At first my girlfriend had her Nexus S updated to ics and immediately we noticed a huge difference in how long her battery lasted and she is the furthest thing from a heavy user.
So when I heard that ics ws being released for our phone my first thought was i hope that what she experienced won't be what i do as we have a better phone right?
Well I am sad to say on a stock but rooted rom I experience the same lack of battery life as her.
Now I am no beginner to Android and have changed all sorts of settings available and nothing syncs on its own and when I unplug my phone from charging in the morning I will need to plug my phone in at night before bed as my phone will be completely dead.
I have to say I am very disappointed in the battery life of thr the stock rom and hope some good kernels make it out to help.
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Have you tried to find out which app/process is draining your battery? Better Battery Stats can help you identify what is using up your battery.
I had a big keep awake problem when i first installed stock ICS on my T989D. I did a full wipe of the phone and formatted my internal SD card (after backing things up of course), reinstall the same stock ICS and everything works great now. Battery life is about the same as before (stock GB w/ Synergy kernel), which is about 30 hours with moderate use.
Try CM 9. I get almost 2 days of battery life.
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I've never had better battery life personally.
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Though I am now on AOKP, I had great battery life on stock ICS as well. But, everything is subjective. How many email accounts are being synced? Do you have Facebook / Twitter / G+ updating every hour? Do you have news feeds continuously updating as well?
I have to agree with the poster above. Get Better Battery Stats and find the culprit draining your battery and work from there.
biggest thing draining the battery is the screen.
you can literally watch the battery usage drop 10-15% in a period of 10 to 15 minutes which is absurd when its set to low.
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Wait for kernel development. Its underway as we speak. It will make a significant difference.
Some battery saving tips:
- use juicedefender and set it to aggressive mode.
- use romtoolbox or other programs to underclock cpu frequency.
- also try using telus stock ics. Very good battery life.
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I have a brand new T989D (I'm new to Android, former iPhone user) and got the ICS upgrade the day I got it (9 days ago). Battery life is terrible, I'm lucky if I get 10 hours of moderate usage. The phone also tends to run very, very hot. Sometimes apps freeze and all I can do is either wait or, in some cases, remove the battery to reboot.
I'm open to any tips that will get this fixed! I haven't rooted yet (no time). I think I will try those wipe tools and reflash the stock ICS ROM.
First post btw - glad to have joined XDA!
Rooting takes 5 seconds. Follow the sticky. Use odin.
Run a custom rom.
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Rooting takes 5 seconds. Follow the sticky. Use odin.
Run a custom rom.
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Thanks, although a lot of howtos seem to be for GB since ICS only landed 9 days ago. Also there's a lot of conflicting information, so I prefer this one:
http : // galaxys2root.com/t-mobile-galaxy-s2/how-to-root-icsgb-on-t-mobile-galaxy-s2-sgh-t989/
Aaaannnd... rooted! \o/
anomy13 said:
Wait for kernel development. Its underway as we speak. It will make a significant difference.
Some battery saving tips:
- use juicedefender and set it to aggressive mode.
- use romtoolbox or other programs to underclock cpu frequency.
- also try using telus stock ics. Very good battery life.
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phone is a telus phone so its already using that rom.
setcpu us setup already but thinking perhaps to undervolt
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Stock, not rooted, my battery life is great. Something is using your battery up, and flashing some exotic kernel isn't going to change that. The stock kernel works fine. You'll want to find the root of the problem. Keep a real-time (or 1-5s interval anyway) eye on the phone's current (mA) usage, and when it's high for no apparent reason, you'll know that whatever is sucking your battery is doing it right then. That should help you characterize the problem. I've noticed when my WCDMA/GSM radio signal sucks, so does the battery life, so I either turn off the radio or switch to GSM only when I'm in that area. If your display is what's eating your battery, well a kernel can't stop that. Turn the brightness down, leave it on auto-brightness, or just deal with it if you need the display on all the time. But if tweaking and modding makes you happy, by all means...
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biggest thing draining the battery is the screen.
you can literally watch the battery usage drop 10-15% in a period of 10 to 15 minutes which is absurd when its set to low.
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I have the same complaint. The "screen" battery usage is just unacceptable, especially compared to GB. My phone has been draining from a full charge for ~4.5 hours and my screen usage is 70% and battery is down to 65% with hardly 10 minutes of screen-on time.
I use an app called autostarts and you basically enable/disable apps that start running when certain events happen (phone startup, wifi being turned on, incoming call/sms/mms, other apps turning on, etc.). Just make sure you do your homework so you dont disable something critical. Hopefully this app works on ICS. You'll be surprised what different events make certain apps turn on automaticly. Screen, data/wifi, gps and bluetooth are the biggest battery drainers. No matter what Rom you are on if you don't keep control of those items your battery will drain fast. Keep ur screen on auto, let it go off @ 15 seconds ( you have to be pretty used to your phone for that setting not to annoy you), turn OFF your data or wifi when not in use. With bluetooth and gps...well u know that when you use them your battery is gonna drain faster than normal...just keep that in mind. Its all pretty much common sense.
I'm not going to tell you how much battery time I get cuz its nonsense. There are times my phone lasts till the next day and others Im charging it by sundown. Then again Im still on Juggs n Darkside kernel and Im gonna wait a bit still b4 I make the switch. Also don't go by what other people say on battery life cuz if you might not get the same results on that ROM. Everyone of our devices is unique and acts different. Everyone user uses their phone different. You can't define "light, moderate, heavy" use so don't go by that either.
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Tw vs Samsung.
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After upgrading to ICS stock unrooted battery life sucked (5-6hrs). I did the whole remove battery, factory reset and still sucked.
Broke down rooted (still stock), downloaded batterycalibration from play, followed the instructions. Easily get over 24hrs before having to charge again. and when I say easily, I mean I still have over 25% left.
Get a gnex extended....maybe a bad battery
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AOKP build 40, latest eugene373 streamline kernel. I went 9 hours earlier it earlier and it was still at 70% You will see a difference!!
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Im not going to tell you how much battery time I get cuz its nonsense. .........Everyone user uses their phone different. You can't define "light, moderate, heavy" use so don't go by that either.
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Bingo. Vastly different battery life between ROM's is generally BS. Every once in a great while one of these threads has merit but typically someone saying ROM X had "Killer" battery life is clueless and drinking the koolaid. Then a placebo effect takes place. And definitely someones "Heavy" use is subjective. If someone says they get a day out of an android phone they are not heavy users by my definition. It doesn't happen with heavy use. Perhaps the Razr Maxx or another phone with a very large battery but I've had 5 Android phones. If I get past noon it's because I am not using my phone that much and forget about a full day. It's never happened in the 4 years I've used google OS phones. Never.
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Bingo. Vastly different battery life between ROM's is generally BS. Every once in a great while one of these threads has merit but typically someone saying ROM X had "Killer" battery life is clueless and drinking the koolaid. Then a placebo effect takes place. And definitely someones "Heavy" use is subjective. If someone says they get a day out of an android phone they are not heavy users by my definition. It doesn't happen with heavy use. Perhaps the Razr Maxx or another phone with a very large battery but I've had 5 Android phones. If I get past noon it's because I am not using my phone that much and forget about a full day. It's never happened in the 4 years I've used google OS phones. Never.
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Yes exactly, I hate when people post screenshots of their phone getting 24+ hours, I'm there thinking "well obviously they don't use their phone alot". There is no way in hell i could get 24 hours no matter what rom/kernal I use. Im just happy when my phone can make it till I get home at night
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First of all im not putting down anyone and there custom roms. As I am an avid flasher of them and there great features..
However.. Ive noticed with every rom I flash, my battery life SUCKS. I know kernels are suppose to have battery saver mods, but never seem to work for my phone. The only way I seem to get great battery life is if I odin back to stock. Its seems to last forever on stock.
On stock.. I would average around 10% drain every two hours of moderate use.. mainly texting..
On Custom roms I average 10 to 15 % drain every hour with same moderate use..
My question is, Could Overclocking have caused this problem??
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First of all im not putting down anyone and there custom roms. As I am an avid flasher of them and there great features..
However.. Ive noticed with every rom I flash, my battery life SUCKS. I know kernels are suppose to have battery saver mods, but never seem to work for my phone. The only way I seem to get great battery life is if I odin back to stock. Its seems to last forever on stock.
On stock.. I would average around 10% drain every two hours of moderate use.. mainly texting..
On Custom roms I average 10 to 15 % drain every hour with same moderate use..
My question is, Could Overclocking have caused this problem??
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Quite possibly... And unfortunately, you have to test different Kernels with your ROM to see what works best, or just ask the Dev which Kernel they used when developing the ROM... That's a good way to get the best battery life because after all, that's the Kernel the Dev based the ROM off of. Another option is to check out Marcusants post on setting up your Kernel for your ROM, and I apologize if you've already tried that... I'm just trying to list options... I've had problems with different kernels on different ROMS... Well at least until Rodderik started making his Kernels with Viper ROMS... Then it started working perfect lol. How are you running your clocking? Conservative? Performance? Also, are you using SetCPU with an OC/UV kernel and the Voltage Control app? If you use the two together, it could cause a lot of issues, you'd have to choose one or the other.
On the other hand, I could be 100% wrong and it could be just your flux capacitor... You know how touchy those things are. Try chucking your phone over 88 MPH and see how that works. The next step is VERY important though... Whatever you do, don't forget to put your phone in airplane mode before you throw it in the air or it'll just fall right back down after a couple feet... Keep it in the air I always say.
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Im hoping once I hit 88MPH it will go back in time to when my phone actually worked. haha
I usually just use the Kernel that comes with the rom..
However I have used Set CPU and Voltage control together once. I messed around with the setting between performance and conservative.
Orion, first off. If u remember how "beepers" worked back in the day, if u ever had one, that's how text messaging works. It triggers a small ping when being sent or receiving message. So text messages really hardly use power. As far as ur battery is concerned, try this method if u like, just to see what kind of results u get. Charge battery completely with phone on first and then off. Then boot into cwm and wipe ur battery stats. Then drain ur battery completely without charging it. Then completely charge it up, and then see how ur battery does.
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One more thing. Anytime u change rom or kernel, update ur prl and profile, then reboot ur phone..it does make a difference doint this.
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Orion, first off. If u remember how "beepers" worked back in the day, if u ever had one, that's how text messaging works. It triggers a small ping when being sent or receiving message. So text messages really hardly use power. As far as ur battery is concerned, try this method if u like, just to see what kind of results u get. Charge battery completely with phone on first and then off. Then boot into cwm and wipe ur battery stats. Then drain ur battery completely without charging it. Then completely charge it up, and then see how ur battery does.
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True, just don't wipe your battery stats too much, it could end up doing more harm than good. But good call, I overlooked that cuz I was being a smart ass lol... Please don't throw your phone, that's never a good idea haha.
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Were you overclocking when your battery life sucked? What uses more gas, riding at 55MPH or 90MPH? What was your battery life like on custom ROMs with stock frequencies?
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Orion, first off. If u remember how "beepers" worked back in the day, if u ever had one, that's how text messaging works. It triggers a small ping when being sent or receiving message. So text messages really hardly use power. As far as ur battery is concerned, try this method if u like, just to see what kind of results u get. Charge battery completely with phone on first and then off. Then boot into cwm and wipe ur battery stats. Then drain ur battery completely without charging it. Then completely charge it up, and then see how ur battery does.
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Yeah, I always Wipe that stats after a fresh rom install..
I dunno, im due for an upgrade in april, so hopefully the new GS3 is on its way by then
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Were you overclocking when your battery life sucked? What uses more gas, riding at 55MPH or 90MPH? What was your battery life like on custom ROMs with stock frequencies?
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Battery was ok when I overclocked.. went down hill after that. Except whenever im on stock EI22 Gingerbread and it runs all day.
On custom roms with stock frequencies I would still see a significant drain.
I don't think you fried it if it's still running fine on stock. I'd be more likely to think you're overclocking with an aggressive governor that is making your cpu stay at higher frequencies.
I havent been doing any OC or UV in months now and still have the problems on custom roms. Perhaps I got the phone that doesnt like to be modded.. Damn Sprint ha
also screen brightness has a HUGE effect on battery life. also do you do games and such? Those can be very draining as well. I am on a viper rom going on 14hrs and still at 78%. but i mostly text with my phone. about 15,000 a month to be exact. and use f.b. and xda pretty heavily. and different kernels can make the difference between 6 hours and 20.
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I havent been doing any OC or UV in months now and still have the problems on custom roms. Perhaps I got the phone that doesnt like to be modded.. Damn Sprint ha
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i will say that my phone is particular on what rom i do run no matter what kernel i use
I just mainly text and surf the web occasionally. Funny part though the only game I play rarely is Deer Hunter Challenge which is a pretty high def large file game and when i play that my battery doesnt seem to drain. Right now Ive gone down 10% over the last hour just sending about 15 texts. And I have my display set to auto brightness
It's real simple...overclocking equals faster cpu AND faster battery drain. Do not overclock or do not complain about battery...one or the other.
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No. Your battery capacity is deminishing. Its normal.
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EDIT: Please read this entire thread, there's some good info. Every phone and every situation is different, however it turns out my battery drain was the result of my phone not hitting "Deep Sleep". The culprit was my SD card, if you're experiencing battery drain after upgrading to ICS try removing your SD card and restarting your phone, use the app CPU SPY to verify your phone is now hitting "Deep Sleep". Again please read on, amidst some trolls there is more detailed information.
SIDENOTE: This being my first thread I have to say on the whole I really like this community!
I never thought I'd be that guy saying don't upgrade to ICS, because the OS is so slick and fun. However the glitch with the battery drain nullifies it's value. My brand new phone, less than two months old will die before the end of the day without me making a single phone call. I'm talking maybe an 1 to 1.5 hours of use texting, checking mail, surfing, and my battery now runs dead before I even get home from work. If you go into Settings > Battery it will show you the break down of what's using what. At the top should be your display, it takes a lot of power for to run the ultra bright display and this is what I saw before the ICS update. After the update these are the numbers:
Android OS: 58%
Screen: 18%
Cell Standby: 10%
Phone Idle: 7%
Android System: 2%
The OS is taking 58% of the battery?!? This is crazy!The buzz going around the net is if you do a factory reset it will fix the issue, well it does, but only for a very short time.
I went through the pain and formatted my SD card, then did a factory reset on my phone lost everything, well I backed it up, but still was a long process. After all that I loaded up my apps, and everything looked great. If you I went into the battery break down Screen was back at the top and the Android OS was several rungs below. I was SO happy! It was worth it after all.... THEN
Imagine my chagrin I woke up this morning to a full charge. Didn't make one phone call, just checked a couple emails, and being only a HOUR into my day my battery is at 76%!! I look back at the battery break down, and there's Android OS sitting at the top, draining double the battery juice as the screen display. I mean this almost makes ICS useless, what good is this great cell phone if you have to be tethered to a power cord. WTF!! Point being, don't bother resetting your phone, it DOES NOT permanently help. If you haven't upgraded to ICS don't, we're all just screwed until they come out with a fix, and you see how long it took them just to get ICS.
I don't know what happened between last night and today, but my hope is some dev person will read this and it will help them pinpoint the issue.
Did you backup and restore your app data as well?
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Did you backup and restore your app data as well?
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Nope, the only thing I backed up was pics, music, and video, and I combed through those folders to make sure there were no sys files.
It sounds more like your battery is going bad. You can go to Sprint store and they will test your battery for you.
You might also want to get a battery monitoring program and see what is using the battery up.
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its not a ics glitch its your phone lol.. ive never had this issue.. plus with the source kernels coming out and with roms/tweaks already out youcan increase battery life yourself.. because your battey cant keep a charge you bash ics? go back to gingerbread then lol. i can use my phone for two hours and leave it off charger over night and still have at least 50% charge
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Android OS: 58%
Screen: 18%
Cell Standby: 10%
Phone Idle: 7%
Android System: 2%
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It looks like your phone may never be going into deep sleep. Get CPUSpy from Google Play and see what is going on.
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It sounds more like your battery is going bad. You can go to Sprint store and they will test your battery for you.
You might also want to get a battery monitoring program and see what is using the battery up.
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Having a bad battery would not make Android OS use the majority of his power though. I have had this problem myself in the past and never did figure out exactly what stopped it. Running Blue Kuban now and my battery life, though never great, is reasonable. FYI, I also run Juice Defender which makes a substantial difference for me.
Running pretty much stock ICS FF18, just have agat safe recovery/kernal installed. Yesterday I left Wimax on all day and when I went to charge it last night it had about 28% left. I made several phone calls, many texts/whatsapp messages, reading emails and using twiitter/fb a couple of times.
The battery life on this is not the greatest, for example, I forgot to turn off wifi when I left my house the other day, well my battery dropped about 30% in just a few hours. I now find that just leaving Wimax on all day is actually better and pretty much on par with just having 3G on, I prefer wifi at home but if I forget to turn it off it kills my battery.
I was so used to Blazers 4.1 battery life, the battery lasted forever and I could leave wifi, bluetooth etc on all day. Just hoping for the ROMs to start incorporating the recently released source so that we can get better battery life on these great ROMS.
This is all known information. That's why you use custom roms that have much better battery life.
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I had same issue here with custom rom FF18 touched by SGS3. Went back to EL29, FF18 is glitchy and slower anyway.
Confirmed, factory reset battery drain exists.
OP, why don't you put up a screenshot of your battery graph? The expanded one, not the one that lists the percentages.
There are a number of reasons why this could be happening. One of my biggest drainers on CM9 was Google login service, turned out the "keep this device backed up with Google" in the backup and reset settings was completely preventing my phone from going to sleep. This is but one example.
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I am getting decent battery life with the 'super galaxy rom' almost on par with the caulkin el29 build I was using... LOVE it!
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You guys need to quit crying wolf and figure out what is really draining your battery. Maybe your google drive is syncing, or you have facebook running, or email is pulling too often, ICS does not kill battery rogue apps and wrong settings do.
Try this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.asksven.betterbatterystats (search xda for other versions)
and this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.systempanel&hl=en
Figure out whats waking up your phone and running when its not supposed to be and until you have data STFU
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You guys need to quit crying wolf and figure out what is really draining your battery. Maybe your google drive is syncing, or you have facebook running, or email is pulling too often, ICS does not kill battery rogue apps and wrong settings do.
Try this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.asksven.betterbatterystats (search xda for other versions)
and this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.systempanel&hl=en
Figure out whats waking up your phone and running when its not supposed to be and until you have data STFU
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seconded, attached is the battery stats for an average day for me on ff18 based goodness.... these "problems" are all able to be resolved rather easily with very little effort... this is not a paid tech support forum and no one is going to spoon feed you when solutions have been posted countless times in countless hysterical threads like this
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My phone is not rooted and this is the battery life I'm getting after the OTA with light use. With regular use I get at least 25-30 hours.
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My phone is not rooted and this is the battery life I'm getting after the OTA with light use. With regular use I get at least 25-30 hours.
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Just curious, what's your display time. From the looks of it, doesn't seem like much. But still, that's pretty impressive nonetheless.
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nim6us said:
Android OS: 58%
Screen: 18%
Cell Standby: 10%
Phone Idle: 7%
Android System: 2%
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It looks like your phone may never be going into deep sleep. Get CPUSpy from Google Play and see what is going on.
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So if it's not going into deep sleep what's the fix?
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This is all known information. That's why you use custom roms that have much better battery life.
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I'm a super n00b, if you or someone could link me to the best ICS ROM the cool kids are using I can figure out how to install it.
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However bottom line, before ICS upgrade my battery life was great and my Android OS was not 50% of my battery power. I'm not rooted or have any custom anything, after the ICS upgrade my battery drains rapidly. I'm willing to do what it takes to get it fixed, however I do fully put the blame on ICS, I'm using stock everything, the battery is good, something in that update is screwing my battery.
All I was trying to do was give developers, a little insight that the factory reset temporarily fixed the issue, for 3-4 hours before bed I monitored it and everything was good. So hopefully this will help turn the light bulb on in someone else's head.
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ICS works really well for some, but for others it renders the phone completely useless. I'm one that it won't work for as well. The battery life is **** and 4g connectivity is non existent. As a result, I'm back to EL29/GB until a patch is made.
I spent 4 days after teh OTA was released trying to find fixes, trying to make it work, using different kernals and modems, but had no success. I posted about it many times and more or less was told that I was doing it wrong.
On that not, good luck mate. Here's to hoping for a patch from samsung soon. :good:
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So if it's not going into deep sleep what's the fix?
I'm a super n00b, if you or someone could link me to the best ICS ROM the cool kids are using I can figure out how to install it.
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However bottom line, before ICS upgrade my battery life was great and my Android OS was not 50% of my battery power. I'm not rooted or have any custom anything, after the ICS upgrade my battery drains rapidly. I'm willing to do what it takes to get it fixed, however I do fully put the blame on ICS, I'm using stock everything, the battery is good, something in that update is screwing my battery.
All I was trying to do was give developers, a little insight that the factory reset temporarily fixed the issue, for 3-4 hours before bed I monitored it and everything was good. So hopefully this will help turn the light bulb on in someone else's head.
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I have a thread stickied in general called "welcome to he et4g" that might be a good place for you to start, from there you'll figure out what you need to search for to learn more... there is no best rom its a matter of opinion, so read the dev threads and see what looks good to you... bottom line without seeing more information from you I would guess you have something running in the background preventing deep sleep, as mentioned earlier... also are you leaving wifi, Bluetooth, etc on? That'll kill your battery quick... do you live in an area with poor sprint signal? Constantly searching for service will also drain you battery. What do you have to set up to sync? And how often? There are easy ways to prolong battery life on ff18 and the vast majority of people complaining about battery life have not taken positive steps to learn more and resolve their own issues... it can be done, good luck
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We all know our GS2 runs out of Battery at a faster rate than what we would like! I'm just curious, what steps do You take to increase battery life, if any.
-Do you use certain apps?
-Do you enable/disable certain things and certain times?
-Anything, ever the smallest things you do, I would like to know!
I'm just curious to see what different people do to strengthen their battery.
(Also, if you could, please just post what ROM you're running on too) Thanks!
I use developer options and limit the apps to 4. I also under clock to 200. Stock rom.
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I use developer options and limit the apps to 4. I also under clock to 200. Stock rom.
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lol! 200?!?!
i run cm10 and I really don't do anything but dim my screen most of the time.
Battery Life
Im running FK23 leaked rooted with stock kernel. I use powersave mode that comes in stock settings app.
I don't limit cpu. I use phone to txt, play games, youtube, facebook, twitter, and instagram and google play store.
I get around 14+ hours usage.
Also, I try to use WIFI whenever I can. I turn off GPS when not needed. I dont use 4G often as 3G is pretty good on FK23.
Lasts me from 7:45AM to 10:27PM as of now on 1%.
Wow, and how much do you use you're phone throughout the day? I'm just looking for new ideas because I do several things to increase my battery length, but I find myself around 50% in the first 2-3 hours of my 11 hour day. :/
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Wow, and how much do you use you're phone throughout the day? I'm just looking for new ideas because I do several things to increase my battery length, but I find myself around 50% in the first 2-3 hours of my 11 hour day. :/
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I bought a cheap ($10) extended battery and cover, and a cheap ($9) TPU case/ At 14 hours, I still had 61% battery left. I can get a full legitimate day out of it running 2.3's, but I am going to try JB and ICS again and see where it's at.
I run KingKang with the JB tweaks package. I also modified my build.prop for both performance and battery life. Plus I toggle my 3G on only when I need it. If I have a WiFi signal I'll do the same with that. I average 17 hours but sometimes I get more than 24. Inverted apps not only look great, but help with battery too.
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Honestly? #1 thing I do is stay on wi-fi as much as possible. Have gone almost 24 hours if I keep off 3G/4G and moderately use the phone/'net.
Where did you purchase the battery, and how much stronger is it? Also, what kind of case did you get, one that chargers your phone?
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Where did you purchase the battery, and how much stronger is it? Also, what kind of case did you get, one that chargers your phone?
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Just bought the cheapest 3500 mah battery with a back plate on Amazon, then the ONLY extended tpu case made by trexcell on Ebay. 20 bucks and I leave wifi gps and everything I use on all day long.
Epic4GT with different ROMs every few days. Thanks Devs!
DustCrow said:
We all know our GS2 runs out of Battery at a faster rate than what we would like! I'm just curious, what steps do You take to increase battery life, if any.
-Do you use certain apps?
-Do you enable/disable certain things and certain times?
-Anything, ever the smallest things you do, I would like to know!
I'm just curious to see what different people do to strengthen their battery.
(Also, if you could, please just post what ROM you're running on too) Thanks!
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I switched back to Calkulin 3.0. Battery issues solved.
I tried to make ICS work for a couple months, but grew to hate the phone. It's a much better phone when it runs Gingerbread.
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I switched back to Calkulin 3.0. Battery issues solved.
I tried to make ICS work for a couple months, but grew to hate the phone. It's a much better phone when it runs Gingerbread.
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I did the same as you until the fk23 leak came out. Calkulin's v3.0 gb is amazing for battery life, smoothness, and functionality. I was never fully satisfied with any of the ics solutions, stock or custom.
Although the fk23 battery life isnt as good as calkulin, I'm still using it as my daily driver bc it's jellybean and cool, the phone runs well and smooth, and battery is good enough for me.
To answer the op's question, I do the following to help extend my battery life:
1. Leave off all data unless I need to use it (3g, 4g, wifi).
2. Turn of autosync and only sync as needed.
3. Remove bloatware and/or freeze any unnecessary apps (use GSM battery and OS monitor to find battery hog apps).
4. Leave off GPS unless needed.
5. Set screen brightness lower.
Here's a link to my FK23 results over in the battery thread in General:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34924972&postcount=534
I've only owned this phone since after the ICS update, so never tried any GB ROM.
The ICS ROM I've had the most success with is Re-Calked, but FK23 takes it just a step further for me. I know some people have been reporting issues with FK23, but for me it has been rock solid and has been my DD for nearly a week now.
Blu Kuban also did well with battery life, but it is a little over-customized for my liking. I also had some stability issues with BK. I used sleshpics M'ICS build for a while too ... again, over customized for my liking. Good performance and relatively stable. Also, I have never been able to get 4G speeds on any other ROM/kernel like I'm seeing now.
If I'm in an area with a strong cellular signal, I can get over 24h with 3h+ screen time both on and off WiFi. If the cell signal is week, I burn from 5-7%/h so maybe 15-16h if I was there all day ... but that would obv. improve if I threw it into airplane mode.
I have frozen all of the bloatware apps, don't have Google Now activated. Other than that, I allow syncing to occur per default. I don't have FB app installed.
I use auto-brightness most of the time, and I have a dark wallpaper.
dim screen. stay on wifi. that is all.
Honestly, getting use to a dimmed screen made a HUGE difference!!
Is there ever a time when its better to not be on WiFi, of a WiFi is available?
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Is there ever a time when its better to not be on WiFi, of a WiFi is available?
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I have had huge battery drain while being on wifi when availible 100% of the time I only use wifi when I need a faster connection
DustCrow said:
Wow, and how much do you use you're phone throughout the day? I'm just looking for new ideas because I do several things to increase my battery length, but I find myself around 50% in the first 2-3 hours of my 11 hour day. :/
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Surprisingly i use my phone alot for twitter, facebook, and texting.
And i still get around the time i wake up till the time i sleep!
undervolt cpu and gpu
max freq 1000
pegasus q governor
I have a ROMed Galaxy Note 2 and the battery life is amazing. My son on the other hand has a stock Galaxy S3 and it's the worst battery life I've ever witnessed. It's the typical draining while in standby issue reported by many S3 users. Bottom line, his phone is getting a ROM tonight before this phone melts down. Problem is, which one do I choose? There are so many and it would take me months to read thru every post to determine which one is right for him. So for now I'm going to focus on what really matters most, battery life.
Which ROM have you read about or used that you feel is battery life winner?
Thank you.
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I haven't been running ROMs for too long on my S3, but I'd have to say that AOKP by Task650 gave me the best battery life over some other ones I flashed.
Task560 ROM for sure.
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We are lucky to have MANY great ROM's out there. There are so many great devs here that go out of their ways to make the experience better. I highly suggest trying as many as you can, because each phone, after much experience with my ROM's, are different. Make a nandroid backup and try a bunch! What I'm getting at is that there are too many well made ROM's here to pick one. Flash away. Oh and make sure you turn off google now cards and locations...that will drain your battery like no other on this phone. Best of luck!
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Task560 is just a little bit less than you.
I must say I'm running task650's AOKP build (I have been since I got the phone :good and my battery life has been nothing but immaculate. Here's a few screenies showing you my averages. Now mind you me my device and my daily operations will differ from everyone else's but still gotta give credit where credit is due. Oh btw I'm running it with tasks underwear kernel. Sorry ktoons
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I think most of the roms have pretty good battery life. I'm on Vanilla Rootbox and i'm getting good battery life.
Thanks for all the input guys. Most of those mentioned were at the top of my list. Instead, I chose a "stable" Rom not mentioned here in this thread and it was buggy from the jump. I quickly bailed and went with CM10 and life is good so far.
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DaRTHSTALKER is the first rom I've ever ran that I noticed a significant improvement in battery life. Very noticeable. None of the others have ever caught my attention before.
From cm10.1 nightly 1/31
All I did was turn GPS and auto sync off
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I'm on Slimbean 4.2.1 RC1 with lean kernel and I have to say it is buttery smooth and stable, fast as can be, and I'm almost two days into it with ~45% charge. Loving it
For longest time I was swearing at CM10 / CM10.1 and than I found a thread about what affect battery and now both TW and CM based roms that I use are about the same...
To get great battery life follow the simple rules:
- stay away from colour. The darker the theme / icons are the better the battery life. Some go as far as to get inverted gapps...
- no live wall paper. It will affect battery life... yes, the darker the wallpaper the better the battery life...
- turn off GPS , bluetooth , nfc and everything else that you don't need... turn it back on when you need it...
I have 15 toggle mod and I even turn off data when I don't need it. (I turn it back on once every couple of hours to get e-mail and notifications... than turn it back off... this also prevents rouge apps from dialling back home to mothership...)
- if I travel from one location to the other I toggle airplane mode on and off... this forces modem to look for strongest tower... the strogner the tower the less power you need... hence less battery consumption...
- Use Ti Backup on roted rom... unistall what you obviously don't use..
- Google apps that run that you don't know what they do... stop or unistall those that you don't need...
- Use fierwall... block everything that doesn't need to talk to internet ... less you use antenna longer the battery life...
Also, if going to new ROM wipe battery stats and let battery fully discharge couple of times. This helps as well...
Follow these simple rules and don't be surprised if your battery life doubles regardless of the rom...
Cheers
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For longest time I was swearing at CM10 / CM10.1 and than I found a thread about what affect battery and now both TW and CM based roms that I use are about the same...
To get great battery life follow the simple rules:
- stay away from colour. The darker the theme / icons are the better the battery life. Some go as far as to get inverted gapps...
- no live wall paper. It will affect battery life... yes, the darker the wallpaper the better the battery life...
- turn off GPS , bluetooth , nfc and everything else that you don't need... turn it back on when you need it...
I have 15 toggle mod and I even turn off data when I don't need it. (I turn it back on once every couple of hours to get e-mail and notifications... than turn it back off... this also prevents rouge apps from dialling back home to mothership...)
- if I travel from one location to the other I toggle airplane mode on and off... this forces modem to look for strongest tower... the strogner the tower the less power you need... hence less battery consumption...
- Use Ti Backup on roted rom... unistall what you obviously don't use..
- Google apps that run that you don't know what they do... stop or unistall those that you don't need...
- Use fierwall... block everything that doesn't need to talk to internet ... less you use antenna longer the battery life...
Also, if going to new ROM wipe battery stats and let battery fully discharge couple of times. This helps as well...
Follow these simple rules and don't be surprised if your battery life doubles regardless of the rom...
Cheers
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While most of this makes sense, I have to disagree with discharging the battery fully. This actually reduces battery life drastically.
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While most of this makes sense, I have to disagree with discharging the battery fully. This actually reduces battery life drastically.
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I agree but idea is that you let the kernel optimize it by itself.
So you do this only a few times on new rom and that's it...
As for myself I tend to plug in the S3 to charge as soon as I hit 60-70%...
(whenever I can of course - i actually keep one charger at home and one at work)
SIDENOTE:
Forgot to mention the widgets... to me they're just short-cuts and if you set them for automatic update (weather being prime example) they'll just waist battery and bandwith... (it takes about 1 sec to turn on the data from 15 toggle mod and 1 more to start the app I want updated - email weather whatever... to me this is a small price to pay for extended bat life...)
If I may toot my own horn, how about this guy getting four days from one charge with my ROM and ktoonz's kernel? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36384974&postcount=95
Your mileage may vary but I usually get about a day and a half or two days from one charge with the stock kernel that's included in the ROM
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If I may toot my own horn, how about this guy getting four days from one charge with my ROM and ktoonz's kernel? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36384974&postcount=95
Your mileage may vary but I usually get about a day and a half or two days from one charge with the stock kernel that's included in the ROM
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Awesome stats
How in the world did he get the screen to only consume at 12%
Mine currently Displays at 54%
Blackjelly v1.01
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Auto update widgets kill my batt life also!
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First off, I would like to say that I have searched several times for this answer to no avail.
I just came from a Maxx HD (XT926) which obviously had phenomenal battery life. So I'm not terribly surprised by the reduced battery life moving to the One. However, I'm currently only getting about 8 hours off of the charger with 2.5 hours screen time. Via GSam, there do not appear to be any terrible wake locks or rampant apps running in the background. I typically observe a wake time of +/- 10 minutes from my screen on time.
My typical usage right now is some heavy texting, light Facebook browsing, a GroupMe thread, and that's about it.
System settings are generally screen brightness on one bar (from the notification pull down, not sure what the actual percentage is), wifi/bluetooth/gps OFF, NFC and mobile data on all the time.
I have disabled the location via wifi options, so that's not currently a factor either.
What is the typical off charger and screen time for you folks? I love the phone, but a bit frustrated with the ~10% per hour battery drain at idle...
Thanks in advance for any input!
unrooted this seems to be the norm. there's a slew of VZW bloat apps that will check to see if you are using them once an a while, also blink feed refreshing often will have this impact.
right now on rooted Ecliptic rom i can get about 12 hours up time with 3.5 hours screen and still have 45% battery left. This is mainly on 4g some WiFi. this a 4.4 rom and has the options to turn things off the stock system cant like blinkfeed.
-wait till the offical comes out ( rummored to be at the end of this month) it should help-
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unrooted this seems to be the norm. there's a slew of VZW bloat apps that will check to see if you are using them once an a while, also blink feed refreshing often will have this impact.
right now on rooted Ecliptic rom i can get about 12 hours up time with 3.5 hours screen and still have 45% battery left. This is mainly on 4g some WiFi. this a 4.4 rom and has the options to turn things off the stock system cant like blinkfeed.
-wait till the offical comes out ( rummored to be at the end of this month) it should help-
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Thanks, Synisterwolf.
That definitely helps put to bed some of the concerns I was having.
I'm definitely not opposed to rooting, but if I remember correctly, build 2.10.605.1 doesn't yet have an exploit, correct?
Again, thanks for the input.
That seems low to me, even for stock. Granted I debloated even when I was running stock, since I was rooted. I was getting closer to 3.75 hours of screen time for that amount of time off charger. But like I said, I was debloated.
Edit: I also don't use NFC, so that was off too. Not sure how much NFC affects the battery, as I've never really used it on any phone I've had.
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That seems low to me, even for stock. Granted I debloated even when I was running stock, since I was rooted. I was getting closer to 3.75 hours of screen time for that amount of time off charger. But like I said, I was debloated.
Edit: I also don't use NFC, so that was off too. Not sure how much NFC affects the battery, as I've never really used it on any phone I've had.
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there are a lot of things that can make the battery not last. i know the bloat the try to see ya is one of them
@ op no exploit as of yet. but on 4.4 you can go settngs > apps > all apps and click the ones you want to disable. its almost like uninstalling them for the non rooted devices.
I think there's a disable option option in 4.3 as well, so I'll give that a try.
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Completely stock, bloatware disabled. 2.5 hours screen on 14 hours heavy use.
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Ouch... I'm way off then.
Has anyone compiled a list of safely disabled bloatware for these? Or is it kind of trial and error?
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Stock won't let you disable anything that can cause issues, as far as I know.
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Awesome. Now hopefully there's less chance for me to bork my phone.
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With the help of Green Power Premium, my phone lasts 14 hours with moderate use and 8 hours with constant/heavy use. I don't use NFC or Bluetooth and turn off gps when I'm not using Google Maps. Honestly this phone is a god send coming from an Incredible 4G LTE
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You can range between 8 and 16 unrooted stock. Depends on the use age and what you use. I do know with viper ROM and elemental x kernel its has superior deep sleep and hardly uses the battery at all. To give you an example of stock and other ROMs/ kernels I use to get about 14 while at work and finish with about 14% battery life at the end of my 12 hr shift. With my current setup I can go the 14 hr run and have between 75 to 65 percent battery life left and this is with sync active for mail Facebook and so on. So that's just an example of stock vs rooted.
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You can range between 8 and 16 unrooted stock. Depends on the use age and what you use. I do know with viper ROM and elemental x kernel its has superior deep sleep and hardly uses the battery at all. To give you an example of stock and other ROMs/ kernels I use to get about 14 while at work and finish with about 14% battery life at the end of my 12 hr shift. With my current setup I can go the 14 hr run and have between 75 to 65 percent battery life left and this is with sync active for mail Facebook and so on. So that's just an example of stock vs rooted.
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With moderate use I drain about 40-50% of the battery throughout a 15 hour day. I'm running a battery saving script though which disables 2 minutes after screen off for cellular and 7 for wifi with interval updates. I also disabled a bunch of permissions for apps that I know I'll never need but for apps I frequent. On average I use my GPS for about 20-30 minutes of the day playing Ingress.
If I'm at work I only lose about 35% battery throughout the entire day. I only send/receive a total of about 100 text a day, and don't game other than Ingress. Very light Facebook use, browsing, and such.
Unrooted/Stock
Those usage times are pretty good for stock. I would be happy with anything over 12 hours right now.
I did notice bit better battery life after freezing/disabling some of the stock bloatware, but now I'm trying out an old fallback: JuiceDefender.
So far, it seems to be helping substantially (although it obviously only helps during idle times as it shuts off mobile data until the screen is on/unlocked), but I'll wait until I've had a full cycle before passing any final judgement.
run this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiam.snapdragon.app
for 2 days and it will start controlling things in the background based off of how you use your phone. It will manage gps, wifi, data and not allow apps that you don't use regularly run in the background.
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run this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiam.snapdragon.app
for 2 days and it will start controlling things in the background based off of how you use your phone. It will manage gps, wifi, data and not allow apps that you don't use regularly run in the background.
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I had heard of this app, never installed it till now though. Would you suggest ditching the JuiceDefender app, or leave it running in conjunction with Battery Guru?
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I had heard of this app, never installed it till now though. Would you suggest ditching the JuiceDefender app, or leave it running in conjunction with Battery Guru?
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I would try just that and see if it helps. It just monitors your usage for the first 48 hours so if you are running other battery savers it might not work as well.
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I'm totally stock and I regularly get 30 or more hours of battery. And I don't just keep my phone on the desk all day. I get 3.5-4 hours screen on time. 10% drain when not using your phone seems like an awful lot.
I have everything off that I don't need or use. That's pretty much it. I'm also on WiFi pretty much all the time too at home and at work. Don't know if that has anything to do with it
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Yeah, WiFi doesn't kill the battery nearly as much as the CDMA/LTE radio does. Unfortunately, I have both poor signal, AND lack of WiFi at work. Haha. Oh well.
30/3.5 would be fantastic. I'm jealous.
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So question, where are you finding these screen on numbers? I looked under battery and the usage part shows apps but not screen on. The graph shows when the screen is on at what point during the day but no durations are given.