock and music with 3 home screens! good luck
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batteries like those usually are a completely rip-off, so watch out!
Mugen is not a rip off dude.
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How I am using my phone is like this, pick up off charger phone has full charge, go to work, listen to music from phone, once I arrive at work I put it into airplane mode (this I believe kill's all the radio's ) then use the phone as an mp3 player every once and a while waking up the screen to pause etc. the battery is the original that came with the phone I got this phone like on the 2nd day it was available from T mobile. I am sure the battery by now should be suffering from constant use. I have the full version of juice defender and I have that killing everything I can think of to save power.
I can't remember the name of the ics rom I have on it now but I did install the new graphics driver as well. the phone is rooted ,s-off and has super cid.
I am waiting for a newer stable ics rom with jellybean hopefully with a kernel that I can play around with under clocking.
With my current financial situation i can't afford to make a mistake on this purchase so I am being extra paranoid about checking all my options, thank you for your suggestion.
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if you really can, try to reflash the RUU(charge your phone to 100% first).... this resets your phone entirely (radio, ROM, kernel)
I had that battery problem when I got my phone from someone else: less than 8 hours of uptime even without much screen-on use... I installed the Energy ROM and faux kernel, didn't fix it
now, after reflashing RUU, then installing Energy ROM and faux, my battery is better than before... 15 hours uptime with 1-2 hours use...
if I don't use it and keep it on standby-idle, i'm sure it,ll stretch more than 2 days
(55%, only about 15 minutes of screen-on use, data on, autosync on)
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if you really can, try to reflash the RUU(charge your phone to 100% first).... this resets your phone entirely (radio, ROM, kernel)
I had that battery problem when I got my phone from someone else: less than 8 hours of uptime even without much screen-on use... I installed the Energy ROM and faux kernel, didn't fix it
now, after reflashing RUU, then installing Energy ROM and faux, my battery is better than before... 15 hours uptime with 1-2 hours use...
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I don't understand what flashing the RUU means. I will look around on the forums to learn what that means, or if you would tell me I would appreciate it.
Truck'nfool said:
http://www.mugen-power-batteries.co...-t-mobile-htc-amaze-4g-with-battery-door.html
I am quite poor but desperately need better battery life as i am pulling 12hr shift's and my battery dies around the 7-8 hr mark.
i would appreciate being pointed to any ones review's on this product.
Ty
With the weird connecter on this phone who makes a durable car charger for it ?
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Just buy this http://www.amazon.com/Anker-1900mAh...345472451&sr=1-3&keywords=1900mah+anker+amaze
2 1900 mah batteries with an external charger, charge the spare and your phone every night, put the spare in when the battery dies.. MOST of us have these batteries, they are a little higher capacity than stock- the ONLY issue I have read and experienced, the first 10% goes quickly.. but overall it always outlasts the stock battery.
Plus, that is $30 for those batteries, rather than $100 for the one you posted.
Plus stalk the posts I make, I've posted plenty of ways to increase battery life.. and if you can figure out what paperwastage was saying(hint:look at the bible posted in my signature for EVERYTHING you need to know), it will make a big difference. Plus, if you are in airplane mode while at work and have big drain, that means some app is running rampant in the background, keeping your phone from "deep sleep". Get an app called betterbatterystats(paid on market, free if you find it on XDA, but worth the money) and after a days use(BEFORE you plug in or switch batteries), look at the top apps listed when you select "partial wakelock" and "since unplugged"- whatever the top apps are are the ones keeping your phone awake all the time.. either change the settings of those apps, or remove them if you don't NEED them as that means they are poorly written.
Without getting super technical and by stalking my threads, the bible in my signature, and using betterbatterystats, you MAY not need new batteries anyways.. but having a spare fully charged battery gives you a freedom that you really deserve anyways.
You can buy extended batteries and multiples of them with a charger. You can also buy external battery packs/chargers (amazon search for Anker Astro). They are a bulkier solution but versatile as in they can charge almost anything that takes a usb plug.
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Was being cheap and trying to wait for price to drop but has stayed the same. Now $30 doesnt seem so bad