If like me your waiting to root and rom but want a battery percentage instead of stock battery img. I found an application that places a battery percentage over the stock image. I like this instead of having two battery notifications in the bar.
Not perfect, stays on while in full screen apps but is easy to disable from app drawer when playing games or whatever.
https://market.android.com/details?...wLmRkby5zaGlnYWRyb2lkLmJhdHRlcnljaGFuZ2VyIl0.
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Why are you waiting to root? You're using a Google device that is specifically geared towards development lol.
Or u can use Super Status bar....Its friggen aWESOME. It also has in-App-purchases, so u can buy extra status bar MODs. its replaces then whole status bar. Theres a free version, so u can get a feel for it. It works really well, and has no ill effects on the battery
Or use Quicker. Only a few pence and puts a little battery percentage in the status bar along with your stock battery. P.S. Why would you be waiting for a root? The phone was rooted before it got released, it is a developers phone remember
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Or use Quicker. Only a few pence and puts a little battery percentage in the status bar along with your stock battery. P.S. Why would you be waiting for a root? The phone was rooted before it got released, it is a developers phone remember
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Quicker just adds a second battery. My ocd can only handle one battery notification.
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Hi..... I just wanted to know if the rooted stock Rom has better battery life than the regular unrooted stock because the regular stock kills the battery really fast.
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Rooting by itself doesn't do anything so...
No
i thought stock battery life was good. Maybe it is something running in the background that is killing your batter.
Being rooted you can remove a lot of bloatware to save battery life.
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i thought stock battery life was good. Maybe it is something running in the background that is killing your batter.
Being rooted you can remove a lot of bloatware to save battery life.
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All superuser (root) is is a program designed to grant applications admin access to the device, rooting itself inpacts performance/stability in NO way whatsoever..
if you want better battery life, i recommend flashing a custom rom
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All superuser (root) is is a program designed to grant applications admin access to the device, rooting itself inpacts performance/stability in NO way whatsoever..
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which gives you access to remove bloatware... did you miss that part? If you strip down your phone and freeze/uninstall apps that ran in the background and/or used data when you don't want it to, then you will improve your battery life.
I think you fail to see what the OP was asking. it was about battery life, not performance or stability.
if you check the running applications and freeze the ones that run all day then ya better battery but obviously just rooting isnt gonna do it
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which gives you access to remove bloatware... did you miss that part? If you strip down your phone and freeze/uninstall apps that ran in the background and/or used data when you don't want it to, then you will improve your battery life.
I think you fail to see what the OP was asking. it was about battery life, not performance or stability.
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Im with doug on this one, i think youre taking this too far. The op inquired if a STOCK rooted rom had beyyer battery life as opposed to a unrooted STOCK rom. As doug said, a rooted completely stock rom offers no battery life imprpvements on its own. Now performance to me is defined as the optimal battery life and efficiency of the device.
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Ok. Thank you...... Do u know guys know what Rom is the most closest to stock but has a better battery life
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Ok. Thank you...... Do u know guys know what Rom is the most closest to stock but has a better battery life
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Darksides and Juggernaut are the pretty much stock with bloatware removed and some additional goodies which are super helpful such as the notification bar toggles. I'm currently using darksides and I'm seeing very good battery life on moderate use (2 hours display time at 50% brightness, 1 hour on Spotify streaming music and I'm down to 30% battery. Total uptime since last charge 13 hours 51 minutes.) Perhaps not the best battery life out there but it does the job for me. Also if you're gonna install either ROM, undervolt the cpu as well as underclocking it. It really doesn't affect the performance, its hardly noticeable actually.
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Im with doug on this one, i think youre taking this too far. The op inquired if a STOCK rooted rom had beyyer battery life as opposed to a unrooted STOCK rom. As doug said, a rooted completely stock rom offers no battery life imprpvements on its own. Now performance to me is defined as the optimal battery life and efficiency of the device.
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Ah i see what you guys are getting at. Just misinterpretation of both parties. Yes rooting itself does nothing, but obviously something is killing the op's battery. I was trying to inform the benefits of having root and how it may improve his battery life by removing whatever is killing his phone.. However if it's from an app he uses then no help there.
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Man post #2 and got all passed up! lol.. oh well.
FOREVER ALONE.
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Ok. Thank you...... Do u know guys know what Rom is the most closest to stock but has a better battery life
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If you want better battery life you can always try change the kernel first. You don't need to do pesky full wipes so you retain pretty much all your settings and stuff.
To start off, I think Faux's is pretty awesome.
You're not going to gain leaps and bounds in battery life until you find what is eating all that power on your phone. It is typically an app you installed, as I don't find the t-mobile pre-installed ones to be that horrible, except for lookout security. I think that'll be a big potential battery hog. OR it can simply be your screen brightness. The trick I find is to set it on the lowest setting and just be SOL when you're outside I mean heck, I really want that battery life!
You can always practice better battery saving techniques, like not leaving the wifi or wireless data on when not in use.
I finally took the plunge and flashed my phone using the Odin method from this forum. First off i usually use swype for my keyboard and i get a error message me telling me the file can't be found and need to select another input method.
My next issue is when i charge my battery. I have noticed that the battery icon on top will tell me i have 70 per cent battery life left when i plug it in to charge it shows 90% i am running orginal samsung stock batery.
I really dont see much different in ICS . I have the same wallpaper didnt really notice any different programs for this. What am i missing? Where can i download custom roms for my rooted phone and what should i download
What exactly did you flash to the phone?
The battery thing is a little unusual. It could be because you just flashed a new rom and a reboot may fix that. Of course, it takes a couple of days for the battery life to settle in also whenever a new rom is flashed to our phones anyway.
I would download better battery app from market also battery calibration fully charge battery and calibrate battery. Use better battery for status of battery. For a nice clean themed rom try wicked sensation. Daze did a very great job on his rom, and I made it my daily rom.
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Battery calibration does not work anymore.
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Is there an app or way that conserves the battery power. The phone is still completely stock but it received a firmware update through Tmobile and ever since then the battery gets drained by 4 pm (after all apps are x-ed out and phone is just in standby) the batter drops to around 30 percent... what can I do? I don't think it needs a new battery since its only a few months old... suggestions?
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Is there an app or way that conserves the battery power. The phone is still completely stock but it received a firmware update through Tmobile and ever since then the battery gets drained by 4 pm (after all apps are x-ed out and phone is just in standby) the batter drops to around 30 percent... what can I do? I don't think it needs a new battery since its only a few months old... suggestions?
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I dont know how much you use your phone and weather or not you watch movies or download files with Wi-Fi alot but it could seriously drain your battery if you leave things like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC, Brightness Up, or use live wallpapers.
If not, I would recommend checking your battery against someone elses because I've had a phone before that had a bad battery that could explode and caused me to have battery issues. Make sure your battery isnt swollen at all and if it is make sure you take it out and dont put it back in and go to a Battery+ store nearby and I'm sure they got one for your phone (they come with warranty).
Well my wife and I have the same phone and it does it to both. I don't have signal in my job since they have a Verizon antenna and it blocks our t mobile signal so I don't use it during the day which means the phone is just on stand by for the first eight hours. I make sure I turn off wifi, blue tooth, GPS etc and close all apps....but by the time I get out of work it's at 30-40% power.... both phones were bought this April so was hoping it wasn't/isn't a hardware issue and have to replace the batteries....
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This is where the world of rooting and tweaking your android becomes extremely attractive.
There are ROMs that last 1 day + ( that's 24h+ hours of battery)
Only need two things....
1. Patience - to sit, read and closely follow instructions
2. Guts - to take a dive and risk ruining your phone. (Which doesn't happen if you have number 1)
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thanks for the reply. Yeah I've been thinking about doing such things, but am a complete noob. Is there a link to a tutorial (from start to finish) on rooting/flashing custom rom in here? All I see is one or two step threads or discussions on different roms?
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thanks for the reply. Yeah I've been thinking about doing such things, but am a complete noob. Is there a link to a tutorial (from start to finish) on rooting/flashing custom rom in here? All I see is one or two step threads or discussions on different roms?
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Try this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1650908
Or this ( more thorough and noobish)
http://theunlockr.com/2011/12/01/how-to-root-the-samsung-galaxy-s-ii-all-versions/
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1. juice defender is a start.
The rest all needs rooting really.
2. Build.prop tweaks
3. UV with a custom kernel
4. Lowest screen brightness (doesn't require root)
5. Restrict yourself to 2G networks either using AOKP settings or a build.prop tweak
There are others but this is how I achieve great battery times mostly.
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1. juice defender is a start.
The rest all needs rooting really.
2. Build.prop tweaks
3. UV with a custom kernel
4. Lowest screen brightness (doesn't require root)
5. Restrict yourself to 2G networks either using AOKP settings or a build.prop tweak
There are others but this is how I achieve great battery times mostly.
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Thanks for the info:thumbup:
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Thanks for the info:thumbup:
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Why not try and find out what is using your battery up first? Try GSAM from the play store, its free for one, easy to use, it will show you what is draining your battery, there are a few paid ones as well, but try the free first , HERE is the direct link to GSAM.
or QR code, just scan it with phone.
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Well my wife and I have the same phone and it does it to both. I don't have signal in my job since they have a Verizon antenna and it blocks our t mobile signal so I don't use it during the day which means the phone is just on stand by for the first eight hours. I make sure I turn off wifi, blue tooth, GPS etc and close all apps....but by the time I get out of work it's at 30-40% power.... both phones were bought this April so was hoping it wasn't/isn't a hardware issue and have to replace the batteries....
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That is a very weird situation and try a app that shows the apps using battery. Even check the stock android battery section in settings and see whats getting used. Your brightness should be first since it can really eat your battery if its turned up. I dont think its defective since both your phones are having the same problem but both my parents have the 4.0.4 firmware installed on their T989's without a problem and get decent battery power. I however am using a custom rom with kernel. Did you use the same battery for each phone? or each phone has the same problem with their own devices and their own batteries when getting updated to 4.0.4? If you used your battery on her's I'm assuming the problem may be the battery and you just got unlucky with a defective one.
P.S. I'm assuming 4.0.4 because thats the latest update to ICS for the T989 on T-Mobile.
The battery manager that comes with the phone identifies the display, but I've set it to lowest setting and have a dark background. And yeah both phones have their respective batteries which makes me think it's a software issue.. We just upgraded to the 2.3.6 ( I guess t-mobile is a but behind lol). But I going to try the juice defender tomorrow... It's just while I root the phone and get a custom ROM... (doing my homework before doing anything since it'll be first time)
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Those apps wont really help, it basically does what you can do manually, turning off settings or putting them at low usage. Rooting is the way to go, its rather simple, once you do it, you will have wished you done it sooner. Trust me, I was in the same boat, I had just got my phone last december, the wife and I were in Vegas and my battery was horrible, I was taking lots of pictures and video, but my battery was dying. I had no way to charge it til we got back to the hotel, next day was same thing, horrible battery, this was all before ICS even was around for this device. When I got back home, I rooted my phone, to date, I have gotten a best 44 hours out of the phone. I ROM hop so I try out the variety, there is how to's and videos here and youtube, you will kick youself on how easy it truly is to root and flash. GSAM will show you in more detail what is using your battery the most, good luck with whatever you choose to do. There are many people here who can help you along the way, thats what this site is for.
Juice Defender will help a ton with you're screen being off for extended periods of time. Normally without it, I lose 30% at work without touching it. Today, I have lost 6%. The margin won't always be like that but it's a sizeable difference. Also, I have an app monitor application you can use to track rogue apps. There is also this app called Autostarts where you can disable an app from opening and it's really useful for apps that you don't need running in the background. Turning off auto sync will help as well IF you are okay with not getting every email in 5 minutes.
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I have a ROMed Galaxy Note 2 and the battery life is amazing. My son on the other hand has a stock Galaxy S3 and it's the worst battery life I've ever witnessed. It's the typical draining while in standby issue reported by many S3 users. Bottom line, his phone is getting a ROM tonight before this phone melts down. Problem is, which one do I choose? There are so many and it would take me months to read thru every post to determine which one is right for him. So for now I'm going to focus on what really matters most, battery life.
Which ROM have you read about or used that you feel is battery life winner?
Thank you.
Hands down i747z
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I haven't been running ROMs for too long on my S3, but I'd have to say that AOKP by Task650 gave me the best battery life over some other ones I flashed.
Task560 ROM for sure.
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Did somebody say my name?
We are lucky to have MANY great ROM's out there. There are so many great devs here that go out of their ways to make the experience better. I highly suggest trying as many as you can, because each phone, after much experience with my ROM's, are different. Make a nandroid backup and try a bunch! What I'm getting at is that there are too many well made ROM's here to pick one. Flash away. Oh and make sure you turn off google now cards and locations...that will drain your battery like no other on this phone. Best of luck!
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Task560 is just a little bit less than you.
I must say I'm running task650's AOKP build (I have been since I got the phone :good and my battery life has been nothing but immaculate. Here's a few screenies showing you my averages. Now mind you me my device and my daily operations will differ from everyone else's but still gotta give credit where credit is due. Oh btw I'm running it with tasks underwear kernel. Sorry ktoons
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I think most of the roms have pretty good battery life. I'm on Vanilla Rootbox and i'm getting good battery life.
Thanks for all the input guys. Most of those mentioned were at the top of my list. Instead, I chose a "stable" Rom not mentioned here in this thread and it was buggy from the jump. I quickly bailed and went with CM10 and life is good so far.
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DaRTHSTALKER is the first rom I've ever ran that I noticed a significant improvement in battery life. Very noticeable. None of the others have ever caught my attention before.
From cm10.1 nightly 1/31
All I did was turn GPS and auto sync off
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I'm on Slimbean 4.2.1 RC1 with lean kernel and I have to say it is buttery smooth and stable, fast as can be, and I'm almost two days into it with ~45% charge. Loving it
For longest time I was swearing at CM10 / CM10.1 and than I found a thread about what affect battery and now both TW and CM based roms that I use are about the same...
To get great battery life follow the simple rules:
- stay away from colour. The darker the theme / icons are the better the battery life. Some go as far as to get inverted gapps...
- no live wall paper. It will affect battery life... yes, the darker the wallpaper the better the battery life...
- turn off GPS , bluetooth , nfc and everything else that you don't need... turn it back on when you need it...
I have 15 toggle mod and I even turn off data when I don't need it. (I turn it back on once every couple of hours to get e-mail and notifications... than turn it back off... this also prevents rouge apps from dialling back home to mothership...)
- if I travel from one location to the other I toggle airplane mode on and off... this forces modem to look for strongest tower... the strogner the tower the less power you need... hence less battery consumption...
- Use Ti Backup on roted rom... unistall what you obviously don't use..
- Google apps that run that you don't know what they do... stop or unistall those that you don't need...
- Use fierwall... block everything that doesn't need to talk to internet ... less you use antenna longer the battery life...
Also, if going to new ROM wipe battery stats and let battery fully discharge couple of times. This helps as well...
Follow these simple rules and don't be surprised if your battery life doubles regardless of the rom...
Cheers
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For longest time I was swearing at CM10 / CM10.1 and than I found a thread about what affect battery and now both TW and CM based roms that I use are about the same...
To get great battery life follow the simple rules:
- stay away from colour. The darker the theme / icons are the better the battery life. Some go as far as to get inverted gapps...
- no live wall paper. It will affect battery life... yes, the darker the wallpaper the better the battery life...
- turn off GPS , bluetooth , nfc and everything else that you don't need... turn it back on when you need it...
I have 15 toggle mod and I even turn off data when I don't need it. (I turn it back on once every couple of hours to get e-mail and notifications... than turn it back off... this also prevents rouge apps from dialling back home to mothership...)
- if I travel from one location to the other I toggle airplane mode on and off... this forces modem to look for strongest tower... the strogner the tower the less power you need... hence less battery consumption...
- Use Ti Backup on roted rom... unistall what you obviously don't use..
- Google apps that run that you don't know what they do... stop or unistall those that you don't need...
- Use fierwall... block everything that doesn't need to talk to internet ... less you use antenna longer the battery life...
Also, if going to new ROM wipe battery stats and let battery fully discharge couple of times. This helps as well...
Follow these simple rules and don't be surprised if your battery life doubles regardless of the rom...
Cheers
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While most of this makes sense, I have to disagree with discharging the battery fully. This actually reduces battery life drastically.
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While most of this makes sense, I have to disagree with discharging the battery fully. This actually reduces battery life drastically.
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I agree but idea is that you let the kernel optimize it by itself.
So you do this only a few times on new rom and that's it...
As for myself I tend to plug in the S3 to charge as soon as I hit 60-70%...
(whenever I can of course - i actually keep one charger at home and one at work)
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Forgot to mention the widgets... to me they're just short-cuts and if you set them for automatic update (weather being prime example) they'll just waist battery and bandwith... (it takes about 1 sec to turn on the data from 15 toggle mod and 1 more to start the app I want updated - email weather whatever... to me this is a small price to pay for extended bat life...)
If I may toot my own horn, how about this guy getting four days from one charge with my ROM and ktoonz's kernel? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36384974&postcount=95
Your mileage may vary but I usually get about a day and a half or two days from one charge with the stock kernel that's included in the ROM
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If I may toot my own horn, how about this guy getting four days from one charge with my ROM and ktoonz's kernel? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36384974&postcount=95
Your mileage may vary but I usually get about a day and a half or two days from one charge with the stock kernel that's included in the ROM
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Awesome stats
How in the world did he get the screen to only consume at 12%
Mine currently Displays at 54%
Blackjelly v1.01
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Auto update widgets kill my batt life also!
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hi guys
I downloaded the update but it wont install as im rooted. Does anyone know what the update was for and what it improves?
Also does anyone known if you can circumvent the root issue or is it a case of unrooting and installing
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hi guys
I downloaded the update but it wont install as im rooted. Does anyone know what the update was for and what it improves?
Also does anyone known if you can circumvent the root issue or is it a case of unrooting and installing
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It's for battery improvement that's about it and yes you have to unroot not really worth it for that there's meant to be a big update soon i would wait
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It's for battery improvement that's about it and yes you have to unroot not really worth it for that there's meant to be a big update soon i would wait
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Oh really? Cool. Any source?
The real question is will it block root (the big update). Any update that removes root isn't worth it.
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The real question is will it block root (the big update). Any update that removes root isn't worth it.
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If you haven't updated think twice. here is my experience.
After the update my screen no longer goes to full brightness, the indicators and icons still say 100% however the screen has gone from 255 to 238 brightness at full. I think this is one of the ways they increased battery life
Note Lux and other brightness settings have not corrected the problem permanently.
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If you haven't updated think twice. here is my experience.
After the update my screen no longer goes to full brightness, the indicators and icons still say 100% however the screen has gone from 255 to 238 brightness at full. I think this is one of the ways they increased battery life
Note Lux and other brightness settings have not corrected the problem permanently.
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They have increased battery life by having much better thermal controls i.e. the phone doesn't get as hot, one of the ways to keep the phone cool (and therefore indirectly increasing battery life) is to lower the brightness.
Keeping the phone cool was their main aim here, not to increase battery life.
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They have increased battery life by having much better thermal controls i.e. the phone doesn't get as hot, one of the ways to keep the phone cool (and therefore indirectly increasing battery life) is to lower the brightness.
Keeping the phone cool was their main aim here, not to increase battery life.
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Regardless of the reason my phone was perfect before this change and I had no heat issues or battery problems all was great, if you want to change options like this having an extra setting in the power menu would have been the way to go in my personal opinion.