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Battery life after 12 days

I know there is a bunch of threads about this but I am considering about a replacement at this point.
My battery is draining pretty fast doing same task as with my Galaxy S 4G. Web, few games, texts, few calls.
My battery life is around 5-9 hours and gotta recharge twice a day at this point. I though it would get better with time, had the phone since launch day.
What are your experiences?
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I get 12-16+ hours heavy use
I'm in a 3g only area so I'm guessing people that live in a 4g network see worse battery drain.... I'd honestly stop all synching and do a full charge with battery wipe
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Any one with same experiences?
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I already tried with about 3-4 factory reset, deleting battery stats with battery calibrator and clock work mod.
Still horrible
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nate420 said:
I get 12-16+ hours heavy use
I'm in a 3g only area so I'm guessing people that live in a 4g network see worse battery drain.... I'd honestly stop all synching and do a full charge with battery wipe
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I don't think 3G/4G makes a difference on battery usage. It's HSPA vs HSPS+, both are 3G, just one is a bit faster. It's not like Verizon where you have 3G and LTE 4G, and one sucks up more juice than the other.

lol yeah, it's pretty funny how all T-Mobile has to do is put a "4G" icon in your notification bar and people think the phone is running on a different network. The only thing that's different than, say, a N1, is that the G2x has a higher top end. Wireless companies have really effed everyone in the head with this 3G/4G BS.

mapin0518 said:
I don't think 3G/4G makes a difference on battery usage. It's HSPA vs HSPS+, both are 3G, just one is a bit faster. It's not like Verizon where you have 3G and LTE 4G, and one sucks up more juice than the other.
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i just guessed
but this device is know for having driver issues/mega bloatware running unless frozen or removed
and its a android phone... its not going to have a lot of battery left after powering all the bull spit that is running on it/screen/tethering/gps/mms & texting let alone all the other stuff people do with this phone....
talk to tmobile maybe you can get a new battery sent after saying yours is bogusly sucking.....
other than that wait for the drivers to be fixed.... a stable rom like BIONIX that krylon is baking in the oven and a UV/OC kernel MorFic is putting in the steamer as well....
its been less than 20 days this phone obviously has some issue's since LAUNCH
but to just give up like some people are doing and going to the HTC crapsation with 3.0 sense and a locked (not encrypted thank god) bootloader that will most likely have some issues as well is just flat out idiotic....
(i dont mean people dumping the phone are stupid... just expecting too much out of a 2 week old phone)

moshe22 said:
I know there is a bunch of threads about this but I am considering about a replacement at this point.
My battery is draining pretty fast doing same task as with my Galaxy S 4G. Web, few games, texts, few calls.
My battery life is around 5-9 hours and gotta recharge twice a day at this point. I though it would get better with time, had the phone since launch day.
What are your experiences?
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all battery's like that....(hd2, nexus s, nexus one, g2x)

My battery goes from full to 99% in about 6 hours when I sleep and wake up. The phone is not turned off btw. I am now using "Juice Defender Ultimate". Paid $3 and change when you get the free version and upgrade it from that free app (otherwise I think it is around $6). I have it at the "extreme" profile which shuts all wifi and data. I disable it and then turn on either wifi or data when I need to use it (Use Switchpro to toggle on and off easily from my home screen). I also the free Advanced Task Killer with only ATK and Juice Defender running. In 12 hours of using the phone a few times, texts, and even surfing the web, and watching 20 mins of video I still have about 80%. It makes a big difference.
I just make sure to use my ATK before I turn the screen off on my phone.

Oh yeah I also rooted my phone and removed all bloatware.

Well, when I had a G2x, it wasn't too bad at the start, but after I tried the HDMI output, the battery life went to hell in a heartbeat, i.e. full to dead within 8 hours with no network connectivity, and the phone always using the battery even when off. I think the HDMI output got shorted somehow to always on, and thus never stopped drawing power for nothing. Besides, my G2 was never anywhere near as bad as the G2x in power usage, even back at stock unrooted Froyo, so to give a blanket statement of "all Android phones suck down batteries like nothing" is simply an over-generalization.

wildone81 said:
Well, when I had a G2x, it wasn't too bad at the start, but after I tried the HDMI output, the battery life went to hell in a heartbeat, i.e. full to dead within 8 hours with no network connectivity, and the phone always using the battery even when off. I think the HDMI output got shorted somehow to always on, and thus never stopped drawing power for nothing. Besides, my G2 was never anywhere near as bad as the G2x in power usage, even back at stock unrooted Froyo, so to give a blanket statement of "all Android phones suck down batteries like nothing" is simply an over-generalization.
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im not saying all android phones batteries suck..... but take into consideration what these phones are doing.... and you cant really compare the G2x to any other android phone except the Atrix and o2X because its a dual core...... so comparing it to a galaxy s 4G or a nexus s isnt really giving this phone the credit it deserves

nate420 said:
im not saying all android phones batteries suck..... but take into consideration what these phones are doing.... and you cant really compare the G2x to any other android phone except the Atrix and o2X because its a dual core...... so comparing it to a galaxy s 4G or a nexus s isnt really giving this phone the credit it deserves
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I will try once again and see hoe much it last before it is down to 10%. Wiped battery stats last night and realized that i had unfreeze my account. So i just froze it again and recharged the phone.
Don't get me wrong though i really like this phone alot better than my other two smartphones.
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All:
I've always had Motorola Droid phones. They have excellent battery out of the box, but I truly bumped it up with a few steps.
First off if I buy a phone that has GPS, WIFI, Bluetooth, etc. I plan to keep those functions ON and running ALL THE TIME as I don't want to get in my car and say, ohh yeah let me renable bluetooth etc. No, that's now how I operate. So all the tips below greatly extended battery life without disabling functionality. I do however disable autostarting of apps like Skype, Fring, and Qik. I mean let's face it how often is someone video calling you randomly?
This phones are turning into computers, think about how long it takes to install windows, load all your applications, configure and tweak your settings, register your software etc etc. But just like the more apps you install in Windows the more sh1t wants to autostart when you boot into Windows and load up your task tray (taking resources) is the same way the phones are working.
I recently returned a G2X, not for battery life but for other reasons. I actually was able to improve the battery life using the methods below.
First off, everyone always talks about a task killer. This is a must have. BUUUUT! You have to use it properly and this isn't the main thing that will help you save your battery.
Another must have but NEVER talked about app is AUTOSTARTS. **Root Required**
Autostarts let's you disable items that always enable themselves on certain actions. For example, why does an app you killed relaunch itself randomly? Why does it load on start up? Well autostarts let's you see all apps set to load on startup, also when certain criteria is met. For example, some apps are set to start on "click" of a button for example.
Autostarts let's you disable those apps from EVER starting unless you specifically start it. Let's face it, most apps we download only need to be used when we launch it.
Task killer let's you kill unnecessary apps running in the background, or an app you're down with that you want to kill versus it running in the background using CPU cycles and battery life.
THE KEY IS, YOU MUST NOT KILL OR DISABLE A SYSTEM SERVICE. Most system services are obvious GMAIL, CORP EMAIL, BLUETOOTH SERVICE, WIFI SVC, GOOGLE SERVICES, AT&T/VERIZON/T-Mobile/SPRINT (etc) SERVICES (with the exception of bloatware services).
Task killer will let you see what's running, and place certain items on the IGNORE list so you don't accidentally disable it in the future. Then you need to set your options in task killer to HIDE IGNORED items to further take it from your view.
Those are the first steps. I don't know why AUTOSTARTS isn't more popular. For you computer geeks, it's like MSCONFIG in windows where you disable services that load automatically for no reason.
Also believe it or not WIFI seems to use much less power than AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint's 4G network. And let's face it, neither of the aforementioned carriers are really giving us much with their 4G. Wifi still beats them in speeds, and of course Verizon LTE sh1ts on them. So keep your WIFI on when in an WIFI area like home, work, etc. You'd be amazed at just how much battery life that alone can save.
Next, I followed the steps below taken from another thread started by spencersir2, many of the steps I had never done before on previous phones, but I did on a G2X and Atrix and it actually did help even further. I only listed the steps I used that helped, he recommended installing a lot of other software that in my opinion only adds to the problem.
All the steps work for any Android phone, but some of the steps are specific to T-Mobile (i.e. wifi calling option)
Root The Phone. There is plenty of links and help if you don't know how or have questions about rooting.
(Root Needed) Set CPUand it does nothing but save battery. I currently have it set on 216 - 1000 for when the screen is on and the only profile i have is for when the screen is off and it is at 216-216.
(Root Needed) Battery Calibration. I'm still skeptical if this helped but it can't hurt. Because I did everything at once, I didn't individually test this to see if it made a difference. It doesn't hurt so just do it.
Wifi Never sleep. Supposedly according to some if you change wifi to Never Sleep it will stop some loop in the programing which in turn will save battery. - TRY AND SEE IF THIS HELPS, I THINK IT DOES HELP THE G2X NOT SURE IF IT HELPS OTHER ANDROID PHONES
T-Mobile specific - Wifi Calling. If you didn't decide to freeze/uninstall this app. Make sure that this is OFF, because whenever you have wifi on it will constantly flip between Wifi Calling and normal radio towers, which once again is bad for your battery life.
RECAP:
- Root Phone
-Download SetCPU from market. G2X users, select NVIDIA Tegra 2 at launch of app. Other users select one best appropriate for your device. Create a profile that says SCREEN OFF MIN=216 MAX=216. You may need to adjust the max to wake phone up faster depending on your phone. You shouldn't need to bump the max up to more than 400 something. This only reduces CPU speed when screen is off. Helps with battery!
- Download Autostarts from market, look at all that's running under each column, disable anything you don't need to autostart
- Download Taskiller (it's the red guy, not the green one). Hide system services by long pressing on icon, then select IGNORE. Then go to options and say HIDE IGNORED ITEMS. This so you don't KILL an important system app. (Read above for details on what is a system app)
- Use WiFi whenever possible. Uses much less power than 4G. Not sure about 3G but 4G is a battery killer. If you have Wifi, use it. It's faster anyway.
- Change Wifi settings to never sleep (test for a day see if helps or not, if not change it back to default setting). It helped G2X not sure if it helps other Android phones.
- Disable Wifi Calling (T-Mobile only)
- Download battery calibration from market, not sure if it helps but it def didn't hurt anything. and it's very simple.

I've tried all the tricks listed before (freezing apps, doing the secret menu, etc), and still had TERRIBLE battery life. I tried installing an app (switch pro), and had a toggle switch for data on and off thinking it might help. It helped just slightly. What did work, was putting a 2g-4g toggle switch on, and it has made a night and day difference. This, and I used the battery calibration program a few times, and in clockwork. Normally, I wake up at 6:30am and by the time it's 4pm I was normally down to 35ish %. Now, I'm at around 85% when I leave work. I'm thinking it has to do with the 2g, but it doesn't make sense that when I toggled data off, I got terrible battery, and just switching to 2g makes that big of a difference. Either way, I'm SUPER happy with battery life now.

i really have to question people saying they get 20+ hours of battery life, i mean if i stop all sync, disconnect 4g and only use 2g, not use the internet, shut off wifi, no bluetooth and do all the tricks that people have suggested. I still don't get a full day's use. but what the H is the point of having a super phone that i can't use it's functions i might as well get a clam shell phone that lasts 3 days without charging. I really like this phone but at this point the battery life is killing me i have to take like 3 different chargers everywhere i go!!

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I don't see how you guys are still having battery problems. One a full charge, i'm able to get at least 12+ hrs with moderate to heavy use. Facebook and 3 email sync is set at 1 hr. About 100+ text and 10 emails a day. Wifi is on the whole time. Wifi calling as well. My screen brightness is set to auto. GPS is also always on.
I have to admit, the first few days, the battery life was about the same as my hd2 running android, but its gotten better now and its amazing.

Solution: buy a new battery.

[Q] Any Decent Battery Savers?

I was wondering if there are any good battery savers for the samsung infuse4G. i have the cpu tuner and not 100% sure how to use it. i have downloaded a half a dozen task manager/killers from the market. as of now i have "advanced task manager" killing every 5 min. i have some apps ignored. on the cpu tuner i messed around with it last night and got all things working fully on it. now it says everything but the power save and performance working. if there is anyone that uses this please let me know exactly how to use it. still a little confused about some settings. and if there is anything else i could try, let me know, and how to use it. Also i am currently on a different rom "bionix 1.2" i have Bluetooth and WiFi and all that normally off. the brightness is lower than 10 % all the time.

First, you posted this in the wrong section. Should be in general.
Second, setting your task manager to auto kill apps will decrease your battery life. On older versions of Android it may have helped, but on Froyo and newer some apps are loaded automatically in the background so they can open quicker when you access them or so they can receive notifications. These apps that are loaded in the background generally aren't doing anything at all and thus aren't using any extra battery. If you set your task manager to automatically kill them they will just keep loading, being killed, loading, being killed, etc., which DOES drain your battery.

i got a battery saver........INFUSED ROM FLASH IT!

tyshemi said:
i got a battery saver........INFUSED ROM FLASH IT!
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After you flash the Infused ROM, turn auto-brightness off and do this to save battery:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1124102

keitht said:
After you flash the Infused ROM, turn auto-brightness off and do this to save battery:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1124102
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Me and keith have gotten gr8 batt life thus far
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tyshemi said:
i got a battery saver........INFUSED ROM FLASH IT!
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Oh ok sounds good. So after I have it flashed it'll go to work? And thanks

technokid said:
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Oh ok sounds good. So after I have it flashed it'll go to work? And thanks
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This is what I do and may or may not matter but I get great results. Before I flash a ROM, I make sure my battery is charged to 100%. Once you are done flashing the ROM, calibrate the battery by:
- Charge to 100% turned on. Wait for the beep and notification that it is fully charged.
- Unplug and turn the phone off. Once off, plug in and let charge until you see 100% on the screen.
- Unplug again and turn the phone on. Once fully loaded, plug in and charge 100% again.
- Power down into recovery and delete Battery Stats under Advanced menu then reboot.
- Power on and charge to 100% again.
Usually it takes a few days for the battery to settle in but following these instructions, I get instant results.

keitht said:
This is what I do and may or may not matter but I get great results. Before I flash a ROM, I make sure my battery is charged to 100%. Once you are done flashing the ROM, calibrate the battery by:
- Charge to 100% turned on. Wait for the beep and notification that it is fully charged.
- Unplug and turn the phone off. Once off, plug in and let charge until you see 100% on the screen.
- Unplug again and turn the phone on. Once fully loaded, plug in and charge 100% again.
- Power down into recovery and delete Battery Stats under Advanced menu then reboot.
- Power on and charge to 100% again.
Usually it takes a few days for the battery to settle in but following these instructions, I get instant results.
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I just did this. I have the infuse tomm with community voodoo and the battery goes from 100 to 60 in 2 hours with moderate use. I am a heavy tester and the brightness is almost 0 I'm not sure what I am doing wrong

Sorry I was on a phone when I typed that. Meant to say. I have the infuse the rom and I am a heavy texter. Have the brightness on almost 0 and I have CPU tuner going and task manager killing everything except 6 things every 5 min and when the screen is off. I can't figure out why my batter is dying so fast. Like it'll die with moderate use for around 5 hours. even if I have the screen off it'll die. I have some apps frozen with this bloat freezer.
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technokid said:
Sorry I was on a phone when I typed that. Meant to say. I have the infuse the rom and I am a heavy texter. Have the brightness on almost 0 and I have CPU tuner going and task manager killing everything except 6 things every 5 min and when the screen is off. I can't figure out why my batter is dying so fast. Like it'll die with moderate use for around 5 hours. even if I have the screen off it'll die. I have some apps frozen with this bloat freezer.
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Did you read post #2 here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14885241&postcount=2 Auto killing some apps will drain your battery faster than leaving them running. I didn't know this until now. So I have deleted all taskmanager apps I was trying and will only use JD without any task killing functions enabled.

I only use Advanced Task Killer to manually kill tasks. I also am careful not to install tons of stuff at once - that way if I get a "bad app" that eats battery I've got a good guess what the culprit is.
The autobrightness/swipe-brightness trick works great.
Kill WiFi if you're not using it.
The new Infusion undervolt kernel is awesome. One day I was at 50% at the end of a work day (admittedly WiFi was turned on but not in use for a good portion of that), the next day I was at 79% at the end of the day. (WiFi turned off + Infusion kernel set to undervolt with no overclocking.)

gtg465x said:
First, you posted this in the wrong section. Should be in general.
Second, setting your task manager to auto kill apps will decrease your battery life. On older versions of Android it may have helped, but on Froyo and newer some apps are loaded automatically in the background so they can open quicker when you access them or so they can receive notifications. These apps that are loaded in the background generally aren't doing anything at all and thus aren't using any extra battery. If you set your task manager to automatically kill them they will just keep loading, being killed, loading, being killed, etc., which DOES drain your battery.
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Ohh OK. So don't have any task manager; task killers at all? I just figured I would need to have all those apps killed so. I had it backwards. So should I have anything to help the batteRy?

Entropy512 said:
I only use Advanced Task Killer to manually kill tasks. I also am careful not to install tons of stuff at once - that way if I get a "bad app" that eats battery I've got a good guess what the culprit is.
The autobrightness/swipe-brightness trick works great.
Kill WiFi if you're not using it.
The new Infusion undervolt kernel is awesome. One day I was at 50% at the end of a work day (admittedly WiFi was turned on but not in use for a good portion of that), the next day I was at 79% at the end of the day. (WiFi turned off + Infusion kernel set to undervolt with no overclocking.)
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i just flashed that kernel. i mean i guess i have it on there. i flashed it cwm, and it said it was successful. so how does that save battery exactly? oh and now i see. i have cpu tuner, and it lets me go uhp to 1.6 ghz sweeeeeet. but wont that drain the battery even more?

technokid said:
i just flashed that kernel. i mean i guess i have it on there. i flashed it cwm, and it said it was successful. so how does that save battery exactly? oh and now i see. i have cpu tuner, and it lets me go uhp to 1.6 ghz sweeeeeet. but wont that drain the battery even more?
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Guess you missed my comment about undervolting without overclocking...
I use a task killer to manually kill apps, especially if one appears to be misbehaving. I NEVER use an autokiller.

The task manager that came with the phone is bad if you clear all running things at once? just got my android not familiar with this os
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The task manager that came with the phone is bad if you clear all running things at once? just got my android not familiar with this os
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Task killers don't work in froyo and above, because google disabled them.
They're bad. Period.
The one that comes with it is best to use sparingly.
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MikeyMike01 said:
Task killers don't work in froyo and above, because google disabled them.
They're bad. Period.
The one that comes with it is best to use sparingly.
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Wrong. Google did nothing to disable them, they just reduced the need for them and the effectiveness of them against many apps.
However, some apps just need a good killing when you're done with them, like Facebook. Facebook seems to inhibit a lot of power management functions from working properly... On my old device (AT&T Tilt2 running XDAndroid), Facebook was the #1 culprit as far as wakelocking a device.
However, as I said - autokillers are BAD, and randomly killing stuff unless you KNOW it's a pesky app can be bad.

use setcpu for profiles, e.g. screen off 100mhz - 200mhz with 100% priority.
running Infused 1.5 with Infusion 1.5 kernel (note that the UV in Infusion 1.5 is broken atm)
screen on auto
wifi/data on 24/7
made couple phone calls
navigation used for ~30 min
online surfing facebook/banking
work e-mail refresh every 5min from 7pm to 10am.
15% after 29hrs use. (is that good?)

Entropy512 said:
Wrong. Google did nothing to disable them, they just reduced the need for them and the effectiveness of them against many apps.
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You sir, are full of crap.
http://androinica.com/2010/08/froyo-update-kills-android-task-killer-apps/
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MikeyMike01 said:
You sir, are full of crap.
http://androinica.com/2010/08/froyo-update-kills-android-task-killer-apps/
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No, you are, as evidenced by you linking to an article that is almost a year old without checking to see if anything had changed since it was published. Advanced Task Killer is more than capable of killing apps - Google may have disabled it temporarily last August but it's been working since March of this year at least (That's when I first got a Froyo device). As I stated - some apps (like the Music app) are set up so they auto-respawn when killed, but they CAN be killed (However, autokilling them is going to eat your battery). A number of apps also do NOT auto-respawn, as I said before, Facebook is one example, and it's an example of an app that is notorious for eating battery and needing a task killer to take care of it.
Now the way sleep and power management works on our Infuse might mean Facebook is less problematic on our devices, but in the case of XDAndroid builds on MSM devices, the Facebook app clearly would prevent the device from entering deep sleep in a timely manner, causing it to eat battery like crazy. Killing it with Advanced Task Killer would fix the problem.
Edit: As another example, it can also kill the Browser process successfully, which is great for when the Browser process gets wacked out. I haven't had any issues with the Browser on the Infuse, but it could easily make the whole system extremely sluggish on XDAndroid Froyo builds.

Battery saving tips

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

whynot66 said:
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
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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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Juice defender vs easy battery saver

Which one do you guys prefer
I unplugged my phone 5 minutes ago its already on 97%, any suggestions
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Neither, bit tend to interfere with advanced configs and from my experience power users tend to advoid them. However, juice defender seems to be the lesser of the two evils. Personally I undervolt and underclock and get far better results

If you don't want to get into kernel changes (undervolting/underclocking), give JD a try. I've been using it for months and found, at least for me, a significant battery power savings using it. Spend the extra couple of bucks and get the JD Ultimate key.. it unlocks a bunch of features. With the same type of use I noticed about a 6 hr gain/day (was getting ~ 14hrs on a charge.. now anywhere from 20-24 hrs). There are many setting combinations, so you'll have to experiment what works best for you. I have it set to turn off the data connection when I'm on WiFi... and when my screen is off, have it set to turn off all radios (and while screen is off, you can set it to ping certain apps like gmail, facebook, etc just for a minute, then turn back off. It automatically will turn data on when you leave your Wifi area. You can also train it to turn on/off certain radios depending on your travels, time of day, use of certain apps, when battery gets to certain levels, etc. It has some cool widgets which show which radios are on/off and can be quickly toggled as well. Anyway, it takes a while to figure out what works best for your situation, but it is very flexible and has tons of features.

Contradictory to what I've been reading online about battery saving apps; I had GREAT results with easy battery saver. I know the app looks cheesy and the fact that i never heard about it before downloading from market.
Due to poor network signal at work, id barely have any charge left on my phone once i get out of work (8 hrs). this kind of apps really help.
JD seems to cause more conflicts/problems that it helped me, even if i turn off untested/expirmental. JD looks more sophisticated/advanced, it didn't work well with me.
The features which mainly effects battery life imo are:
1)Traffic scheduler
2)connectivty killer when screen is off.
These are must features for me, to get whatsapp msgs and email sync. and it seems that easy batter defender scheduler is more robust.
I usually choose to allow sync every 15 min with 30 sec window and connectivity killer to around 20kb/30s. I had bad results when letting the app manage my wifi connectivity based on location (remember wifi networks), better turn it off.
Other settings, screen timeout/brightness/UC/UV/cpu cores/deep_sleep/kernel/modem, must be explored to get max battery life.
Remember these apps will not help very much, if you are using your phone(i.e. screen is on). they work best when phone screen is turned off.
I'm currently using Battery XL from market to test it out.

Another app worth looking at is Green Power. It also can shut off data and turn it on in intervals for emails, IMs, etc.

They both are good options. I have used Juice Defender for several months and it is very good. I have installed Easy Battery Saver last week and it is also good. I only did the change from one app to another for trying

randa-76 said:
They both are good options. I have used Juice Defender for several months and it is very good. I have installed Easy Battery Saver last week and it is also good. I only did the change from one app to another for trying
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Dead thread is zombie. Also all battery saver apps are garbage.
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randa-76 said:
They both are good options. I have used Juice Defender for several months and it is very good. I have installed Easy Battery Saver last week and it is also good. I only did the change from one app to another for trying
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I'm too tired to respond. But you do know this thread is over a year old, right?
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oneortheother said:
Seems like necroman was just looking for his ten posts. lol Like yours truely. I just have better style then to pull threads from the grave. Unless someone has already done it of course.
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Useless post reported if you want your ten make them count please.
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(TIP) Saving Battery Life on Galaxy Note 3

Didn't see it posted so I though I be the first, If it was sorry.
How to Increase Battery Life on the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 or Simply how to make it last longer though out the day. Have another Tip? Leave a comment and let me know, Ill add them.
My Top 10 Tips for saving Battery Life.
1- Enable power saver
2- Disable unnecessary features & gestures
3- Turn off WiFi & Bluetooth when not needed
4- Delete unused widgets
5- Close applications that you are not using
6- Toggle From 4G to 2G
7- Disabling Background Data:
8- Changing Application Sync Settings:
9- Set Brightness to ” Auto ” and lower Timeout Duration:
10- Avoid Live wallpapers, instead set Dark wallpapers.

Thanks for the tips. But if I follow that, what's the point to use such an advanced smartphone?

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Thanks for the tips. But if I follow that, what's the point to use such an advanced smartphone?
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Samsung crams SO many features into their phone I doubt you or really anyone uses all of them regularly (it's not like you can't turn anything you want back on). Also some of these are just temporary when you really need to conserve power; like Power Saver, which really degrades the performance of the processor and GCU or switching to 2g data.

Tip No. 11 Turn your Phone Off...

Thanks a lot.. But if turn off the device saves a lot of battery jeje.
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- Turn off mobile data when you're not using it. This can save you about 3 days of battery live. In one go.
- Turn off Auto Sync. Did you seriously think something that connects to the internet all the time did not drain your battery?
- Don't use Auto modes. Yes, this includes brightness. IT'S A SENSOR, GENIUS. Sensors require power. Just turn down the brightness yourself. (30% is more than sufficient in ordinarily lit rooms.)

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Thanks for the tips. But if I follow that, what's the point to use such an advanced smartphone?
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Well have you every been stuck without a way of charging? There's times I know I wont be able to charge my phone and it might die so i do these things in order to improve and prolong my battery life.

Take a brick charger with you :laugh::laugh:

Unless you mean to do this when you're running low once in a blue moon, then ok.
Otherwise what's the point of the phone?
I do the literal opposite of your list.
Full brightness (unless I'm in a dark room)
4g
Syncing 4 gmail accounts
Syncing Microsoft exchange calendar
Power saving mode off
Facebook connected
I do have a fully charged original note 3 spare battery on me at all times though.
But I rarely need to use it before 7 pm (12 hours after taking it off the charger in the morning).

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Well have you every been stuck without a way of charging? There's times I know I wont be able to charge my phone and it might die so i do these things in order to improve and prolong my battery life.
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Yes, I do have. My solution is tha I will carry 3 oem batteries...plus a 10000 mah battery power bank.

I only got the spare battery yesterday.
I was still running on full mode before the spare battery. I made sure my phone was always charging (while at office, car or home).

blackout720 said:
Well have you every been stuck without a way of charging? There's times I know I wont be able to charge my phone and it might die so i do these things in order to improve and prolong my battery life.
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Indeed... I do 7 hours a day by train, in which I have a 70% chance that I might have to spend half of that checking the travel advisor for an alternative route. I know what it is like all too well....
To me battery life is more valuable than knowing my neighbour managed to write a Q on her visit to the bathroom.

Is there any way to turn off data when the screen is turned off in the settings? Similar to the htc ones power saving option

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Is there any way to turn off data when the screen is turned off in the settings? Similar to the htc ones power saving option
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I think juice defender does that.

The thing I like about the Note 3 is that battery life is not an issue anymore, provided that I can charge it overnight.
Today, I've been on battery for 17 hrs straight, including phone calls, 90 minutes of navigation, Internet use etc. And there's still 28% battery left.
My point is: if the battery life is much less, there's something wrong, and you should investigate that before turning to measures like in the first post. Use an app like Wake Lock Detector or Better Battery Stats to check what is draining your battery.
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I don't actually have a Note 3. Still on Note II but I check in here for feedback.
I would suggest people to purchase the Android Tuner app. It ain't cheap unless u buy it in a sale, but it crams many utilities into one program meaning you don't have to run several different apps. These include battery information/tweaks, overclock/undervolt, ram management, screen off tweaks like disable data or wifi when there's no network activity such as streaming music, backup options like titanium pro, etc etc and much much more of varying complexity depending on how far you want to delve into it.
All in all, a wonderful app and worth every penny.

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Yeah. But I was hoping it would be built into the settings

Yeah the features are there for us to use. And betteries to drain
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could someone clarify this for me?
when you turn off
"Auto Sync"
or enable
"Restrict Background Data"
what does it do exactly?
does it mean I would no longer get notifications for WhatsApp, Twitter, Gmail?