Did anyone notice a change in battery consumption after the ota update?
Before the update I was getting to 97 percent after about 3 hours of the phone in idle - almost no use at all, no WiFi.
now It got to 94 percent with the same usage apart from 3 photos taken, could be that i'm just too harsh about it.. but still - wanted to check if anyone noticed anything.
edit: also I forgot to mention that I added the "mail" widget to one of the home screens, could be the power taker?
Probably the mail widget and the picture shooting (takes much ressources).
I haven't noticed any increased battery consumption, but it is probably to soon to tell.
Also forgot to mention I added two 'folder organizer' widgets , two folders which contain apps and games.
tomorrow I'll start off by removing them + the email widget and see if there is a difference.
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Also forgot to mention I added two 'folder organizer' widgets , two folders which contain apps and games.
tomorrow I'll start off by removing them + the email widget and see if there is a difference.
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are u really lookin' after for a 3% change in a 3h time ? maaan ... this could be a simple measure problem ... dont it take it too serious. if ya want to test it, maki it at least 10-20h run in standby (airplane mode on) ... it doesn't that accurate.
Yeh yeh I know I know I'm exaggerating.. I'm just becoming insane when it comes to battery life for some reason.. guess it's still the HD2's influence
It shouldn't bother me that much as it is.. I have a charger in my car plus I'm almost never gone more than 9 hours from home, which should be more than enough for the batt to last.. call me crazy it just occupies my mind
Update: strangest thing.... I just checked the phone, didnt turn the screen on since exactly one hour ago, batt was at 83 percent... that's about 9 percent in one hour!!!
removed the folder organizer folders, rebooted the phone, and suddenly received sms messages I should have received last night
now that's becoming something I should put my eye on.......
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Well after another hour, phone only dropped 1 percent, i'll try to isolate the problem by adding the folder organizer widgets back and check in in one hour to see what the batt has to say..
If it'll drop 1-2 percent I guess there was some glitch causing the phone to not get calls\sms's and drop the batt usage about 10% in one hour..
Another thing I'm going to do is let it drain until it turns itself off and then fully charge it, I'v heard you should do that like 5 times when getting a new phone.
Update - 1 percent after another hour + folder organizer folders.. so, guess it was some major batt\radio glitch since last night until i rebooted today (phone was on charge all night)
I noticed that the setting 'Best WiFi performance' adds a serious battery drain when enabled after installing the FOTA, I was loosing 8-9% an hour compared to 3-4% before the update. Disabling this brought me back to 2-3% an hour. I still have a way better WiFi-connectivity compared to before the FOTA with this setting disabled.
I actually never checked that option but yeh I get your point, all is ok now I'll update if anything weird will happen, i'm getting 1-2% an hour
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I noticed that the setting 'Best WiFi performance' adds a serious battery drain when enabled after installing the FOTA, I was loosing 8-9% an hour compared to 3-4% before the update. Disabling this brought me back to 2-3% an hour. I still have a way better WiFi-connectivity compared to before the FOTA with this setting disabled.
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Where do I find this setting?
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Where do I find this setting?
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settings > wireless and networks > WiFi settings > click on "menu" button > advanced > select 'best WiFi performance'
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settings > wireless and networks > WiFi settings > click on "menu" button > advanced > select 'best WiFi performance'
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Thanks a lot. Overlooked the Menu button step. ;-)
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I charged mine up the night before last and have used it for internet, Angry Birds, whilst waiting for my clients and a lot of texting and about 10 mins of calls. This morning It's at 60% as I post this. I've noticed a huge difference since the upgrade and the phone is nowhere near as hot since the upgrade either.
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It was a glitch 100%..
yesterday I let the phone drain itself (1day 7 hours - after the incident with the battery gone down 20 percent in 2 hours) then I fully charged it, turned it on last night before went to sleep, phone has been on since last night approx' 12 hours now - gone to 97 percent!! this is awesome!! I'm gonna' let it drain again a couple more times and this all over again
Battery lasts for approx 11-13 hours. Loosing 8-10% each hour with no usage at all.
It is updated. Reset to factory defaults. No extra apps installed. Just gmail, htc hub sync, wifi and that kind of stuff. No friends stream or Facebook or twitter.
What should I do? This is totally unacceptable.
Anyone tried to send it to service for fix?
first of all let the battery drain itself and let the phone shut down on its own, then fully charge the battery while the phone is off, do this for 3-4 times it will increase the battery's life span and charge time.
also check for the "best WIFI performance" as described in my post above, if it's checked uncheck it.
use auto screen brightness.
most important of all and may be causing your issue - check the stats of your charger, the charger I got with my sensation is imho faulty, it makes electricity noises, so I went back to my old HD2 one - perfect - the most important thing to check in your charger is the output voltages - it has to read 5v---1a - nothing different.
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use auto screen brightness.
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I think its better not to use auto screen brightness but use a fixed setting (maybe at around 25-30% brightness level). The reason being, the processor will have to be worked upon constantly to find the optimum brightness level and that would consume power!
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I think its better not to use auto screen brightness but use a fixed setting (maybe at around 25-30% brightness level). The reason being, the processor will have to be worked upon constantly to find the optimum brightness level and that would consume power!
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Personally I believe the process of identifying the lighting and adapting to it doesn't take much effort from the processor, and based on my phone - the screen does consume energy but it will last 48 hours with the auto brightness setting on so why not use it? it's one of the good options we have in our phones and i really like it that when i go outside to the sun it'll increase the brightness in a millisecond.
the guy from the post above that's getting 10 hours of usage has a problem that I don't believe has something to do with his screen brightness unless he keeps the screen turned on all the time....
I updated to 1.35.xxx.x in the morning and after that the battery meter has only gone down by about 20% in the last 7 hours or so! The phone was off charge in the morning and I downloaded the update over my 2G connection. I also put on a live wallpaper just for fun! No calls made/received but few texts only. No games played. Surfed a little bit on internet (maybe 10 mins).
I'm liking it
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I unplugged the phone and got onto the bus. I read news with Captivate. Nothing fancy, just NY Times, Fox News etc. I got off the bus later, I only have 73% battery.
Yes, I just started my day and it's only 70% of battery.
#FAIL.
There are a few simple things you can do to increase battery life. Turn the screen brightness down and use a solid black background as a wallpaper. The screen uses the majority of the batter. so dimming the screen helps, when using a black background the amoled display does not light up black pixels so there is power drain.
I've been running on the same charge since 4pm yesterday. I've streamed music through pandora for about an hour while exercising, browsed the xda forums using the XDA App for 30 mins, made a few calls, browsed Facebook for 30 mins, surfed the web for a couple of hours before bed. Its now 10AM and I'm sitting at 36%. Not to bad really! The phone functions exactly the same at 36% as compared to 100%.
I wonder why everyone says to use a solid black background? Do most people use their phones primarily by staring at the home screen? I'm never at my home screen more than perhaps five seconds while switching apps
I've had pretty poor battery life as well, even after discharging, recharging, and deleting batterystats.bin. There are small tips here and there, like black background and screen brightness, but even following them all, my phone lasts me barely ten hours, and most of that time it's idle. For instance, I listened to local must (no streaming) with the screen off for about an hour and lost 10% of my battery life. What's up with that?
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I've streamed music through pandora for about an hour while exercising, browsed the xda forums using the XDA App for 30 mins, made a few calls, browsed Facebook for 30 mins, surfed the web for a couple of hours before bed. Its now 10AM and I'm sitting at 36%.
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I am also shocked and confused by how people can use their phone so heavily.
I already killed those unnecessary processes (e.g., all AT&T crap). I have a static wallpaper. I have screen brightness at 60%. And all I have been doing is just reading news and surfing the web. It literally cost me 1% of battery for every 1 min of use. It's just ridiculous.
You are probably on your home screen a lot more than you realize.
Anyway it's a smartphone, they all eat through battery time. you will never get superb battery life unless you crowbar a 3000mah battery into your device.
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set the screen on its lowest brightness setting, the only time I've had to increase the brightness is when I am outside in the sun.
if you are on a bus, if you are not using wifi, turn off the radio.
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Anyway it's a smartphone, they all eat through battery time. you will never get superb battery life unless you crowbar a 3000mah battery into your device.
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You just said your phone is at 36% eighteen hours after charging! Compared to the 0% I'm at ten hours after charging...I'm not looking for superb battery life at all, just somewhat decent. I'm actually bringing a backup feature phone with me to college this semester in case I can't resolve this issue, because I will need to use my phone both in the morning and at night some days
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set the screen on its lowest brightness setting, the only time I've had to increase the brightness is when I am outside in the sun.
if you are on a bus, if you are not using wifi, turn off the radio.
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I have Wifi, BT always off. And I don't listen to Pandora.
I think the key is you have the lowest brightness on your phone. It is going to save you a lot of battery 'cause half of the battery is for the screen.
But I just couldn't stand it. I wish I can set to 100% all the time. It looks so much better.
The phone radio is a huge consumer of battery - especially in weak signal areas. The bars are not that accurate either. that coupled with 3rd party apps that don't always behave nice, can equal rapid battery drain.
Putting the plain in Airplane mode is good way to see what battery life is like without the Cell radio always doing its thing. It is not a fix, but it can show that the battery/phone are not broken. There probably can be improvements and tweaks made by samsung, but I don't think the phones are defective.
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I think the key is you have the lowest brightness on your phone. It is going to save you a lot of battery 'cause half of the battery is for the screen.
But I just couldn't stand it. I wish I can set to 100% all the time. It looks so much better.
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This is what you would call a trade-off I like the bright screen also but I like having longer battery life more.
The screen is still pretty bright on it lowest setting and you gt used to the lower brightness after a while.
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You just said your phone is at 36% eighteen hours after charging! Compared to the 0% I'm at ten hours after charging...I'm not looking for superb battery life at all, just somewhat decent. I'm actually bringing a backup feature phone with me to college this semester in case I can't resolve this issue, because I will need to use my phone both in the morning and at night some days
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how are you using your phone? What apps are you running, are you using any emulators.
There's an app called Spare Parts, which will show you what is using your battery when the screen is off. Open it up and choose "Partial Wake Usage" from the drop down to see.
My Captivate appeared to drain battery very quickly, but with moderate to decent usage throughout a day I was trying to kill the battery it lasted me over 13 hours. I think it's a matter of the battery reporting taking a good while to calibrate properly.
I've had an issue twice now with absurd battery usage. Both times I charged the phone to full and disconnected it; after doing that the phone would lose 10% charge every hour sitting completely idle! Using the phone during that time drained it even faster. Both times powering the phone completely off and back on resolved the issue.
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I wonder why everyone says to use a solid black background? Do most people use their phones primarily by staring at the home screen? I'm never at my home screen more than perhaps five seconds while switching apps
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In AMOLED, black pixels dont use power. This is different from LCD where even black pixels still use power.
Have you guys tried fully charging, then fully discharing then repeating this step 3 more times? It helps with the battery life tremendously.
You gotta do a factory reset. Many people as well as myself had the same issue. For me, a side effect was also that the att start up swoosh was stupidly loud.
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I only did the discharge thing once, last week, and today I am going on a 21 hours with 28% left.
2g app
I was told there is a 2g / 3g application. Has anyone tried this? Apparently it puts the phone in 2g when no data connection is needed and then updates to 3g when a data process is required...
i'm on day two of not charging mine... and i'm at 25%...
i unplugged it from a full charge yesterday (monday) morning before i left for work and today (29 hours later) i'm at 25%... this is with advanced task killer auto killing tasks when screen is off as well as being aggressive about it. i've been listening to music from my sd card, browsing facebook and taking some pictures (and uploading them to fb). i guess i'm either super lucky not to have any problems with GPS or the battery, or i'm a very light user.
I dunno what happened to the main battery thread?
I just got a new phone two days ago because of the restart issue. This one has the same battery issue. Drains 2-4%/hour just being idle. I have nothing beyond launcher pro and google voice installed. Everything is on lockdown in terms of batt usage. The only thing I haven't done is turn off the cell antenna.
I've tried the tricks I knew: factory reset, calibration trick. These didn't help at all. My last phone just needed a factory reset and it was all good. Now I'm sad again :-( will it just improve itself when the phone "learns" the battery or something? I wish I could teach it
Several things you can do.
1) Use WiFi if you can use it, it uses less power. If you don't have somewhere to use WiFi, leave it off.
2) Same goes for BT- leave it off if possible.
3) Use this to get rooted and remove all the ATT crap that sucks battery life. Applying the lag fix also means you spend less time with the screen on, so that can also help you out.
4) Use Auto Brightness
5) Disabling haptic feedback and the tapping sounds (I find it more annoying regardless)
6) Use a static black wallpaper- or something really dark. IMO it looks great black and plus the AMOLED... Black doesn't use power.
7) Use Advanced Task Killer. I have mine on Aggressive and Moderate security every half hour. This will make sure hung apps, etc get killed and apps you haven't ran. Make sure you whitelist the apps that run your widgets and such though.
That's the best things to do to.
Edit- above all, remember this is a SMART phone, not a feature phone like the iPhone is. The simple fact this full blown SMART phone can even begin to rival just a feature phone like the iPhone speaks volumes to how much more efficient it is than what you think it is.
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I've had an issue twice now with absurd battery usage. Both times I charged the phone to full and disconnected it; after doing that the phone would lose 10% charge every hour sitting completely idle! Using the phone during that time drained it even faster. Both times powering the phone completely off and back on resolved the issue.
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I too have had issues with battery life but quickly realized what had been causing the issues, twice it had been snesoid not closing down all the way after use, and this combined with an app that was hurting battery life (word feud), I realized what my problem was.
I leave the brightness jacked all the way down. I believe the lowest it goes on the stock rom is like 15%, but there are ways to go lower than that.
I've not used my phone much the past two days since charging it, and i'm currently down to 35%, but most of my battery use is cell standby, with display being 3rd or so on the list.
You can always use a program like tasker to make the phone go into airport mode between certain hours of the day (IE: while you're sleeping) to help conserve the battery life.
There are also tons of other good tips in this thread.
And trust me, the phone can last; i've managed 3days on one charge
I disconnected my phone from power when it was at 100% before going to sleep. This morning 74% of power was left (after 8 hours).
"Cell standby" ate 40% and "phone idle" 35%. I'm in 5 bar coverage area. Is it normal?
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I disconnected my phone from power when it was at 100% before going to sleep. This morning 74% of power was left (after 8 hours).
"Cell standby" ate 40% and "phone idle" 35%. I'm in 5 bar coverage area. Is it normal?
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i dont think so. i use almost no battery overnight unplugged with not so good coverage. im running stock atm.
I also use about 35% overnight. I started to systematically uninstall recent apps with no change so far. About 5% drain/hour. Weird stuff but also intolerable
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I also use about 35% overnight. I started to systematically uninstall recent apps with no change so far. About 5% drain/hour. Weird stuff but also intolerable
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What is top battery consumers for you?
Display is at like 36% when I get up in the morning, even though the phone has been idle all night. Then android system is like 25%
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Display is at like 36% when I get up in the morning, even though the phone has been idle all night. Then android system is like 25%
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Probably different issue then mine. You probably have some reminders or someting lighting up screen or something at night.
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I disconnected my phone from power when it was at 100% before going to sleep. This morning 74% of power was left (after 8 hours).
"Cell standby" ate 40% and "phone idle" 35%. I'm in 5 bar coverage area. Is it normal?
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More info needed...Stock..rooted & custom rom?
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More info needed...Stock..rooted & custom rom?
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Stock, rooted.
artisticcheese said:
I disconnected my phone from power when it was at 100% before going to sleep. This morning 74% of power was left (after 8 hours).
"Cell standby" ate 40% and "phone idle" 35%. I'm in 5 bar coverage area. Is it normal?
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Did you recently perform a flash (to a new ROM, a different one, or flashed back to stock JF6)? If you did, you'll need to condition the battery.
If not, you probably have some background apps that run all night.
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Did you recently perform a flash (to a new ROM, a different one, or flashed back to stock JF6)? If you did, you'll need to condition the battery. If not, you probably have some background apps that run all night.
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I did not recently flash anything. I do have a bunch of background apps but if they were consumers they would show on a list, is not it. It would not be "phone idle" and "cell standby".
I'm in a similar boat. Ill drop around 20% within two hours. Display time is less than 30 minutes. Display down low. email fetching off. Running cognition 2.3 Tom
I've got a new battery on the way from att warranty.
Is it worth trying cpuset and tweaking?
Hope your battery life improves. I hate the mid day charge
Any chance you have wifi on? When I was running stock I would only lose a few percent overnight with it off. With it on though I would lose 20%+ easily.
Wifi uses battery more than 3G? In any event, without hijacking the OP's thread-I turned off wifi and it still uses about 5%/hour sitting idle with the screen off and locked.
However, what I did this morning: When arriving at my office-all I did was turn off something called "animation" in the display settings. I have no idea what you miss with animations turned off, but in about 3 hours of sitting idle, wifi on, I've only lost 2%. Not sure if I'm onto the problem..but will let it go another couple hours to check..then I'll turn the animations on again to see if that does anything.
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Wifi uses battery more than 3G? In any event, without hijacking the OP's thread-I turned off wifi and it still uses about 5%/hour sitting idle with the screen off and locked.
However, what I did this morning: When arriving at my office-all I did was turn off something called "animation" in the display settings. I have no idea what you miss with animations turned off, but in about 3 hours of sitting idle, wifi on, I've only lost 2%. Not sure if I'm onto the problem..but will let it go another couple hours to check..then I'll turn the animations on again to see if that does anything.
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I actually enable WiFi during sleep instead of 3G since according to posts here WiFi is using less power then 3G.
Thats what I thought..so turning off wifi is obviously not going to help battery life if you have a 3G signal. I don't know..I'm just killing one app at time but its tedious. May just do a factory reset-ticks me off to see the battery drain on a device that's already hard on the dam battery to begin with
I have started using cpu tuner to underclock my cpu when im not using it. Doing wonders so far. I am at 40% and have been using my phone normally for 10 hours 36 minutes
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Woo first post--
Turning all data connections off will vastly boost your battery life. Not just WiFi but also 3G. On the stock Captivate you can do it by dialing *#*#4636#*#* > Phone Information > (Hit Menu button) > More > Disable Data Connection. Also check for SYNCing, stuff like Facebook, Twitter and Google syncing takes up a lot of juice since it repeats so often. I turn mine off unless I know I need real-time updates on a given day. On top of that, just keeping background apps from drawing CPU (i.e. having task manager to kill the ones that you KNOW keep running even though they're in the background) will help. I got ~24-36hr out of a charge through these three practices.
The next step for me personally was rooting the phone and taking out all the AT&T bloatware. This stuff loves to run in the background for whatever reason and killing it every hour is not going to help your battery life. So I removed all of it and reached almost 48hr out of a charge (low usage).
Turning off animations just takes away the smooth transitions between screens. I believe the home screen launcher (TouchWiz for stock Captivate) is actually unaffected, you still get smooth scrolling between screens. I'm using Launcher Pro and unticking the animations box in the Android settings only took out the menu animations, my homescreens are still smooth and fluid. Just that hitting the menu button makes the menu display immediately, instead of softly/smoothly, and returning to home is also instantaneous. I don't miss the animations, I like my faster AND more efficient.
If you've got the guts to play with your phone and really void your warranty, flashing to Froyo (2.2) and then optimizing everything you can about its power consumption will up the battery life even more. Today I used the GPS for a road trip, listened to music, spent 2hr browsing the Internet, made several phone calls, used the phone as a flashlight for an hour (pure white on screen) and after 24hr off the plug I'm at 50% battery. This phone + Froyo really is no joke, I've spent a couple days' worth of hours tuning so far, but once it's set up it's really satisfying. I can easily wring out 3 days from this phone if I don't go crazy with it.
Edit: If I let the phone sit still for 8 hours I lose about 1-2%. Not bad at all.
Reading around it seems that wifi signal and cell signal quality also majorly affect battery life. So if you're in a good location, you could potentially get much more out of your phone than if you're in a place with bad signal.
My battery life improved dramatically going to
settings ====> wireless and network ====> wi-fi settings ====> options ====> advanced
and changing wi-fi sleep policy to never. My default setting (Rogers) was when screen turns off. Made a big difference. Don't know if the default is the same on AT&T.
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My battery life improved dramatically going to
settings ====> wireless and network ====> wi-fi settings ====> options ====> advanced
and changing wi-fi sleep policy to never. My default setting (Rogers) was when screen turns off. Made a big difference. Don't know if the default is the same on AT&T.
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What do you mean? You battery life improved actually after enabling WiFi to be always on?
I think it's pretty funny how half of the forum swears they get better battery life with wifi on and the other half with it off.
I personally have never gotten better battery life with wifi on. I've ran stock, JH7, 3 versions of cognition, and now on Perception build 4 and this has never been the case for me. I've tried it out with access to different routers with varying amounts of signal and it still showed no signs of improvement.
Hi all,
My 6 days old Sensation (Vodafone contract UK) discharge a huge amount during Standby (200-350mA). I got the number via Battery Widget Pro 1.65. For the first few days I did deplete the battery fully before charging it to full. Today I have factory reset it to the original condition at around 4pm with 58% battery full. Now at 9pm, it is only 18%. During this time, I spent about 1 hour with the phone, the rest is standby. I set the widget to monitor with 1 minute interval and when looking at the log file, it can be seen that the phone consumed from 200-400mA during the standby time. Coming from HD2 with Android modded 3-8mA standby consumption, this is a huge huge dissapoinment!
Is this because of my battery or is this my phone? Should I ask for a replacement? What about you, did you see similar pattern?
Thanks,
Duong
duongnt said:
Hi all,
My 6 days old Sensation (Vodafone contract UK) discharge a huge amount during Standby (200-350mA). I got the number via Battery Widget Pro 1.65. For the first few days I did deplete the battery fully before charging it to full. Today I have factory reset it to the original condition at around 4pm with 58% battery full. Now at 9pm, it is only 18%. During this time, I spent about 1 hour with the phone, the rest is standby. I set the widget to monitor with 1 minute interval and when looking at the log file, it can be seen that the phone consumed from 200-400mA during the standby time. Coming from HD2 with Android modded 3-8mA standby consumption, this is a huge huge dissapoinment!
Is this because of my battery or is this my phone? Should I ask for a replacement? What about you, did you see similar pattern?
Thanks,
Duong
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Ditto!! So annoyed since I too am coming from HD2 where HyperDroid's consumption had dropped to a flat 2mA in standby. This is insane for a native android device. Not to mention the heating while playing games and most importantly, the front facing camera producing upside down image during fring video chats.. grrr!
Dunno what the cause OR solution is (besides switching over to a custom rom if and when the BL gets unlocked and people like pongster develop for this device)...
Overall, sexy device but disappointed with such major holes left unattended..
A little offtopic but was a battery related questions and did not wanna start a new thread so posting here -
Does anybody know of if there's any app which can get the battery percent to show in the top bar instead of the default indicator?
Thanks
EDIT: neva mind... found it... everybody's allwoed 1 dumb post once in a while
something is keeping your phone awake, you need to figure out what it is.
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something is keeping your phone awake, you need to figure out what it is.
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Any ideas on how I can do that? I tried using current widget but I guess because it's not rooted, current widget showed me a log of 0mA all throughout (yeah rite! hehe)
when I figure it out myself I'll let you know.
Current things I found that killed my battery over night: VTOK & Google Latitude
I went into Settings --> About Phone --> Battery --> Battery Use and checked, and it says display is eating most of my battery.
As far as mine, I get about 12 hours of battery life with standard usage, with the display eating most of the life, so if you're saying the screen is off, you might get different results...
over my 8h sleep battery dropped like 10%, nothing special (count in : wifi on, sync with gmail, weather) guys. new phone, fresh unoptimized kernel and radio. it'll get better. my prev phone (desire) was like sh*t at beginning in relating to its current spec rom ... and btw for checkin consuption : system panel (not lite), there is monitoring and u can see which apps running again if ya shoot them, check sync-s etc. many many thing to do, hard to tell in a single post
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over my 8h sleep battery dropped like 10%, nothing special (count in : wifi on, sync with gmail, weather) guys. new phone, fresh unoptimized kernel and radio. it'll get better. my prev phone (desire) was like sh*t at beginning in relating to its current spec rom ... and btw for checkin consuption : system panel (not lite), there is monitoring and u can see which apps running again if ya shoot them, check sync-s etc. many many thing to do, hard to tell in a single post
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well it certainly sounds like a part of it is specimen issue.. here's my latest experience... last few times i have let it completely discharge and then charge back while the phone was off so i dont mess with it... once 100% charged, i switched the phone on and received a call.. a 25 minute conversation ate away 15% of my battery... LOL...
then, (now it gets better)... in 2 hrs of standby, the phone was at 60% which means it lost another 15% battery in 2 hrs of "standby".. im not sure if i can even call that state a "standby" anymore...
anyways... im wondering if its worth pinning hopes on rom development on our forum or should i just return this and go with something like nexus S which, O well, I can live with... atleast it has a 3300mA batterypack available... what's the use of kickass speeds and features if i have to use a phone like a desktop..
Hey, I have pretty bad battery drain during stand by as well I recommend trying to adjust the sync accounts, esp HTC hub and how often it updates that should improve it...I have a bunch of HTC widgets set up so im suspecting that being the reason for battery drain during stand by also adjust your email update setting accordingly. Every little bit helps!
Battery gauge stuck at 100%
Another one slightly off topic - but why start another battery thread.
It is the second day with my Sensation, and since I took the phone off the charger this morning, the battery gauge has been stuck at 100%. All other apps reading the battery status (e.g. Battery Widget) show the same number. I rebooted the phone multiple times, replaced the battery - nothing - permanent 100%. Has anyone had a similar experience? Did I get a perpetuum mobile ?
BTW the readings were fine yesterday.
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Another one slightly off topic - but why start another battery thread.
It is the second day with my Sensation, and since I took the phone off the charger this morning, the battery gauge has been stuck at 100%. All other apps reading the battery status (e.g. Battery Widget) show the same number. I rebooted the phone multiple times, replaced the battery - nothing - permanent 100%. Has anyone had a similar experience? Did I get a perpetuum mobile ?
BTW the readings were fine yesterday.
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Yes, the rating will go downhill pretty quick after that. Mine behaves in the same way.
jawang26 said:
Hey, I have pretty bad battery drain during stand by as well I recommend trying to adjust the sync accounts, esp HTC hub and how often it updates that should improve it...I have a bunch of HTC widgets set up so im suspecting that being the reason for battery drain during stand by also adjust your email update setting accordingly. Every little bit helps!
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Thanks for the pointer.. I will surely try that and see if it makes a difference..
That being said, call me crazy but it just occurs to me that HTC should be putting in some minimal efforts to check off basic quirks like battery consumption and QC. I mean all of us are spending a buttload of money on these devices year over year and then we rely on our devs here to give us basic functionality. Back in the days the reason people joined forums was to tweak devices.. Now it almost feels like we might as well expect only the hardware for the price we pay... disappointed!
Anywho...
I fully charged the phone before I went to bed last night. Eight hours later, the battery is at 10%. Is there something wrong with the battery?
Try using the Spare Parts app to see what's really using the battery in detail.
Ive got my sensation 4G 2 days ago. Here are 2 shots showing the battery usage during this period (didn't get the chance to root the phone yet so i had to use my camera for the shots).
I only have 1 account set for auto sync (no other account to be synchronized).
I went to bed last night at 2 and woke up at 10. During this 8 hours, the battery went from 63 to 30, which means roughly 4% per hour for just idling i suppose!
Do you guys have any idea why this is happening?!
Thanks a lot!
It's the autosync that is killing the battery behind the scene. Turn it off and make sure that data always on is turned off ad well as background data.
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mrg02d said:
It's the autosync that is killing the battery behind the scene. Turn it off and make sure that data always on is turned off ad well as background data.
Matt
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thanks but like i said i only have one email account set up for auto sync which checks pretty frequently but if i remove this one then whats the point of having a smartphone....
You install any aps? That's WAY too much awake time.
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It's HTC Hub...make sure it's disabled.
Something is not right, your phone is awake while screen off. Check all sync settings. Also i would advice to drain battery completely and after charge it while phone is off. Do couple cycles like this.It will improve battery life.
On my phone i have Exchange account syncing every 15 min, GMail always on, yahoo always on, weather every 3 hr. Rest accounts sync set to manual. Battery on my phone last easily 18 hr +. Today 15hr and i am still have 50% battery remaining. Very happy with battery life on Sensation.
Usually the HTC stuff is the main catalyst behind the quick drain. Also you COULD just get the anker battery that everyone's been raving about. I personally swapped out my battery at a sprint store. Walked in and asked if they had any return Evo 3D's and the sales person was cool enough to do me the favor and swap my Sensation battery for one. 12 hour minimum batery evert day for me since!
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You install any aps? That's WAY too much awake time.
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yea i did but they are just a few simple utility programs like file managers and stuff...
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It's HTC Hub...make sure it's disabled.
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HTC Hub and sense are both disabled.....
but then the contents on sense (like weather and stuff) wont get updated right?
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Something is not right, your phone is awake while screen off. Check all sync settings. Also i would advice to drain battery completely and after charge it while phone is off. Do couple cycles like this.It will improve battery life.
On my phone i have Exchange account syncing every 15 min, GMail always on, yahoo always on, weather every 3 hr. Rest accounts sync set to manual. Battery on my phone last easily 18 hr +. Today 15hr and i am still have 50% battery remaining. Very happy with battery life on Sensation.
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wow u have so many accounts to be synced...i have disabled sync for everything except one yahoo mail account which syncs every 10 mins!!
what else could be the reason of awake battery usage?
I think every 10 minutes might be a little much. I would suggest doing a factory rest and starting fresh. I had horrible battery life when I first got my Sensation and a factory reset fixed it right up.
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I think every 10 minutes might be a little much. I would suggest doing a factory rest and starting fresh. I had horrible battery life when I first got my Sensation and a factory reset fixed it right up.
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i did a factory reset once i got the phone before installing anything....
did u restore ur apps and settings after u did the factory reset?
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i did a factory reset once i got the phone before installing anything....
did u restore ur apps and settings after u did the factory reset?
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No I started fresh. Back then I didnt have the option to restore with titanium backup.
What battery meter are you using out of curiosity?
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What battery meter are you using out of curiosity?
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Menu/settings/about phone/battery/battery use.
Then tap the graph to see the full screen graph.
same thing is happening to me but i have SOLID LINE under awake time.. ...nothing out of the ordinary running in watchdog or running services.. when i go to bed at night with full battery i wake up and its around 50% with NO USE.... i look at battery history and it says the phone has been awake 100% of the time,,, back ground data is off, auto sync off, already deleted facebook and twitter and picasa, location and gps off, disabled htchub and cant understand why phone is awake 100% of the time, how do i find out what is causing this? its really annoying ...
Ahhh I never knew you could get to that graph from there. Interesting.
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Menu/settings/about phone/battery/battery use.
Then tap the graph to see the full screen graph.
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download juice defender and screebl from market. Put the juice defender in Aggressive setting. and After installing screebl , got to android settings -> display -> disable all animations , set screen timeout to 15 seconds ( screebl will not let the device lock unless you have kept phone in horizontal orientation, so in general your device screen will turn off in 15 seconds whenever you are not using the phone )..i am sure you will reduce battery consumption....let me know if you could....
Do not use juice defender it will be a battery hog and it causes lag. Have you tried a factory reset?
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screen on time coupled with brightness are where you start.
* Take your brightness down to 70-80%.
* Install Juice Defender. I have mine customized with Juice defender Ultimate (paid), but you could set it to aggressive.
From your pics, 12 hours is pretty good for the stock battery but you screen on time will put a major dent in that.
I would advise you to by one of the extended batteries that have been talked about in numerous threads. I just got 21 hours out of my non-stock battery yesterday. I have also gone over a full day as well.
Hi, I have just come over from the HD2 threads as I'm using a Sensation XE now . My battery current when running android on standby was around 7 - 20 ma. On my XE it is between 180 and 220ma. I killed all running tasks etc but still no change. i'm using Battery Monitor Widget to check the currents. The only thing i have on is mobile internet. I also have on background sync but that was on with my HD2 as well. Is there anything I should look out for that my being draining the battery? Also I'm on stock rom
What did you already tried to solve the problem? Did you already do a soft reset/wipe all data (except that on the SD card)? How long is your battery life?
Yesterday i called HTC because my battery life is reduced drastically compared to a few weeks ago. They told me to turn off everything like bluetooth, wifi etc (after a soft reset) and put the phone in plane mode while screen brightness was 100% and screen time out never so the screen stays on during the test. Next I needed to write down how fast the battery was drained. My battery was at 55% after 2 hours (without doing anything with the phone). According to HTC this was to fast and therefore they send me a new battery.
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What did you already tried to solve the problem? Did you already do a soft reset/wipe all data (except that on the SD card)? How long is your battery life?
Yesterday i called HTC because my battery life is reduced drastically compared to a few weeks ago. They told me to turn off everything like bluetooth, wifi etc (after a soft reset) and put the phone in plane mode while screen brightness was 100% and screen time out never so the screen stays on during the test. Next I needed to write down how fast the battery was drained. My battery was at 55% after 2 hours (without doing anything with the phone). According to HTC this was to fast and therefore they send me a new battery.
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In 1 hour of standby the battery has drained 5%. the battery current usage is way to high for standby. I have had this phone on 3 days so I dont think i need to do a full wipe. I dont use wifi or bluetooth and they are always switched off. Seems strange to have a high battery usage while in standby compared to my hd2. This battery is meant to be a high capicity
use battery monitor widget (use a beta version from the forum, not the market). set it to "mA corrections" and choose automatic from the list of supported phones. i get anywhere from 5-7 mA drain (standby, of course).
RussianBear said:
use battery monitor widget (use a beta version from the forum, not the market). set it to "mA corrections" and choose automatic from the list of supported phones. i get anywhere from 5-7 mA drain (standby, of course).
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from here ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=905999
it doesnt show beta
Try turning OFF mobile data AND sync. Then see how the standby current drain is.
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indie said:
from here ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=905999
it doesnt show beta
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this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17402830&postcount=12
Thanks, I will try it out
It's still in the -200's in standby
Sorry, i changed to automatic and now it -40 and 60. Is it right now or should it be lower?
indie said:
Sorry, i changed to automatic and now it -40 and 60. Is it right now or should it be lower?
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mine's weird, it'll start higher and gradually gets lower. see what happens in a few hours of standby.
Hi indie.
How is your battery drain now? I ask because I have same problem (original rom) and I don't know what to do.
decebal12345 said:
Hi indie.
How is your battery drain now? I ask because I have same problem (original rom) and I don't know what to do.
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Hi, I'm on stock Rom too. Once I kill all tasks by the default task manager, it ranges between 25 - 60. It does take a bit of time to get there. I Have seen it as low as 19. You need to follow steps and get the beta widget and set it to corrections as mentioned earlier in the posts.
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it ranges between 25 - 60. It does take a bit of time to get there.
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Same here, took about half an hour to go from ~-100mA to -30mA
However I can't seem to get 0mA when fully charged. Anyone else with the same issue?
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Same here, took about half an hour to go from ~-100mA to -30mA
However I can't seem to get 0mA when fully charged. Anyone else with the same issue?
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same here. stays at 100mA after 100%. i can live with that
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Just a quick update. I let my battery completely die (never done this before) and charged my phone fully. I then deleted the battery stats.txt and switched phone off. the charged some more. Now when my phone uses -5 on standby which it never did before.
Well took my phone off charge at 11.05 today and its been on standby. It's now 15.52 and battery is still on F. Battery drain is now at -3 so i'm well happy.
Thanks indie. Can you let us know what will be happening in the future with your battery?