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As above, anyone using higher capacity battery for their HTC Desire and it is tested and proven to last longer than the original batter? Can post the link to purchase the battery?
Thanks!
Before you buy another battery, have you read this thread about calibrating your battery?
And have you installed a rom that allows underclocking? It makes a massive difference.
I am now getting 20+ hours from my phone where as before underclocking I was getting 8 hours.
Same amount of usage, just underclocking when screen is off.
Erm.. I will go read about it, but because I want to retain as it is now, thats why I'm looking for an extended battery.
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Erm.. I will go read about it, but because I want to retain as it is now, thats why I'm looking for an extended battery.
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What kind of battery life do you currently get? Before (accidentally) calibrating my battery I was getting around 10-12 hours, now I'm getting around 36-42 hours.
I'm looking for one that can last me more than 1 day.
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And have you installed a rom that allows underclocking? It makes a massive difference.
I am now getting 20+ hours from my phone where as before underclocking I was getting 8 hours.
Same amount of usage, just underclocking when screen is off.
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Hey buddy, which app do you use for underclocking? Cheers,
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I'm looking for one that can last me more than 1 day.
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Well, I'm using the standard battery and have 26% remaining with "1d 10h" since unplugged (admittedly I haven't used the phone for that much in that time, just some internet usage, a couple of calls, but it's been constantly on WiFi or 3G to sync GMail).
Use SetCPU for underclocking, and use JuiceDefender to automatically turn off your data connection while the screen's off/locked.
It will still reconnect every 15 minutes to sync, and will remain connected as long as there's any continuing 3G traffic while the screen's off. Basically what it means is you're running one of the most power-consuming parts of your device only 1/15th of the time, which make a big difference. Text messages and voice calls come through instantly still - only things requiring a data connection like facebook, weather, twitter, etc will have any delay, and even then it'll only be 15 minutes at the most.
You can also try setting your phone to WCDMA-only, which means it won't be constantly trying to connect and maintain two radios simultaneously. GSM-only would be even better but depending on your carrier it might not work at all or might only work for voice.
With SetCPU try making a profile to automatically go into "powersave" mode when the screen's off, which will ensure the CPU never clocks up past its minimum speed during that time. It's still over 200 mhz, more than enough for anything you might want to do in the background. For normal operation, between 499 and 768 mhz as the maximum clock, depending on your preference, should be adequate and will save you a little bit of battery life as well all the time.
Also, download a widget to allow you to manually set screen brightness when you're indoors and the auto setting is useless. I have my screen brightness set to 15% while indoors and it's still plenty bright. I have the SLCD model, I don't know if that makes any difference.
My phone has been off the charger for 17 hours and 10 minutes. During that time, the screen was on for 2 hours and 29 minutes. I'm at 79% battery life with the standard battery.
Mugen 3200mah. Mine lasts a day with ease and heavy use.
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Mugen 3200mah. Mine lasts a day with ease and heavy use.
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Yours able to charge it properly?
A small update to my previous post... I'm now at 32 hours, 38 minutes uptime, 4 hours 44 minutes awake time (screen on). Battery just reached 60 percent. Stock battery.
Remember when you made the choice to buy an Android, you were in effect saying you wanted to have a highly customizable miniature computer. Just like when you customize [insert your desktop OS of choice] to suit your taste, you need to configure your phone in order to get what you want out of it - namely, better battery life than with the standard settings.
HTC's goal with the Desire was to have a showpiece, it runs very fast and it looks good doing it. But they designed it with frequent charging in mind. Since most of us here, I imagine, would prefer to charge less often, we just need to configure the phone appropriately.
If you want a guaranteed solution, try this:
- Install NextSense rom (it's free, latest version right now is 5.3 AFAIK, I'm currently using 5.2 still)
- Install JuiceDefender - it's free on the market and its default settings are, for a change, very intelligent and effective.
- Install SetCPU - You can get it free on this forum. Set it to "interactive" mode with a bottom speed of 245 and a top speed of 806 to start with. The default is 998 at the top, but 200 mhz doesn't make a big difference in this case except to help battery life a bit. Once installed, add a profile for "screen off" which sets the phone to "powersave" mode. This will keep it running at the minimum clock any time you're not using it. Nothing running in the background while you're not even using the phone requires more than the minimum CPU speed.
- Install the Brightness Widget by Curvefish. It's free on the market. Put its widget on your desktop and keep your screen brightness at 25% while you're indoors. 15% is what I use, but 25% is one of the presets so it's a bit easier. I have an SLCD display so the brightness I get on auto might just be different from what OLED gets on auto, I don't know, but in any case for me it's way brighter than it needs to be.
- Set your screen timeout to no more than 2 minutes
- Make sure any apps that sync data do so in a reasonable interval. +/- 15 minutes won't ruin your day for most things.
- Under Wireless & Networks, set your phone's connection to WCDMA-only (3G-only). For many people this results in an increase to both signal quality and battery life, since it allows your phone to only run one radio at a time, making a significant difference. If it doesn't work for you, it's as simple as turning it back to the default setting.
- Disable haptic feedback and see if you mind the difference. Making all those little vibrations takes power too.
- Finally (obviously) don't run a live background, but you probably already know that.
Doing all of the above takes an hour or maybe two at most to set up and the difference in battery life is tremendous. It's simple to do, I worked out all of the above on my own and I've literally only had the phone for 4 days now I think, never touched a smartphone before in my life let alone an Android.
Give it a try, you have nothing to lose, and it will probably save you needing to buy a battery. Or, if you still buy a double-capacity battery, it'll mean you can run for like a week on a charge.
edit: also make sure to get the latest version of the radio driver, I don't have a frame of reference for comparison since I updated mine right away, but apparently it makes a fair bit of difference and probably gives you a more reliable cell signal in the process.
In case you think I'm exaggerating, here are some pics I just took.
What's the ideal settings for juice defender? Cos my phone is not rooted so I'm not going to use the SetCPU application.
What do you mean charge properly ??
Is it able to charge?
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What's the ideal settings for juice defender? Cos my phone is not rooted so I'm not going to use the SetCPU application.
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"Ideal" settings are basically the way it's configured by default. You can't improve upon them much even by getting the "premium" upgrade unless your phone is rooted... but SetCPU is a better choice in that case anyway.
Just install it, hit "enable" after it's done auto-detecting your phone's capabilities, and you're done. It's really that simple.
Be sure to add it to your task killer exclusion list if you use one.
You saying the default option is for SetCPU or Juicedefender?
So just download the free juicedefender is good enough for me already since the pro version is more for rooted phones? (mine is not rooted)
Can somebody pls. post the link to SetCPU?
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Can somebody pls. post the link to SetCPU?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=505419
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So just download the free juicedefender is good enough for me already since the pro version is more for rooted phones? (mine is not rooted)
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Yes exactly. The pro version unlocks some more customization but ultimately won't add a whole lot to your battery life no matter how it's set up. I mean, beyond what the "regular" version does.
Meaning, does the battery life take a dip when you overclock to 1.5ghz. Does it get any hotter? Is heat an issue at all on this thing? Also, any performance or battery changes from installing the tiamet kernel itself? I'm in the wifi xoom btw.
Strangely enough battery life seems to be about the same. Heat has not been an issue mainly due to having the dual core, however its something you always want to keep an eye on.
Battery life is affected most by the screen. Screen> Network connections > CPU > RAM
There was a thread that someone made a while back about the things that affected battery life the most. If I can find It ill send it your way. After seeing the charts I figured Id try changing some settings.
things I did:
1. Set my max cpu freq to 1.19 min to 488 same for all my cpu tunner profiles ( I wanted to have my phone running the same all the time)
2. Lower'd my screen settings. I didnt need a pocket flashlight EVERYTIME I unlocked my phone.
3. Turned off un needed network connections. Its not hard to turn them back on when you need them.
4. I then looked for things that were running but were not needed by anything ( google maps are used by a few apps so dont disable it haha) I used Uninstaller for root users to get rid of some things.
After all these steps my battery life went WAY up. I have been doing the same thing on my Xoom now and my batt lasts the same at 1.5 as it did at 1.
I still get VERY respectable battery life at 1.5ghz, I can easily get through the day with normal usage. Yesterday night in fact, I left the house with maybe 75% battery life, used my tablet quite a lot throughout the evening(left the house around 9, went to sleep around 1am) and used it all morning basically constantly from 7am to around noon and came home with 9% battery left.
No problems here either. Woke up around 8:30 yesterday and used it all day sometimes pretty heavy. Finally had to plug it in around 6:30. I'm home all day with a broken hip and femur, so I've been putting it through the paces. Running @ 1.5ghz with interactive gov.
Chris
+1 on 1.5GHz having little effect on battery life. I didn't have to change anything else, either.
thats all great to hear! I suppose ill start looking into rooting my wifi xoom tomorrow then. Thanks for the help!
Im very happy with the battery life on this thing. I expected 4 hours max after a few weeks of use/charges. I never thought that it would keep up with anything Apple, Lets face it.. Apple knows how to make stuff run forever. But I was plesently suprised. Xoom +1000
yeah, the battery is good, but i won't know any damage to the cpu when overclocked ?
I wouldn't worry about any CPU damage- too many people have reported success (and no reports of failure).
Anyone else notice with the tiamat kernel that their xoom becomes very unstable overclocked at 1.5 using setCPU? Mine was essentially a soft brick at 1.5 constant rebooting and never able get pass the unlock screen, I had to rewipe with bootloader. I can do 1.2 no problem but don't even want to try going higher.
All of our chips have variations, so the overclock isn't universally guaranteed. That being said, I've been using the Tiamat kernel @1.5GHz since it was released with no problems.
Should have stated that mine is the wifi model, but yea thanks for info.
Here was that post I was looking for on this stuff. http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=946
Hey Guys,
i'm using the newest Matr1x Kernel, v11.0, CFS
and NSCollab 1.0.60 with my Nexus S.
CPU govenor is Lazy, i/o sheduler is deadline. Deep Idle is on.
Min CPU is 100 MHz, Max is 800 MHz, standard voltage.
13 h of usage, 8 % battery left. How can i improve?
I wouldn't consider my usage of the phone as heavy, screen is off quite often, especially at work. At work i'm writing some texts, browse a little bit on facebook, write some **** on whatsapp. Phone ist mostly off, i mostly respond to messages i get.
After work i browse some, play some games (Zenonia at the moment ), download something on wifi etc. Not too much in my opinion. Still battery quite sucks.
So my questions are:
1. Why is my battery life that bad? Phone is 1 week old, so battery shouldnt be broken...
2. I would like to know, if anyone can tell me about voltages? I would like to reduce voltages, but i'm a nooby and don't want to "test" it, cause i don't want to break the phone
Can anyone tell me, how much i can reduce arm voltage/int voltage? I'm speaking of my 100 MHz/800Mhz setting, it's still quite fast and i want better battery life, i think reducing voltages could help.
I'm open to any suggestion about getting a better battery life at best i would like the nexus to live 2 day without charges, with medium usage, if that is even possible.
cheers
All you can do is TEST there is NO one size fits all
but generally you can go about -25 across the board .. someone with more knowledge than me can correct me if i'm wrong =]
i get +26 hours easily on moderate to heavy use but my roms don't last for more than 10 hours
Thanks for your answer.
Does anyone else have any idea about the quite bad battery life?
I forgot to mention that i use Go Launcher Ex with a Touchwiz 4 Theme and the Go Keyboard, but i don't think they suck up all the energy :/
pisses me off quite a bit, 26h+ with moderate to heavy usage would be a dream!
Like it's now i need to charge it every day, and on weekend twice, once before i go, and over night (well while i sleep, doesnt need to be night
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Hey Guys,
i'm using the newest Matr1x Kernel, v11.0, CFS
and NSCollab 1.0.60 with my Nexus S.
CPU govenor is Lazy, i/o sheduler is deadline. Deep Idle is on.
Min CPU is 100 MHz, Max is 800 MHz, standard voltage.
13 h of usage, 8 % battery left. How can i improve?
I wouldn't consider my usage of the phone as heavy, screen is off quite often, especially at work. At work i'm writing some texts, browse a little bit on facebook, write some **** on whatsapp. Phone ist mostly off, i mostly respond to messages i get.
After work i browse some, play some games (Zenonia at the moment ), download something on wifi etc. Not too much in my opinion. Still battery quite sucks.
So my questions are:
1. Why is my battery life that bad? Phone is 1 week old, so battery shouldnt be broken...
2. I would like to know, if anyone can tell me about voltages? I would like to reduce voltages, but i'm a nooby and don't want to "test" it, cause i don't want to break the phone
Can anyone tell me, how much i can reduce arm voltage/int voltage? I'm speaking of my 100 MHz/800Mhz setting, it's still quite fast and i want better battery life, i think reducing voltages could help.
I'm open to any suggestion about getting a better battery life at best i would like the nexus to live 2 day without charges, with medium usage, if that is even possible.
cheers
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I can only give you my undervolt values. Maybe they'll fit you, maybe they won't.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19258876&postcount=1889
come on , be happy with what you have
i even have to use 2 batteries if in heave use !
try set display on auto-change or medium brilliantness
peronally , i think display is taking away more juice besides CPU...
kill GPS BT 2G/3G WIFI when you don't need them , specially GPS
and if you are not in hurry , use 2G data connection instead of 3G, because 3G took double even trouble juice then 2G
also , maybe some applications running at high CPU usage background , but i think this is highly unlikely
forgot to mention , also kill NFC
qtwrk said:
come on , be happy with what you have
i even have to use 2 batteries if in heave use !
try set display on auto-change or medium brilliantness
peronally , i think display is taking away more juice besides CPU...
kill GPS BT 2G/3G WIFI when you don't need them , specially GPS
and if you are not in hurry , use 2G data connection instead of 3G, because 3G took double even trouble juice then 2G
also , maybe some applications running at high CPU usage background , but i think this is highly unlikely
forgot to mention , also kill NFC
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Hey, Thanks for you answer.
I forgot to mention.
Wifi and GPS are off, only turning it on if i need it(and that's rare). NFC is always off, i don't need it. Brightness is off auto-change and instead on the lowest value i can chose in the settings (still bright enough)
I'm checking RAM and CPU usage from time to time, so there shouldn't be the problem. Well i have 3g on all the time, but still, even then shouldn't i be able to get 20h+ or so?
What i also forgot to mention, i've the SLCD, the i9023 version. I know it has higher battery usage because of the display, but well, i think 13h is a bit low.
@polobunny: thanks, i will look into it
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Hey, Thanks for you answer.
I forgot to mention.
Wifi and GPS are off, only turning it on if i need it(and that's rare). NFC is always off, i don't need it. Brightness is off auto-change and instead on the lowest value i can chose in the settings (still bright enough)
I'm checking RAM and CPU usage from time to time, so there shouldn't be the problem. Well i have 3g on all the time, but still, even then shouldn't i be able to get 20h+ or so?
What i also forgot to mention, i've the SLCD, the i9023 version. I know it has higher battery usage because of the display, but well, i think 13h is a bit low.
@polobunny: thanks, i will look into it
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When i got my phone, the battery sucked. But after a week or so after some battery cycles it got better. So i advice you just to wait.
I don't use auto brightness, No auto sync but i have data always tuned on. I am able to get 10-20 hours with moderate usage.
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Hey, Thanks for you answer.
I forgot to mention.
Wifi and GPS are off, only turning it on if i need it(and that's rare). NFC is always off, i don't need it. Brightness is off auto-change and instead on the lowest value i can chose in the settings (still bright enough)
I'm checking RAM and CPU usage from time to time, so there shouldn't be the problem. Well i have 3g on all the time, but still, even then shouldn't i be able to get 20h+ or so?
What i also forgot to mention, i've the SLCD, the i9023 version. I know it has higher battery usage because of the display, but well, i think 13h is a bit low.
@polobunny: thanks, i will look into it
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no really ,my phone is i9023 as well , by the way , it's Super Clear LCD , SLCD is other thing of SONY.
SA screen only saves power when it is on dark color such as black , grey etc, when it is on white color , it takes juices same as(even more ? don't know for sure) Super Clear LCD , this has no different ,also you may noticed that default wall paper of Nexus S is dark color , that's why
back the time when i was using stock , i could easy hang on a day , but ever since i change to MIUI and brought second battery ... i have to use second battery on MIUI if my usage is same as the time i was using stock
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about 3G ,
i have some power saver like applications , which have function of estimated work time
it shows , at this moment , 59% battery = 3G internet 1 hour and 39 minutes ,
other one shows 2 hours and 12 minutes
there may be some variants but ... you know , 59% power only last about 2 hours of 3G ...
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you should have try stock first , because in my opinion , stock has longest battery life
i haven't used NSCollab , so i can't say anything about it ...
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no really ,my phone is i9023 as well , by the way , it's Super Clear LCD , SLCD is other thing of SONY.
SA screen only saves power when it is on dark color such as black , grey etc, when it is on white color , it takes juices same as(even more ? don't know for sure) Super Clear LCD , this has no different ,also you may noticed that default wall paper of Nexus S is dark color , that's why
back the time when i was using stock , i could easy hang on a day , but ever since i change to MIUI and brought second battery ... i have to use second battery on MIUI if my usage is same as the time i was using stock
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about 3G ,
i have some power saver like applications , which have function of estimated work time
it shows , at this moment , 59% battery = 3G internet 1 hour and 39 minutes ,
other one shows 2 hours and 12 minutes
there may be some variants but ... you know , 59% power only last about 2 hours of 3G ...
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you should have try stock first , because in my opinion , stock has longest battery life
i haven't used NSCollab , so i can't say anything about it ...
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I used stock for the first week, it wasn't better imho, atleast that's what my feeling says didn't look at the actual times i lasts with stock :O
but feels better with nscollab
About the display, thought SLCD was short for Super Clear LCD, well atleast you got what i meant
I thought about power saving apps too, wouldn't be bad if phone does only 2g if the screen is off etc, but first i wanted to get a good rom/kernel and settings
i think i will try ICS stock rom if its out, look if that gets me a better battery life, or then flash around till i'm satisfied
Ok, ill just tell you where I'm up to here... I bought the XE, about a week ago after upgrading from my DHD. And ever since I started the phone up, I realised compared to DHD it is mega hot.. now before you point out, I do know XE has dual core .. I play games, browse websites, facebook etc.. and I find the phone getting extremely hot to the point I've been monitoring it all the time..
Browsing websites, I've seen temps of around 57 Celsius
Playing games, I've seen temps at 69 Celsius
Normal idle is usually hovers between 30-45 Celsius
I don't know if these are normal for a phone, but in a cold room my mobile acts as a radiator.. sometimes its that hot I feel I shouldn't be touching it..
I had my first one last week and I got the exact same result.. rooted and stock.. Sebastian kernal and stock.. ICS/GB.. and everytime the result is the same.. so I took the phone back to carphone and they replaced it with a new one..
This is what is confusing me about whether this is normal, because the outcome is exactly the same... I've underclocked, it did nothing.. it is also nothing to do with my battery as it usually sits at a comfortable 25-37 Celcius and only rises due to my CPU heating my entire phone and also my entire home..
Could someone please help me with a little info on whether this is normal.. or whether I'm entitled to a complete different handset as carphone as the overall experience with this overheating is making me a little edgy as to keeping the phone incase it explodes..
Right now my CPU temp is 59 Celcius, and that's just typing this message "/..
It happens on both XE's and I'm using system tuner to record CPU temp
Thanks guys
69 celcius? Mother of Heat (yea... A meme)
My Sensation also gets hot, but not that much. Maybe 43 Celsius the max temp It has reached. The problem its because of HTC's cheap battery mainly. Though you shouldn't expect your phone to be cool when it's having a load of charge (process) to deal with
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you can definitely expect your sensation to get hot every now an then. especially while charging and doing anything mildly intensive. usually while playing games like dungeon defenders my phone gets super hot even through the TPU case. it's nothing out of the ordinary though so don't worry. it won't explode in your pants
This is the HOTTEST phone in the market
How can I check the temperature of my Sensation?
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How can I check the temperature of my Sensation?
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To check your CPU temp just use system tuner from the market.. and for your battery temp, just search for a battery monitoring app I forgot which one I used as when I found it wasn't my battery I uninstalled
My sensation also gets hot all the time on heavy use.
Sent from a revolutionized HTC Sensation ICS
Filoges said:
How can I check the temperature of my Sensation?
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Open phone dialer and type *#*#4636#*#*
You can remember the "4636" part by seeing that it stands for "info"
This will only show the battery temp tho, but you don't need any 3rd party software
i been gettin same readings on my sensation xe im scared to play games for to long in case it causes a problem with the cpu / gpu... usualy playing games like real racer 2 i get temps up to 70c, i use system tuner to monitor temps..
Look like I had worse temp compare to everyone here.and I wasn't even playing a game.because sensation was too hot to touch.
Here are some pictures and what you said about underclocked is true. It doesn't make any difference and the phone still get very hot.
A new battery may bring your temps down...
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i have the same problem, but not that bad. it maybe goes up to 50-60 degrees.
i tested many different roms and kernels.
i have to confirm: underclocking does nothing it still gets hot. i cant say if its the battery from htc, but i can test that soon. i order an anker from amzon. have heard that one is better in other posts here.
i also noticed one thing today. it gets terrible hot while charging and doing stuff. so i tried to charg it from my pc and it does not get that hot anymore. maybe its the charger itself, but i can not confirm that, because it gets hot when not charging to.
what i also saw is that its not that bad anymore after i got a new rom an new kernel. im on vipers and bricked kernel with default settings. no setcpu or system tuner installed.
maybe that hepls
greetz
dk
Shery4life said:
Look like I had worse temp compare to everyone here.and I wasn't even playing a game.because sensation was too hot to touch.
Here are some pictures and what you said about underclocked is true. It doesn't make any difference and the phone still get very hot.
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Holy crap, you could almost bake a pancake on that!
Hello Guys is there any way to change One plus 6 screen resolution like to change it from
1080p to 720p ??
to save battery life..:laugh:
@me said:
Hello Guys is there any way to change One plus 6 screen resolution like to change it from
1080p to 720p ??
to save battery life..:laugh:
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8 hours of screen time already. You want more?
nabbed said:
8 hours of screen time already. You want more?
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I always get 4:30 or at most 5 hours of screen on time!!
how U get 8 !! even 6 is impossible for me
@me said:
I always get 4:30 or at most 5 hours of screen on time!!
how U get 8 !! even 6 is impossible for me
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OxygenOS 9.0.2, and latest blu_spark kernel with blu_schedutil governor, i can go around 9h SOT, but in normal daily usage i get around 5h30 with 36h standby, you gotta watch what's running on your phone
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OxygenOS 9.0.2, and latest blu_spark kernel with blu_schedutil governor, i can go around 9h SOT, but in normal daily usage i get around 5h30 with 36h standby, you gotta watch what's running on your phone
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Nice :laugh:
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Nice :laugh:
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One thing i saw is you start to get good battery life when you don't think about it anymore Just stock, with maybe a custom kernel (blu_spark and Franco are amazing), and you get very good results !
By the way, regarding your OP, on LG G3, is always used it at 1080p instead of 1440p. It was smoother (the S801 had trouble at this time), but battery was exactly the same ! You shouldn't worry about it, Snapdragon 625 devices drive 1080p without problems.
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One thing i saw is you start to get good battery life when you don't think about it anymore Just stock, with maybe a custom kernel (blu_spark and Franco are amazing), and you get very good results !
By the way, regarding your OP, on LG G3, is always used it at 1080p instead of 1440p. It was smoother (the S801 had trouble at this time), but battery was exactly the same ! You shouldn't worry about it, Snapdragon 625 devices drive 1080p without problems.
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I agree. When you think about it too much I think you set high expectations and when they are not met, you feel as though your phone has terrible battery life. I used to think 3.5-4 hrs SOT was really bad for a modern phone but that very comfortably gets me through my normal day. So I'm happy with that kind of performance since I charge up once every 18-30 hours.
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I agree. Wheb you think about it too much I think you set high expectations and when they are not met, you feel as though your phone has terrible battery life. I used to think 3.5-4 hrs SOT was really bad for a modern phone but that very comfortably gets me through my normal day. So I'm happy with that kid of performance since I charge up once every 18-30 hours
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Exactly. And tweaking too much sometimes have a negative effect.
And when i forget about it, i find that the battery life is almost always better after 3-4 days on "normal use", and by that i mean not using the phone with battery in mind. Ex : Browsing Facebook for 5mn and killing the app vs using it for 10 or 15mn, answering two emails, and locking the phone ... At the end of the day, the second scenario corresponds to an average of 1h more SOT, but battery is only 3/4% less, so in fact, stats are way better ... Killing apps, underclocking, preventing background activity ... All of this gives more battery in very specific situations, but in normal usage, it kills it (taks take longer, apps refresh with 10x more work when you open them, some like Facebook freak out when restricted by things like Greenify ...).
In short : Let the device do it's thing, maybe just cut things you'll never use or don't want (Bloat, services, ect), maybe switch kernels without tweaking too much, then forget about it.