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Any good apps to manage battery life?

And no I'm not talking about Juice Defender. I'm looking for something that'll allow me to see which apps are keeping the phone awake and use the most battery life. Something is making my battery drain and I'm not sure what it is. There are people on here going 18+ hours with 5 hours screen time and still having 10% left. I typically get 2 hours of screen time before I'm dead. Check out my stats from today. I hardly even used the phone at all!
I've set all of the apps I actually use to sync on 1 hour or longer intervals. Nothing is syncing in 5 minute intervals or something.
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Can't tell anything from those images. Its too early. And how is.your reception with your carrier and wifi?
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@rbiter said:
Can't tell anything from those images. Its too early. And how is.your reception with your carrier and wifi?
sent from a galaxy far far away.
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I'm on AT&T and generally have close to full coverage. I'm never really in an area where I have poor reception. I'm on Wifi a good amount too.

I had the same problem (Android OS using HEAPS of battery)
update to ITL41F (ROM) & XXKK6 (Radio)
makes a world of difference - HEAPS!!

maybe try system panel but I don't think it works on pics yet.
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it shows in market so give it a whirl.
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I'm on a witch hunt for a battery drainer right now as well.
Check out this screenshot... as soon as I turn on Wi-Fi, the "Awake" line becomes very active. Been going through the running apps, and killing off apps every 15-30 min to see when it stops.

@rbiter said:
maybe try system panel but I don't think it works on pics yet.
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I have that. I don't think it has any functionality relating to battery life though.
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Arcadia310 said:
I have that. I don't think it has any functionality relating to battery life though.
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what radio & rom are u using?

minooch said:
what radio & rom are u using?
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Stock rom. I got the latest OTA update already.
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alee said:
I'm on a witch hunt for a battery drainer right now as well.
Check out this screenshot... as soon as I turn on Wi-Fi, the "Awake" line becomes very active. Been going through the running apps, and killing off apps every 15-30 min to see when it stops.
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Hmm. I noticed on yours that the phone is awake even when the screen is off. On mine the phone is only awake when the screen is on.
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Watchdog in the market will tell you what app is running in the background. When I push home instead of back when I use Dolphin Browser, watchdog tells me its running in the background.
Try it.

Arcadia310 said:
Hmm. I noticed on yours that the phone is awake even when the screen is off. On mine the phone is only awake when the screen is on.
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Yeah it's suspiciously busy when the screen is off. I just removed all widgets and uninstalled the Weather Channel app. Things have improved a little.

Dude my battery life is even worse than yours. I am so frustrated too.
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Holy cow. I just found out one of my widgets was updating on 5 second intervals. Changed it to 1000 seconds, hopefully that has a decent impact.
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[Q] How to get the most of out Gnex Battery

So I've tried various things, disabled apps I don't use such as Email, Exchange Services, News and Weather, and even disabled the Gallery app and using QuickPic instead (on GB, Gallery was known to waste battery for no reason). Also turned off data and connected via 2G only to save battery, have brightness the lowest possible, turned off auto sync, and yet, still don't have near as good battery life as on my GB running LG G2x.
So my question is, what do you guys do to get as much battery life as possible?
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airplane mode...
jk. what kind of battery life are you getting? Maybe run stock?

Ha it seems to not have to do with the wireless settings at all, drains either way.
And with GB on LG G2x, got 12 hours of constant, heavy use. Music, XDA, Pulse, FB, some gaming, texting all day, definitely used my phone.
Now, with AOKP+Franco, getting around 8 hours of light usage, just messaging and music. Wi-fi on for not even an hour, and didn't play with it much.
And maybe I'll give that a try, I just love all the options in AOKP.

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Ha it seems to not have to do with the wireless settings at all, drains either way.
And with GB on LG G2x, got 12 hours of constant, heavy use. Music, XDA, Pulse, FB, some gaming, texting all day, definitely used my phone.
Now, with AOKP+Franco, getting around 8 hours of light usage, just messaging and music. Wi-fi on for not even an hour, and didn't play with it much.
And maybe I'll give that a try, I just love all the options in AOKP.
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I'm in the same boat. My friends are on stock and claim they get much better battery life. I'm on AOKP with Franco and seem to be the same but I might give it a try... but love the little tweaks of AOKP that I probably won't

Cheeze[iT] said:
I'm in the same boat. My friends are on stock and claim they get much better battery life. I'm on AOKP with Franco and seem to be the same but I might give it a try... but love the little tweaks of AOKP that I probably won't
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Might try Apex, battery lasted nicely if I remember correctly the few hours I ran stock. Apex is basically stock, with tweaks and customization.
I know for most phones, AOSP and similar based roms almost never provide as much battery life as the stock software w/wo tweaks. There are some exceptions, but maybe ICS is different. Going to flash Apex and tell you how it goes tomorrow.

I was actually just reading a thread someone posted about this. This guy has some pretty good instructions, I would read this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1226016

try the "on deman" governor , it worked very well for me...

Yeah there's nothing you can really do man. SAMOLED just takes up so much more battery than our old G2X's IPS. That's pretty much the only difference. Probably nothing web can do. I bought 3 spare 1750mAH batteries plus an external charger all for 13 bucks to compensate. That's the only way for me to fix my battery issues.
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mackster248 said:
Yeah there's nothing you can really do man. SAMOLED just takes up so much more battery than our old G2X's IPS. That's pretty much the only difference. Probably nothing web can do. I bought 3 spare 1750mAH batteries plus an external charger all for 13 bucks to compensate. That's the only way for me to fix my battery issues.
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Seriously? I thought SAMOLED used up less battery than the IPS. The major reason I bought this phone was for the screen... Ha.
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Oled uses more energy than LCD. You fell for the marketing. They are relying too heavily that black doesn't use energy but who uses all black screen?
...of the people, by the people, for the people...

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Oled uses more energy than LCD. You fell for the marketing. They are relying too heavily that black doesn't use energy but who uses all black screen?
...of the people, by the people, for the people...
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That's crap, this is literally the first time I've seen anyone say this since I got my Vibrant. Seems like they tricked so many people...
That's true, I keep try to keep everything dark, gonna have to invest in a extended battery I guess.
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It is what it is. It could improve in the future, but oled has more visual advantages than LCD. I wouldn't get my panties in a was over it though. And just to throw it out there, bigger pled screens use more energy than a comparable LCD because of the pixels that are lit. The LCD screen is more constant because of back light.
...of the people, by the people, for the people...

Thanks for that, will definitely keep that mind when buying a new phone down the road. Hopefully not too soon.
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It appears that at lower brightness values, it's not the screen that's causing power drain. Though indeed, current S-LCDs are about 3 times more efficient than OLEDs when displaying white at same brightness.

not bad for me
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Battery life

I'm really considering buying the HTC one x but I wonder how the battery life is,
Is it like this or worse ? Or better perhaps?
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Heavy usage lasted 9 hours till it dropped to 19%
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Depends on what you're using the phone for. Mine lasts all day and I charge it over night. But I don't have the screen on the brightest setting, I have wifi on at home (and have it off at work), no bluetooth etc. If you play games on it, or listen to music all day then sure the battery will drain.
But if you want to have music playing at work then just dock it. Besides, this day and age it's rare that you're not in a room with access to a power supply for at least part of the day.

what's your screen time on that image? Just click on screen in the battery usage tab and post an image or share your results

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Oh man i wish i could get 15hrs+ with wifi always on... i can only get 4-8 hours with heavy usage.. (music, twitter, fb, instagram)

YoungAceAtlanta said:
Oh man i wish i could get 15hrs+ with wifi always on... i can only get 4-8 hours with heavy usage.. (music, twitter, fb, instagram)
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About the same as me...as you can see on my screen shot,my phone is on stand by on the morning
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guys you know we have a main thread were you can post your battery stats shots and there is another thread now were you can post any issues or any other general questions you may have. links are in my sig
no need to create other threads..use the one by DomCowell(hope i got your name right mate) or use mine in my sig. cheers

Ummm, is this normal??
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Idavoll said:
Depends on what you're using the phone for. Mine lasts all day and I charge it over night. But I don't have the screen on the brightest setting, I have wifi on at home (and have it off at work), no bluetooth etc. If you play games on it, or listen to music all day then sure the battery will drain.
But if you want to have music playing at work then just dock it. Besides, this day and age it's rare that you're not in a room with access to a power supply for at least part of the day.
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I have music on like 7-8 hours/day. My nexus drops to about 50-40% will the one x be the same ? I always have highest brightness
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shadehh said:
what's your screen time on that image? Just click on screen in the battery usage tab and post an image or share your results
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Can't seem to be able to post any screenshots ...
Screen was ~3 hours on.....
Wi-Fi always on... only when I was on the road not (hspda then) ,music was on for ~7 hours
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YoungAceAtlanta said:
Oh man i wish i could get 15hrs+ with wifi always on... i can only get 4-8 hours with heavy usage.. (music, twitter, fb, instagram)
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Hey! Offtopic, but your battery notification bar widget looks nice. Been looking for a nice looking widget like that. Mind i ask what the app's called? Thank you!

shadehh said:
Hey! Offtopic, but your battery notification bar widget looks nice. Been looking for a nice looking widget like that. Mind i ask what the app's called? Thank you!
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The app is badass battery monitor,and the battery icon is razr eclipse battery...its free on the play store
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Here's another screenshot
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micxploed said:
Ummm, is this normal??
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What isn't normal?
The battery just wasnt fully charged when unplugged.

Jelly Bean battery life issue(?) for a newbie

Hello all!
I'm a brand new and happy user of the galaxy Nexus. Bought it two days ago and of course I started to play around with it quite a lot.
It was not new but it was used rarely, especially in the past 3 months. The phone itself is five months old.
I am just wondering if it is normal that the battery drains so quickly. Considering the fact that as a new toy i am using it quite strongly I still find it too fast eating the power.
The other thing is that could be in relation with this is that I think it is very strange seeing that something keep waking up my phone when it should be sleeping.
Let me attach a screenshot about battery stats. Please ignore and forgive it that it is in hungarian. The important thing is still visible.
What shall I do?
Thanks in advance!
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How much screen-on time? With crappy signal and a LOT of awake time, I'm not surprised at all by 15hrs of total time.
You have an app (or a few) keeping your phone awake quite often. That alone will drain the battery. Try something like "Better Battery Stats" to see whats keeping the phone awake.

Yeah I forgot to mention that I had very bad reception for that time in the mountains. Screen on time was around 45 minutes - one hour.
How shall I look for apps not letting my phone going to sleep? Any free subsidiary for Betterbattery?
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Rem-X said:
Yeah I forgot to mention that I had very bad reception for that time in the mountains. Screen on time was around 45 minutes - one hour.
How shall I look for apps not letting my phone going to sleep? Any free subsidiary for Betterbattery?
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If your getting bad signal I suggest turning off your sync unless you need it, most of the time battery life is a result of the user or the apps they use better battery stats is a good app to find out what apps are keeping your phone from sleeping, also just a tip posting about battery life can get nasty responses good luck man
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Judging by the wake bar, go to Latitude and in Location Settings sign out of Latitude. Google Now still works and you won't get your device constantly updating your position while screen off. I believe when you turn on Google Now it automatically signs you into Latitude as well.

Just trying to find out how to spy out apps using my phone than they should.
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get BetterBatteryStats. I am sure that you'll just see googlelocationupdateetcetcwhateveritwascalled at the top of wake locks

Ok now I am quite sure that it's the wifi that keeps waking up the device. After testing two days with wifi on and yesterday with wifi turned off it seems obvious.
I also find another topic where an other guy found the same answer... Very strange and very annoying.
With wifi:
Without wifi :
Both test were running during night when the device should sleep as well
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Any help is appreciated
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Rem-X said:
Any help is appreciated
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I think the betterbatterystats is the best way to go as mentioned earlier. You might find that it's an app that is calling the wifi connection that causes wifi to appear neat the top of your stats at present.

Very poor battery despite reviews?

Had my Note 2 since Saturday and the battery seems really poor to think everyone reviewing them said they were fantastic.
Day 1 from full charge to 2% I had 1 day 8 hours
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Day 2 from full charge to 6% I had 17 hrs 10 mins
Don't seem to have any rogue apps from battery monitors I've tried which makes sense as I've only downloaded about 10 apps.
Always have WiFi and GPS on which I always do on any phone, and have auto brightness off and set manually to just under half way.
I have dropbox set up to automatically upload camera pictures but under battery monitor this only uses 0.5% of battery use.
I also seem to have a faulty S Pen which sometimes seems too sensitive as it'll draw or open menus/apps with the pen about 1cm from the screen, and other times the pen doesn't recognise the air/hover mode and I have to press firmly to draw.
Any ideas?
Between this and the over sensitive S Pen, I'm beginning to think I just have a faulty phone!?
If it was as easy as taking it to a store I would, but I received it free with a 2 year contract from an online company in the UK called Affordable Mobiles who seem to have pretty good reviews. They've said if I want an exchange or them to have a look at it I'd have to send it back and wait 2-3 days which I can't do really as I don't have a spare phone - but at the same time I don't want to start rooting the phone and messing about with launchers if it is a fault.
Thanks

Turn off gps. Thats sucking away your battery mate. Turn it on only when u need it.
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I'm beginning to think I just have a faulty phone!
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IMO, to get more than 1 day with WiFi & GPS constantly on is good. On my Note 2, I am usually left with around 30% of battery left at the end of the day but I never have GPS turned on unless I need it, only my WiFi is on.
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macklinjudith1 said:
I'm beginning to think I just have a faulty phone!
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So why are you posting this exact same message in multiple threads without explanation?

Try resetting the phone and check it for another day without installing any third party apps if it gives the same result that it must be a faulty phone. Hope it helps.
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Thanks guys, I'll try resetting it as suggested and see how it goes for a day or two.
Hope it's just me expecting too much cos I love the phone otherwise and don't want to send it back lol

You didn't mention what screen time you had, that's the most important of all...
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You didn't mention what screen time you had, that's the most important of all...
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Not sure how you find that out tbh, all I can see is that percentage bar under the battery that I posted

CaptnSpaulding said:
Not sure how you find that out tbh, all I can see is that percentage bar under the battery that I posted
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You just press the screen icon in the stats.
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Awh man, how dumb do I feel! haha
So far today I've had 2h 18m on battery with 24m15s screen on time and battery is at 94%

CaptnSpaulding said:
Awh man, how dumb do I feel! haha
So far today I've had 2h 18m on battery with 24m15s screen on time and battery is at 94%
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Happens
You should judge your battery stats from your screen on time. Regular usage with sync and wifi and data enabled should get you between 5 and 8 hours, but it's possible to reach 10 and beyond with low brightness and no connectivity. If it's below 4, you can start thinking that something is wrong if you didn't do any crazy gps navigation or something, and start from there.
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I always get under 4 hrs on screen with my 7105
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Well, mine can lasts up to 2 days with Wifi turned on when I'm awake. Also I have roughly 5 hours screen on time on average. Quite achievable with heavy debloating of the ROM and using custom kernel and probably with some undervolting done too.
P/S it's my first Android. Still learning. Please correct if I'm wrong :fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:

So far on my third day I have 10% left with 1d 5h on battery and 5h 13m screen on time.
Regarding issue I mentioned about the S Pen, Samsung are sending me a new one to try and rule out the phone

nothind wrong with your battery 5 hours screen on is good don't worry everything is fine
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