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Improving battery life for stock inspire

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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d00mz said:
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.

Saving battery life

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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phburks said:
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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snarestud940 said:
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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snarestud940 said:
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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phburks said:
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

Battery drains more on standby??

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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Battery life question

Thinking of getting a Sensation, but I want to know what the average battery life for a rooted, custom ROM with me being a light to medium user. Will it get me through a whole day of use without recharging?
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I get 10 hours medium use, 13 hours light use. Don't let that put you off, I have problems with my battery.. most people usually get more than me! You can also get extra batteries which can last you two whole days.
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Yea battery life is ok. Its really good on cm7 & miui. More so on miui. Love this phone though. You gotta pay to play.
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I'm able to last till 8-9pm in the noon with Wifi - Data On and my Email Synchronising every 30 minutes. Of course I'm on the ArHD rom,
If you are really keen on battery life, you can always try replacement batteries.
One of such that achieved some fame is the Anker Battery.
Proven by various XDA users that it's working.
You can give it a try

Juice Defender

I got betterbatterystats today and it says that juice defender is killing my battery.. Anyone else experience this??
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Oh the irony.

Lol.. I'm wondering if that is what is killing it outside of lte
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MrMiami81 said:
I got betterbatterystats today and it says that juice defender is killing my battery.. Anyone else experience this??
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I was having the same problem. Mabye disabling LTE and renableing it forcing it to look for signal constantly is part of the problem. All I know for sure is it was causing huge problems with my battery life.

I think the general consensus is that most battery saver apps don't really help as they are constantly trying to kill and disable stuff while your OS may try to re-enable them. I would get an app like Tasker instead and setup tasks to enable/disable your radio at certain times instead.

Battery saver apps=battery killer apps
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wiesman2613 said:
Battery saver apps=battery killer apps
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elsupermang said:
I think the general consensus is that most battery saver apps don't really help as they are constantly trying to kill and disable stuff while your OS may try to re-enable them. I would get an app like Tasker instead and setup tasks to enable/disable your radio at certain times instead.
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But you can do that with Juice Defender, and really, that's all it does unless you enable app controls.
I've been using JD on my HOX for over a month, and it makes a noticeable difference.
I do have the Ultimate version. I have not used the free version so cannot speak to that one.

It might be your LTE that's killing your battery and not juice defender.

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It might be your LTE that's killing your battery and not juice defender.
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LTE does not kill the battery on this phone. I am connected to and using LTE all day, every day and my battery life is amazing.

Agreed, LTE for me isn't the battery killer, I'm on it all day everyday.
I've used in the past JD on other handsets and found them to suck the power.
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On the snapdragon S4 devices lte radio is built on the chip and uses less power than Verizon lte because there's just one radio vs two. Vzw phones have to fall back to evdo and use cdma for calls. So far this means two radios. I don't know if this changes with the S4 based Vzw phones.

Has anyone else noticed that when you're making a call LTE service goes away? It drops back to normal 4g.
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ECEXCURSION said:
Has anyone else noticed that when you're making a call LTE service goes away? It drops back to normal 4g.
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Pretty sure it does this to save batter you don't need LTE to make calls

I found because I unlock my phone every couple minutes, that juice defender toggling all my signal services is what drained the hell out of my phone. Just uninstall it. Turn off mobile data when you don't use it, and WiFi when you can, and your battery life will be golden. I usually get about 3 hours of screen on time. Which isn't bad IMO.

ECEXCURSION said:
Has anyone else noticed that when you're making a call LTE service goes away? It drops back to normal 4g.
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LTE is just for data at the moment no VoLTE yet.

Same thing here...
MrMiami81 said:
I got betterbatterystats today and it says that juice defender is killing my battery.. Anyone else experience this??
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I ran my HOX without Juice Defender for the first few days that I had it to get a sense for stock battery life. It was great and I was excited to get even more duration from it with JD. After a few days using JD and getting much worse battery life, I removed it and was back to normal.
Note: I live in a non-LTE area.

gordopa1 said:
I ran my HOX without Juice Defender for the first few days that I had it to get a sense for stock battery life. It was great and I was excited to get even more duration from it with JD. After a few days using JD and getting much worse battery life, I removed it and was back to normal.
Note: I live in a non-LTE area.
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I agree with this. No one should use Juice Defender!

Juice defender just turns off data when the screen is off... Which can be done manually anyways.
Or am I missing something?
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Juice defender is just another app that will help drain the battery
Download DX toolbox and you can turn off background apps and other advanced settings.