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Hello people!
There are a few problems regarding God Dhiru's Cm 10.1 which haven't been mentioned (or I probably skipped on) in the cm 10.1 thread.
1. Whenever I reboot my phone, the internal sd card is always unmounted. I wonder why. Have used cm9 and 10 too but didn't face this issue there. I don't know if others are facing this too. But yes this has been acknowledged on the Cm10.1 thread. But just 1 person. What about the others? Please let me know.
2. After reboot, even if 'only 2G' was the network mode selected, 3G is activated. To switch to only 2g again, I have to first click on the toggle which switches to 2G + 3G (because that's how I've set it up), wait for about a minute for network to establish, and then click again on the toggle which again takes about a minute to establish. Anyone else facing this (3G on after boot even though 'only 2G option selected) ? Because I haven't seen anyone reporting this issue.
3. This isn't new but I've got extremely terrible battery life. Becomes difficult to even go out because in a few hours, my phone is dead I have to charge my phone about 5 times a day. I had bought my phone in 2011 October and have been using the same battery. So yes battery life will deteriorate. But this bad?
Note : i have 3G on almost all the time.
Also, when I sussing cm9 a few months back, battery would last a day and a half with mobile data off, and approximately 4 hours of screen on time. Which isn't bad I guess.
Battery deterioriating that quickly is possible? :-\
Thanks in advance
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Jspm said:
3. This isn't new but I've got extremely terrible battery life. Becomes difficult to even go out because in a few hours, my phone is dead I have to charge my phone about 5 times a day. I had bought my phone in 2011 October and have been using the same battery. So yes battery life will deteriorate. But this bad?
Note : i have 3G on almost all the time.
Also, when I sussing cm9 a few months back, battery would last a day and a half with mobile data off, and approximately 4 hours of screen on time. Which isn't bad I guess.
Battery deterioriating that quickly is possible? :-\
Thanks in advance
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Hi.
Yes, it definitedly can deteriorate this quickly.
I bought my phone a couple of months before you, and guess? I had to change my battery two months ago.
Put your battery on a flat surface ad spin it.
If it spins freely, than it is swollen and must be changed.
No matter what you do to preserve your battery charge, a swollen battery will last for just very few hours, I, too had to put it under charge many times a day. Next thing that will happen (if it is not happening already) is sudden black-outs with battery relatively charged, and huge loss of charge at reboot.
With A6 you can expect an average charge duration of approximatedly 18รท22 hours or more, depending on the usage you do of your phone.
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Yes it's quite swollen ( didn't spin to check lol ) it's visibly swollen. After all it's almost 2 years of heavy usage with full night charges.
Well I think that sudden drop of charge is a problem with the OS reading the amount of charge present. Because for the battery to lose soo much charge all of a sudden, is strange unless there's some external factor causing it. Like maybe it would create sparks if it (sudden charge drop) actually happened.
The only solution for me is, as you said, get a new battery thanks
And correct me if I'm wrong about the sudden drop thing
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I have a problem with battery drain when using my SW2 - I have to charge it twice a day. I've used it for 4 days now, and it's not changed at all.
I just updated the firmware on the watch, hoping this will have any effect. It's on the charger right now, so I don't know if it did anything at all yet. When it comes to apps, I don't have a lot installed - only a notification forwarder, the sms app, alarm, timer and dialer/caller. The brightness is almost at the lowest at all time.
Background info: When I bought my Sony Smartwatch 2 I forgot to give it a 30 minute charge. I don't think this is the reason, but it could've impacted the battery life i guess.
Any tips on what to do?
Perhaps just contact sony and get a replacement. It sounds as though you have a faulty device. I usually only have to charge my device every four days. Once I even got it to last six days with very light use.
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Hi all, I'm considering buying a Galaxy S6 and I'd like to ask about how the device is holding up. I've heard that out of the box it's good, but lag and poor battery life start to set in within days. Is this true?
AB__CD said:
Hi all, I'm considering buying a Galaxy S6 and I'd like to ask about how the device is holding up. I've heard that out of the box it's good, but lag and poor battery life start to set in within days. Is this true?
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No lag at all after a week, fastest phone ever owned (I came from Note 4, Nexus 6 and Iphone 6). Battery for me is a really bad and also the reception.
No issues with lag when I owned the phone but battery life was shocking when comparing to an iPhone 6 - and that isn't even best of class!
tidusuk123 said:
No issues with lag when I owned the phone but battery life was shocking when comparing to an iPhone 6 - and that isn't even best of class!
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Hmm, define shocking? Also what's everyone's SOT?
I'd describe myself as a medium user, use 2 to 3 hours every day, mostly on WiFi, will it survive a whole day?
I come from nexus 6
the battery for me very good it stay with me 1 day from 7am at 12am
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Love the phone. .. hate the current battery life. I can make it through a day when at work. Using it for ocasional text and 3 calls. .. a day off though. .. play a game or watch a few YouTube videos. .. batter is down in no time.
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Love the phone. .. hate the current battery life. I can make it through a day when at work. Using it for ocasional text and 3 calls. .. a day off though. .. play a game or watch a few YouTube videos. .. batter is down in no time.
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Hmm, define shocking? Also what's everyone's SOT?
I'd describe myself as a medium user, use 2 to 3 hours every day, mostly on WiFi, will it survive a whole day?
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I would say I'm the same in terms of use. The phone dropped 30% in about an hour and half worth of constant browsing... I always have a charger around so I've not been in a position where it's run out or run really low.
I switched from a Nexus 6 mostly because the N6 was too big and I loved the camera on the S6. The S6 is just as fast (if not faster) than my N6 w/ Faux kernel. I'm getting similar battery life/SOT. My S6 is completely stock aside from some frozen apps/bloat.
Not the OP but I am thinking about S6 but scared of low battery life.
Appreciate the info so that would be equal to about 5 hours continual Browsing.
At low indoor brightness maybe 25% and on LTE - is that about what you get ?
Some vague " Pro Reviews" suggest more but they seem to use non real world tests...
no problems with the battery life for me. I usually get around 4.5 - 5 hours screen on time with 16-17 hours total time. It takes about and hour to charge from 10% to 100% I have T-mobile service so I had to turn off wifi calling and VoLTE. Those were big battery drains. It has good standby times too. I usually charge it to 100% then unplug it before i go to bed. I wake up and the phone is at 99% or 98%.
Also i leave the auto brightness on, bluetooth on, location is gps only, google location reporting off, google now off.
i read a lot of post before getting Nexus 5 last year during summer about his terrible battery life
when i got the phone i could still run a normal day usage
i was reading this article and i add in "PhoneArena.com's custom battery benchmark" a nexus 5 and the result is
S6 7:14
Nexus 5 4:50
PhoneArena.com's custom battery benchmark
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Batt...flagships-stack-up-against-each-other_id70173
not sure if this is realistic or many users has tons of app that drain S6, but if S6 has 25% more battery life that Nexus 5 i would say that is not that bad
Battery Life on the Galaxy S6 is about average at worse... but it is good... right now I have 10h 30m off charger and 2h 38m screen on time and 49% left... people just say that because it has the most powerful processor and best display on the market but the second smallest battery on any flagship... but it is more than numbers you know... and I have to say this thing charges incredibly fast... Dead to 100% in an hour and sometimes even less...
Battery is at most acceptable for daily use.
Acceptable, but not an issue because it goes from 40% to full so darned quick!
I have no idea how folks get such good SOT. I have never gotten more then three hours on any device. Some of that is that I have bad vision and I like it at least halfway to full brightness. I also have a great aversion to turning off any features. I paid to have a full featured smartphone, not a gimp!
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i read a lot of post before getting Nexus 5 last year during summer about his terrible battery life
when i got the phone i could still run a normal day usage
i was reading this article and i add in "PhoneArena.com's custom battery benchmark" a nexus 5 and the result is
S6 7:14
Nexus 5 4:50
PhoneArena.com's custom battery benchmark
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Batt...flagships-stack-up-against-each-other_id70173
not sure if this is realistic or many users has tons of app that drain S6, but if S6 has 25% more battery life that Nexus 5 i would say that is not that bad
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the only way to compare battery performance of different phones is to do a maximum screen on time test with a comparable brightness,everything else just compares software wakelock bugs, most caused by 3rd party apps at that
(edit: or do screen off music playback like this test did)
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I have no idea how folks get such good SOT. I have never gotten more then three hours on any device. Some of that is that I have bad vision and I like it at least halfway to full brightness. I also have a great aversion to turning off any features. I paid to have a full featured smartphone, not a gimp!
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I have mostly everything on except NFC, Bluetooth and GPS (only on when I need them) and I have brightness always either 50+ percent or 100 percent and get 5 hours SOT every single day. I do stream about an hour a day music through bluetooth and 4g to my car, and the usual, Facebook, Whatsapp, Camera use, Texts, hour os so of calls. The phone lasts a full day.
The only reason this phone will have lower than 5 hours screen time is if you're using your camera, sat nav software, or games all day.
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I have mostly everything on except NFC, Bluetooth and GPS (only on when I need them) and I have brightness always either 50+ percent or 100 percent and get 5 hours SOT every single day. I do stream about an hour a day music through bluetooth and 4g to my car, and the usual, Facebook, Whatsapp, Camera use, Texts, hour os so of calls. The phone lasts a full day.
The only reason this phone will have lower than 5 hours screen time is if you're using your camera, sat nav software, or games all day.
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Camera! I'm always shooting... I do use bluetooth a lot, but that doesn't appear to drain it much. I also turn my brightness all the way up if I'm shooting outside. I hear that Samsung has research going that could double battery capacity, but it's a little way off. That would be wonderful. Until then, I am happy to be able to recharge so fast...
It's not great but good (enough?) (and perhaps pretty damn good regarding the battery size), and indeed charges hella fast. I came from the Z3 which lasted very long though so I might be spoiled...
I actually achieved 5hr SOT yesterday (and total usage of 2 days) but it depends so much on use. After recharging to 100% and using whatsapp a lot the battery drained a lot faster for example. Now at 35% remaining with 2:10h SOT (and whatsapp and google services being the top spenders).
But yeah
this fast charging is not going to kill the battery really fast?
The battery is ****. Very similar to the Nexus 5, if not a bit worse. I use my phone quite a lot during the day. From full charge at 7am, I get the 15% battery notice at about noon. I charge it using fast charger till it reaches about 45%.. By 5pm I'm getting the low battery notice again.
I had the G4 for a week. Nearly full day of use out of that thing with same usage patterns I have on the S6.
The battery life was designed as either a secondary device or for people with a boring social/work life.
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wow worste of Nexus 5 is very bad, i just bought it so at this point i'm going to test it in a couple of days
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wow worste of Nexus 5 is very bad, i just bought it so at this point i'm going to test it in a couple of days
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I decided to keep mine because the build quality on the S6 is on par with the iPhone 6. I enjoyed the battery life in the G4 but didn't feel I got my money's worth in quality compared to the S6. The moment a higher capacity battery is released for the S6 is the moment I'll be completely content.
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I was off the charger around 4:15 this morning. Down to 14% already. And it's only 8:40am here
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Battery is surely not the best. With email sync using MailDroid, I had to charge the phone twice within the day. I don't use Facebook app, so that's a saviour. I stopped using MailDroid and battery life improved.
My usage is low to moderate, and am always on 4G LTE. Last 3-4 days I'm charging at morning 8 AM to 100%, it comes down to around 45% at 9 PM. I switch off Data at night and battery stays constant (maybe 44%). But again, if I keep screen ON for a while, then the battery is gone!
Battery is about as good as the S4, but worse than the HTC m8. Overall, it's awful considering you cannot swap it out. Unless you don't use the phone much during the day, you will need to charge it overnight and then once more during the day minimum.
This is pretty damn good in my book...
About 30 min of real racing and 10 minutes cs portable... the rest is browsing texting and youtube... half LTE and half Wi-Fi. I also had location services running on high accuracy the whole time sucking up battery life
Is it normal that Google service is always that high?
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Oho really bad.
Same use with my lg g3 (that is very bad) i have still 35-45% with this kind of use...
Whatn can i do?
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I have mostly everything on except NFC, Bluetooth and GPS (only on when I need them) and I have brightness always either 50+ percent or 100 percent and get 5 hours SOT every single day. I do stream about an hour a day music through bluetooth and 4g to my car, and the usual, Facebook, Whatsapp, Camera use, Texts, hour os so of calls. The phone lasts a full day.
The only reason this phone will have lower than 5 hours screen time is if you're using your camera, sat nav software, or games all day.
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Camera and sat Mac for me but on charge whilst on Sat Nav
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First of all, hi, thank you for reading this
So I have an s4, i9505 and the stock battery, but I noticed something that causes me a lot of problems...
My battery simply starts to output way, way too much, making the phone hot to touch, sometimes even as much as to irritate my finger and the battery doesn't last half an hour afterwards
Rebooting or removing the battery for a bit doesn't help, the drain just continues after reboot or battery being put back in after 10 minutes
But I had nights where from 10pm to 7am I would listen to amped music (dsp manager on almost max equalizer, slight compression and strongest sound compensation) and it seems like the battery was being used so it didn't overdrain, in those 9 or so hours of almost max volume I only lost 11% battery and the WiFi was on, normally I'd sleep with WiFi off and it would loose 60% in only 8 hours.
I don't know what to do, sometimes my battery lasts over 24 hours of use, sometimes it struggles to last 2 on standby
I have two batteries and I charge them with an external charger because charging the phone directly doesn't even work, it usually looses more in the heat than it charges.
Also the batteries seem to be such bad quality that they charge fully but they're actually at about 88-91% each time, and sometimes they die at 0, sometimes at even 60!!!! It's horrible and I want to know if I somehow screwed up those batteries or what happened, but the heat needs to stop now!
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Oh and one thing I forgot to mention - if I start any bigger games like terraria, same happens, but it didn't use to before
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Update: a 100% battery just lasted 15 minutes and died at 62%, I really need help and quick
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MM.626 said:
i think the battery is too old, mine happened before too, my screen even flicker at around 40% battery. buy a new battery and the problems will go away.
or maybe is software problem, backup photos/videos to cloud or pc, reflash to stock and wipe internal sd, cache, everything, and use it for a few days if problem still there, then it is battery problem.
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thank you so much for your reply
My screen also started flickering recently, thank you for the advice ^^ also, any ideas other than being old that you'd suspect? Maybe getting wet or too hot too often?
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MM.626 said:
i usually bring my phone to bath and its overclocked and that's no problem
#are you using the stock charger?
edit: try using stock charger
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Haha, writing this while in a bath... Thanks again, you're awesome ^^
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Harmonised said:
First of all, hi, thank you for reading this
So I have an s4, i9505 and the stock battery, but I noticed something that causes me a lot of problems...
My battery simply starts to output way, way too much, making the phone hot to touch, sometimes even as much as to irritate my finger and the battery doesn't last half an hour afterwards
Rebooting or removing the battery for a bit doesn't help, the drain just continues after reboot or battery being put back in after 10 minutes
But I had nights where from 10pm to 7am I would listen to amped music (dsp manager on almost max equalizer, slight compression and strongest sound compensation) and it seems like the battery was being used so it didn't overdrain, in those 9 or so hours of almost max volume I only lost 11% battery and the WiFi was on, normally I'd sleep with WiFi off and it would loose 60% in only 8 hours.
I don't know what to do, sometimes my battery lasts over 24 hours of use, sometimes it struggles to last 2 on standby
I have two batteries and I charge them with an external charger because charging the phone directly doesn't even work, it usually looses more in the heat than it charges.
Also the batteries seem to be such bad quality that they charge fully but they're actually at about 88-91% each time, and sometimes they die at 0, sometimes at even 60!!!! It's horrible and I want to know if I somehow screwed up those batteries or what happened, but the heat needs to stop now!
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