Hi folks,
I'm new to these forums and also a new smartphone user! Wanted to find out some info on which settings I should turn off to improve battery performance. Thanks!
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A new phone probably doesn't need battery conditioning but you can start by disabling widgets that you don't need, a lot of them pull data which sucks battery. You can also disable auto brightness and then lower the brightness of the display.
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juice defender is a good battery saver app
I'd day the number one thing you can do is lower the screen brightness (as stated above). Constantly (automatically) adjusting the brightness is a substantial drain. I have mine set to 30, and the only time it is too dark is outside when sunny, and you can use a toggle widget to turn up the brightness when you are outside. So far I'm getting a full day of use, which is all I could ask for.
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I turned off all of the att bloatware that was running on the background, as well as adjust the settings on the gps satellites and that seemed to improve the battery performance too. I did adjust the screen brightness down to 25% which is just enough for me to still enjoy the display.
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SCREEBL!!!
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.keyes.screebl.lite&feature=search_result
Here are some things you can try:
Turn off Auto Sync.
Turn off GPS unless you actually use it.
Turn off WiFi if you aren't using it.
If you're willing to pay for apps, get SetCPU and make some profiles for things like screen off, etc.
Don't install any task killers. FroYo's own task management is better for both performance and battery life.
Setcpu requires root
I wanted to see how far I can increase battery uptime by just tweaking the settings. Thanks for the comments, really does help.
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Setcpu requires root
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Yes indeed.
How to root the Inspire
Rooted Stock ROM
Wanted to report progress. In ny first charge it inky lasted 10 hours, having everything on ( gps, auto-sync, always-on mobile data, ATT crapware).
After turning all of those off, my phone is still at 70% battery life after almost 12 hours of mild use.
I'm a happy camper!
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Nice progress!!
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I turned off background data and my battery life is fantastic. It's pretty good if you're on WiFi most of the time as well. With all data services syncing on the network my battery was a bit rough.
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Smartphone Batterlife
Any modern smartphone should last a full day of moderate use without having to manually manage any of the radios or default syncing. I found my Inspire had pretty decent battery life after I installed Launcher Pro and set it as the default launcher. I am convinced that Sense UI launcher and widgets are the killer of batteries on these phones.
for better battery life, read through this thread.
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Saw this app in the Desire HD forum. It basically shuts down your data connection after a predetermined time set by you after the phone goes to standby.
The premium version has extra features like setting it to reconnect after a certain amount of time while in standby to allow your phone to push email etc...
I used the free app today and it works very well. The data returns quickly after coming out of standby. At my job I have terrible data coverage and it would drain my battery considerably. Today with this app I made it through a day of work without having to charge and I have over 50% left after about 12 or 13 hrs of of being off charge. It's a good app. Give it a try.
Oh, I know juice defender does this, but this app is simpler and I like simpler.
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Nice. I need this. Might be worth buying
rooted?
Do you have to be rooted to get this app? I did not see it in the Market?
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I don't think it requires root but I know for a fact it's in the Market. There is no space between "timeout" and "3G". If you type Timeout3g you should find it
I installed it but does not seem to be turning my data off. I'm using the free edition. I set it to 5 minutes and hit save and apply. Does the data icon actually go away when its off ?
Edit: Never mind, I'm an idiot lol I got out working perfect. Awesome app. Should help a lot with battery life on the inspire nice find.
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Hi all.
Looking for some serious help. Coming from a Samsung vibrant. I need help with how to save battery life on the sensation. I have been off charger for 5 hours and 51 minutes and am down to 41%. Is this normal? I have been only texting really. I got my data from battery monitor.
Thanks in advance. Anyway to make this better?
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It all depends on what you're using the phone for. I'm at 55% after 12 hours. yesterday I got 17 hours. if all you're doing us texting then no,thats not normal. but I suspect you're probably doing more with it than you realize since its a new toy.
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He prolly has running wifi as well?
Settings > Wireless and networks > Wifi settings > [MENU BUTTON] > Advanced > Wifi sleep policy > After 15 minutes
Stop Android from phoning home and you'll save greatly on battery life.
Best way I've found to prevent battery drain, is to stop Android from phoning home.
Once you use an app like Autostarts to stop unnecessary things from starting up all the time on their own and also block a couple ports that are not always needed via an app like DroidWall, you'll see great battery life. Also see other details in that link of things I turned off to increase battery life amoung other benefits.
For now, I can only speak for seeing the difference while using a Nexus One ROM on my HD2, but I have way better battery life, GPS lock times and faster device boot ups than ever before.
This is yet another one of the reasons I must wait till the Sensation is rooted and unlocked. Because I'm not using it while it's running things I can't better manage, so they don't drain my battery.
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It all depends on what you're using the phone for. I'm at 55% after 12 hours. yesterday I got 17 hours. if all you're doing us texting then no,thats not normal. but I suspect you're probably doing more with it than you realize since its a new toy.
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How did u get that much? I have battery monitor as a widget. I also did not charge the phone all the way up when I first got it.
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Well to be honest for the 8 hours I'm at work, I use it light. texting, a few calls and about 30 minutes of reading pulse and playing games. However the next 8-9 hours I would consider moderate to heavy use. I have no monitors or anything running, just running straight out of the box.
I'm at 34% after 14.5 hours today.
I charged it fully the first day, ran it to 0, then charged it fully again last night.
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Did draining it out help? It is really killing my battery. When my phone idles it loses about 7 percent an hour. Is this normal?
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Mine is at most 3% per hour so I would say check if you have any running apps that aren't supposed to be.
I suppose draining could have helped but I have no way of knowing for sure
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Yeah I killed my battery in 12 hours with decent use and then charged to 88 had to go but now down to 35 three hours later ....thinking of draining battery and then charging
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I think custom kernel can improve battery a lot..Wait
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I think mine's even worse. Phone was off charger at 100% at 11am, by 1:30PM it's already down to 80%ish. By 4PM it was down to 40%ish, got it charged up to about 70%ish around 6PM, by midnight I was around 6% again.
So I think I'm losing around 10%/hr. That's gotta be abnormal, and the battery gets really hot too. At the moment, I have several speculations:
1. Death grip causing the phone to work harder to find signal, and tmo's coverage kinda sucks in my town
2. I have defective unit/battery
3. Some apps behind the scene are killing it. But I've checked what's running behind, even turned off unnecessary stuff using autorun manager. Auto sync is turned of only for gmails. Weather, IMAP mails, pulse, facebook etc are set to pull in couple hrs instead hourly. The battery life cannot be worse than my 2-yr old HD2.
Hey guys. Have you considered bump charging. HTC advised the idea for the HTC desire battery and it in most cases doubles the battery.
Sorry I can't be more specific bit I'm on my phone. I have found the relevant link. Read the 1st post. I'm gonna do it when I get in from my gig.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=712990
Bump charging kills the battery in long run.
If you have to do it to a brand new handset it can't be good news.
HTC shipping crapy product again!
Customers should not have to put up with this crap and be the beta tester!
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snarestud940 said:
Hi all.
Looking for some serious help. Coming from a Samsung vibrant. I need help with how to save battery life on the sensation. I have been off charger for 5 hours and 51 minutes and am down to 41%. Is this normal? I have been only texting really. I got my data from battery monitor.
Thanks in advance. Anyway to make this better?
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I'd suggest uninstalling battery monitor. I had installed it on my g2x and immediately saw my battery percentage drajning more quickly. Probably because its always running in the background.
The best tip I can give for better battery life is to minimize what you allow to run in the background. Get rid of any task killers, set Facebook/Twitter/Email/etc to sync less frequently, turn off wifi if you're not using it so its not scanning for networks, and so on.
Also install juice defender from the Market. Its free. It has greatly increased my battery life.
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I'd suggest uninstalling battery monitor. I had installed it on my g2x and immediately saw my battery percentage drajning more quickly. Probably because its always running in the background.
The best tip I can give for better battery life is to minimize what you allow to run in the background. Get rid of any task killers, set Facebook/Twitter/Email/etc to sync less frequently, turn off wifi if you're not using it so its not scanning for networks, and so on.
Also install juice defender from the Market. Its free. It has greatly increased my battery life.
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I tried juice defender. Didn't know how to set it up properly. What are good settings for that? And thanks for your help everyone.
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I tried juice defender. Didn't know how to set it up properly. What are good settings for that? And thanks for your help everyone.
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I installed the Plus version because it allows wifi control. I just use the default settings except I change so it doesn't disable wifi. I do that because I use wifi calling at home so I dont want Juice Defender turning off my wifi. I always turn it off manually when I leave the house anyway.
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I installed the Plus version because it allows wifi control. I just use the default settings except I change so it doesn't disable wifi. I do that because I use wifi calling at home so I dont want Juice Defender turning off my wifi. I always turn it off manually when I leave the house anyway.
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Balanced settings? Or whatever it is called?
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Balanced settings? Or whatever it is called?
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Yea Balanced Settings is good if you don't mind it managing your wifi too. In the Plus version I selected Customize instead of Balanced. The only thing I changed was the wifi setting. There's a ton more settings to configure but the default ones work fine for me and I don't have the patience to sift through them all anyway lol
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Yea Balanced Settings is good if you don't mind it managing your wifi too. In the Plus version I selected Customize instead of Balanced. The only thing I changed was the wifi setting. There's a ton more settings to configure but the default ones work fine for me and I don't have the patience to sift through them all anyway lol
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I agree but recommend you take the time to set up each setting on customise mode and you'll be amazed how much extra battery you save fr!!om the default values. Only takes about 5 mins
Hi...
I don't know whether it's just my Sensation problem or any 1 problem in Standby mode.. I noticed that the battery drop 4 to 5% /hour even I disable of Data connection....
How can i do to improve that battery backup or it will somehow come with the next update??
Thanks..
I'm using Juice defender it is designed to increase standby time by monitoring and schedule data connection when the screen is off.
To get the best saving, you need to play around witch settings in the advanced profile which require you to buy the Ultimate version of the app.
I've been using it for over a year on all my devices (apart from the xoom). Its one of my must have apps.
P.S. Give the free version try, if it works you can buy paid version to unlock more features.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.latedroid.juicedefender.beta&feature=more_from_developer
I think just disabling mobile network will save battery. Over night which is around 8 hours my batter percentage doesn't go down at all
I tried juice defender free version already but seemed not so successful just only x1.16 battery improvement..
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Do remember that it can take several weeks, with normale usage, before the battery is at full capacity.
I hope that's the case.. since I'm using it for almost 2 weeks now...
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Apparently, the new FW fixes the issues - reviews have said 1.34.401.1 has a much better battery life. Hoping Vodafone roll it out soon as I've got my Sensation arriving 2moro (I'd have got SIM-free but I won it so not complaining!!)
Yes.. let's hope it'll improve on the new FW...
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I used to use Juice Defender, but switched to Green Power Free. It seems to handle my data switching better than Juice Defender. Just my .02¢
Why am i getting different results during the day&night ? Both having Wifi-gps turned off. During the night it is 3mA, during the day around 100-200mA.
im running kg6 icbinb but i feel like im using it too much, i use it for music, work out for like an hour and text heavily and facebook and youtube... i tried juice defender but it made me loose my connection most of the time...
Juice defender turns off your data connections when the screen turns off, so that's probably what is happening. The paid version lets you maintain connections with specific apps you choose, but you may want to try other battery saver programs to see if there is a free one with app control.
Alright lol thanks man!!
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Set your apps to update manually. Automatic screen brightness. proper battery calibration. Will all help too
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This is probably one of the worst phones on battery life that I have ever had... No matter what I do, what tweaks I use of what rom I'm on... I always only get 7 to 8 hours of battery with 1 hr screen on time.
I honestly have no idea what to do... I'm so sick of it. Anybody have any suggestions?
Seriously?
I have been on my phone all day with a full charge and I still have about half the juice. I am on stock 4.0.4 ICS. The one that droidstyles has in his guide. The Rom that came with my phone sucked on battery. This Rom works great for some reason.
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What are your settings on? Post your settings (like screen, whether GPS is on, ect), a lot of times it has to do with your settings. I used to have so-so battery life but I tweaked some stuff in my settings and am very pleased with the phone.
Believe me, if you want bad, try the Droid Charge. Worst 4g phone I have ever had in terms of battery life.
This is on clean rom. Ignore the screen percentage, going down since this was a recently flashed rom.
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I have nothing running... Only thing that I actually did was run v6 and I am running kt kernel
I'm on pure motives rls7
I'll add a screen shot of my battery status tomorrow cause I just plugged in
I get 30 hours with 5 and a half hours screen time.
Idk why your battery life is so bad.
I have power save on, no vibration, and sync set to manual. That's about it. Battery life for me is amazing.
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Don't know if this problem could occur with different ROM's, but I had issues with a runaway process that kept showing up. Maybe try Developer Options -> Show CPU Usage. I noticed that one called gsiff_daemon kept showing up at the top and was making my battery drain extremely fast. Everyone on this forum said it was a common issue and that it wasn't a crucial file, therefore I should just change the name so it wouldn't get accessed.
On RLS7 and kt kernel? This kernel has capabilities for overclocking/underclocking & overvolting/undervolting. By default your min Mhz is set to 384. Go into ktweaker and lower it to 96, test your phone out with a scaled stress test (play store app for stress testing). Then you can also go into the extra settings of ktweaker and set the Mhz for when your screen is off in addition to the governor (many options of which some are powersaving labelled).
If you want to save more battery read the kernel's thread to see starting undervolting values and lower from there while testing your phones limits. More undervolted you are, the less battery your phone uses for that particular frequency.
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You obviously never had the thunderbolt, now that battery sucked. You have to let the rom settle in and your battery will improve. Usually for me the first day not so good after that everything is fine.
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You obviously never had the thunderbolt, now that battery sucked. You have to let the rom settle in and your battery will improve. Usually for me the first day not so good after that everything is fine.
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I had a Thunderbolt. Yep, now that was poor battery life.
My S3 gives me 12 hours if I use it heavily. Typically, at 16 hours, I still have 40% remaining. I leave WiFi, bluetooth, and GPS on 100% of the time.
As bad as your battery is, I would suspect that you have a poor radio signal.and the radios are cranking up the power to work. Try using WiFi or turning off mobile data for a while to get the LTE radio turned off.
man, i barely get 8 hours at times
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This is probably one of the worst phones on battery life that I have ever had... No matter what I do, what tweaks I use of what rom I'm on... I always only get 7 to 8 hours of battery with 1 hr screen on time.
I honestly have no idea what to do... I'm so sick of it. Anybody have any suggestions?
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Its not the phone.
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worwig said:
As bad as your battery is, I would suspect that you have a poor radio signal.and the radios are cranking up the power to work. Try using WiFi or turning off mobile data for a while to get the LTE radio turned off.
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This. For example, I have a 4g tower nearby at work, normally (4-5 bars). But sometimes it disappears, and I end up on a 1-2 bar 3g tower for the day. On those days, my battery life is around 8hrs max, barely using it. On good signal, even with crazy heavy usage (4hrs screen on and lots of 4g web browsing) I can get over 8 hours.
Signal strength has a LOT to do with battery life.
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I get amazing battery life. Stock battery too.
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Check your Google account sync - could be something in there is not syncing correctly. Settings / Accounts / Google.
I had this - Internet Sync was not working but kept trying burning CPU, network, and battery. Disabled the failing sync and all was better.
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Is it switching between 3 and 4g a lot? Constantly searching is rough on a battery.
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Wow. I've never gotten that bad of battery life. This thing is amazing on battery life!
Devices:
Samsung Galaxy S3 - stock JB leak
HTC Incredible - JB Inc RC3
Here is my battery life.
Sgs 3
Rom Wicked jb v1
Kernel stock
Uc 1.35
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I seriously doubt you guys are getting 7 plus hours of screen on time with the stock battery. If you are then you are charging it at some point.
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I seriously doubt you guys are getting 7 plus hours of screen on time with the stock battery. If you are then you are charging it at some point.
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I am using stock battery on stock jellybean leak and get 30+ hours with 5.5 to 7 hours screen on time you can see from the pics above that we are not charging. The bar would go UP at some point if we were.
I just have my phone set up the perfect way to get maximum battery life.
It's simple. I personally have nothing to gain from lying about something so silly as battery life.
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