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Is there an app that tells you what is using your battery.the.most?like which app?
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http://www.xda-developers.com/android/tune-your-androids-battery-life-with-betterbatterystats/
check that out?
Finally, a way to get wakelock stats!
Along with BetterBatteryStats posted above (and in my signature, as "here"), I also use Where's My Droid Power as well. It's not as scientific, but it gives you another look. I've found it to be fairly accurate.
I also use CurrentWidget. It allows you to see the current (mA) usage and has a logging option that allows you to sort processes by their average usage.
I've yet to fail in finding out what's draining my battery unusually fast lol.
Simba501 said:
Along with BetterBatteryStats posted above (and in my signature, as "here"), I also use Where's My Droid Power as well. It's not as scientific, but it gives you another look. I've found it to be fairly accurate.
I also use CurrentWidget. It allows you to see the current (mA) usage and has a logging option that allows you to sort processes by their average usage.
I've yet to fail in finding out what's draining my battery unusually fast lol.
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CurrentWidget only gives us charge current, but not current usage off of charge on our phones. It's a hardware limitation with the phone.
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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jager555 said:
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.
I used current widget and was told reading wouldn't be accurate so I have switch to battery monitor app. And I came up with the dame readings...
I'm getting anywhere from 180-1100+ma drain on my batteries. Even on standby I'm looking at 100ma+
I have changed kernels,roms, superwiped, wiped bat stats. Tried different batteries. Something is wrong here. So if anyone has any compatible monitoring apps plz post a link. And i u have the same battery issues I have plz post Ur current setup.
Mine
Android revolution 1.1.7
Rxmix 2.3
Cwm 4.0.1.4
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Battery Monitor Widget Pro
I use Battery Monitor Pro as well on a LeeDroid ROM, standy uses 100-300, but battery has only dropped 8% in past 5 1/2 hours.
BatteryLife by CurveFish.
It also shows you the mV remaining in the battery which is the *real* indication of how much is left, not the %age the phone thinks it is.
chrisw99 said:
BatteryLife by CurveFish.
It also shows you the mV remaining in the battery which is the *real* indication of how much is left, not the %age the phone thinks it is.
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Apparently current widget and battery monitor aren't giving true readings for our sensation. R u for sure battery life is compatible
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Since Iam on adroid iam using Battery Monitor Pro, too.
It is doing a great job. But sometimes it gives u too much information
it is running on my dhd too
Try battery monitor pro
Any widgets or apps you run to monitor battery life will reduce your battery life by a small degree because it is using your phones resources.
I'd also recommend BATTERY MONITOR WIDGET (free) you can pay for PRO version.
But Ensure that in Settings->Monitoring->mA retrieval method = HTC Sensation.
It may well default to this, but I haven't got sensation so don't know.
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I use Battery Monitor Pro as well on a LeeDroid ROM, standy uses 100-300, but battery has only dropped 8% in past 5 1/2 hours.
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I averaged around your measurement too, but sometimes it drop 2% each time, is it normal to be draining so much even on standby?
I use battery left . It uses your battstats file to guage how long you have left and gives you a percentage left as a widget.
It takes a few charge cycles on a new battstats to get accurate but it does the job great when it's calibrated.
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Market link?
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Whoops, I meant battery left widget. Sorry.
And market searching the correct term gets you the app.
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Thought this might help. Please share your tips.
1. Underclock and undervolt your cpu. 1.5 is not needed for every day use. Use system tuner free from market.
2. Set screen off profile lower in system tuner settings.
3. Use juice defender to manage connections whilst screen off. Free from the market.
4. Use watchdog to keep an eye on any mis-behaving apps using too much power. Free from the market
5. Turn off auto brightness. Manage it your self. Most of the time indoors you can have it on lowest setting.
6. Don't charge your battery all the time let it run down to like 30% then recharge.
7. Don't use auto task killers
I've tried most roms and kernals.
My best combo for battery use is
InsertCoin latest with bricked 1.4 and cam fix.
I underclock @ 1.15 and undervolt @-100mV
Battery stats are difficult to report accurately but I use 1% whilst in standby for 2-3 hours
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Anyone got any tweaks
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I am just thinking, so many applications installed to save battery is gonna have reverse effect...:-/
jjdoctor said:
I am just thinking, so many applications installed to save battery is gonna have reverse effect...:-/
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Jeez It's only 3 apps and they run pretty minimally ....... The other 100+ I have installed don't affect my battery either, juice saves about an extra 30% and watchdog let's me know if any apps are Misbehaving. Underclock and undervolt save me loads of battery, don't fancy doing it via script
Could make it 4
Autostarts is a good one it prevents apps from starting unnecessarily
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Useful tips !! Thanks
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7. Don't use auto task killers
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Can you elaborate this please?
I'm on IC 3.3.8 with stock kernel patch, this sucks a lot of energy.
bubuthebear said:
Can you elaborate this please?
I'm on IC 3.3.8 with stock kernel patch, this sucks a lot of energy.
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This is an interesting read http://geekfor.me/faq/you-shouldnt-be-using-a-task-killer-with-android/
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Ah, thanks - that's actually a good explanation.
I will remove the android task killer, but how do you deal with crashed apps... e.g. maps? You can't kill them with the taskmanager, can you?
I have advanced task killer installed with autokill turned off so that I can kill apps as and when I need, apps rarely crash tho....
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apps rarely crash tho....
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Well, I don't know if it was just the version of the latest map app, but in fact it crashed on my phone once or twice a day while using the cache-only mode. Anyway, I think we are getting off topic here.
Which watchdog are you using? There's a few in the market
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https://market.android.com/details?id=com.zomut.watchdoglite
It's handy it alerts you when apps are using to much processor
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i use the GreenPower apps.
in premium version you have the night mode and can shut off wifi and 2/3/4g.
it saves me about a day of battery.
also i set it up to turn on mobilde data only every 15 minutes for 1 minute to sync data.
works great for me
whynot66 said:
Thought this might help. Please share your tips.
1. Underclock and undervolt your cpu. 1.5 is not needed for every day use. Use system tuner free from market.
2. Set screen off profile lower in system tuner settings.
3. Use juice defender to manage connections whilst screen off. Free from the market.
4. Use watchdog to keep an eye on any mis-behaving apps using too much power. Free from the market
5. Turn off auto brightness. Manage it your self. Most of the time indoors you can have it on lowest setting.
6. Don't charge your battery all the time let it run down to like 30% then recharge.
7. Don't use auto task killers
I've tried most roms and kernals.
My best combo for battery use is
InsertCoin latest with bricked 1.4 and cam fix.
I underclock @ 1.15 and undervolt @-100mV
Battery stats are difficult to report accurately but I use 1% whilst in standby for 2-3 hours
Sent from my thumb
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Do you unplug at 100% and then turn off and plug it back in?
toddboxer said:
Do you unplug at 100% and then turn off and plug it back in?
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As far as I am familiar with Li-Ion batteries, that would accomplish nothing... Li-Ion batteries are full at 4.2mV, end of story... Everything you do after that is just voodoo
All you can do is calibrate your system to make the most use of your battery... But Li-Ion batteries are pretty much self-controlled, and self-preserved... They like being charged often, they don't like being too low, they don't like being too full, they like the working atmosphere of the middle range...
Also, they don't mind working while they're being charged
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As far as I am familiar with Li-Ion batteries, that would accomplish nothing... Li-Ion batteries are full at 4.2mV, end of story... Everything you do after that is just voodoo
All you can do is calibrate your system to make the most use of your battery... But Li-Ion batteries are pretty much self-controlled, and self-preserved... They like being charged often, they don't like being too low, they don't like being too full, they like the working atmosphere of the middle range...
Also, they don't mind working while they're being charged
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4200mV or 4.2V but yes that is accurate. Allowing the battery to go through full cycles when installing new ROMs helps your batterystats.bin though.
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How hot is the Optimus 3D Meant to be when charging? Mine seems to go to 60 degrees Celcius while doing nothing...
give it a restart and see if its still overheating while charging.
Still seems to heat up, even when not charging, it not too sure if its normal since my desire HD doesn't heat at all.
around what temp should it be normally?
I also find the battery almost impossible to remove.
314 said:
Still seems to heat up, even when not charging, it not too sure if its normal since my desire HD doesn't heat at all.
around what temp should it be normally?
I also find the battery almost impossible to remove.
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could be that you got some apps that's making your processor go crazy =/
Got any apps like setCPU or along those lines and you set it to be as high as possible or set to Performance? That can cause overheating if you don't set a profile to bring it back down. If not, maybe you could install apps like SystemPanel or WatchDog Task Manager to check if there's any strange apps.
You could always reflash your rom or a different one to see if that fixes the problem.
Might also be a battery problem. Replacing the battery could help too.
I'm not rooted yet, i just wanted to know if there was something wrong with my optimus3d
I recently tested the battery with the StabilityTest app over 2 hours long (noncharging) and it didn't go over 28°C... so normally it can't be a problem with an app stressing the cpu too much
how long should the O3D's battery last? Mine pretty much goes down 1% in less than 1 minute with display on full brightness while doing almost nothing...
314 said:
how long should the O3D's battery last? Mine pretty much goes down 1% in less than 1 minute with display on full brightness while doing almost nothing...
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Most probably you have a process causing this. If you are using any kind of cover or case, DON'T use it until the problem is fixed, or you can get the cpu burned
i'm using a brand new optus australia optimus 3d, it doesn't have a cover, or much apps installed (Except ADW and a few gameloft games - which don't cause battery drain on my desire hd)
Android system seems to be using 70% as well, even though autosync is off.
I'm using the most recent android 2.2.2 update.
Its fairly normal for it to heat up a little when charging. The charge circuit has a feature where it will fast charge and try to dump as much current as it can into the battery when it is really low. I have a two amp usb mains charger that fully charges the battery in 20 minutes and that causes it to heat up pretty significantly. I find that any task that works the gpu significantly heats it up too. Pretty normal really.
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my battery takes quite a long time to charge though...
You need to check your CPU usage, if your cpu running 100% all the time, that mean something is bugged. I got this problem now, sometimes after using the MX video player, my cpu always stay at 100%, I need to restart my phone to fix it.
i use recent coh gingerbread v2.2 and watch movie for almost 2 hr and at about 46c