I played SimCity BuildIt for 3 straight hours and my battery went empty. Is that normal?
Never played that particular game, but a lot of games are murder on your battery life. Especially ones with lots of 3D graphics.
try to optimise your game, i play SimCity Too, and my battery drops well after a couple of time, but not as much as Clash of Clans, this game just empty it ! maybe it's a Lollipop issue, dunno.
Clash of clans is made by the same developer as Boom Beach which is what I play, and its stucks the life out of my battery, I dont think lollipop is the issue.
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Hello everyone,
Over the past week I have noticed my HTC One runs out of battery quickly when watching videos/playing games.
I have downloaded a wakelock detector and it sleeps 99% of the time, mainly because I have used Greenify to make sure that there are no wakelock problems.
I always have my phone on minimum brightness (not auto, just 0) with mobile data turned off most of the time. Wifi is usually on. NFC and Bluetooth are both almost always off. My screen powers off after 45 seconds, and data turns off if the screen is off for an extended period of time. On top of that, Power saver mode is always on with all 4 features ticked.
I do not have a problem with the phone leaking battery, but rather than when i begin to do intensive tasks, e.g. playing games (Bloons Tower Defence 5 for instance) the phone seems to lose the battery very quickly.
I found that within 5 minutes of playing I would lose about 2-3%. This means that within 3-4 hours I would run out of battery completely. Is this normal? How have other users fared with the battery and finally, what else do people recommend I do to save some more battery?
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Playing drains the battery as hell. From such a powerhouse it is not surprising tough.
I usually play logical games, and "ye' good ol' Carmageddon" sometimes. While 2D games are pretty ok, demanding 3D games will eat your battery as you said.
For example, I have lost 40% battery after playing Carmaggeddon for about 90 minutes.
On the other, when using the phone as phone, not as gaming device, the battery is pretty sweet.
I can get 8 hours on screen time with one charge, and lasts me through the whole day - auto brightness, auto-sync, wifi or mobile data always on - BT, NFC disabled.
For comparison, I managed to get around 4.5-5.5 hours with the same settings from my iPhone 5. And gaming ate battery super fast on that phone as well - I only
dared to play with a charger nearby (Max Payne).
To save some juice I recommend to set a lower CPU frequency when playing games (for those do not need all the power) - but that requires root.
Other than that, it seems you already have all the options enabled.
davebugyi said:
Playing drains the battery as hell. From such a powerhouse it is not surprising tough.
I usually play logical games, and "ye' good ol' Carmageddon" sometimes. While 2D games are pretty ok, demanding 3D games will eat your battery as you said.
For example, I have lost 40% battery after playing Carmaggeddon for about 90 minutes.
On the other, when using the phone as phone, not as gaming device, the battery is pretty sweet.
I can get 8 hours on screen time with one charge, and lasts me through the whole day - auto brightness, auto-sync, wifi or mobile data always on - BT, NFC disabled.
For comparison, I managed to get around 4.5-5.5 hours with the same settings from my iPhone 5. And gaming ate battery super fast on that phone as well - I only
dared to play with a charger nearby (Max Payne).
To save some juice I recommend to set a lower CPU frequency when playing games (for those do not need all the power) - but that requires root.
Other than that, it seems you already have all the options enabled.
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Thanks for the reply.
It's nice to know that it isnt just my phone that seems to drain like hell while playing any of the more resource-hungry games.
Thanks
I have a note 3 rooted and I get really good battery life out of everything but playing games. It doesn't even seem to matter if the game is very graphics intensive. If I use my phone for just web browsing, texting, calls, facebook etc I can easily get a whole day with room to spare. I turn on a game like a civilization builder type of game and the battery loses about a % a minute. These civilization builder games have very basic graphics but seem to eat up the battery as quick as very graphic intensive games. Last night I had it on for about 4 hours and was still around the 90% mark and played a game for an hour and it was int he 30's. Is there anyway to optimize the battery usage for games? I'm not sure if the phone is set to really push the processor on any game even if it doesn't really need it, or if games that send data over the web just eat up battery life. I'm not sure it is connected to the web usage because I can spend hours on the web reading articles and looking at facebook with negligible battery drain. It seems like any game eats the battery up like no other. Maybe I just need to turn on power saving mode when I play games?
bought htc one three monhs ago...but it has overheating problem when its used(while playing games or music on speaker) for about half an hour or so or while charging and reaches bery high temperatures of abt 45-47 C... is it a normal problem on all htc one devices and doesit have to do anything with the amount of space filled in the harddisk of the phone ....also what is the battery life of the phone??? mine makes 8-10 hours....its urgent plz help...
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bought htc one three monhs ago...but it has overheating problem when its used(while playing games or music on speaker) for about half an hour or so or while charging and reaches bery high temperatures of abt 45-47 C... is it a normal problem on all htc one devices and doesit have to do anything with the amount of space filled in the harddisk of the phone ....also what is the battery life of the phone??? mine makes 8-10 hours....its urgent plz help...
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There is no problem having 47C when playing games. There is no relation between disk space and CPU temp. 8-10 hours of battery life means nothing without info about display usage, wifi usage, mobile data usage. Mine can easily makes 2 days when I'm not using it at all. I really doubt it will last more than 8 hours playing games. Hope it help
alray said:
There is no problem having 47C when playing games. There is no relation between disk space and CPU temp. 8-10 hours of battery life means nothing without info about display usage, wifi usage, mobile data usage. Mine can easily makes 2 days when I'm not using it at all. I really doubt it will last more than 8 hours playing games. Hope it help
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In wifi/3g on n brightness on auto the cell gives 10 hours and if i surf net or play games or listen to music on a length for abt an hour then the cell gets very hot as i told and the battery is drained by about 20-25%...is this normal...?
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In wifi/3g on n brightness on auto the cell gives 10 hours and if i surf net or play games or listen to music on a length for abt an hour then the cell gets very hot as i told and the battery is drained by about 20-25%...is this normal...?
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20-25% of battery drop under heavy usage for an hour looks fine imo. You should take a screenshot of your battery graph and post it here so it will be easier to determine if 10 hours of battery life is normal in your case. You might want to look at this thread and compare your values: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2195079
Whatever you do, don't try to check your laptop's CPU temperature or you'll think it's about to cook itself to death!
45° is fine; maybe even a little cool for that kind of heavy usage. The One feels hotter than other phones despite operating at the same temperatures because of the conductive metal back. Don't worry.
At the moment im playing just clash of clans and hay day..2 known battery draining games, but what should i expect my battery life to be from a 100% charge if im just playing these 2 game..
screen on time i mean..im getting anywhere from 3-4 hours, does this seem about right??
My battery life has been terrible as of late and i have to charge my battery twice a day now. It also seems to get hot while doing mundane tasks. The UI and internet browser get laggy and stuttery after a couple hours after a restart. I'm planning on wiping the phone since i haven't done one in nine months. I've attached some screens. Does anything look weird? I also suspect i may have killed my battery capacity. The past few weeks I've been playing soda dungeon (a video game) by letting it run on auto-combat for several hours each day while laying on a wireless charger on the lowest screen brightness. Its pretty hot when I pick it up after a session. Oh btw the three hours the chart shows i haven't been doing anything beyond checking my email and browsing the web. I dunno why media server is doing at the top.
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My battery life has been terrible as of late and i have to charge my battery twice a day now. It also seems to get hot while doing mundane tasks. The UI and internet browser get laggy and stuttery after a couple hours after a restart. I'm planning on wiping the phone since i haven't done one in nine months. I've attached some screens. Does anything look weird? I also suspect i may have killed my battery capacity. The past few weeks I've been playing soda dungeon (a video game) by letting it run on auto-combat for several hours each day while laying on a wireless charger on the lowest screen brightness. Its pretty hot when I pick it up after a session. Oh btw the three hours the chart shows i haven't been doing anything beyond checking my email and browsing the web. I dunno why media server is doing at the top.
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See if this helps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=68429827
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