My battery going died quicker
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haven't noticed a battery drain, but its only been overnight.
Update went fine, like the data widget.
Hopefully fixes my wife's rebooting issues.
I haven't had a reboot neither bit in 30 minutes and at 92 percent on extended battery
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my battery is worse...using extended.
I'm not happy
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What a joke.
I seen no difference with the update, except the addition of more bloatware, and the removal of free WIFI hot-spot.
My battery appears to drain quicker. But no re-boot yet.
If you don't need it, don't update until the free hot-spot is blocked.
So far so good my battery is much better and the phone is a little snappier but I am missing the tabbed app drawer anyone have it?
I have not updated yet, and am leery. Is it true that it kills your Skype Video Calling? Also, re: battery life, are those who have updated notiving better performance?
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Has anybody tried to wipe their battery stats...? Could help.
Battery is unbelievable actually. In a good way. 8 hrs off charger. 81% light use. Couple calls and several texts. Seems snappier too. No reboots.
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My batery is also doing much better. Off charger since last night after the update, I am at 62% with light use today on wifi as I have been home. It idles at half or less power drain as before.
I can't lie... Battery life has been much better, and by now I would have had at least 3-4 reboots, and I've had none. Now just get me Gingerbread, and I'll be a happy camper! Oh and I'm noticing no text lag as I type this as well.
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Has anyone experienced significantly better battery life from returning their device for a new one?
1% batter per 1.5 minutes of browsing doesn't seen right to me..
Thanks.
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Have you tried calibrating the power gauge? Run the battery until it dies, then turn it on again until it shuts off to be sure, and finally charge it turned off until it's full.
Some say to go eight hours, past the point when it reaches 100%, but I didn't and I still got some significant improvement.
yeah I've done that on two occasions and it showed slight improvement. What kind of battery life do y'all get and with what kind of usage? I can manage about 12-13 hours with push email and twitter, but I was hoping to get something close to an iPhone 4
Thanks
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djgleebs said:
yeah I've done that on two occasions and it showed slight improvement. What kind of battery life do y'all get and with what kind of usage? I can manage about 12-13 hours with push email and twitter, but I was hoping to get something close to an iPhone 4
Thanks
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I can go from 730am till 10-11pm at night. I use it moderately during the day and I have a twitter widget, facebook widget that update once an hour. I also have the sportstap widget and I think its set to update every 5 mins. I also use the weatherbug widget and not sure how often it updates. Some days at work I use it more (like yesterday) and it basically died right as I was leaving the office at 530pm. So its decent (better than an EVO) but not as good as a Droid X or Droid Incredible.
My friend at work has a droid incredible and he tells me he goes 2-3 days on his. But he's a very light user, mostly just uses it as a phone. The only widget he uses is the sense weather widget and he rarely ever surfs on it, etc.
I came to Captivate/Android from an iphone 2G and with my moderate to heavy use I could go for 2-3 days on it. I absolutely loved the battery life on it.
That sounds a lot more like the battery life I'm getting, thanks for the input.
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I'm rooted first of all.
Well, wifi, all GPS, and bluetooth off.
my battery was okay, it lasted for a day mostly. and I think about 2 days ago, the battery suddenly getting worse. Everything remains same. I haven't changed any option, but the bettry is suddenly worse.
I don't use my phone that much. like I got a phone call yesterday and today? no texting, no internet, no app uses.
I charged my battery full(til 11am or til noon), then it dies before 5pm.
(Today I charged my phone til 9:40am, got only one single phone call lasted 1-2mins, and my battery is already 47%.)
It's just terrible! Anyone has same prob????
I'm in California BTW.
are you rooted?
what rom/kernel?
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are you rooted?
what rom/kernel?
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I'm rooted and I think it's stock rom.
I just followed the manual perm root process.
It's weird because under same conditions, battery got totally worse than before. It lasted at least for a day, but now, it lasts only 4-5 hrs with same amount of usage under same conditions.
ever figure this out?
Just rooting will not change anything to your battery life. You need to install a rom or a different kernel in order for it to change anything.
Mine too has gotten worse in the last week. I am not rooted. At this point my battery is draining roughly 25% per hour with little or no use. Spare parts shows the most usage on my phone is 0. I have tried getting rid of weather bug, Pandora and sirius. I tried looking for something to explain exactly why 0 takes up 10x more battery than Android system itself and I have came to the conclusion that I am lost. Any direction to the correct forum topic would be appreciated.
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Mine too has gotten worse in the last week. I am not rooted. At this point my battery is draining roughly 25% per hour with little or no use. Spare parts shows the most usage on my phone is 0. I have tried getting rid of weather bug, Pandora and sirius. I tried looking for something to explain exactly why 0 takes up 10x more battery than Android system itself and I have came to the conclusion that I am lost. Any direction to the correct forum topic would be appreciated.
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Have you tried the "Blockbuster" mod?
1) open the Blockbuster Application, it should ask you to update.
2) once the update has finished open the application back up and
3) navigate to Menu>Settings> "Disable Movie Updates"
Users have reported better battery life.
Thanks for the reply. Yes I have updated and disabled the Blockbuster app. Better yet even I just rebooted my phone and it drained 12% on the battery. How is that possible. I am using my stock battery now and not the extended, so the % would be different with the stock compared to my extended but really I don't think it should use 12% on a reboot.
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Do you currently have 4g?
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Yes I do and I have been using LTE off/on for last 2 days .
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I also just logged of FB chat about 2 hours ago and Google talk. 2 hours later still at 52% maybe I am on to something.
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I guess you and I are on the same page! I charged mine til 9:40 am and went to work yesterday. I got only one phone call that lasted 1-2mins. The battery was already 52%. All GPS was off, bluetooth off, Wifi off, everything off except 4G. I sent a text and received a text, and the battery drained to 46%. After a few mins with no use of the phone, the battery warning sound played. So I had to charge my phone at that point. It is just totally weird. Under same condition and same usage of the phone, the battery lasted for a day at least. (4G was on at the point.) I don't know what cause this problem. Anyways, I just unrooted mine and got a software update via OTA. I don't know if this will fix the problem. Any luck to you yet?
I am going to charge tonight and try current settings tomorrow and see how long battery last. It is to the point if I have to turn all this stuff off, doesn't it defeat the purpose of having a smartphone?
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Try ZD Box
Try ZD Box, and use its task killer to stop any programs your not using right then. Pandora is another app that loves to stay on and chew at your battery...
My phone just started doing this as well. I've been using the TBolt for a couple of weeks now.
Just yesterday my battery life took a serious nose dive. I've adjusted all the settings I can and the battery is dropping like a drunk girl's panties...
I'm having to charge it all the time now just to keep it from giving me the low battery warning.
Ok well here it goes . Off charger for 30 mins 7 text ,this post and a restart and down 10% already. Wtf
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Thanks for the reply. Yes I have updated and disabled the Blockbuster app. Better yet even I just rebooted my phone and it drained 12% on the battery. How is that possible. I am using my stock battery now and not the extended, so the % would be different with the stock compared to my extended but really I don't think it should use 12% on a reboot.
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That's about what mine took on average to reboot. 10-12%.
I'm at 72% after 11 hours of idle usage and that's on the 2750mah extended battery. That would put me at 46% after 12 hours having not touched the phone once. I literally fell asleep as I took it off the charger...
Something is jacked up and I don't know what.
Rooted, Virus ROM B3, 1.8G kernel (forget which).
I've gone to Imoseyon's Sense lean kernel, special edition.
We'll see how that goes...?
Wanted to report back as I think the culprit may be the wireless tether app.
I turned GPS, WiFi and all my sync's back on and the phone is back to giving me decent battery life.
I did some changes with the tether app and I'll report back to see if my suspicions are correct.
Ok so may be I'm just panicking but I got my infuse last night. I drained it to 0 and charged over night. Since the morning I've used a bunch of SMS, emails and what's app. And its 1pm and after a reboot battery us at 7%. What the hell? Is it just me or that's how this phone is??
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It's just you and the battery life should get better over the next few days as well.
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It's just you and the battery life should get better over the next few days as well.
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So I should replace the set??
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No just use it. In a few days it will get better, but if you want iphone battery life You'll have to get an iphone.
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My battery easily lasts all day if all I do is check/send emails, texts/chat, and play some games. Even when I stream iheartradio from a full charge in the morning it will be about 30-40% remaining by 12-1pm (4-5hrs of streaming) on top of email/texts/chat. I bring my charger to work because I tend to stream radio all day and no battery is up to that task for 8 or so hours a day. Battery life kills my iphone3g which was ready for the charger by 10:30-11am doing the same stuff.
Why would you drain a lithium ion battery down to zero?
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but if you want iphone battery life You'll have to get an iphone.
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for the record this phone gets better battery life than either of my iphones did
I've had the same experience you have had. It's 4:00 pm my time and I'm down to 5%. It's been charged all night and was taken off the plug today morning. Made a few phone calls, surfed the web for a bit, gps, bluetooth, wifi are all OFF. Texted on regular messaging and kik messanger for a bit. Skyped my brother on wifi for 3 mins.
From experience, when I did more than this, on my iPhone 4 I'd barely be at 50% by now.
Battery is an issue with this phone for sure. I don't know if it's a bad batch (as some have mentioned) or just general Infuse behavior. I'm giving this phone another week and if it doesn't improve, I'm going to sell this.
Check your settings, make sure there aren't things constantly updating in the background. That will drain your battery like you guys seem to be experiencing. Also if you are using high screen brightness, good by battery this puppy with the 4.5" screen eats battery.
Itll get better in about a week, thats how mine was.
Keep Wi-fi off in the status bar when your not using it and keep GPS off, those 2 helped my battery life tremendously.
A few tips before u jump to conclusion and start blaming the phone battery. Take in consideration - running services, auto sync, bad apps not letting phone going in to deep sleep, pressing the home button instead of back button to close apps, lots of Widgets, live wallpaper, having brightness to high, using navigation, games and so on ect ect. These are things that will shorten your battery life. I'm not saying not to use your phone but if you can, keep to minimum unnecessary stuff. BTW I get a full day with heavy used with no auto sync only Gmail, no unnecessary background service, GPS off and ones in a blue I use a task killer. I had 3 android phones and by far the Infuse had the best battery life.
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This rom used to be fine, now it is draining extrememly fast and I don't know why.
I am on Gingerbread KF2 and really haven't done anything else yet. I used to be able to make it through an average day of ~15 or so hours using the phone only for some messages, a call or two, and a few minutes of music. After this type of usage, the battery would be around 70-80% at the lowest usually. This is even with the screen at FULL brightness all day.
About a week ago, it started draining super fast. The same usage runs the phone down to about 20-30%, which is ridiculous. In battery stats, Android OS is always FAR above everything else with like 60%. A couple battery calibrations did nothing. I don't use task killers, but I do check my running apps. OS monitor didn't help me at all, and checking my currently running apps just showed mostly system apps that should not be draining hardly any battery at all.
Any suggestions? I think that about covers it all. This just has me stumped...
go through your apps and see how often they check for updates. there were a lot of updates recently and some settings may have changed. If nothing changed, can you do a quick scan with look out? Just to be safe. Also, try juice defender and set it to aggressive
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Lookout didn't pick up anything and I set JuiceDefender to aggressive. Will JuiceDefender warn me of an app using excessive battery?
Nope, that battery is still dropping like crazy. (8% in half an hour from almost no use.)
Maybe I just need to reflash and start over fresh...
It will take a day out two to settle in. is your phone sleeping properly when the screen in off? Press the volume keys once it locks and if it makes the sound then it if still on.
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It will take a day out two to settle in. is your phone sleeping properly when the screen in off? Press the volume keys once it locks and if it makes the sound then it if still on.
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Sleeping just fine.
Yea, I guess if you can't figure it out, you can reflash. That is a pain though. I would say to try out jd for a while longer and see if you get results. fb us usually the culprit for my battery drains, but if you checked all of your apps and changed them to manual, then there isn't much more you can do.try putting your screen to auto brightness
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So either juice defender is helping or ADW launcher was using excesive battery. It is working better today after I switched back to launcher pro, but still going down pretty fast.
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ADW doesn't really drain much battery for me. It actually uses less RAM compared to LauncherPro and Go Launcher (for me).
I think you should just try reflashing your ROM, maybe flashing the new GB ROMs too.
Also, are you sure you're doing the battery calibrations properly? That might also be an issue.
Maybe it's not your phone or ROM...
I've had several ROMs in the last few weeks and have noticed this behavior on many of them....after searching, I found this.
T-Mobile has apparently noticed some abnormal battery issues in areas with their "4G" HSPA+. They're asking people in their support forum for a bit of info to help them find the issue.
support[dot]t-mobile[dot]com /thread/3544
The problem was initially believed to be affecting the G2 only, but is now believed to be affecting all phones in their "4G" footprint that started when they updated their towers in late July. The update provides the government an emergency channel to use, but it appears that it may be causing network issues.
Thanks for bringing it up, this is affecting me too. i lose 20-40% battery PER HOUR of use on the phone at 25% screen brightness playing a card game online (no wifi, just on HSPA+). This is on a BRAND NEW flash of KH2 (GB 2.3.4).
The top half of the phone gets really hot and battery drains like crazy. ceasing data use cools it down and reverts to normal battery use.
Seems weird. But I swear I'm getting a lot better battery life. All the same widgets are running and I'm running a live wallpaper now. Am I just imagining things?
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Maybe. Maybe not. Sometimes the compression of the themes can affect battery life. Which theme please? I'd like to try.
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It might be a placebo effect. Just keep using it and perhaps it'll be noticeable.
One thing I noticed is that right out of installing CM7, I thought my battery wasn't being used a lot, but then I noticed the battery meter wasn't draining at all, and so I did a shutdown + battery pull, and then started it up again, and the right battery meter showed up. I've had to do it the first 2 or 3 cycles, but now the battery meter seems to be completely fine now.
The battery life for me is definitely better. I have Wi-Fi on all the time and I made my phone sync to everything basically every hour and so far it lasts me 12-18 before I hit red.
I'll get back to you both later when I'm not busy. Saw that you were both online so wanted to at least reply.
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