[Q] Slowly Decreasing Battery Life - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II

I updated to 4.1.2 about 3 weeks ago or so. Not sure exactly. And the battery seemed to be just fine then. But slowly over these weeks, especially the last 4 days or so, it seems to be decreasing. I used to be able to go a whole day easy. And still have 45-50% left. And that would continue into the next day. Sometimes I would get 2 whole days and sitll have about 15% and then decide to charge it back.
Now, I can barely get a full day. And when I don't charge the phone at night, the battery charge decreases quite rapidly. Sometimes 15% or so with no usage at all overnight. It used to maybe move 3% at the most overnight with no usage.
My settings are the same. My usage is the same. I see time without signal is 2%. Nothing extremely high there.
Is this just one of the downside of 4.1.2 or is there something else happening that I'm not picking up on?
I didn't want this to really turn into what apps are out there to make the life better because I hate jumping through all those hoops and settings to get the most. I know this phone has the potential for 2 days of moderate use out the box because that is what I used to get. Seeing if I could get back to that state.
I was told to go into Wifi settings and change the setting not stay on while the phone is sleeping. Did not help at all. Per this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mInF-ZRX5bs
Did that last night. Charged it 97% and went to sleep. Slept for 5 and a half hours. Did not touch the phone at all. Woke up and it's at 82% this morning. Here's the screenshot of the battery stats:
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Thanks.

Yup...update messed up my battery life also.
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droidjon said:
Yup...update messed up my battery life also.
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Glad it's not just me then. Have you found anyway to make it a little better?

Well if you don't need to wanted at night, then what I do is put it in airplane mode and take off when waking up.
If you still get wake locks, check to see which ones they are off a wake lock app.
Also before I put into stand by, I exit all apps, also restart phone with airplane mode on. Doing this I haven't lost any battery life at all and seems to help throughout the day as well
Currently 60% right now and over 3 hours on-screen time and 16 hours.
Doing much better if I don't do what I have been doing.
Also make sure all GPS location settings are off. Huge battery drain for me.
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JesseMT4G said:
Well if you don't need to wanted at night, then what I do is put it in airplane mode and take off when waking up.
If you still get wake locks, check to see which ones they are off a wake lock app.
Also before I put into stand by, I exit all apps, also restart phone with airplane mode on. Doing this I haven't lost any battery life at all and seems to help throughout the day as well
Currently 60% right now and over 3 hours on-screen time and 16 hours.
Doing much better if I don't do what I have been doing.
Also make sure all GPS location settings are off. Huge battery drain for me.
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Yeah I know airplane mode will work but I receive texts late at night sometimes and those would not come through. Before this update, I never had a problem. I never had to make sure apps were closed and all this other stuff. It just never drained on me at all. When I first had the phone, I used to have to try very hard to drain the battery to zero so I could let the phone die and then get a full charge. The battery life used to be very great. Now, not so much.
And I have no idea why Slacker is being used like that. I haven't used that app in 3 weeks. And I don't see any settings that would cause it to being used in the background when I'm clearly not using it.
Yes I never have GPS on until I need it for navigation purposes. I'm hoping Key Lime Pie fixes this or we get another minor update before that.

barats said:
Yeah I know airplane mode will work but I receive texts late at night sometimes and those would not come through. Before this update, I never had a problem. I never had to make sure apps were closed and all this other stuff. It just never drained on me at all. When I first had the phone, I used to have to try very hard to drain the battery to zero so I could let the phone die and then get a full charge. The battery life used to be very great. Now, not so much.
And I have no idea why Slacker is being used like that. I haven't used that app in 3 weeks. And I don't see any settings that would cause it to being used in the background when I'm clearly not using it.
Yes I never have GPS on until I need it for navigation purposes. I'm hoping Key Lime Pie fixes this or we get another minor update before that.
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You should never discharge your phone to anywhere close to dead. It ruins your battery
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Do you have lte on? Are you in an lte area? Have you tried a factory reset?
My battery life was horrible when j first upgraded. Seeing as i am not with T-Mobile i do not get lte. I turned my lte off and my battery went back to normal.
A factory reset may also clear any gremlins that you may have left over frlm the update
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Same here owned it since december...great battery and after update it went down the drain (especially losing 15-20% overnight with just about everything turned off. I would usually let it get down to 10-15% and then charge. Well eventually my phone would only charge "when it wanted too" so I got a replacement, updated to 4.1.2 and battery lifes has been great.
As far as not doing full cycles or not...ive looked and looked and everyone says diff. Some experts argue it's good to let ot drain till about 5% and then charge And other experts say charge often and not let it below x percentage. Soooo confused on the topic, so in the end to each their own I guess lol
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Greatly improved battery life (CDMA)

Last night I restored my phone using the factory image. For some reason I anticipate an OTA soon so I wanted to be ready. Anyhow, before I suffered from the battery drain bug. I forgot to charge my phone last night, and didn't realize it until I got in my car and put it on the car charger and it said 89%. My first thought was that my battery drained over 10% in the hour I was getting ready and not using it! Then I went into battery settings and found out I never charged it.. then I found some pleasant... well, I'll just show you.
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As you can see, I lost less than 5% battery during the 6+ hours my phone was unplugged. I had the phone in the living room charging while watching a movie. Then I unplugged and used it for about 20 minutes in the bedroom which accounts for the first rapid drop in battery. But after I set it down, the phone went into a coma. And I can't see exactly, but it looks like it was only 2 or 3% which is great!
Not sure what changed, I still have the same apps installed, even Facebook. I did, however, NOT disable VZ backup assistant like I normally do. Maybe that is what causes the OS to go bonkers? Thoughts?
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I got about 20 hours out of mine yesterday (extended battery) with moderate usage (texting, ebay, facebook, web) This is after unlocking the bootloader and rooting. Unlocking the bootloader resets the phone to factory state. I've read a few other posts around the web where battery life is greatly improved after a factory reset. Android OS is still the main things devouring my battery, but I almost don't care with the performance I'm getting. I should also mention that I wiped battery stats from CWM and then calibrated the battery on first charge.
I'm no dev, so I don't know why a reset would help. Then again, maybe it was wiping battery stats and calibrating that helped me. Just my $.02
How did you calibrate the battery?
There's a free tool in the market that will calibrate for you. Have to be rooted though. Just search for calibrate.
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Surprised this isn't getting more acknowledgement. Any one else experience the same after a reset?
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Guess maybe I'm one of the lucky few...I've always had this type of battery life. The phone just sips power while the screen is off.
While it is on...well that's different. I keep the brightness high and get about 2-2.5 hours of screen time before it powers off.
The interesting thing here is that it seems that you have the Android OS constantly waking up the phone but yet it still barely uses battery.
Do you have location services turned on or off?
Turned on. I noticed that too but the overall awake time is low. Usually it would be over half of the entire time on battery, sometimes 100%.
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I used 50% in about 3 hours on my extended battery.
fml.
Great battery life, but you didnt really use your phone much.
Your "Screen on" is only about 15% of those 6 hours. Which ends up being about an hour.
Still, none the less, great battery life/power consumption.
rpnunez said:
Great battery life, but you didnt really use your phone much.
Your "Screen on" is only about 15% of those 6 hours. Which ends up being about an hour.
Still, none the less, great battery life/power consumption.
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I think you missed the point. I said this was done while I was sleeping. Many people are experiencing extreme battery drain even when they aren't using the phone, as was I. After restoring from the factory image, my issue seems to be gone.
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I think you missed the point. I said this was done while I was sleeping. Many people are experiencing extreme battery drain even when they aren't using the phone, as was I. After restoring from the factory image, my issue seems to be gone.
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I unplugged my phone at 11:30 pm with 98%, woke up at 7:30 am today and it dropped to 76%. So a 20% drop in 8 hrs with the phone just sitting there with wi-fi on and no apps running. It'd be very interesting to see if a factory restore would help.
How's the battery life now that you're using it?
Im thinking of unlocking and rooting mine tonight. havent had a moment to read the walkthrough just yet.
i noticed this too last night/today. i went to sleep after installing bugless beast 4.0.3 cdma, left it off the charger, and today i saw the chart was pretty much a flat line. i don't recall the exact times, but i'll try to time it out. about 8 hours
i wonder if all the initial extreme battery drain reports are due to the 'wowanewphone' effect, where you are molesting your phone 24/7, as opposed to the typical day-to-day use you'll eventually fall back into

Getting GREAT battery life with new ROM (Lost just 20% in 16 hours)

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.
schriss said:
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.
voxigenboy said:
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.

[Q] Pathetic Battery Life, even with 3800mah extended battery. WTF?!?

This is irritating me immensely...my Galaxy Nexus has yet to last me a full day on a charge. I bought a Hyperion 3800mah battery and I believe it really did extend my battery life. On Sunday, I was home all day and my phone was connected to wifi. I used it quite a bit and the thing had 80% when I went to bed.
Today and yesterday, going to school, my phone is just about dead when I get home, at 2:30. I did use my phone, but not heavy at all. Spent the most of the day in my pocket. I had nothing on both days. No bluetooth, GPS, I had sync off when I went to school today, then I turned it on around 1 o clock or so. I used full screen brightness when I was outside for a few minutes, otherwise it was on low. The thing is warm to the touch like its been running frantically. I'm lead to believe that its something to do with the LTE radio. But what??
Took some screen shots of my battery page, had 4% left.
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Please please please help me. I've read people getting 2 days on a charge with a 3800mah battery...I'm drooling for that ability.
Thanks!
It looks like your spending lots of time in area's with bad reception. I'm using the sedio 3800mah and I have no problem going several days on one charge. Only time it drops faster is when I have crappy reception and the radio's are pulling more juice. On heavy days I have wireless tether running all day, and a couple hours of games and still have 40+ percent at the end of the day.
there is also some crap app installed that keep ur phone awake..
ur phone should be awake only when the screen is on (or so)..
your high % of cell standby should give it away.
look at your signal the red is all the times with no signal meaning that whole time the phone is searching for signal. plus 49 %of screen on time that looks to be half of 7:49 so almost 4 hours of scren time is good just need to fix your signal problem plus draw something kills your battery as well
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It looks like your spending lots of time in area's with bad reception. I'm using the sedio 3800mah and I have no problem going several days on one charge. Only time it drops faster is when I have crappy reception and the radio's are pulling more juice. On heavy days I have wireless tether running all day, and a couple hours of games and still have 40+ percent at the end of the day.
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+1 to signal causing drain
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plus 49 %of screen on time that looks to be half of 7:49 so almost 4 hours of scren time
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is not like that..49 % is the power consumption of the screen in relation to the other things that drained the battery..with easy word, you cant know the screen on time if he doesn't say u
True...well he needs to do a factory reset and see if it helps
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Wow, poor to no reception, high awake times, high screen on times...it's a miracle your battery lasted as long as it did.
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True...well he needs to do a factory reset and see if it helps
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Factory reset doesn't help bad signal...lol.
Turn off LTE, bad signal will drain you fast but bad signal on LTE will drain you twice as fast.
Looks like you have a rogue app. See how much your phone is awake when the screen is off? That combined with bad signal=dead phone.
I see what you guys mean about awake mode. Yea my phone feels like a warm coal all day. I uninstalled "Words Free" because I've heard bad thing about battery, I stopped using the beautiful widgets weather app, stopped sync with soundcloud, and I got an airplane mode widget for the bad reception area. We'll see how long I can stretch my battery tomorrow.
I read up on how Light Flow light might drain the battery. The LED light has remained stuck on a lot, so I uninstalled it. I'll post a battery stat tomorrow night. Fingers crossed.
I can vouch for bad reception draining the battery.. that should clear up your problem.
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I had the same problem but get this app called "2X Battery", my batter lasts the whole day now! Get the PRO version, its actually worth it and it works wonders!
I have the extended battery also
yep bad reception... once time i left my phone one in my bag while on an airplane... not in airplane mode or anything... battery went dead in about 2 hours due to no signal
Pretty sure the bigger problem is the phone waking up while the screen is off. You should run your phone for another day and look at the list of apps that are draining your battery.
A few good things to look for? Google + or other programs constantly checking for messages your location, or updates, e-mail being pushed to your phone automatically, Wifi on while in sleep, and widgets.
My battery is **** also on GSM version my galaxy s2 would have 2-3% drain per hour most time less Nexus seems to drain 2-3% in 15mins its terrible wish i never changed.

Battery Life Problems

How's everyone's battery life? I get down to about 5% by the end of the night with light to moderate use and standby time seems to be pretty terrible (5% drain an hour or so).
I checked in the battery info and it shows Android OS at the top with 66% use and when I click on that, it shows Keep awake at 3 hours and 49 minutes.
Anyone else having this problem? I did a full wipe and that didn't fix anything. I'm also running the latest update.
I can usually last a day with moderate to heavy use. Haven't found it to be any shorter than that so far. Try turning on the processor eco mode
I wake up at about 7:00a.m. and go to sleep at around 12:00a.m. And I usually go to bed with about 30% and this is with moderate use, with full brightness and eco mode off.
My battery life is pretty atrocious as well compared to my Evo LTE.
I'm at 40% at the moment after 7.5 hours. That's mostly wifi and without 4G. Have tried keeping the screen at 40-50% brightness, eco mode on, quad control, on, etc.
Even tried cycling it a few times by letting it run all the way down and charging until 100% with phone off and it's there's been no improvement.
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How's everyone's battery life? I get down to about 5% by the end of the night with light to moderate use and standby time seems to be pretty terrible (5% drain an hour or so)....
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My unit idles pretty well actually. About 1% (or less?) per hour. No complaints here.
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I have been surprised at the battery life of this phone. I was annoyed after I bought it because I didn't realize it didn't have a removable battery and I typically buy extra batteries. I gave it a try though and yesterday I used it moderately while at work for 12 hours, used it for streaming audio on the way home, and after a total of about 14 hours without charging it was only down to 70%. Eco mode was on, and screen set to 67%. Periods were with 3g, 4g, low signal, and wifi.
Dont know why you would have such bad battery life, i used my phone all day yesterday from 530am til i went to bed last night at 1115pm only 30% discharge at that point , i dl a rom on it for my gs3 when i was going to sleep 789mb and woke up this am to 36% bat left. I am truly pleased with the performance so far.
I am not a light user either and use it to play need for speed , I haven't even put it in eco mode yet.
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Honestly no complaints so far. I've been toying with it for fifteen minutes after ten minutes of music play and it only now went from a hundred percent to ninety nine. On my 3d it would be down ten to fifteen percent by now.
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I haven't had any issues with the battery either. After a decent amount of web browsing, a few calls and a ton of texts, some angry birds star wars and final fantasy 3, I still have 70% left. Also have wifi, gps on constantly, 68% brightness on display and no eco mode.
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What are you guys getting for screen time?
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I've had almost 3 hrs of screen time and 12 hrs on a charge and only been down to 30% (with some Pandora streaming in there too). I normally get done with work and playing some on my phone and am still above 70% after 9 hrs. I can't complain about battery life in any way!
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I haven't had any issues with the battery either. After a decent amount of web browsing, a few calls and a ton of texts, some angry birds star wars and final fantasy 3, I still have 70% left. Also have wifi, gps on constantly, 68% brightness on display and no eco mode.
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What percent of the battery usage is "Android OS" for you?
This morning I pulled her off the charger and browsed reddit for an hour with the screen at 63% and lost more than 20%.
I'm exchanging it and if the new one doesn't work any better I'm probably going to sell it and go back to the Evo.
Hard reset your phone and start over ,there is no reason you should return the device before trouble shooting
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Already tried HR, went ahead and did another one and ended up having to reset it two more times when the Play Store stopped working.
Now I'm running with a handful of apps, one email account and I'm not syncing to anything other than Gmail and I'm still down 17% in the last hour and a half, plus I'm getting force close errors just trying to access battery status.
Should i look into getting another Optimus G.?
This is without my work email being sync. And i get massive emails daily on that account
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What percent of the battery usage is "Android OS" for you?
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At the time this was done it was at about 40ish%.
At the moment I am at 25% after using my phone about 16 hours. Android OS is at 51%, screen at 19% with about 3 hours clocked in.
By this point I expect a minimum of twelve hours on the battery with at least two hours of screen on time. Im very happy with that if I use the screen for more than two hours it'll last about eight hours which is still good. This phone idles very well I expect it improve with future updates as well.
To the user who s getting a lot of fc's, I definitely don't get any and that's saying a lot for stock software from lg opposed to stock android. Don't install task killers of you have one
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2 hours in and I'm at 75%. Yeah I might have a bad device. .
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Replacements here, we'll see how things go with the new one.

how is my battery life?

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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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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?
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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.
x1tyme said:
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.
zeushvk said:
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 )..
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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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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