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Any suggestions about my battery life

I know that there are lots of these battery life threads and i have read most of them and I've tried closing processes that i don't need and i have tried setcpu to keep the cpu low when the device is off, which seemed to help some but my phone would shutoff randomly. So last night i had a full battery and went to bed when i woke up 8 hrs later i was at 20% so about 10% an hr not even using the device. I have attached some pics for reference does anyone have any thoughts that might help. Thanks

I don't know about galaxy S but on my X10 the problem was wifi.
When I didn't have a data plan I had wifi on all day and the battery was down in 10h max 12h.
To improve it I had to use JuiceDefender to enable wifi every five minutes for updates..
Try to disable wifi overnight, reboot the phone and see what happens.
By the way, what app you used for those stats?
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tuxStyle said:
I don't know about galaxy S but on my X10 the problem was wifi.
When I didn't have a data plan I had wifi on all day and the battery was down in 10h max 12h.
To improve it I had to use JuiceDefender to enable wifi every five minutes for updates..
Try to disable wifi overnight, reboot the phone and see what happens.
By the way, what app you used for those stats?
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I don't have wifi enabled, I don't use it that often. the name of the prog is system panel

Very weird indeed. I have my Captivate with Wifi on all day, GPS signal and auto sync and when I go to bed and wake up, the battery hasnt gone down at all. I had the phone go on full battery one day and I even sent a few texts and went online for 10 minutes before it lost just a bit of battery.

Do you have that one LED app installed? The one that shows a little red dot on the corner of your screen when you have a notification?

hacker01 said:
Do you have that one LED app installed? The one that shows a little red dot on the corner of your screen when you have a notification?
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yes i do.. Why? but it was turned off last night, as its turned off every night

Ok so i tested again last night and I did not have my im+ app running and the battery life was soooo much better. I also did not have system panel running which records all the battery and cpu stats but i'm think its the im+ app that was taking up all the juice. Can anyone think of another app that does skype and facebook but that also does not take up sooo much batter life??? Thanks

88EVGAFTW said:
Very weird indeed. I have my Captivate with Wifi on all day, GPS signal and auto sync and when I go to bed and wake up, the battery hasnt gone down at all. I had the phone go on full battery one day and I even sent a few texts and went online for 10 minutes before it lost just a bit of battery.
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Possible he has his set to stay on. While yours may turn off when sleeping.
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Open up the dialer and type in *#*#4636#*#*
Go to BATTERY HISTORY>PARTIAL WAKE USAGE and maybe that will show you which app is sucking up your battery life while you sleep.
Also try, if you don't absolutely need an internet connection while you sleep, SMODA widget to turn off your mobile internet. It's quick, free, and painless.

m_1000rr6 said:
Open up the dialer and type in *#*#4636#*#*
Go to BATTERY HISTORY>PARTIAL WAKE USAGE and maybe that will show you which app is sucking up your battery life while you sleep.
Also try, if you don't absolutely need an internet connection while you sleep, SMODA widget to turn off your mobile internet. It's quick, free, and painless.
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yeah the app that took the most juice was im+

I drained mine down to 5% and charged full a few times and still only got 8 - 10 hours on mine until i flashed to jh2 and now have been getting almost 16 hours with same usage and apps installed. I charge mine at night. I use ebuddy with the piwer saver option turbed on abd it does an ok job.
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I have the stock ROM and stock launcher and my battery is awsome! 8 hours and I will still be above 80%.
Brightness: Lowest (manually control via stock stock gesture)
GPS: OFF
Wifi: ON all day
BT: OFF
GMail manual
Other emails accounts hourly for the most part.
Widgets: Google/Fancy Weather
BG: Mostly Black
I have never seen such good battery life on a smart phone.
I could easily get 2 days, but i rather charge every night and then not worry about battery usage.
The wifi/gmail/gps made a big difference, its too bad you can't set gmail to hourly or something lik e that. Some of my email accounts i would like to set longer than hourly.

The last few days have been pretty good one my phone. Used to get maybe 16 hours but my last charge lasted me about 50 hours with moderate browsing, gaming, and voice/text. Juiceplotter is telling me I'll be getting about 47 hours
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tysj said:
The last few days have been pretty good one my phone. Used to get maybe 16 hours but my last charge lasted me about 50 hours with moderate browsing, gaming, and voice/text. Juiceplotter is telling me I'll be getting about 47 hours
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How many hours with the display on?
Sent from my phone so I apologize for any spelling mistakes

My battery icon depletes one notch when I'm using the screen for about an hour. Some people recommend cycling the battery, in which you do a full drain and immediate full charge, 3 or 4 times. I've done it, but it's hard to say if it explains my good battery life.

let the battery drain COMPLETELY until the phone turns off a couple times, then charge it till 100% without unplugging it.

Berserk87 said:
let the battery drain COMPLETELY until the phone turns off a couple times, then charge it till 100% without unplugging it.
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You don't want to drain the battery that much, those kind of batteries can be damaged. The phone turns off for a reason.
I haven't done the cycle thing and its fine. A lot of that comes from older batteries with the memory problem.

irus, software which is based on data connection drains the battery one way or another. Some apps now support push notifications and IM+ does too. Did you try to use push?

These claims of multiple day charges with moderate use is crazy to me. I have the newest ROM, a black screen, display all the way down, gps off, wifi on when in range, make zero voice calls, run juice, and only have 2 widgets that update every 4 hours. I use my phone for a maximum of 3 hours browsing the web, reading XDA and feedR, checking facebook and the occasional text message. My phone lasts a total of 12 to 14 hours. My battery has a manufacture date of late July. Is there some secret I am not aware of?
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I'm I'm your boat Shuggins, except I don't use juice, I have it installed though
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Bad Battery Life?

Hey Guys,
I remember the first two days I had my HOX, i thought the battery life was amazing but now on the 4th day it seems to be getting worse. I don't know if it has to do with the 1.82 RUU or other stuff i have running so I thought I ask.
With the screen off in sleep mode, i lose about 1% every 45-60 mins. The only things I have running are the default HTC sense weather, battery indicator and gmail widget. I just turned the wifi setting where it would shut down after the phone goes to sleep but that doesn't seem to be helping.
Overall today i used it for a few mins for txt and basically installed two apps and i'm down to 80% already since 7:00am. It did push maybe 5-6 emails to the phone while it was off.
Anyone else seeing this kind of battery life?
George

Is this your first smartphone? That is pretty decent battery life for the type of phone it is. You're getting much better battery life than a lot of people in these forums. This belongs in the battery life thread that is already started though.

My phone lasts from 8am to 4am daily, with ~2 hours of screen usage, 1-2hrs of calling, and wifi always on. By the end of the night, I have a minimum of 25% remaining, and sometimes even 40-45% or so.
The only time it dies quickly is when I'm in an area with no service, then the "cell standby" time shoots through the roof and kills the battery like no tomorrow.
Maybe you should download CPU spy and check to see if it's deep sleeping or not. If not, or if it spends too much time at higher frequencies, check out Better Battery Stats and look for wakelocks/other apps that are taking up too much usage time.
Option two you should probably try anyway, CPUSpy or not.

The battery stats are bogus... my phone was off the charger for 2 hours with the screen off and lost 18% and yet my stats say it was asleep... downloaded better battery stats and I'm finding the culprit today
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Battery has been horrendous lately. My GSII blew this thing out of the water in terms of battery life
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I got betterbatterystats installed and it's saying my phone does NOT go into deep sleep mode.
In the past hour:
Deep sleep: 3 seconds
Awake time: 1 h 35 minutes
Screen on: 12 minutes
What would cause my phone to never sleep even though the screen was off for 1 hour and 20 minutes? ....

play2lose said:
I got betterbatterystats installed and it's saying my phone does NOT go into deep sleep mode.
In the past hour:
Deep sleep: 3 seconds
Awake time: 1 h 35 minutes
Screen on: 12 minutes
What would cause my phone to never sleep even though the screen was off for 1 hour and 20 minutes? ....
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Im pretty sure its betterbatterystats. I uninstalled mine and battery life significantly improved.

Is there any way to test if my phone is sleeping without BBS?
I JUST installed BBS because my battery life has been pretty bad these past 2 days...can't make it to 3 hours screen on time (which is why I returned my galaxy note)

play2lose said:
I got betterbatterystats installed and it's saying my phone does NOT go into deep sleep mode.
In the past hour:
Deep sleep: 3 seconds
Awake time: 1 h 35 minutes
Screen on: 12 minutes
What would cause my phone to never sleep even though the screen was off for 1 hour and 20 minutes? ....
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It mean ur phone even if the screen goes off there's process that make ur phone doesn't put to deep sleep (like app with auto update on e.g twitter or facebook and so on, depend on your app in the phone)
In BBS, you can check what things that make you phone didn't put to asleep. You can find it in Kernel wakeup/partial wakeup/other in BBS.
Sorry for my Bad English
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Uncheck better WiFi performance under WiFi> advanced settings
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ChongoDroid said:
Uncheck better WiFi performance under WiFi> advanced settings
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+1 for this. I got about 9 hours with this on. I'm now at 2 days and counting with it off.

WiFi performance will keep your phone awake. It's good for long downloads and such, usually when screen goes off it'll go into low performance mode and will crawl for downloads. It has a purpose, just remember to turn it off after
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Uncheck better WiFi performance under WiFi> advanced settings
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I actually figured out that that was the problem causing no sleep. I was having WiFi problems which were fixed by this...but figured it may have an effect on the battery too. I switched it off and turned my phone screen off for 10 minutes...right away 10 minutes of deep sleep showed up.
Getting much better stand-by battery life...unfortunately I'm on my phone a lot (for texts, facebook, twitter, instagram, web browsing) and the screen on battery life still won't go past 3 hours! :/

play2lose said:
Is there any way to test if my phone is sleeping without BBS?
I JUST installed BBS because my battery life has been pretty bad these past 2 days...can't make it to 3 hours screen on time (which is why I returned my galaxy note)
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You can use CPU Spy...

There is a battery thread... But to the OP, that's pretty decent.
for me... 29% on for 14 hours and thirty minutes. Screen on 1:32. 1:47 for voice calls. And I did a lot of music streaming.

WiFi high performance is good when you need it, otherwise turn off because it prevents your phone from deep sleep. Fastboot should also be killed unless you need it. Fastboot is only useful if you turn your phone off and on often. No difference for rebooting. Some apps don't like it.
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Am I the only one who's got battery issues ?

After I unlocked the bootloader and rooted the phone it started draing quite a lot of battery, moving from 100% to 85% in less than an hour. Is that normal ?

Is that with the screen on? 15% per hour is normal playing games or watching movies.
Nuthin' but a 'Moto G' thang

Screen was not always on i used it normally didn't play games or anything. Maybe it's because I only xharged it twice does it need calibration or something ?

Unlocking and rooting wont have a direct impact on battery usage.
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Have you checked for wakelocks. You could use CPU Spy to make sure your phone is entering deep sleep. 15% battery drain in one hour in standby is not normal.
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madgibbon said:
Have you checked for wakelocks. You could use CPU Spy to make sure your phone is entering deep sleep. 15% battery drain in one hour in standby is not normal.
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Having the same issue. Phone's not entering into deep sleep for some reason. It's brand new with nothing installed on it except for cpu spy. so I dunno what's keeping it.

mufakir said:
Having the same issue. Phone's not entering into deep sleep for some reason. It's brand new with nothing installed on it except for cpu spy. so I dunno what's keeping it.
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factory reset - always worth a try. Or wake lock detector to see what's keeping it awake. I had issues with battery when I switched from one WiFi network to another and no wake locks showing. Factory reset magically fixed it.
See here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2583419
I know your device is brand new but I'm sure some junk sometimes gets in cache or something like that. Think I'd be inclined to always factory reset a brand new phone now.

Walliser said:
I have the same issue. after updating, the battery drains in just 6 hours
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I think to be fair, the phone was updating it's OS. It's not everyday normal usage.

I have an issue with my battery too... Media Server is always on for some reason and is keeping the phone awake all the time :/

Battery Problem

Hi to everyone! I think to have a problem to battery. I do 2/2.30 hours of screen on, with 11/12 total. But today I have noticed a strange drain battery . I reboot my device and it has lost 6% of battery. What is the problem? Is it naturally?
I hope in one your explanation. Thank you!
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Watch these screenshot to understand better
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If your device is new, your battery likely isn't calibrated. It takes a couple full charge/discharge cycles before it settles down.

I had that too, several reboots fix it. I was also running better battery stats and there wasn't anything showing wakelocks or other strange stuff.
Good luck fixing it (try to reboot, look at odd apps, settings, who knows)!

kraven001 said:
I had that too, several reboots fix it. I was also running better battery stats and there wasn't anything showing wakelocks or other strange stuff.
Good luck fixing it (try to reboot, look at odd apps, settings, who knows)!
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I used Battery Widget Reborn, but recently it said strange battery life, one time the drain battery was 5/6 hours, after 10 minutes the duration was 4/5.. I don't know why, I have it since christmas. Do you try to ricalibrate the battery?
Sorry for my English.. :silly:

The re calibration is a myth. What usually works is factory reset and starting fresh - that is if there isn't some app or odd thing happening.

dalle95 said:
Hi to everyone! I think to have a problem to battery. I do 2/2.30 hours of screen on, with 11/12 total. But today I have noticed a strange drain battery . I reboot my device and it has lost 6% of battery. What is the problem? Is it naturally?
I hope in one your explanation. Thank you!
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Check out the better battery stats thread. The app and the members in the thread will be able to tell you if you have an app that is causing the drain

What's wrong with my battery?

I don't know what's wrong with my battery.
I already change my battery, but it still the same...
100-99 in just under 30 seconds...
How to fix it?
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I already check on wakelock detector,everything is normal. And i'm using airplane mode with wifi, so it must be not drain that fast
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AndreIrawan97 said:
I don't know what's wrong with my battery.
I already change my battery, but it still the same...
100-99 in just under 30 seconds...
How to fix it?
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I already check on wakelock detector,everything is normal. And i'm using airplane mode with wifi, so it must be not drain that fast
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It's absolutely normal if you experience battery drain on standby from 100% to 94%
There is some reason for this (technical reason)
http://phandroid.com/2010/12/25/your-smartphones-battery-gauge-is-lying-to-you-and-its-not-such-a-bad-thing/
So don't worry much. Just keep a control on wakelocks either using Greenify, Servicely, Amplify, Disable Service Apps etc