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Before anyone accuse me of it, I did, in fact, look through the other battery threads on this forum (and other forums, for that matter), and I've already applied numerous tricks. I managed to get my phone to last roughly 9 hours from my typical usage, which now makes it comparable to other phones I've used in the past.
However, in about a day or two, I'm going to be getting a bluetooth headset...which basically means that I'm going to need to keep the Captivate's bluetooth on 24/7 (or, at least, most of the day). I really don't know how much battery this is going to cost me on the Captivate, so I'm trying my best to make things better now to make things smooth in the future. However, I appear to be at the end of my rope.
I have pretty much gimped the Captivate as much as one could reasonably take (more, I'd dare argue). I cut all of my volume down to half of what it was and I removed most of the quick icons. I also set a completely black wallpaper, I turned off all animation, and I turned the brightness down to its lowest setting.
I honestly don't know how to make it any worse. The SAMOLED screen is basically a meaningless PR term to me now and I'm actually missing phone calls from sheer lacking of hearing my phone ring...despite it being right in my pocket.
Going even further, I also attempted to switch to ADW.Launcher based upon recommendations by others that it increases battery life (I found that it had little to no effect). I also attempted to severely underclock my CPU (down to 200Mhz) based, again, upon other claims that it increases their battery life all the way to as high as 30+ hours on a single full charge.
Somehow, underclocking my CPU actually made the battery die out faster.
Furthermore, I attempted to use programs (SMODA, 2G/3G) which claim they allow me to switch to EDGE because, for some God-forsaken reason, Android doesn’t seem to have any toggle for doing it. Unfortunately, none of them seem to work; rather than switching to 2G, they all just completely disabled data, which, unfortunately, is completely unacceptable to me. So at this point, I only seem to have a few more extreme (from my perspective) options. Once I actually get the bluetooth, I plan to turn off most of the auto-updating apps (email, weather, twitter, etc), and just update them myself periodically. Furthermore, I plan to turn off the GPS location feature once I get my GPS unit.
Beyond the above, though, as I said, I'm at the end of my rope. Once I employ the other tricks, I figure I might be able to stretch battery life to 9.5-10 hours, but I would like to go even further. If anyone could offer me some help, I would highly appreciate it.
if your gonna have a bluetooth headset on disable your ringtone completly that would be meaning less. if your near wi-fi a lot have it connect only though that.
also you can clock the cpu down to 100Mhz along with the GPU.
AND to force 2G/edge read my howto in general
oh the ext2 lagfix can also save you some battery life
xatrekak said:
if your gonna have a bluetooth headset on disable your ringtone completly that would be meaning less. if your near wi-fi a lot have it connect only though that.
also you can clock the cpu down to 100Mhz along with the GPU.
AND to force 2G/edge read my howto in general
oh the ext2 lagfix can also save you some battery life
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I'm already doing the first sans disabling ringtone. I'm not so sure doing such a thing would be acceptable to me.
As for the underlocking suggestion, as I said, I underclocked the CPU all the way down to 200Mhz and the battery actually drained even faster. I doubt underclocking even further is going to help. Furthermore, I actually did try 100Mhz originally, but the performance was so horrendous that it was unbearable.
As for the lag fix, I already have it. Lastly, I knew about that 4636 technique to switch to 2G already, but, unfortunately, it doesn't appear to work for me. The setting doesn't save and 3G still remains.
EDIT: I actually found a way to make the above work. Simply dial *#*#197328640#*#*, then go Debug Screen > Phone Control > UE State Control > Change RAT to GSM. This will actually force your phone to use GSM only. This seems like the answer to all of my battery problems....except it doesn't work. Once you make the change, the INFO menu reports that it has been changed to 'GSM Only', but data appears to have been disabled. Restarting your phone makes data works again, but the INFO menu reported that data has been reset back to 'GSM/CDMA auto'. Yay.
If you haven't already, turn off GPS when you aren't using it. Use the Power Control widget to help. Make sure all of the things in the power control widget are off unless you are using it. And use advanced task killer if you haven't already.
i say screw underclocking let run at whatever i dont think it makes a difference.
forget advanced task killer, i like auto killer.
leave gps off unless needed, and backround data
switch to 2g when you can.
no live walls of course use dark or black, no updating widgets
i dumped stuff like juice defender, cause with backround data off i dont think it does anything.
flight mode it at night (when sleeping) if not charging
ive been running jh3 (now jh7) with sre. get to work (i run 2g at work)at 9am listen to pandora all day through bluetooth (which is on for 6-8hrs) and wifi (6-8hrs) good amount off browsing bout 30 min of voice calls, some texts email checking, more browsing, some games. on average lately after being unplugged for 13-17 hrs at the end of the day with 20-30% life left,using bout 3hrs of display, 30 min voice calls, bluetooth doesnt use crap bout 3%, media server usually 15%, cell satndby i wanna say 10%, im pretty happy i guess, even though im always lookin for better results, tryin the new sre with undervolting, heard some good things.
still when that seidio 3200 mah battery comes out im gettin it, dont care how fat it makes the phone, things to dang thin as it is, and without some sort of cover its like a wet bar of soap!!
What is your typical daily usage? I have fairly light usage (few games here and there a little music and a good amount of web surfing, app browsing and texting with a few phone calls using speaker phone) and I'm at 28 hours of use with 55% battery.
I have just the typical power saving tricks(gps off, bluetooth off, screen at minimum or 30% and my data doesn't sync automatically), no under clocking or anything. I should point out I'm running a euro galaxy rom and am not ever on a wifi connection.
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What is your typical daily usage? I have fairly light usage (few games here and there a little music and a good amount of web surfing, app browsing and texting with a few phone calls using speaker phone) and I'm at 28 hours of use with 55% battery.
I have just the typical power saving tricks(gps off, bluetooth off, screen at minimum or 30% and my data doesn't sync automatically), no under clocking or anything. I should point out I'm running a euro galaxy rom and am not ever on a wifi connection.
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Wow you are lucky. Yesterday I got 2 phone calls for a total of 3 minutes. I sent 7 text messages. I surfed the web maybe for 15 minutes. No games. Nothing else major. GPS off. Bluetooth off. Wifi on. Screen at 22%. Only background data I have is email which checks once every hour and a weather widget that refreshes every 6 hours. I got barely 12 hours in before my battery died.
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If you haven't already, turn off GPS when you aren't using it. Use the Power Control widget to help. Make sure all of the things in the power control widget are off unless you are using it. And use advanced task killer if you haven't already.
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Yes, I'm keeping GPS off, and I'm using ATK already.
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What is your typical daily usage? I have fairly light usage (few games here and there a little music and a good amount of web surfing, app browsing and texting with a few phone calls using speaker phone) and I'm at 28 hours of use with 55% battery.
I have just the typical power saving tricks(gps off, bluetooth off, screen at minimum or 30% and my data doesn't sync automatically), no under clocking or anything. I should point out I'm running a euro galaxy rom and am not ever on a wifi connection.
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Typical usage for me runs along this line: A lot of web browsing, perhaps 30-45 minutes of music, and plenty of IM. I also use Aldiko to read now and then. Calls do factor into this, but typically only two or three 10-15 minute phone calls.
Truthfully, I simply don't see how it is possible for you to use the phone for 28 hours straight and still have 55% battery. I could lose 30% battery just by leaving my Captivate on stand-by for 30 hours.
I certainly understand the interest in having the best battery life possible.
Are you in a work environment where you cannot plug it to a computer for part of the day?
Fortunately, I am. And I always have it plugged in in the car.
I don't want to have a powerful phone with all the features turned off in order to keep it going.
I dont see how you can get 28hrs @ 55% either, with the kind of usage he was claiming, i wouldnt exactly call that light usage
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28hrs @ 55% What firmware you runnin
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I certainly understand the interest in having the best battery life possible.
Are you in a work environment where you cannot plug it to a computer for part of the day?
Fortunately, I am. And I always have it plugged in in the car.
I don't what to have a powerful phone with all the features turned off in order to keep it going.
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Well, I do have a work environment where I can keep my Captivate plugged in, but only half of the time. Other times, I need to move. Aside from that, it kind of annoys me to use a phone attached to a wall socket. I prefer to keep my smartphones plugged in only long enough for them to fully charge (or at least charge to 80+%), then unplug them for usage. This is kind of tough for the Captivate considering it takes 3-4 hours to fully charge.
I also fully agree with you on the last point, which is what makes all of this so frustrating.
*Sigh* It's really too bad the Captivate is my first Android phone; it's been kind of a negative experience for me so far. Ironically enough, the one issue that hasn't been a problem for me is the one issue most seem to be having -- GPS performance.
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I dont see how you can get 28hrs @ 55% either, with the kind of usage he was claiming, i wouldnt exactly call that light usage
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I am in class for most of the day so the phone is idle most of the time but i only play about 10 minutes of music with about an hour or 2 combined web surfing and games but my phone is still chugging at 39 percent battery life at 38 hours of usage. I guess that qualifies as light usage then.
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also, you have let the battery die out completely and recharge completely with the phone powered off correct?
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I am in class for most of the day so the phone is idle most of the time but i only play about 10 minutes of music with about an hour or 2 combined web surfing and games but my phone is still chugging at 39 percent battery life at 38 hours of usage. I guess that qualifies as light usage then.
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also, you have let the battery die out completely and recharge completely with the phone powered off correct?
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I'm honestly shocked at your usage. Am I reading right that in the 38 hours since you last charged it, you only used it for 10 minutes of music and a combined 1-2 hours of web surfing/games? I wouldn't call that light usage. I would call that hardly any usage.
Under such conditions, I can see why your battery life lasts so long.
I don't see why you can't get a days worth of usage out of your phone. Cell phone calls use the most battery - that is why the phone is rated at about 5 hours of talk time. This would be in the best signal area. If you are in a lower signal environment (especially in a heavy building all day) you will see faster battery drain.
I am not sure why you are bothering with BT if you are only talking on 2 or 3 calls - but if you take 3 15 minute calls that is at least 15% of your battery - the only way to change this is force the phone to Edge.
I would not lower ringtone volume - that is not a big battery saver in the grand scheme of things and you are missing calls - not a good trade off. If you are doing a lot of web surfing, go WiFi instead and you will see big battery imrovements. 3G voice and data suck battery - it doesn't matter if you have android or iPhone.
If you put your phone in Airplane mode you can go for 5 days between charges with minimum use.
The radio does kill the battery, I don't think the battery usage screen really depicts this. Since I've gotten my captivate my old BB Bold (at the time would only last 3 hours due to its degraded battery) lasts days on end with its radio disabled while sitting in my desk. I'd love to see native 3G toggle or at least a captivate catered app, I'd even pay for the latter
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I don't see why you can't get a days worth of usage out of your phone. Cell phone calls use the most battery - that is why the phone is rated at about 5 hours of talk time. This would be in the best signal area. If you are in a lower signal environment (especially in a heavy building all day) you will see faster battery drain.
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Well, that rating is probably the battery life if your decide to talk on your phone for five hours straight. I really, really doubt it takes into consideration the in-between times (games, apps, and, of course, web surfing). Phone calls undoubtedly takes the most amount of battery, but Internet usage is probably second place and, as said, I use that fairly often.
Lastly, I'm not planning to use my bluetooth exclusively for phone calls. I'm going to use it for calls, listen to music on the Captivate, chat on my PC, and so on. It's multi-usage.
Next, you're missing a lot of the things I said. As I said, I already tried numerous methods to force the phone into 2G; not one of them works (they either don't work at all or actually completely disable my data). I'm already using wifi as opposed to 3G as much as possible.
Lastly, I'm sorry, but using airplane mode to save battery is not acceptable. If I'm even willing to consider this, then I might as well just turn off the Captivate to save battery.
I just read something about an external sd card being another battery drain.
Took mine out and we will see. I was already getting through the day with about 20%left.
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Well, that rating is probably the battery life if your decide to talk on your phone for five hours straight. I really, really doubt it takes into consideration the in-between times (games, apps, and, of course, web surfing). Phone calls undoubtedly takes the most amount of battery, but Internet usage is probably second place and, as said, I use that fairly often.
Lastly, I'm not planning to use my bluetooth exclusively for phone calls. I'm going to use it for calls, listen to music on the Captivate, chat on my PC, and so on. It's multi-usage.
Next, you're missing a lot of the things I said. As I said, I already tried numerous methods to force the phone into 2G; not one of them works (they either don't work at all or actually completely disable my data). I'm already using wifi as opposed to 3G as much as possible.
Lastly, I'm sorry, but using airplane mode to save battery is not acceptable. If I'm even willing to consider this, then I might as well just turn off the Captivate to save battery.
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I didn't meant to suggest that airplane mode was an alternative, just to point out that the cell radio for Voice and Data is your biggest drain.
If you are going to use the phone for almost an hour of talk time, heavy web surfing and BT connections for tethering then your battery life will be limited. If you are using BT to chat on your pc - then maybe tethering with USB would be better - you could charge at the same time.
Your other option is to get a spare battery.
And I did read what you had to say, I just didn't realize how much you were expecting your phone to do. The only numbers your provider were around talk time.
I use my phone a lot and I charge it every 24 hours - I am more then satisfied - but I know that if a spend an hour or more talking on it and bunch of web surfing that I will have to think about charging it as my usage increases.
There is a way to force the phone into 2G. It isn't very user friendly. I have tested this and it works great.
Enter the Phone app.
Dial *#*#197328640#*#*
Select [1] DEBUG SCREEN
Select [8] PHONE CONTROL
Select [4] UE STATE CONTROL
If you want 2G, select:
[3] CHANGE RAT TO GSM
If you want 3G, select:
[2] CHANGE RAT TO WCDMA
I have a nexus one running stock and I cant get through a day of battery power. if im lucky maybe it can last me 8hrs is it common? I have wifi off bluetooth off I dont have live wallpapers or widgets running. Also seems like either tmo or htc devices dont get good reception my hd2 & N1 always switch from 3g to edge like every minute sucks.
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Mine can last 8 hours with heavy usage, how old is your Nexus One?
Pay attention to running services and processes, use a task killer to find out what applications are running automatically and consuming much CPU.
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Mine can last 8 hours with heavy usage, how old is your Nexus One?
Pay attention to running services and processes, use a task killer to find out what applications are running automatically and consuming much CPU.
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I bought it on ebay the user said he had it for less than 3 months so im assuming maybe 4 months old. I have only emails running auto 2 are normal 1 exchange for work. I maybe use 30 min of calling few emails and maybe 50 sms and 1 hour to 2 of web browsing and also 2 hours of music. I was thinking of under clocking the phone to 600 to see if it gets better.
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Get memory optimizer from market and set it to moderate settings, should help.
Good luck.
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Check if you have the stock battery. I have 2 extra batteries I've bought off eBay, one of them can last me between 10-14 hours moderate usage like yourself, and the other about 7-10 hours (sucks!). The battery that came with my phone lasts between 24-36 hours (I know, huge range but it really depends on how I use it.)
S_Dot said:
Get memory optimizer from market and set it to moderate settings, should help.
Good luck.
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Thanks I will give it a try
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Check if you have the stock battery. I have 2 extra batteries I've bought off eBay, one of them can last me between 10-14 hours moderate usage like yourself, and the other about 7-10 hours (sucks!). The battery that came with my phone lasts between 24-36 hours (I know, huge range but it really depends on how I use it.)
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I have the stock battery Im going to buy the 1600 mAh power battery from sedio see if it works
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Mine can last 8 hours with heavy usage, how old is your Nexus One?
Pay attention to running services and processes, use a task killer to find out what applications are running automatically and consuming much CPU.
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mine dont last long at all i got mine 1 year ago or less....and um i dont run apps or setting is disable running 2.2.1 cyanogen mod 6.1.1 and really battery sucks what apps do you use to check all and stuff???suggestion???
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Thanks I will give it a try
I have the stock battery Im going to buy the 1600 mAh power battery from sedio see if it works
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I tried that battery back in April and found it no better than the stock battery, even after conditioning. It's sat in my spares box somewhere and I kept using stock.
My stock battery's at 68% after 12 hours today (not heavy usage). My heaviest usage is on work days and I have desktop docks at home and work to top up the charge where necessary.
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I tried that battery back in April and found it no better than the stock battery, even after conditioning. It's sat in my spares box somewhere and I kept using stock.
My stock battery's at 68% after 12 hours today (not heavy usage). My heaviest usage is on work days and I have desktop docks at home and work to top up the charge where necessary.
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Hopefully gingerbread update makes it better I hate carrying batteries around. Maybe I should just buy a normal htc battery
What apps top your battery status list for usage?
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Monkey see, monkey do.
Also, try to take the SD out and test the phone for a day without external memory.
You might have a corrupt multimedia file on the SD card, happened to me not a week ago. The battery would last about 8-10 h, while it usually lasts for the whole day with about a third to spare at the end.
If that doesn't help, then go to the market, and get "Usage Timelines Free". It's an app that shows recent CPU usage in the notification area. When you notice high usage, select the notification and see what app is hogging the system. You might want to do Preferences->Start at system startup, and also Sort->CPU Usage before that happens.
The indication of something not being right with multimedia files is an abnormal activity of Android System which you could also notice at the end of the day in android's Settings->About phone->Battery use. This menu logs battery usage since last unplugged, so remember to check before you plug in the phone. About 10 to 20 minutes of "CPU total" for 8 hours since unplugged, is a normal amount of usage for Android System, alot above this value is suspicious.
There, some pointers. Took me a while to figure this out.
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Also, try to take the SD out and test the phone for a day without external memory.
You might have a corrupt multimedia file on the SD card, happened to me not a week ago. The battery would last about 8-10 h, while it usually lasts for the whole day with about a third to spare at the end.
If that doesn't help, then go to the market, and get "Usage Timelines Free". It's an app that shows recent CPU usage in the notification area. When you notice high usage, select the notification and see what app is hogging the system. You might want to do Preferences->Start at system startup, and also Sort->CPU Usage before that happens.
The indication of something not being right with multimedia files is an abnormal activity of Android System which you could also notice at the end of the day in android's Settings->About phone->Battery use. This menu logs battery usage since last unplugged, so remember to check before you plug in the phone. About 10 to 20 minutes of "CPU total" for 8 hours since unplugged, is a normal amount of usage for Android System, alot above this value is suspicious.
There, some pointers. Took me a while to figure this out.
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Thanks everyone for the pointer and your replies first thing tomorrow I will try to see how much it can last me without plugging the phone to a charger see if it was just me not having the right set up. Yeah cpu usage seems a bit tricky to figure out I also notice calendar was running 20MB which is weird because I dont sync my calendar any more.
You can also check out SetCPU (on the market, or the nag-ware version on XDA) - I have mine set to ondemand for normal use, and a profile to clock it down to ~400Mhz when the screen is off. Makes a huge difference in battery life and you can tweak it to your needs.
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You can also check out SetCPU (on the market, or the nag-ware version on XDA) - I have mine set to ondemand for normal use, and a profile to clock it down to ~400Mhz when the screen is off. Makes a huge difference in battery life and you can tweak it to your needs.
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I not able to use it since my phone its not root it yet can you set the cpu with out rooting the device?
I just bought a new Captivate (first android device) which I upgrade to from a Nokia E63. I've been playing around adjusting settings etc. and I noticed that my battery is more than 20% drained already! Is there something wrong with my model? If not, what can I do to save my battery for when I really need it?
If all you're doing is playing with it yes its gonna go down. Also depends on what programs is any you have running in the back ground. Furthermore if your wifi Bluetooth and GPS are all on there's another drainer. Last make sure you have the latest update. Usually the out of the box captivates don't have the 2.2 so use the kies program that's on the disk that came with it.
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If the battery is new its going to drain quickly at the beginning, after a couple of recharges its going to get better. Other than that i would set the display brightness to auto and i'd download green power free from the market to toggle wifi/data and have it turn on for 1 minute every 15 minutes to save the battery.
i never understand why people complain about battery life cause i can go more than a day without charging, but here are some tricks. turn off wifi, and blue tooth. also under volt your cpu to save more power. also get a dark background because amold screens use no power when displaying black.
It is all in the way You use it.When you are surfing the net and just all around using the crap out of the phone battery life will be horrible. once the new smartphone phase wears out that battery life will come back up. On moderate use I get a day or better. on heavy use I get 4 to 7 hours maybe.
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Big difference regarding the display technology between the two phones. It's the price you pay for the AMOLED.
Don't use auto brightness and keep the setting to its lowest if at all possible. An app called Screen Filter is helpful during night time reading.
Just make sure you let your battery drain until your phone shuts off and give it a full charge. You should be good from there.
Battery Dr is a good apparently. Just fyi
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Why does Phone idle and cell stand by use 75% of my battery??
4G is off.
What is this phone doing more then my og Droid??
How can I get longer battery life??
About 4 hours and im at 20% battery life.
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It is a fluke of the phone. Some say it is because the display uses so little power but I really don't buy that. I think the reporting is not correct.
Try this. Copy your data from your external sd card to you laptop and save it where you can find it. Take your card out and format it on your computer (fat32) if you have an adapter, if no skip to next step.
Insert card back into phone power up and format sd card in the phone. Plug phone into computer and copy the files you moved back onto the card. I found a drastic improvement by formatting my card (but I also changed it)
Make sure you have nothing running that will run your battery down. If the sd card format does not work I would exchange it. After swapping out cards and formatting I got 23 hours out of a charge on normal use (7hours idle while sleeping). I went to bed at 10:30 with 13% and woke up 7 hours later with 6 percent. I can't really ask for more.
Is it really using 75% or is that what is say under the batt stats? Right now 10% of my battery is gone and of that 10% the stats are 48% is cell standby another 48 to phone idle and 4 to the OS. I saw a mention of one of the blur apps that consumes alot of data, you should probably disable it or not use it, not sure the specific name but it was one of the social media things.
75% of battery stats from fresh to dead.
I am not using any of the social networks.
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Every Bionic shows up this way for some reason. I don't think anyone has an answer.
My Samsung eats up like 50% in idle ,and the problem is not the SD,i'd formated my SD a few days ago and no improvement
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Perhaps I am wrong, but this is how I understand this situation..
The phone tells us the distribution of power drained over uses. It also charts, over time, how much power is being drained. These are very different quantities. That can be seen with a simple example.
Suppose charge my phone while it is off. Once it his 100% battery life, I turn it on and do nothing. Let's assume I don't allow anything to update automatically or work in the background. After 1 minute of not using the phone at all, I check the battery information. More or less "100%" of the battery consumption will have been something like "cell standby" or "idle". All of the power my phone has eaten was eaten by those uses. But, that doesn't mean it ate a lot. To know how much it ate, I look at the top line graph of juice over time. These two things aren't the same.
(1) Am I glaringly wrong? (2) Does that make sense?
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ergosumcausa said:
Perhaps I am wrong, but this is how I understand this situation..
The phone tells us the distribution of power drained over uses. It also charts, over time, how much power is being drained. These are very different quantities. That can be seen with a simple example.
Suppose charge my phone while it is off. Once it his 100% battery life, I turn it on and do nothing. Let's assume I don't allow anything to update automatically or work in the background. After 1 minute of not using the phone at all, I check the battery information. More or less "100%" of the battery consumption will have been something like "cell standby" or "idle". All of the power my phone has eaten was eaten by those uses. But, that doesn't mean it ate a lot. To know how much it ate, I look at the top line graph of juice over time. These two things aren't the same.
(1) Am I glaringly wrong? (2) Does that make sense?
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Finally. Someone who understand math. Bravo, sir, bravo.
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Finally. Someone who understand math. Bravo, sir, bravo.
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To make this more clear for anyone else. If you aren't using your phone for anything, you want "idle" to account for 100% of your use, otherwise you've got some background processes you should deal with.
So your saying that its similar to "System Idle Process" in M$ Windows task manager? That would make sense for the idle phone but what about the cell standby?
I have been wondering about the difference between the two as well. By the name they sound like they could be the same thing really. I mean the phone is standing by is it not idling as well. Or does standby mean processes that are alive in memory? Does this use power? Is this what "standby" describes?
I believe "Cell Standby" is when you phone is searching for towers. Any phone is normally constantly searching and finding towers. If I am wrong please correct me.
The IDLE is the percent of time sitting idle compared to the percent of processes actually being used like the android system processes. Once again correct me if I am wrong.
Hello guys,
Can you, people who are getting around 6h of battery life, share your tips & tricks in order to do so ?
Sharing some of the settings you did or didn't enable would be great !
Thanks
I know that Google Now and Latitude drains a lot of battery. Turn that of if you want better battery.
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I would also suggest to turn of facebook notifications. U could decrease weather update interval from 1 hour to 2 hours and have your energy saver option always enabled. This cpu will get downclocked from 1,728 ghz to 1,134 ghz and u will notice no difference in games or anything..not even in very very demanding games, cause this cpu is extremely fast (even underclocked it is faster than one x+ cpu or galaxy s3 cpu)
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I use power saver as I don't game, and I honestly can't notice any difference apart from improved battery life.
I also turn off mobile data when I'm out of the house and not using it. Constantly syncing data, especially when you have poor signal, kills the battery.
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Thanks for your input guys.
I also read somewhere that it's better to select 2G/3G network over 2G/3G/4G so I will be monitoring that.
Regarding the meteo app, I'll set it to refresh once every day, which is plenty enough. What I will not do again though is install Avast!, looks to me like the damn things tries to connect to the internet every time you unlock the screen (in order to check for updates I guess).
Google Now & Latitudes will be disabled, as I don't use them.
Keep the tips coming
Personally I find the battery to be great i leave everything on do lots of web browse YouTube games and i use it as a phone as well lol and will last me all day and some
jaythenut said:
Personally I find the battery to be great i leave everything on do lots of web browse YouTube games and i use it as a phone as well lol and will last me all day and some
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You're very lucky. Out of the box (by that I mean I didn't change any settings) I only got 3h30 screen time (albeit most of it was 3G browsing, but still, that's pretty low compared to what others are gettings, 5 to 6h easily)
fidelcstrl said:
You're very lucky. Out of the box I only got 3h30 screen time (albeit most of it was 3G browsing, but still, that's pretty low compared to what others are gettings, 5 to 6h easily)
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It might be because I'm on a custom rom don't know but i do leave my phone on charge for 5 hours when i get home plus I read somewhere if you run the battery down 3 times it will last a lot longer so i did
I took my phone off an overnight charge at 7 am this morning. It's now 12.35pm, 5.5 odd hours on battery and I still have 94%.
I've sent several texts, checked Facebook a few times through the course of the day.... I do have power saver on.
I don't have updates coming to my phone 24/7.
The way I like to use my phone is, I only get updates when I want them. I.e, when i turn my data connection or WiFi on.
I couldn't think of anything worse than being pestered all day from Soundcloud/ Facebook / Twitter / Google.... etc etc. Updates/notifications.
actually if you constantly turn on the screen the battery drops really fast.
I think if you're on a stable network, you should just choose the network model you use (2G or 3G only)
also, turn off auto sync and kill background programs that you no longer use should save some energy.
6 hrs is average. I unplugged the phone at around 8:00am and by noon only about 55% left. Though the screen basically never off coz I kept surfing the net and texting.