Just wondering how many people actively use power saving mod on Verizon. Do you find it that you save battery life?
I actually does save battery life. It underclocks it to I think 1.1 ghz or something around there.
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I use it and my battery drains like crazy but that could also be that I have little to no service at work where I use it most.
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Well I should ask how much battery does it actually save you?
I tried it for a day or two. Then I rooted and flashed synergy 1.3 and I will never need it again. I didn't think it actually did that great of a job and I'd rather not limit my phone to get better battery life.
I use it and it seems to work. While at work I stream music on my walks during lunch a good half hour to 45 minutes on LTE. By the end of day I'm at about 60% when I get home. That includes checking Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and emails throughout.
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Haven't logged it, but my impression is my battery lasts noticeably longer with power saving on. On a typical day I end up with around 60% left after work if I had it on vs. maybe 40% with it off. There are exceptions though.
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I use it and it saves a bit. However I got the most improvement by setting wifi to off when the screen is off (in advanced wifi settings)
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I don't use it mainly bc I love the snappiness that dual core gives it.
When u enable power saver it kills one of the cores which greatly effects performance...
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Power saver drops the processor down to 1.35ghz and does save a bunch of battery. I used to have a problem with losing a little bit of snappiness in my launcher, but now that Imo's 12.2 kernel is up and running everywhere that performance drop becomes negligible. I do make sure to only have the CPU throttling running and sometimes the email / internet modifier. The other stuff is more of a pain than it's worth.
Does anyone use the option to analyze images and adjust screen tones?
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Tried it on the factory touchwiz after the first day of not really messing with the phone and have 20% of battery left after 8 hours but quickly realized that I wasn't going to be happy with the phone underclocked as it were. I'm going to guess it clocks the phone down quite a bit more than you guys realize too.
Install CPU Spy on your phone and let it monitor where it sets the clock rates.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...251bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5idmFsb3Nlay5jcHVzcHkiXQ..
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I don't use it mainly bc I love the snappiness that dual core gives it.
When u enable power saver it kills one of the cores which greatly effects performance...
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Incorrect. It reduces the maximum clock speed.
Power Saving Mode
If you read the description of what power save mode is, you will understand that it does almost nothing with little to no use but when you are playing a game it will restrict the processor from using too much power and the phone will change the color tone of white so the screen uses less power. So unless you are playing games all day with a white background (doodle jump) you shouldn't see a big battery saving.
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Just wondering how many people actively use power saving mod on Verizon. Do you find it that you save battery life?
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I use it as well and think it helps. Also, if you go to advanced wi-fi settings and put "keep wifi on during sleep" and change it to "never", that saves battery as well.
Don't use it, but I'd like to be able to configure it to enter power saving mode around 15%. Maybe I can..
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If you read the description of what power save mode is, you will understand that it does almost nothing with little to no use but when you are playing a game it will restrict the processor from using too much power and the phone will change the color tone of white so the screen uses less power. So unless you are playing games all day with a white background (doodle jump) you shouldn't see a big battery saving.
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Not true.
I used it yesterday without playing a single game. It dropped my max clock speed, as CpuSPY confirmed.
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Pretty good in my opinion. Been on wifi for about 3 hours and lte the rest.
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Pretty good in my opinion. Been on wifi for about 3 hours and lte the rest.
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So is that with or without power saving mode? because if thats the case I tend to get that without 0_0. I guess the main reason I asked was because when I first got the phone I was easily able to hit 4 hours of on screen time and now im down to 3 hours =/ thats still plenty battery but I was thinking that maybe id get the extra hour back with power saving mode. Ive tried to keep it back on lately but i still get roughly the same amount of battery life.
That's with it on...
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Ok so i have tried many battery saver apps and have come to the conclusion that most of them are a joke. Until i tried BatteryXL. With a bit of setup this app has give me over 20 hours of life with use. I am talking about web surfing, texting, gaming, calls and some picture taking. I use my phone a lot and it just would not make it half the day. I even tried an extended battery. But even that sucked. Juice defender isn't bad if you buy the pro version, but BatteryXL is free. There have been a few glitches , as it is still in beta, but they are very minor and didn't effect its usage. So if anyone is looking for an app to help with battery life try it and see how it works for you. I am no way affiliated with the creators of this app. I am just a big fan of it and i know how many evo user complain about battery life. Also if you want to know i am using Sinister rom version 7 and anthrax kernel 009. The rom and kernel you use will affect how much this app helps.
Again i have no affiliation with the make of this app so don't ask me if you have issues. Submit then to the maker.
EDIT: If you don't have an intelligent thing to say, then do the world a favor and keep your mouth shut. The air is polluted enough as it is
Guys, please do not make me close this thread. Stay on its original purpose instead of attacking each other.
Consider this a warning. There is no point on either use so much exclamations marks, replying in such way to it and then attacking back in the same way.....
I am telling you the nicest way, stay on topic.
YOU ARE WARNED!
Thank you D.O.C. I just wanted to inform others about this app because i know battery issue is a big problem for most of us Evo users. And i am sorry for the off topic spat
BatteryXL has saved my battery.. i've been under 50% for over 4 hours already and still have 39%..
thanks for sharing...
Interesting
I switched over to an ICS rom and it still is getting me around 15 hrs or so. I love this app.
Been using it since the 28th and been able to go a full work day without a charge....on my normal high use day....thanks
I bought jd pro a while back but this one seems so much easier to set up. We shall see how it goes.
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One thing I hate about this app is it shuts down my 3g when I programed it to shutdown everything else lol
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Yea I've tried using this app but it just doesn't work like juice defender... this app doesn't auto sync 3rd party email apps or twitcaster... juice defender makes it possible to sync specific apps during a specific time frame to resync information while the screen is off.. I haven't seen this app (battery XL) do that at all...
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Yeah, I'm a bit leery of it myself, after reading all sorts of comments about people having issues getting various radios to come back on. Would like to see more feedback about it, though.
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Only issue I have had is every now and then it won't turn my mobile data back on. I will take that since I can get almost 20 hours of use every day. I will post a screen shot of it later today to prove it.
Yeah, I enjoyed this app until I too had problems with it randomly turning off my data, other than that it is great at saving battery life.
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Here is a screen shot of my battery status s of right now. 12 hours and still over 60%. Not as much use today but still, about 1 hour of web and games, and lots of texts.
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What does this app do exactly..? In what ways does it save battery... does it lower cpu usage or does it disconnect wireless connections when not in use or what..?
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Like most battery savers out there it controls connections and other features. But unlike most others this one actually does help get you more battery life. Before using this app i would only get about 12 hours total before I needed to charge. Now as you can see from above I get about double that.
@OP.
prior to using this app, were you one of those (like me) who always turn off unnecessary radios and services manually? Cuz I've always done that, and if this app makes an effect beyond that, I might be interested.
But I prefer to do it manually, myself (not to mention, due to OCD, I would always turn off radios manually). Are you not in that camp?
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No. I can't say I am. I never remember to turn them off so this app is great for me. It does have some other cool stuff. Check it out is all I can say. It is free. So if you don't like it you aren't out anything.
Simply put, the app sucks. Sucks bad. The concept is good, but the app, it sucks
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What does this app do exactly..? In what ways does it save battery... does it lower cpu usage or does it disconnect wireless connections when not in use or what..?
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works fine on HTC one, somewhat its like the HTC power saver but better .
this one actually has more configurable options and behaves in a smart way
think probably the best battery saver out there at the momonet
It's well known I like to be a battery whore, my previous record was a little over 48 hours on a full charge with my Infuse. Today I beat my old record by about....20 hrs!
All notifications off except Gmail. 3g data turned off for about 80% of the time. Wifi on but set to turn off when phone sleeps. I did use the phone, text, talk, surf, etc. Probably would be considered light usage though.
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So why is this a thread?
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use your phone look at the cell standby LOL and stop with the attention whoring
@Cheezy, I hope you meant to leave off the "ed" in "disappointed"
else
FAIL!
I got 4 days and some change when I first got my GNex; the infuse sat on my desk until I heard it go off for the low batt warning. (No wifi, no data etc. of course)
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So why is this a thread?
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Just sharing some experiences/information about my phone man. Didn't realize that would offend you...? Could be time to lighten up.
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@Cheezy, I hope you meant to leave off the "ed" in "disappointed"
else
FAIL!
I got 4 days and some change when I first got my GNex; the infuse sat on my desk until I heard it go off for the low batt warning. (No wifi, no data etc. of course)
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Im happy when I only have to charge my Infuse once a day...
but sometimes there are sadly 9 hours of charge...
using battery calibration helps?
ntorresla said:
Im happy when I only have to charge my Infuse once a day...
but sometimes there are sadly 9 hours of charge...
using battery calibration helps?
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I don't use battery calibration personally. I just keep an eye on wakelocks with Better Battery Stats and make sure to kill apps when I'm done using the phone.
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I don't use battery calibration personally. I just keep an eye on wakelocks with Better Battery Stats and make sure to kill apps when I'm done using the phone.
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from the looks of your SS it looks like you just simply don't use your phone. If it actually showed as being used I might have been impressed.:thumbdown:
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LOL
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from the looks of your SS it looks like you just simply don't use your phone. If it actually showed as being used I might have been impressed.:thumbdown:
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This.
It's not a phone if you don't use it.
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Yea no offense when people give battery stats they give them when they've actually used their phone. Of course a battery will last longer if it's not being used or if no notifications are actually being used. Those are what eat the battery
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Yea no offense when people give battery stats they give them when they've actually used their phone. Of course a battery will last longer if it's not being used or if no notifications are actually being used. Those are what eat the battery
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I never use notifications, never will. This is my normal usage pattern. As I said in the OP, I do use the phone.
Get rooted and remove blot wear
Best way in some sense to get great battery life is get rooted, use Excellent Roms that removes all bloatware and find any apps that are continually running in background and remove them. (Tip) Get titanium backup and backup your apps then remove them but if you need later then reinstall them for future use. Just a few things to mention, so much more to add to save battery. I suggest you just use your phone and try and save in other ways that will extend you daily use.
How much screen on time? That's generally the best measure of battery life, because if your screen isn't on, you're not really using your phone. And a percent usage tells nothing.
My infuse is currently going on 12 days, 14 hours, 16 minutes, 7 seconds since last unplugged with 1 hour 28 minutes of screen on time. That being said, it's because I use it purely as a backup alarm clock without a sim card now that I have my Note, haha. And no, I'm not going to go to the hassle of rooting, downloading a screenshot app, then waiting another 12-14 days to prove it. Just goes to show that battery life doesn't mean much without usage.
Was it with a stock battery
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Also look for burakgons blacklist post. Its in his sig
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I know this is one of those things that everyone seems to complain about, but there is definitely something going on here. I have Seidios 3200 MAH extended battery for my ROOTED bolt, yet my friend running the same ROM as me is getting almost double the battery life with a stock battery. I know the first thing to check is if any apps are killing my battery, which I have checked through thoroughly with no luck. I have tried uninstalling these apps with no luck on better battery life. If it helps I'll post the apps I have
- Beautiful Widgets
- Brilliant Quotes Free
- Days left widget
- Draw Something Free
- Engadget
- Facebook
- iHeart Radio
- Instagram
- Twitter
- Yahoo Mail
- Ringdroid
- Root Explorer
- WeatherBug
- XDA
- Zedge
This of course doesnt include the stock apps on the ROM.
Currently running the Plan 9 ROM, if anybody has any tips for getting the battery up to par I would be very grateful!
EDIT: Forgot to mention how long my battery is lasting me. I'm getting about 8 hours before she is sucked dry
Plan 9? For the Thunderbolt?
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Plan 9? For the Thunderbolt?
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Actually it's called "Plan .9" Its only been out for a few days and it's a very very minimal sense ROM. It's missing alot of the sense features as to make the battery better, some people are getting up to 3 days while on it. And the developer is very responsive so far with adding sense widgets and squashing bugs. here is the link...
http://www.teambamf.net/topic/3868-rom-thunderbolt-plan-9/
Interesting, didn't know about this one. Sorry, I can be of no assistance with the battery issues you indicate.
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Have you tried a battery calibration?
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Seidio can be dirty filthy liars with their battery ratings too.
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Seidio can be dirty filthy liars with their battery ratings too.
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I've heard that too. I also have heard about fakes that say on the packaging and on the battery they are 2600mah when they aren't.
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Oh really? Thats news to me.... hope my battery isnt one of those few. I tried a calibration this morning, and it didnt seem to help at all
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Oh really? Thats news to me.... hope my battery isnt one of those few. I tried a calibration this morning, and it didnt seem to help at all
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Yea the Chinese are getting into making bogus crap and selling it in bulk to people on eBay and other places. My stepdad bought a bunch of bnib usb flash drives on eBay claiming to be 200gb and none of them worked. They were some of the best fakes I have ever seen. They were in packing identical to the actual product.
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I bought my battery directly from Seidio, don't think its a Chinese scam. But Something is definitely eating my battery, although the battery usage is showing my display as the main culprit.
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You're showing 5 hours and you are only at 56%. That would mean you have around 5 more hours. It looks like you made some serious phone calls which would eat up a lot of battery too. I don't know if you use auto brightness but it can help if you disable it and set it at the lowest possible setting you can stand. Another thing you might look into is the Facebook app. It was causing a wake lock on my phone so I removed it and that helped me a lot.
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If its a sense rom, try imo 5.2 kernel for sense. Use setcpu for a screen off profile of 245/386. If its desensed alot, you can probably get away with underclocking it to 768. Brightness is huge batt hog, set as low as possible. I have as few things syncing as possible also. Interesting looking rom, i will try it out with my stock battery and let you know.
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Ok, its loaded. Fastest booting rom ive had. I did try ziggys 11:05 kernel first, did not overclock, but did set screen off profile. This thing flys, and i havent played much with it yet. Ill let u know more tomorrow.
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the best battery life ive ever gotten was from the full blown MR4 rom with the stock MR4 kernel and the MR4 radio
people say that the MR4 Kernel slows the bandwidth down somehow and maybe it does but its awesome on battery life
Thats the thing, I only spent about 15 minutes total throughout the day on the phone so it seems like its eating much more battery than usual. Maybe I'll try a new kernel and see how that pans out.
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If its a sense rom, try imo 5.2 kernel for sense. Use setcpu for a screen off profile of 245/386. If its desensed alot, you can probably get away with underclocking it to 768. Brightness is huge batt hog, set as low as possible. I have as few things syncing as possible also. Interesting looking rom, i will try it out with my stock battery and let you know.
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do you have a link for the imo 5.2 kernel?
Edit: Nevermind I found it -- http://rootzwiki.com/topic/603-kernel-gb-sense-leankernel-minimalistic-kernel-620-5612/ . Trying out the settings you reccomended now, I'll get back with the results after a charge up!
Im at 40% after 9 hours, 56% display, 17% phone calls, other assorted. Stock battery. All in all, id say not to bad.
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wonder why mine is that much less... who knows anymore haha
Id guess its your widgets, im completly stock besides ziggys kernel. Tomorrow ill try the imo kernel.
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I'd try to turn off widgets, but also turn off all background running apps.
Seal is a good program to keep apps from turning on imo. I use it to limit usage - on most Roms I get almost 30 hrs of battery life. (Extended battery).
Good trick - overnight I use Airplane Mode and my battery drops at most 5% for 10 hrs.
Hi, so ever since ICS, or at least SCv7 (not sure if it did it stock, I switched right away), my screen has bee completely killing my battery
I still get perfectly fine life with the screen off, but it just drops right down with it on even not doing anything to heavy. Definitely a problem not normal.
Anyone have any ideas? Is this happening to anyone else?
P.S. Thanks for the new Q and A section by the way.
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What are your screen settings at (levels, auto on/off, etc)? Screen is by far the biggest drain on battery. Check my Battery Guide, last Page for an app mentioned to lower brightness more than the stock settings will allow for- maybe that would help in certain instances. I haven't tried it myself, but will be doing so over the weekend, and if beneficial I will update the OP with it.
My SGS3 is the same as my A2 being that the screen gobbled up battery like crazy. So, I suppose you're not alone, at least with what I've experienced.
Not sure if any of this is helpful, but thought I'd share my thoughts...
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What are your screen settings at (levels, auto on/off, etc)? Screen is by far the biggest drain on battery. Check my Battery Guide, last Page for an app mentioned to lower brightness more than the stock settings will allow for- maybe that would help in certain instances. I haven't tried it myself, but will be doing so over the weekend, and if beneficial I will update the OP with it.
My SGS3 is the same as my A2 being that the screen gobbled up battery like crazy. So, I suppose you're not alone, at least with what I've experienced.
Not sure if any of this is helpful, but thought I'd share my thoughts...
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I keep it on auto or low all the time. this is definitely a real problem, because it was nowhere near as bad on GB. now I know they fixed the cell standby issue, but I can literally see the battery go right on down when I turn it on. 3-4 hours on would kill it.
Maybe try with auto off for a while, see if you notice any difference.
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Turn auto off and get a widget to adjust yourself. Read an article one time how on Android system auto brightness is more harm than good.
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Turn auto off and get a widget to adjust yourself. Read an article one time how on Android system auto brightness is more harm than good.
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yeah I know it is not good but my point is there is something wrong. just looking at xda and stuf I went from 50 to 10 in 40 min
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yeah I know it is not good but my point is there is something wrong. just looking at xda and stuf I went from 50 to 10 in 40 min
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Looking at your battery's discharge rate graph, looks pretty normal. There's no drastic drops in battery, it's fairly linear in discharge, and even if the screen is using most of that. However, there could be other culprits. What about sync, or haptic, or any of the other things I outlined in my guide? WiFi is off, from what I saw, but might not just be the screen. Have you tried editing build prop for "deeper" deep sleep or edits to other things? I'm going to update my OP with a few more things I thought of for improving overall battery life this weekend. Maybe some of the new ones will help...
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I'm sure that the display is eatin more than GB ....
i didn't see display going >50% in GB ..... now on ICS its like always >=70%
i have 2nd system as MIUI from "rdavisct" when i switch to it & come back to ICS
then my battery calibration scrambles ... i did switchin yesterday & it showed me
30% far early than expected
Same problem here..my screen draining 57%
Why don't you try the app betterbatterystats it's here in xda:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15869868
This may help to see the real problem of the fast battery drain you said, also you can install the app rootDim from the playstore to custom your screen brightness.
I hope this helps.
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my screen keeps dying. I'll turn the screen off for a while, 10-15mins and then ill try to turn it on but nothing happens when i press the power button. Could any of my settings be causing or affecting this behavior?
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my screen keeps dying. I'll turn the screen off for a while, 10-15mins and then ill try to turn it on but nothing happens when i press the power button. Could any of my settings be causing or affecting this behavior?
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Sleep of death.
Alot of things can cause this, for me the ONLY time I hit SOD is if I have large apps opened, and let the phone fall asleep. Barely happens for me.
Whats your min/max CPU? Wireless on/off? Charging or not charging?
Its not charging. Wifi is on.
1015 Max and 216 min for CPU
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I turned off wifi and wifi calling....that seemed to get it under control. Went into manage application settings and closed out a bunch background running apps that got accumulated. Going to turn on wifi n wifi calling now to test out.
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I had this kind of problem when I set the screen off frequency too low in the profile. Any chance you have something similar going on?
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Where do i find the screen off frequency I'm cm7 lol
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Do you mean the "screen time out?" Its set to 30 seconds which is the lowest setting. However, ever since i stopped a bunch of useless apps from running in the background the problem has gone away. It was also happening in class while i was connected to the crappy university network. It consistently loses and regains connection. I think that may have played a role as well
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Pain-N-Panic said:
Do you mean the "screen time out?" Its set to 30 seconds which is the lowest setting. However, ever since i stopped a bunch of useless apps from running in the background the problem has gone away. It was also happening in class while i was connected to the crappy university network. It consistently loses and regains connection. I think that may have played a role as well
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No that's not what he meant.
I am assuming you are using that CPU Master apk I slid your way. When in that app see if your profiles are on and what the min/max is set at.
I don't use profiles, tend to find they cause more problems than good. The app is constantly having to monitor and check for "conditions" to be met so it can activate the profile, using CPU to do so, which results in more battery use.
Our devices are setup with governors and/or hardware scaling which do excatly that, adjust CPU frequency based on demand.
So you have to look at it in a logical sense.
Lets say opening a certain app at 1ghz takes 5 seconds. Than say you underclock the phone to say 816MHz and than open the app. Instead off the app increasing the CPU load and the governor polls the.frequency up to 1GHz for 5 seconds and than scaling frequency back down, the governor will poll up to 816MHz and spend, lets say 10 seconds to load that app up now at the slower speed, you basically forced the CPU to spend more time at the higher frequency (816) as it's capped at that speed, so you actually made the phone sit at the higher end of the frequency pool consuming more mV in the long run than if you would have just left it at 1GHz cap and let it consume the more mV but for a much shorter period of time.
This was how it was explained to me and via my own testing the % of time spent at 816MHz was much, much more than the % of time spent at 1GHz.
Logic man, lol, logic. There will be those who argue, you just have to expirement for yourself, you'll see.
Also, don't use swap files unless you have a class 10 MicroSD card, all it does is increase read times and slows down the phone.
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Well that certainly made a lot of clarifications about the CPU! You're the man, wealth of knowledge about this device lol. Thanks for pocket also, I'm going to check the profiles right now
Nope, everything was disabled.
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Pain-N-Panic said:
Well that certainly made a lot of clarifications about the CPU! You're the man, wealth of knowledge about this device lol. Thanks for pocket also, I'm going to check the profiles right now
Nope, everything was disabled.
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You did get the issue resolved correct? Thought u said you had over GTalk.
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Yup, it's resolved.
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