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Saving battery life

Hi all.
Looking for some serious help. Coming from a Samsung vibrant. I need help with how to save battery life on the sensation. I have been off charger for 5 hours and 51 minutes and am down to 41%. Is this normal? I have been only texting really. I got my data from battery monitor.
Thanks in advance. Anyway to make this better?
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It all depends on what you're using the phone for. I'm at 55% after 12 hours. yesterday I got 17 hours. if all you're doing us texting then no,thats not normal. but I suspect you're probably doing more with it than you realize since its a new toy.
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He prolly has running wifi as well?

Settings > Wireless and networks > Wifi settings > [MENU BUTTON] > Advanced > Wifi sleep policy > After 15 minutes

Stop Android from phoning home and you'll save greatly on battery life.
Best way I've found to prevent battery drain, is to stop Android from phoning home.
Once you use an app like Autostarts to stop unnecessary things from starting up all the time on their own and also block a couple ports that are not always needed via an app like DroidWall, you'll see great battery life. Also see other details in that link of things I turned off to increase battery life amoung other benefits.
For now, I can only speak for seeing the difference while using a Nexus One ROM on my HD2, but I have way better battery life, GPS lock times and faster device boot ups than ever before.
This is yet another one of the reasons I must wait till the Sensation is rooted and unlocked. Because I'm not using it while it's running things I can't better manage, so they don't drain my battery.

Profondo_Rosso said:
It all depends on what you're using the phone for. I'm at 55% after 12 hours. yesterday I got 17 hours. if all you're doing us texting then no,thats not normal. but I suspect you're probably doing more with it than you realize since its a new toy.
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How did u get that much? I have battery monitor as a widget. I also did not charge the phone all the way up when I first got it.
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Well to be honest for the 8 hours I'm at work, I use it light. texting, a few calls and about 30 minutes of reading pulse and playing games. However the next 8-9 hours I would consider moderate to heavy use. I have no monitors or anything running, just running straight out of the box.
I'm at 34% after 14.5 hours today.
I charged it fully the first day, ran it to 0, then charged it fully again last night.
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Did draining it out help? It is really killing my battery. When my phone idles it loses about 7 percent an hour. Is this normal?
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Mine is at most 3% per hour so I would say check if you have any running apps that aren't supposed to be.
I suppose draining could have helped but I have no way of knowing for sure
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Yeah I killed my battery in 12 hours with decent use and then charged to 88 had to go but now down to 35 three hours later ....thinking of draining battery and then charging
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I think custom kernel can improve battery a lot..Wait
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I think mine's even worse. Phone was off charger at 100% at 11am, by 1:30PM it's already down to 80%ish. By 4PM it was down to 40%ish, got it charged up to about 70%ish around 6PM, by midnight I was around 6% again.
So I think I'm losing around 10%/hr. That's gotta be abnormal, and the battery gets really hot too. At the moment, I have several speculations:
1. Death grip causing the phone to work harder to find signal, and tmo's coverage kinda sucks in my town
2. I have defective unit/battery
3. Some apps behind the scene are killing it. But I've checked what's running behind, even turned off unnecessary stuff using autorun manager. Auto sync is turned of only for gmails. Weather, IMAP mails, pulse, facebook etc are set to pull in couple hrs instead hourly. The battery life cannot be worse than my 2-yr old HD2.

Hey guys. Have you considered bump charging. HTC advised the idea for the HTC desire battery and it in most cases doubles the battery.
Sorry I can't be more specific bit I'm on my phone. I have found the relevant link. Read the 1st post. I'm gonna do it when I get in from my gig.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=712990

Bump charging kills the battery in long run.
If you have to do it to a brand new handset it can't be good news.
HTC shipping crapy product again!
Customers should not have to put up with this crap and be the beta tester!
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snarestud940 said:
Hi all.
Looking for some serious help. Coming from a Samsung vibrant. I need help with how to save battery life on the sensation. I have been off charger for 5 hours and 51 minutes and am down to 41%. Is this normal? I have been only texting really. I got my data from battery monitor.
Thanks in advance. Anyway to make this better?
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I'd suggest uninstalling battery monitor. I had installed it on my g2x and immediately saw my battery percentage drajning more quickly. Probably because its always running in the background.
The best tip I can give for better battery life is to minimize what you allow to run in the background. Get rid of any task killers, set Facebook/Twitter/Email/etc to sync less frequently, turn off wifi if you're not using it so its not scanning for networks, and so on.
Also install juice defender from the Market. Its free. It has greatly increased my battery life.
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phburks said:
I'd suggest uninstalling battery monitor. I had installed it on my g2x and immediately saw my battery percentage drajning more quickly. Probably because its always running in the background.
The best tip I can give for better battery life is to minimize what you allow to run in the background. Get rid of any task killers, set Facebook/Twitter/Email/etc to sync less frequently, turn off wifi if you're not using it so its not scanning for networks, and so on.
Also install juice defender from the Market. Its free. It has greatly increased my battery life.
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I tried juice defender. Didn't know how to set it up properly. What are good settings for that? And thanks for your help everyone.
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snarestud940 said:
I tried juice defender. Didn't know how to set it up properly. What are good settings for that? And thanks for your help everyone.
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I installed the Plus version because it allows wifi control. I just use the default settings except I change so it doesn't disable wifi. I do that because I use wifi calling at home so I dont want Juice Defender turning off my wifi. I always turn it off manually when I leave the house anyway.
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phburks said:
I installed the Plus version because it allows wifi control. I just use the default settings except I change so it doesn't disable wifi. I do that because I use wifi calling at home so I dont want Juice Defender turning off my wifi. I always turn it off manually when I leave the house anyway.
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Balanced settings? Or whatever it is called?
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snarestud940 said:
Balanced settings? Or whatever it is called?
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Yea Balanced Settings is good if you don't mind it managing your wifi too. In the Plus version I selected Customize instead of Balanced. The only thing I changed was the wifi setting. There's a ton more settings to configure but the default ones work fine for me and I don't have the patience to sift through them all anyway lol
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phburks said:
Yea Balanced Settings is good if you don't mind it managing your wifi too. In the Plus version I selected Customize instead of Balanced. The only thing I changed was the wifi setting. There's a ton more settings to configure but the default ones work fine for me and I don't have the patience to sift through them all anyway lol
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I agree but recommend you take the time to set up each setting on customise mode and you'll be amazed how much extra battery you save fr!!om the default values. Only takes about 5 mins

Any issue with juice defender and wifi

Hi everyone,
Did anyone have any issue with juice defender and wifi? Every time I turn on my screen juice defender enables wifi but the signal strength is shown as minimum. Problem is solved after a sleep (or a reboot). My setting includes juice defender to manage my wifi and my wifi sleep policy is set to "when plugged in".
Thanks,
Sayantan
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Admins I reckon that I may have posted this in the wrong section. Can you please move it to "Themes and Apps"?
Thanks,
Sayantan
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Uninstall that app! Juice defender will cause you more headaches then you know! It causes all kinds of wake locks on your phone. Android has a fantastic build in task killer that monitors apps and kills them if necessary.
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Very true. Juice Defender, will cause even good behaving apps to freak out and keep their wake locks active while they wait for the data connection. If you want to improve your battery's life expectancy between charges, try HERE...

Agreed Apex. SHAME ON ME for not sending him to your battery thread. Daggumit. Nooooob Fall.

Fall of Enosis said:
Agreed Apex. SHAME ON ME for not sending him to your battery thread. Daggumit. Nooooob Fall.
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No worries, mate!

Very true.. Thanks for showing me the right direction on this. This app is way more pain than it's useful. You end uo micro managing anyway.
I found that I was draining battery partly due to overclocking (1350). Maybe I need to play with the governors more. Currently using pegasusq with sio on the io side.
Thanks,
Sayantan
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Thanks. I'll try it first thing tomorrow. Does it add the hotplug governor to shut off one core? The one that I was trying out now is pegasusq, but I think I messed up its parameters a bit. I also gave hotplugx a try, but did not get better results.. Will try and let you know the results.
Thanks for sharing this mate,
Sayantan
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Don't use JD, it uses more battery life than it saves, or might just break even, it's a placebo. Use toggles to turn off 4g and wifi when not in use

i also used JD few months back. found it to useless in terms of battery life, though it shows battery life incresed x2.0 times. not using now.:banghead:
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I must admit I was fooled by it for a long time and was impressed by its "300%" battery improvement. I finally un installed it and started using my toggles more frequently, and 3g is turned off on my phone unless I'm out and want data or I'm sending an mms, that combined with smart underclocking rules (screen off, and in steps as the battery dies) will get you a lot more battery life than JD or any other app will get you. I've heard tasker can be good to automate battery saving rules, but for me personally pressing a widget or dragging my status bar down doesn't require much effort. If you still aren't happy with your battery life, look into an extended battery
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how to extend my battery life?

i just want to extend my battery life, but my phone is not rooted.. do you have any advice? i try the JUICE DEFENDER and after installing it says like this "does not support other application"..

Myster P said:
i just want to extend my battery life, but my phone is not rooted.. do you have any advice? i try the JUICE DEFENDER and after installing it says like this "does not support other application"..
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Rooting is completely different . Not related with you battery juice.
1. So in case u want to extend your battery life switch off your data connection/WIFI when not in use as it uses most of the battery. When on 2G/3G battery drains like hell.
2. Turn of sync which also eats most of your battery.
As far as juice defender is concerned i personally didn't find that much of a difference using it. Set up is not that difficult either. Just install and use it. Not sure about the error you are getting.

Try to install deep sleep battery saver
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If i will root my phone...do i have to format my device first ?
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No
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+1 for Deep Sleep battery saver. I have it on all my devices. It saved quite an amount of battery for me.
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Myster P said:
i just want to extend my battery life, but my phone is not rooted.. do you have any advice? i try the JUICE DEFENDER and after installing it says like this "does not support other application"..
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hi bro
do as what i do in the pics
Settings=>Applications=>Mange Applications=>All=>You will see so many apps only the (chat,games,apps you downloaded yourself you don't use them at that moment )=>Force Stop
example:play store,yahoo,browser...=>Force Stop when you don't use them
After every restart your phone some apps automatically open again=>Force Stop
Data,WiFi,Bluetooth when you don't use them turn off them
some say black wallpapers use little bit less than color wallpapers pixels
don't use any launcher it use your battery so much because you run them
battery life apps it's all fake only you root maybe it will use less
(i use international stock firmware version it asia frimware and it's has so many apps from stock and automatically become open and it's not good eat my battery in bad way better for this to use some firmware that orginal with support of your country language and less apps)

Myster P said:
i just want to extend my battery life, but my phone is not rooted.. do you have any advice? i try the JUICE DEFENDER and after installing it says like this "does not support other application"..
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>use Advance task killer.. kill all the the tasks everytime after closing any app/game.
>dont use widgets, antivirus , any other task killer on ur fone.
>try different kernels available for ur present rom.. use it for atleast 3 charging cycles, before deciding its power efficiency.
my prefernce ddlf2+bam kernel
~19hrs
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1) turn off wifi/mobile-data when not in use. Also, turn off autosync when not connected
2) Use 2g instead of 3g when net speed isnt an issue .. most browsing/messaging will work almost the same on 2g or 3g ... 3g uses a lot lot more battery juice compared to 2g/wifi
3) Turn off automatic location reporting by google maps
4) If you do all above, you can save more battery juice by uninstalling all battery saving apps and task killers

Battery On JB

Upgraded to JB yesterday.. may i ask for your battery opinion on the new JB rom?
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About the battery, mine lasted yesterday for about 4hrs only. WiFi on and always browsing the Internet. And it's in the Airplane Mode. Jelly Bean is a RAM Hog unlike ICS, but RAM was increased to 828 MB. So yea. I downloaded Juice Defender Ultimate and see if it works and I hope it will work.

Deep sleep run well in mine
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i had some trouble with mediaserver eating battery when restoring backup after wiping data. but only for a while, after that everything are back to normal. i do think that battery lasted somewhat longer with jellybean. probably 1/2 - 40 minutes longer on normal use, not much to mention, but there are differences. btw, i think you should do a clean data wipe after flashing with firmwares that are not made for your region. on mine, without a clean wipe, the battery life would go crazy.

It's slightly better than ICS. I'm now at 30% after 4 hours and 30 minutes of non stop usage which includes heavy gaming and with wifi turned on. GPS was also turned on for a while. Standby is amazing. My average 4-5 hours == 1 percent damage has been improved to 6-7 hours.
Note:
Debloated
Disabled some apps on start-up
Greenified
Also the new power saving mode actually works quite well.
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Hmm i dunno why.. after upgrading to JB via mobile odin, unable to root.. battery life seems doubled , because when i use ICS it drains so quickly
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Graffiti Exploit said:
It's slightly better than ICS. I'm now at 30% after 4 hours and 30 minutes of non stop usage which includes heavy gaming and with wifi turned on. GPS was also turned on for a while. Standby is amazing. My average 4-5 hours == 1 percent damage has been improved to 6-7 hours.
Note:
Debloated
Disabled some apps on start-up
Greenified
Also the new power saving mode actually works quite well.
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Can you enumerate those apps that you debloated? And also those apps on start-up.. thanks!
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Get Greenified from the market. Helped me out alot

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Can you enumerate those apps that you debloated? And also those apps on start-up.. thanks!
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I'm sorry I don't remember what apps I debloated because I usually delete the backups made by the NoBloat app. I saved around 130MB more or less. As far as I remember here are some of the apps:
2 Accu Widgets
Music Hub
Reader's Hub
Kobo Books
Zinio
Samsung Apps
SamsungsAppsUna2
Other Widgets that were 3-6MB [or reaching an MB] in size.
SNS
Apps that I find no use to and are not related to important the system.
As for the apps I disabled at start-up are mainly my apps that I don't need to run or has no use to run at start-up except for Sidebar Pro,Greenify and the likes. Some system apps like Software Update, World Clock, Some Google Apps. Seriously though, it's much more of a preference. You may use some of the apps I disabled. As long as it's not as important as SystemUI, you can pretty much turn it off. I suggest you use the ES Task Manager's Startup Manager and click Optimize. Then reenable some apps that you need and vice versa.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1069924
To anybody who want to debloated. It is from s2 forum, but it works for me and safe so far:good:

Now after debloated i got better battery life. Confirm jb more battery saver:good:

anang1979 said:
Now after debloated i got better battery life. Confirm jb more battery saver:good:
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I havent debloated yet.. coz i dont know when those apps might come in handy.. but so far.. i still have a good battery life..
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wow, with battery saver pro app, power saving mode turned on in settings, some debloating, nova launcher, some usage with data (H) always on and i'm down to 80%battery life after 10 hours! Not bad at all.

yes my batt is much better on JB than on ics, my tab has been pon stand by mode for almost 2 days and batt is still around 45$.

[Q] Terrible standby battery life

Hello
This is actually my first post, so I guess a short introduction would be nice.
I'm a high schooler living two lives. A cool kid at school, and a phone geek at home. I'm aware that this quite normal in xda lol.
So yesterday I let my phone hang overnight. Wifi, sync, phone radio on. But when I woke up after 7hs of sleep, I noticed that I lost 19%(33%->14%), which is totally unacceptable, but could not find the cause. Oddly, my screen on time has been excellent. So what's sucking on my battery? Btw I'm using ViperXL 3.2.8 and ElementalX 6.5.
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In the second shot of the battery consumption list did you click on the one with the highest consumption (system). It looks like you had a wakelock, clicking on that would have told you what caused it.
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I agree with timmaaa. It's most likely maps or gmail or something. Greenify would hibernate them for you. Apps syncing will use the radio, radio is a huge battery killer (especially LTE). Only makes sense really. If you're sleeping why keep the radios/sync on?..

exad said:
I agree with timmaaa. It's most likely maps or gmail or something. Greenify would hibernate them for you. Apps syncing will use the radio, radio is a huge battery killer. Only makes sense really. If you're sleeping why keep the radios/sync on?..
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That's weird... I'm currently using Greenify, and hibernated Maps and some apps. Actually my only suspicion was Greenify.
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timmaaa said:
In the second shot of the battery consumption list did you click on the one with the highest consumption (system). It looks like you had a wakelock, clicking on that would have told you what caused it.
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So this ***** has been sucking on my thing? Isn't mediaserver supposed to be only active during listening to music or something? I'm confused
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At the risk of taking this thread further afield than Thug meant, how do you guys like Greenify? Worth the time to set up and manage, or does it only shave off a bit of drain?

Thug_4_Life said:
So this ***** has been sucking on my thing? Isn't mediaserver supposed to be only active during listening to music or something? I'm confused
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Yes, but some apps re-awaken and whatnot. bubbleupnp would wakelock for me too. greenifying it seemed to stop it.
As for does greenify save battery life? You're asking the wrong question. the right question is, does greenify prevent wakelocks? Yes, it does.
If wake locks are the cause of your battery drain and the apps can be hibernated then yes it will improve your battery life..