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Steps To Twenty Hour Battery Life

Ok I have been reading since literally the first day the G2x came out about the "Horrible" battery life of the phone. So, after toying with it for about 8 days I have nailed it down so that the phone gets about 20 hours of Moderate use(Constant texting, internet for emails, YouTube, and searches, and probably about 2 hours of light gaming(not Nova or NFS)). So, Outside of the obvious like make sure your bluetooth, wifi, and GPS are off and turn your display brightness down here are my steps to Better Battery Life.
First - Root The Phone. There is plenty of links and help if you don't know how or have questions about rooting.
Second -(Root Needed) Use Titanium Backup or Antek App Manager(Antek is free) and Freeze or uninstall all the bloatware that you don't use off of your phone. Especially Car Home cause along with people on XDA i have also noticed that it does use a fair amount of battery for NO Reason.(Be careful with My T-mobile and My Device might throw your phone into a force close frenzy)
--For some reason people have been asking exactly what T-Mobile Apps you can freeze/uninstall and the answer is. All of Them. I personally left My T-Mobile(To view Minute Usage) and Wifi Calling(Cause I have no service in some buildings) and froze the rest, but you can get rid of everything you don't want or use.
Third -(Root Needed) Set CPU. Have had this on my G1 and N1 and it does nothing but save battery. I currently have it set on 216 - 1000 for when the screen is on and the only profile i have is for when the screen is off and it is at 216-216.
(Alternative) Pimp My CPU. I now am using this for my G2x because I am running custom kernal. Personally I like Set CPU better, but do to the fact that Set CPU can't get past 1000 MHz makes it kinda useless for the G2x Tegra 2.
Fourth -(Root Needed) Battery Calibration. There is an App in the Market for this and it is easier and less of a hassle than Factory Reseting the phone. Just charge all the way to 100% and i discharged to 0% and recharged it and Amazing difference in battery life. (And don't doubt the Calibrator cause right after i set it to calibrate the initial 100% got to zero in about 7 hours, but after that one cycle i was getting the 20 hours i am now)
Fifth - Elixir. Not only does this app display anything you might wanna see about your phone (CPU usage, battery temp, battery percentage, memory...) it also has a widget that lets you toggle your internet on/off. Which is almost necessary since "4G" kills battery like no other.
Sixth - Auto Sync. I shouldn't have to put this, but if you don't know your phone is set up to auto sync all your Google apps(Calendar, Gmail, Contacts) and Social Network apps(Facebook,Twitter). So go into settings and make sure that you turn auto sync off.
Now the next steps aren't proven to give extra life, but i did them just in case and well I get 20 hours of use like i said before.
Sixth - Watchdog. This app monitors all the other apps and processes in your phone and will alert you if a rogue app is draining your better life.
Seventh - I did the "Alternate Battery Fix". This involves changing one setting and who knows maybe it does help me get extra juice.
Link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1051036
Eighth - Wifi Never sleep. Supposedly according to some if you change wifi to Never Sleep it will stop some loop in the programing which in turn will save battery.
Ninth - Wifi Calling. If you didn't decide to freeze/uninstall this app. Make sure that this is OFF, because whenever you have wifi on it will constantly flip between Wifi Calling and normal radio towers, which once again is bad for your battery life.
Well, Thats that and if y'all can think of anything that i missed or have any questions or ideas let me know! And remember this is a Dual-Core, High-End, Monster Phone and duh if you use it hardcore (Movies, HD Games, tons of web browsing) the battery will die fairly quick.
P.S. Will post a Screen Shot of Uptime for 20 hours later(if it doesn't Re-boot before i get to 20)
Update #1: Have read all the posts and have decided to speak up about a couple things.
Task Killers - I feel like these are brought up in every thread ever created about batteries, and well they are useless. So, if you are gonna bring up the ram usage argument. Android is made to kill programs that are either inactive for to long or the operating system will shut down background tasks if a new app needs the cpu power. Than for those who say that it helps close programs and makes the battery last longer.Having a Task Killer that basically re-closes the same apps over and over again(These are usually bloatware background apps that for some reason never stop running) is not gonna do anything except waste precious battery life on running the task killer itself cause the app will just restart. Your best bet is to run watchdog find the apps that are taking to much battery and freeze/uninstall them.
Managing Apps - Apps like Tasker, Juice Defender, and the like are in my opinion not battery savers at all. They are just tools to implement what i have already previously stated, but that doesn't mean that they aren't useful. They are good if you have a busy schedule and have to constantly turn the internet on and off or switch between certain settings, but they are not actually a cause of better battery just a tool to implement what you could do on your own.

I've done most of those things over the course of the last week and I just got a little over 24 hours on my last charge.
Those tips are legit.

Thanks! I was kinda worried about it cause it was my first post!

spencersir2 said:
Thanks! I was kinda worried about it cause it was my first post!
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good job man i love it most def legit

squidbutt said:
good job man i love it most def legit
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Thanks! haha but if anyone has anything to add let me know I would like this thread to hopefully kill all those other ones away cause I am tired of them cluttering the forum when I am actually looking for something!

Great job! I've been getting about 20hrs of battery life using some of these... now I have more tricks to add =-)

Good job! I'm almost done withall the tweaks and have say it helping. Thanks
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Great tips. I was doing most of those, but have added the calibration software as well as watchdog. I have also found Juice Defender to be a big help.
Thanks again.

this is still not acceptable for a phone in 2011 to still have that kind of battery, most people out there aren't really concerned about tweaking their phones or dont even know about it. Im not gonna use setCPU or anything else, i expect things just to work flawlessly out of the box.

Tasker can be a friend in this whole deal too.
If you can automate your radios & screen brightness to exactly what you need when you need it you can save significant battery life.

If your WiFi calling app can't stay on wifi, you need to fix your wifi network and not your phone.
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With all of these changes having a toggle for haptic feedback I assume would help a ton...considering its a touchscreen and a retardedly fast phone. Otherwise it vibrates on every damn user input. Just curious what others think about this. Anyways, thanks for this post....the forum is getting congested.

hanged_man said:
this is still not acceptable for a phone in 2011 to still have that kind of battery, most people out there aren't really concerned about tweaking their phones or dont even know about it. Im not gonna use setCPU or anything else, i expect things just to work flawlessly out of the box.
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Yeah, but on the flip side your an early adopter for technology that literally JUST CAME OUT and so there is no perfected system for it. I mean the version of android we are running right now doesn't even truly support dual-core! So yes this is the price we pay, and if dual core had been out for two years I would completely agree but it hasn't. This is what android has always been built on a semi flawed system but top of the line technology and thanks to the great community we have we can push the limit of every device out there even the g1.
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I meant this for people like myself who live in an area ( or college like me) where you are constantly moving in and out of wifi range and that would take a drain on your battery.
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Wotornot said:
With all of these changes having a toggle for haptic feedback I assume would help a ton...considering its a touchscreen and a retardedly fast phone. Otherwise it vibrates on every damn user input. Just curious what others think about this. Anyways, thanks for this post....the forum is getting congested.
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I think the reason we have so much haptic feedback though is because we are lacking physical buttons and the small vibration gives us the sense of a solid keyboard even though as you stated everything is a touch screen. Well that is my 2 cents anyway.
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Marcus Ryan said:
Tasker can be a friend in this whole deal too.
If you can automate your radios & screen brightness to exactly what you need when you need it you can save significant battery life.
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I will definitely look into tasker and check it out personally and add it to the list later! Thanks!
Update: I have seen programs or apps like this before many moons ago i used a program called wisyncplus and basically it is just profiles. This I guess could be used to increase battery life, but in my opinion apps like this and Juice Defender and what not are simply 1) too much of a hassle - cause you have to usually set up each profile individually 2)This is more of a convenience - It doesn't actually increase battery life it is just a manager almost like a widget.
Than back to your argument about the screen brightness my auto-adjust does just fine depending on the lighting and honestly in less your watching a movie, playing video games, or doing intense web browsing your more than likely not even gonna have your screen on that long. (and to those of you that say the Auto-Adjust doesn't work remember that this is an LCD screen it is lit from behind so it is gonna seem brighter unlike the Nexus S which is lit in the screen making it viewable with less brightness)
Than for automating radios honestly there is already widgets for that. The stock rom comes with a Wifi on/off widget so no complaints there, and elixir(which is a free and very useful app) comes with a apn off/on widget which is really all you need cause in my experience unless my internet is on I see no difference in battery life being GSM preferred over WCDMA preferred.
So in less you really do have a tight schedule, or just don't wanna mess with changing settings manually(and with widgets), Yes, Tasker is perfect cause it basically does everything for you.(even though i am pretty sure there are free apps exactly like Tasker)
(Sorry if this came off kinda rude I don't mean to flame at all just trying to say all of my opinion and back it up as best i can)
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hanged_man said:
this is still not acceptable for a phone in 2011 to still have that kind of battery, most people out there aren't really concerned about tweaking their phones or dont even know about it. Im not gonna use setCPU or anything else, i expect things just to work flawlessly out of the box.
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if this is the case, i don't think that an open-source phone is for you. the beauty of android is that anyone can personalize it and tinker with it.
the g2x is sort of like a muscle car- it has lots of [dual core]power, but the trade off is trying to manage battery life.

spencersir2 said:
I think the reason we have so much haptic feedback though is because we are lacking physical buttons and the small vibration gives us the sense of a solid keyboard even though as you stated everything is a touch screen. Well that is my 2 cents anyway.
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For the sake of min/maxing battery drain I would think toggling the vibrate after every input would help. I actually like the keyboard without it pulsing all the damn time. And my hearing might be a little sensitive to where I dislike the fart sounding vibrate motor. Haha.

jayohwhy said:
if this is the case, i don't think that an open-source phone is for you. the beauty of android is that anyone can personalize it and tinker with it.
the g2x is sort of like a muscle car- it has lots of [dual core]power, but the trade off is trying to manage battery life.
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Couldn't have said it better myself. This is exactly why I am a huge android supporter/early adopter, a car fanatic, and a Mechanical Engineering major. Because I love the individuality of it all and to be able to own something that can be unique to me.

Wotornot said:
With all of these changes having a toggle for haptic feedback I assume would help a ton...considering its a touchscreen and a retardedly fast phone. Otherwise it vibrates on every damn user input. Just curious what others think about this. Anyways, thanks for this post....the forum is getting congested.
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I dont think turning off haptic feedback will really make to much of a difference in terms of battery use.
Our phones are dual core phones, in every test run dual core phones have less of a battery draw because two cpus is better then one. When dealing with a multicore phone/computer the device can have more power without using more energy because there is less stress on the cores. The old way was a bigger battery drainer then this because 1 core would have to use more energy to produce equal amount of power that a 2 core setup would. As spencer said and we have all been saying its more of a software issue then a hardware issue. Imagine loading a computer with 24gbs of memory and have an core i7-Xtream chipset and using windows 7 32bit its pretty much a waste. I believe a lot of the issues that everyone is experiencing will be fixed by a software update or the dev team when roms of the gingerbread nature come out.
Spencer nice post btw!

[INFO] My HTC Sensation pics (post yours too!)

I was lucky enough to get my HTC Sensation yesterday, so here are some pics for people that might be interested.
I couldn't find a screenshot app in the Market that didn't require root, so back to the old faithful digital camera. The HTC Sensation's screen is very glossy, which makes reflections a bit of a pain, I'm afraid.
I would take a video, but (a) the autofocus is screwed on my camera, and (b) a 640x480 video wouldn't do the HTC Sensation's screen any justice at all!
I've got 12 pics in total, having to attach them 4 at a time...

4 more....

and the last four....
(apologies, they seem to be getting darker and grainier!)

Battery life went from 72% to 69% in 7 minutes.
[angst] Oh noezz, the battery life suxxzzzz lolz [/angst]

how is the flash performance on webpages and in youtube... also it looks like the battery is goin down fast or are u using the phone heavily would really like a battery review

Does the phone get warm/hot/really hot with gameplay..vids..movies or music playing?

Could you please post some pics of the back of the phone?

Is the wifi doing a better job after you've selected "Best WiFi Performance"?

i heard from a nother user here who uses the phone for 5 minutes that he complaint that it is not smooth at all !! can you confirm that ?
or is it smooth ?
how is the mic quality when making videos ?? really that bad as we can see on youtube ???
thanks

Happppy bro.
Thx dude to post some pics and really happy to see a member got his htc sensation. Congrats to all members who's having their long long waiting device. Tell us a bit more on the device itself. advantages and disadvantages. Thx friends.

Looks awesome :OO
Any feedback yet?

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Any feedback yet?
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In this thread from here onwards:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1081531&page=4
Is the wifi doing a better job after you've selected "Best WiFi Performance"?
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A bit better, yes, it's only disconnected once since I switched the option on, as opposed to fairly regularly beforehand. The option says that this uses more battery, so what could it be doing then?
Could you please post some pics of the back of the phone?
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Looks just like HTC website pics and online retailers pics.
Does the phone get warm/hot/really hot with gameplay..vids..movies or music playing?
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It didn't get warm at all whilst running all the benchmarks, haven't played any games or watched any vids yet though.
how is the flash performance on webpages and in youtube...
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Performance on the BBC website was very slick (embedded videos in webpages) over WiFi.
also it looks like the battery is goin down fast or are u using the phone heavily would really like a battery review
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Nothing particularly, although the screen was on for the whole of that time. The phone is still on its first charge cycle, though. The battery was about 70% charged out of the box, so I let it run down to 9% then charge it overnight back up to 100% and left it plugged in for about 6-7 hours in total (it only took about 3-4 to get to 100% though).

hope to upload a video of unboxing to youtobe!
hope to upload a video of unboxing to youtobe!
thanks

thx
Thx sjgore for feedback.

what about the feeling of it ... smooth enough???
and the microphone quality in videos ? how is it please ??

Yes how is the speaker quality? I want to know if its loud.
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no i mean the voice thats recordet when you take videos ....
if its metalic or as goog as the sound from samsung

benchmarks!!!
Please!!!

The camera is excellent. Taking still shots, it takes a fraction of a second (barely perceivable) to actually take the shot, rather than the usual 2-3 seconds with other phones as the phone tries to focus and process the data. Very good quality pics too, with what I have taken so far.
Taking videos in full HD is excellent too. Very smooth, and the phone seems to do it with ease. Smooth playback, no juddering or screen tearing. No problems with sound either. Very clear, couldn't hear any background hiss or distortion.

brandi said:
benchmarks!!!
Please!!!
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See the other thread I linked to above, they're all in there: Quadrant, Linpack, and SmartBench 2011.

[Q] Quick question..

Just wanted to get a better opinion on something I had thought of.
Does leaving the backlight on with the clock app going, perhaps like overnight. Does that bear any negative effects on the screen. Especially if you do it regularly?

Cyanidex00 said:
Just wanted to get a better opinion on something I had thought of.
Does leaving the backlight on with the clock app going, perhaps like overnight. Does that bear any negative effects on the screen. Especially if you do it regularly?
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Generally all screens would have a burn-out effect. But since the life span of a phone is short (assuming we change phones within an year or two), the possibility of anyone noticing it within that period would be very small to none.
It would be cheaper to get a night clock
Suggestion: If u could change the title to something like "reg. screen burnout" or something that's more related to question, it would be appreciated.

Alarm Clock Plus
I use this app for all my alarms and one thing I like most about it is you can configure it so that when you plug it in at nite ( i keep mine beside the bed) it displays the time in a screensaver fashion. I built a little stand for mine out of styrofoam that holds it at the best angle for viewing from the bed.

Live Wallpaper Battery Drain?

Hey,
I am brand new to Android and my HTC One X. I just got it about a week and a half ago. I love the Bubbles live wallpaper, but I do have a concern about battery drain while having any live wallpaper active.
So my question is, does a live wallpaper have a significant hit on the battery?
I can get about 12 - 14 hours of "normal" use out of my One X with auto-brightness on, and in a mixed LTE / WiFi coverage. The phone is still new to me so I'm still tinkering and learning. Switched from an iPhone and love Android so far and the One X. I've noticed though that the screen is the biggest consumer of my battery. Usually around the 65% mark. While phone is 2nd and then various other things.

This was certainly true for older phones, like my HTC Aria. However, I didn't really notice that much of a battery hit with this phone. I used the bubbles wallpaper for the first week I had the phone too. I realized that the novelty went away after a while and now I use static pictures.
It could just be that the battery life is so good on this phone anyway that I didn't notice a hit. Either way, yes, it does use more battery. Whether that difference is negligible now, I'm not sure. If you like the wallpaper I suggest you use it.
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I haven't really noticed it, but try it out for yourself and let us know how it went.
Hell, I'll test too.
EDIT: I underclock to 912 MHz most of the time btw. No lag so far.
From my sexy white, Nocturnaled HTC One X

It doesn't make much difference with my galaxy s2
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ECEXCURSION said:
This was certainly true for older phones, like my HTC Aria. However, I didn't really notice that much of a battery hit with this phone. I used the bubbles wallpaper for the first week I had the phone too. I realized that the novelty went away after a while and now I use static pictures.
It could just be that the battery life is so good on this phone anyway that I didn't notice a hit. Either way, yes, it does use more battery. Whether that difference is negligible now, I'm not sure. If you like the wallpaper I suggest you use it.
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I like the wallpaper, but I'm finding that the battery life kinda sucks. And I don't know if that's just because it's a new gadget and I'm playing with it a lot, or if there is something wrong and it's draining my battery quicker than normal. For example. At 12 noon it was 100% fully charged, green LED and all. I unplugged it. At 7:48pm with "normal" use it was down to 54%. I noticed that it was losing about 1% per 15 minutes of standby with screen off. That seems kinda high, I don't think my iPhone drained that fast. Mind you it didn't have a kick ass screen like this One X does.

Oh. You're going to have to install a new Rom to improve battery life. I suggest CleanROM 4.2se since you're new to android and It's very close to stock, but optimized to hell.
There are many stickied topics (guides) that will show you how to get started.
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In my experience, it really depends on the live wallaper. The bubbles one seems to be fine on the battery, meaning it probably drains just a few more a day than normal. Others seem to really drain the beast.
Bubbles is the best stock live wallaper in my opinion.
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ECEXCURSION said:
Oh. You're going to have to install a new Rom to improve battery life. I suggest CleanROM 4.2se since you're new to android and It's very close to stock, but optimized to hell.
There are many stickied topics (guides) that will show you how to get started.
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Ya, I unlocked my boot loader, rooted my phone, and installed CleanROM 4.2 SE already. Seems to run fairly well, but none of the Multitasking MOD's seem to work.
Maybe now that the Kernel source has been released some stuff will come along that will allow for better multitasking.

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Ya, I unlocked my boot loader, rooted my phone, and installed CleanROM 4.2 SE already. Seems to run fairly well, but none of the Multitasking MOD's seem to work.
Maybe now that the Kernel source has been released some stuff will come along that will allow for better multitasking.
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this will most definitely help solve those issues

celticking said:
In my experience, it really depends on the live wallaper. The bubbles one seems to be fine on the battery, meaning it probably drains just a few more a day than normal. Others seem to really drain the beast.
Bubbles is the best stock live wallaper in my opinion.
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I agree with all this. I've never had an issue with stock live wallpapers affecting battery life on my old HTC phone (Desire Z). I suspect some poorly coded live wallpapers on the Market are the battery drain culprits, and give live wallpapers a bad rap.
I also agree that Bubbles is a cool LWP! I've been rocking it most the time since I've had my One X!
Having brightness on "auto" is probably going to drain a heckuvalot more battery than the LWP will. Go from that to 40-50%, and you will probably increase your battery life by 30%.

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I have bunch of pretty lively live wallpapers, and as far as I can tell, they're not affecting my battery life.

So I tried one day with, and one day without a live wallpaper and didn't notice a significant difference. The only live wall paper I use is Bubbles.
However I have another issue I'm going to create a new thread for regarding battery drain over night while doing nothing.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801719

Extreme battery drain

First of all, Hello !
Ok so, idk why, my Android System use too much battery, I mean, look at the photos. It used like 20% of my battery in ~ 5 Hours? ( I didn't even played so much, I only watched youtube and listen to music (Bluetooth). First time when I had this phone, that wasn't a problem but now.... It's.... A few months ago i had like 12SoT with like 2-3h of playing games, and with ~20% battery left. I want to know if someone have the same problem, if yes, do you know how to solve it? Thanks.
Btw when I m on.... Idk ... Duolingo, it doesn't consume so much, idk what's wrong with that....