I've notice on most my android devices that if you set mobile data and wifi to off, the battery usage decreases dramatically !!
Especially when you're not using your phone (screen off).
I deduced that the main battery drainage comes from applications which poll the network frequently. Is there a way, on a non-rooted phone, to know which applications are doing that ?
I've tried installing Doze (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yirgalab.dzzz) but it doesn't seem to have much effect.
Also is there a way to tune polling frequency if it's not in the app settings ? Probably not but I ask just in case because I don't really care if I've got a facebook notification one hour later ...
I ended up uninstaling facebook (replaced by metal where you can tune the polling rate), fb messenger, whatsapp, skype and hangouts, and now it works like it should. But I'm kind of cutoff from the world now which isn't very good for a "communication device"
If you guys know any replacements for those apps, I'd be grateful.
I also tried to create a task for tasker to switch off wifi and mobile data when screen is off but with no success
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Has happened twice now; When I stop using the phone and go to bed, I've got 33% battery left. Wake up in the AM and look at my phone, the battery is down to 13%! What the heck is it doing at night? I don't use 3G/4G networks at all, they're disabled. Wi-fi is on at all times, but sync settings are on only for Gmail, FB and Contacts....... Strange!
Could it be the flashing LED-light, that shows I've got new mail/messages?
i have 100% battery when i'm going sleep. On wake au battery is minus ~35-40%
no 3/4g, no WiFi
about 100 apps installed.
from here about 20 apps always trying to go in running processes. things like maps facebook mail.... it drives me crazy
try to watch battery graphs,
I'm sure you know about advanced task killer, Android System Info, System Panel Lite apps... with 'em yu can track phone activity... applicatio call, usage, battery graphs, .....
maybe you have some custom ROM like Revolution HD which is overclocking your CPU and GPU
I've only had my nexus for a week now and I'm trying to hunt down the reason I'm getting poor battery life. At first it was nlp wakelocks but that went away on its own somehow. Now its my wifi draining battery, in 8 hours of idle overnight it went from 100% to 79% and wifi was the top usage. I've never seen this before on any phone with any rom so I'm not sure what to do about it.
Hi,
Try Settings/Wi-Fi/Menu/Advanced/ and untick Scanning always available...
This is what I did to improve my battery:
1. Location Services : If you are not in a neighborhood with a lot of wifi spots you will most likely feel this draining your battery life. Under settings make sure that Location Services is set to battery saving and not High accuracy.
2. Widgets : Weather widgets, games eat battery by constantly fetching information . Check the settings for these widgets and make sure they are using wifi and not updating the weather information every 30 mins or so. I keep my settings to update weather information every hour to keep it reasonable. The Gmail widget sometimes eats your battery too. I removed the widget and used an icon in the dock at the bottom to check my email. Another thing I noticed was that some widgets are just more battery intensive than others. For example I found HD widgets consumed nearly twice as much battery as Chronus on the home screen but both displayed the same information.
3. Restart your phone : Sometimes residual processes from closed apps could cause issues. Restart your phone if you haven't done it in a while and it should clear up any unnecessary things.
4. Keep wifi on during sleep : I made sure my phone uses wifi even when its sleeping. 3g / 4g eats the battery like crazy if you turn off wifi when your phone sleeps. This should be a default setting as pointed out by some users. In my case it had been changed probably when I was tinkering with the phone. You can find this setting in the Settings -> Wifi -> advanced -> Keep wifi on during sleep.
You can also use apps like Greenify , Tasker , and Llama.
5. Don't use Automatic Brightness : Turns out if the sensors are constantly looking to adjust brightness it takes up more battery. I set my brightness at around 60% and it works just fine throughout the day.
6. Use wifi over 3G/4G/LTE if possible
7. Switch off wifi when using Data: Android doesnt switch off your WiFi when you use data because Google wants you to use it for Locations and help build their database of networks.Switch off WiFi completely when using data to save a good chunk of battery.
8. Turn off Vibration on touch : Typing uses quite a bit of battery over the course of a day. Try switching Vibration on touch off.
9. Use Franco Kernel: : This will require rooting your device however it makes it a lot more power efficient.
10. Turn down the Facebook refresh rate : Make sure it updates not very often( every 3-4 hours) or never. IMO your phone is better off without Facebook or any other battery hog social networking apps.
Hey guys, just wanted to throw out what I have found re: reasonable battery life.
As most of you know, you can tell when the phone is not getting what I consider reasonable battery life.
Here are the things that I found worth doing:
1: Greenify apps if you can. Unfortunately, Facebook is one of the worst violators of battery and if you greenify it, you will go a long way towards having decent battery life. Of course, then you don't get your Facebook notifications, but for me, this is a plus.
2: Battery Doctor. You can set it to kill apps when the screen is off. There is a whitelist as well so you can keep certain apps running instead being killed.
3: Adjust the auto brightness curve. This seems to work well. Keep the screen reasonably bright but no more than necessary. I think this might work better than just a fixed brightness level because if the area gets really bright, at least the screen will react and become brighter so you can still see the screen. To me, the screen is a battery killer.
4: If you have a super AMOLED display supposedly you can black out the screen with a dark UI. Not sure how much this helps.
5: Custom Kernel. I have only tried IceCode and insanity. Both were giving reasonable battery life. I tried the lower voltage tables in IceCode but didn't notice much difference.
For me, even though I tried several different ROMs, if I did the above, I got reasonable standby/sleep times. It was usually 1 to 1.5 percent per hour in sleep. When the screen was on, battery life was totally dependent on screen brightness. For me, reasonable is with decent use - check/reply to mail a few times an hour, browse web, text, talk abut an hour a day, etc... from 7a-3p and still have around 70% left. For me, the phone still needs charging every day though. Any other tips???
For Facebook, I use the Tinfoil For Facebook app, which is pretty much just a wrapper of the mobile browser version. Beside the battery drain the official app causes, the privacy concerns with the addition of them listening in on your mic makes this worth it.
Hi all. Can anyone please suggest which Rom & kernel combination gives best battery life for Ville c2 . Main use is web browsing on mobile data & some casual gaming.
I recently got this device and am new to this (c2) forum.
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I use the "Snapdragon BatteryGuru" application.
A feature I love is that I can set what apps have to be updated ever, when I use them or basing on my use. For example I installed Facebook, Twitter, a mail client and Skype on my phone. I can choose that the mail client has to be updated ever, Facebook and Twitter basing on my use, and Skype when I use it.
BatteryGuru can enable some features like the Wi-Fi or the Mobile data basing on my use. For example, I surf the internet between 8:00 AM and 3:00 PM. The Snapdragon's application registers this activity and it will automatically enable internet connection between 8:00 AM and 3:00 PM.
Another feature I like is that I can enable a low power mode when the battery reaches a choosen level and disable, for example, the mobile data, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, apps update, etc.
Awesome app!
I saw that app. Will need to check it out. Sounds like useful features.
Thanks! I'll try Greenify with Facebook.
I'm quite satisfied with the AOSPA 4+ ROM (stock kernel). I unplug the phone at 9am and around 10pm - 56% battery remaining (with Greenify + Auto brightness + Dark UI theme) with normal usage like browsing/checking emails/phone calls every now and then.
Hi guys
I'm a BlackBerry user of ten years and have recently moved over to Android (with some regret).
I know Android is great for customising, so my quest now is to find out how to control individual apps from running too much data - I know of the "Restrict Background Data" option, but is there a way to be more granular and control which apps use data on Wi-Fi and on Mobile Data?
And on that, to reduce battery consumption, is there a way to control the interval frequency with which apps synchronise? For example, Sunrise, Gmail, Inbox, Google Keep - if they're all polling and synchronising regularly, I'm sure that uses up my data and my battery a lot faster. Is there a way to tell them "only poll manually" etc.?
Hi, you can go to settings>battery turn on the battery saver and see what apps or features consumes the most of your battery, analyse them and take action according to that by removing, synchronizing or stop particular apps.
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I have tried this mode (which keeps only the clock, phone, address book and messaging functionality - I wonder if this is android's or doogee's native mode) overnight and the phone used 4 per cent of battery in 8 hours. This is pretty amazing compared to 20% in 'super' mode, with a number of other tweaks, such as brevent.
This would be the mode of choice for any extended periods, however, switching between the extreme and normal mode is rather clumsy. The button mapper, blockit, non-onboard alarm clock widget, Lux - they all require restarting.
I have tried a number of non root solutions so far:
using brevent to disable maps, inbox, google app, chrome and gmail, which were shown as the main offenders in wakelock detector.
Still, the phone never gets into deep sleep even for a second - except in this extreme mode.
Is it wakelocks that drain the battery? Once I have rid myself of all the google apps, which is not ideal at all, the first three wakeup triggers are: android system, phone service and google services. Still the battery use is 20% of a 5500 battery per night.
I have switched off wifi and bt scanning, I switch off bt and wifi when not using, do not let google track my location, switch off gps..
Doogee s60 users, has anyone tested a way to switch from normal and extreme mode (perhaps using automation) in a quick, unabsorbing way?