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Is anyone that is having battery issues running Adao Task Manager and Battery Status Pro?
I just factory reset my phone and I got 24hours of batter life. About 8 standby but a good deal of texting, web, some calls and some you tube.
I installed Task Manager and Batter Status Pro last night and my battery this morning went down 15% in about 1hr.
I uninstalled these today and will post again but has anyone else seen big battery drain from these apps or does anyone that is having issues running something similar?
I have been playing with the battery for about a week now.
For me this phone runs pretty good during stand-by. I would have about 2-3% drop for a whole night (7 to 8 hrs), with Google (push), Twitter and weather syncing.
The problem is when you use it, it drops like crazy. When I read news or surf the web, it would drop 1% every 1 or 2 min.
This morning I read an ebook, with black background for about 30 min, it dropped about 3%.
So basically i think the screen, data connection, and non-black background are the ones that kill the battery.
Yea, I agree, the S-AMOLED screen in this thing is an energy hog. OLED's are supposed to be more energy efficient than typical LCD's but I'm just not seeing it. Whenever I look at battery usage stats it shows the display at 70-75% of battery usage. Thats ridiculous. I have until the 18th, but I'm quickly leaning towards returning this and just getting an iphone4. This phone is becoming more and more disappointing the longer I have it.
This morning I have been uplugged 4.75hrs and used 16% no battery monitor and no app killer. Basically done the same things I did yesterday. Some Bebbled,texting, email, phone calls .
I will update tomorrow with total hours battery life for today. Would be happy if I can replicate the 24hours I got the day before installing those apps.
I got like 45 hours of battery with moderate usage during the two days. Seems fine to me, I occasionally used system panel to monitor if anything was using high and constant CPU
This is pretty typical of a 1ghz phone My nexus would last a day of heavy usage, 2 days if i use it lightly. We need to wait for undervolted kernels to be developed xD
Also, it really helps if you disable 3G when you don't use it. This allows me to get 3-4 days of light usage out of my nexus. I haven't played with the Captivate long enough to know how much of a difference this makes on this phone though
when you guys refer to "stand by", what exactly do you mean? Just screen off/phone idle? The battery usage on my phone when I use it seems to be OK even if not amazing, but it continues to sap life from the battery when I'm using it at an alarming rate.
Standby is when the phone is idle/screen off/locked.
The display is definitely power hungry. Using the Power Control widget that comes installed definitely has helped with battery life. It will let you toggle WiFi, BT, GPS, Data Sync, and Brightness (at 3 levels). When I'm not using anyone of those, I turn it off. When I'm indoors, I'll set the brightness to the lowest level. I'm usually at my desk when I'm streaming music, so I'll have it plugged in.
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Yea, I agree, the S-AMOLED screen in this thing is an energy hog. OLED's are supposed to be more energy efficient than typical LCD's but I'm just not seeing it. Whenever I look at battery usage stats it shows the display at 70-75% of battery usage. Thats ridiculous. I have until the 18th, but I'm quickly leaning towards returning this and just getting an iphone4. This phone is becoming more and more disappointing the longer I have it.
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Actually they are more energy efficient on black screens, But screens with a lot of white in them suck battery bad.
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Actually they are more energy efficient on black screens, But screens with a lot of white in them suck battery bad.
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This is true the white screens burn the battery etc. I just wanted to let everyone know what I did to make my battery last more that 24hrs.
First, read the Wiki guide and apply some of the battery saving tips.
Second, UNINSTALL a program called "gReader" created by noinnion. This program is a huge battery hog! At least it was for me.
Hope this helps.
Well I guess I am one of the "lucky ones" Im running a live wallpaper and have not run my battery down since the 1st day. Right now Im at 40% life and at 15 Hrs 30m since unplugged. This is with checking facebook, twitter, email, phone calls, internet browsing\video watching and following the steps for the GPS fix. The only thing I have done is install ATK on the phone, besides that its all stock.
One thing I know is a huge battery drain is Time without Service. Check that stat and see if you have anytime at all without service, if so, I am pointing to that as a major drain on the battery. I know currently I have 0% Time without signal, my fiancee however is usually in the 20+% range and her battery drains like many reports I have seen here (she has an EVO).....
Yesterday I only managed 16 hours. Web, Email, A bluetooth file transfer, short bit of gaming. I have about 5% of the cell standby time (26%) without signal. My girlfriend has the Aria which is running Android 2.1 also, has all sorts of widgets, haptic feedback on and can make it at least 24 hours. I get that it has a smaller screen but it is also an LCD. Shouldn't the Super Amoled be saving our battery some display consumption.
i get about 14 hours or so moderate usage and at the end of the day, i have about 35% left at night.
If you detail the "Display" usage in the battery usage details how many minutes has your screen been on? Mine says 1hour 2mins ...this is for 8 hours of running time. My display is using 50% of the battery (which is at 68% now).
W00t W00t today I have reached a new high 2 Days 6 hours and 29 minuts with 12% battery left.....
What I have found is keeping Wifi on while I am at work and home like almost doubled my battery life. Which is great that I can use Wifi all day and not drain the battery so fast like my Fuze. Right now been off charger since 7:30am and I have 84% left. Yesterday after 9 hours I was still over 50%. For me its better than any other smartphone I have owened.
I used manual brightness, (swipe notification bar), turn off GPS/BT. black wallpaper and set Wifi to never sleep. Also the power saving mode in settings is off for other reason and doesn't affect battery.
At 18% right now and it's been off the charger for about 30 hours. I noticed yesterday that while I was connected to wifi at home (with Y5 app), it was draining faster than when I was connected to 3g. Did some tested back and forth and JuicePlotter clearly had a noticeably steeper downward slope for when wifi was connected than when it was using 3g. Weird :\
I have been having problems with my battery life pretty much since I have had this phone. I downloaded spare parts app to give me some insight because I have also noticed several times phone seems warm even when screen has been off for some time.
As of right now today, to give an example, my phone has been unplugged for the last 10hours and I only have 44% battery left. Says display is responsible for 71% of battery use yet screen has only been on for 44min of that time (and I have the brightness turned all the way down). According to spare parts "other usage" my "running" time is cause for 35% of batter use at over 3hours.
With these things in consideration I feel that there is something that is stopping the phone from properly sleeping due to the phone being warm at times display has been off for a while and the contrast between screen on and running time. Partial wake usage doesn't show much running under it as most listed items have only a sliver of a bar showing.
Can someone please lend me some guidance on how to further troubleshoot this problem?
i mean that type of battery consumption doesnt seem irregular to me...im at close to 10 hours for the day and have 59% left.
Are you in a shaky signal area? Thats one reason my phone gets warm. especially if its a fringe area where it cant decide between a 3G signal or 4G signal.
In spare parts there is a option for partial wake lock. If something is stuck at 100%, then you know you yuo have a rogue app thats causing your phone not to sleep
But can you confirm it being normal to see 34% time running under other usage settings for spare parts? Partial wake usage as said doesn't show much keeping a wake lock going.
As for signal, not too sure, very rarely if ever see a 3g change over. Is usually at 4g and occassionally hitting edge.
WOW, you get that good of battery out of yours? that seems epic haha, i get 3-4 hours tops.. i mean i abuse it, but still..
I charge mine at night. Ran it from 7am to 12am and it was at 34%.
Yeah see...7am to 12am and 34% remaining? No way I get that.
If it werent for the results I'm posting regarding "running" percentage from spare parts other usage and the screen on time I would just accept it as a phone deemed to have bad battery life, but it seems to me like something is going on and I guess I'm looking for someone to confirm or dismiss my suspicions.
Maybe I'm also a little spoiled coming off my G2 that was rooted running CM Rom and CPU ramping/cut down which in combination gave me, under the same amount of use, a situation where I was getting home at night and still having 40-50% battery left in comparison to the 15% I commonly see now.
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Yeah see...7am to 12am and 34% remaining? No way I get that.
If it werent for the results I'm posting regarding "running" percentage from spare parts other usage and the screen on time I would just accept it as a phone deemed to have bad battery life, but it seems to me like something is going on and I guess I'm looking for someone to confirm or dismiss my suspicions.
Maybe I'm also a little spoiled coming off my G2 that was rooted running CM Rom and CPU ramping/cut down which in combination gave me, under the same amount of use, a situation where I was getting home at night and still having 40-50% battery left in comparison to the 15% I commonly see now.
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once some custom kernels come out that let you uv/uc/oc then i would say you can expect the same type of results..i just went on a trip with a friend who has a g2 and he was constantly crying about his battery dying, (stock), where as I only had to charge mine on average 1.5 times a day with moderate to heavy usage. I find this battery phenomenal compared to all the other android devices ive owned and tested
damn!
i charge mine every other day.. hehehe i dont abuse it or anything though.. just regular internet every few minutes or so.. i have the BETA juicedefender installed guess that helps a lot. data is off when the screen is off, set it to agressive..
here is the app hope it helps...
I noticed the same problem,i brought this phone on saturday and was very impressed with the battery until yesterday night I noticed the same thing, my phone was at 50% and I had it sleeping then I get the battery low notification 10 minutes later and the back of the phone was real hot. This can't be normal cuz I have the same apps installed from 2 days ago and I was using the phone heavily even using mobile ap and still didn't have this problem, if you guys find a solution please share it with me.
I have only used my Galaxy Note tablet a few days, and I am probably using it approximately 5-6 hours tops. It is needing recharged every day! It takes hours to charge and then I only get 5-6 hours usage? Is this normal?
I would appreciate any response.
Thanks.
Galaxy Note 10.1
Try going into setting and then battery see which application is draining the battery and get rid of it.
Note has one of the best batteries around but if you use non stop for heavy application like gamming you should get between 8 - 10 hours of actual usage.
If not then may be there is an issue with your charger or battery get it checked and replaced
Also Note takes a long time to charge around 5 - 6 hours
Hmm.. I use it and get about 8 hours +/- depending what I do with it. I normally use it to take notes for about 5 hours (around 3 hours of actual note taking, 2 hours of doing scratch work for homework on it), and I'm browsing Reddit for the rest of the time. I've noticed that I've had to charge it more often lately, but I've been using it to watch Netflix mostly in the last couple of days.
In my experience with the Asus Transformer, I had to charge almost everyday as well because of my high usage. What do you normally use it for?
A day's heavy usage is normal.
Charge from 0-100% takes about 5 hrs for everyone.
In simple terms, the Note 10.1 has a large capacity
battery that takes a while to charge. Rechargeable
batteries lose their ability to hold charge over time,
but that time is measured in months and years.
I am not sure, maybe I am reading this battery meter wrong. When I go to settings and open battery, it says "51% discharging" and then below that says "15h 12m 59s on battery."
We are mostly using the tab for web surfing, and watched a few Youtube videos. I don't believe anyone has even watched a full show on it yet. It has only been in use since Thursday night. I am not sure what to think.
Doesn't the 51% represent how much battery life is remaining? And what does the other stat (15h 12m 59s on battery) represent?
I appreciate any help or advice.
Also, The only items it shows below that is Screen & Device Idle. Screen says 99% and Device Idle says 2%.
99% usage for screen is quite odd. Maybe try turning brightness down or trying the power saving option for screen. Also, and this may sound silly, but if you haven't rebooted it, that is worth a shot, sometimesthings just drain until rebooted.
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I am not sure, maybe I am reading this battery meter wrong. When I go to settings and open battery, it says "51% discharging" and then below that says "15h 12m 59s on battery."
We are mostly using the tab for web surfing, and watched a few Youtube videos. I don't believe anyone has even watched a full show on it yet. It has only been in use since Thursday night. I am not sure what to think.
Doesn't the 51% represent how much battery life is remaining? And what does the other stat (15h 12m 59s on battery) represent?
I appreciate any help or advice.
Also, The only items it shows below that is Screen & Device Idle. Screen says 99% and Device Idle says 2%.
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To answer your questions
51% is the amount of remaining battery.
15h 12m 59sec is just what it sounds like. It's the time the tablet had been off the charger.
Most of the time your screen should be the highest. Here is what mine looks like. It's been a light day.
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Please help me figure out if this kind of usage seems appropriate for battery drain. I am keeping a little log to see how fast it is draining. I just cannot understand if this is normal. Here is a small sample for this evening to see if it seems normal. I only been surfing some, no watching anything.
1109p at 99% battery
1130p at 94% battery
1155p at 90% battery
under settings, battery, all that says is screen 100% no other items listed below
Is it normal to get 5 or 6 hrs then have to recharge even if you are just surfing? I thought people went for days without charging this. I have never owned a tablet before, but I never have to charge my computer or phone this much and I use both for more time than this and not had to recharge this soon.
I am just trying to understand if I have something se tup wrong, or have a faulty tablet.
I truly appreciate all the help from everyone. Thanks.
shopndrop said:
Please help me figure out if this kind of usage seems appropriate for battery drain. I am keeping a little log to see how fast it is draining. I just cannot understand if this is normal. Here is a small sample for this evening to see if it seems normal. I only been surfing some, no watching anything.
1109p at 99% battery
1130p at 94% battery
1155p at 90% battery
under settings, battery, all that says is screen 100% no other items listed below
Is it normal to get 5 or 6 hrs then have to recharge even if you are just surfing? I thought people went for days without charging this. I have never owned a tablet before, but I never have to charge my computer or phone this much and I use both for more time than this and not had to recharge this soon.
I am just trying to understand if I have something se tup wrong, or have a faulty tablet.
I truly appreciate all the help from everyone. Thanks.
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Have you tried changing the brightness to about 30% (about the same as what I have it on and I get about 3-4 days charge with light usage)? Also rebooting, uninstalling recent apps, enabling/disabling power-saving options?
If nothing else works, try a factory reset and just use it like normal with no extra downloaded apps from google play. Try that for one charge and if it's still bad, there must be something wrong with your unit.
Would you be able to take a screenshot of your battery status window? (hold spen button and hold spen on screen for 2 seconds to take screenshot). It could help us determine the problem. If you could get screenshots of both the main window listing the things that have used battery, as well as the window after you tap the battery graph, that would be great.
Mate, I don't honestly believe you have a problem... I use my tab for around 10hrs/day and I need to recharge it... I do use it for mostly video files...
I also have the 3g version. What's yours? If it's 3g and you are in an area where you don't have a good signal then the modem will be looking and consuming battery power...
Even though this tablet has a large battery, it is usually used up within a day or 2... Try leaving your laptop on all day, it won't last too long either...
That's the main difference between a laptop and a tablet (even if the laptop is in hibernation it will still kill the battery eventually).
Since i got the phone i have had great battery life, according to gsam my average is like 17.5 hours on battery with like 4.5 hours of screen on.
the last week or 2 though, it has been absolutely terrible. not getting more than like 1.5 hours of screen on, max. i havent changed anything, still keep the brightness around 50% (with auto checked). here are some GSAM screen shots, hopefully someone can help me figure out what is going on.
I left my phone off the charger last night and this was the drain over night.
does anyone have an idea of whats going on, looking at the screen shots? today i was off charger for 4 hours, with 1 hour and 20 min of screen on time (set to dim, like 40% brightness) and it used 60% battery. This battery life is crazy low.
Check for wakelocks.
Hey Guys
i have a strange Problem
my last one plus one had a good battery life time but the sound buttons get brocken , so one plus change my mobile.
1 wekk ago i get my new phone, everything is working but the battery drain was very fast.
i decided to install blisspop with bueffola kernel tweaked it a little bit for battery saving and install BBS for wakelock detections.
I elimenate all the wakelocks that cause a fast battery drain and since that te battery drain in idle is minimal but when my mobile phone is on the battery drains 3% in 1 hour.
That's weird cause as i say i eliminate all the wakelocks that causes fast drains and use the phone most time for spotify and whatsapp.
And if i start to browse on the Internet the battery life drops even faster
So what can i do?
Am i do something wrong
or is the battery of this new phone crap and i'm so luckily to get a phone with a failiure battery?
Any suggestions would be nice and sorry for my bad english.
German or russian is better
on 50% battery i have something like 2h of screentime so i thing till 0% battery i will have 4h SOT and this is nothing (don't use the Phone much a saing above only whatsapp and spotify)
Well, to be honest, 13% in 4:30h is not "very fast" considering you had 30 minutes of screen time. Mine loses about 10% per 30 minutes of using the device, going by that there are only 3% unaccounted for which easily fit the 4h standby your device was in.
Anyway. In 4:20h of tracked time, you have 1h awake time of which you had 35min of screen time. The remaining 25 minutes can be split up in roughly 15min of AudioOutput and 10min for several wakelocks such as the proximity sensor doing stuff for 3 minutes, the phone doing stuff for 4 minutes, basically everything is accounted for. All in order I'd say.
What I spotted:
You are on Lollipop. Did you wipe after/before upgrading to Lollipop or did you dirty flash from CM11s?
Do you have the new Lollipop-compatible firmwares (they come with CM12) installed? Not sure they come with Blisspop.
BetterBatteryStats has the CPU sitting on 1500MHz for half an hour. Check whether you configured your system to stay at 1500MHz with screen on which of course would be crap, the CPU should idle at around 300MHz.
It seems you had the device shut-down and then booted. Booting up the device eats massive amounts of juice.
Android reckons 3 days of usage like that, what's not ok with that?
1. Yes i wiped it and don't dirty flash the rom befor i was going to lollipop
2. Not sure have the latest bissplop
3 Where can i check what i configured to stay at 1500MHZ , in the kernel settings?
4. i know i rebootet it once
5. The reckons of the 3 days is not true , it only affects if my device is staying in standy cause i lost nearly nothing (as you will see in the logs i posted in the spoiler.)
The first BBS log shows the Device fully charged at 100% with wifi and Mobile Data on. I left the Phone in standby for the night (8h) and i didn't lose any precent.
So after 8h standby i still have 100%
After 11 o'clock till now i used the Phone mostly for spotify , a few times Whatsapp and something like 30-50min for internet.
In the second BBS log you will see that i lost Bat.: -35%(88% to 53%) [4,5%/h] although the SOT time is only at something like 2h.
The SOT time of 4h would be total normally for me if my reckon of android would be 3 days cause this is the case on my lg g2.
Because i use the phone most of the really only for spotify.
So the main problem of my device is not the idle drain but the drain if the screen is on or spotify works in the background with screen of.
I hope that the BBS logs in the Attachment and the 3 pictures can help you.
Thanks for your help
Don't go by the sudden drop of battery percentage after staying in standby for a long time, eg. over night. The very subtle decline of the voltage over the course of the night is smoothed out and reported as 0% lost. Once you start using the device, and the change in voltage gets more noticeable, the situation is re-evaluated and the previous drop of 0% gets counted in and a sudden drop of several % over a short amount of time will occur. This is physics and by design.
As for the rest, I'm by no means a pro in reading BBS Logs but from what I see, yes you are on Lollipop firmwares/baseband so we're good. The device enters deep sleep just fine, excellent in fact. No major or irregular wakelocks seem to occur, perfect.
As for the daily usage log, I see 7:45h. Of which 4:10h in deep sleep and 3:35h awake, of which ~2h screen on and ~30min phone on. You lost 35% in that time, averages 4.5% per hour. This seems perfectly ok. This would translate to 7h awake time with 4h screen time. I seem to fail to see your problem.
Interestingly the frequency tops now at 1500MHz. Did you change something?
To take myself as an example, on my way to work, I lost 19% in roughly 45-50 minutes of playing ingress. I had about 45 minutes of screen time, GPS constantly active and of course constant data traffic. I arrived 2h ago, barely touched my device in those 2h and lost another 2%. This is more or less in line with your usage, 1-2% when sleeping, 4% when awake with screen off, ~20% with screen on. You're not happy? You reckon you had more on your previous device?
Thanks for reply and help
My goal is to have a few days with android e.g 2-3 days
SOT is not so important.
Important is that there is not hudge battery drain wenn i hear spotify cause it dosn't mather if the screen is on or off it drains hard
On my lg g2 it's not so hard
And no didn't change anything about 1500MHZ
Any suggestion ?
Greetings
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The battery is bloated
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