I noticed a 40% drop in battery life overnight and narrowed it down to NoLED activating my email notification eight hours prior. I thought this program was supposed to not drain battery so much...
I do have the setting to show the icon all the time until dismissed instead of blinking or being on for X amount of time then off. But if I chose those settings, NoLED would be close to useless while I'm sleeping.
NoLED will keep your whole screen ON from what I understand. Do not user this APP with OLED displays! That's why the power usage is so high. When I tried this app on mine my battery drained really really fast
delfin12 said:
NoLED will keep your whole screen ON from what I understand. Do not user this APP with OLED displays! That's why the power usage is so high. When I tried this app on mine my battery drained really really fast
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I'm pretty sure NoLED was made to be used with OLED type displays.
On another note, it may not be NoLED cuasing the drainage, as I'm now experiencing the high "Android OS" usage with Gmail set to auto-sync my emails. Will be looking into this further.
So several people have started to notice that "AudioOut_1" wake lock might be polling our batteries unwillingly on our part. So I decided to go out and disable everything that could make sound except for the ringtones and notifications themselves since we all have to have that. This is what I came across...
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Settings > Sound
Uncheck "Touch sounds"
Uncheck "Screen lock sound"
Profit.
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Just went an hour without losing 1% battery after I did this.
Some people are claiming they only are losing 1% or less per hour now, just leaving the phone sitting not doing anything. So this may be the temporary fix for the phone being awake when it doesn't need to be.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1389214
I tend to turn those off anyway, just hadn't gotten around to it yet. I went ahead and did it now, along with vibrate on keypress. We'll see how it works!
I've had those off since I started with the phone and I have bad battery life...
MaxCarnage said:
I tend to turn those off anyway, just hadn't gotten around to it yet. I went ahead and did it now, along with vibrate on keypress. We'll see how it works!
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Yeah it sounds like a really small and ridiculous thing but it just works...
TabsAZ said:
I've had those off since I started with the phone and I have bad battery life...
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same still 5 hrs of stand by and its half way dead
Tried this and have had excellent idle battery life since I switched both off!
gabster21 said:
Tried this and have had excellent idle battery life since I switched both off!
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Seems to be 50/50 on this
Ive had those off and I am actually going to run my phone in vibrate only mode for a while and see what results from that.
this has little to no effect on battery life. Look at your Android OS battery consumption before, and after. It will be the same
Biggest solution I've found for battery life is disabling my GPS when I don't need it, and going to CDMA rather than LTE/CDMA. They're still there for me when I want them, but most of the time I don't need them.
Right now I've had the phone off the charger for 4 hours where it was topped off; I'm at 91% now, with moderate use (Google Currents for half an hour, about another 20 minutes total screen-on time doing other dinky things, three texts)
First of all, disabling GPS will have absolutely no affect on your battery life. The GPS is only enabled when an app calls for it, if you don't have Google Maps open, then your GPS won't be engaged.
And turning off the sounds will have little to no affect, it's the vibrating that kills your battery more. Turn off haptic feedback, turn off vibrating notifications, turn off vibrate on key press for the keyboard.
Oh, and staying connected to wifi is much easier on the battery than using data. On wifi your phone doesn't have to keep polling the cell towers for signal
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First of all, disabling GPS will have absolutely no affect on your battery life. The GPS is only enabled when an app calls for it, if you don't have Google Maps open, then your GPS won't be engaged.
And turning off the sounds will have little to no affect, it's the vibrating that kills your battery more. Turn off haptic feedback, turn off vibrating notifications, turn off vibrate on key press for the keyboard.
Oh, and staying connected to wifi is much easier on the battery than using data. On wifi your phone doesn't have to keep polling the cell towers for signal
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Turning off GPS works for me because I often use social apps (e.g. Facebook) that engage GPS for their 'check-in' features. It may be a minor thing, but having turned the GPS off, I've seen real results. *shrug*
Also, maybe a gimme for you smarties, but I disabled VZ Backup Assistant.
KiNG OMaR said:
First of all, disabling GPS will have absolutely no affect on your battery life. The GPS is only enabled when an app calls for it, if you don't have Google Maps open, then your GPS won't be engaged.
And turning off the sounds will have little to no affect, it's the vibrating that kills your battery more. Turn off haptic feedback, turn off vibrating notifications, turn off vibrate on key press for the keyboard.
Oh, and staying connected to wifi is much easier on the battery than using data. On wifi your phone doesn't have to keep polling the cell towers for signal
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Yes what you are saying has made sense in the past for Froyo and GB but we are having some sort of unknown wake lock and this seems to be the biggest one. Ever since I have disabled both of those features my AudioOut_1 wake lock hasn't awakened the phone ONE TIME.
Syn Ack said:
So several people have started to notice that "AudioOut_1" wake lock might be polling our batteries unwillingly on our part. So I decided to go out and disable everything that could make sound except for the ringtones and notifications themselves since we all have to have that. This is what I came across...
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Settings > Sound
Uncheck "Touch sounds"
Uncheck "Screen lock sound"
Profit.
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Just went an hour without losing 1% battery after I did this.
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I have those off already.
Problem is also the Android OS Keep awake time is high.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1387243
Check yours.
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i turned these 2 settings off before i unplugged the phone.
im now on wifi and about an hour and a 15 minutes off the charger. android OS usage is like 24% and keep awake is like 35 minutes
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TabsAZ said:
I've had those off since I started with the phone and I have bad battery life...
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Install Better Battery Stats
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
Get your phone down to 50% under normal usage(Not playing with the phone until 50%) just keeping it in your pocket, checking it occasionally..ect
Open Battery Battery Stats
On the Top Drop Down select
"Partial Wakelocks"
and on the Second
"Since Unplugged"
What are the top three? Anything near 1% is minimal and should be ignored for now.
thescreensavers said:
^ Follow these Directions below
Install Better Battery Stats
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
Get your phone down to 50% under normal usage(Not playing with the phone until 50%) just keeping it in your pocket, checking it occasionally..ect
Open Battery Battery Stats
On the Top Drop Down select
"Partial Wakelocks"
and on the Second
"Since Unplugged"
What are the top three? Anything near 1% is minimal and should be ignored for now.
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There are so much stories. People check that already. No solid conclusion.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1387243
On one occasion, the tuna usb otg kernel process woke up for 7 hours, people got mipi_link keep awake high, etc.
Check the above threads.
If you have galaxy Nexus, check your Android OS Keep awake time... That must be high for no reason.
Nexus S users who got the official ICS from Google recently are experiencing the same issue.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1396635
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I had a custom rom with dreadful battery switched back to the latest stock and have noticed the following: When you have good signal the screen on and awake seem to match up, i only lost 30% in TWO DAYS! then suddenly when i went out to the country side today i lost the remaining 70% in only a few hours seems that when the phone has low signal is is almost ALWAYS awake. I understand that in lower signal areas the phone tries harder to get signal but surly it shouldn't be awake like 90% of the time!
my top 1 was some sort of googlephotos sync service. i might turn off instant upload with google+.
that audioOut_1 was at like 1.2%, turned off these 2 settings before i unplugged from charger
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I had a custom rom with dreadful battery switched back to the latest stock and have noticed the following: When you have good signal the screen on and awake seem to match up, i only lost 30% in TWO DAYS! then suddenly when i went out to the country side today i lost the remaining 70% in only a few hours seems that when the phone has low signal is is almost ALWAYS awake. I understand that in lower signal areas the phone tries harder to get signal but surly it shouldn't be awake like 90% of the time!
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Yep that is another major contributing factor to terrible battery life. My phone will drain VERY slowly in good signal and die rapidly in bad signal.
I am currently using a custom rom, AndroidME GNex 1.9 and I have faster blinking notification lights built into the rom. I am looking to switch to another rom as the developer has disappeared and I'm still on 4.1.1, frequently getting messages to update to 4.1.2 Many of the other roms do not list faster blinking LED's as a feature though. I know Liteflow drains the battery a lot but I can't seem to find another alternative. This feature has been so useful I don't know what I'll do without it.
Any suggestions? I tried looking for liteflow alternatives but nothing came up.
Just to let you know, I don't think light flow is any worse for the battery than what is built in the rom. I just checked in the battery usage and light flow isn't even mentioned. Maybe I'm not looking right? And even if it did, it wouldn't be much, I thought led lights don't take a lot of battery
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Just chiming in. I use Light Flor as well and it's had 0 effects on my battery life. It is also not mentioned on my battery screen. Last thing mentioned is Instagram and that is at 2%.
has anyone experienced a random facebook battery drain? im running 4.2 illusion rom with ktoonsez kernel, and today my battery died after around 4 hours with facebook at 60%, and the graph at a constant downward direction (even with barely any screen on time, somewhat bad signal). my gps is turned off, and i think i opened facebook only once in the morning for a few seconds.
any way i can prevent this from happening again?
On my P6 i'm facing rather annoying battery issues... Once my batt status reaches abt 14% it takes abt. 15 seconds and then my phone goes off. Attached to power cord and reboot then she'll get to 12% very rapid. Tried recalibrating with BatteryCalibration app but in vain. Really don't know what to do... my P6 need recharging abt 2 times a day on "normal" use (Email, facebook and some mindless candy crush games).
Running on latest CM11.
Anyone any ideas?
Cheers