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1.Reduce display brightness of your screen
Although Samsung Galaxy S come with Super AMOLED which is supposedly to reduce your battery consumption but ironically it is one of the biggest battery life eater of your phone. Try to disable Automatic brightness and set it to the lowest level will improve your battery life a lot.
2. Remove unused widget in the menu
You must always remember that the more widget you have, the more battery life will be consumed up especially those widgets that use data connection and auto sync based on schedule. PS: only keep those widgets that you really need.
3.4. Turn off Bluetooth, GPS when idle
Only turn on Bluetooth and GPS when you need it, otherwise please disable it as it will consume your battery resources. Or please ensure that the charger is hook on your device when you turn on the GPS in the car.
5. Turn off 3G data connection, use Wi-Fi instead
Always gets connected with Wi-Fi when available. 3G data connection consume more battery compare to Wi-Fi connection. Turn off both of them when not needed.
6. Ensure you phone have a good signal as poor signal consume more battery life
When the phone is at the poor receiving end it will tend to use more power than usual to increase its signal strength with the communication tower. So it is always good to make sure that your phone has a good signal reception. You can try to switch to 2G if 3G connection signal in your area is poor.
7. Try to disable / reduce auto-sync whenever possible
All you have learned, data connection does consume lot of your battery life. By disabling the background scheduled auto-sync applications like Facebook, Gmail and Twitter can save your phone lot deal of battery life. If you really have to turn on the auto-sync feature in the phone try to reduce the frequency of auto-sync will also help to improve your phone battery life.
8. Disable new Samsung Apps notification
You can turn off new Samsung Apps notification if you not using it.
The configuration can be access through ~ >Settings >Application > Samsung Apps > Off
9. Turn off motion sensor
Only enable the Samsung Galaxy S Motion features that you using and try to disable those you not using like turn over, tilt, panning and double tap, turn them off as it might save your some battery life.
10. Use solid black static wallpaper and no live wallpaper
Most of the phone including Samsung Galaxy S Super AMOLED will tend to use less power on just solid black wallpaper than a lively solid white color based wallpaper because there will be almost no backlight on the screen. Please do bear in mind that a lovely animation live wallpaper will even cost you more battery life as ~ CPU power = battery life.
11. Fully close application that not use
Samsung Galaxy S is a super multitasking mini computer that come with dual-core processor but running a lot of applications at the background can actually increase your battery usage because they all require your phone CPU processing power. So it is advisable to fully close all the background applications that you not needed.
12. Freeze unused bundle applications
Too many original bundle software running in your Samsung Galaxy S? Freeze them… Titanium Backup Pro provide a way for you to freeze away all the stock application like Social Hub, Email, Maps that are running and utilizing your phone processing power even when you’r not using them. Ps: Your phone need to be rooted before you can use the Titanium Backup Pro.
13. Undervolt and underclock You 800Mhz GHz CPU
Aside from display, Samsung Galaxy S′s powerful CPU is one of the reason why your battery life eat up so fast. You can just underclock and undervolt it with SetCPU if you don’t need that much of processing power. Ps: Your phone need to be rooted before you can use the SetCPU.
14.Download and install JuiceDefender
With an amazingly over 5,000,000 downloads recorded so far in the Android market, JuiceDefender will definately extend your the battery life of your Samsung Galaxy S. JuiceDefender pack with powerful and easy to use power manager app that specifically designed to extend the battery life of your Android device. It can automatically and transparently manages the utilisation of your S battery like when to enable and disable the 3G/4G connectivity and WiFi.
JuiceDefender is available in the Android Market for free and if you would like to have a more powerful (customisable) version you can download the add-on JuiceDefender Ultimate for a small fee of $6.83.
15. Use custom ROM / firmware
Custom ROM / firmware offer a lot of optimization and tweaks to improve the performance of your battery life. You can try it out if you feel that after you have tried out all the tips above and your battery still draining too fast. But please be reminded that flashing a custom ROM / firmware will be voiding the warranty provided by Samsung.
Please let me know if there are other tips and tweaks to improve battery life of Samsung Galaxy S/Cappy that I have missed out.
I think #14 is not necessary if you are running a custom ROM
why wouldnt it be?
I believe number 11 has been proven untrue in the fact that killing tasks that the phone will reopen soon after actually reduces battery life hence the reason task killers are bad. Also the captivate only has a single core processor.
Other than that nice work it should help people out.
If you use a stock ROM with no voodoo color built into the kernel, then use full brightness, I do and I get great battery life, the screen isn't the biggest battery life sucker.... this isn't the greatest battery saving thread from what I can see.
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Generally good tips, but definitely a few holes here and there.
For example, GPS doesn't drain when 'on', only when certain apps use it, making it pretty safe to keep toggled on all the time.
You can go further with SetCPU and other similar apps but underclocking during screen off, and I think that's helping me save battery in my personal experience.
Having a black wallpaper is good and all, but I feel that doing that is a bit too far in optimizing battery life. What's the point of having a pretty decent screen when all you do is use a black wallpaper?
Or flash Darky rom 10.2 Extreme Edition.
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Thank you all for the highlights & suggestions. Just wanted to see what I could do to help those out there with battery drain issues.
Samsung Captivate - ICS 4.0.1
b-eock said:
If you use a stock ROM with no voodoo color built into the kernel, then use full brightness, I do and I get great battery life, the screen isn't the biggest battery life sucker.... this isn't the greatest battery saving thread from what I can see.
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Then what is the biggest battery sucker on your phone?
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Then what is the biggest battery sucker on your phone?
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on ICS PORT soon to be CM9, android OS is.
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on ICS PORT soon to be CM9, android OS is.
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That is no good, considering the screen should be taking most of the power.
You either arent using your phone or you are crushing batteries in hours.
No I'm using it, Android OS process in ICS includes more than what they do in GB. It last all day (~15 hours with %40 left)
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Yeah I have the ICS port, build three, and the battery sucked the first day due to all the downloading and cpu usage, but after that and a full charge and battery diagnostic wipe it was a great life with decent usage on apps and data and messaging with auto brightness
In Point 11, Captivate uses single processor....and killing system apps causes more battery drains....
My limited experience with roms suggests that as roms are works-in-progress their battery life can vary widely. Serenity6.1 has really seemed to be a long life rom.
These steps do make a big difference, also the Beta 2 build for ICS solves a lot of issues that users had with ICS battery life. Honestly if you want even more battery life grab the 3500 mah extended battery off amazon for $10.
jeromechrome1 said:
1.Reduce display brightness of your screen
Although Samsung Galaxy S come with Super AMOLED which is supposedly to reduce your battery consumption but ironically it is one of the biggest battery life eater of your phone. Try to disable Automatic brightness and set it to the lowest level will improve your battery life a lot.
2. Remove unused widget in the menu
You must always remember that the more widget you have, the more battery life will be consumed up especially those widgets that use data connection and auto sync based on schedule. PS: only keep those widgets that you really need.
3.4. Turn off Bluetooth, GPS when idle
Only turn on Bluetooth and GPS when you need it, otherwise please disable it as it will consume your battery resources. Or please ensure that the charger is hook on your device when you turn on the GPS in the car.
5. Turn off 3G data connection, use Wi-Fi instead
Always gets connected with Wi-Fi when available. 3G data connection consume more battery compare to Wi-Fi connection. Turn off both of them when not needed.
6. Ensure you phone have a good signal as poor signal consume more battery life
When the phone is at the poor receiving end it will tend to use more power than usual to increase its signal strength with the communication tower. So it is always good to make sure that your phone has a good signal reception. You can try to switch to 2G if 3G connection signal in your area is poor.
7. Try to disable / reduce auto-sync whenever possible
All you have learned, data connection does consume lot of your battery life. By disabling the background scheduled auto-sync applications like Facebook, Gmail and Twitter can save your phone lot deal of battery life. If you really have to turn on the auto-sync feature in the phone try to reduce the frequency of auto-sync will also help to improve your phone battery life.
8. Disable new Samsung Apps notification
You can turn off new Samsung Apps notification if you not using it.
The configuration can be access through ~ >Settings >Application > Samsung Apps > Off
9. Turn off motion sensor
Only enable the Samsung Galaxy S Motion features that you using and try to disable those you not using like turn over, tilt, panning and double tap, turn them off as it might save your some battery life.
10. Use solid black static wallpaper and no live wallpaper
Most of the phone including Samsung Galaxy S Super AMOLED will tend to use less power on just solid black wallpaper than a lively solid white color based wallpaper because there will be almost no backlight on the screen. Please do bear in mind that a lovely animation live wallpaper will even cost you more battery life as ~ CPU power = battery life.
11. Fully close application that not use
Samsung Galaxy S is a super multitasking mini computer that come with dual-core processor but running a lot of applications at the background can actually increase your battery usage because they all require your phone CPU processing power. So it is advisable to fully close all the background applications that you not needed.
12. Freeze unused bundle applications
Too many original bundle software running in your Samsung Galaxy S? Freeze them… Titanium Backup Pro provide a way for you to freeze away all the stock application like Social Hub, Email, Maps that are running and utilizing your phone processing power even when you’r not using them. Ps: Your phone need to be rooted before you can use the Titanium Backup Pro.
13. Undervolt and underclock You 800Mhz GHz CPU
Aside from display, Samsung Galaxy S′s powerful CPU is one of the reason why your battery life eat up so fast. You can just underclock and undervolt it with SetCPU if you don’t need that much of processing power. Ps: Your phone need to be rooted before you can use the SetCPU.
14.Download and install JuiceDefender
With an amazingly over 5,000,000 downloads recorded so far in the Android market, JuiceDefender will definately extend your the battery life of your Samsung Galaxy S. JuiceDefender pack with powerful and easy to use power manager app that specifically designed to extend the battery life of your Android device. It can automatically and transparently manages the utilisation of your S battery like when to enable and disable the 3G/4G connectivity and WiFi.
JuiceDefender is available in the Android Market for free and if you would like to have a more powerful (customisable) version you can download the add-on JuiceDefender Ultimate for a small fee of $6.83.
15. Use custom ROM / firmware
Custom ROM / firmware offer a lot of optimization and tweaks to improve the performance of your battery life. You can try it out if you feel that after you have tried out all the tips above and your battery still draining too fast. But please be reminded that flashing a custom ROM / firmware will be voiding the warranty provided by Samsung.
Please let me know if there are other tips and tweaks to improve battery life of Samsung Galaxy S/Cappy that I have missed out.
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Basically dont use your smartphone as a smartphone. Thats what you're saying by turning off all the good features of the phone.
1, 3, 4, 11 are like NO DUH!!!
5. Are you saying use EDGE? It will save some battery, but you have to consider it may take longer to load something, and thus the screen might be on longer, negating savings. Plus, it's a PITA to change back and forth.
6. Other than switching to EDGE, not really in your control.
7. That's stupid. It defeats the whole purpose of having a smartphone.
9. As long as you lock orientation. I doubt it saves much though...
15. YES, that can be HUGE.
Jeffu said:
Having a black wallpaper is good and all, but I feel that doing that is a bit too far in optimizing battery life. What's the point of having a pretty decent screen when all you do is use a black wallpaper?
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I agree. I think a compromise is a better idea. A lot of ROMs have black wallpapers with a small % of extremely brightly colored random or geometric designs, or green android-ish swirls or something that look AMAZING on the AMOLED screen.
Thank you all for your feedback.
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thanks, great guide!
I just thought of this, but since AMOLED screens disable pixels in order to preserve battery life, and since on average my cellphone display consumption accounts for over 50% of battery drainage...
I thought of this...
Why don't include a setting profile that scales down the viewport of the entire android amoled screen to a portion of it? with all DPI it shouldn't become worse, and at least you can do calls with the phone when it should be dead.
It should be an extreme measure ofcourse, but could help.
Hnmm how to do that???
yes but how to do it?
Have upgraded my 9023 to 4.0.4 after rooting. The UI and animation are visibly faster but the battery life seems to be the same. I read some people say the battery life is better... Is there an optimized settling for the same? Also what is a better setting for the brightness? Minimum or Auto?
Thanks
Doubt the battery life is going to be noticeably better or worse. The main change regarding the battery is that they fixed the battery stats, it calculated the AndroidOS usage wrong which skewed all of the results. This has no effect on battery life.
Thank You. Could you also suggest what is the optimal brightness setting to save battery? Minimum or auto? Common sense would suggest minimum but I have seen a lot of people say auto brightness works best?
Minimum saves the most battery. Auto uses a tiny (negligible amount) bit more as it powers the photodetector (light sensor) while the screen is on, however it will scale up the brightness when there is excessive light in the room, and lower it eventually when it's dark (this takes longer than i'd like, some ROMs allow adjustments). Generally, it's best to keep it on auto unless you know the conditions you will be in for most of the day.
Harbb said:
Minimum saves the most battery. Auto uses a tiny (negligible amount) bit more as it powers the photodetector (light sensor) while the screen is on, however it will scale up the brightness when there is excessive light in the room, and lower it eventually when it's dark (this takes longer than i'd like, some ROMs allow adjustments). Generally, it's best to keep it on auto unless you know the conditions you will be in for most of the day.
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Thanks Harbb for your contribution ...
Honestly 4.0.3 was fast for me (and faster by the way from GB)...I never noticed 4.0.4 is faster than 4.0.3 in anything but maybe a bit in browser ...
Thanks Harbb. Will try on auto.
So I just picked up a pixel 3 and the battery life is fairly mixed but I guess I was spoiled with my previous device (Oneplus 5).
Will installing a custom kernel improve my battery life? I haven't really bothered since my Galaxy S2 which was a shambles.
If so, are there any specific kernels which aim to do this by default?
My opinion is that this is all imaginary.
android8bit said:
So I just picked up a pixel 3 and the battery life is fairly mixed but I guess I was spoiled with my previous device (Oneplus 5).
Will installing a custom kernel improve my battery life? I haven't really bothered since my Galaxy S2 which was a shambles.
If so, are there any specific kernels which aim to do this by default?
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A custom kernel typically gives you the option to customize the way it behaves. Increased battery life will come at the expense of performance. But even then you won't see a major difference. The biggest battery killer is poor cell service. Also, eliminate apps that run in the background, at least the ones you don't need running all the time. Screen brightness is another large battery user. Google does a pretty good job of optimizing the kernel out of the box.
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They used to, quite a bit. But most of that went away with O. There just isn't that much left to optimize anymore. Now they are about extra features.
I've been using a V20 for several months now and I'm really enjoying the many features and flagship-grade hardware it offers. However, it has a lot of problems in terms of design. The V20 runs REALLY hot, and all that heat comes with an enormous power consumption (most figures for stock SOT, including my own, are around four hours.)
I've had a few ideas of my own for correcting LG's mistakes, and I'm wondering what all of your experiences are.
Underclocking the processor: The 820 is a fast, yet power-hungry and hot, processor. Underclocking it would trade off performance in favor of cooler phone and more battery life. Has anyone tried modifying the stock CPU governor or in any way messing with the clocks? I've experimented with LKT but didn't really notice any significant improvement.
Undervolting the processor: I'm not sure about how feasible this is on Android devices. Undervolting the processor would increase battery life and cool the phone at the expense of stability. Anyone find that the CPU is running at an necessarily high voltage?
Reducing Screen Resolution/Framerate: The V20 uses a 1440p display. With its screen size, most of the time this isn't necessary. Are there any tools to automatically reduce resolution when not playing back fullscreen 1440p content? Has anyone tried one, and what are the effects?
Aftermarket batteries: I've been using a 10500mAh extended battery. While it brings SOT up to usable levels, it's very heavy (and has over the course of a month or two decayed to only around 7Ah.) What's the general opinion on these?
Thermal pasting: Repasting or using at thermal pad has been a very common procedure for this device. For those who have done this, what kind of objective analysis of its effects can you providef?
waterlubber said:
I've been using a V20 for several months now and I'm really enjoying the many features and flagship-grade hardware it offers. However, it has a lot of problems in terms of design. The V20 runs REALLY hot, and all that heat comes with an enormous power consumption (most figures for stock SOT, including my own, are around four hours.)
I've had a few ideas of my own for correcting LG's mistakes, and I'm wondering what all of your experiences are.
Underclocking the processor: The 820 is a fast, yet power-hungry and hot, processor. Underclocking it would trade off performance in favor of cooler phone and more battery life. Has anyone tried modifying the stock CPU governor or in any way messing with the clocks? I've experimented with LKT but didn't really notice any significant improvement.
Undervolting the processor: I'm not sure about how feasible this is on Android devices. Undervolting the processor would increase battery life and cool the phone at the expense of stability. Anyone find that the CPU is running at an necessarily high voltage?
Reducing Screen Resolution/Framerate: The V20 uses a 1440p display. With its screen size, most of the time this isn't necessary. Are there any tools to automatically reduce resolution when not playing back fullscreen 1440p content? Has anyone tried one, and what are the effects?
Aftermarket batteries: I've been using a 10500mAh extended battery. While it brings SOT up to usable levels, it's very heavy (and has over the course of a month or two decayed to only around 7Ah.) What's the general opinion on these?
Thermal pasting: Repasting or using at thermal pad has been a very common procedure for this device. For those who have done this, what kind of objective analysis of its effects can you providef?
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You did not mention what variant, most of the issues you mentioned can be rectified by flashing a custom rom and kernel
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There is also the almighty...AKT (Advanced Kernel Tweaks Mod you can flash. Use the 820 selection.
Also thermal mods as well
Mysticblaze347 said:
There is also the almighty...AKT (Advanced Kernel Tweaks Mod you can flash. Use the 820 selection.
Also thermal mods as well
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Although LKT and AKT do have some advantages, they didn't give me much more Screen On Time - so I removed them. Have you gotten a significant more amount of SOT? If so, what settings?
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Although LKT and AKT do have some advantages, they didn't give me much more Screen On Time - so I removed them. Have you gotten a significant more amount of SOT? If so, what settings?
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I can get around 10hrs sot (depending) using Xana extreme battery. That's the one I'm currently on.
Have a 4200 mAh battery (reg size)
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It is hard to tell. Alot of placebo mods out there. I also put zram at zero and knocked my entropy to 2048 for write. I'm still learning and tweaking tho.
Going along with this, which is better: AKT or NFS-Injector?
I would propose that most custom ROMs are probably placebo when it comes to battery life. Very few mention changing anything related to CPU governor, resolution, etc. all of which are the main factors in power consumption (running in Doze 5% more of the time isn't going to affect SOT, for example, which is the only metric that really matters.)
It doesn't help that LG's display technology leaves much to be desired.
Guys, order a Perfine 4100mah battery in Ali....ess and be happy. Better than that 10000mah ugly fat battery cases. SoT about 7 hours. And if that's not enough for one whole day you are facing other problems lol..
Okay, most admit. Only wifi the whole day cause it's been a rainy day.
Jogg3r said:
Guys, order a Perfine 4100mah battery in Ali....ess and be happy. Better than that 10000mah ugly fat battery cases. SoT about 7 hours. And if that's not enough for one whole day you are facing other problems lol..
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Can you please share link of Battery in Ali Express
hemal_4404 said:
Can you please share link of Battery in Ali Express
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https://m.de.aliexpress.com/item/32...d=8252amp-7eN9wah34-yQOJzgwQJScw1558254753245
Advanced Interactive Governor guide for LG V20?
I have seen the "Advanced Interactive Governor" tweaks elsewhere on here for other phones, but it looks like some of it may be able to be used on the LG V20.
(Links to a few of them will be at the bottom for reference.)
I have calculated the frequencies for both CPU's on the T-Mobile variant, the H918, for both maximal efficient load, and minimal efficient load, according to the math in those articles. If anyone would like to try this on an LG V20 with me and help me work out specifics for this phone, it would probably speed up the process quite a bit, and I could share what I have so far.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/guide-advanced-interactive-governor-t3518881
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-10/how-to/guide-advanced-interactive-governor-t3718123
https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-5x/general/guide-advanced-interactive-governor-t3269557
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2769899
Jogg3r said:
Guys, order a Perfine 4100mah battery in Ali....ess and be happy. Better than that 10000mah ugly fat battery cases. SoT about 7 hours. And if that's not enough for one whole day you are facing other problems lol..
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In that case: I am facing other problems.
For some reason this is currently getting me only about 2 hours SOT on a used V20 I just bought. Battery capacity seems good according to accubattery.