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I don't know how to read this. I'm new to rooting
With only 2hrs screen on, not really... I usually do twice that.
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DinoSoup said:
With only 2hrs screen on, not really... I usually do twice that.
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not really what?
is the battery life good or bad?
im running cm10
track 1 said:
not really what?
is the battery life good or bad?
im running cm10
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I'd say your battery life is pretty poor.
My battery is a little bit better. I don't have any screen shots right now, but it's usually around 3 - 3.5 hours on screen. Around 7-8 hours battery usage total.
what app keeping your phone to stay awake?? 'cause that one hella awake phone.
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what app keeping your phone to stay awake?? 'cause that one hella awake phone.
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i dont know....i dont use a lot of apps. i use my phone quite a lot during the day though.
track 1 said:
i dont know....i dont use a lot of apps. i use my phone quite a lot during the day though.
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Try downloading Gsam or watchdog from the playstore. Watchdog will tell you if there's a rogue app draining your battery and Gsam will tell you what's taking up the most power.
let your phone do a 3-4 recharge discharge cycles..then it would stabilize.
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let your phone do a 3-4 recharge discharge cycles..then it would stabilize.
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what is a recharge discharge?
charge it to 100% then let it discharge(1 cycle of rechrge of discharge) although there maybe a better word to represent that(noob in complex english )..
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i dont know....i dont use a lot of apps. i use my phone quite a lot during the day though.
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With 2 hours screen on time over an 8 hour period and your steady curve on that graph, I would say you have some app, or some service eating CPU cycles constantly (these are called wake locks)...
Do this:
Download an app called CPU spy
Charge your device all the way
Pull it off charger
Open CPU spy
Then just hit the back button to close it.
Let your device sit for about a half hour. Don't touch it as much as possible. Leave the screen off.
Open CPU spy... post a picture of what your CPU stats say according to that app. Majority of your times should be in deep sleep mode.
Also, your battery shouldn't drain anymore than 1 to 1.5% each hour at idle. Unless you live in an area where there is poor reception (scanning for signal chews it up as well).
EDIT** ALSO...is your screen brightness on auto or is it manually adjusted a little brighter? If it on auto, then your battery life according to those graphs is absolutely awful. I have mine set pretty bright and I still see about 3 hours of screen on time
Give it a few hours of "normal" use and then come back here with a Betterbatterystats screen shot with Partial Wakelocks/Since Unplugged and Processes/Since Unplugged. That way we can see what is eating your battery. With only 4% gone, we can't see anything (too small of a window). Make sure you don't plug it in and use normally.
I have seen your other posts and I am wondering what it is that you really want out of your battery. If you think that you can get 3-4 days out of a charge, that is not going to happen. 1.5-2 days is a reasonable expectation and I think that you can get that, but you have to look at your usage habits. No kernel is going to fix that. No ROM is either.
If you are polling notifications (Facebook, G+. Twitter) or Google Locations (Maps, some app that requires location) or believe it or not using the XDA/Tapatalk app a bunch, then those will drain your battery quite fast. I use the Tapatalk app quite a bit and that and Google Now are my #1/2 battery drainers. Could I get rid of Google Now? Sure. It is more of a novelty at this point. I still get 1 -2 days of charge on my phone wihtout worrying about where a plug is.
Like I said, come back at the end of the day or tomorrow morning and post the Partial Wakelocks/Since Unplugged and Processes/Since Unplugged and we'll see what is draining your battery.
Another thing to note is that it seems your mobile network is typically pretty patchy. This can really drain your battery too.
I've been chasing wakelocks since I got my device and think I'm at a pretty good place. I get 2.5-3hrs of screen on time (about 20% screen brightness) across about 25hrs of standby time. Does anyone else get a lot of mmc1_detect and mmc0_detect wakelocks?
thanks woodrube. I will post my stats at the end of the day. I don't have a facebook or google + or any app that have notifications or updates by itself. I have the screen set to 20% brightness
how do I delete that dmux wake lock?
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There's an app called watchdog that I have used in the past to find out what has been braining my battery. It helps you find apps and processes that are using a ton of CPU.
Let's try see if collectively, using this app, we can pinpoint apps or processes that are going haywire.
For this purpose, when you first start the app, you should set it to aggressive. This will alert you when something is using more than 20% CPU at one given time. You can also adjust this to 10% in the options.
I think we have sort of pinpointed it to being a sleep issue, but maybe this can reveal more. Let's get to work!
PS: Real-time CPU will show you instantly what is using CPU on the device. By doing this, however, WatchDog will be at the top of the list since it is working hard to update. Real-Time is cancelled upon closing the app.
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We know what processes they are. It is several of the kworker processes.
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We know what processes they are. It is several of the kworker processes.
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Thanks. I have seen these. I was hoping to use this thread to compile a list of apps also causing issues.
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I got my GNEX on launch day. Have been using it alot and have gone through many charge cycles. When I go into settings and then battery it looks pretty obvious to me whats killing my battery so quickly. Its the screen.
Ive done a search for battery issues and whats really aggravating me is that there are some reviewers claiming 17 hours of heavy use. Thats just ridiculous. I dont get it. I was hoping the phone would kind of sort itself out after a few days but it doesnt seem to be. With my Eris the key to long battery life between charges was to turn off backround data transfer. I dont see this option in 4.0. I do however keep my Wifi, data, and GPS connections off when not in use. I also turned off animations, and added an all black wallpaper to my screen in hopes it may help a little.
Im in to help figure this out if in fact its not just a power hungry screen.
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I got my GNEX on launch day. Have been using it alot and have gone through many charge cycles. When I go into settings and then battery it looks pretty obvious to me whats killing my battery so quickly. Its the screen.
Ive done a search for battery issues and whats really aggravating me is that there are some reviewers claiming 17 hours of heavy use. Thats just ridiculous. I dont get it. I was hoping the phone would kind of sort itself out after a few days but it doesnt seem to be. With my Eris the key to long battery life between charges was to turn off backround data transfer. I dont see this option in 4.0. I do however keep my Wifi, data, and GPS connections off when not in use. I also turned off animations, and added an all black wallpaper to my screen in hopes it may help a little.
Im in to help figure this out if in fact its not just a power hungry screen.
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Those that claim 17 hours of "use" are either GSM users or Verizon users that switched to CMDA instead of LTE. and even then I hardly doubt its heavy use
That doesn't explain why battery life is so low on wifi I have a sprint photon 4g fully loaded, which drains around 5%/ hour while idle but with background apps (ie gmail )
I only have a subset of those apps in my nexus galaxy and it drains closer to 10%/hour while idle.
Both on wifi.
One thing that I've noticed is that the galaxy nexus barely spends any tine in deep sleep. Using CPU spy (available in market - great app btw ) I can see that the nexus has spent only 7% of its time in deep sleep over the past few days - and a majority of the time in 350mhz mode.
My photon was closer to 25-50% (depending on usage )
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on mine, i found out that using the large "interactive" twitter widget (the one you can scroll left and right through tweets) absolutely killed my battery and prevented phone from sleeping. the small twitter widget (where it just shows most recent tweet) doesn't have that issue.
I didn't have that issue using the large twitter widget in android 2.x but it definitely prevents my nexus from sleeping. I'll bet other apps/widgets have similar code that prevent phone from sleeping.
the large twitter killed battery on wifi, 3g, or LTE. as soon as i took it off home screen and rebooted, my battery life was solved.
w/ large widget: lost 25% battery in 1 hour
w/small widget: lost 25% battery in 8.5 hours
I've never had any issue with my phone going into deep sleep with any ROM or Kernel. However with any based off 4.0.1 battery drain during deep sleep was pretty bad. Starting with 4.0.2 i'll only lose 4% or so overnight. We'll see about 4.0.3 over the next couple days.
Man, it is a tough situation to accept if you're coming from the Atrix. At the end I was getting between 7 and 9 hours of screen time. Hopefully CM9 will be taking care of a lot of all that. Really though? Doubt it. 4,7" über-amoled screen. It's bound to fry the battery straight through..
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That doesn't explain why battery life is so low on wifi I have a sprint photon 4g fully loaded, which drains around 5%/ hour while idle but with background apps (ie gmail )
I only have a subset of those apps in my nexus galaxy and it drains closer to 10%/hour while idle.
Both on wifi.
One thing that I've noticed is that the galaxy nexus barely spends any tine in deep sleep. Using CPU spy (available in market - great app btw ) I can see that the nexus has spent only 7% of its time in deep sleep over the past few days - and a majority of the time in 350mhz mode.
My photon was closer to 25-50% (depending on usage )
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Are you talking about when the phone is in standby overnight, or during normal day usage?
My deep sleep time is at 69% in the last 15 hours.
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15 hours = from 10:23PM last night to 1:23PM today. I was sleeping from 12:30PM - 7:15PM (phone was charging).
i have a quick question.. dont know if it is off topic... but..
in developer settings it has a option on how many processes to keep... standard limit down to keep only 4... but for some strange reason i always have to reset it to 3 if i turn off my phone... doesnt it not remember these settings?
Mine is only 7% over a 24 hour period. Including charging overnight. Are you on wifi?
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See here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1361108
Lost just 20% in 16 hours. This is of course with JuiceDefender and airplane mode scheduled to run over night. But it's still impressive as we used to get battery drains even at times phone was supopsed to sleep and AirPlane mode on.
My baseband is UGKK7, but that's not what cured it, I had this baseband installed days earlier and battery drain was awful.
In my case it appears all battery problems are cured:
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What's your standby current draw? In my HD2 android, I had about 4-9ma. But in Galaxy Nexus it's about 19-40ma which is pretty high. Judging from your screenshot, yours is 16ma in standby?
Possibly, I have no idea. Nexus is known from high default cpu voltage, maybe thats that or maybe it's my apps waking phone every now and then to check things, for example LED light notification app or Juice Defender.
Anyway, I'm pretty happy now, might tweak it some more when I have time, but it's now at the same level as my old SGS2, I'd say a bit better (I think I had 5% night drop on AirPlane mode on SGS2, but again it depends on apps).
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What's your standby current draw? In my HD2 android, I had about 4-9ma.
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Just checked: it was constant -5mA throughout the night.
Have you, knowing you want to see good results, un-knowingly played less with your phone on this rom?
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Have you, knowing you want to see good results, un-knowingly played less with your phone on this rom?
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That's not it, I know battery will go down when I actively use it. What I noticed is that I get great results when phone is idle. This didn't happen before, you would see battery drain even when idle at night in AirPlane mode. This means light use should also give better battery performance than before, I will be testing that.
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This is with Google+ and Facebook signed in. I just disabled all notifications from these apps and they appear to function properly, do not keep awake when not run.
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This is with Google+ and Facebook signed in. I just disabled all notifications from these apps and they appear to function properly, do not keep awake when not run.
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I dont know what I did but while IDLe, I get about 1% drain per hour, thats on 3G, sync on (gmail, google+, etc), no juicedefender or airplane mode.
I only tested it overnight, when Im sleeping, notice the ZERO wake locks and crappy signal; unbelievable!
Disclaimer: this was while I was sleeping, NO usage. Battery obviously goes down much quicker once the screen is on, but for idle time, I am content!
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That's not it, I know battery will go down when I actively use it. What I noticed is that I get great results when phone is idle. This didn't happen before, you would see battery drain even when idle at night in AirPlane mode. This means light use should also give better battery performance than before, I will be testing that.
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ok, thank you keep on testing and keep us informed, always nice to get some info! Merry X-mas!
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thats great to see how long it lasts while youre not using the phone... but how about while youre actually using it?
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thats great to see how long it lasts while youre not using the phone... but how about while youre actually using it?
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For real... All these people posting up 15-20 hours of battery by putting it on airplane mode overnight is just useless info. Especially when most people put it on the charger overnight
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Happy! said:
For real... All these people posting up 15-20 hours of battery by putting it on airplane mode overnight is just useless info. Especially when most people put it on the charger overnight
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It is not useless info. Previously, when putting in AirPlane mode and not using the phone at all we would see big battery drain. Now we don't. This is to proove that now the phone actually goes to sleep whenever I don't use it. This is proper testing before and after applying one change.
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thats great to see how long it lasts while youre not using the phone... but how about while youre actually using it?
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I will know next time I go to work. But since I never use it for all these 8-10 hours straight, I should have better battery, because whenever I will put the phone away, even for another 15mins, battery will stop dropping like it used to.
In other words, it will most likely still drop as usual while actively using the phone, but in overall I should get more battery because of much more efficient idle times.
So I was wondering if anyone who has their device already could post some screenshots of their battery usage, screen time etc?
I know there have been some thrown around numerous thread but just thought it would be useful if people would post in one place?
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just wanna share some battery life stats..
1st power up of the phone.. did a full charge with phone off, once charging light changed to green, i powered up the phone.. 1st thing i notice.. it is not fully charged to 100%..
next thing to take note, the entire duration the phone is on is an additional hr plus.. i rebooted the phone once so im not sure what is the actual duration the phone is powered by the battery..
all in all, about 3hr+ with high usage of the phone.. notice how the phone was awake most of the time and the screen was on most of the time too..
cheers..
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Only if this phone had some decent battery packed in, as in the Note, I'd have grabbed it. Why HTC why ?
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just wanna share some battery life stats..
1st power up of the phone.. did a full charge with phone off, once charging light changed to green, i powered up the phone.. 1st thing i notice.. it is not fully charged to 100%..
next thing to take note, the entire duration the phone is on is an additional hr plus.. i rebooted the phone once so im not sure what is the actual duration the phone is powered by the battery..
all in all, about 3hr+ with high usage of the phone.. notice how the phone was awake most of the time and the screen was on most of the time too..
cheers..
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Screenshots ain't working.
Is it true that there was yesterday a OTA to fix battery issues?!?! If yes, did it solve? and what is the version number?
These are my stats from first day...not bad given how much I'm played with it
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Here are my current stats.
Not impressed at all.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5836066/2012-04-06_20-01-05.png
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Looks like we are about the same.
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This is my battery
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This is my battery
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Whats your screen on time?
1st post so I hope it's helpful.
I'm a big fan of the phone & love it, there are a few small issues I've noticed & I'll post these in the relevant thread.
People keep saying the battery life is dreadful but it doesn't seem much worse than my original Desire on similar use.
After the first full charge last night I plugged in the charger when the warning came on at 9%:
11 hours 2 minutes on battery, screen used 75% of the power while on for 4 hours 31 minutes.
Everything else used a few % each.
Brightness was on auto at approx 50% most of the time and on full for about half an hour; indoors I wouldn't want it as bright as that.
F/W 1.26.401.2
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The battery you have seems to have lasted better than a few others who have posted here.
Was it heavy use or normal??
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1st post so I hope it's helpful.
I'm a big fan of the phone & love it, there are a few small issues I've noticed & I'll post these in the relevant thread.
People keep saying the battery life is dreadful but it doesn't seem much worse than my original Desire on similar use.
After the first full charge last night I plugged in the charger when the warning came on at 9%:
11 hours 2 minutes on battery, screen used 75% of the power while on for 4 hours 31 minutes.
Everything else used a few % each.
Brightness was on auto at approx 50% most of the time and on full for about half an hour; indoors I wouldn't want it as bright as that.
F/W 1.26.401.2
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Can you post your screen shots please?
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No idea how people are getting 4hrs screen time, I will be lucky to get 3 and thats with brightness at like 30%.
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Whats your screen on time?
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1hour 30 min
Hi
Thinking about this phone or the one s. Just a quick q regarding the documented poor battery. Could i go out for the day - say for 15/16 hours send the occasional texts maybe a couple of photos/videos and the occasionally browsing the web - to check football scores etc etc.. should this handle that ok ?
is a pocket charger the way to go ?
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Thinking about this phone or the one s. Just a quick q regarding the documented poor battery. Could i go out for the day - say for 15/16 hours send the occasional texts maybe a couple of photos/videos and the occasionally browsing the web - to check football scores etc etc.. should this handle that ok ?
is a pocket charger the way to go ?
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That's how I intend to use the phone tomorrow, so i'll soon let you know.
The thing with this phone that is superb, there is hardly any drain when your not using it. It's extremely good for idle power saving.
dunno about you guys but i'm getting insane numbers in standby...
overnight i lose 1% with wifi, data and autos-sync on....
it's the first android phone that sleeps properly when screen is off...there's nothing keeping it awake.
i'm on 1.26 by the way
Well I don't think it's that bad on battery given how much screen time i've had....three and a half hours.
Only got 2% left so going to put it back on charge. These are my final stats for my first day after a 13hour charge
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That's how I intend to use the phone tomorrow, so i'll soon let you know.
The thing with this phone that is superb, there is hardly any drain when your not using it. It's extremely good for idle power saving.
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thanks, that would be good to know
It used to be that with the screen off and the phone on idle with the screen off, I would lose maybe 2% per hour. This morning, my battery quickly dropped to 50% with some phone call but very light use. So I charged it back up to 80%. For the last hour, it dropped about 9% with the screen completely off and I had cleared the memory prior to that. That is unusually high since the phone is sitting in one place in an area that has good 4g and 3g.
How is your standby battery drain? I am on LJC stock rooted.
Edit: reboot phone and now it is better. Loosing 6% in 2 hours of standby. Much better.
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It used to be that with the screen off and the phone on idle with the screen off, I would lose maybe 2% per hour. This morning, my battery quickly dropped to 50% with some phone call but very light use. So I charged it back up to 80%. For the last hour, it dropped about 9% with the screen completely off and I had cleared the memory prior to that. That is unusually high since the phone is sitting in one place in an area that has good 4g and 3g.
How is your standby battery drain? I am on LJC stock rooted.
Edit: reboot phone and now it is better. Loosing 6% in 2 hours of standby. Much better.
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Glad a reboot helped. I'd recommend rebooting every day. I usually do it first thing in the morning and before going to bed.
My battery life on LJC rooted was fantastic. Never had a phone like this. My EVO3D with 3300 extended battery was good, but still not as good as the note2.
I experienced a really weird battery drain a few weeks ago but cannot replicate it. However it dropped from 100% to 42% in 2 hours time. Pulled battery recharged it and nothing since. But I usually get 16+ hours a day with extreme usage. I am talking 5 hours of netflix and some pandora and games. On my weekend when I dont use the phone much I get 48 hours usually.
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Glad a reboot helped. I'd recommend rebooting every day. I usually do it first thing in the morning and before going to bed.
My battery life on LJC rooted was fantastic. Never had a phone like this. My EVO3D with 3300 extended battery was good, but still not as good as the note2.
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I kept checking it with battery monitor widget and the third and fourth hour, it was only losing 1% per hour much like my old E4GT. Battery drain went down from -300ma to about -45ma.
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I kept checking it with battery monitor widget and the third and fourth hour, it was only losing 1% per hour much like my old E4GT. Battery drain went down from -300ma to about -45ma.
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Which app is that? I've been looking for something to view battery current, many I used on HTC phones don't work on Samsung.
Does that app also have a better understanding of what apps are causing battery drain? I'm tired of seeing "Android OS" and not knowing EXACTLY what it is...Might help me diagnose my Fiance's E4GT (GS2) with "Android OS" as the main culprit at 67%...
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Which app is that? I've been looking for something to view battery current, many I used on HTC phones don't work on Samsung.
Does that app also have a better understanding of what apps are causing battery drain? I'm tired of seeing "Android OS" and not knowing EXACTLY what it is...Might help me diagnose my Fiance's E4GT (GS2) with "Android OS" as the main culprit at 67%...
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Here's something that may help diagnose the culprits.
http://www.phonereview.mobi/2013/02/galaxy-note-2-tips-tricks-episode-72.html
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Which app is that? I've been looking for something to view battery current, many I used on HTC phones don't work on Samsung.
Does that app also have a better understanding of what apps are causing battery drain? I'm tired of seeing "Android OS" and not knowing EXACTLY what it is...Might help me diagnose my Fiance's E4GT (GS2) with "Android OS" as the main culprit at 67%...
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That's just battery monitor widget available at the play store. It is still hard to tell what is exactly causing the -300ma drain during standby with screen off.
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Here's something that may help diagnose the culprits.
http://www.phonereview.mobi/2013/02/galaxy-note-2-tips-tricks-episode-72.html
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Very helpful. Thanks.
i feel like my battery is draining fast, i havnt done much today on the phone only a little over an hour of screen on time, and not sure if its normal but was at the movies and my phone was pretty warm in my pocket doing nothing
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First day? You might try a couple of charges before hiding it. It's not terrible. About 4 hours of screen on in 21 hours is not that bad for first charge.
I notice from the screenshot that your 4G reception is pretty poor (only 1 bar). The radio is by far, the biggest drainer of battery life. So that being considered, your battery life isn't bad.
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I notice from the screenshot that your 4G reception is pretty poor (only 1 bar). The radio is by far, the biggest drainer of battery life. So that being considered, your battery life isn't bad.
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but should that matter when im on wifi? and my s5 didnt have that problem with pretty much the same reception
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but should that matter when im on wifi? and my s5 didnt have that problem with pretty much the same reception
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It's going to be more efficient on Wifi. Low signal won't do much, but when it has to constantly search it drains fast.
Here's mine, had it since April 1st and the battery has been consistent.
Doesn't my held awake time seem high? It's higher then my screen on time all I did on the phone today was text, go on Facebook on and off and browse the Web a bit
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i feel like my battery is draining fast, i havnt done much today on the phone only a little over an hour of screen on time, and not sure if its normal but was at the movies and my phone was pretty warm in my pocket doing nothing
I have the same problem with my New M8 which I just bought 2 weeks ago.
My situation is the fully charged battery will drain out 20% of power after 6hours sleep. I am pretty sure I turned off all apps before going to bed.
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iamloco724 said:
i feel like my battery is draining fast, i havnt done much today on the phone only a little over an hour of screen on time, and not sure if its normal but was at the movies and my phone was pretty warm in my pocket doing nothing
I have the same problem with my New M8 which I just bought 2 weeks ago.
My situation is the fully charged battery will drain out 20% of power after 6hours sleep. I am pretty sure I turned off all apps before going to bed.
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Battery savings can be had by making sure the display brightness is set to auto. Tbh your battery drain looks normal. There's loads of stuff going on the background when WiFi is on. You can cut some of it down by turning WiFi off when you don't need it and going to your account settings and unchecking some of the sync items you don't need.
I find the battery life suprisingly good considering how long I have the screen on sometimes. I've had full days out of it with constant use . Normal use I'll get 2 days easy.
Also I find this the best battery monitor app. The easy to read timeline graph shows exactly when and where the drain is. https://play.google.com/store/apps/...edium=organic&utm_term=battery+monitor+widget
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[email protected] said:
Battery savings can be had by making sure the display brightness is set to auto. Tbh your battery drain looks normal. There's loads of stuff going on the background when WiFi is on. You can cut some of it down by turning WiFi off when you don't need it and going to your account settings and unchecking some of the sync items you don't need.
I find the battery life suprisingly good considering how long I have the screen on sometimes. I've had full days out of it with constant use . Normal use I'll get 2 days easy.
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I keep brightness almost all the way down due to sensitive eyes, and I have nothing syncing
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ashyx said:
I keep brightness almost all the way down due to sensitive eyes, and I have nothing syncing
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So you unchecked all the sync options for your Google account?
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iamloco724 said:
So you unchecked all the sync options for your Google account?
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Yup
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Convert to GPE and install a custom kernel and you will get much better battery.
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I only get 3 hours tops of screen on time. Seems too little, from what I've been reading. I have wifi, mobile data and GPS always on and mostly use 4g since I don't have wifi at work. Is this normal?
Some GSam battery monitor screenshots :
http://forum.xda-developers.co...
http://forum.xda-developers.co...
Cheers