I have a simple question: What is the biggest battery drain on your SamChg?
I'll bet that almost everybody out there though the same thing I did: "That gorgeous Samsung Super AMOLED(TM) display", right?
I mean, whenever I check the Android Battery Use tool, nothing even comes close: Usually, 78%+ of the power is going to the display.
So, if the SamChg batteries are so bad, and the display is sucking the battery the most, how long do you think the SamChg would last before dying if the SamChg had the display on full-time without turning off (Using StayAwake)? 1 hour? 2 hours? 3 hours?
How about: 8 1/2 hours!
I've done it with 2 different stock 1600 mA battery packs now. I've use the phone lightly during those times, so the phone wasn't totally idle (maybe longer life is possible?)
I've read that Samsung had really improved the power drain characteristics of the Super AMOLED displays, and now I believe it.
It also indicates to me that I probably won't gain much extra battery life from turning the display brightness down. I will keep it set on Auto Brightness now.
FYI - Right now, about an hour or so before the battery dies again, I am at: Display = 91%, sensorserver_ya = 5%, Android System = 1%.
I am suspecting the biggest drain I see during my work day is the switching between 1xRTT / 3G (and now, 4G networks) / No Signal - Which is a big battery drain problem I saw in the past.
Your thoughts?
I do know the battery use app in FroYo is pretty inaccurate compared to Gingerbread. It seems it throws any battery usage into the display row if its unable to determine where it really comes from.
For example, if you stream pandora all day with the screen turned off, most of your battery usage will show up as Display. Once I upgraded my DX to ginger, the same activity on my phone would have a much larger percentage of usage going to Pandora and media server, or whatever its called, and hardly any going to the display.... which is correct.
So if you use that app, take all that info for what its worth, until we get Gingerbread.
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That's great to hear, I'll have to give that a shot sometime. I will say that you are still better off with lower brightnesses, even though we don't have a backlight its still gonna use exponentially more power the brighter you go. But I wouldn't leave auto-brightness on, while the changing brightnesses don't hurt battery that much, the sensor to change them does, as its constantly polled. You'll see the sensor_server taking up a good bit of life.
Keep it on manual brightness, and just adjust it by holding your finger on the notification bar for a sec, the farther to right your finger is, the brighter it is. If you hold it you can also swipe back and forth to turn brightness up or down.
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Keep it on manual brightness, and just adjust it by holding your finger on the notification bar for a sec, the farther to right your finger is, the brighter it is. If you hold it you can also swipe back and forth to turn brightness up or down.
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Didn't know that trick! Maybe I should read the manual one day.
My thanks to you!
Woah, that is an awesome trick! I have never even heard of that before.
Schweet! Thanks! That is a great trick. Another thing that I've been doing that has helped my battery make it through the day longer is turning off my mobile data. It only takes a second to turn it on when I'm browsing or using an app that requires the data.
Yeah, turn off data when you don't expect to use it for a while. Get a 4G/3G widget to switch between LTE and CDMA when you are constantly in a fringe 4G area and/or in an area thats 3G only. And I like the idea of the auto brightness thing. Froyo has had that brightness status bar trick since its been out. I used it a lot on my Fascinate. With 4G on constantly my phone drains 5% per hour doing very little. Its half that with 3G only or data off.
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Keep it on manual brightness, and just adjust it by holding your finger on the notification bar for a sec, the farther to right your finger is, the brighter it is. If you hold it you can also swipe back and forth to turn brightness up or down.
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That is awesome! Didn't know that, thanks!
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Yeah, turn off data when you don't expect to use it for a while. Get a 4G/3G widget to switch between LTE and CDMA when you are constantly in a fringe 4G area and/or in an area thats 3G only. And I like the idea of the auto brightness thing. Froyo has had that brightness status bar trick since its been out. I used it a lot on my Fascinate. With 4G on constantly my phone drains 5% per hour doing very little. Its half that with 3G only or data off.
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Info on this 4G/3G widget switch? I'd LOVE that, hate having to go into the setting to switch it!
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Info on this 4G/3G widget switch? I'd LOVE that, hate having to go into the setting to switch it!
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I'd like to know as well. All I can find are complete on and off data switches.
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That's great to hear, I'll have to give that a shot sometime. I will say that you are still better off with lower brightnesses, even though we don't have a backlight its still gonna use exponentially more power the brighter you go. But I wouldn't leave auto-brightness on, while the changing brightnesses don't hurt battery that much, the sensor to change them does, as its constantly polled. You'll see the sensor_server taking up a good bit of life.
Keep it on manual brightness, and just adjust it by holding your finger on the notification bar for a sec, the farther to right your finger is, the brighter it is. If you hold it you can also swipe back and forth to turn brightness up or down.
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this is cool. TY!!!
I had the new leak go 17 hours and still have 40% left before i put on a charge I didn't use it much but it impressed me i got that out of it.
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I'd like to know as well. All I can find are complete on and off data switches.
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Just grab LTE Switch form the Market. Put and icon on one of your desktop pages and it takes you right to the LTE / 3G Settings menu o you can switch it. IE no go threw all the menus to get at it.
Also remember the screen only uses power when displaying white or color pixels. Black does not use power.
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Ok. Android phones are not blackberries, and I'm well aware of that. This Thunderbolt is not my first android device, so I am very familiar with setting it up and using it in such a way to make the battery last.
I'm not posting this to complain of the battery life sucking. I'm complaining that the battery is fine one day, and horrible the next.
So here's what happens. Yesterday, i unplugged my phone at 730am like i do every day. By 3pm with light usage, i was down to 40% or so. Charged it up before I left work, no big deal, lasted the rest of the night.
Today, unplug the phone at 730am, phone is completely dead, as in, won't even boot by 11am. Same apps, same usage, same location, same strong 4G signal, same everything. It has happened multiple times on consecutive days when i was rooted on the stock rom, and still on VirusRom. I just dont get why this happens. I am doing nothing different and my phone either lasts all day, or a few hours. It's getting to the point where I am finding it very hard to rely on this phone when i'm out and about. It makes no sense. Especially if i'm not really using my phone, just checking for texts once in a while, there is no reason why it should die. What if i need it? I couldn't even call or text my gf tonight while I was working because my phone battery was ZERO only a few hours after leaving the house with a 100% charge.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
yesterday I had abnormal drain on my battery. I get 18 - 24 hours on a charge normally, but yesterday I went from 100% to dead in 5 hours. Called VZW and they said it was a documented problem and they were working on it.
IDK, they are pretty good about pushing updates. Also, yesterday I kept dropping out of data. bizzare....
I burned through the extended battery in 9 hours yesterday, really hope they figure out some better power management soon,
Switch it to 3G cdma rev.a and see if that helps. The 4G radio is always being searched for. I love the tb so I can deal with no 4G til they get the bugs out.
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You have to use current widget and see how much power draw your phone is pulling. Then use system panel monitoring to track apps using the highest CPU.
Definitely an issue and I'm glad that Verizon is aware of it. I've had this unusual drain happen four times now, all on 4G. Last time I noticed it (seeing the battery percentage drop like 2% every five minutes or so), went to the Market and snagged System Panel.
The offending process is "system." Had my CPU spiked at 100% for over an hour before I rebooted, which does fix it, at the cost of another 10% of your battery, of course.
Hope they get this ironed out soon. Love my Thunderbolt, but this is a major issue and seems to be happening to a lot of people.
The best thing to do is dial *#*#4636#*#* and turn the radio to CDMA auto (PRL) mode.
I am already seeing much better battery life, as I am in a non 4g area.
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll have to give that a try. I got into the radio settings, and after flashing VirusRom, my phone defaulted to LTE mode only. I put it to cdma/lte auto, to see if that helps. If not, i'll just disable LTE unless i really need it.
No need to dial all of that crap. TeamAndIRC has a toggle app called "LTE OnOFF TeamAndIRC" that allows you to toggle between CDMA and CDMA + LTE/EvDo auto.
I found out two things dealing with my massive nighttime battery drain. One, wifi doesn't seem to work correctly. I've never had the problem before but for some reason it doesn't sleep correctly. What I've done is changed the sleep policy to "15 minutes" which allows it to switch back to 3G fifteen minutes after I turn off the screen. That allows me to have wifi while I'm using it but 3G while it's idle. This has seemed to fix my problem along with... Second, I am on the fringe of 4G/3G here on the outskirts of Cincinnati. At work I am solid 4G but at home it can't make up it's mind. Well, that has certainly played into the battery issue as it is constantly searching. So, what I do is as I walk in the door from work I use the app listed above to switch to "CDMA auto (PRL)" and it sticks to 3G. When I get to work I switch to "CDMA + LTE/EvDo auto".
So, to summarize:
I have eliminated my nightime drain by doing two things:
1) I use the Y5 app to automatically start wifi as I walk in the door but have changed the sleep policy to "after 15 minutes".
2) I use the app above to switch from 4G/3G auto to 3G only.
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No need to dial all of that crap. TeamAndIRC has a toggle app called "LTE OnOFF TeamAndIRC" that allows you to toggle between CDMA and CDMA + LTE/EvDo auto.
I found out two things dealing with my massive nighttime battery drain. One, wifi doesn't seem to work correctly. I've never had the problem before but for some reason it doesn't sleep correctly. What I've done is changed the sleep policy to "15 minutes" which allows it to switch back to 3G fifteen minutes after I turn off the screen. That allows me to have wifi while I'm using it but 3G while it's idle. This has seemed to fix my problem along with... Second, I am on the fringe of 4G/3G here on the outskirts of Cincinnati. At work I am solid 4G but at home it can't make up it's mind. Well, that has certainly played into the battery issue as it is constantly searching. So, what I do is as I walk in the door from work I use the app listed above to switch to "CDMA auto (PRL)" and it sticks to 3G. When I get to work I switch to "CDMA + LTE/EvDo auto".
So, to summarize:
I have eliminated my nightime drain by doing two things:
1) I use the Y5 app to automatically start wifi as I walk in the door but have changed the sleep policy to "after 15 minutes".
2) I use the app above to switch from 4G/3G auto to 3G only.
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LTEonoff is just a shortcut to the menu. In essence, it saves no time because you have to download it. If you're flipping it on and off all the time, then yeah, it might behoove you to just dl the app. But, as a one time thing, it's unnecessary.
^You are correct. I switch daily but I didn't see earlier that you were not in a 4G area.
I would highly suggest this to anyone who sees their data connection switch back and forth as I was in my house.
Battery life has been strong the past couple days now. I haven't had any unusual drains since i switched from LTE only mode to EVDO/LTE auto mode. I dont know if this was for sure the issue, but it seems to have made a huge difference. I haven't been plugged in for 2 hours and i still have 92% battery left.
Here's my interpretation of the issue:
There seems to be some kind of problem or bug with the radio which makes it drain an enormous amount of power from some towers (700mA+ is shown on current widget). Even with good signal, I'll repeatably drain a lot of power in certain areas. The "fix" is to disable mobile data or switch to wifi. This lowers the power usage back down to (slightly lower than) normal levels.
For some reason, the radio will not admit to drawing practically 90% of your battery in the battery use menu (nothing does, in fact ... it just looks like normal battery use).
I'm glad to hear that they are aware of an issue that maybe causing this.
I can't stand the battery life either other than that I love the phone
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Yeah i'm still at 83% battery after being unplugged for 4 hours, light usage.
Another thing i noticed is that when my battery was draining stupid fast, the phone would be warm to the touch even when it was just sitting on my belt clip. All seems well for now.
Mine is good
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My battery life has recently become terribly inconsistent. Last week I was actually getting through a 16 hour day with light usage, but this weekened I must have installed something because now the phone is lasting 3-4 hours with hardly any usage at all.
The battery information is pretty worthless because it's not showing anything except display using the battery and the display has only been on maybe 8 minutes.
Checked the partial wake info and nothing seems to be running in the background. The battery is just discharging like crazy all of a sudden. Guess Ill start uninstalling stuff to see what might be causing it
I am also having a weird battery experience today. I am rooted running Adrynalyne 1.9. Last few days I was doing great, moderate usage and was staying charged for 16-18 hrs. Today my phone has died twice during my 8hr shift at work. I KNOW something is wrong there. Hopefully a fix is found soon.
On all my Androids (4 of them currently in daily use), I've found that Words With Friends is often a HUGE battery killer...and I don't mean because you play it a lot, I mean leave it running and put your phone down, walk away a while, come back to the phone and it is HOT to the touch! Obviously killing the battery. Something to look at for sure.
I've got the extended battery and just went over 48 hours, with moderate to heavy use by my standards on a single charge. Pretty amazing and I guess I'm not in a bad radio area.
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Switch it to 3G cdma rev.a and see if that helps. The 4G radio is always being searched for. I love the tb so I can deal with no 4G til they get the bugs out.
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The only thing I love about the TB is the 4G...everything else on it, been there, done that. I wouldn't keep the TB if 4G had to be turned off to make it usable in terms of battery life. Hopefully it will be fixed quickly!
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Here's my interpretation of the issue:
There seems to be some kind of problem or bug with the radio which makes it drain an enormous amount of power from some towers (700mA+ is shown on current widget). Even with good signal, I'll repeatably drain a lot of power in certain areas. The "fix" is to disable mobile data or switch to wifi. This lowers the power usage back down to (slightly lower than) normal levels.
For some reason, the radio will not admit to drawing practically 90% of your battery in the battery use menu (nothing does, in fact ... it just looks like normal battery use).
I'm glad to hear that they are aware of an issue that maybe causing this.
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Thanks for that analysis. With that in mind, if it's accurate, could a Tasker app profile be set up that does your fix if the drain works that high? Would be a nice safety feature for those who aren't willing to have to look at their phone frequently to check battery life.
You have to use the current widget to record your idle power readings, its the only way to know what's going on. Then use system panel monitoring to see which app CPU is highest.
Got my Sensation yesterday and after the 1st full charge I'm barely getting 6-7 hours with 2:30 screen on time which is far worse than I was getting with my DHD so I thought I'd see if I could work out what's causing it and it looks like HTC Watch may be the culprit. (see grabs below)
I used it for about 5 minutes this-morning and looks like it's been running ever since. I've now forced stopped it and removed the watch account to see if I get any improvement. Might be worth others checking if they are too getting poor battery life.
What's the name of the app?
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What's the name of the app?
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It looks like Blue Tooth and WIFI were running all the time?
Those two will chew up power at a pretty good rate.
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It looks like Blue Tooth and WIFI were running all the time?
Those two will chew up power at a pretty good rate.
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Pretty sure he has them "on" for testing purposes...
I'm more interested in how you got drocap to work. If you're root, you can uninstall or freeze HTC Watch.
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It looks like Blue Tooth and WIFI were running all the time?
Those two will chew up power at a pretty good rate.
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I always have them on as I'm connected to WiFi at home and Bluetooth uses virtually no extra power in measurements I've done with the DHD. Perhaps it's more with the Sensation.
I am running with temp root so can freeze watch but for now it doesn't seem to have started again since I force stopped it in app management.
It's too early to tell if I've got improved battery life now but will see how it goes in the next cycle.
Well things have improved massively after keeping Watch closed.
Today I got 12 hours life with 3 hours screen time and that was mostly in bright sunshine so full screen brightness and mostly mobile data instead of Wi-Fi.
The stats show that virtually nothing was keeping the phone awake this time and I was averaging about 2% drop/hour with screen off.
This life is now very similar to my DHD running a custom rom so I'm very happy and no doubt once we get proper root on the Sensation we'll star to see even better results
I have a similar issue where MAPS has been running in the background. How can I stop that? I do not have any autosync so the only draining of battery is from MAPS and T-Mobile 4G Network since I had Data Network on all night.
also i have this problem with MAPS and i close from settings but after that is starting again...how can i close this to stop running in background? another thread that i readed at htc evo forum sound like this ( press HOME, and bring up the dialer. Dial *#*#4636#*#* (Do not press "Call"). After a second, it should bring up the "Testing" menu.
Go into Phone Information, press MENU, and tap "select radio band." You should experience a Force Close, don't panic, this was supposed to happen. Scrolling down shows that the preferred network type is GSM auto (prl).
What this means is that even though you are connected to a CDMA network, your phone is trying to find a GSM network, preventing the radio from sleeping, and causing excessive battery drain.
Remedy this by tapping GSM auto (prl), and changing it to CDMA auto (prl).
Now your done, your TWS should drop dramatically, and you should experience much better battery life!
i try this and in my menu is selected WCDMA and when i select CDMA auto (prl) the signal drop and and going back to WCDMA..maybe this procedure has alot of in consumption the battery....
So I finally think I got my phone set up how I want it. I was wondering if you guys think that this is good? As far as screen time and length of constant usage it is the best i have had. I dont know how it will be under normal usage but i am hoping i will be able to go a whole day when i am not TRYING to burn out the battery.
My phone seems to be running awesome and real smooth minus the proximity sensor problem on phone calls... and the occasional wierd little glitchiness from the ICS tiny bugs. like once the white text turn green in lock screen and lock screen didnt sense my touch and kept green flickering. forcing me to pull the battery. With the occasional little glitches that make me turn it off and then on to reset it. Had it since it leaked and have had to restart and pull battery a total of maybe 5 times. With gingerbread I would have glitched maybe once every couple weeks.
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NS4G ICS 4.0.4 IMM26 Stock n Locked.
Some GApps disabled that I don't use. I leave off GMAPS until I use it. Only a couple widgets on my home screens.
Obviously have it setup with a black background. Settings how I like them now. Had the screen on the whole time to test this. Screen brightness around 60%. This is the best battery usage I have had. When checking running apps my Ram usage is right around 140 used with no apps open. Just in case anyone is wondering.
I had 3g on at first 2 bar signal for the first couple hours. I was on the internet cruising forums, groupon, craigslist, watching rock climbing videos. played some bubble blast. a little bit of gt academy racing and some other games.
then turned on wimax with great signal the second half. doing the same stuff. scren on the whole time. playing with my phone the whole time. except for maybe 30+ minutes when i was eating and stuff.
Before this on gingerbread, I averaged about 3 hrs screen on time. Also when I first loaded ICS I BURNED thru battery Under this type of usage.
here are my screen shots. IS THIS GOOD,GREAT OR NORMAL OR WHAT you think?
With my combo i get more than that. Playing all the time, with wi-fi on, 3G always, i get over 7/8hrs.
all depends on rom/kernel selected..
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With my combo i get more than that. Playing all the time, with wi-fi on, 3G always, i get over 7/8hrs.
all depends on rom/kernel selected..
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What do you have? I get nwhere near that
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I would say five and a half hours sounds pretty decent even with brightness at 60 percent. I keep my screen on auto brightness but have never tried leaving my screen on nonstop. I should try it sometime lol
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With my combo i get more than that. Playing all the time, with wi-fi on, 3G always, i get over 7/8hrs.
all depends on rom/kernel selected..
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Thanks for responding everyone.
Jinsoku3g- What setup are you running? About how long do you think you burn thru a battery at those settings i described?
Kalitza-
WOW that is a lot. What combo do you have? What brightness setting? I am trying to compare what i can get before i go the custom rom route to make sure it is worth it.. If i can actually get 2 hours more screen on time with the same screen brightness settings then i would definitley make the switch. Lower brightness settings and auto brightness saves a ton of battery and bumps me around the 7 hour mark.... considering auto bright mode is always around 25-30% when i check it. my screen is never over 70%... it is so bright i cant look at it up close.. lol...
Also, are you OClock'd/UC and/or OVolt'd/UV?
So as long as we are at comparable screen bright levels. It makes me think how much better it could be. Would like to plz know yer stats upon testing? Screen % and Oc/Ov-Uc/Uv. Do you have any screenshots?
Thanks for the input guys. I am always up for hearing more about where i stand in your opinions. I know why/why not to root and all that. Just wanting to see if my stockness tweaked is comparable enough to please my needs.
...curious, I set my brightness to at about 30% or so. Some people use auto brightness.
But, do you think auto brightness uses more power (since it is forced to monitor the device) to use this feature?
yes I believe it does, on gb it was constantly flickering bright and dim. If u want custom auto brightness levels, I recommend the "lux auto brightness" app. I use it, and its amazing
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into it...
I do hate that when I'm outside, if my brightness is set to 30% or so, I can't see anything on the screen. It is those little things that I miss from iOS from time to time. And of course you can't set the device to 100% or so brightness, because then the battery most certainly would not last all day.
Unless I'm in total darkness I use 100% brightness all day every day. But in the dark it hurts my eyes so I gotta turn her down a little. Battery is still pretty kick ass too:thumbup:
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It is funny how in BestBuy they have all the devices on 100% brightness. They do look nice; then again they are connected to power all day
Even yesterday I was playing with the Note. Yes it is impressive. But the size; imagine holding it to your ear while on a call. Exactly...
I have not had any Android phone that I liked the auto-brightness setting on. My wife's Inspire works the best out of all the Android phones we have had.
On the SkyRocket the auto setting always seems to bright for me.
I like Brightness Profiles. You can set what ever levels you want (or quickly turn on auto-brightness). I have mine set up at 4%, 8%, 12 %, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 90%. I have a shortcut on my home screen for quick access.
How much the screen brightness hurts your battery life depends on how much your screen is on, in addition to the brightness level.
Just turn off auto brightness. When you need to adjust it just slide your finger across the notification bar at the top of the screen ..side left dimmer, right brighter that's what I do.
Ya its seems like a lot of people don't know about that trick
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Ya its seems like a lot of people don't know about that trick
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I find it cumbersome honestly, I find lux waaaay better
I keep mine @ 100% unless it's way dark. Still get a full day of battery life under normal use too. It's really user preference.
I use juice defenders auto brightness feature. Its better then the one in the settings because it can go way under the min. brightness so at night it saves a LOT of battery since the display wastes the most battery..
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It is funny how in BestBuy they have all the devices on 100% brightness ...
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I have mine set to 100% all day. I paid for this thing and I want to see it in its glory EVERY time I look at it. Why should I punish myself? That way I'll never have to post a thread such as this one.
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Just turn off auto brightness. When you need to adjust it just slide your finger across the notification bar at the top of the screen ..side left dimmer, right brighter that's what I do.
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That doesn't work for me with the second ICS leak. It did in the first leak.
I agree, it doesn't appear to work with the second ICS leak.
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Hello, everyone. I have a Photon Q and I LOVE it except for the fact that I go to work with it fully charged and by the time I get out of work, I'm out of battery.
So tell me, forum, what settings have you tweaked to get optimal battery performance?
I turn off wifi, bt, gps, and sync. I am on a factory floor for 12-13 hrs a day & I generally have over 50% left at the end of the day w moderate use.
If you are in an area w poor reception might help to turn off mobile data, or put it in airplane mode temporarily.
-Saint
+1 on this. I agree with saint. I turn off mobile data and syncing until I need it. I talk on the phone for almost 6 hrs a day and the battery still lasts about 19hrs.
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I don't disable syncing completely, but I have the Green Power Premium app and have it set to turn data on and sync once every hour or so.
I leave data on, but i turn auto syncing off. bt/wifi/gps are all off as well. I also have it set to underclock when my screen is off.
Check your brightness settings as well. I dont typically leave it on auto because that's a lot higher than i need it to be. Check your battery usage and see what's using the most and it'll help you determine what you need to check.
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Check your brightness settings as well. I dont typically leave it on auto because that's a lot higher than i need it to be. Check your battery usage and see what's using the most and it'll help you determine what you need to check.
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For me, in 'battery usage' it's almost always 60% screen usage. I'm on auto, I guess I'll try some lower screen settings to see if I can improve that...
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Check your brightness settings as well. I dont typically leave it on auto because that's a lot higher than i need it to be.
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Agreed, I keep mine roughly around 10-15% which is fine for me...the only caveat is I have a Smart Action rule to bump it to 100% when in the vehicle dock (mainly because of daytime issues with glare/sun/etc where I need it to be higher, but its getting charged at the same time so its fine then).
I notice a big difference if I stay logged out of facebook. And I cant really give specifics on this, but I have noticed that after installing certain apps, my battery will start draining faster, so I uninstall those if that happens. Also take it off of LTE mode so it is on CDMA only, unless you are sitting in an area where it stays connected to 4g already. I get the best battery life out of my phone when I have a verizon PRL loaded so that its not looking for any other signal but the one I tell it to. Of course you cant do that all the time, I am just giving an example of how much better battery is if the phone isnt looking for something that you know it cant get where you are. Try to think of apps like facebook though that are always checking online for updates. Email programs, and programs like I mentioned that drain the battery, for whatever reason that may be.
Facebook is a hog, and there are so many different things that will auto update or notify you about, I spent a good 30 minutes going through the options looking for all the settings so I could turn them off.
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whitelightnin3006 said:
I notice a big difference if I stay logged out of facebook. And I cant really give specifics on this, but I have noticed that after installing certain apps, my battery will start draining faster, so I uninstall those if that happens. Also take it off of LTE mode so it is on CDMA only, unless you are sitting in an area where it stays connected to 4g already. I get the best battery life out of my phone when I have a verizon PRL loaded so that its not looking for any other signal but the one I tell it to. Of course you cant do that all the time, I am just giving an example of how much better battery is if the phone isnt looking for something that you know it cant get where you are. Try to think of apps like facebook though that are always checking online for updates. Email programs, and programs like I mentioned that drain the battery, for whatever reason that may be.
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I havent messed with any PRLs yet, but i get a strong signal where I'm at. Home and at work for the most part actually. Its crazy cuz my signal strength is a lot better than on my last phone, which likely has to do with the radios. We have plenty of WIMAX coverage around here, but no LTE yet, so I just keep it on CDMA and roll with that.
Found this on the portal, might help w auto brightness: http://velisthoughts.blogspot.com/2012/10/velis-auto-brightness-manual.html?m=1
-Saint