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Love the phone. Only complaint that I have is the battery life. I only get about 10 hours of normal use before it dies.
I have it rooted and I have installed Juice defender and setCPU. I have no idea really how to use either of these apps though.
Can anyone please help me to install and set up the apps that I need to get the best power/battery life ratio for this phone?
Thanks.
A really helpful tip is to use black backgrounds. This reduces the amount of pixels on the screen requiring power on the Super AMOLED display, and will improve battery life significantly. Tower reception is also a big one, just turn off mobile data when you get to a low signal area.
I suggest turning down the brightness to the lowest indoors and then bringing it up a little outdoors. 10 hours is really good compared to the 4 hours I got on my old 4g.
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I second the black background.
I also installed widgetoid, created a widget with a shortcut to the mobile network settings.
I have Network Mode set to GSM only (Edge Network) throughout the day. This is fine to keep my email syncing and for phone calls. If I know I'm going to start browsing the internet/ streaming music/ etc then I go and set the network mode to Auto to allow 4G connections.
With a few phone calls and a little bit of internet usage I still had about 60% battery life left after 12 hours off the charger.
juice defender works wonders. Set profile to extreme. Choose carefully and let app do this rest. It auto shuts off data when not using 4 apps. I have been off charge 9:40 mitutes with 79% battery remaining. I've been on the market made a few phone calls, browsed the internet and getting and receiving text + emails coming in. Have settings GSM only until I need 4G speed. I don't need a charger because I get through the day easily.
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I just wanted to say thanks everyone for the tips! I know more is coming from other users but i'm new to android i switched from Windows Mobile 6.5 and android is better so far or atleast for the week i have had this device. i was getting upset with the battery life and always taking my charger with me(i never had to do that with my custom Rhodium. the black backround idea does work very well. I have also found if you set your backlight timeout to 1 min it helps a lot.
Kafluke said:
Love the phone. Only complaint that I have is the battery life. I only get about 10 hours of normal use before it dies.
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you call 10 hrs a problem??
I can tether my Xoom for 2 hrs and listine to pandora over bluetooth for another 3 before it dies... my last phone could berly stand 45mins of pandora over bluetooth before crapping out
Always hated the idea of black backgrounds on beautiful 800x480 screens. Anyhows I had the very same quick battery death too and fixed it. One get Juice Defender, very worth while, second run device in portrait mode [I was an old n900 user so I had it in landscape mode, it did not like staying in that mode]. If things get really bad turn off the WiFi when not in use and change the autosync features to off or disabled. ALOT of power is comsumed by adware communicating with various entities while your away from the device. Genuinely suprused by the sheer amount of adware on the device, nearly ever "free" app is adware [meaning you pay with your usage pattern's etc]. YMV but that all I had to do to get the battery under control.
Im a moderate user and my battery is still going strong
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you call 10 hrs a problem??
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Yep, I'm more than happy getting 10-12 hours of at-office use with WiFi on constantly (including M$ push and personal email) and a moderate amount of browsing during the day. I keep the brightness at "0" as much as possible.
Beats the pants off my N900 which would die in under 4 hours under the same at-office usage patterns.
OEM battery and charger is ~$25 or a Zagg Sparq2 (4 Ah, I believe) for watching hours of video and Angry Birds on those trans-Pacific flights.
You are doing something wrong guys. . .
I'm on a Vibrant /w Froyo 2.2.1 and a 1500mah battery that is now 7 months old.
Battery left says total battery life per charge is 23 hours, 15 minutes.
Now mind you I am a relatively moderately/heavy user. I have 5 homescreens with 15 widgets total on them that refresh every 2 hours, and an intensive live wallpaper.
I use the phone a lot for reading RSS feeds, facebook, texting, and LOTS of music. Total screen-on-time per battery charge is around 3-4 hours with Automatic brightness.
Obviously you have something going on with your phones if you are only getting 10 hours. My phone is also overclocked to 1.4Ghz with overvoltages and I STILL get this good a battery life with all my usage...on an old battery mind you.
Check for rogue apps?
PS: I have Wi-Fi on 100% of the time but NEVER use 3G/HSPA for data since I don't use a data plan. The Wi-Fi is connected 90% of the time the phone is on though since I am always at places with Wi-Fi.
I just bought this phone for my wife (coming from a htc mytouch 4g) and her battery life is HORRIBLE (lasting a little more than half a day). She only uses it for calls, texts, and to place this game called Scramble.
Rarely uses email, no browsing, no gps, no bluetooth or wifi, no music or streaming video, maybe a couple pictures.
Is this normal for this phone? Thanks.
more than half a day sounds fine to me. I get about 17 hours with moderate use. It's probably the scramble that's killing her battery.
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I just bought this phone for my wife (coming from a htc mytouch 4g) and her battery life is HORRIBLE (lasting a little more than half a day). She only uses it for calls, texts, and to place this game called Scramble.
Rarely uses email, no browsing, no gps, no bluetooth or wifi, no music or streaming video, maybe a couple pictures.
Is this normal for this phone? Thanks.
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I had the same problem, so I rooted the phone, removed nearly every application t-mobile included or I felt I had no use for with ROM toolbox pro, used the same application to underclock the processor to 1.4GHZ, played with some of the kernal tweaks, & installed lightning launcher. I can get through an entire day without worrying about the battery dying.
When I say half a day, I mean shortly after lunchtime...
I rooted and removed most of the T-mobile apps. I've gone a day and a half with wifi, bluetooth and gps all enabled and moderate usage (texting, reading on kindle app, gmail, bluetooth paired in my car, and google maps for traffic problems).
I normally get 1.5 to 2 days per charge.
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I can't get through half the day.
could you be more specific as to what you do on your phone? is your phone the international version or the USA T-mobile version.
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Tmobile, stock everything and I had the battery issue on my first HOS. I just got my replacement and Im running the same apps, same calls, same eveything as the first phone but i get a significant more battery life. The battery on the replacement HOS lasted me the entire day, but I still carry a charger around just incase.
Superbattery?
My TMo One S battery life recently went through the roof for some reason. I can only attribute it to one of the following or perhaps luck:
I've been charging it at end of day regardless of charge but I finally let the charge get below 25% -- I think it got to 15%. Then I powered it down and let it charge 12 hours overnight.
I disabled all Facebook related apps.
Other than that I can't recall anything I did recently that might account for my new super battery. But I'm at 1d 4h 25m on battery -- most of that on WiFi granted -- and still have 42% juice. I'll take it!
I always have my charger because I'm a twitter whore. I recommend disabling any bloat ware or duplicate app like Facebook For HTC or Twitter For HTC. And make sure you change settings for each app you use and don't use.
Sent from the (problematic?) One S.
Anyone use Juicedefender? My battery is excellent but if it can be improved then even better..
I'm using my phone very much, with Facebook and games and such, and I still get through the day without hesitate! I think it's wonderful
my battery life was poor on stock rom aswell. went trough a day only. had to charge every day. but now with noble v3 rom and being tiny bit more careful with use i have battery for 2 days
Battery life on this phone is better than most and I give it that. The only problem I have is the quick drop from 100% to 92% in a hour from little to light usage.
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I'm on stock Tmo US and have been getting amazing battery life. I took it off the charger when I left for work at 7:30am and I'm at 75% at 8:50pm.
That's with quite a bit of texting, pics taken at work, and 45 minutes of web browsing while I was on lunch. Granted, I don't do Facebook, so that may help.
This is the first phone I've been lazy about rooting because it's worked so well so far.
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I'm on stock Tmo US and have been getting amazing battery life. I took it off the charger when I left for work at 7:30am and I'm at 75% at 8:50pm.
That's with quite a bit of texting, pics taken at work, and 45 minutes of web browsing while I was on lunch. Granted, I don't do Facebook, so that may help.
This is the first phone I've been lazy about rooting because it's worked so well so far.
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I get decent battery life as well, but how do you manage only a 25% drop with over 12 hours of on time whic included a bunch of texting which keeps the screen on while u text and 45 min of browsing. Seems too good
I just got my One S less than a week ago. Love ICS. Battery life has been about 10 to 12 hours with medium amount of use. Facebook is disabled. I'm using active sync to sync to my exchange server and push frequency. (that continually goes out but that's for a different thread I guess).
I charge over night as I've done with my Dinc2, original Dinc, and all flavors of blackberry.
Last night I used a digital clock app while it was charging and in the morning at 8:30 where I unplugged, it had 100%. It's now just past 11 in the morning and with email, one short phone call and some light surfing, I'm already down to 62%.
I have noticed the phone is hot which means it's working hard to do something.
I have WiFi off and GPS off as well as location services. Should I return it for a new handset? Should I just go back to Verizon and get an iPhone?? Ugh.
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I'm on stock Tmo US and have been getting amazing battery life. I took it off the charger when I left for work at 7:30am and I'm at 75% at 8:50pm.
That's with quite a bit of texting, pics taken at work, and 45 minutes of web browsing while I was on lunch. Granted, I don't do Facebook, so that may help.
This is the first phone I've been lazy about rooting because it's worked so well so far.
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What's your "screen on" time? Have you changed any connectivity settings, that may have increased your battery life a lot?
If the phone is hot then something is running in the background you should probably figure out what that is and disable it before you do anything. Now with exchange servers set up on your phone they do tend to eat some battery. That's universal though. Sounds like to do have a rogue app though. As for me this past Monday I took the phone off the charger at 430am and didn't have to return it to the charger til 11pm mostly because I was going to bed. I watched netflix, text, phone calls, Web surfed.... Love this device.
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mikea3000 said:
I get decent battery life as well, but how do you manage only a 25% drop with over 12 hours of on time whic included a bunch of texting which keeps the screen on while u text and 45 min of browsing. Seems too good
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To you and the other person that asked, I think it really has to do with cell signal strength.
I posted those numbers after coming home from work where I have awesome cell coverage.
Today I've been home all day, and even though I'm on WiFi all day, my cell signal is horrible here. WiFi or not, it's still searching for a signal constantly so I've lost 30% in 6 hours with moderate use.
Now, as I said before, I don't use facebook or friendstream, but I think a lot of it is the radio constantly searching for a better signal.
I also think that either bad signal or just 3G takes a lot of battery.
I switched to 2G only just as an experiment, where I get a good signal almost constantly. This extended my battery life quite a lot. Where I usually had 10-20% left after a full day, I had 50% left with only 2G. I have also been using WiFi where available.
Can this be a software bug since there is such a big difference? I've noticed before that phone calls suck a lot of juice...
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I also think that either bad signal or just 3G takes a lot of battery.
I switched to 2G only just as an experiment, where I get a good signal almost constantly. This extended my battery life quite a lot. Where I usually had 10-20% left after a full day, I had 50% left with only 2G. I have also been using WiFi where available.
Can this be a software bug since there is such a big difference? I've noticed before that phone calls suck a lot of juice...
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2G is known to use much less battery life in every phone you check it.
Take a look at GSMarena on phone specifications in the bottom and you'll see the great difference.
BTW, looking on the battery test GSMArena did for the One S, it's quite in good place for the 3G calling and Video playback but uses a lot of battery on WEB browsing, see here
Might be that we the ones with low battery are more surfing than the others...
I get about 24 hours.
2 hour screen use. No FB or twitter, only gmail sync
Some text, 5mins of calls, <2% no signal
When idle i get battery drain of <10mA using:
http://www.3c71.com
Battery Monitor Widget. Logging current consumption is the only way to get to the bottom of the problem.
I'm talking with the author to get the kinks worked out of the One S logging.
*but* for some reasons something is keeping the phone awake at times. current drain is then 70-80mA constant. Not been able to find the culprit, but a reboot helps.
Hopefully this was useful.
I had the same issue-downloaded 2x battery from the market and it is much better. ( I have syncing with twitter, fb, gmail, mobile life all enabled)
I could barely get through the day. Seems the phone does a lot when syncing etc and this stops that, or at least limits it to the interval of your choice. every 10 I believe with the free version.
Try it-I am sure it will help. (I also turn the brightness down as I am mostly indoors-and put it on auto outside-but that is just me)
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I had the same issue-downloaded 2x battery from the market and it is much better. ( I have syncing with twitter, fb, gmail, mobile life all enabled)
I could barely get through the day. Seems the phone does a lot when syncing etc and this stops that, or at least limits it to the interval of your choice. every 10 I believe with the free version.
Try it-I am sure it will help. (I also turn the brightness down as I am mostly indoors-and put it on auto outside-but that is just me)
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Actually, due to the fact that every time I check the usage of battery screen is in top place (with Auto brightness all the time) and the fact I'm syncing with FB, Gmail, Exchange server and more, I guess the best thing to do is to lower Screen brightness...
I am currently using a Galaxy S3 SCH-I535, stock, unrooted, and have noticed decreased battery performance over-time. I have already viewed many similar threads to try and pinpoint particular issues (wakelocks, troublesome apps, etc.). I was hoping for some perspective whether my battery life is up to snuff.
I have seen many describe their phone life with ~3+ hours of screen time with moderate usage. I use my phone intermittently throughout the work day to chat (Text messages, Hangouts), check e-mail, and browse the internet. I do not use Wi-fi, aside from when I am home in the morning or at night, and make sure to turn it off if not connected to a network. I have sync turned on, but the only accounts I have syncing are Google Now and Gmail. I have location services/GPS/Bluetooth turned off, and run in Power Saving mode with brightness at ~50% and haptic feedback turned on. My reception is subpar, usually about 2 bars and spotty 4g connections at work. I do not stream music, play games, or watch videos during typical use. No facebook, weather apps, etc. that can be culprits some times. At best, with the usage habits described, it is typical that I get 2 hours screen time over a single day (~16 hrs) before I get in the single digit battery %.
I've attached some screen shots I took of battery stats at ~50% drained (I didn't get a screen grab for it but at that battery % I had probably 1:05 to 1:15 hours of screen time). I just started using Wakelock Detector to find any problem apps - after tweaking some apps last week this has been pretty typical behavior. I have even swapped batteries with my wife's S3 to see if it was a battery problem, but did not notice a difference.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Are my expectations for battery life too high? Is this typical, or am I running lower than I should be?
That is pretty good but this comment is by someone who is rooted with a custom ROM and custom kernel since I bought the phone 7 months ago. I can't really say that is the average battery life for the device.
This looks pretty normal to me. You said you had spotty 4g coverage, while your phone is coming in and out of 4g service you'll get decreased battery life. Same happens with your mobile data and Wifi signals if they aren't strong connections.
It looks like your phone is running pretty well. People getting 3+ hours of battery life are either using their phone all the time and hit that threshold in something like 8 hours, have amazing coverage, and/or have no syncing services turned on. A key to run away Wakelocks are having a high battery usage that is coming from something other than your screen, such as media and android system. Other Wakelocks you can't do too much about. There's a thread that is titled the noobs guide to Wakelocks that gives you a pretty good direction trying to isolate Wakelocks and finding fixes for them.
I routinely get about 2-3 hours of battery life in a good coverage area in 16 hours, if I'm in a spotty area my battery will drop much faster. At a friends house with worse coverage I'll be lucky to hit 2 hours. I pretty much use my phone the same way as you.
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Hello i just bought a Nexus 5 red 16GB and i saw that the battery was losing 1% every 1 or 2 minutes , even if i'm just doing normal things like SMS/Internet ( and not using camera and YouTube ).
I use the low-consumption location setting and i disabled nearly all the Google apps/Twitter/etc.. notifications.
Is it normal?
Thank you !
Btw : i'm on low brightness and there is 70% battery remaining , with 50minutes on-screen use.
Meyer2436 said:
Hello i just bought a Nexus 5 red 16GB and i saw that the battery was losing 1% every 1 or 2 minutes , even if i'm just doing normal things like SMS/Internet ( and not using camera and YouTube ).
I use the low-consumption location setting and i disabled nearly all the Google apps/Twitter/etc.. notifications.
Is it normal?
Thank you !
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Yes. It's a fact of life that using your phone will drain battery... especially if using services that rely on data connection like SMS and internet.
Now if you were loosing 1% per minute in standby with the screen off, then I'd be concerned.
If you're still worried then try these apps...
Battery Monitor
Wakelock Detector
BetterBatteryStats
Greenify
CitizenLee said:
Yes. It's a fact of life that using your phone will drain battery... especially if using services that rely on data connection like SMS and internet.
Now if you were loosing 1% per minute in standby with the screen off, then I'd be concerned.
If you're still worried then try these apps...
Battery Monitor
Wakelock Detector
BetterBatteryStats
Greenify
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Ok but , i see many guys with stock rom that have 4-5 on screen battery life , however for me it would be 3h max...
It is possible to get 5 hours of screen on but with data and wifi turned off and doing light things... It might help to restrict background data for all the apps you don't want to run in the background and also greenify them(it hibernates them). With 3g on battery consumption increases dramatically at least in my case
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i installed Greenify and i only see one app that i greenified, btw could you explain me what you mean :
"With 3g on battery consumption increases dramatically at least in my case" ?
On my N5 there is really huge difference between battery consumption on wifi and on 3g... Wifi can give me around 3-4 hours of screen on and 3g gives me only around 2-3... Thats why I have background data restricted for majority of apps and for default data type I have sellected 2g
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MaCroX95 said:
On my N5 there is really huge difference between battery consumption on wifi and on 3g... Wifi can give me around 3-4 hours of screen on and 3g gives me only around 2-3... Thats why I have background data restricted for majority of apps and for default data type I have sellected 2g
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Ok but with what i do , and even just reading in Books this would mean that i have only 1h30 of battery since i've been 1h15min on-screen and i'm at 61% now... i disabled wifi and data.
MaCroX95 said:
It is possible to get 5 hours of screen on but with data and wifi turned off and doing light things... It might help to restrict background data for all the apps you don't want to run in the background and also greenify them(it hibernates them). With 3g on battery consumption increases dramatically at least in my case
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You can get 5+ hours sot with everything on, Wi-Fi, data, bt, location, auto screen brightness. I do. But it's how you setup and use your phone. I don't do games or social media. Nor do I use any battery saving apps, like greenify. Here's one with location off
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jd1639 said:
You can get 5+ hours sot with everything on, Wi-Fi, data, bt, location, auto screen brightness. I do. But it's how you setup and use your phone. I don't do games or social media. Nor do I use any battery saving apps, like greenify. Here's one with location off
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I agree ) though I use a lot of social networks and majority of my screeon on time is spent on facebook messenger and facebook so I think that 4 hours of screen on under those circumstances is pretty ok I don't play games either
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jd1639 said:
You can get 5+ hours sot with everything on, Wi-Fi, data, bt, location, auto screen brightness. I do. But it's how you setup and use your phone. I don't do games or social media. Nor do I use any battery saving apps, like greenify. Here's one with location off
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I don't do social app either , i used chrome 12minutes , YT 3min , and that's pretty much it.
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Meyer2436 said:
I don't do social app either , i used chrome 12minutes , YT 3min , and that's pretty much it.
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Get gsam or betterbatterystats to see where your wake locks are. Without that information people are just guessing where your issues are
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jd1639 said:
Get gsam or betterbatterystats to see where your wake locks are. Without that information people are just guessing where your issues are
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ok thank you guys, just a last question , is this normal that my usb charger ( stock ) is making noise?
My charger is making light noise as well, but only when the phone is unplugged from it or when the battery is fully charged.
porman said:
My charger is making light noise as well, but only when the phone is unplugged from it or when the battery is fully charged.
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That's normal, mine does too. A high frequency hum
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MaCroX95 said:
It is possible to get 5 hours of screen on but with data and wifi turned off and doing light things... It might help to restrict background data for all the apps you don't want to run in the background and also greenify them(it hibernates them). With 3g on battery consumption increases dramatically at least in my case
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i get 5+ screen on hours with everything on except gps and wifi(i use LTE 100% of the time).
battery life has everything to do with how you use your device personally, how you personally set it up, which apps you use, and very importantly the quality of your phone and data connection.
simms22 said:
battery life has everything to do with how you use your device personally, how you personally set it up, which apps you use, and very importantly the quality of your phone and data connection.
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This should be written on a piece of paper and included with the sale of every smartphone
Ok guys , today i finally had 3h50 of on-screen and a total of 10hours ( i wanted to test the battery so i think if i use it normally i'll have 3-4hours of on-screen and 15+ hours in total. )
Thank you guys.
By the way , i found that my wifi and 3G/4G connection was cut-off several times ( actually it seems to be connected but when i want to use internet it's not working and i need to reset the concerned connection ) , maybe this explains that problem.
Your time is normal for your setup and usage. You have location on. And probably multiple apps accessing it. Facebook is constantly loading posts and pics, that takes some juice. Etc...etc.
3 hoursish of SoT is normal in that scenario.
I get 24 hours plus and 6 plus hours of SoT consistently. But I have location off, no social apps other than Tapatalk, rarely use the "phone"...I text....and don't game. I greenify some apps that I know drain battery. I use display brightness from play store for a manual brightness slider to keep screen as dim as I can take. Gnow off. Well, you get the idea. Lol
Is it a dumbphone now? Well, 1 or 2 toggles and its plenty smart. And I rarely see battery life much higher than mine. So it suits my needs. If I worked an office job and could charge anytime, I'd have everything on too.
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Meyer2436 said:
Ok guys , today i finally had 3h50 of on-screen and a total of 10hours ( i wanted to test the battery so i think if i use it normally i'll have 3-4hours of on-screen and 15+ hours in total. )
Thank you guys.
By the way , i found that my wifi and 3G/4G connection was cut-off several times ( actually it seems to be connected but when i want to use internet it's not working and i need to reset the concerned connection ) , maybe this explains that problem.
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Yup. Weak signal while on data is a huge killer!!!
kj2112 said:
Your time is normal for your setup and usage. You have location on. And probably multiple apps accessing it. Facebook is constantly loading posts and pics, that takes some juice. Etc...etc.
3 hoursish of SoT is normal in that scenario.
I get 24 hours plus and 6 plus hours of SoT consistently. But I have location off, no social apps other than Tapatalk, rarely use the "phone"...I text....and don't game. I greenify some apps that I know drain battery. I use display brightness from play store for a manual brightness slider to keep screen as dim as I can take. Gnow off. Well, you get the idea. Lol
Is it a dumbphone now? Well, 1 or 2 toggles and its plenty smart. And I rarely see battery life much higher than mine. So it suits my needs. If I worked an office job and could charge anytime, I'd have everything on too.
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I thought it seemed normal for his set-up too.
You're drain and screen on time are impressive!
These are my standard settings, which I've used on most of my phones to squeeze the best out of the battery without sacrificing too many of the features:
Brightness 40%
All vibration off
All location services off
Google Now off
WiFi always on
3G(H+) selected instead of 4G (unavailable in my city)
x3 Gmail accounts with Push notifications on
Weather update every 4hrs
Facebook update every 4hrs but for messages only
Greenify most apps apart from essential stuff like SMS, Gmail, Hangouts, Play etc
Restrict background data for non-essential apps
I'm currently using Purity with default kernel settings and with normal usage I get around 2-3 days / 3-4hrs SoT. That's checking FB & BBC News a few times a day, a bit of Chrome, sending and receiving a few texts, maybe a few rounds of Solitaire. Even If I'm playing more demanding games or using Chrome for longer periods I'm still getting around 24hrs. I live in the city so get strong reception, and connect to WiFi at home and work so barely even use mobile data unless I'm out and about. However, when I'm out in the countryside or in an area where signal is poor I notice my battery takes a big hit.
So, the holy trinity of set-up, usage and signal quality... everyone's is different
CitizenLee said:
I thought it seemed normal for his set-up too.
You're drain and screen on time are impressive!
These are my standard settings, which I've used on most of my phones to squeeze the best out of the battery without sacrificing too many of the features:
Brightness 40%
All vibration off
All location services off
Google Now off
WiFi always on
3G(H+) selected instead of 4G (unavailable in my city)
x3 Gmail accounts with Push notifications on
Weather update every 4hrs
Facebook update every 4hrs but for messages only
Greenify most apps apart from essential stuff like SMS, Gmail, Hangouts, Play etc
Restrict background data for non-essential apps
I'm currently using Purity with default kernel settings and with normal usage I get around 2-3 days / 3-4hrs SoT. That's checking FB & BBC News a few times a day, a bit of Chrome, sending and receiving a few texts, maybe a few rounds of Solitaire. Even If I'm playing more demanding games or using Chrome for longer periods I'm still getting around 24hrs. I live in the city so get strong reception, and connect to WiFi at home and work so barely even use mobile data unless I'm out and about. However, when I'm out in the countryside or in an area where signal is poor I notice my battery takes a big hit.
So, the holy trinity of set-up, usage and signal quality... everyone's is different
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2 or 3 days!? Amazing! Good job.
I usually use 6 hours a day....so 24 to 28 hours is my norm.
If I could use it less, hopefully I'd be around your time. Hopefully. Lol
Overnight drain is usually 0.3 to 0.5 per hour.