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I have been using samsung galaxy 3 for last 3 weeks. As a newbie as a android user I am really confused about battery back up I am getting. I am generally getting 1-1.5 days back up, with moderate use of, 5-10 shorter phone calls, 3-4 hours of surfing, GPS always off, background data/auto sync off and switching it on only I connect to APN. More over I feel that I am not getting the proper battery indicator reading also. It shows battery is almost over and shuts off, and when I switching it on it shows 30% is still remaining. This is utterly confusing. I dont know anything about rooting phones and all. So anyone there to help this layman?? Please. Thanx in advance.
satyamsit said:
I have been using samsung galaxy 3 for last 3 weeks. As a newbie as a android user I am really confused about battery back up I am getting. I am generally getting 1-1.5 days back up, with moderate use of, 5-10 shorter phone calls, 3-4 hours of surfing, GPS always off, background data/auto sync off and switching it on only I connect to APN. More over I feel that I am not getting the proper battery indicator reading also. It shows battery is almost over and shuts off, and when I switching it on it shows 30% is still remaining. This is utterly confusing. I dont know anything about rooting phones and all. So anyone there to help this layman?? Please. Thanx in advance.
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the battery of our phone lasts that much only even mine lasted for 1.5 days
lot of reviews say that our battery lasts only 2days with normal use
yea... battery lasts for a day or 2 only.. android uses much power.. so its normal..
battery LIFE!!
Yeah battery lasts 1.5 days for heavy usage..
you can boost performance by installing juice defender like apps from market.
also by underclocking and undervolt you can save some power.
for battery calibration follow this, it helped me to boost my battery life as it eliminates the so called memory effect.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1024867
hope this helped u buddy .
Now that Current Widget works on the Sensation It would be interesting to see what everyone else is getting on idle.
Im running standard rom Vodafone UK Branded and it doesnt seam to dip below 200mA on average, the lowest was 89ma for a few secs then shot back up. I have had it running and logging over night.
What is everyone else getting?
jck239 said:
Now that Current Widget works on the Sensation It would be interesting to see what everyone else is getting on idle.
Im running standard rom Vodafone UK Branded and it doesnt seam to dip below 200mA on average, the lowest was 89ma for a few secs then shot back up. I have had it running and logging over night.
What is everyone else getting?
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I'm getting 140-170 at idle, this is with juice defender, and data set to on every 2 hours
To be honest I don't think battery monitor widget I is reflecting the right amount of drainage. Change it from sensation to estimated and watch how much your numbers change
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Mine is around 250ma when in idle. Overnight I have bluetooth, wifi, gps and push mail off and it only checks mail every 4 hours... so not quite sure what it is doing. Was running the same s/w on my HD2 and was getting < 5ma.
Andy-D said:
Mine is around 250ma when in idle. Overnight I have bluetooth, wifi, gps and push mail off and it only checks mail every 4 hours... so not quite sure what it is doing. Was running the same s/w on my HD2 and was getting < 5ma.
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Same for me, I was getting <5ma on my HD2 when idle.
I wonder if SetCPU really works with the Sensation, having 250ma when idle would kill the battery way too fast!
I'm not sure if I have the maths/theory totally wrong, but pls correct me if so.... but if we have a reading of 250mah that means we are taking 250 ma per hour. Say our baterry is 1500mah (should provide 1500ma for one hour) does that mean we get 6 hours (1500/250) from a full charge??
Shoot me down if I have the theory wrong.... but 250mah does seem a lot. Presume that we need to trust the reading we are getting from the Battery Monitor Pro widget.
Andy-D said:
I'm not sure if I have the maths/theory totally wrong, but pls correct me if so.... but if we have a reading of 250mah that means we are taking 250 ma per hour. Say our baterry is 1500mah (should provide 1500ma for one hour) does that mean we get 6 hours (1500/250) from a full charge??
Shoot me down if I have the theory wrong.... but 250mah does seem a lot. Presume that we need to trust the reading we are getting from the Battery Monitor Pro widget.
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I think your math is correct, but something is surely wrong as I can get 3+ days under very light usage.
something wrong with mine tooo, ex user of hd2 usually around 7-9 mah when hd2 in idle, now use sensation around 200++
I gonna leave it 1rst if my battery drain in 6-7 hours then something wrong with my sensation but if it over 8 hours seem there is flaw in current widget
When the App does logging, your phone will need more power. Not accurate in my opinion. I also got something like 200 mA for idle. But it's not so much more when playing music etc. I assume the display consumes most of the power (Android's battery usage info agrees with me). Try measuring it in standy as follows: Disable your logging apps etc, remember your battery status in %. Leave it in Standby overnight, remember the time when you turn it off. In the morning, check your batetry status and note the time so that you can tell how many % you lost in what time. Then take that percentage from your battery capacity (1580 mah with stock battery). Divide this by the amount of hours and you will find your standby drain. Mine is something like 16 ma.
Example: Your battery when you go to sleep: 80%. You sleep for 8 hours. Your battery reading now: 70%. Thats 10%. 10% of 1580 mah is 158 mah. Divided by 8 is 19.75 ma. That's your standby consumption.
I recommend you do this when your battery is around 50%. My battery stays at 100% for a very long time, don't know why...
Just installed an update to the Battery Monitor Pro Widget that is supposed to address the issue of high current readings ont he Sensation. Will see how it goes.
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Just installed an update to the Battery Monitor Pro Widget that is supposed to address the issue of high current readings ont he Sensation. Will see how it goes.
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Makes no difference.
No app to date is accurately measuring the stdby current (screen off) Clearly 200mA is not correct as your phone would only last 8 hours wiith no usage!
I'm getting 6 mA on idle, around average of 200 mA while in use.
I'm using battery monitor widget(free version).
I'm recording the history at 1 hour interval. sometimes idle mA doesn't record because it fall within that time frame.
but when it does, 6mA.
Mainspring said:
I'm getting 6 mA on idle, around average of 200 mA while in use.
I'm using battery monitor widget(free version).
I'm recording the history at 1 hour interval. sometimes idle mA doesn't record because it fall within that time frame.
but when it does, 6mA.
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Go to your monitoring settings and go to ma retrieval settings and put it on sensation and then tell us what readings you get? I'm assuming your setting is on estimated right now
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Now here's a strange thing.... was looking at my ma usage graph over night and noticed a couple of times it was on almost 0ma and not the normal 200-250ma. On looking at the history I noticed that this as the only time the temp fell below 25deg C. All other history was 200-250 and the temp was 25 and above.... very strange.... might put it in the fridge for a few minutes tonight!!
you people are funny if you think you battery is going to last a couple days with out charging, this is not back in the day with nokia phones these smart phones use alot of power things like your social network must update that big ass clock must update that weather must update and so on the most your going to get is almost a full day without charging thats it my battery stay at a 100 percent for 1hr before it start going down after charging and this is just with cutting it on to see the time or weather not heavy use
phonegod said:
you people are funny if you think you battery is going to last a couple days with out charging, this is not back in the day with nokia phones these smart phones use alot of power things like your social network must update that big ass clock must update that weather must update and so on the most your going to get is almost a full day without charging thats it my battery stay at a 100 percent for 1hr before it start going down after charging and this is just with cutting it on to see the time or weather not heavy use
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Many of us can get 2-3-4 days without a charge. I just went on charge @40% after 1d 22hrs. But please don't let facts get in the way of your misinformation.
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Many of us can get 2-3-4 days without a charge. I just went on charge @40% after 1d 22hrs. But please don't let facts get in the way of your misinformation.
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theres noway you getting 2-3-4 days without charging inless you just leave it in the house without using it and still wont happen tell that freakin lie to someone else what you think i dont have the phone my self lol... you funny with that 1 no one in this thread said they battery last that long but you theres always one who want to exagerate
phonegod said:
theres noway you getting 2-3-4 days without charging inless you just leave it in the house without using it and still wont happen tell that freakin lie to someone else what you think i dont have the phone my self lol... you funny with that 1 no one in this thread said they battery last that long but you theres always one who want to exagerate
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Lots of us exaggerators out there but again.. don't let contrary evidence get in the way of your rant. No one is claiming everyone gets this battery life, but there are plenty who do.
When you get done reading all these "exaggerations" and seeing the pictures (gosh they must be Photoshopped) you can retract your accusation of lying.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15124113&postcount=35
2D 20H on battery ... still have >50% left (showing 6 green of 10 bars on About Battery)
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15332237&postcount=108
the device clocked 18 hours and the battery has only drained to 52%. Highly impressed!
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15162109&postcount=58
25 hrs and still 24% battery left and I know the phone staysbat 4% battery for about 4 hours for some reason
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15248584&postcount=85
After 16h 27m I was at 68% left.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15573388&postcount=51
picture is worth a 1000 words...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15488981&postcount=19
Twice this past week I forgot to charge the phone and went 1 day + 6 hours before the phone started to alert me that I was at 10-20%.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15490453&postcount=23
But after few cycle, i can do 2 days without charge.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15504158&postcount=25:
I unplugged the device at 6 am is now almost 1 am (19 hours) and still having 43% left.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15504924&postcount=28
mine 2 days
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15513224&postcount=37 (another screen shot)
In an attempt to get back on topic...
The recent update to CurrentWidget mentions it now works on the Sensation, but it's definitly not reading mA's correctly. Still a work in progress, I suppose.
What is everyone's feelings on Battery Monitor Widget (I am at work now so can't download it) and what is with this estimated setting? What is the point of that???
BTW, I can easily go 2 days with the 2 Sensations at my house...
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Lots of us exaggerators out there but again.. don't let contrary evidence get in the way of your rant. No one is claiming everyone gets this battery life, but there are plenty who do.
When you get done reading all these "exaggerations" and seeing the pictures (gosh they must be Photoshopped) you can retract your accusation of lying.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15124113&postcount=35
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15332237&postcount=108
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15162109&postcount=58
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15248584&postcount=85
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15573388&postcount=51
picture is worth a 1000 words...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15488981&postcount=19
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15490453&postcount=23
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15504158&postcount=25:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15504924&postcount=28
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15513224&postcount=37 (another screen shot)
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dude 19hrs and still 43% left is not 3to 4 days nobody is getting over a day and im not ranting just stating facts i have the phone too all im saying is your phone battery is not going to last under heavy use like cell phone back in the day now thats it all that stuff you posted dont mean nothing you went around and copy paste everbody **** to prove to me nothing there still not getting over a full day under heavy use also if i go cut off a bunch of stuff of course im going to get a little more but if you use your phone with out all the tricks like stop sync or anything else it wont last the phone came that way meaning it should last without cutting off anything but it dont you have to make sacrifices for it to last none of those pics showed 2days somebody said 2days but like you said pics is worth a 1000 words
I am trying to figure out of my battery is dying to fast.
I charged it yesterday and today I was had skype running on my break at work (1hr break). I had facebook and browser open. No videos or music running though. I had gps running for about 5 minutes at one point on the way home to test it.
I did some texting about an hour ago.
Battery was around 95% this morning and now it's at 28%.
how long should the battery last?
My battery was this morning90% in the night 23:00 it was turn out of battery .
Stock rom gb
Couple of times on messenger
Whats app
Internet 3g
And play a little time a game
Grtz
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apparently not very long....
charged it fully ready for 9am sunday, and by 12pm the battery was completely dead.
I've CD2M running, google push on about 4 accounts, and the wifi was on from 10am
I'n on Acurateam's GB rom and with an overclock to 1188MHz I still get great battery life. I charged it 16 hours ago, played half an hour of pirates of the carribean, sent four messages, made one phonecall and browsed for about 20 minutes and still have 70% left. With normal use I charge every other day.
Push for three accounts, wifi on when not in standby, 3G enabled.
ok sounds normal just wanted to make sure my battery wasn't faulty.
umirin said:
ok sounds normal just wanted to make sure my battery wasn't faulty.
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hey to improve battery life you should use "advance task killer ", from my experience, it's help alots.
wilson_sony said:
hey to improve battery life you should use "advance task killer ", from my experience, it's help alots.
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I prefer autostarts to keep them from starting in the first place.
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wilson_sony said:
hey to improve battery life you should use "advance task killer ", from my experience, it's help alots.
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what's the difference between advance task killer and application manager (came with my phone)
10am my battery was at 100%. After 14 hours my battery is at 82%. I did some calls, wrote a few sms and used the internet a little bit.
My o3d is running on the the stock 2.3.5 and i got the andida 1980 mah battery
My O3D behaves rather odd when it comes to battery life.
I flashed official V21B a few days ago and at first I had to charge every day.
But right now I'm at 67% after one day... still plenty to go
battery drain soo fast when in use
i bought my samsung galaxy 2 tab 7 p3100 few day back and im not satisfied with the battery when in use it battery drains soo fast approximately stands for 15 hours only when left unused stands for 1 and half to 2 day...i can see battery percent goes 1 by 1 with minutes when i use is continuously and my version is P3100DDLE1 ... i use 2g gprs all the time and stay connect all the time in facebook and whatsapp 24x7 and gmail ....... should i claim warranty for the battery??? does anyone face the same problem????
I am running on roughly 7 hours at 78% of battery left. Been using the Internet a lot (Facebook, some Drop Box upload/download) and the Wifi is on all the time when the tab is not locked/standby. I played a little bit of a basic game as well (Free Flow), so it isn't graphically intense. I am by no means the most experienced here, but in my opinion, that sounds like some decent, if not very good, battery usage..
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I am running on roughly 7 hours at 78% of battery left. Been using the Internet a lot (Facebook, some Drop Box upload/download) and the Wifi is on all the time when the tab is not locked/standby. I played a little bit of a basic game as well (Free Flow), so it isn't graphically intense. I am by no means the most experienced here, but in my opinion, that sounds like some decent, if not very good, battery usage..
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Thanks for your kind reply may i know how many hours once you charge your device ????
I used mine on Friday for 10hrs,tons of browsing,I turned the screen on and off many,many times, video calls for roughly 10mins,music,games for 45mins and at the end of all this I still had a 42% left.
The device is the P3100 wifi+3g it is rooted; I was only using wifi,so no 3G at all, I also had the tab on airplane mode with wifi constantly running,so no 911 calls.
I am running the latest stock rom,it is rooted and bloatware free,I also limit the background processes down to none,1 or 2 max.
So far I am very happy with my tab, although wifi is still spotty.
OP What are your settings?
shinydesert said:
I used mine on Friday for 10hrs,tons of browsing,I turned the screen on and off many,many times, video calls for roughly 10mins,music,games for 45mins and at the end of all this I still had a 42% left.
The device is the P3100 wifi+3g it is rooted; I was only using wifi,so no 3G at all, I also had the tab on airplane mode with wifi constantly running,so no 911 calls.
I am running the latest stock rom,it is rooted and bloatware free,I also limit the background processes down to none,1 or 2 max.
So far I am very happy with my tab, although wifi is still spotty.
OP What are your settings?
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Thanks for your kind reply shinydesert ....my device is also p3100 wifi + 3g not rooted i don't mostly use wifi ...i use 2g gprs on 24/7
There is an option battery on setting called screen and that shows maximum 50 to 60% of usage is display consumed and my display on setting on time is 5 to 6hour s.....the battery percentage comes to do20% and says it's low 8 hour's after charge
vikram9889 said:
Thanks for your kind reply may i know how many hours once you charge your device ????
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Here is a screenshot of my battery usage once pulled off the charger after a full charge. I have the Wi-Fi only version of the tab.
If you cannot view the screenshot.. After a full charge, I have 44% battery life left, have been running on the battery for 1 day and 7 hours, and the screen has taken the largest toll at 46%.
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shinydesert said:
I used mine on Friday for 10hrs,tons of browsing,I turned the screen on and off many,many times, video calls for roughly 10mins,music,games for 45mins and at the end of all this I still had a 42% left.
The device is the P3100 wifi+3g it is rooted; I was only using wifi,so no 3G at all, I also had the tab on airplane mode with wifi constantly running,so no 911 calls.
I am running the latest stock rom,it is rooted and bloatware free,I also limit the background processes down to none,1 or 2 max.
So far I am very happy with my tab, although wifi is still spotty.
OP What are your settings?
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Here is a screenshot of my battery usage once pulled off the charger after a full charge. I have the Wi-Fi only version of the tab.
If you cannot view the screenshot.. After a full charge, I have 44% battery life left, have been running on the battery for 1 day and 7 hours, and the screen has taken the largest toll at 46%.
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guys, could you tell how long was your screen on, please?
mine was only roughly 6 hrs.
Screen should always be the largest consumer of battery
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Riccz said:
guys, could you tell how long was your screen on, please?
mine was only roughly 6 hrs.
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was it roughly 6 hours when it drained fully???
my galaxy tab p3100 drained fully in roughly 5 hours of screen time on
At least for me, turning down the brightness all the way and disabling some system apps that are always on helped my battery a lot.
aaronsmith1234 said:
At least for me, turning down the brightness all the way and disabling some system apps that are always on helped my battery a lot.
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i tried but nothing worked
vikram9889 said:
was it roughly 6 hours when it drained fully???
my galaxy tab p3100 drained fully in roughly 5 hours of screen time on
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Yes, my screen is usually on about 6 to 7 hrs. And my battery life is about 15 to 24 hours.
I wonder those said their battery can stay for more than 1 day, how long was their screen on?
My guess is although the battery can stay long time but the screen on is only about 6 to 7 hours.
If yours only 5 hours maybe the gsm signal was not good. Try to change to 2g only. Or change other provider.
Hey thanks for the reply i use 2g sim only and I'm 24x7 online in 2g gprs i guess the gprs can also consume that much battery I guess I'm i right????
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I am sure there are people who use the tabs for different things,if you are studying or reading a lot you will be able to see how long it lasts on, for users like me that turn it on and off pretty often the battery lasts maybe longer. I use it a lot for hours and hours,but it is never on for more than 1hr.
My battery life rawks
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Like user 2 posts back said. I seem to charge mine every 5 days and it is always on stand by when not being used.
good day.
No problem for me about battery on Tab p3100
I felt that having Sim card inside the 3100 drains the battery pretty fast. I was not using much of 3G/GPRS connection. So after removing the Sim, I found battery usage reduced drastically. Overnight, the battery used to drain by 7 to 8% in standby mode with Sim card inside.
I don't understand, how people can comfortable use tablet with screen brightness at 0% or even 20%... it's mystical to me..If you buying tablet, you want to get good screen quality, good battery life (even at 50-70% brightness), smooth performance and so on...I have 2 tablets, ipad 2 and Samsung 3110. I really love my samsung, but battery life totally suck on it, when you compared to ipad...
Not a good comparison, iPad has a bigger battery
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Hello all, I just bought a new note 2 and I know it has an extra ordinary battery but the thing is whenever I use the telephone surfing web on wifi checking facebook and twitter the battery drains with a rate of 1% each 5 mins maybe less. I've seen most post s about the battery and unchecked all the things I dont need that drains battery but still the batter drains fast.
I long press the home button to make sure that the application im using is the only active application and it is but the battery keeps draining especially from 100 to 90 doenst take an hour maybe less and it is starting to annoy me alot now that the battery keeps draining like that.
Is there a way to test it or something I've seen alot of posts of battery lasting 1day plus mine doesnt do that.
Please if someone can help me.
usefull things
first of all remove your widgets and i you are using live wallpaper dont use it i ll take a lot of battery
turn off Bluetooth when not in use
and this will help u
not that
gotamjargar said:
first of all remove your widgets and i you are using live wallpaper dont use it i ll take a lot of battery
turn off Bluetooth when not in use
and this will help u
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I think it should work well with widgets I have 4 pages of it the standard and I dont have live wallpaper and bluetooth off
Thanks