Hi folks - this is the first thread I have started, hence requesting the non-noobs to go easy on me... (this forum is a scary-kind-of-cool)
I mustered up the courage to install Infused 1.5.0 on my stock... the instructions were superb and everything went great... really enjoying the improved speed and looks. But my battery life has degraded. It has been more than a week since I flashed my phone - and it is only getting worse. Now I have read a lot about how Infused is getting great battery life for some folks... and i have gone through those threads, trying to figure out what I am doing wrong. This is my typical usage profile
1) I put the phone on charging before I go to sleep... when I wake up (around 7 AM) it is fully charged.
2) I quickly check overnight messages, finish the daily ablutions, and 30 min later when I check the phone it is already at 95%.
3) By 10 AM, I have made a few long phone calls (no bluetooth) (totalling 60-90 minutes) - and the battery is down to 75%
4) At work I use a bluetooth A2DP headset - maybe 30-40 min of calls and by 12 I am at 50%.
5) More calls in the afternoon, intermitted mail checking and sometimes 30-40 minutes of music streaming on my bluetooth headset - and by 6 PM my phone is down to critical level 12-15%.
This is in now way the same experience that others are having with the Infused ROM and with the Infuse phone in general.
Other points:
6) I run Juice Defender... (don't know if it helps)
7) My screen brightness is just a few notches over 0%
8) My data is always on - except when I am using Wifi of course
9) I turn bluetooth off when I am not using it
So that's the story guys... and I would eternally grateful if the awesome folks out here can help me figure out what I am doing wrong... or there is some logic behind the sad battery life of what is otherwise the best phone that I have ever owned.
It depends how long Infused has been running on your system. After about 3 days I noticed my phone was adjusting to the ROM and the battery life improved significantly. Aside from that, try this trick. Drain your battery next to nothing and then charge all the way. Do this a couple of times. Not quite sure about the logistics but it seems to work. Another thing that has improved my battery life is to make sure I don't have background apps running. You can check this by going into apps > manage apps > and then running. Sometimes Media Hub will begin a background process and that eats up a whopping 8 MBs alone. Force close these pointless background apps and you should see an improvement there as well.
have you conditioned the battery and reset battery stats?
popesmasseuse said:
It depends how long Infused has been running on your system. After about 3 days I noticed my phone was adjusting to the ROM and the battery life improved significantly. Aside from that, try this trick. Drain your battery next to nothing and then charge all the way. Do this a couple of times. Not quite sure about the logistics but it seems to work. Another thing that has improved my battery life is to make sure I don't have background apps running. You can check this by going into apps > manage apps > and then running. Sometimes Media Hub will begin a background process and that eats up a whopping 8 MBs alone. Force close these pointless background apps and you should see an improvement there as well.
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Thanks popesmasseuse (you really aren't are you?)... the ROM has been running now for a week... gets worse rather than better. I do typically wait for my battery to drain completely before I charge it... but when I do have to do it at 7 PM - then I can never charge it fully, before I have to start using it again. I wonder if the fact that my phone goes through "micro charges" is a reason for my declining battery life...
Will check the running apps... and see if closing them improves things... thanks!
Fact: Installing a ROM greatly improves battery life... Try it....
Turn of GPS and Bluetooth when not in use.
Same here I uninstalled media hub... period... just useless...
Phone calls are a pretty heavy battery drain. Sounds like you're in call for hours each day. Most people don't talk on the phone more than a few minutes a day. Poor signal will also significantly reduce your battery life... how many bars you usually have at work?
My battery life got better the longer I had the infused ROM. But personally I only talk on the phone maybe a total of an hour each day, but I am constantly using internet and youtube, and if I have spare time I'm using my Kindle app to read some books. I keep my GPS, sync, and wifi on all day long and my brightness all the way up (I just can't stand a dim screen lol) and by the time I got home today my battery was at 40%, which I am perfectly fine with.
gtg465x said:
Phone calls are a pretty heavy battery drain. Sounds like you're in call for hours each day. Most people don't talk on the phone more than a few minutes a day. Poor signal will also significantly reduce your battery life... how many bars you usually have at work?
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Ah...the man himself.
Yes I talk a lot on the phone - nature of the job. 3 hours minimum in a day. Signal at home is terrible - 15% strength... that could be the reason why the battery runs dry after the morning routine. Any way to offset that?
At work signal is great. But in office I also tend to use my desk phone more...
hydrogenman said:
have you conditioned the battery and reset battery stats?
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Err... no... Noob alert!!!
How does one do that?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14912331&postcount=7
Read this post in another battery thread I am doing this right now to see how it performs afterwards.
Read the thread in my sig.
Never use task killers.
For me, battery life on phones gets good after about 2 weeks or so.
With light to medium use I can easily go for 2+ days.
Consider not streaming music through Bluetooth. Also don't auto sync stuff every 15 mins. If you can use Gmail they use Push notification. I'm on my phone all day literally and I make it home with some battery left. BTW connect to a Wi-Fi when ever possible, 3g data streaming will kill your battery quick.
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Blackberrynomore said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14912331&postcount=7
Read this post in another battery thread I am doing this right now to see how it performs afterwards.
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has anyone tried this method?
It's a Lithium-Ion battery which means it does NOT respond to "conditioning".
"Reconditioning a battery involves completely discharging the energy from a battery then recharging the
battery. Li-Ion batteries do not require reconditioning to maintain good battery performance since Li-Ion
does not have a memory effect. It is necessary to complete drain and then recharge a Li-Ion battery in
order to determine its current capacity level, but that is not the same thing as reconditioning the battery. Li-
Ion batteries do not have a condition that needs to be reconditioned." lxe.com
andrawer said:
It's a Lithium-Ion battery which means it does NOT respond to "conditioning".
"Reconditioning a battery involves completely discharging the energy from a battery then recharging the
battery. Li-Ion batteries do not require reconditioning to maintain good battery performance since Li-Ion
does not have a memory effect. It is necessary to complete drain and then recharge a Li-Ion battery in
order to determine its current capacity level, but that is not the same thing as reconditioning the battery. Li-
Ion batteries do not have a condition that needs to be reconditioned." lxe.com
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Keiht's tutorial is effectively a technique called "bump charging" for putting that last extra percent or two of charge into a battery. However - with Li-Ion batteries, charging like this will SEVERELY reduce their charge cycle lifetime.
The only thing that "calibration" should affect is how your device reports battery charge level, NOT actual power usage. You should get the same total battery life whether your device is "calibrated" or not, with the exception possibly of the device shutting off prematurely because it thinks the battery is lower than it really is.
Entropy512 said:
Keiht's tutorial is effectively a technique called "bump charging" for putting that last extra percent or two of charge into a battery. However - with Li-Ion batteries, charging like this will SEVERELY reduce their charge cycle lifetime.
The only thing that "calibration" should affect is how your device reports battery charge level, NOT actual power usage. You should get the same total battery life whether your device is "calibrated" or not, with the exception possibly of the device shutting off prematurely because it thinks the battery is lower than it really is.
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I would have to agree with you. I followed his directions as i was having horrible battery issues after going to 1.5.0 and it seems to have helped the reporting as far as I can tell. I think the big problem and it is only a guess is how the phone is reporting the battery condition not actual battery left. In any event I am running JD and the longer I run with 1.5.0 the battery seems to be lasting a lot longer but I have ti disable most everything which hobbles the phones best features to get that battery life still searching for the perfect solution.
I'm new to this phone, and still learning my way around a bit. A couple of items that I'm wondering about...
1) When my battery starts getting low, and it goes into power saver mode, there is a button I can hit that says "Battery Info." It seems to almost be like the battery history in Spare Parts, which is nice, since Spare Parts doesn't work. However, I'm not absolutely certain how to interpret this data. Is it telling me what percent of my battery drain has been due to certain apps? Or is it telling me what percent of the time they have been running? Also, how can I get to this information when I'm not in power saver mode?
2) On a related note, what is considered to be typical battery life for this phone? I know that's a completely loaded question and differs by use. But maybe like a min/max range? And what things can I tweak to maximize battery life?
Many thanks.
flu13 said:
I'm new to this phone, and still learning my way around a bit. A couple of items that I'm wondering about...
1) When my battery starts getting low, and it goes into power saver mode, there is a button I can hit that says "Battery Info." It seems to almost be like the battery history in Spare Parts, which is nice, since Spare Parts doesn't work. However, I'm not absolutely certain how to interpret this data. Is it telling me what percent of my battery drain has been due to certain apps? Or is it telling me what percent of the time they have been running? Also, how can I get to this information when I'm not in power saver mode?
2) On a related note, what is considered to be typical battery life for this phone? I know that's a completely loaded question and differs by use. But maybe like a min/max range? And what things can I tweak to maximize battery life?
Many thanks.
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1) to get into the battery stats go into Menu*Settings*About Phone*Battery*Battery Use* and its my understanding that the percentage shown for each app/task shows how much of a percentage of the battery that has been used was used by said task so right now my display shows 58% and im at 36% battery so 58% of the used battery was due to my display, then if i click on display it shows a time for how long an app/task has been active, so in my case phone has been on for 9 hours and display has been used for 4 hours i hope that helps
2)Battery life on the Shift is pretty solid im still at 35% and my phone hasnt charged since yesterday at about 6pm and i used it till maybe 2 am went to bed no charge woke up used the phone for about 30 minutes and have been on tapatalk and gtalk, facebook...the longest standyby i have had with my shift is 48 hours of very light usage but i normally get about 8-10 hours of extreme usage, so if your not a power user you should see some amazing battery life
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Awesome. Thanks. That battery history thing blows Spare Parts out of the water.
Hey folks,
i am using Oodie's 2.7.6 MIUI rom and the air kernel v4.4. i am experiencing a rather annoying battery drain. the phone has been running ~15h on battery and is at 63%, however I haven't done anything with it except for checking FB once.
The phone is UC and UV (100-880mhz, voltage all down at least 25mv). according to the battery monitor it seems to be "android OS". how can i figure out which process exactly keeps on draining the battery?
push notification is active for three apps (google mail, kakaotalk - sth like whatsapp, facebook).
37% in 15 hours is roughly 2-3% an hour. You're probably not going to get better battery than that since that adds up to roughly 40 hours of standby which is very good batter life. Android OS is at the top of the list because nothing else is using power (it's a relative statistic).
Most definitely. From the looks of it, you barely even used your phone.
this is exactly my question. the battery drain wasn't this bad before. Even with slight to normal use i could go around 30+ hours without recharging. now the battery is done in the same time without any usage
i had that on quite a few ICS ROMs myself... turning auto rotate off fixed it for me, maybe it does the same for you
I just upgraded from GB to ICS - CM9 (cm-9-20120830-UNOFFICIAL-galaxys4gmtd.zip) on my Samsung Galaxy S 4G. After upgrading I put a new battery (original OEM) last week only.
But still I an getting very poor battery life..
When I check systems battery...
Most of the battery is consumed by "Standby Cell" ( > 40%) and "Android OS" ( > 20%)...
I have taken following steps to try out improving battery life...
1. Installing "Battery Booster Lite" as well but didn't helped.
2. Reducing Max CPU frequency to 400
3. Changing CPU GOVERNOR to SmartAssV2
4. Reduced brightness to 15% and sleep time to 30 sec.
5. Changed Wi-Fi settings to turn off on sleep.
In addition battery booster turns off wifi, data in night time and while on sleep.
But none of the above helps. In stand by battery drains out almost 5-10% in an hour. and if I use (for anything call, app, gps, data or just check settings) the phone it drains out almost 2% in a minute.
With GB i was getting atleast 35-40 hours life with moderate use. but with ICS it's not even 18 hours. And it's very hard to keep the phone on charging every 6 hours.
Please suggest, what should I do to improve battery life?
Thanks.
I'd read the thread on CM9 that is even on the page here where you posted -- this has been discusssed ad infinitum over the last two years.
Search xda for better battery stats (free version for us here). Install it and check to see which app(s) are causing the drainage (wake lock).
Hello,
I test the battery drain with these two scenarios:
1. When I charged the battery to 100% , then place it in my room for overnight, and I found the average usage of the battery is 2/% per hour.
2. When I charged the battery to 100% , then take it to my office, I traveld and use whatsapp for a while, then I found the average usage is 4.2% (Sometimes, I think it is also 4.2 % even I don't used whatsapp)
3. I think when the my phone galaxy N7000 with 4.1.2 Jellybean is traveled, the battery will drain more fast, I found the wakelock time of multipdp and secril_fd-interface is almost doubled for Battery Better Stats when I
Traveled the phone.
Question:
1. Is my guessing correct?
2. If it is, how can I reduce the wakelock time if I traveled the phone?
Thanks.
I've always found this to be the case on Android phones - haven't figured out why.