I have a long story with this.
First of all, let me say that two days ago, my battery life was incredible- from 2:00 PM to 9:00 PM, WiFi, 2G on browsing the internet and it went only to 64%.
I slept early that night, around 10:00 and woke up at 6:30. My battery was at 29%. I did download an application (or two) that night, the game Modern Combat 3 by Gameloft and Dragon Go! (which I just deleted.)
I'm rooted, with a R800x. Anything I can do to improve battery life? (Custom ROMS, tips, tricks, etc.)
Also, if you need any additional info (except my address and stuff ) go ahead and ask.
Also also, this is also a discussion thread. Go ahead and share your battery life with the world
techelec
Try Juice Defender. I've seen a noticeable difference in battery life.
put cola rom on . that will help to start.
secondly you can underclock the processor if your not gaming
I havent had any issues with my battery yet, this phone has the best battery life of any phone i have had in the past 2 or so years. Somethings i did to help my battery life, is when im at home, i turn GPS off, turn data over mobile network off, turn wifi on, turn auto brightness on, and the only widgets i have that require updates is my clock/weather widget. I also dont have anything but the bear minimum running in the background. (just my google and facebook sync, and maybe 1 or 2 others aside from what you cant turn off) Yesterday for example, i left my phone off the charger all night woke up was at like 94%, downloaded a few things, played on XDA for about 20 minutes then played MC3 for about 45 minutes, and Dead on Arrival for another 30 minutes, and my battery was still at 90%. I know it seems far fetched, but its a true story. I dont think i plugged my phone in until about 5 hours later and that was only to my pc to transfer movies from PC to Phone. I dont ever really charge my phone, it just gets what it gets periodically when i plug into the PC to do some work.
Battery life is very good. Running stock 2.3.4, rooted
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My battery life used to be amazing. After updating firmware to the .42 version suddenly I get less than half..
Also for some crazy reason deleting some of the bloatware actually made it worse, so I put it back and it improved? Weird. Still way less than before though.
Also, I did in fact disable automatic network searching so that's not the problem.
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Mine is horrible. I go to bed with 40% and by the time I get up my phone turned off, no 3g no wifi...
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Left my phone on for around 9 hours while sleeping, and it went from 60% to 38%. I used to get around a 1% drain or less per hour while in standby with data on, and about half a percent with it off. My battery usage has literally become more than double after leaving 2.3.3
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Before i updated id last all day with just under half charge when i went to bed
After newest update it is empty by the time i go to bed
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I'm currently trying to find out if the brightness app hatcyl made drains extra battery. If not, I'm going back to 2.3.3 since the auto-brightness problem was the only reason I updated.
The phone that was made for gaming is now useless for it. I used to play games on the bus, or while in a car. Now if I do that, the battery dies right away, leaving me without a phone.
What the hell is the point of a portable gaming device if it can't be used anywhere without a power outlet?
I paid a premium price when the phone had just come out, and now it can only be used at home for games? I have both a PC and an xbox 360 for that.
I dunno what Sony Ericsson changed in the last couple updates but they turned a previously awesome device into a useless brick.
I put up with this big fatty phone cause of the gamepad.. Now I'm starting to regret not getting an Arc. I watch lots of movies and would have loved having an hdmi port. Plus with a ps3 controller the Arc can play emulator games through a TV, with tactile controls. The Play has a great gamepad, but no hdmi, so I got it with the intention of only using it on the go. Again, now unable to do so.
And before anybody says "go buy extra batteries" you're missing the point. A device shouldn't require extra batteries to carry out it's intended purpose.
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captain67 said:
I'm currently trying to find out if the brightness app hatcyl made drains extra battery. If not, I'm going back to 2.3.3 since the auto-brightness problem was the only reason I updated.
The phone that was made for gaming is now useless for it. I used to play games on the bus, or while in a car. Now if I do that, the battery dies right away, leaving me without a phone.
What the hell is the point of a portable gaming device if it can't be used anywhere without a power outlet?
I paid a premium price when the phone had just come out, and now it can only be used at home for games? I have both a PC and an xbox 360 for that.
I dunno what Sony Ericsson changed in the last couple updates but they turned a previously awesome device into a useless brick.
I put up with this big fatty phone cause of the gamepad.. Now I'm starting to regret not getting an Arc. I watch lots of movies and would have loved having an hdmi port. Plus with a ps3 controller the Arc can play emulator games through a TV, with tactile controls. The Play has a great gamepad, but no hdmi, so I got it with the intention of only using it on the go. Again, now unable to do so.
And before anybody says "go buy extra batteries" you're missing the point. A device shouldn't require extra batteries to carry out it's intended purpose.
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So true! I'm running on stock 2.3.3 Verizon R800x. Carrying around stupid batteries isn't convenient.
I'm on Stock 2.3.3 (rooted) but the battery life still sucks. Also with JuiceDefender.
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I havent had any issues with my battery yet, this phone has the best battery life of any phone i have had in the past 2 or so years. Somethings i did to help my battery life, is when im at home, i turn GPS off, turn data over mobile network off, turn wifi on, turn auto brightness on, and the only widgets i have that require updates is my clock/weather widget. I also dont have anything but the bear minimum running in the background. (just my google and facebook sync, and maybe 1 or 2 others aside from what you cant turn off) Yesterday for example, i left my phone off the charger all night woke up was at like 94%, downloaded a few things, played on XDA for about 20 minutes then played MC3 for about 45 minutes, and Dead on Arrival for another 30 minutes, and my battery was still at 90%. I know it seems far fetched, but its a true story. I dont think i plugged my phone in until about 5 hours later and that was only to my pc to transfer movies from PC to Phone. I dont ever really charge my phone, it just gets what it gets periodically when i plug into the PC to do some work.
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Hey XperianceIT, do you mind telling me what you have in your phone and how you stop applications from running in the background? Sorry, I'm a newbie. I actually rooted with the Easy Rooting Toolkit from DoomLoRD and I had to read for a few days before starting the process.
I'm also coming from an iPhone 4- new to Android platform (and I must say I'm glad I switched to Android)
Are there any applications I should download...?
Thanks
Coming from an iPhone (1st generation) I must say the Play's battery is a godsend.
I have a CDM8950, so I always have my Play in Airplane Mode. I usually play a good 45 minutes per ride to work, and another 45 on the way back, watch one or two episodes of anime, read manga for a good hour, and have WiFi on constantly, pulling emails from 2 accounts, and texting over Google Voice. I get a good 24 hours with still 50% left. Running usually CM7.2.0 with an underclock to 700MHz when screen off, and 1.2GHz with it on. Best battery I own, lasts longer than CDM8950, laptop, and camera combined
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Leraeniesh said:
Coming from an iPhone (1st generation) I must say the Play's battery is a godsend.
I have a CDM8950, so I always have my Play in Airplane Mode. I usually play a good 45 minutes per ride to work, and another 45 on the way back, watch one or two episodes of anime, read manga for a good hour, and have WiFi on constantly, pulling emails from 2 accounts, and texting over Google Voice. I get a good 24 hours with still 50% left. Running usually CM7.2.0 with an underclock to 700MHz when screen off, and 1.2GHz with it on. Best battery I own, lasts longer than CDM8950, laptop, and camera combined
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Haha, that's actually a pretty good idea! Use a flip phone for your daily calling needs, Xperia Play for gaming and smartphone!
Love it
I actually have this on and off... sometimes battery life is OK, sometimes it's downright horrible.
edit: I forgot to mention that my Play is underclocked at 122 Mhz when it's in sleep mode and around 700 Mhz when it's on, full 1 Ghz when I'm gaming
After all, what's the ultimate gaming phone in the world without BATTERY LIFE?
By the way, I am talking to a fellow manga/anime fan so... this is totally off topic but what do you use to view manga/anime?
TECHELEC
I watch downloaded mkv anime (480p) with Daroon Player, read manga with the mango app, which isn't in market anymore.
Did the gpu tweak today. Slight battery improvement so far. Definitely smoother ui.
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captain67 said:
I watch downloaded mkv anime (480p) with Daroon Player, read manga with the mango app, which isn't in market anymore.
Did the gpu tweak today. Slight battery improvement so far. Definitely smoother ui.
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Mango is now called PocketManga. Google forcefully removed it under the name Mango
captain67 said:
I watch downloaded mkv anime (480p) with Daroon Player, read manga with the mango app, which isn't in market anymore.
Did the gpu tweak today. Slight battery improvement so far. Definitely smoother ui.
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Where did you download the anime? Legal?
What GPU tweak?
The gpu tweak from the xperia tweak app.
I got my anime from a torrent site dedicated to anime. I won't post that kind of thing here since not all countries see it as legal to share through torrents, like mine..
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I'm having some problems with battery life.
I was playing GTA 3 for only about 3 mins and the battery went from 94% to 87%. So I lost 7% in 3 mins.
Is this normal? also I lost 5% overnight.
I'm on Android Version 4.0.2.A.0.42
Any tips please on how to improve the battery life on the Xperia Play ?
Thanks !
sufy1000 said:
I'm having some problems with battery life.
I was playing GTA 3 for only about 3 mins and the battery went from 94% to 87%. So I lost 7% in 3 mins.
Is this normal? also I lost 5% overnight.
I'm on Android Version 4.0.2.A.0.42
Any tips please on how to improve the battery life on the Xperia Play ?
Thanks !
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The firmware has a known battery drain bug caused by network search. Go into your settings and set the network to manual selection instead of automatic.
Other things you can do is turn off data when you don't need it, and use widgets that are more efficient. If you want to leave data on all the time, you can try setting certain apps or widgets to update themselves less often.
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So I've had my Defy a week and I like it, more than I thought I would to be honest.
However, one thing that's bugging me is the battery life.
In their review, Engadget actually highlighted the battery life as one of the big plus-points of the Defy.
They state:
Engadget said:
In our experience, the Defy seems to have stellar battery life, which is relatively hard to come by among Android phones. Not only we were able to consistently make it comfortably through an entire day on a charge, but we were surprised to find that after putting the phone away with about 75 percent charge, it was still on with 21 percent remaining two days later. Granted, it spent most of that time in WiFi calling range (which disables the cellular radio), but many smartphones give up the ghost from 100 percent charge in less time...
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Now, I'm not using wi-fi calling but I don't think that should excuse or explain the fact that my phone barely lasts a day when at least one other handset has such significantly better battery life.
Anyway, I was just wondering how everyone else's Defys were performing.
Im coming from a vibrant and the battery on this is the best on android so far that i've ever used(g1, mytouch, mytouch 4, vibrant, etc.
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If you don't mind me asking though, how long do you go between charges?
As I said, I'm lucky if I make it much more than a day - certainly two days isn't possible.
But I'm not a particularly heavy user, a bit of internet and a few texts here and there but very little in the way of calls, so I kind of feel like I should be getting more out of the handset.
When I check the battery usage, it's quite often ~40% each for 'Mobile Standby' and 'Phone Idle'.
So the vast majority of the drain is just from the phone being on, not from anything I'm actively doing.
Is this your first smartphone? =)
I go a day and a half or so. I'm heavy on web use and playing 'slice it' all day.
for my usage, im THRILLED to have a phone that can still have 30-40% at the end of a long day.
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Just try to reboot the phone after fully charged and detached from power. There is an issue with the "suspend" process in some cases (not only on Froyo 2.2) which disappears after rebooting. Mine lasts 2-3 days with average use.
The issue at Google (I am not allowed to post links as a new user )
code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=11126
I can use the web steady for 5 hours, this includes some streaming video, if I start at 100% its down to 10% by then. At work it lasts easily all day but it gets little web usage and maybe an hour of talking. I use battery booster and advanced task killer, my backlight is set at 70%.
With moderate use (some calls, lots of texts, some web browsing) I get 2 days. It needs to be charged at the end of day 2, but I'm happy with it. I don't have any ot the social networking crap on so it's not constantly syncing. I think that may have something to do with it. I keep my backlight way down too.
Battery life? i got defy just a week ago and first impressions are good. You know, in the first days you make yuor phone working a lot, testing all the features, trying new apps from the market (so internet connection always on) , watching some movies, playing 3d games!
So a really heavy use, but power lasts at least 1,5 days. So i think using the phone moderately makes the battery life easily up to 3 days.
Try some task-killer app, and then test the power duration. Some softwares stay in background and keep draining power.
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Is this your first smartphone? =)
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No.
And I don't see what that's got to do with anything.
My battery life seems to be noticeably poorer than what the majority of people here are quoting.
If I were to use the web for 5 hours, there's no way I'd have anywhere near 30-40% of my battery left.
shaftenberg said:
Just try to reboot the phone after fully charged and detached from power. There is an issue with the "suspend" process in some cases (not only on Froyo 2.2) which disappears after rebooting. Mine lasts 2-3 days with average use.
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Having looked at your link, it sounds as though when that's happening, people can see the Suspend process listed in the break-down of what's using the battery.
I've never seen it listed, so I'm not sure that's the problem here.
xdaid said:
Try some task-killer app, and then test the power duration. Some softwares stay in background and keep draining power.
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I've got Spare Parts installed and it's set to 'aggressively' monitor and kill processes.
A friend recommended it over the likes of Advanced Task Killer because it's supposed to be better at differentiating between apps that are safe to kill and parts of the core software/system that could cause issues if closed.
I get what you're saying about using the phone more than normal because it's new but in the 8 days since I got it, I've spent 7 at work, so I haven't had that much scope to mess around with it.
I've switched the screen from automatic brightness control and I've disabled the background syncing for facebook, so hopefully that'll make a difference.
If not, since it's just over a week, I'm well inside the 28 days I can have it swapped for being faulty.
Quadrant: 1100 points, Linpack: 6,49 Mflops
Edit: ooops, should read the title more carefully next time.
My defy runs for about 40 hours on one battery charge.
i have to charge mine everyday at night after using it whole day, time to time. Not bad tbh.
A task killer is NOT necessary.
It seems like blur services are push rather than pull which uses much less battery (think blackberry). But im not 100%.
I've set up yahoo, corporate, facebook, and picasa just to test it out and it didn't make much difference in my battery life.
I consistently get a day and a half (unless i play games). Can push to 2 days if i put on airplane mode overnight.
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Found this on a german forum, as you can see, he was not in flight mode. I guess my desire's battery won't last that long.
I can go about one full day with moderate/somewhat heavy usage. Won't last 2 full days though.
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People keep saying that but I'm not convinced.
I mean, if I use my browser say and then finish using it and know I won't need it again for a while, why prevent me from actually closing/killing it?
It seems so ridiculously counter-intuitive.
Plus, if it's really not necessary, then why are so many of them being developed?
Even Samsung are producing task managers now for devices like the Galaxy Tab - if it really wasn't necessary, surely one of Google's top hardware partners would know that.
And samsung is so great at making stuff...? Touchwiz??
Also, samsung's task killer does not show inactive or background apps like most task killers do.
What is the harm in the browser being open? It uses no cpu+ this phone has more than enough ram that it doesn't need you to close apps to keep things running smoothly.
It also will not improve your battery if you arbitrarily close an app only to re-open it later and use more processes.
Just my 2 cents on this topic.
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disturkis4u said:
Touchwiz??
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Blur?
They're no Sense, either of them, that's for certain.
Yeah they're nowhere near being that bloated lol
Step666 said:
Blur?
They're no Sense, either of them, that's for certain.
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Something i already posted in a german forum about my battery life:
2,5h gaming (Zenonia),
3h mobile internet (ICQ, Yahoo-mail, web, market)
2h of activated WLAN and deactivated sleep to copy stuff from pc to Defy
1,5h music (radio)
and 1h (and 6 minutes lol) of phone calls
After that day, i still had 30% of battery.
The maximum i reached were 75 hours including MY normal use with some mobile internet, some texting and 1 or 2 calls...maybe an hour of gaming at most.
I did not charge it first when i got it, because the battery was at 80% already/still and i wanted to play around.
Current running time: 26 hours...i activate plane-mode at night from now on. Low 70s now.
Everything at minimum display brightness (30%?)
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People keep saying that but I'm not convinced.
I mean, if I use my browser say and then finish using it and know I won't need it again for a while, why prevent me from actually closing/killing it?
It seems so ridiculously counter-intuitive.
Plus, if it's really not necessary, then why are so many of them being developed?
Even Samsung are producing task managers now for devices like the Galaxy Tab - if it really wasn't necessary, surely one of Google's top hardware partners would know that.
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In my opinion, a task killer is absolutely necessary.
All the apps launched keep consuming RAM even if they're not in use. I brought back 106 mb last time i performed a task killing! In most of the cases less ram means worst performances / more work for cpu.
The battery life is Godly on the Galaxy Nexus (Mine's a GSM model...I have no clue about the CDMA version)
With around 10 calls made, my brightness using the power control widget at "half" (I think its something like 40%), wifi on all day, data on, bluetooth&GPS off, NFC off, and almost 2 hours of onscreen time spent texting, surfing the web and gaming I got almost 22 hours on battery with 46% remaining! Pics for proof:
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For those interested in getting this type of performance, I have sync OFF and manually sync whenever I want to check something (mail, weather widget, etc)
I have not had a phone with this great of battery since the Xperia Ray. This is unbelieveable though.
Also for those interested this is what I am running for ROM:
Android version: 4.0.3
Kernel Version: 3.0.18-imoseyon-1.9.0-04417-gcef4285 [email protected] #408
Build number: Gummy-MAGURO v0.7.6
Now how should I kill off my remaining 46%? Because web browsing, playing Nintendo 64 games, Facebook, are not cutting it! LMAO
100% WiFi use and no auto-sync or background data on, that's not surprising whatsoever.
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100% WiFi use and no auto-sync or background data on, that's not surprising whatsoever.
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Its not supposed to be a "surprise". I am just saying that the battery life is great. Oh and background data is ON...yes ON!
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Its not supposed to be a "surprise". I am just saying that the battery life is great. Oh and background data is ON...yes ON!
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Which doesn't matter if you don't have auto-sync lol.
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Which doesn't matter if you don't have auto-sync lol.
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Ah...yes. I seem to have fallen on my face. Please accept this cookie *gives cookie*
On another note, could you tell me if games are able to push background data with auto sync off? I've always wondered that.
For what it's worth, Samsung said this phone should have a six day standby time and twelve hour usage time...
Maybe turning all the features of the phone off will help, but then why have a phone like this if you limit it so much?
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but then why have a phone like this if you limit it so much?
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Its not really limiting it though.
If I want to see the weather, I touch the widget to sync. If I want to see if I got any mail, I go into the app and it will sync...I get my data when I choose to.
I don't own anything to hook up via blue tooth, and I will just turn GPS on when I check google maps, takes an extra 3 seconds.
I am not missing out on anything, I am literally getting 2 days between charges. But I charge every night anyways, so I can basically surf the web or do whatever on the device all day and still have a ton of juice at the end of the day.
hey man, if thats how u use your phone, then u have great battery life! everyone's uses are different! people can say "oh your bluetooth isnt on" but not everyone uses bluetooth, or needs their auto sync on, etc! some people like to check these things manually
you should update your kernel to 1.10, reports have said that it brings back battery of 1.7.4 but also ups the overall speed/smoothness of the phone
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hey man, if thats how u use your phone, then u have great battery life! everyone's uses are different! people can say "oh your bluetooth isnt on" but not everyone uses bluetooth, or needs their auto sync on, etc! some people like to check these things manually
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Yeah I mostly just call, text, websurf, and game. So it works for me.
In comparison, using my Xperia x10, Samsung Captivate, Desire Z, Desire S, Xperia Arc, Nexus S, and Xperia Ray I never got battery life like this. The Ray was close, but this is even better...considering the size of the screen this is really great in my opinion.
I just love this device so much, I am thinking I will just always stick to the Nexus line of devices for now on.
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Would that give me even more battery?
I think I am just impressed with this so much because next to what I was running at stock (4.0.1) this blows it away.
Having the screen on for ~2hours is not a clear representation of it's battery life.
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Would that give me even more battery?
I think I am just impressed with this so much because next to what I was running at stock (4.0.1) this blows it away.
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you are using leankernel 1.9.0, so a quick update and you can compare yourself
some reports from the thread:
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/13299-kernel-leankernel-minimalistic-kernel-1100-2912/page__st__280
You disable auto sync.. that means you have no life.. you can't call your phone as "smartphone"
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I too think this phone has best battery life ive had particularly idle time. Screen on is a tad high, but all averaged together gives this phone excellent battery life.
EP2008 said:
For what it's worth, Samsung said this phone should have a six day standby time and twelve hour usage time...
Maybe turning all the features of the phone off will help, but then why have a phone like this if you limit it so much?
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Look, Samsung has NO way to give standby times when everyone uses their phone differently. I sync differently from you. This phone WILL get six days standby. My old Vibrant is rated at 16 days standby, and you know, it just about will get that. "Standby" times aren't "my screen is off". Standby times are no data/wifi/sync and my screen is off. My mother has my unlocked Vibrant on AT&T. She doesn't have a data plan. Data/Sync is off. It's used as a PHONE. After her normal use, which is about 10 minutes of talking a day, it'll be at around 40% after 6 days. At that point, she usually charges it... and that's with evil, battery draining TouchWiz! There is no way for a manufacturer to adequately predict standby times with a device connected to a data network.
Honestly, for the life of me I can't figure out why this is an amazingly hard concept for people to grasp. Just because it's a "smart phone" doesn't mean that manufacturer's test battery life with data/wifi on. Probably because unlike the majority of people in every random battery thread on the internet, manufacturer's realize that once a data network comes into play, usage/sync WILL be different. Even power consumption can vary from tower to tower.
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Having the screen on for ~2hours is not a clear representation of it's battery life.
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What do you feel is a clear representation?
I've a feeling every person has a different opinion on this.
I'm impressed
I get up at 4.30am for work
get home about 6pm
I have about 60% left
then I destroy that as its unlimited data plan inc tether is my broadband at home.
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Look, Samsung has NO way to give standby times when everyone uses their phone differently. I sync differently from you. This phone WILL get six days standby. My old Vibrant is rated at 16 days standby, and you know, it just about will get that. "Standby" times aren't "my screen is off". Standby times are no data/wifi/sync and my screen is off. My mother has my unlocked Vibrant on AT&T. She doesn't have a data plan. Data/Sync is off. It's used as a PHONE. After her normal use, which is about 10 minutes of talking a day, it'll be at around 40% after 6 days. At that point, she usually charges it... and that's with evil, battery draining TouchWiz! There is no way for a manufacturer to adequately predict standby times with a device connected to a data network.
Honestly, for the life of me I can't figure out why this is an amazingly hard concept for people to grasp. Just because it's a "smart phone" doesn't mean that manufacturer's test battery life with data/wifi on. Probably because unlike the majority of people in every random battery thread on the internet, manufacturer's realize that once a data network comes into play, usage/sync WILL be different. Even power consumption can vary from tower to tower.
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Perhaps you're giving Samsung too much credit. Apple lists the details of their battery tests on their site, and when they say "10 hours of use", it's not piddling around with sync off, location off, etc. it's actual use (calls, web browsing, video, music).
Look at gsmarenas battery tests http://blog.gsmarena.com/samsung-galaxy-nexus-battery-life-fully-tested-results-come-out-disappointing-test/.. Galaxy Nexus is tied for second worst and all phones were tested the same way. Maybe "real world" use will affect a single device from day to day, but when a phone is compared to close to twenty other phones under the same conditions, it makes you realize how poor the battery life is. Maybe 4.0.5 will make things better... I hope so.
Sorry for a newbie question.
I've had Auto Sync ON all day and I wonder what Auto Sync does exactly ?
Can someone light my day ? Thanks
Our devices use a 4600 mAh battery and was wondering if anyone ever actually sees that figure? I've been struggling to get more than 4-5 hours use and started investigating why. The highest I've ever seen on a full charge is 4309 and the average is about 4260-4280.
Another strange thing I've noticed is that if I start playing a game with 100% charge and the tab plugged in I still loose about 1% per minute.
I've tried multiple roms and they all seem about the same as far as battery usage goes. Right now I'm back to the stock LG KitKat as it seems to perform about the best for me and very stable. I use the battery calibration app and was wondering is there another that might work better?
In closing looking forward to any suggestions or advise
Yep,same for me.battery life is terrible.have tried multiple roms,lucky to get anywhere near 4hrs.
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I just tried an experiment, 100% charged, unplugged tab w/o turning anything on and I already lost 7% in 15 minutes !! I have Greenify installed and all non system apps hibernated and it still eats the battery.
My Sero Pro can sit all day and only loose 1%. If I could be sure I would receive a perfect unit I would consider RMA. But after reading all the issues with the screen problems I'm not going to take the chance. My tab is perfect aside from battery life.
I found a replacement battery on Ebay and am considering buying it to see if I have a bad battery. Something definitely isn't right.
I went to Mahdi rom as soon as I got my tablet about 2 weeks ago. This past weekend I did two battery tests.
These tests were done with wifi always on (medium signal strength, most google apps synced, google location reporting off, no twitter/facebook app, no greenify or any power management apps
If I left the display on indoors at auto brightness, it lasted for about 7-8 hours.
If I left the tablet idle (display off), it consumed about 3% per day (most of it consumed by wifi).
I would suggest trying the same thing with yours and see whether its a hardware issue. You can just do it for a few hours and extrapolate.
I've never calibrated my battery (drain until its empty) unless I notice an erratic drain from a constant task.
Mine is the same, not being used it drains almost nothing. Currently mine is at 49%, been unplugged about 12 hours with 2:47 of screen on time according to the battery stats in settings. 100% stock KitKat, bluetooth off. 15 minutes of screen off (with the screen on long enough to look at battery settings) and no % lost.
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Mine is the same, not being used it drains almost nothing. Currently mine is at 49%, been unplugged about 12 hours with 2:47 of screen on time according to the battery stats in settings. 100% stock KitKat, bluetooth off. 15 minutes of screen off (with the screen on long enough to look at battery settings) and no % lost.
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Same. If I leave it in standby overnight, I see zero battery drain (in 8 hours). I also tested a full HD movie (1080p) in full screen at 45% brightness and medium loudspeaker volume, and measured roughly 12-14% drain per hour, which suggests it could run 7-8 hours of movie playback on a single charge.
I'm happy with my battery usage. I think it's at least as good as my 2012 N7.
Here's a screen shot of usage just reading the other day. Keep in mind I mainly stop my tablet charging at between 90-95% as often as possible.
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I'm with the OP as far as battery drain goes. Mine loses almost 10% in 12 hours at idle with wifi on. With wifi off it'll lose about 3-4% in 12 hours. I haven't done a full to zero test, but battery life is not that great on my personal unit. That is the only thing I don't like about it. I'm running idterror's v50018a ROM.
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I'm with the OP as far as battery drain goes. Mine loses almost 10% in 12 hours at idle with wifi on. With wifi off it'll lose about 3-4% in 12 hours. I haven't done a full to zero test, but battery life is not that great on my personal unit. That is the only thing I don't like about it. I'm running idterror's v50018a ROM.
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Then you have an issue with software you installed. It is neither the battery nor the ROM.
Well I went ahead and ordered the battery. I'm fairly confident it'll solve my problem. To Subtleone, with my tablet even with a barebones install I still have real bad battery life. It does not change very much between barebones and all my apps installed.
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Then you have an issue with software you installed. It is neither the battery nor the ROM.
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I don't think so. Even with a barebones install I get similar battery drain. But I knew the G Pad had terrible battery life going in as noted by every industry review I read prior to purchase.
Don't have any battery problems here (stock KitKat, rooted and most non-system apps greenified), get about 6 hours screen-on time at 70-100% brightness when reading books (wifi off) and an hour or so browsing/youtube'ing.
Are people actually going by unplug time until the device physically shuts down, or just what the battery bar claims? Battery stats are rarely 100% accurate, and there's protection measures built in to prevent a battery actually reaching 100% or 0% despite what the device says.
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I don't think so. Even with a barebones install I get similar battery drain. But I knew the G Pad had terrible battery life going in as noted by every industry review I read prior to purchase.
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Except that I don't have terrible battery life. In fact, most don't. With KitKat (the one in my sig), with WiFi on, I get exactly 0% drain after 8 hours with it in standby (not actually off). Zero. Needless to say, I do not have any known battery killers such as the Facebook app.
At 45% brightness or so, I see about 13% battery drain after an hour of watching a 1080p movie in full screen with sound coming through loudspeakers.
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Except that I don't have terrible battery life. In fact, most don't. With KitKat (the one in my sig), with WiFi on, I get exactly 0% drain after 8 hours with it in standby (not actually off). Zero. Needless to say, I do not have any known battery killers such as the Facebook app.
At 45% brightness or so, I see about 13% battery drain after an hour of watching a 1080p movie in full screen with sound coming through loudspeakers.
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That's incredible. What exactly are your settings? And what are these known battery killer apps so I can freeze them when I'm traveling?
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That's incredible. What exactly are your settings? And what are these known battery killer apps so I can freeze them when I'm traveling?
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Biggest battery eaters are apps like Google+ and Facebook.
UCCW and Weather apps too. Also having gps on.
There's some smashing eye candy apps for use and just for info on your lockscreen, they all seem to suck juice like no tomorrow. It's all the updating they do.
Best advice is to use something like wakelock detector to highlight your problem apps, then use greenify to get them to sleep properly. Also have your wifi set to only stay on when your tablet is plugged in.
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To test a lot of theory I loaded up stock LG KitKat this A.M. . After letting it install and rebooting 3 times in 60 minutes I turned off WIFI and GPS and left it idle. In 4 hours and 12 minutes I was at 79%. Keep in mind when I left it idle the last time I was at 100%.
So at least in "my" case its most certainly not the software. My battery is scheduled for delivery 5/9/14. I'm hoping that will solve the battery issues.
Once I receive the new battery I'll update the thread. And thanks for the replies
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Biggest battery eaters are apps like Google+ and Facebook.
UCCW and Weather apps too. Also having gps on.
There's some smashing eye candy apps for use and just for info on your lockscreen, they all seem to suck juice like no tomorrow. It's all the updating they do.
Best advice is to use something like wakelock detector to highlight your problem apps, then use greenify to get them to sleep properly. Also have your wifi set to only stay on when your tablet is plugged in.
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My GPS is always on so I do not think it drains battery in any unusual way. I'll also add that it works darn well. I used the tablet for navigation in a car and it was impressive.
So to continue the theories I put my screen @ 50% watched 60 minutes of 1080p video via MX Player and lost 31%! That's totally bare aside from MX Player. So after seeing Subtelone's results I'm very convinced I indeed have a bad battery.
I know it's not a fair comparison but I've been using my mum's Acer W4 tablet as my 8.3 is being repaired for bad LCD (mura/spots). The W8.1 tablet actually gives me about 8-9 hours of web browsing time. Yes, it's got fewer pixels to push but bear in mind it is running the full fat Windows 8! I just think it's quite disappointing that the LG pad for me barely lasts 4 hours SOT when I mainly use it for web browsing.
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So to continue the theories I put my screen @ 50% watched 60 minutes of 1080p video via MX Player and lost 31%! That's totally bare aside from MX Player. So after seeing Subtelone's results I'm very convinced I indeed have a bad battery.
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Yes, something is seriously wrong with your battery if everything else is identical. My results are exactly as posted.
Hey there, new member although I've been reading these forums for months.
I've owned an iPad for a couple of years now. I use it from time to time which requires me to charge it about once every 2 months. A couple of months ago, I bought a SM-T800 and thought the battery life was horrible. Keeping it completely idle for 24 hours still drained the battery 11%! After a while, I left it dead next to the iPad.
Hoping Lollipop would help this issue, I took the opportunity to completely wipe the tablet and restart from scratch. Each day, I attempted improvements (using BetterBatteryStats) and took notes of those changes. The best I could get is losing 6%/day while the tablet is off (that is, screen is off, not powered off).
Yes, I'm rooted. Not much is installed. According to BBS, com.google.android.gms is the worst with 1639 wakeups, but disabling Google Play Services didn't help.
Is 6%/day when idle considered normal? It amazes me that the iPad is losing about 1%/day.
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Hey there, new member although I've been reading these forums for months.
I've owned an iPad for a couple of years now. I use it from time to time which requires me to charge it about once every 2 months. A couple of months ago, I bought a SM-T800 and thought the battery life was horrible. Keeping it completely idle for 24 hours still drained the battery 11%! After a while, I left it dead next to the iPad.
Hoping Lollipop would help this issue, I took the opportunity to completely wipe the tablet and restart from scratch. Each day, I attempted improvements (using BetterBatteryStats) and took notes of those changes. The best I could get is losing 6%/day while the tablet is off (that is, screen is off, not powered off).
Yes, I'm rooted. Not much is installed. According to BBS, com.google.android.gms is the worst with 1639 wakeups, but disabling Google Play Services didn't help.
Is 6%/day when idle considered normal? It amazes me that the iPad is losing about 1%/day.
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I've had on CM12 and it drained 0-1% while on idle. With touchwiz (lollipop or kk) I lost 6% on idle when I woke up from bed. So my result is that touchwiz usually has more drain than CM12. A few custom roms like Ironrom or Twdetox make it drain less from what I tested. But before you go through all that, I've seen a tweak to stop wake locks from Google services. I haven't test it throughly but seems promising.
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I've had on CM12 and it drained 0-1% while on idle.
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Wow. Me want that
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I've seen a tweak to stop wake locks from Google services. I haven't test it throughly but seems promising.
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Tell me more about that tweak. I'll be very happy to test it out.
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Wow. Me want that
Tell me more about that tweak. I'll be very happy to test it out.
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Here's the video. https://youtu.be/OU6knqCyvPI
I don't see what the problem of a small amount of battery being used if the device is on is?
It's obvious it's going to use some power, there are still things running in the background or you'd never get messages, emails, sync etc. Really the whole point of leaving it on.
Android itself is not the problem, it's more to do with Google services and apps.
If you don't want those things turn it off imo or completely remove gapps.
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I've had on CM12 and it drained 0-1% while on idle. With touchwiz (lollipop or kk) I lost 6% on idle when I woke up from bed. So my result is that touchwiz usually has more drain than CM12. A few custom roms like Ironrom or Twdetox make it drain less from what I tested. But before you go through all that, I've seen a tweak to stop wake locks from Google services. I haven't test it throughly but seems promising.
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I use TWDetox v3.0 on my 8.4 tab s the SM-T800 version is beta at best experimental at worst at this time but I can give you my own experiences on a similar device, YMMV. On kitkat stock with my brightness turned almost all the way down and auto on, I also used greenify I would lose about 5-6% by the time I woke up. On this rom same basic settings wifi still on, greenify still on, tab set to low brightness I would lose about 1-2% over the same 8h though this os a debloated rom so a lot of samsung "highly important" apps are missing like milk and watch on and yea basically all the junk no one wants that runs at startup all the time.
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I don't see what the problem of a small amount of battery being used if the device is on is?
It's obvious it's going to use some power, there are still things running in the background or you'd never get messages, emails, sync etc. Really the whole point of leaving it on.
Android itself is not the problem, it's more to do with Google services and apps.
If you don't want those things turn it off imo or completely remove gapps.
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I'm not saying it's a problem. The question simply comes from the fact that I'm comparing my SM-T800's 6%/day loss versus iPad3's 1%/day and wonder if it's normal or not. After all, the iPad is also syncing stuff and it's barely using any battery. If everyone tell me their SM-T800 drains 1%/day too, then I'll know there's something wrong on my side. If not, I'll live with the fact that the SM-T800 drains 6%/day.
I went on Cyanogenmod's site and apparently the SM-T800 is not officially supported. I'll need to read http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...rom-cyanogenmod-cm-12-0-sm-t800-16gb-t3005540.
I think 6% a day is normal, the tablet is doing quite a bit even when sleeping, I have an SM-T800 10.5" with a the stock UK rom.
Is sleeping wifi scanning enabled, the T800 has that does it not.
John.
Hi to all. I recently bought an SM-T700 and still playing around with it.
I have disabled everything you could imagine when I turn off the screen:
Wifi Off
No Wifi Scanning
No Sync
No BlueTooth
Everything is off
Anyway, I'm also loosing around 6 to 8% in 24 hrs of idle / screen off.
I also have an old S2. If I put it in flight mode, it won't even lose even 1% during all night stand by.
Is there anything I'm missing here?
I don't see why it shall lose 6% if everything is off. It's just on doing nothing!
Thanks in advance and sorry for my english!
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I don't see why it shall lose 6% if everything is off. It's just on doing nothing!
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I was worried too and that's why I came here to ask if this situation is considered normal. It apparently is, unfortunately.
It seems the stock OS is taking more juice if we're comparing it with CM (according to DUHAsianSKILLZ) which only takes 1%/day. If it's true, I fail to understand why the stock OS takes at least 6 times more than that for the same results. That can't be good and we can't blame everything on bloatware.
This is a screenshot I a few months ago. This was when I went to bed and woke up in the morning. I forget what I did but, I did do something I don't remember that would stop wakelocks. I think I did a few things in app ops. This was touchwiz Lollipop.
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Now here's CM12. I didn't change any settings and left it alone. It handled wake locks well and went to deep sleep. No drain after going to bed and waking up in morning.
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Thanks for your replies.
I bought this just two weeks ago and was amazed about how low was the standby battery consumption after upgrading to LL via OTA.
But suddenly (I installed a few apps) it started increasing the idle consumption.
I'm going to factory reset the tablet and turn everything off to see what happens (I have nothing important yet on it as I was just learning how to use it and hesitant about rooting ir or not, finally decided 'Not yet').
As I'm not rooted i feel there isn't much I can do about it (On my old S2 i use Greenify, Amplify, App Quarantine, Disable Services, etc.).
If somebody else have info regarding idle battery consumption on stock and non rooted I'd really appreciate it (Wifi off, location off, sync off, etc.)
Best regards
Mariano.
before I rooted and flashed cm I was only getting 2% drain overnight just by turning on airplane mode.
You could also try turning on ultra power saving mode before you sleep, I think it said it has something like 140 days battery life when I turned that mode on at full charge.
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You could also try turning on ultra power saving mode before you sleep, I think it said it has something like 140 days battery life when I turned that mode on at full charge.
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I tried it during the last 24 hours and the battery still drained 6% by sitting on my desk in ultra power saving mode. I think this mode reduces the display which drains less battery but I don't think it has any effect on the processor itself. The wakelocks still happen.
I'll try the airplane mode for the next 24 hours but I fear it won't do much.
Oh my God!!!
Airplane mode during 24 hours. Battery drain result: 0%
How can this be? I remember once trying to simply disable WiFi and it didn't change a thing. I don't understand why activating airplane mode changes anything. Could it be that with WiFi off, Android's system still tries to access stuff (creating wakelocks) but, in airplane mode, it completely halts all data related activities (halt related wakelocks)?
I'm truly astonished by this test. Thank you very much Pleske for that suggestion!
Next test: Airplane mode on with WiFi on.
Airplane mode with WiFi enabled still drained 6%.
I installed "Timed Toggles" (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.ergodicity.timedtoggles) to automatically enable Airplane mode and disable WiFi at midnight. It's still not as impressive as the iPad, but it's incredibly better than losing 11% each day.
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Airplane mode with WiFi enabled still drained 6%.
I installed "Timed Toggles" (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.ergodicity.timedtoggles) to automatically enable Airplane mode and disable WiFi at midnight. It's still not as impressive as the iPad, but it's incredibly better than losing 11% each day.
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Um...... well 3 small things.
1 Turning on wifi after you turn on airplane mode makes airplane mode pointless unless you also go around with bluetooth on all the time since on the t-800 those are the only 2 radios the tablet has.
2. Odds are you are getting attacked by the battery saving feature of the interactive governor that the galaxy tab s uses which when woken up instantly cranks the processors up to 1.9GHz to help deal with what woke it up and to be ready to be snappy and handle what ever it is that you want to do, unfortunatly if you are asleep it runs like this fpr a bit then goes back to sleep. Get enough annoying things telling your cpu "hey hey look at me... I need you look at me" and you get some drain happening. Not sure how the ipad handles waking up but it does have a far less powerful and therefore power hungry processor to wake up.
3. Greenify still works even if you are not rooted and do not have exposed, it just does not do as many things automatically for you and can not handle Samsungs very important system bloatware for you. You can still stop the apps yourself or freeze them yourself.
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Um...... well 3 small things.
1 Turning on wifi after you turn on airplane mode makes airplane mode pointless unless you also go around with bluetooth on all the time since on the t-800 those are the only 2 radios the tablet has.
2. Odds are you are getting attacked by the battery saving feature of the interactive governor that the galaxy tab s uses which when woken up instantly cranks the processors up to 1.9GHz to help deal with what woke it up and to be ready to be snappy and handle what ever it is that you want to do, unfortunatly if you are asleep it runs like this fpr a bit then goes back to sleep. Get enough annoying things telling your cpu "hey hey look at me... I need you look at me" and you get some drain happening. Not sure how the ipad handles waking up but it does have a far less powerful and therefore power hungry processor to wake up.
3. Greenify still works even if you are not rooted and do not have exposed, it just does not do as many things automatically for you and can not handle Samsungs very important system bloatware for you. You can still stop the apps yourself or freeze them yourself.
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1. I remember trying to disable WiFi (not enabling Airplane mode) and it didn't change a thing. For some reason, activating Airplane mode does have a dramatic impact compared to just disabling WiFi. Bluetooth has never been activated.
2. iPad's CPU vs. T800.... good point. That should be a good reason why iPad's battery seems better but is it enough to justify T800's 6%/day? I wonder.
3. I do have Greenify installed and set up for a couple of apps. As for bloatware, I disabled all those I could think of.
Ipad 1 -- 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8
Ipad 2/3 -- 1 GHz Dual Core ARM Cortex-A9 (different gpu though between the 2)
Ipad 4 -- 1.4GHz Dual Core ARM processor
Those are the regular Ipads the Ipad air 2 comes the closest to the tab s with a tri cor 1.5GHz processor
That is just the differences with the processor when you also factor in that IOS is a very regulated system of what can and can not be installed, what apps can make what system calls, and general management that makes Apple very annoying for a PC makes IOS a very fast responsive and stable OS for phones and tablets even with much less powerful hardware. It is the basis of the difference between a specialized and a general computing platform. Apple products will get better battery life on average and be more compatabile with less issues then android until (and I would hate it if it happened) Google makes one device with only slight differences for screen size or storage and that is it. Also all apps would have to come from the store and be screened far more then they currently are.
The big advantage android has is with root and custom roms our performance increases where as jailbreaking ios devices either keeps performance the same or can even degrade it.
Apple products have amazing battery life in general. Maybe except for Macbooks (non-air), which still have great battery life. Apple's phones, tablets, and MP3 players have amazing battery life compared to similar products from other brands. I don't know what they do, but there's some magic to their battery and power consumption. I'm not surprised every Samsung device I owned had lower battery life than it's contemporary Apple equivalent.
iPad Air 2 vs T800 specs relating to power consumption:
mAh: 7340 vs 7900
Cores: Tri 1.5 vs quad 1.9 + quad 1.3
RAM: 2 vs 3
http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=6742&idPhone2=6438
It's amazing how much we actually use our phones in a given day, especially when we watch "videos"! Rate this thread to express how many hours of screen-on time you can get on the Sony Xperia XA2 before depleting the battery.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
~8-10 of SOT in 2 days with auto brightness
Hello all,
auto brightness working good and very fast,
Most of time I reading in room, so no need high brightness of screen.
deviousway said:
Hello all,
auto brightness working good and very fast,
Most of time I reading in room, so no need high brightness of screen.
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thanks for the posts. phone has been out for a while but nobody has talked about it much. I've been curious how well it does with the battery efficient snapdragon 630
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thanks for the posts. phone has been out for a while but nobody has talked about it much. I've been curious how well it does with the battery efficient snapdragon 630
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I think it's not the processor, it's the screen. It is very good, due to a good safety of brightness.
If needed i can make some tests, like screen time of youtube via wi-fi on max brightness, i think it will be ~6h of SOT.
I'm getting those numbers. Pretty good to me, finally I'm charging each other day.
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i am too very happy with my XA2 battery life it can easily last 2 days with my mediocre to some times heavy use and if it really pushes itself i can get up to 12h SoT on wifi and around 10h with mobile network which beats my old p9l SoT 3 times.
lol, are you people not using your phones at all and just leave it with screen on?
I'm barely getting 4 h...
How? Explain to me please. Also, battery overheats up to 45-50 degrees when charging on sofa.
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lol, are you people not using your phones at all and just leave it with screen on?
I'm barely getting 4 h...
How? Explain to me please. Also, battery overheats up to 45-50 degrees when charging on sofa.
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It differs very heavily on use most of the time i use my phone for chatting calling camera music listening and YouTube with these i get around 10hr SoT all day i do game on it some times and when i do the battery shortens this matters on how long etc if i hold a gaming session with my friends it tends to make me go for a charger in about 4hr SoT it also differs on what is enabled like BT wifi mobile network GPS etc and the screen brightness which for me is around 35% always except when I'm using the phone on the street and for heat issues i don't have them or just didn't notice it yet is it happen to you while charging? Try to use less the phone while charging or charge without case i usually don't use my phone while charging as i charge over night or it charges fairly quick to a good 60-70% battery.
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It differs very heavily on use most of the time i use my phone for chatting calling camera music listening and YouTube with these i get around 10hr SoT all day i do game on it some times and when i do the battery shortens this matters on how long etc if i hold a gaming session with my friends it tends to make me go for a charger in about 4hr SoT it also differs on what is enabled like BT wifi mobile network GPS etc and the screen brightness which for me is around 35% always except when I'm using the phone on the street and for heat issues i don't have them or just didn't notice it yet is it happen to you while charging? Try to use less the phone while charging or charge without case i usually don't use my phone while charging as i charge over night or it charges fairly quick to a good 60-70% battery.
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Thanks for the response. So, 5-10 min in the sun, even not charging, battery just went up to 47 degrees (also one reboot).
As for the SoT, on average, I'm using the phone for voice calls, texting in Telegram, reading news from Google Now feed using Chrome and a bit of Instagram. BT is always on as I use it in my car, as for WiFi, I have it set to switch off when sleeping. I even installed Greenify, so phone goes to sleep faster. I always charge without a case. And in the car, near the windshield I have to use an A/C if it's sunny, even when not using the phone, because it overheats a lot.
giosal said:
Thanks for the response. So, 5-10 min in the sun, even not charging, battery just went up to 47 degrees (also one reboot).
As for the SoT, on average, I'm using the phone for voice calls, texting in Telegram, reading news from Google Now feed using Chrome and a bit of Instagram. BT is always on as I use it in my car, as for WiFi, I have it set to switch off when sleeping. I even installed Greenify, so phone goes to sleep faster. I always charge without a case. And in the car, near the windshield I have to use an A/C if it's sunny, even when not using the phone, because it overheats a lot.
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Hmm update to the latest software plus ask Sony support because i never had reandom reboot nor overheat issue it's cool to the touch even when playing wot blitz on max settings
Razor10707 said:
Hmm update to the latest software plus ask Sony support because i never had reandom reboot nor overheat issue it's cool to the touch even when playing wot blitz on max settings
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No, not random reboot, thankfully, I rebooted it myself, just said it to underline the fact that it overheats a lot when starting.
I'm running the latest software, of course. Alright, will try to ask Sony Support, but I'm pretty sure, all they will say - do a factory reset.
My phone barely lasts a day, how did you get to 2 days? Do you use it very little?
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My phone barely lasts a day, how did you get to 2 days? Do you use it very little?
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Just don't use the stock ROM. It comes with a lot of bloat that always runs in the background and drains the battery.
On LineageOS you can adjust which apps are allowed to run at boot or stay active in the background. These settings are somewhat hidden in the privacy options of Trust.
Roughly translated from German:
Settings -> Security & Data Protection -> Trust -> (Privacy) Data Protection -> (tap the three dots) extended/additional options
In there, I've disabled background usage for a ton of apps. I don't need Facebook or Instagram starting at boot or always running in the background, for example. The only thing that always runs is Whatsapp.
With these tweaked settings, my phone lasts about 2 1/2 days with moderate usage (some browsing on the way to work, listening to music etc.)
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My phone barely lasts a day, how did you get to 2 days? Do you use it very little?
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Well in all honesty I'm not a very heavy user but I do listen ti alot of music and use to call or chat with my friends family etc and the phone is mostly in use so like to that close to 2 days there's around 8h SoT involved with minimal gaming but I mostly do that at home with charger being close either way make use of the stamina mode if needed there's performance preferred option too make sure to not exclude just the must apps from power save if you excluded any before it is a good idea to do a full charge to 100% and then wait like 10 minutes once per week (this only if you charge similar to me to put up in the morning with fast charge to 95~%) and ofc screen brightness NFC GPS etc make sure to disable all that's not needed for me GPS is on battery saving mode and NFC is by default on for some reason so don't forget to turn that off as well either way P is already confirmed early in 2019 which will bring adaptive battery that should improve the battery quite nicely
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schmatzler said:
Just don't use the stock ROM. It comes with a lot of bloat that always runs in the background and drains the battery.
On LineageOS you can adjust which apps are allowed to run at boot or stay active in the background. These settings are somewhat hidden in the privacy options of Trust.
Roughly translated from German:
Settings -> Security & Data Protection -> Trust -> (Privacy) Data Protection -> (tap the three dots) extended/additional options
In there, I've disabled background usage for a ton of apps. I don't need Facebook or Instagram starting at boot or always running in the background, for example. The only thing that always runs is Whatsapp.
With these tweaked settings, my phone lasts about 2 1/2 days with moderate usage (some browsing on the way to work, listening to music etc.)
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What your mentioning are really good methods to save battery specially Los is a very light firmware ? but I need to disagree abit as not everyone has the nerve to screw with custom roms etc and for that part they most likely will stay stock either way in your post I only disagree with the part where you say it's bloated yes it is that's sure but it's not even close to some like miui or emui otherwise good tips for long battery
schmatzler said:
Just don't use the stock ROM. It comes with a lot of bloat that always runs in the background and drains the battery.
On LineageOS you can adjust which apps are allowed to run at boot or stay active in the background. These settings are somewhat hidden in the privacy options of Trust.
Roughly translated from German:
Settings -> Security & Data Protection -> Trust -> (Privacy) Data Protection -> (tap the three dots) extended/additional options
In there, I've disabled background usage for a ton of apps. I don't need Facebook or Instagram starting at boot or always running in the background, for example. The only thing that always runs is Whatsapp.
With these tweaked settings, my phone lasts about 2 1/2 days with moderate usage (some browsing on the way to work, listening to music etc.)
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If you can port the camera app that comes with the stock rom i'll sure be using lineageos
davidhozic said:
If you can port the camera app that comes with the stock rom i'll sure be using lineageos
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On LineageOS, I use HedgeCam 2 and I don't miss any features. It's got MORE features than the stock camera app.
I only disagree with the part where you say it's bloated yes it is that's sure but it's not even close to some like miui or emui
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Depends. The European ROM seems to be extremely bloated compared to other versions. But there's a dedicated thread for that.
Maybe it's better in the USA.
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On LineageOS, I use HedgeCam 2 and I don't miss any features. It's got MORE features than the stock camera app.
Depends. The European ROM seems today be extremely bloated compared to other versions. But there's a dedicated thread for that.
Maybe it's better in the USA.
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Is the quality the same?
Yes. Full 23MP for photos and 4k 60fps video recording.
Ok so i don't know if this is from the latwst update, but my usage got significantly improved.
I still do a bit of gaming at school and watch YouTube videos(with yt using the most battery).
I can now easily get day or more of battery life, good job on that update sony?
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My phone barely lasts a day, how did you get to 2 days? Do you use it very little?
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1.5 days in active usage
2-3 days if just listen music 2h per day +1h wifi/4g email/chats
4days 6h my maximum
I'am on stock ROM
try Use low brightest , 20% ok for me