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Informal battery test

There are a lot of battery threads out there, but i wanted to try something new. I want to see how much our phones drain in real world situations. So here are the rules:
1. Use your phone normally for ten minutes.
2. Note your battery percent at the beginning and then at the end.
3. Post details about what you did, what ROM you're using, and the percent battery drain.
Hopefully we can compare our experiences and learn something.
I used my phone to surf a few websites, send one text, and use xda app. Started at 80% and ended at 77%. Using rcmix3d at 50% brightness.
I know there are tons of factors that affect battery drain, and I'm not trying to be scientific. I'm just curious how we all compare!
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The only way you will get a decent idea is to test with others in your area as it will depend alot in signal strength. I would use more battery if I was bouncing between signals instead of having a steady connection.

shermanshen said:
There are a lot of battery threads out there, but i wanted to try something new. I want to see how much our phones drain in real world situations. So here are the rules:
1. Use your phone normally for ten minutes.
2. Note your battery percent at the beginning and then at the end.
3. Post details about what you did, what ROM you're using, and the percent battery drain.
Hopefully we can compare our experiences and learn something.
I used my phone to surf a few websites, send one text, and use xda app. Started at 80% and ended at 77%. Using rcmix3d at 50% brightness.
I know there are tons of factors that affect battery drain, and I'm not trying to be scientific. I'm just curious how we all compare!
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Screen-on time is the only thing I ever look at. I've only managed to squeeze about 5h45m, out the sense-based gb ROM I've been using.
The phone does really well in standby on most if not all roms that have been flashed properly, don't have non-rom-related battery hogging app issues, and, as zelendel mentioned, signal issues.
It's this big fat screen that's obviously the biggest battery sucker.

Scott_S said:
Screen-on time is the only thing I ever look at. I've only managed to squeeze about 5h45m, out the sense-based gb ROM I've been using.
The phone does really well in standby on most if not all roms that have been flashed properly, don't have non-rom-related battery hogging app issues, and, as zelendel mentioned, signal issues.
It's this big fat screen that's obviously the biggest battery sucker.
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My phone does great in standby as well, but seems to die quick when I'm actually using it. I've never had an issue with the phone dying on me though as I recharge every night. I think i had a little better battery life on miui than I'm getting now.
I know there are many many factors that go into battery performance, I'm just curious what other people actually get when using their phones.
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shermanshen said:
My phone does great in standby as well, but seems to die quick when I'm actually using it. I've never had an issue with the phone dying on me though as I recharge every night. I think i had a little better battery life on miui than I'm getting now.
I know there are many many factors that go into battery performance, I'm just curious what other people actually get when using their phones.
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I've gotten accustomed to putting my phone on the charger before bed as well. Mine pretty much will last the entire day... Off charger at ~8-9am, back on it at ~12am.
Averaging about 5 hrs screen on time with usually no voice calls of significant length, WiFi on, gps off, relatively stable signal.
I'm running Inspired Ace 1.0.1, and the 04.11_M2 radio. Seems I was getting a little better with the OTA radio, but signal fluctuated a lot more on that one, than with the 04.11_M2.
Edit: doesn't really use your testing procedure, just more of a general feeling, as there's so many other contributing factors...

10 minutes of on-line gaming (storm8 games) = 10% drain
WiFi off, gps off, mobile data on, screen brightness on auto, stock rom

zuriken said:
10 minutes of on-line gaming (storm8 games) = 10% drain
WiFi off, gps off, mobile data on, screen brightness on auto, stock rom
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Holly crap that's a heavy drain. I couldn't possibly use this phone with that type.of battery drain. Thanks to our great dews I managed a little over 7h screen on time. Could only accomplish that by reducing the screen brightness and UC to 768mhz. Stick speed and auto brightness I get about 6-6 1/2 screen on.
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My battery will drain about 5% if I even just leave it sitting for ten minutes... I JUST rooted my Inspire and flashed the RCMix3D ROM, and it almost seems worse. Have background data, auto sync, wifi, gps, bluetooth, all that stuff shut off, too. I love this rom, but really want to find one that improves battery life!

elijahpr said:
My battery will drain about 5% if I even just leave it sitting for ten minutes... I JUST rooted my Inspire and flashed the RCMix3D ROM, and it almost seems worse. Have background data, auto sync, wifi, gps, bluetooth, all that stuff shut off, too. I love this rom, but really want to find one that improves battery life!
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You probably got a bad flash, or have something else running, as I mentioned in your recent thread.
Did you full wipe prior to flashing?
Try out gingerbeast, if you still have battery issues with that, after properly wiping prior to flashing of course, then it's hardware, as that ROM has produced some record-breaking battery life performance.

Mine has twice decided to randomly have days where it just drains like crazy. The battery is a lot warmer and just dies out in like 6 hours with very minimal usage. the majority of the time my battery is great but the last 2 days and then about a month ago it did this. No reason for it either, I have made no changes on my device.
Anybody seen this?
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Scott_S said:
You probably got a bad flash, or have something else running, as I mentioned in your recent thread.
Did you full wipe prior to flashing?
Try out gingerbeast, if you still have battery issues with that, after properly wiping prior to flashing of course, then it's hardware, as that ROM has produced some record-breaking battery life performance.
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Yeah I did a full wipe before flashing. I'll be sure and try that out tomorrow, I really hope it helps. If the issue is hardware, should I contact HTC? After I believe you said my phone should still be under warranty, I called them, and indeed it is. The rep I had before must have been new or something. Thanks

From a full charge, on TPGB with wifi, gps, and sync on, and everything refreshed 3-4hrs, I lasted about 8 hours. I was using super accurate gps for 20 minute intervals or so, but it lasted the day I'd say. Some occasional web browsing.
Lucky for me my head unit on my car has a usb port. For this whole trip I left it off though.

Battery Life?

I was wondering what kind of battery life everyone is getting. I am down to 35 percent and I have only been off the charger for 6 hours. I sent maybe 10 texts checked facebook twice and played cut the rope for 10 minutes.
I unlocked the phone using ACE hack kit and I am not running the CM nightly that I found here: http://iloveabath.co.uk/CM7-Unofficial/ plus the inspiremod 5.0 patch. Also I cant figure out how to get to fastboot to figure out what radio I am running. Im running on T-Mobile in the DC area. I just got the Inspire so any tips and tricks I might not know about would be great.
Thanks!

For starters HTC ace phones don't have the best battery life to begin with because of the sync functions. Cm7 is a great rom but it only adds to the battery issue.
There are serveral apps,flashes and mods to the boot.prop file thar will help extend battery life. Do some leg work and Use the search to find these. I suggest googleing calibrate battery and battery drain on htc inspire/dhd. This issue has been covered repeatedly. And the mods and users don't care for the clutter of repeat posts
Last suggestion. Use the notification bar to turn off functions when you don't use them. Ie.... wifi, Bluetooth, GPS and turn your screen brightness down.
Also unsync Facebook, Google + and drop your email retreave function down from every 15min to several hours or not at all. (You can still get email this way by opening app)
This is about all the advise I can give you the rest is up to you and doing some reading.
I did all of these and I get about 14 hours of heavy ussage.
As far as finding your radio. Download and open this app. http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=608910&d=1306506748
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The battery life sucks, but I use it a lot and have facebook and email running most of the time its pretty decent depending on the Rom you are running I am running coredroid and its pretty decent with my usage.
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dj sampson said:
For starters HTC ace phones don't have the best battery life to begin with because of the sync functions. Cm7 is a great rom but it only adds to the battery issue.
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??? They have an Inspire, not an Ace.
Your battery definitely shouldn't be draining like that with that amount of use. Maybe try one of the current tracking apps to see what's using all your power.

Battery life depends largely on how you use it. Screen on uses about 80% of your battery. The more time it sits idle, the longer it goes on battery. I can get a whole day out of mine on a typical day with about 2 hours talking and a little fiddling with the phone. I also use wi-fi whenever possible because the wi-fi radio uses less power than the cellular data connection. If you're running dead after 6 hours I am willing to bet you are spending a lot of time using the phone. Try setting the brightness on the screen dimmer.

pazzo02 said:
??? They have an Inspire, not an Ace.
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HTC Inspire 4G and HTC Desire HD are HTC Ace.
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Unless im mistaken, htc inspire is stallion while dhd is ace. However, we can use ace.
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biglittlegato said:
HTC Inspire 4G and HTC Desire HD are HTC Ace.
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Huh? They are both Ace. Stallion? Where did you dream that one up?
Edit: I'll be damned. Well get the harness on this Stallion and ride. Credit goes to you Teichopsia.

Wow. According to the internetz, Stallion is indeed the code name for the Ace variant carried by At&T. So yes it is a Stallion, but it is also an Ace.
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My biggest problem is that I want to use my phone without worrying about the
battery going dead, when I mean use my phone, I am talking about games, Internet,
and watching videos, stuff that requires the screen, the problem is that I cant use
the phone like that, at best with the screen on 100% of the time you might get 3 to 4
hours of battery life before the phone is dead, just using it as a phone the battery life
is enough, but if I just wanted a phone, I would have got something cheaper, there are a
few ways to deal with this, the same ways that I used when dealing with PDAs
in the past, -BTW PDAs had about the same battery life as this phone,- I had to
keep mutable chargers handy, one in my my car, one in the house, one in my travel
bag, and keep external battery packs to charge the PDA, I hate to do that, it seems
silly, even more so when the battery life is no better then way back in the early
2000s.

People have to start looking at today's smartphones as "pocket laptops". I've been saying this for a while. Battery size and capacity go hand in hand. You can't have a thin, light mini-computer and expect it to last for days on one charge like the old phones. There are many options to be sure you don't run out of power. Powerskin, seperate power pack, extra chargers for wherever you spend your time, extra batteries. There's not really any other way around it if you really use it a lot.

Battery life threads have been done to death. We all know the battery life is what it is. It will work for a real days worth of use for the average business user but for the kids playing games and watching movies well then it will only last a few hours.
Best advice is keep a charger handy

Is my Sensation killing batteries?

Since getting my Sensation I've never been happy with the battery life.
Been running custom ROMs from Day 1, tried various ROMs and various Kernels and have the same issues.
The issues have been
1) Periods of instability and reboots followed by long periods of stability
2) Poor battery life
3) Phone turning off/dying when using the camera flash in low light
Especially because of the camera flash issue I thought the stock battery had gone bad and wasn't able to provide enough power, so I bought an Anker 1900mAh battery.
This seemed to solve all the issues. Battery life went up to over 24 hours. No camera flash issues and a much more stable and usable phone. I was very happy.
That lasted for a few months and now I'm getting back to where I was with my original battery, poor battery life, more instability and camera flash issues but with the Anker battery.
Has anyone seen anything similar?
I really feel like getting rid of my Sensation even though I love the phone, these issues make it painful to use.
Currently running Faux123 v007 kernel with ARHD 6.6.7.

Wow never heard such of an issue you might have an faulty sensation?
Swyped From My Sensation.

I agree with above post. My anker battery is still going strong after almost a year ! Check your settings and see if something is giving you such a extensive battery drain. Also check your applications carefully. Make sure your sync is not syncing every couple of minutes too, this can really strain a battery. In fact I turn off most sync and only sync email and make sure that's not syncing every minute. Turn off .notification led lights and feedback vibration too. These things drain the battery fast. Make sure in keyboard the vibration is also disabled during typing. I completely disabled led notifications It's waste of battery in my
Opnion. Carefully check All these little things that can pull off your battery. Also disable automatic screen brightness and turn way down to the lowest you can tolerate. All these little things will help save your battery. See if this helps. Remember to check application settings as well. Hope this helps out. If you cannot find .Anything draining it and you have done these things try another new battery. If that continues to drain consider warentee exchange. Best of luck.
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Also make sure your
Battery is not loose this could.cause the issues. Check contacts. If you can wiggle the battery it could be loose. You can fox this with. Little paper wedge. This could be the problem. Best of luck
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realsis said:
Also make sure your
Battery is not loose this could.cause the issues. Check contacts. If you can wiggle the battery it could be loose. You can fox this with. Little paper wedge. This could be the problem. Best of luck
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Yeah i heard of this one too sometimes in some sensations the anker doesnt fit well and it doesnt go right into the +/- contacts you might want to fill in the gap if there is one...
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Put a piece of paper on the opposite site of the battery contacts do that the contacts are pushed harder to the phone and clean them before. This resolved the same issues on my sensation.
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ant_thomas, I've experienced the same issues with ARHD 6.6.7 specifically. Battery readings would be wildly inaccurate, sometimes saying that it has 40% left, shutting off and refusing to turn back on completely, leaving me to go into recovery to find that the battery is at 2% actually (might be that battery calibration script). It would also turn off if i used flash about half the time i did use camera flash about half the time. To me, ARHD would be a good rom if it actually read my battery correctly, and didn't give me a functionally half-broken camera.
I'm kind of new to the Sensation, but I've been rom hopping for a few weeks, and I think that's enough to give my amateur opinion. If you're into stock-look, I would recommend Elegancia's stock 3.6 sense rom, Blitz 1.0 (I just upgraded from 3.1.1), or HyperNonSense if you're into AOSP (sense-based, but really lightweight in comparison to VirtuousInquisition). I've had decent enough battery life in comparison to Sense 4 roms or AOSP/AOKP/CM9. But then again, different strokes for different b̶l̶o̶k̶e̶s̶ phones. I can't guarantee anything, as your phone might have the off chance that it's suffering the same symptoms for different reasons, but I hope at least I've helped. Good luck with your phone!
TL;DR: Ditch ARHD - battery read broken, camera flash broken. Elegancia Blitz hasn't betrayed me yet, maybe it won't betray you either. (HyperNonSense by SpIder if you dig AOSP)

Thanks for the replies so far, very much appreciated.
Whilst the battery didn't feel loose at all I have managed to fit in a piece of paper to ensure that it's definitely fitted completely tight.
I am also going to try another ROM or two (definitely going to try Elegancia Blitz) and I'll be very specific about what apps I reinstall after.
I do have some syncing of various services on but I had turned them off in the past and it made no difference, so I thought I may as well have them on.

Invalid stats are HTC's fault, not ARHD's. Sensation simply has broken battery readings.
Sometimes battery dies when it's on 20%, because it was actually on 1%. Reflashing the ROM fixes this. I'm guessing wiping battery stats would help as well.
Anyway, in addition to that piece of paper, I suggest you install Watchdog lite. You can easily follow what is using your CPU, and if an app is "misbehaving" you will get notified

I was having the same issue a couple of months ago while we were still on gingerbread. I sent it for a warranty exchange and none of the issue were present. But a couple of weeks ago it started again with the new phone ,and its gotten worse the last couple of days. It reboots when I use flash sometimes, battery stats are all over the place after constant random reboots, battery takes over 5 hours to charge. It seems I'm not the only one with these problems. It's really annoying and has gotten to the point where the phone is unusable.most of the time.
I have tried many things and nothing works. I tried to get a logcat but these things never happen while the phone is connected, I tried to use alogrec to record it from the phone but won't save before it reboots. I've read many threads with these issues but never saw a true solution:/
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fr0zenblood75 said:
I was having the same issue a couple of months ago while we were still on gingerbread. I sent it for a warranty exchange and none of the issue were present. But a couple of weeks ago it started again with the new phone ,and its gotten worse the last couple of days. It reboots when I use flash sometimes, battery stats are all over the place after constant random reboots, battery takes over 5 hours to charge. It seems I'm not the only one with these problems. It's really annoying and has gotten to the point where the phone is unusable.most of the time.
I have tried many things and nothing works. I tried to get a logcat but these things never happen while the phone is connected, I tried to use alogrec to record it from the phone but won't save before it reboots. I've read many threads with these issues but never saw a true solution:/
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It is really tempting just to sell up and get a Samsung Galaxy S3 even though I'm going to make a large loss on the Sensation since they're not going for all the much on ebay these days.

ant_thomas said:
It is really tempting just to sell up and get a Samsung Galaxy S3 even though I'm going to make a large loss on the Sensation since they're not going for all the much on ebay these days.
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I know. I was really considering selling it and getting a galaxy nexus ,because all these issues are really annoying!
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I have had about 8 warranty exchanges, all of them keep getting dust, dead pixels, shutdowns, etc. One of them died and didn't turn back on.
Those who defend HTC for their quality are perhaps blind? I do like the design and materials but design and build quality are two very different things.
I am looking forward to get rid of my Sensation at this point, for a Galaxy S3.
The Sensation is a good phone but too many hardware problems.
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Same Issue
I have ARHD T-Mob 1.2 installed. I didn't have any issue with 1.1 but now I get weird battery readings, my phone restarting when I get a call and battery shows around 50-60%
One thing I noticed, it didn't do this until I played angrybirds but it may just be a coincidence.
I may try another rom. Anybody got it remedied by changing to a different rom?

Why does my phone have excessive battery use?

Hi, I bought a sensation a couple of weeks ago, and have since then switched the rom a couple of times.
The problem I face is excessive battery use on my phone.
This seems to be regardless of the rom I am on as it seems to drop at a constant one to two percent a minute on any rom.
I have calibrated my battery numerous times and it doesn't seem to make a difference. So finally I have resorted to asking the community.
I have also bought a second battery which didn't solve the problem either.
Also, sometimes the battery will stay on a percentage for a couple of minutes.
I hope that you may have the answer, thanks in advance

Ask the screen.
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AW: Why does my phone have excessive battery use?
Maybe root your phone, install another ROM, another kernel, look for the big problems in the battery section...
There are so much ways to get a better battery lifetime
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Holy Battery...

I have never had a battery be this good. Rooted with Greenify. Running Skyfall.

Kinda ridiculous. 16 hours and 60% full over here on just regular power save mode....SkyFall also

Yeah this phone gets way better battery life than my s4 did with same size battery. Love it. Does greenify really work that well? I have never used it as I have great battery life without it.
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Lots of reviewers are talking about how the M8's battery lasted longer than the S5 too. Samsung needs to stop slacking on the software and give us a lightweight touchwiz. I absolutely love Sense 6 and I'm usually an AOSP guy. I'll probably try out GPE Roms once they're stable but honestly the new sense is everything I want out of android software. Minimal, clean, customizable, smooth and fast.
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did you guys flash sky fall with twrp or cwm? been looking to flash it

CWM. Always been wary of TWRP. Not sure why.
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Twrp here. I've always been wary of cwm. Lol. No joke. And yes, the battery on this is ridiculous! I used the ONE MAX today to do a test. And we all know, it Has a bigger battery, 3300 mh. The M8 beat the MAX. Did the exact same things throughout the day, and no lie, the M8 won the test.
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TWRP user here as well. Everything went smoothly for me on skyfall lastest.
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I don't think I could ever kill this battery in one day unless I was using navigation alot or constant gaming. So far today.
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20 hours and 55% full over here on just regular power save mode and SkyFall

Don't get me wrong, I'm getting great battery life as well (though coming from a VZW GNex, anything would be an improvement). However...posting screenshots of how long your device has been off the charger with no other information (screen on time, app battery use) doesn't tell us anything.
Hell, I could leave my phone at home on wifi with the screen off and not touch it for the next 3 days, take a screenshot of any remaining battery life, and post it being like "OMG I got 3 days of battery life, this is amazing!" And it would be just about as informative and truthful as your screenshots (not including yours Evocm7, obviously).

sorry im kind of a noob i am aware of greenify i have used it but whats skyfall? I tried searching but nothing is coming up but james bond.
EDIT: Sorry havent looked at roms yet im just rooted atm

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Don't get me wrong, I'm getting great battery life as well (though coming from a VZW GNex, anything would be an improvement). However...posting screenshots of how long your device has been off the charger with no other information (screen on time, app battery use) doesn't tell us anything.
Hell, I could leave my phone at home on wifi with the screen off and not touch it for the next 3 days, take a screenshot of any remaining battery life, and post it being like "OMG I got 3 days of battery life, this is amazing!" And it would be just about as informative and truthful as your screenshots (not including yours Evocm7, obviously).
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I hear what you're saying. Personally, I'm not trying to participate in any scientific study on the matter. All I know, and all I care, is that I've had the phone off charge for 29 hours now... using it the way I normally use it during an average day ( pretty light)... and I'm still at 40% battery.
Coming from a malfunctioning POS Droid Charge this phone is a godsend. I used to have to carry an extra battery just to get through an 8 hour shift at work starting on a full charge.

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I hear what you're saying. Personally, I'm not trying to participate in any scientific study on the matter. All I know, and all I care, is that I've had the phone off charge for 29 hours now... using it the way I normally use it during an average day ( pretty light)... and I'm still at 40% battery.
Coming from a malfunctioning POS Droid Charge this phone is a godsend. I used to have to carry an extra battery just to get through an 8 hour shift at work starting on a full charge.
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lol I came from a GNex, so we're probably in the same boat. Even on wifi with extremely minimal use (10-15m screen time all day, which with how slow and laggy it was I didn't really care)), I would be down into the 60%'s by bedtime. If I went to the gym with full battery, after listening to Pandora while doing weights, and watching Netflix during cardio, it would be into 20-30% by the time I left, total of maybe 1 1/2 - 2 hours.
I flashed Skyfall the other day after charging my phone to full, and by the time I was done flashing, re-installing everything from TiBu, updating a few out-of date apps, and setting everything up, it was down to maybe 95%. And that was with the screen on for probably 20 minutes straight.

nazzo123 said:
sorry im kind of a noob i am aware of greenify i have used it but whats skyfall? I tried searching but nothing is coming up but james bond.
EDIT: Sorry havent looked at roms yet im just rooted atm
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I think they are talking about this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=51745866
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I think taking into consideration the snapdragon 801 chip how it saves battery, sense 6 being light weight, if one needs to you have the choices of battery save mode and if that's not enough extreme battery save mode! This phone came built up from the floor up. Now if we just had the 1.56 software version with all the above included stock and operating correctly, I'm sure we would see even more battery savings!

Im looking for good app for monitoring battery use. Is betterbatterystats the de facto standard?

JBmfG said:
Im looking for good app for monitoring battery use. Is betterbatterystats the de facto standard?
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or GSAM battery monitor

JBmfG said:
Im looking for good app for monitoring battery use. Is betterbatterystats the de facto standard?
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There are very few "de facto standards" for anything in the Android ecosystem...which is why we like it. I use a combination of GSAM Battery Monitor with the root companion, and Wakelock Detector.

Dont get me wrong, I get decent battery life, but nothing like you guys. For those of you with amazing OST are you guys using Google Now? I just installed wake lock detector to see what is causing my batt to drain more than others.