I cant tell if it's always been like this. Or if this actually isn't normal because I'm always concern with battery life. Im a very heavy user in the sense my phone will be on and im texting, xda, social apps i.e google +, email check every hr, and twitter.
However, i started feeling like my battery has been draining alot faster when the screen is on. I have no problem with the phone sleeping. I was experience this on Calk rom and now acs ics rom. I literally can look at my battery percentage drop 10% in like a half hour. Is this normal if screen is on the whole time? I've used better battery stats and system panel I can't find anything causing the drain. I see the suspend and events but doesn't that effect the phone sleeping?
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Are you on the new modem? Looks like you have weak a signal. EG31 might help a little if your not on it already. I used the full EG31 tar right when it dropped and have been getting great battery life (it may be to early but so far so good)
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not sure if its going to work but hoping it does thanks for the response still
turn your display down to under 50% you won't see a difference except outside in daylight and kill this app every time you reboot the phone hit Settings>Applications>Running services then hit DRM content > stop > ok
I get over a day on one charge.
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turn your display down to under 50% you won't see a difference except outside in daylight and kill this app every time you reboot the phone hit Settings>Applications>Running services then hit DRM content > stop > ok
I get over a day on one charge.
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Ok ill try the drm content stop..however my display brightness is already down at like 10%.
Also, kill the Social Hub as well, that drains the battery significantly.
You might try one of several roms available in dev. They address most of the aforementioned issues.
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The biggest battery drain reason is the location by wireless network option. Make sure its unchecked. Ever since I did that, my battery life has been awesome. I get to keep my brightness high, Bluetooth on, etc...
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I cant tell if it's always been like this. Or if this actually isn't normal because I'm always concern with battery life. Im a very heavy user in the sense my phone will be on and im texting, xda, social apps i.e google +, email check every hr, and twitter.
However, i started feeling like my battery has been draining alot faster when the screen is on. I have no problem with the phone sleeping. I was experience this on Calk rom and now acs ics rom. I literally can look at my battery percentage drop 10% in like a half hour. Is this normal if screen is on the whole time? I've used better battery stats and system panel I can't find anything causing the drain. I see the suspend and events but doesn't that effect the phone sleeping?
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All the basics (brightness and all that stuff) on top of the stuff you have running. The darn task killer/manager I see in the icon top left of your screenshot is a HOG on resources check the caching... You can literally **** with these phones for half a day to set it up the right way to conserve. I think wireless is hogging too but I am talking primarily about the first part of your rapid loss, the left part of the graph so to speak.
JC
I purchased an extended battery and was still getting crappy battery life. SpareParts always FC'd on me... but last night I found Badass Battery Monitor in the market and in my opinion it's even better than SpareParts!
It helped me find that the Hotmail app was keeping my phone awake for almost an hour every day even though I had it set to download email only once a day. Removed that right away.
Plus it gives a great % readout in notification of the battery level. I think it's a fairly new app, but it really is worth checking out especially if you're having battery drain problems.
Just killing Social Hub has increased my battery life significantly. I'm at 11 hours now on battery, with 62% left. This is from last night when I unplugged the phone at 100%.
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Just killing Social Hub has increased my battery life significantly. I'm at 11 hours now on battery, with 62% left. This is from last night when I unplugged the phone at 100%.
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I'm on the Sydnicate Rom there isn't even no social hubb app. He has alot of the mods like noCiq and everything. My phone sleeps well its just when I start using it I can see it basically draining like 10% every half hour. I'm a heavy user I know my phone will drain fast while I'm on it I just would expect it to last 8-10 hours on heavy use.
Right NOW:
I'm at 4 hours 12 mins 22 secs at 37% left.
Display Time is 50% 2 hrs 41 mins 51s (Brightness is set all the way down)
Android OS 10%
So I'm assuming in 2 more hours my phone will die. If this is just normal for a heavy user then I guess I have to deal with it?
I was very disappointed with my Epic Touch when I first got it. I was getting a dead battery in about 6 to 8 hours no matter what I did or did not do.
Calibrating the battery seems to have fixed it.
I'm at 73% battery with 8:32 hours up time and I've made about 12 calls ranging from 2 to 10 minutes.
I've also checked voice mails, emails and other stuff.
I just charged the battery til it was full, plugged and repeated until it stayed at 10%, popped into CWM5 and cleared the battery data and then used Battery Calibration from the market (free) and it's like a got a battery upgrade!
As far as wake lock issues, I've not having any of those. I took my charger off the phone around 3:30am this morning (100% charge) and when I left for work at 6:50am, I had 98% battery still.
When I got to work it was down to 96%, I checked my email on the drive there.
I'm trying this out, wish me luck.
There doesn't seem to be any possible way to charge my battery to 100%, unplug it and not have it immediately drop to 99%.
bsmoove386 said:
I cant tell if it's always been like this. Or if this actually isn't normal because I'm always concern with battery life. Im a very heavy user in the sense my phone will be on and im texting, xda, social apps i.e google +, email check every hr, and twitter.
However, i started feeling like my battery has been draining alot faster when the screen is on. I have no problem with the phone sleeping. I was experience this on Calk rom and now acs ics rom. I literally can look at my battery percentage drop 10% in like a half hour. Is this normal if screen is on the whole time? I've used better battery stats and system panel I can't find anything causing the drain. I see the suspend and events but doesn't that effect the phone sleeping?
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If those screens are both from the same charge, I see nothing wrong with your phone.
you have 17% left, and you have 2.5 hours of screen on time. So you're on target to get just over 3 hours of on screeen time which is completely in the norm for these phones. AND you're over 12 hours. I don't understand what else you could ask for?
People get all caught up on total charge time, but, to be honest, it's completely IRRELEVENT.
If I dont use my phone I'll get easily over 48 hours out of the phone... Screen on time is what matters. And from a full charge, if I were to use my phone for 4 straight hours without stopping, it would be about dead. When the screen is on, you're using the phone, and the display is the biggest battery suck out there. When I do all the tricks to conserve battery, and I set it up right, I get 4 hours screen on time, which is pretty incredible with these phones.
Now, If you WANT to get better then you have right now, a few things are coming into play.
1) Your signal is weak, this will suck power no matter what more then it should, so get better signal if you want some more time out of your phone.
2) If you installed a new rom, and you didn't calibrate your battery properly, you're losing battery life.
to calibrate properly:
a) download battery callibration app from market
b) charge to 100%
c) unplug battery charger and REPLUG IN and wait for 100%
d) repeat step c a couple times
e) while plugged in hit the calibrate battery button in the app
f) unplug phone and use til dead and recharge
This will yeild you the best battery life.
3) De-Theme. Although I use a theme, every theme I've tested, for one reason or another, drains my battery faster then running the stock phone theme.
4) If you haven't done the basic battery saving things, you should do them to help yourself out. Here's a few I use.
a) Turn off background data, you only need it on to use market
b) Turn off, or set sync for all email and social apps at as long intervals as possible
c) dont use any widgets
d) download watchdog lite so you can see when apps are acting up and using extra battery
e) when you're done using your phone, open task manager, kill all apps, and clear memory
f) always leave the brightness off automatic and as low as possible
g) download SETCPU and run your phone at 800mhz, and undervolt as much as possible (50mv most all phone can take)
h) use black or dark wallpapers, on LED screens back means the pixel is off which uses less battery
G will be your biggest battery save. I've also tried using the SUPERFREEZE thing in the dev section and, besides in sleep mode, I saw no adverse effect. If you wanna kill socialhub, fine, but I dont see any noticable difference on my phone with it off.
If you do all these I promise you'll get better battery life.
Wow, I did a proper calibration today and I'm getting great results already. I've calibrated before but I never had cleared stats in CWM or did the unplug then replug charging thing.
Anyways, I after 12 hours I'm still at 35%! The longest I've ever gone before is 12.5 hours. Screen on time = 1 hour 30 min, but some of that was a battery intensive game (puzzle quest 2). Also i'm running calk's rom, so i'm sure that helped.
Thanks kdoggy, i didn't expect to see results this great.
Those are good tips too Jermzz, thanks!
Something has changed recently. I was getting up to two days out of a charge. My battery life was amazing. (GSM GNex Codename Android ROM.) Now I'm lucky to get 8 hours. I recently made a bunch of changes to my phone, including a ROM and kernel update, and a bunch of new apps. I suspect an app may be the problem. I need some suggestions for figuring it out.
The battery settings app shows 57% of my battery usage was from bluetooth and I have not even been using any bluetooth devices. Nothing else was even close to this much battery usage. The next highest percentage was screen at 18%.
In the past I left Bluetooth turned on all the time for when I did connect a Bluetooth device. Even with it on, I got up to 2 days of battery life with moderate usage. So fixing the new battery drain issue is not as simple as turning Bluetooth off.
Anyone have suggestions? Thanks.
So I have been using this same ROM (Mokee) for roughly 3 months and have had zero issues. The battery life has been great! Well as of yesterday, all the sudden Google services is the biggest battery drain on my tablet with screen coming in second after a full day of use. I had an easy 3 hours of SOT, yet the Google services were listed as a bigger drain.
To make matters worse, when I try to charge the tablet it goes VERY slow. In 10 hours of charging it went from 18% to 91%.
How do I fix this crap? I've seen issues with privacy guard or something, but my privacy guard isn't even on.
Install any apps recently? Using Better Battery Stats or GSam to monitor exactly what's draining the battery?
Well oddly it seems to have fixed itself for now.
Hi guys,
I'm having trouble getting through the day with this phone. I have a new Anker 2200mAh battery that I've cycled about 3 times now. I am running BeanStalk 4.4.4, and I have few tweaks like, Memory Manager (cause it keeps freazing, running out of ram), Entropy Fix app (at ~512, which doesn't seem to fix lag, but not sure), greenify and Amplify, related to battery.
But I'm still draining about 6%/hour on mobile data. This is not normal right? It's really hard to get through the day with this kind of battery life.
So what do you guys do to get about 1% or 2% drain per 1 hour in standby on mobile data? I'm using Xposed, and I greenified apps that greenify says wakelock a lot.
I would really appreciate your help!
Thanks.
BTW, I'm pretty sure it is not normal because in Amazon website, this anker battery has full of satisfied reviews saying it lasts a full day/ 2 days with this battery, but for me, even with this larger battery, it drains very quickly in standby.
In addition, when screen is on, I get about 1%/2.5 minutes in mobile data at 50% brightness. I think this is fine. Am I right? For 100% drain, this leads to 250minutes, which is slightly over 4 hours screen on time. This is on mobile data, so I think it's pretty good, but I'm not 100% sure.
But because standby drains quite a lot, I'm not even able to get over 2 hours screen on time.
I don't have wifi at work btw.
I hope someone helps me soon. Thanks!
For the past week, my Pixel XL (no root) has been having massive battery drains in the mornings. I would unplug it, and within minutes the battery would be at 94%. Phone would be hot to the touch. A reboot fixes the issue.
Thing is, it doesn't happen at any other hour, except between 7am and 9am. I check the battery stats, I see Google Play Services draining using most power. But then again, how do I know exactly which Google service it would be? It's getting annoying.
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For the past week, my Pixel XL (no root) has been having massive battery drains in the mornings. I would unplug it, and within minutes the battery would be at 94%. Phone would be hot to the touch. A reboot fixes the issue.
Thing is, it doesn't happen at any other hour, except between 7am and 9am. I check the battery stats, I see Google Play Services draining using most power. But then again, how do I know exactly which Google service it would be? It's getting annoying.
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Hi. You can try installing better battery stats to find the culprit.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
Good luck.