best practices to maximize battery life (and some related thoughts) - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III

i own a stock, un-rooted Galaxy SIII on Verizon. please use this post as a general guide and as my opinion, but i take no responsibility for anything you might do to your phone (i don't think anything i suggest is sketchy or messes about with the phone anyway).
1. the graph below is your friend. you can see it by going to settings > battery and then tapping on the graph at the top of the screen.
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mobile network signal: green is good, yellow is okay, red is bad/no signal.
GPS on: self explanatory
Wi-Fi: self explanatory
Awake: if you see blue, that means the phone is working. it's processing something, it's displaying something, it's sending or receiving data, etc.
Screen on: self explanatory
if you see blue on the Awake line but no corresponding blue on the Screen on line, this means the phone is doing things while it's in your pocket and the screen is off. if this is occurring excessively, it is generally not a good thing, but it's inevitable to some degree. for instance, if you have a weather widget or Gmail syncs regularly, you will see this happen.
if the phone is off (i.e. the screen itself is not being turned on at all) for 8 hours while you're sleeping and the Awake bar is heavily littered with blue or it's a straight blue bar, then 99% of the time you have an app that's causing wakelocks, meaning it's taxing the phone without you even using it. depending on the wakelock, it can really kill your battery fast.
2. if you have lots of wakelocks, you can download an app like BetterBatteryStats. however, it costs money, and some find it to be confusing. a better way to tackle this is to check all of the sync/push settings in each of those apps.
for instance, i use apps like Instagram and Pulse. both of these apps have settings for background updates:
my advice is to uncheck these boxes whenever you can, and many apps out there will have these sort of settings. another thing to look out for are apps that have a "send anonymous usage data" option. tons of apps out there have this functionality checked by default, so you should un-check them wherever possible.
3. the stock Email app. in my limited use, it has proven to be a complete battery nightmare. if you use Gmail exclusively, then use the Gmail app and don't touch the Email app. too often, people will set up one or multiple email accounts via the stock Email app and have them all set to push notifications. this can kill your battery in 6-8 hours with the screen completely off, and the phone will get hot as well. if you absolutely have to use the Email app, make sure you change your settings to sync email once an hour or two instead of push/every five minutes.
4. if you live in an area where your signal is weak (go to settings > about phone > status to see signal strength), your phone is going to drain battery faster than if you had a strong signal, all other things equal. -70 dBm is pretty close to perfect, -90 is decent, -100 is poor, and -110 is pretty bad. likewise, if you're roaming, you will burn through your battery almost as fast as if you were watching a movie via Netflix.
5. this isn't really advertised much, but in general, when you are quitting an app, you should use the BACK button to do so, NOT the home button. the back button usually acts like an "exit" button, but the home button basically leaves that app open and takes you back to your home screen.
to test this out:
- open up Youtube, let it load, then hit your home button to take you to your home screen.
- long press the home button to bring up recently used apps.
- tap Task manager on the lower left.
- observe that Youtube is still an Active application:
now, re-load Youtube, but use your Back button to exit out of it. repeat the steps above to check Task manager and you'll see that it is no longer in the list of active applications.
there are undoubtedly some applications that don't consume much battery even though they might be in the list of "Active" applications, but i still believe that utilizing the Back button to exit apps is a good way to go about using your phone throughout the day.
final various thoughts:
- your mileage may vary, but i haven't found that leaving wifi on constantly or off constantly really makes a difference while i'm home and connected to my network vs. using cellular data (Verizon). my focus is on minimizing wakelocks, and just having wifi on with no wakelocks doesn't seem to cause excessive battery drain. i do also have a very strong signal at -70 dBm or so. i lose about 5-7% with the phone sitting next to my bed overnight. this is normal usage, and when i wake up and check the battery graph, there are only a few wakelocks (Gmail and Beautiful Widgets syncing, and not much else). in the end though, when i'm out and about, i will turn off wifi if i'm not going to be connected to a network.
- leaving bluetooth on or off doesn't really make a difference in my battery life either. i generally connect when i get in my car, but if i have it on and it isn't paired with anything all day while i'm at work, it doesn't really consume my battery at all. therefore, i leave it on all day (even though it is un-paired) and i don't notice excessive drain whatsoever.
- i usually average about 4-5 hours of screen on time over a period of ~18 hours in a normal day, with auto-brightness on.
- if you had good battery life and it started going downhill recently, think about the apps that you have recently installed. chances are really good that there's some setting in those apps that are causing wakelocks, and in turn, excessive battery drain.
- google now seems to drain my phone fast, so i disabled it altogether. it's somewhat of a neat feature, but in the end, i just leave it installed on my Nexus 7 tablet and keep it off of my phone. i have enough things drawing power on the phone as it is, and i can still do voice searches on Google and whatnot.
- i took the 4.1.1 OTA update over the weekend and got pretty marginal battery life for a day, so i decided to do a factory reset and re-do all of my screens and re-install many of my apps. i'm still tweaking it but my battery life seems to have stabilized to something close to what it was with ICS.
anyway, this got very long, but i hope it was informative. your mileage may vary but i do believe that most of these points are pretty fundamental and will apply to your phone's battery life, whether you're rooted or not.
**ADDITIONAL EDIT**
i didn't mention that i also went into settings > application manager and disabled a bunch of applications/processes, where the stock system would let me. the list of things that i disabled are:
accessories
allshare play
apps
exchange services
kies air
media hub (i use google play music)
music hub
s suggest
s voice (is pretty slow, and bad)
SNS
sync service
verizon tones
VZ navigator
i would have disabled more, but it won't allow me to without rooting and flashing a custom ROM and/or freezing/uninstalling apps with Titanium Backup.
here is a screenshot of my battery life from yesterday/last night. you can see that when my screen is off, my phone is generally not getting woken up, and as a result, my battery life has been very stable.

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Obsessed with getting maximum battery usage for sensation

I would like to create a a definitive guide (best Practices) to get the maximum amount of battery out of the Sensation. Coming from a LG G2x I'm finding this battery is actually equal or worse and since rooting and removing bloatware currenty seems impossible, then customizing this phone has to be within the realm of stock apps and settings..
My Experience
Using Battery monitor widget, I'm typically getting -200 ~ -300 mAh usage whenever the phone is being used, it will drop down to -30 mAh at its lowest in idle, but no where like the G2x of 5-10 mAh or -2mAh for Vibrant (in idle)..
My goal is to have this phone last 24-36 hours regularly (if possible) ... Right now I'm getting 12-18 hours, with moderate use.. 20 ~30 minutes calls..
Here are the steps I've tried to improve life, in order or decreasing effect.
General Tips/Steps to imporve
Turn off All Syncing (use power widget to toggle as needed)
Check Settings >> Accounts & Sync >> [disable auto sync]
Set Screen timeout to 15sec
Set brightness to < 15%
Check Settings >> Power >> Turn on most or all the power saving features in this menu.
Remove (or reduce) number of widgets that need to poll data (includes clock/weather, stocks, social feeds, etc)
Turn off Bluetooth, GPS (when not needed, again use Power widget to toggle)
Enable Wifi calling (yes wifi calling saves battery especially in low 3/4G signal areas)
Use camera sparingly (by far biggest battery hog)
Useful apps or widgets
General apps / widgets and tips to have
Add Power widget to home page (for quick toggling)
Install Battery monitor widget for charting battery usage.
Juicedefender or Green Power from appstore and let them help manage power
Things to share
Please add your suggestions, and tell us your
max. battery time, between re-charges.
What are your battery usage stats , what is the biggest battery drain my in screen 60%
your best practices
Lets all share our best practices..
The best things I've found to improve battery life.. Use Juice Defender pro, and set schedules, let it turn off all the battery hogs...
Dam I wish I could remove the bloatware especially that Navigation package.
wow you are severely gimping your phone to get the most battery life. I'm happy with 12-14 hours with heavy usage
tbrandao said:
I would like to create a a definitive guide (best Practices) to get the maximum amount of battery out of the Sensation. Coming from a LG G2x I'm finding this battery is actually equal or worse and since rooting and removing bloatware currenty seems impossible, then customizing this phone has to be within the realm of stock apps and settings..
My Experience
Using Battery monitor widget, I'm typically getting -200 ~ -300 mAh usage whenever the phone is being used, it will drop down to -30 mAh at its lowest in idle, but no where like the G2x of 5-10 mAh or -2mAh for Vibrant (in idle)..
My goal is to have this phone last 24-36 hours regularly (if possible) ... Right now I'm getting 12-18 hours, with moderate use.. 20 ~30 minutes calls..
Here are the steps I've tried to improve life, in order or decreasing effect.
General Tips/Steps to imporve
Turn off All Syncing (use power widget to toggle as needed)
Check Settings >> Accounts & Sync >> [disable auto sync]
Set Screen timeout to 15sec
Set brightness to < 15%
Check Settings >> Power >> Turn on most or all the power saving features in this menu.
Remove (or reduce) number of widgets that need to poll data (includes clock/weather, stocks, social feeds, etc)
Turn off Bluetooth, GPS (when not needed, again use Power widget to toggle)
Enable Wifi calling (yes wifi calling saves battery especially in low 3/4G signal areas)
Use camera sparingly (by far biggest battery hog)
Useful apps or widgets
General apps / widgets and tips to have
Add Power widget to home page (for quick toggling)
Install Battery monitor widget for charting battery usage.
Juicedefender or Green Power from appstore and let them help manage power
Things to share
Please add your suggestions, and tell us your
max. battery time, between re-charges.
What are your battery usage stats , what is the biggest battery drain my in screen 60%
your best practices
Lets all share our best practices..
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Umm... Why exactly do you have a smartphone if you are disabling every single thing that makes it a smartphone? If you want great battery life return the Sensation and buy a phone that does nothing but call and text.
Without disabling anything I am able to get through a 13 hour shift at work with texting all through and internet, youtube, etc during my breaks (~1-1.5 hours) with around 60-70% battery left. Then last week I used GPS with Navigation and screen brightness at 100 for the hour and a half drive home and I still had around 30% battery when I got home. (I was trying to kill the battery on the drive btw). I think all that is pretty damn good for a phone as powerful and with a screen as big as the Sensation.
tbrandao said:
I would like to create a a definitive guide (best Practices) to get the maximum amount of battery out of the Sensation. Coming from a LG G2x I'm finding this battery is actually equal or worse and since rooting and removing bloatware currenty seems impossible, then customizing this phone has to be within the realm of stock apps and settings..
My Experience
Using Battery monitor widget, I'm typically getting -200 ~ -300 mAh usage whenever the phone is being used, it will drop down to -30 mAh at its lowest in idle, but no where like the G2x of 5-10 mAh or -2mAh for Vibrant (in idle)..
My goal is to have this phone last 24-36 hours regularly (if possible) ... Right now I'm getting 12-18 hours, with moderate use.. 20 ~30 minutes calls..
Here are the steps I've tried to improve life, in order or decreasing effect.
General Tips/Steps to imporve
Turn off All Syncing (use power widget to toggle as needed)
Check Settings >> Accounts & Sync >> [disable auto sync]
Set Screen timeout to 15sec
Set brightness to < 15%
Check Settings >> Power >> Turn on most or all the power saving features in this menu.
Remove (or reduce) number of widgets that need to poll data (includes clock/weather, stocks, social feeds, etc)
Turn off Bluetooth, GPS (when not needed, again use Power widget to toggle)
Enable Wifi calling (yes wifi calling saves battery especially in low 3/4G signal areas)
Use camera sparingly (by far biggest battery hog)
Useful apps or widgets
General apps / widgets and tips to have
Add Power widget to home page (for quick toggling)
Install Battery monitor widget for charting battery usage.
Juicedefender or Green Power from appstore and let them help manage power
Things to share
Please add your suggestions, and tell us your
max. battery time, between re-charges.
What are your battery usage stats , what is the biggest battery drain my in screen 60%
your best practices
Lets all share our best practices..
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Sorry but in all due respect this is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Go buy a feature phone and it'll last as long as you need and do the same thing as your crippled Sensation.
I couldn't agree more. Why buy a smartphone if you are going to shut every single "smart" feature off. It isn't just the OP though. The manufacturers themselves recommend these kind of optimizations in their support pages.
Time to go shopping for a higher capacity battery...
Want the best battery life? Do all that you do... then turn it off for an hour, then on for an hour, then off for an hour, then on for an hour... just keep doing this and you'll DOUBLE your battery life
graffixnyc said:
Want the best battery life? Do all that you do... then turn it off for an hour, then on for an hour, then off for an hour, then on for an hour... just keep doing this and you'll DOUBLE your battery life
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GENIUS!!!! Or even 2 hours off and 1 hour on! Or 3 off! INFINITE POWER!!!
edit: wow those faces look funny with no spaces between them. I think I'll fix that
I'm just going to enjoy my device features and let the battery drain...
xnifex said:
wow you are severely gimping your phone to get the most battery life. I'm happy with 12-14 hours with heavy usage
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+1
Why have this phone if your gonna cut off its balls. Plug it in when you go to bed....enjoy your Sensation the way it was meant to be enjoyed.....
I get 12-16 hours with fairly heavy use... Fantastic for a device like this.
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BOOM, just increased your battery life to 200%.
Keep one in your wallet, backpack, or wherever convenient.
http://www.amazon.com/HTC-Sensation-T-mobile-Capacity-REPLACEMENT/dp/B0055QKZBS
Seriously, why not just actually use your phone and get a spare battery?
Turning brightness to the lowest setting works wonders. That's about all I've done, and I get 14 hours on average ...sometimes north of 17 hours. In general, if I get more than 12 hours out of my smartphone without disabling anything, I'm satisfied with that. 14, and I'm quite happy.
I tried Green Power free and while it seemed to help a bit, the difference for me was just too negligible to bother.
Just enjoy your for for now til you get sick of messing with it. After your sick of it, then start messing with the battery life. That will give something to do.
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He's just wants to know all the tricks jeez is like a list as well
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App
When I bought Sensation I was simply conciliated with that I will charge battery every single day. That´s it. Don´t buy a smartphone if you want it to last more than 1,5 day. Let´s stop with this battery obsession and start enjoying this great phone.
I tend to use the smartphone on the go, you know like a cell phone, so I'm not always near a charger, and a cell phone (after all that's one of the things a smartphone should do) typically should last a day or two, and I think its possible... but like anything else this battery hungry device can be guided to being a little more miserly in its power consumption... ..
Just looking for advice.. but I'll take the snarky comments...
tbrandao said:
I tend to use the smartphone on the go, you know like a cell phone, so I'm not always near a charger, and a cell phone (after all that's one of the things a smartphone should do) typically should last a day or two, and I think its possible... but like anything else this battery hungry device can be guided to being a little more miserly in its power consumption... ..
Just looking for advice.. but I'll take the snarky comments...
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Honestly if you want a smartphone and good battery life get a BB. That's the only thing I miss about my BB is the 2 day battery life. Honestly these phones are getting more and more powerful by the day and battery technology needs to catch up. IMO I think they should stop cranking out new phones every month and focus on researching better battery technology then crank them out every month It just seems like phone hardware keeps getting more and more power hungry and batteries are staying the same. I carry a little tiny blade folding charger with me or an extra battery. I tried to find the smallest folding charger I could so I could just throw it in my jeans pocket and not even notice it.
to the OP
to the OP, I like you, have not had the initial good fortune of our Sensation-al brethren. 14-17 hours is a pipe dream cuz my phone, after 4 days, BARELY got me 5 hours of light use. Since you actually asked a question, and were trying to be helpful to others who were/are in your same boat, I will give you what I did. I went from 5 - 9 hours without cutting the mythical "balls" off the phone. lol. Use if you like. (taken from another post).
"unless i am misreading, there are a lot of people with great battery life, but there does not appear to be any serious use of the phone. checking fb twice, a few texts, in standby for several hours and two calls will not put any real stress on it IMO and from my experience. So I really don't know if I can use a lot of examples that I am readings as a true gauge.
I waited to get this phone to use it in its entirety. I got frustrated the other day with my first post in this thread because I got hammered on battery life this weekend and I did NOT do anything and I barely got five hours. So I made a few adjustments (detailed below) and i can say that I am on 9 hours/ 20 mins on one charge. I have 18% battery left. My stats:
display 80% (3 hours / 12 minutes time on)
cell standby 9%
calls 4%
phone idle 3%
maps 2%
I text, sent picture mail, used maps (with gps on), had pulse, fb, twitter, gmail and friendcaster sync'd in the background, took several pics and uploaded them, used tap-a-talk to read xda posts, and facebooked. From 5 hours to 9 - I'll take it. I am still not where i want to be, but this is the first day that i felt good about having this phone as my primary device. I hope to get to upwards of 14 hours like i see here in this thread. to get here today i had to do several things to improve my odds.
1. i did not want the signal jumping around so WCDMA only
2. installed advance task killer and set it to "when screen off" and "crazy."
3. installed ultimate juice defender.
4. dropped screen brightness to 80%
I will continue to drain the battery to almost nothing and let it fully charge. I will report back any positive or negative results."

I can't win vs battery drain!

I used to run AOSP JB (_thalamus kernel) with every possible sync turned off (except contacts, calendar and browser) so as to maximize Deep Sleep.
I had Google Location off, location reporting off and a weather widget with a manually set city. I had deleted Talk and had no 3rd party maps app installed.
My phone would sleep great overnight (-6%) and then every time i left my house it would drain insanely (-20% per hour) without being used.
For the time being, i'm back on Rascream, but i'd really wanna join the party with JB, what could i do? (to better diagnose or...)
Did you have Google now disabled? That's a battery killer.
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mutantlx said:
Did you have Google now disabled? That's a battery killer.
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Yep
dinuvali said:
I used to run AOSP JB (_thalamus kernel) with every possible sync turned off (except contacts, calendar and browser) so as to maximize Deep Sleep.
I had Google Location off, location reporting off and a weather widget with a manually set city. I had deleted Talk and had no 3rd party maps app installed.
My phone would sleep great overnight (-6%) and then every time i left my house it would drain insanely (-20% per hour) without being used.
For the time being, i'm back on Rascream, but i'd really wanna join the party with JB, what could i do? (to better diagnose or...)
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It would be easier to diagnose if you were running it right now...
polobunny said:
It would be easier to diagnose if you were running it right now...
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I got it Nand-ed, so i can go back and try new things, but i had run out of ideas of what to do.
Have you try running Better Battery Stats to pinpoint what has been devouring your battery?
Are you online via 3G mobile data? That's a huge battery drainer. Try switching to 2G only mode especially if you don't plan on doing some hard core browsing. Or better yet, turn off mobile data and switch to 2G mode when possible for maximum battery savings.
Another thing you can try is start from a clean install, with only the ROM and all the system apps that came with it. Disable the apps you don't use, like GoogleNow for example, then add your favorite apps one by one, and see what is causing more than normal battery drain.
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mutantlx said:
Did you have Google now disabled? That's a battery killer.
Sent from my Nexus S
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How to disable Google Now?
sossio18 said:
How to disable Google Now?
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I have used BSS and the most wakelocks were cause by NetworkLocator, as shown.
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Google Now was disabled, Location services were ALL disabled (including Latitude), i had no 3rd party maps apps, no google talk, no nothing.
dinuvali said:
I have used BSS and the most wakelocks were cause by NetworkLocator, as shown.
Google Now was disabled, Location services were ALL disabled (including Latitude), i had no 3rd party maps apps, no google talk, no nothing.
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I used to have that. Disabled Google Now, logged out of Latitude (log in then out), Locations services w/ cell tower and gps disable and I used Autostarts app to disable ANY automatic start of Maps. No problem since.
Edit: Oh and that's nothing too crazy by the way. Not exactly a battery killer.
polobunny said:
I used to have that. Disabled Google Now, logged out of Latitude (log in then out), Locations services w/ cell tower and gps disable and I used Autostarts app to disable ANY automatic start of Maps. No problem since.
Edit: Oh and that's nothing too crazy by the way. Not exactly a battery killer.
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It turned out to be 20% per hour only when leaving home (somehow the phone knew i was moving around and it just wouldn't have none of that). While sleeping, it would stay in deep sleep for 90-95% of the night.
I am not having any issues on ICS and it kinda seems cumbersome to use an app to prevent another app from starting, although i understand the idea.
dinuvali said:
It turned out to be 20% per hour only when leaving home (somehow the phone knew i was moving around and it just wouldn't have none of that). While sleeping, it would stay in deep sleep for 90-95% of the night.
I am not having any issues on ICS and it kinda seems cumbersome to use an app to prevent another app from starting, although i understand the idea.
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I know. The last step might be extreme, but that's all I did to save myself. Otherwise sometimes maps would go crazy and just consume battery for no apparent reason.
dinuvali said:
I used to run AOSP JB (_thalamus kernel) with every possible sync turned off (except contacts, calendar and browser) so as to maximize Deep Sleep.
I had Google Location off, location reporting off and a weather widget with a manually set city. I had deleted Talk and had no 3rd party maps app installed.
My phone would sleep great overnight (-6%) and then every time i left my house it would drain insanely (-20% per hour) without being used.
For the time being, i'm back on Rascream, but i'd really wanna join the party with JB, what could i do? (to better diagnose or...)
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Hi,
You mentioned everything but turning off your Data. I live in a horrible area with only 1 maybe 2 bars and it totally drains battery much faster.
I leave it off until i need it, plus I have everything off that you mentioned including Google now(it has its own settings which you can turn off as you are in the actual app)
IIm currently running DaXmax's JB Rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1824381
and I have good to great battery life once I turned off everything like you did.
But I guess first try the DATA off issue and maybe it will help with your ROM
Or
try what other person said and run the ROM bare to see if its the ROM or an App you have that could be draining your battery
Good luck
vidaljs said:
Hi,
You mentioned everything but turning off your Data. I live in a horrible area with only 1 maybe 2 bars and it totally drains battery much faster.
I leave it off until i need it, plus I have everything off that you mentioned including Google now(it has its own settings which you can turn off as you are in the actual app)
IIm currently running DaXmax's JB Rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1824381
and I have good to great battery life once I turned off everything like you did.
But I guess first try the DATA off issue and maybe it will help with your ROM
Or
try what other person said and run the ROM bare to see if its the ROM or an App you have that could be draining your battery
Good luck
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Considering that i'm not changing the radio when switching from ics to jb, nor am i having low bars on jb, i don't see how data could be the source of the drain. (nor am i willing to run a ROM without data).
Thanks for all you replies (i've thanked you all) and i'll try to Autostarts app when i get the chance.
Autostarts is a great application. I always use it to keep Maps under control.

[Q] How to Get Amazing Battery Life

Hey everyone,
Lately I've been in the works of trying to get better battery life, as I only get about 2 - 2.5 hours of on screen time. I've seen other users get anywhere between 5-7 hours. I do use facebook, and have uninstalled the official facebook app for the friendcaster one, but have yet to still hit anywhere near that amount of time.
Out of curiosity, and hopefully future reference for other users, what are some great ways to boost battery life? Do you use apps? Uninstall software? Please, do share!
justin0025 said:
Hey everyone,
Lately I've been in the works of trying to get better battery life, as I only get about 2 - 2.5 hours of on screen time. I've seen other users get anywhere between 5-7 hours. I do use facebook, and have uninstalled the official facebook app for the friendcaster one, but have yet to still hit anywhere near that amount of time.
Out of curiosity, and hopefully future reference for other users, what are some great ways to boost battery life? Do you use apps? Uninstall software? Please, do share!
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Manually controlling screen brightness was the biggest increase for me. The other one that helped was 2g data when i turn off the screen.
Freeeeze apps with Titanium Backup. You wont miss anything neither you loose perfomance, no you gain.
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Change notification updates to suit your needs. Stuff that you don't need to know right away, lower frequency or turn to manual. For instance:
- Change weather updates to every 1-2 hours, unless you really need to know that it changed by a couple degrees as it does.
- Decrease facebook notifications (big one. If you use it a lot, then keep it high, but realize that this WILL drain battery.)
- Manually update stocks (again, if you don't need them instantaneously)
- Blog & News apps usually set notifications on by default, disable or lower frequency on them
- Lower screen brightness
- Turn display to auto sleep 30sec-1min tops
Note that while some of the notification controls can be found within the system settings, many apps will require you to go to their individual settings to adjust them.
All depends what you do with it. Navigation, internet, talk time and intense games all suck up more battery. That doesn't mean you shouldn't do that stuff, but it's just the way it is on any device.
Simple, root and install CPU sleeper, that should give u a lot of battery life.. at least that's how I do it and today I unplugged my phone at 10 am and its 9:25 and I have 65% left
Sent from my HTC One S Unlocked
using XDA Premium
justin0025 said:
Hey everyone,
Lately I've been in the works of trying to get better battery life, as I only get about 2 - 2.5 hours of on screen time. I've seen other users get anywhere between 5-7 hours. I do use facebook, and have uninstalled the official facebook app for the friendcaster one, but have yet to still hit anywhere near that amount of time.
Out of curiosity, and hopefully future reference for other users, what are some great ways to boost battery life? Do you use apps? Uninstall software? Please, do share!
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Almost all of em are running on custom roms I beat and I'm the one you said that with 5 - 7 hours screen time everyday. There are many things to do to maximum the battery performance and first thing is root and unlock your phone and flash a custom rom. If you are on stock rom, it would be almost a no go.
1. Flash ViperOneS 1.2 rom or One maximuS V2.5 rom, they are the best sense based rom with the greatest battery performance I've seen.
2. If you don't need sense, flash cm10 or aokp. They should give you more battery because they aren't as resources hog as sense. However, you couldn't use sense UI and access to the dedicated image chip in camera.
3. Turn the brightness level down to as low as possible, this is the major battery killer.
4. Switch to 2G when you are in standby mode. Disable fast dormancy, it will save you battery in standby mode at the cost of connection speed when you surf web it will be slower but it does save you some battery in standby status. You can disable it in ViperOneS's tweaking but you'll have to do it manually in all other roms but that is very very easy. Personally, I let it on because the 3G speed isn't good in Hong Kong, too many iphone/android everywhere here, over crowed. In every street in HK are messed up by SGS3/Note/Note2/Iphone, think about how horrible it is.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1684604
5. Turn off wifi when you don't use it, disable max performance in wifi setting. Turn the auto-sync off when you don't need it too.
6. Just remove all apps and bloatware you don't want. When you flash ViperOneS/maximuS 's add-on, you will have a list to do it.
7. Some bloatware will still be there after flash the add-on. You have to download systemapp remover to del those apps.
8. Some apps like to run as services mode and they drain battery in background like youtube, google map, playstore. You need to download AutoStarts and force them to disable as an auto-startup services after bootup.
9. Download Systempanel and check any non-system apps running at services mode in background. Force them stop in control panel. I only have four non-system apps let them running as services like whatsapp.
10. Don't run too many widgets, I only have two widgets on. Don't use 3D wallpaper.
11. Use opera mobile to surf web. The stock browser and chrome should faster but sometimes they drain battery real quick.
12. Turn the cpu mhz down when you are just doing some normal/easy works because the stock kernel has very suck governor performance(only ages governor: on-demand, save battery, max performance) and drains battery fast. Turn the cpu mhz back to high level only when you play games, this will save you great battery. Don't worry S4 CPU is still very powerful even you set it to half speed. You can flash custom kernel if you don't like to turn cpu speed up/down, they introduce more efficiency governors to handle it automatically but all 3rd kernels are likely to have some bugs at this time. There aren't many active developers out there.
13. After a heavy or long using like a full battery cycle, reboot the OS to clean up the cache/memory leak.
14. Use nova launcher or apex launcher to replace the sense launcher.
Well, I basically do ALL the stuffs above and got 5 ~ 7hrs screen time. Today, I do surf the web like mad(4hrs), 1hr 720p movie(software decode in MX Player as it's a rmvb movie), 30mins+ music with poweramp. Guess what? I got exactly 5hrs screen time and 1% battery left when I get back to home, very lucky though. I think my usage is a bit high today, normally I have 6hrs screen time average.
A lot of people on stock ROMs can get that sort of battery life too.
This is mine on stock:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27010378#post27010378
Also wrote a quick guide, pretty similar to the above:
Terminator19 said:
Leave "best wifi performance" turned off.
Disable any apps that you don't need in settings>apps>click on app>disable at top right
Don't have weather etc. syncing every 30 minutes etc. set to something like 2 or 3 hours.
Manually control the screen brightness as auto makes the battery life worse, install qbright from the market and set a gesture so when you swipe up or down on the homescreen or dock icons this app is opened like the below:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
I have it set to currently; night is 0%, indoor 30%, outdoor 50% and sunshine 70%
Keep wifi on as much as possible and set to never sleep
Keep GSM mode selected instead of WCDMA in mobile network settings as one; the voice reception is stronger and better battery life even when connected to wifi I found.
If you aren't going to be using any internet at all for quite while (meaning no need for weather, emails to sync etc.) then turn wifi and mobile network data off.
Only enable WCDMA when you want to browse or stream something (only when wifi is not possible)
Don't use any form of a task killer, if an app isn't responding just use the built in one.
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WOW! Thanks guys! I'll definitely be trying these tips today.
Lets keep'em coming!
I'm running CM10 and all I did was lower my CPU clock to 1134 and I get great battery life. I also try to keep my wifi off as often as possible. I have auto-brightness and auto-sync on and usually get 6-7 hours and don't have to charge it all day. I prefer being able to use the better governers on top of the decreased frequency, but I haven't been able to get the Fusion AOSP kernel working on CM10 for quite some time.
Jewcifer said:
I'm running CM10 and all I did was lower my CPU clock to 1134 and I get great battery life. I also try to keep my wifi off as often as possible. I have auto-brightness and auto-sync on and usually get 6-7 hours and don't have to charge it all day. I prefer being able to use the better governers on top of the decreased frequency, but I haven't been able to get the Fusion AOSP kernel working on CM10 for quite some time.
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I've always thought about under-clocking my CPU. I'll give that a try too. I'm sure i don't need the full 1.5ghz. I'll play around with them and see which will fit my needs .
My battery lasts twice as much just by turning the mobile internet off. I turn it on only when I need to surf the web/sync my apps and turn it back off right after.:victory:
Change governor to smartass2 and set your max CPU frequency at 1ghz. Also you can install app called llama for profiles switching and battery saving.

Improve your Shield Tablet Battery Life

Hey there, guys.
I want to share with you my tweaks to get a better battery life while the tablet is on idle. [KitKat - Scroll down for lollipop update]
Processor state: Optimized.
Initial battery percent: 82%
Final battery percent: 45%
Battery percent loss: 37%
On Screen time: 1h 14m
Awake time: 1h 22m
Real awake time: 8 minutes.
Interval of time: 16h 55m
After many tests, I've notice that for every 10% of battery you get, at least, 30 minutes of Screen On. You can squeeze it even further to 40 minutes for every 10%
As you will see on the pictures, the WiFi was on for 10 hours, the rest was off because i went outside where WiFi was not available.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Now, the next screenshot will show you the "Partial wakelocks", they are the one that keeps your tablet awake. The lower, the better, but some of then are necessary while you work/play/surf on the tablet, so they will be there anywhere.
Trying to understand the Blake_wakelock.
I've spent some time trying to figure out how to stop this wakelock. The blake_wakelock is used by the "Shield Wireless Controller" nVidia system App to pair the controller; i don't know why it keeps alive after turn off the controller; so far the only not-brute-force method i have to stop it is by turning off the WiFi, also, in good conditions the blake_wakelock stop itself whilts screen is off. Once you turn it on again it comes back to life.
-------------------------------------------
Requirements:
-------------------------------------------
Rooted Tablet.
System Tuner: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ccc71.pmw
(Optional) Disable Service: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cn.wq.disableservice
A list of what you need and What you don't need: The tweaks i'll show you is nothing more than disable many components that i don't need in some apps, for example, auto starts or syncing. Since i don't need location service, because i don't need my tablet to be with me all the time snaping pictures to instagram them and say "Hey, i am here, rapist", i don't need any of those, so, i disable everything related which is "safe" to disable.[/.]
[/list]
I'll attach to this thread a backup of the service i have disable, you can "restore" it using Disable service to auto disable the service. It may work for you or may not, so that's why i'll list the service i have off.
In order to see how to disable a service using System Tuner and achieving a short explanation, here is a video i made months ago about it using another android device:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dEwsckIa9E&list=UU7Gr3HOHtIF0i0_ptfaT0JA
List of unnecessary services:
Google Play Services:
Code:
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.analytics.service.AnalyticsService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.analytics.service.RefreshEnabledStateService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.analytics.internal.PlayLogReportingService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.analytics.service.PlayLogMonitorIntervalService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.checkin.EventLogService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.config.ConfigFetchService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.subscribedfeeds.SyncService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.playlog.service.PlayLogBrokerService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.plus.service.ImageIntentService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.plus.service.OfflineActionSyncAdapterService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.auth.be.proximity.authorization.userpresence.UserPresenceService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.common.analytics.CoreAnalyticsIntentService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.wearable.node.bluetooth.BluetoothClientService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.wearable.node.bluetooth.BluetoothServerService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.wearable.node.emulator.NetworkConnectionService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.wearable.service.WearableService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.wearable.service.WearableControlService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.fitness.service.DbCleanupService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.fitness.service.BrokeredFitnessService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.fitness.sensors.activity.ActivityRecognitionService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.fitness.sync.FitnessSyncAdapterService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.fitness.sensors.sample.CollectSensorService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.fitness.wearables.WearableSyncService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.fitness.service.DebugIntentService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.location.wearable.LocationWearableListenerService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.location.fused.NlpLocationReceiverService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.location.geocode.GeocodeService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.location.network.NetworkLocationService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.location.internal.GoogleLocationManagerService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.location.internal.server.GoogleLocationService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.location.reporting.service.ReportingAndroidService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.location.reporting.LocationReportingService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.location.reporting.service.LocationHistoryInjectorService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.location.reporting.service.DispatchingService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.location.places.PlaylogService
Normal User Applications:
I tend to look for service or activities/services/receivers such "Boot receiver", those trigger your app anytime your tablet boots up, keeping it awake. So, if you have an application that you enjoy and it auto start in background while you're not using it, you can disable those service and keep them calm.
I recommend SD Maid for detect autostart components and disable them easily using the "Toggle autostart components off/on". Indeed, if you keep using Facebook, you can control it by disabling a lot of trash services.
Code:
com.onelouder.baconreader/com.onelouder.baconreader.CakeDayService
com.onelouder.baconreader/com.onelouder.baconreader.billing.BillingService
com.onelouder.baconreader/com.google.analytics.tracking.android.CampaignTrackingService
Google Service Framework:
Code:
com.google.android.gsf/com.google.android.gsf.checkin.CheckinService
com.google.android.gsf/com.google.android.gsf.checkin.EventLogService
com.google.android.gsf/com.google.android.gsf.update.SystemUpdateService
com.google.android.gsf/com.google.android.gsf.gtalkservice.service.GTalkService
com.google.android.gsf/com.google.android.gsf.gtalkservice.service.GTalkServiceProxy
com.google.android.gsf/com.google.android.gsf.gtalkservice.service.ConnectionService
com.google.android.gsf/com.google.android.gsf.gtalkservice.service.ConnectionServiceProxy
com.google.android.gsf/com.google.android.gsf.gtalkservice.PushMessagingRegistrarProxy
com.google.android.gsf/com.google.android.gsf.gtalkservice.PushMessagingRegistrar
In addition, Freeze Gtalk and Google Plus; you'll still able to sign into Google play games by leaving the rest of the Plus services active (The ones that are not listed as disabled).
Done.
Lollipop Update:
After a week of testing, Lollipop seems to be battery friendly, for example, the Blake_wakelock is not a problem anymore, on this new update the service is triggered anytime is needed, and it's killed once you disconnect your Shield Wireless Controller.
Without any extra tweaks, all the services disabled above still working fine for Android 5, but some others are not safe to disable; for example, disabling the Youtube Auto-start services cause several Play Service crashes and it's almost unusable.
The next pictures will show you the battery life i got with those tweaks and plus my power setting profile: 2 cores and 50% Max Speed. (The same results with Optimized profile, it seems like the Power Saving mode is not working properly on this update)
On normal conditions (Web surfing, reading and watching videos on Youtube and similar) the battery lost percent is 5% for each 15 minutes.
As you can see next, after 42min on screen, i lost 10% of the battery.
The settings menu shows 20 hours left:
After 60% of the battery consumed, i got 2hours 53min on screen. The 36min of held awake were due downloading games in the background. By that time my Shield was on battery since 1day 3hours and 32min:
And with that said, the settings - Battery shows 19 hours left on Battery:
GSAM Battery monitor measurement:
You can find attached the list (*.txt file) of the services I've disabled, you can actually use this with Disable Service app, place the file into /storage/emulated/0/ and restore it, all the changes will be applied (Root is mandatory)
More results (January, 2015 update):
This is what i got recently. Bright to 30% or kinda more, Optimized power mode and gaming (Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders using iPega at maxed graphics, which is a battery eater with 10% of battery for every 15 minutes of game play - Stickman epic and GRID games). I'm rooted. Running OTA 2.0 Android 5.0
Starting from 93% to 28%; after 1 day and 12 hours, i found it at 82% (0.3% per hour) and a estimated of 13 days left:
So, after start playing demanding games, it went down quickly, still got a good life time expected on battery:
You can clearly see when i was playing:
Final measure (I don't like it goes under 40% or 20%
Obviously this tablet needs an improvement for future versions of it, with more power to offer a real good experience, but in my opinion, taking care of your battery will give you a good space to play with it.
Some disabled are trying unsuccessfully to achieve that by try and fail. Anyway...
I would like to see yours.
More results - Updated 01/10/2015
And even more! - Updated 23/01/2015
I just disabled these Google Play Services you mentioned, on my LG G2. Let's see...
CM17X said:
Hey there, guys.
I want to share with you my tweaks to get a better battery life while the tablet is on idle.
Processor state: Optimized.
Initial battery percent: 82%
Final battery percent: 45%
Battery percent loss: 37%
On Screen time: 1h 14m
Awake time: 1h 22m
Real awake time: 8 minutes.
Interval of time: 16h 55m
After many tests, I've notice that for every 10% of battery you get, at least, 30 minutes of Screen On. You can squeeze it even further to 40 minutes for every 10%
As you will see on the pictures, the WiFi was on for 10 hours, the rest was off because i went outside where WiFi was not available.
Now, the next screenshot will show you the "Partial wakelocks", they are the one that keeps your tablet awake. The lower, the better, but some of then are necessary while you work/play/surf on the tablet, so they will be there anywhere.
Trying to understand the Blake_wakelock.
I've spent some time trying to figure out how to stop this wakelock. The blake_wakelock is used by the "Shield Wireless Controller" nVidia system App to pair the controller; i don't know why it keeps alive after turn off the controller; so far the only not-brute-force method i have to stop it is by turning off the WiFi, also, in good conditions the blake_wakelock stop itself whilts screen is off. Once you turn it on again it comes back to life.
-------------------------------------------
Requirements:
-------------------------------------------
Rooted Tablet.
System Tuner: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ccc71.pmw
(Optional) Disable Service: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cn.wq.disableservice
A list of what you need and What you don't need: The tweaks i'll show you is nothing more than disable many components that i don't need in some apps, for example, auto starts or syncing. Since i don't need location service, because i don't need my tablet to be with me all the time snaping pictures to instagram them and say "Hey, i am here, rapist", i don't need any of those, so, i disable everything related which is "safe" to disable.[/.]
[/list]
I'll attach to this thread a backup of the service i have disable, you can "restore" it using Disable service to auto disable the service. It may work for you or may not, so that's why i'll list the service i have off.
In order to see how to disable a service using System Tuner and achieving a short explanation, here is a video i made months ago about it using another android device:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dEwsckIa9E&list=UU7Gr3HOHtIF0i0_ptfaT0JA
List of unnecessary services:
Google Play Services:
Code:
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.analytics.service.AnalyticsService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.analytics.service.RefreshEnabledStateService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.analytics.internal.PlayLogReportingService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.analytics.service.PlayLogMonitorIntervalService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.checkin.EventLogService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.config.ConfigFetchService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.subscribedfeeds.SyncService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.playlog.service.PlayLogBrokerService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.plus.service.ImageIntentService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.plus.service.OfflineActionSyncAdapterService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.auth.be.proximity.authorization.userpresence.UserPresenceService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.common.analytics.CoreAnalyticsIntentService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.wearable.node.bluetooth.BluetoothClientService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.wearable.node.bluetooth.BluetoothServerService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.wearable.node.emulator.NetworkConnectionService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.wearable.service.WearableService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.wearable.service.WearableControlService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.fitness.service.DbCleanupService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.fitness.service.BrokeredFitnessService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.fitness.sensors.activity.ActivityRecognitionService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.fitness.sync.FitnessSyncAdapterService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.fitness.sensors.sample.CollectSensorService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.fitness.wearables.WearableSyncService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.fitness.service.DebugIntentService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.location.wearable.LocationWearableListenerService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.location.fused.NlpLocationReceiverService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.location.geocode.GeocodeService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.location.network.NetworkLocationService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.location.internal.GoogleLocationManagerService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.location.internal.server.GoogleLocationService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.location.reporting.service.ReportingAndroidService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.location.reporting.LocationReportingService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.location.reporting.service.LocationHistoryInjectorService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.location.reporting.service.DispatchingService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.location.places.PlaylogService
Normal User Applications:
I tend to look for service or activities/services/receivers such "Boot receiver", those trigger your app anytime your tablet boots up, keeping it awake. So, if you have an application that you enjoy and it auto start in background while you're not using it, you can disable those service and keep them calm.
I recommend SD Maid for detect autostart components and disable them easily using the "Toggle autostart components off/on". Indeed, if you keep using Facebook, you can control it by disabling a lot of trash services.
Code:
com.onelouder.baconreader/com.onelouder.baconreader.CakeDayService
com.onelouder.baconreader/com.onelouder.baconreader.billing.BillingService
com.onelouder.baconreader/com.google.analytics.tracking.android.CampaignTrackingService
Google Service Framework:
Code:
com.google.android.gsf/com.google.android.gsf.checkin.CheckinService
com.google.android.gsf/com.google.android.gsf.checkin.EventLogService
com.google.android.gsf/com.google.android.gsf.update.SystemUpdateService
com.google.android.gsf/com.google.android.gsf.gtalkservice.service.GTalkService
com.google.android.gsf/com.google.android.gsf.gtalkservice.service.GTalkServiceProxy
com.google.android.gsf/com.google.android.gsf.gtalkservice.service.ConnectionService
com.google.android.gsf/com.google.android.gsf.gtalkservice.service.ConnectionServiceProxy
com.google.android.gsf/com.google.android.gsf.gtalkservice.PushMessagingRegistrarProxy
com.google.android.gsf/com.google.android.gsf.gtalkservice.PushMessagingRegistrar
In addition, Freeze Gtalk and Google Plus; you'll still able to sign into Google play games by leaving the rest of the Plus services active (The ones that are not listed as disabled).
Done.
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Click to collapse
Good work!
Another Screenshot of my battery life. This time i got 2hours+ on screen, considering i've played République which eats 10% of the battery every 15 minutes (High graphics)
Results with Lollipop Updated on the first post.
More results added to the first post.
what do these services do?
which apps need them?
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.checkin.EventLogService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.config.ConfigFetchService
freecore.mc said:
what do these services do?
which apps need them?
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.checkin.EventLogService
com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.config.ConfigFetchService
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Click to collapse
You can find detailed information about it here: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/EventLog.html
About config. Fetchservice there is few/none information but is related to google fit.
Interesting indeed
Sent from Bad Azz VZW LG G3 Cyan Tapatalk
well done!!!!!
i wanna personally take the time to thank you for the effort put forth to find out the carp services we can eliminate to get our shields running balls out. i'll keep posting back no and then, just for s and g's and let ya know it's still kickin ass and throwing away the names.
ive also found (so far (fingers crossed)) that you can kill everything with "car" at the front under play services. i personally dont plan to use this beast in a car pretty much period, now im not a noob but this is a bit deeper than ive gotten on android (i used to do this kinda stuff for a livin on windows for years). but droid is a whole 'nother animal.
that said... thruth be told im homeless (lol)(no really) i spent a whole paycheck on my shield so i can game at camp. so thanks again for givin me a little more fun each day before i turn in.
i figure battery life and such falls under longevity so i thought i would post a bit here and more later to let ya know how all this keeps working on the road away from the grid and sometimes even a charging post.... (trees and tents dont have outlets)
that said... are there any OTHER things i can kill to get more life. and i mean the extreme stuff. i need NO location. no sync really unless i can tell it to myself (if i have only a few moments at a mcdonalds or sumfin to hit wifi i dont want it trying to sync and raping my batt)
how about apps? there are a ton i have no idea what is what. you have any clue what i can kill?
thanks again!!!!! blessed be
Pariahnoble said:
i wanna personally take the time to thank you for the effort put forth to find out the carp services we can eliminate to get our shields running balls out. i'll keep posting back no and then, just for s and g's and let ya know it's still kickin ass and throwing away the names.
ive also found (so far (fingers crossed)) that you can kill everything with "car" at the front under play services. i personally dont plan to use this beast in a car pretty much period, now im not a noob but this is a bit deeper than ive gotten on android (i used to do this kinda stuff for a livin on windows for years). but droid is a whole 'nother animal.
that said... thruth be told im homeless (lol)(no really) i spent a whole paycheck on my shield so i can game at camp. so thanks again for givin me a little more fun each day before i turn in.
i figure battery life and such falls under longevity so i thought i would post a bit here and more later to let ya know how all this keeps working on the road away from the grid and sometimes even a charging post.... (trees and tents dont have outlets)
that said... are there any OTHER things i can kill to get more life. and i mean the extreme stuff. i need NO location. no sync really unless i can tell it to myself (if i have only a few moments at a mcdonalds or sumfin to hit wifi i dont want it trying to sync and raping my batt)
how about apps? there are a ton i have no idea what is what. you have any clue what i can kill?
thanks again!!!!! blessed be
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Hey there, dude. Glad it worked for you, and i'll be waiting for your results.
About disabling the car features, you might do it, but i think it wouldn't gives you a major impact on your battery life, or at least it was never an issue for me. Anyway, you can try and see if this gives you even more.
In order to keep my system "under control", what i do is disable the auto-start in some apps i don't need it, also the push messages for those apps. For example, anytime i installed a game, i use SD Maid (Simple way to do it) for overview the app, if there is an autostart feature i disable it.
Facebook and stuff related could be a problem, but then again if you cut off the service you don't need from them, you'll be safe.
Good thread. I already disabled the services using your backup text.
I got a question, though. How can I re-enable all those services I disabled?? That's in case if something weird starts to happen*
*For ex: Google Play Music started to annoy me with a notification.
NaminatoR1254jaime.sier said:
Good thread. I already disabled the services using your backup text.
I got a question, though. How can I re-enable all those services I disabled?? That's in case if something weird starts to happen*
*For ex: Google Play Music started to annoy me with a notification.
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To revert back you should follow the rule number one on XDA: Backups first. Or, as you used the *.txt i've attached (I'll upload a new one) you can undo by hand one by one of the services disabled, which are listed.
It's kinda strange the error you're getting, if you don't mind, please post an screenshot or tell me what it says and i'll try to reproduce it.
Take care.
CM17X said:
To revert back you should follow the rule number one on XDA: Backups first. Or, as you used the *.txt i've attached (I'll upload a new one) you can undo by hand one by one of the services disabled, which are listed.
It's kinda strange the error you're getting, if you don't mind, please post an screenshot or tell me what it says and i'll try to reproduce it.
Take care.
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Its not an error. More of an annoyance. I couldnt reproduce it but its something small haha.
It was a Google notification, the classic triangle with the ! and it said: "Service disabled. An app needs this service" and the app was Google Play Music
I did a backup txt before disabling services, so no need to worry. I hadnt had anything wrong apart from that small notification
But thanks for your concern and for the new txt
is this mod really work and i want to know without gaming ,watch online video and surfing Facebook and other social network , did it survive a day?
ali_ge said:
is this mod really work and i want to know without gaming ,watch online video and surfing Facebook and other social network , did it survive a day?
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There are some pictures in the first post which show a battery life of about 2 days and 5 hours on screen. I do gaming sometimes and for long part of the day my tablet is on standby.
All depends the use you givento the tablet, a sustained use with optimized mode will not give you more than 6 hours on screen with low brightness, and with battery saver mode it could be more; neverthelesse you will not get 12 hours or 24 in screen with this device, just because the battery is tiny.
First post updated with the *.txt file lollipop based.
If you're having problems importing the file with Disable Service, just open the txt file and with the app of your choice, disable the services listed.
Greetings.
this may help you dude
https://youtu.be/zbl0sUs4xnA
Can you update this for MM?
I get roughly 30 minutes every 5%.
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General How to reduce battery consumption in the Oneplus 9.

Hello everyone, I put a small tutorial to maximize the battery life of our Oneplus 9. As I describe, I have my unit configured.
If you want you can go reporting in the thread what results your terminal now show you with this configuration.
Greetings.
1.- DEACTIVATE AUTOMATIC UPDATES.
In this way we will avoid that the mobile is constantly looking for updates and therefore consuming battery.
1.1- We go to the Play Store and in Settings / General / Automatically update applications, we mark "do not update applications automatically".
1.2- Once this is done, we go to the Oxygen OS updates. We follow the path Settings / System / System Updates, we give the little wheel that is at the top right and deactivate “Automatic download in Wifi”.
2.- DEACTIVATE THE WIFI ASSISTANT.
This option allows the mobile to automatically change the network, without us having to be aware of it, but it uses the battery unnecessarily. We are going to configure it to do it manually.
We follow the route Settings / Wifi and Mobile Networks / Wifi / Wifi Preferences / Inside we go and deactivate “Select the best Wifi network intelligently”.
3.-DEACTIVATE THE PRINTING SERVICES.
We have these services to connect to printers active all the time and the phone will be constantly looking for printers so that we can connect.
We go to Settings / Bluetooth and device connection / Printing / Default printing services, when pressing it it opens, once inside we deactivate it, we will see that on the screen below, we have a red bar with a text that says "searching for printers" This way we prevent it from being in constant search.
4.- DEACTIVATE EXPERIENCE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS.
We follow the route Settings / System / Experience improvement programs and deactivate the four options:
“Oneplus Notifications”, “User Experience Program” and “System Stability Program” and “Embedded Application Update”.
5.- BATTERY OPTIMIZATION.
We follow the route Adjustment / Battery / Battery optimization. Click on the three dots on the top right and Advanced Optimization will appear. Once inside we will activate the three options that we find, "Activate adaptive battery", "Optimization of standby at rest" and "Optimize energy consumption of applications".
6.- OPTIMIZATION OF THE GOOGLE ACCOUNT.
We go to Settings, select Accounts and inside we go to the Google account and open it, once inside we choose "Synchronization", we deactivate the following options:
Google Fit data / People data / Drive / Google Play Movies / Save Play Games in the cloud / Tasks in Calendar.
If you use any of these options, don´t deactivate it or if you don´t use any of the others, deactivate it.
7.- OTHER ADJUSTMENTS.
In addition to the above settings I also have the following:
Screen, dark mode, manual brightness at 85-90%, touch sounds, screen lock sounds, capture sounds, keyboard sounds, all off, vibration off.
In Developer Options:
"Registry Buffer Size", I have it set to 1Mb.
Window Animation Level / Transitions Animation Level / Transitions Duration Level. All three are by default at 1x, I lowered all three to 0.5x.
Hi, just some quick notes:
- the search for new version of apps doesn't stop with the process you mentioned, the auto download and install process will, and in a few days or weeks you will still be forced to update to the new version as the old one won't work. Overall good option to have.
- the printing service uses a negligible amount of power and I think it even does that when you are in it, and it's idle when not using, but I might be wrong (I use it so I won't turn it off)
- be careful with battery optimisation, Oneplus already is quite known for killing apps and then you aren't getting any notifications from these (happens to my WhatsApp all the time until I remember to add it to the ignore list and for some reason it doesn't like SwiftKey as it always says its draining battery even if I use it for typing).
- point 7 has a lot in. First, your MAIN battery drainer, ask anyone, is your screen, that's why they do all these "screen on" tests, and auto brightness will use a small amount of power to have the sensor on, but it will save you much more while decreasing your brightness from 85% when not needed. The power to make the touch sound etc is so, so small it's neglected (even Nokia 3310 would last a week with them on). Registry bigger size (you mean logger?) is an option how long the buffer is, either way those messages are being recorded and sent, I doubt it makes a difference. Don't fully understand how decreasing the animation speed will save battery, probably you don't have to wait the other millisecond for the animation to finish when you do something and finish sooner what you wanted to do and then turn the screen off?
Sorry, it might seem I am really mean here, and I am sorry if it seems that way, but some don't make sense, specially the brightness. You can uninstall unused apps or use adb to disable them but your radios (like turning off 5G if not used or WiFi when not used) and your screen uses 90% of the battery. Also check your app permissions, specially GPS as that is a real hog too so if an app gets your location in the background that takes a lot
Thanks for answering.
Regarding the first, at no time do I say that the process of searching for updates stops, we stop it from installing them without us noticing, so we decide whether to update or not.
Regarding stopping the printing service, spend little or spend a lot, it uses battery. That is why it is not a single point, there are several, among all they drain the battery. If it continues to consume battery even if we deactivate it, the problem would already be Oneplus that would be lying to us and in settings it would not be giving us options even if it says so, I do not think Oneplus does that.
Point 5 is Battery optimization, it may be that Oneplus kills the applications, that is already up to each one, I try to obtain a lower battery consumption but maintaining logical use options of a smartphone. Neither in the Oneplus 8T, nor in the Oneplus 8 Pro, nor in the Oneplus 9 I have noticed that when activating this the phone kills the applications in a drastic way.
Regarding point 7 I know that the battery brightness consumes a lot of battery, more brightness more consumption. Even so I do not like to put it automatic because it does not fit my needs correctly, I like to put it with a brightness of 85-90% because where I live there are many hours of daylight and a lot of sun in this way I always see it well, but this of course this is a personal decisión. I also know that removing the tactile sound, vibration ... etc, does not remove much consumption, but between this and all the other points added everything we will achieve greater autonomy and less battery consumption and that is what it is about. It is as if all the faucets in the house leak, a faucet does not lose much water, but if we put them all together we will surely fill a big bucket.
As for increasing the size of the registration buffer, if we increase the registration buffer it is because by having a larger record size we achieve that the CPU is more freed by having less load, with this we make the CPU available for other tasks and We will be faster when playing a video or when browsing the Internet, if we must be careful and not increase the registration buffer too much because we could suffer a higher latency between audio and video in streaming videos, for example. With this we get our phone to be a little faster, without increasing battery consumption.
In the end, with all these adjustments, we achieve with each one of them small battery savings that when put together all give us greater autonomy with a longer use time before recharging our Oneplus 9, I think that is what we all want. Thank you for your interest, I hope I have been able to solve your doubts. Greetings.
Did those point but still draining battery....
OP, on my Samsung's using any power management as you described will cause erratic behavior and even a permanent increase of battery usage.
Find the battery hogs and deal with each on a case by case basis.
Try temporarily disabling Google play Services when not needed.
Disable all cloud apps. Take out the trash; FB, WhatsApp, Twitter etc shouldn't be installed as apps and are malware.
Using a package disabler or adb edits is the only way to kill some of the unneeded parasite apps on a stock phone.
Use this edit to block ads globally:
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