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.
Profondo_Rosso said:
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
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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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Any suggestions?
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Any suggestions?
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Whats the OS version.
** should be in the Q &A **
It is the standard one which comes with the tablet...
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Turn off 3G data, bluetooth, GPS, and wifi when not using it.
Try charging to 100% with tab switch on, once at 100% pull charge lead out and power down tab, then with tab switch off plug charger in again and charge to 100% once thats done unplug charger then boot and use tab as normal.
On my tab witch is rooted and using custom rom i find 3G Data eats my battery very fast but with it off my tab lasts a lot lot longer.
3g is a huge battery hog. I don't use it very often. I get 2-3 days poor of mine which includes 10+ hours of stereo Bluetooth per day and then 3 hours of 3g internet browsing. Also, having the screen off most of the time helps lol.
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Mine also standard using dxjpe 2.3.3 average daily usage tweetcaster,contract killer,browser,wifi,xda,tagged etc could hit 8-10h
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Any suggestions?
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Sell it ?
You must have a rogue Tab or doing something wrong.
As I'm typing this, I'm at 60% left and Tab has been unplugged for 57 hours according to Battery Indicator Pro, and I never turn off wifi, set sleep policy to "never", cause I have Gmail, calendar, Email app and other stuff like Google+, seesmic and so forth syncing automatically. Ofcourse 3g is turned off, don't have a plan yet.
Battery life on this thing is amazing.
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LordLugard said:
You must have a rogue Tab or doing something wrong.
As I'm typing this, I'm at 60% left and Tab has been unplugged for 57 hours according to Battery Indicator Pro, and I never turn off wifi, set sleep policy to "never", cause I have Gmail, calendar, Email app and other stuff like Google+, seesmic and so forth syncing automatically. Ofcourse 3g is turned off, don't have a plan yet.
Battery life on this thing is amazing.
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57h?? wth???? How u did that?
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It is the standard one which comes with the tablet...
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Hi Try updating to Gingerbread
Use the bellow link and resources -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWiKGB3RJI0
You Battery life will improve lot.
Have a Good Time.
My sensation actually drains battery less whe its using somehing or on. This happen on pyramid3d. And miui frm tripndroid. Illike I'll listen to mussic for 1 hour, and it will be 100 to 96. And when I let it standby, it will go to like 88 in a hour. Is this normal?
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I had an issue similar to this. Every other day the battery would drain in half a day (when usually it would last a good 12 hours +)
Under the battery usage tab it was showing the phone as being awake for almost all of the time (Even though I hadn't used or touched the phone)
I think it was a Kernel issue (Correct me please if I'm wrong, just a small time n00b) As I was using the stock shipped rom but just rooted.
Anyway, upgraded now, and it seems to be ok so far! *touch wood*
Would suggest you look under the battery usage graph and see what that tells you.
Ill reply in 12 hours. Since I just ubplugged from charger
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You could've installed a bad app. Faulty/bad apps will stop the phone from sleeping. Look for apps that (when you install them) list that they can prevent the phone from sleeping in the permissions list.
If you've not installed too many, remove one at a time, leave for a while, and then check battery section in Settings to see if it's no longer staying awake.
If you find the app, contact the developer through the market so they can fix it.
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Also, if you have it, keep WiFi connected when in range. Uses less battery than mobile data. Switch it off when you're not connected of course.
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Sup guys,
I was curious to know while actually using your charge how fast does your device drain the battery. I know it can vary depending on what your doing (video streaming etc) but lets use web browsing as a example. Looks like I lose 1 percent every 3 mins. Does this sound normal?
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luis86dr said:
Sup guys,
I was curious to know while actually using your charge how fast does your device drain the battery. I know it can vary depending on what your doing (video streaming etc) but lets use web browsing as a example. Looks like I lose 1 percent every 3 mins. Does this sound normal?
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just having ur screen on for 3 straight min. could do that, let alone running a program lol.
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just having ur screen on for 3 straight min. could do that, let alone running a program lol.
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Lol figured that but wanted to see everyone's input on their battery use.
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Maybe when you post battery usage also include the time you had the screen on?
If anyone is wondering just hit "display" when you look at battery usage.
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Battery lasted 9 hours with 1 hour and 39 mins of the screen being on / while in use.
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Battery lasted 9 hours with 1 hour and 39 mins of the screen being on / while in use.
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to be honest thats not horrible, but i get double that usually. What has saved me battery life is AnTutu's Battery Saver, turning off google location, and using browser to log into facebook instead of the facebook apps.
Ill try that out
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cnoevl21 said:
to be honest thats not horrible, but i get double that usually. What has saved me battery life is AnTutu's Battery Saver, turning off google location, and using browser to log into facebook instead of the facebook apps.
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Last time I tried that it messed with my data connection and completely killed it to the point of wiping data...
You should be able to get 2-3hrs of screen on time per charge cycle. This is also dependent on what you are doing when the screen is on, and also how much your phone is doing with the screen off as well.
Which thing messed with ur data? The battery saver? I had that problem with other battery savers (juice defender, battery doctor) but no problem at all with AnTutus battery saver.
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cnoevl21 said:
Which thing messed with ur data? The battery saver? I had that problem with other battery savers (juice defender, battery doctor) but no problem at all with AnTutus battery saver.
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Antutu killed my data and the other ones worked fine. Now i don't use any and just manage stuff myself.
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I use antutu never had issues with data. Going to do a full restore and reflash a rom to see if I can get more battery life. Seems like I can't get past 9 hours with 2 hours of screen on time.
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Two hour train ride to NYC starting with a full charge finishes with 35-40% remaining.
Stock, rooted, debloated
All location services disabled
Bouncing 3g/4g
wifi disabled
Google music
web browsing in lieu of newspaper.
email polling disabled.
Display is by far biggest drain with music a distant second.
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Just curious but what govenor are you guys using? Been using smartassv2 and just switched to on demand. Wanted to test to see if it would help with battery.
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luis86dr said:
Just curious but what govenor are you guys using? Been using smartassv2 and just switched to on demand. Wanted to test to see if it would help with battery.
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I go 100MHz-800MHz conservative, and almost all my apps run smoothly. If something like an intensive game needs more juice i go 1.2GHz and smartassv2. Ondemand is junk don't use it.
EDIT: I just went 12 hours 29 mins from full to completely dead (powered off) with 2 hours 23 mins of screen on, much of that was heavy web browsing (lots of tabs on Opera) and gaming.
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I go 100MHz-800MHz conservative, and almost all my apps run smoothly. If something like an intensive game needs more juice i go 1.2GHz and smartassv2. Ondemand is junk don't use it.
EDIT: I just went 12 hours 29 mins from full to completely dead (powered off) with 2 hours 23 mins of screen on, much of that was heavy web browsing (lots of tabs on Opera) and gaming.
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what ROM you running?
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what ROM you running?
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Eclipse, the only mod I'm using is thunderbolt scripts.
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Eclipse, the only mod I'm using is thunderbolt scripts.
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going to try your setup. Any minor synchronized apps? Like weather for example.
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Interesting. I run TS1.4 w/ PBJ (no ext4) and I went through a number of settings and I could not get sav2 or sio to be lag free. The combination of ondemand and noop yields the best performance for me. Now if I happen to have 5 or more apps going then RAM becomes and issue and I have to march out w/ task killer.
I also 100/1200 for CPU settings, no volt modification.
Up until the latest google maps update last weekend, I have the sensor thingy killing my battery every few days, and that has seemed to clear up.
I also bought one of those extended batteries from ebay w/ 3500Mah and it is a beast (last 1.5 days easy), however a bad result of that is that it interferes w/ the BT and Wifi reception to the tune of -20db so it makes a marginal connection crap. It looks like the charge antenna is on the right, right next to the battery, and the beast sticking out is messing w/ the signal. I am going to try a few different materials over the battery to see if I can sort it out.
It is almost fearsome how quickly the stock battery drains...I mean if I am out work and going out until 3AM, no way it will last unless I use the beast.
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going to try your setup. Any minor synchronized apps? Like weather for example.
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Weather Channel, turned sync as low as possible to the point where there is nothing in my status bar and I go into the app to check it.
Friendcaster set on 1 hour updates.
Also no latitude!! Make sure you are signed out of latitude in Maps and never open that app. It updates your location to google which wakes the phone and stuff.
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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bond32 said:
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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