I m using domination HD ROM. But have used kernelpanic as well I found this problem in both the ROMs wifi takes a lot of battery juice and when I am using the phone wifi keeps getting disconnected and connected. Is it a known issue?
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I'd day it is normal. It isn't actually sucking up much power. Mine is at 65% and my battery is still almost full.
Is that so ? How many hours after it's plugged off the charger? I fully charge my cell and if I keep wifi on in the night. in the morning it comes to around 80 percent in 7 hours
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7 hours, was still at 90%. Had it on all night by accident. Wifi becomes negligible when I begin to use other apps. Any game outweights my wifi really quickly. Anyway to see exactly how much drain an app has aside from the "about phone" "battery use"?
Now, please, screenshot of 8 hours with wifi off. Then we'll talk
I use systempanel app for it. it doesn't show wifi drawing a lot of battery juice though. But still do you notice wifi keeps getting disconnected?
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Screens with wifi off 8 hrs 18 display on still at 94 battery
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Quiet impressive. My guess is you have not much installed there, no push mail, no weather, nothing like this?
The signal strength seems to help this as well.
My phone left during night with wifi on, cell signal at 2-3 bars (although I can see the cell tower from my window 3 block away), plugged into computer in sleep mode (which for some reason doesn't charge the phone), in the morning after 6 hours leaves about 80-85%. But I do have 3 push mail boxes, weather, news and gps enabled.
btw have you noticed that the temperature is always generally above 35 degree C. even when the outside temperature is below 15 and the device is untouched for hours.. in the screenshot.. temperature shown is 32 while the outside temperature was about 15. and it was taken in the morning after untouching the device for 7 hrs.
Have you seem something like this in your battery consumption
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Anyone got any idea what is draining my battery sooooo fast? I've had strong signal all day, for the most part minimal brightness..turned wifi of when not in use, didn't even play any games today... I left the house at 8:30 and it was dead at 6:45, before I even got home. Also, only made one short official today.
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The built in LG apps are known to eat up the battery. If you are rooted, you can use NoBloat to disable these applications.
Here is a website that has a list of the applications that are safe to disable: http://androidadvices.com/optimize-lg-nitro-hd-phone-performance-removing-bloatware/
I'm not gonna lie, I'm scared to root it. This is my first Android phone.and if I screw it up I won't have a phone for quite some time.
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I understand your fear, but if you read the directions closely and go slowly the likelihood of bricking the phone is small. Rooting by itself isn't too dangerous - the dangerous part is loading CWM and ROMs, and the risk will be greatly reduced when (if) we get CyanogenMod for our phones...
After CM9 came over to our Phone still Wifi takes a huge percentage of battery drain and usage. I have seen my frens Galaxy nexus and his wifi was on for 10 hrs still it was taking 3% of battery . in our case it would take more than 20% if its on for 10 hrs
I am on CM10 now and WiFi is still the biggest battery drainer by far..
on other phones typically the screen was using the most battery. WiFi is typically battery efficient.
My phone went from 95% - 68% with WiFi on (but not using it) AND while on airplane mode.
There is some issue with wifi drivers
Related
Switched on 8am, more than average use.
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links are just blocked at work, nvm.
Links working fine here...
That's probably what I'd get out of my NS if I used it fairly heavily... the display is a battery killer on that too. So about average, then.
Don't know what happened to the quality though,looked OK when I took them!
Hoping when this mobile data problem gets sorted battery life may increase as my phone was all over the place today!
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Ouch, thats some serious drain. I was hoping for at least 18hrs. Still not a deal breaker for me.
Gosh, why is yours so much better than mine. Feeling like I have a dud here :/
3 hours damnm
Thats right around what I get on my charge on 3g only.
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2H 55 of screen time looks to be pretty lacking if I'm not mistaken?
The Galaxy S II video run downs get like 8H or 4H on web browsing.
But yea, diff situations
Your pictures are broken can't see any of them.
Edit: 3h screen on sounds pretty normal to me. Depends though on the brightness of the screen.
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2H 55 of screen time looks to be pretty lacking if I'm not mistaken?
The Galaxy S II video run downs get like 8H or 4H on web browsing.
But yea, diff situations
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Those are completely different. They start with a full battery and just play videos or browse the web for that amount of time. With this he was using for the phone for random things and still had the screen on for 3 hours.
On that note, how is it possible to have the screen on for 3 hours of a 12-hour day? You literally spent 1/4 of your day looking at the screen? Do you not have a job? My phone sits in a dock on my desk, but I probably use it around 15 minutes per day while at work, and then another 45 min or so after work (so total screen time, if it wasn't sitting in the dock, would be around 1 hour for an 18 hour day).
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2H 55 of screen time looks to be pretty lacking if I'm not mistaken?
The Galaxy S II video run downs get like 8H or 4H on web browsing.
But yea, diff situations
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Those run down tests are from 100 to 0 doing 1 thing. This is throughout the day. The phone is still draining when the screen is off.
yea i understand.....but basically the screen time is how long the screen has been on throughout the day correct?
I had a galaxy S and it used to get like 4-5 hrs of screen time throughout a 12hr day. With the extended battery i could get about 6-7hrs of screen time.
Now on the iPhone 4, i get 2hrs of screen time with 80% battery left and had a standby of 6hrs. But yea....its iOS
Idk, 3hrs of screen time seems ehh to me. Im still probably gonna get the phone though, tired of iOS once again. Went from 3GS to Galaxy S to iPhone 4 and now possibly Galaxy Nexus....or wait for GS III
Wifi radio power on all day?
Several people who've had the phone for a few days have said the battery life gets better after a few charging cycles.
Calibrate the device, leave it off then charge it till it's full. Then use it till it is dead, then charge it again while switched off and keep doing that for the first week when you buy a device any device that uses a battery. I've always done this to my phone and my wife's sometimes friends too. After that the battery is calibrated, then if something goes wrong with the drain you would know, or if the battery life actually sucked Case 'n point EVO 4G.
yea, 3 hours used 56% of the 85% of the battery that was used. so really should be able to get 5 to 6 hours of just screen on time.
I uninstalled my virus protection yesterday and turned off sync and wifi whilst at work today about 11am and battery stats better today. Haven't been in a low signal area today so no problems or slowdowns caused by 2g/3g.
Taken off charge about 9.30am
Wondering if its the virus protection taken off or disabling sync and Wi-Fi or the fact I was in 3g area all day that's improved it.
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Signal strength is usually the main problem I have...
Is there a native ability in ICS to disable WiFi scanning? ie - Leave WiFi on, but disable scanning for networks...
OP, I'll bet your batt life would be 3x better with something like Tasker managing your Wi-Fi connection.
IMO, BEST.ANDROID. APP. EVER.
Last night I restored my phone using the factory image. For some reason I anticipate an OTA soon so I wanted to be ready. Anyhow, before I suffered from the battery drain bug. I forgot to charge my phone last night, and didn't realize it until I got in my car and put it on the car charger and it said 89%. My first thought was that my battery drained over 10% in the hour I was getting ready and not using it! Then I went into battery settings and found out I never charged it.. then I found some pleasant... well, I'll just show you.
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As you can see, I lost less than 5% battery during the 6+ hours my phone was unplugged. I had the phone in the living room charging while watching a movie. Then I unplugged and used it for about 20 minutes in the bedroom which accounts for the first rapid drop in battery. But after I set it down, the phone went into a coma. And I can't see exactly, but it looks like it was only 2 or 3% which is great!
Not sure what changed, I still have the same apps installed, even Facebook. I did, however, NOT disable VZ backup assistant like I normally do. Maybe that is what causes the OS to go bonkers? Thoughts?
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I got about 20 hours out of mine yesterday (extended battery) with moderate usage (texting, ebay, facebook, web) This is after unlocking the bootloader and rooting. Unlocking the bootloader resets the phone to factory state. I've read a few other posts around the web where battery life is greatly improved after a factory reset. Android OS is still the main things devouring my battery, but I almost don't care with the performance I'm getting. I should also mention that I wiped battery stats from CWM and then calibrated the battery on first charge.
I'm no dev, so I don't know why a reset would help. Then again, maybe it was wiping battery stats and calibrating that helped me. Just my $.02
How did you calibrate the battery?
There's a free tool in the market that will calibrate for you. Have to be rooted though. Just search for calibrate.
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Surprised this isn't getting more acknowledgement. Any one else experience the same after a reset?
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Guess maybe I'm one of the lucky few...I've always had this type of battery life. The phone just sips power while the screen is off.
While it is on...well that's different. I keep the brightness high and get about 2-2.5 hours of screen time before it powers off.
The interesting thing here is that it seems that you have the Android OS constantly waking up the phone but yet it still barely uses battery.
Do you have location services turned on or off?
Turned on. I noticed that too but the overall awake time is low. Usually it would be over half of the entire time on battery, sometimes 100%.
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I used 50% in about 3 hours on my extended battery.
fml.
Great battery life, but you didnt really use your phone much.
Your "Screen on" is only about 15% of those 6 hours. Which ends up being about an hour.
Still, none the less, great battery life/power consumption.
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Great battery life, but you didnt really use your phone much.
Your "Screen on" is only about 15% of those 6 hours. Which ends up being about an hour.
Still, none the less, great battery life/power consumption.
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I think you missed the point. I said this was done while I was sleeping. Many people are experiencing extreme battery drain even when they aren't using the phone, as was I. After restoring from the factory image, my issue seems to be gone.
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I think you missed the point. I said this was done while I was sleeping. Many people are experiencing extreme battery drain even when they aren't using the phone, as was I. After restoring from the factory image, my issue seems to be gone.
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I unplugged my phone at 11:30 pm with 98%, woke up at 7:30 am today and it dropped to 76%. So a 20% drop in 8 hrs with the phone just sitting there with wi-fi on and no apps running. It'd be very interesting to see if a factory restore would help.
How's the battery life now that you're using it?
Im thinking of unlocking and rooting mine tonight. havent had a moment to read the walkthrough just yet.
i noticed this too last night/today. i went to sleep after installing bugless beast 4.0.3 cdma, left it off the charger, and today i saw the chart was pretty much a flat line. i don't recall the exact times, but i'll try to time it out. about 8 hours
i wonder if all the initial extreme battery drain reports are due to the 'wowanewphone' effect, where you are molesting your phone 24/7, as opposed to the typical day-to-day use you'll eventually fall back into
I have been using the lte g.nexus for about two weeks now and i cannot stand the battery life let me explain
Im on screen timeout 15 sec auto brightness.
Operating on 3g mode only and my average batt time is abouy 4 hours of moderate to heavy use(no bluetooth r gps included) ive heard stories of batt conditioning when i got my g.nexus i charged it to green and immediately begin using it. I even let it drain to zero the first two charge cycles. I dont have any syncing apps doing auto sync except my google account and no one app seems to be sucking juice the screen is always using between 40%-60% in the usage stats is this normal i.never had this problem with my bionic.
that F'ing ridiculous that you are only getting a few hours on your g-nex especially since you have turned a lot of things off or to a minimum. i would either go to a verizon store to try to get a replacement or purchase an extended battery.
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Not trying to hijack this thread but I'm starting to think my battery is bad too. I've been giving it time because this is only my 4th day with it, but its just atrocious.
Yesterday: charged to 100% and took off charger immediately around 4 pm. After a moderate amount of texting, 10 minute phone call, and my 4 Gmail accounts syncing in the background on 3g the whole time, the battery died around 11pm. The screen on time was maybe 1.5 hours.
I'm running Android Revolution rom with the included stock kernel. Everyone reports about how awesome the battery life is with that rom, but if 7 hours is good battery life then I don't know what to expect.
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Im starting to wonder if the phone or either the battery is at fault because i see a lot of usera spread out across the net complaining of similar problems. Is there is a certain way to traim the batteru the first day or so because i love this phone but i refuse to buy an ext. Batt jus to make it thru a work shift.only on 3g ..anyone else having this problem or know of a fix?
I've heard some glitch about the camera sensor staying on in the background in a different thread. Search for it in xda
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My battery was only worknig for a few hours with the extended battery when i looked at the battery usage it said 70% mediaserver. looked up online and it said if you have a picture or vid that is corrupted it can cause mediaserver to keep trying which i had a photo gallery widget on home screen. when i deleted img and deleted widget im now getting like 10x more battery life.
I am getting good battery life.
During my sleep or when my phone is idle or when I know I am not using it for a long period of time, I switch my phone to 2G.
Below is a screenshot of my battery usage during a long period of idle (overnight when I am sleeping)
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I only switch it to 3G when I am actively using the Internet for surfing websites, Facebooking, Youtube, uploading photos or video.
Below is a screenshot of my usage from light to moderate to heavy.
I went into the bathroom with full charge and after I did my daily deed(s) I went down to 43% with brightness turned all the way down and only running xda app. wtf gives?
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Just curious to see what everyones battery usage is like. I'll post mine tonight after my battery drains down
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Just curious to see what everyones battery usage is like. I'll post mine tonight after my battery drains down
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I charged it up during the day yesterday, but then hammered it syncing my emails, sms messages and other things.
So, last night was my first real charge. I took it off the charger at 6am this morning, and right now, at just a few minutes less than 5 hours, I'm at 83% with 70% use being cell standby.
I'm sticking with HSPA+ today, because I know that will drain the battery more than WiFi (at least that was the case on my Atrix) and I'm trying to get a feel for the battery life when away from WiFi.
Now, full disclosure, my phone has 6 email accounts setup for push. An Exchange account, two Gmail accounts and three Imap idle accounts using k9 mail. Still, I would say it's burning battery at a little higher rate than my Atrix with those same six push email accounts.
5 hours and down to 40%.
:-(
I'm seeing a significant increase in battery life whith the s3 over the s2
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I'm a bit of a light user, but a little heavier than average given new phone.
7.5 hrs @ 57%.
I'll post screens when I can.
5 Hours, 45%, screen on 2 hr, 12 min.
Interesting thing: I have a Pandora Widget on my screen, have not used it at all, and 13% of my power, and show son for 22 min.
9.5 hrs @ 29%.
I am using the default juicedefender profile.
Cell standby hogs the battery more than other phones like US One X with same SoC. I think kernel devs can work on this since this is not normal.
To get a good idea on battery life, everyone needs to show their screen on time as it should be the biggest drain.
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This is on power save mode.
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^^ I had power saving off for the first 3 hours of the day, and screen was set to 1/4 brightness. I changed screen to auto brightness, disabled wifi network scanning/notification, turned on power saving mode (all options), and it's been like that since about 3 hours into the day. I've done some driving with Slacker Radio streaming via bluetooth to my Jeep.
Seems like cellular standby eats juice. I am in an LTE area.
is the a way to turn off LTE?
This is mine so far, don't really run any battery saving appsetc. Cell standby is a bit too much.
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Heavy usage today including a 30 minute trip in the car using gps and lte im at 42% right now
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is the a way to turn off LTE?
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this.
op said he just ran on hspa+ so there must be a simple way to do it
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this.
op said he just ran on hspa+ so there must be a simple way to do it
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I haven't seen a way to switch. The person in question is probably in a market without LTE like I am and is stuck on HSPA+
so battery life is wayy better on the exynos...
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I went to work yesterday at 4:30pm and showed people my phone all day as well as had the screen on the entire time for my lunch. Got home at 11:45pm and my battery was at 91%. This is on LTE the entire time also. My Nexus was usually at 60-70% by the time I got home.
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I went to work yesterday at 4:30pm and showed people my phone all day as well as had the screen on the entire time for my lunch. Got home at 11:45pm and my battery was at 91%. This is on LTE the entire time also. My Nexus was usually at 60-70% by the time I got home.
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are you rooted? cause 91% left and you had it on for about 7 hours??? that's damn good. where you running any apps?
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This battery drain is so pathetic, please help me out on this one guys.
I charged to 100%, then played games for like 50 minutes, Plants Vs zombies for around 32 minutes and Kingdom rush for the remaining.
Charge became 84% , not sure if this one is to be expected.
But the main issue was the drain during screen off, i went to sleep when the charge was 84% and the device was screen off for almost 8 hours,
I woke up and checked, now its 66% ???? . really around 18% drain during a 8 hour screen off window
This is so lame, i checked the battery usage, nothing seems out of the ordinary, yes WIFI was On the whole time, is that the reason..
Does the notifications cause battery drain?, i had received some mails and t-mobile my account crap had sent some notification and LED was glowing all along.
i moved from note 1 only because of the stupid drain during screen off, its annoying , i know we can switch off WIFI, data, restart the device and use some app to reduce the drain, but i thought the battery will be good out of the box with Note 3, this feels the same like my note, no difference, something is messed up.
Any help is appreciated sorry for my bad English.
that idle drain seems very excessive. I lose like maybe 1% overnight. have you managed your accounts and only sync the necessary things? that could be a big drain.
Yes thats very excessive , thats why i am losing it, i did check for syncing, apparently nothing was running overnight.
Could be because i have only one point in the network signal? , not sure, i did check on the Cell standby it said "Time withou signal 0%"
i never had 1% drain overnight , would be nice if i can find out a way to make it work for me as well.
Call me strange, but if i am going to be sleeping, I plug it in. When I wake up even with just a nap the phone is fully charged.
i do too.. but i want to check the battery drain during sleep, often when traveling, i wont even use the phone but it would have drained , that's why i am checking how bad the drain is and the ways to fix it.
not sure you need these setting enable or not, but try uncheck all in Location Services under Setting.
Maybe you should start with basics and see what have you changed, since this drain begin?
For example I was trouble shooting WiFi calling and followed one of suggestions to shut down WiFi power save in service menu. It didn't work (updating router FW did the trick) and I forgot about it, but then I realized my phone was discharging 20% overnight (yeah, I charge when come home from work, by the time I go sleep phone is fully charged) and this was way too much. To make long story short, once I put WiFi save mode back on, I get 3% discharge overnight as it should be. The problem with such high discharge rate was that the phone barely lasted a day of light use and if I forgot to charge it night before it would be dead before morning. It also kills battery to have it fully charged daily, battery will lasts much longer if the charge is light (80% to 100% for example.)
Yup, i think it was this Wifi power save option in the service menu, i had switched this off and forgotten about it. thanks for reminding me .
i will check tonight as well.
Bad thing about this setting is, its very hard to pinpoint if you had forgotten about changing this setting, it wont show up in any of the battery usage app.
Go into wifi, hit menu and go into advanced settings. Uncheck wifi always scanning.
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Those 2 games kill battery like a mutha, even if you kill the screen. I always use androids built in task killer by holding home button for a few seconds and killing battery hogging apps like those. If i do decide to end up installing those again and playing them i can expect shorter battery life for sure. Ever since i stopped gaming on my phone less and just game on my 360,ps3 and now wii u(kids got 1 for xmas,mario 3d world is addicting lol) ive seen huge boost in battery life and light to normal battery consumption on common sense settings for our phones.
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Yeah idk I barely use my phone and still only get about 12 hours out of my phone. I think 4.3 just doesn't like our battery hopefully 4.4 is better.
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