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Which do you guys think is better in terms of saving some battery and not hindering my performance at all?
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Neither, it is a placebo effect. Find the right kernel and change some settings in your phone. These are not needed.
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Neither, it is a placebo effect. Find the right kernel and change some settings in your phone. These are not needed.
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Actually I run stock, and I can tell you its no Placebo effect, my battery without it ran up to 12 hours, but with it I can get close to 30. Its main thing is(for both of them) is that it shuts down your data when your screen is off, and only turning it on at certain intervals. When your screen is on the data is on. They both are about the same, I prefer JD, but have used SP. It is a legit way to save battery especially if your stock as well as rooted. Now app killers on the other hand...not so much.
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Actually I run stock, and I can tell you its no Placebo effect, my battery without it ran up to 12 hours, but with it I can get close to 30. Its main thing is(for both of them) is that it shuts down your data when your screen is off, and only turning it on at certain intervals. When your screen is on the data is on. They both are about the same, I prefer JD, but have used SP. It is a legit way to save battery especially if your stock as well as rooted. Now app killers on the other hand...not so much.
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You know with Sense that it has the data off built-in? Go to wireless settings and turn off always on data. When the screen is off after 5 minutes, I think, it cuts the data off till you turn the screen on. In fact, Juice Defender eats up battery for me because it keeps the phone from sleeping a lot of the time.
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placebo effect? hmm i run a pretty good setup kernel is battery charging 132 and i use collin ph battery tweak and life is decent. just heard good things about these programs. I like the idea were mobile data is only on when im using it. makes sense but ud think the stock rom would do that by itself already? can anyone confirm or disprove that?
i have Juice Defender and Superpower installed on my phone and its working great
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i have Juice Defender and Superpower installed on my phone and its working great
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There is no reason to have both apps installed on your phone considering they essentially do the same thing.
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Neither, it is a placebo effect. Find the right kernel and change some settings in your phone. These are not needed.
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You clearly have no clue what you're talking about.
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actually he's sorta right, some of the time the fact that the battery saving program is open all the time cancels out the battery that the program saves. Best thing to do is flash a solid kernel and colin ph
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Neither, it is a placebo effect. Find the right kernel and change some settings in your phone. These are not needed.
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yea you clearly have NO IDEA what your talking about lol NONE
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he's right, alot of the time the fact that the battery saving program is open all the time cancels out the battery that the program saves. Best thing to do is flash a solid kernel and colin ph
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and you clearly have no idea what your talking about and some phones can't run the script like mine
i bought Juice defender . but it has not been updated for 2.3 yet :/
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actually he's sorta right, some of the time the fact that the battery saving program is open all the time cancels out the battery that the program saves. Best thing to do is flash a solid kernel and colin ph
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Actually, he's sorta wrong. You honestly think that the app uses as much juice as the data connection?
Superpower does no polling at all, all state triggered and has some SetCPU features built in, like seeting to ondemand and max 400mhz.
I've been using juice defender since august when I got my EVO and the battery saving has been exponential. That combined with my 3000mAh extended battery and I get 4 days on 3g.
I have not used either but I hear good things about juice. The only reason I don't run them is I use google messenger so I need my data always on. Juice pretty much cuts down how often your phone polls from the servers (kinda?). Anyways if you don't need constant connectivity I would say go with juice
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I know it's still early but has anyone else found Jellybean to have worse battery life compared to ICS? I'm totally stock with only the bootloader unlocked. Usually after a full day use with ICS I have 30% left and with JB I'm around 15%. On a day with heavy use I'm sure I will have to charge in the middle of the day which is very inconvenient. I'm trying to see if it's JB itself or some app which is draining things now that I'm on JB.
I'm finding it to be significantly better actually. I couldn't make it through a full day on ICS most days. With JB i'm easily above 30% most days at end of the day.
Maybe its because you like more your phone now and therefore you spend more time playing with it
Do you have Google Now enabled? The frequent location pings and GPS wakelocks drain the battery
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Do you have Google Now enabled? The frequent location pings and GPS wakelocks drain the battery
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Just wondering if anyone has disabled latitude and how this effects Google now? The battery drain isn't really a bother for such a cool feature... just out of interest really
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I know it's still early but has anyone else found Jellybean to have worse battery life compared to ICS? I'm totally stock with only the bootloader unlocked. Usually after a full day use with ICS I have 30% left and with JB I'm around 15%. On a day with heavy use I'm sure I will have to charge in the middle of the day which is very inconvenient. I'm trying to see if it's JB itself or some app which is draining things now that I'm on JB.
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Mine seems worse compared to 4.0, phone doesn't go to deep sleep and keeps waking up ... maybe it's my Exchange email account, but this was fine when I was on 4.0.
How is your phone sleeping?
This may seem a strange suggestion, but I've found that leaving wi-fi on, even when I'm not using a wi-fi network seems to even out the battery drain. Helps to get Google Now working 100% as well. So try that when you can. I've found it works fantastically for me.
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I know it's still early but has anyone else found Jellybean to have worse battery life compared to ICS? I'm totally stock with only the bootloader unlocked. Usually after a full day use with ICS I have 30% left and with JB I'm around 15%. On a day with heavy use I'm sure I will have to charge in the middle of the day which is very inconvenient. I'm trying to see if it's JB itself or some app which is draining things now that I'm on JB.
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Stock vs. stock ROMs (both using LeanKernel as well) I've found Jellybean to actually have better battery life. I managed four hours of screen on time with the stock battery yesterday and today, something I could never come close to accomplishing with stock ICS.
turn off wifi, gps and 3g, and you'll go far. Turn em on only when necessary. I leave google now on. I'm only at 40% after 22 hours. Granted it defeats the purpose of a smartphone, but if I'm at work, working...then I don't need all those things turned on.
Turn off Google now of you don't really use it. I loved playing with it for a few days and realized it wasn't THAT useful for me I only really used weather. I keep the voice search active and turned the cards off. I just use a decent weather widget and maps WHEN I'm travelling if worried about time. HUGE battery saving. So many (understandable) wakelocks when activated.
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Battery life is worse for me, I'll stick to ICS for now, no rush.
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It's weird, it seems the battery life is worse, but it could be that I'm using it more than before. The on-screen time does seems slightly better than on ICS, but I'm going to need more testing before I can confirm...
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Turn off Google now of you don't really use it. I loved playing with it for a few days and realized it wasn't THAT useful for me I only really used weather. I keep the voice search active and turned the cards off. I just use a decent weather widget and maps WHEN I'm travelling if worried about time. HUGE battery saving. So many (understandable) wakelocks when activated.
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Hmmm...I will try that out, thanks. Google now was fun to play with the first couple days but if it means I need to charge middle of the day forget it. I will try turning it off and see what kind of results I get.
For the record, I've left all my GPS, Wifi and sleep settings intact from ICS so those settings shouldn't have effected my battery life.
I don't care for Google Now, just the new voice search part.
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What kernel are you guys finding the best battery life with? I tried popcorn kernel and Francos kernel.
I think popcorn was better...
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What kernel are you guys finding the best battery life with? I tried popcorn kernel and Francos kernel.
I think popcorn was better...
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I didn't find Franco very pleasing. The Faux kernel (b6 I think) worked great and gave me excellent battery.
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I could be wrong but I think project butter requires the processor to run at a higher clip and thus uses more juice.
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I could be wrong but I think project butter requires the processor to run at a higher clip and thus uses more juice.
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I'm actually getting better battery life on Jelly Bean than I was on Ice Cream Sandwich. Running at a higher clock isn't the only thing (or the main thing, I think) that gives Jelly Bean it's buttery smoothness.
Google really put effort into improving Vsync on the device, which mainly gives the device that buttery feel.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
MoMatt said:
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
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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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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 want to try an AOSP ROM but I need the battery to be as good as touch wiz with no under clocking. Any help would be appreciated.
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I want to try an AOSP ROM but I need the battery to be as good as touch wiz with no under clocking. Any help would be appreciated.
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Then I would have to say to stay with Touch Wiz...I like AOKP and run them more than anything else but battery isn't as good as Touch Wiz. Although it does last enough for my use.
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I want to try an AOSP ROM but I need the battery to be as good as touch wiz with no under clocking. Any help would be appreciated.
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Try slimstar, best results I got on aosp
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ArcticFish said:
Try slimstar, best results I got on aosp
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Could you possibly post some screenshots or something of the battery life?
Slimbean
I have flashed just about every ROM on here and SlimBean is the very best FOR ME nothing else was close. I realize some will say something else worked for them, which means you really are just going to test them out.
But for my money I use onlychevys version of slimbean and it amazing.
I have one that was a little better I believe I got about 35 hours but I can't find SS right now
battery depends on your usage. I could probably pull 4 days out of aokp but I wouldnt be using the phone very much...
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I have one that was a little better I believe I got about 35 hours but I can't find SS right now
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You have barely any screen time! Also...you have something keeping your phone awake....big time! Should check that out! You're battery will last even longer if you get your phone deep sleeping!
I usually get 30 hours or so with around 4 hours screen time ....and really...it doesn't vary much no matter what rom I'm on.
That's with my use anyway. Games will drain your battery quick...also no matter what rom you're on.
I'd say use whatever rom appeals to you...I think drastic battery difference among roms is an urban legend.
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kj2112 said:
You have barely any screen time! Also...you have something keeping your phone awake....big time! Should check that out! You're battery will last even longer if you get your phone deep sleeping!
I usually get 30 hours or so with around 4 hours screen time ....and really...it doesn't vary much no matter what rom I'm on.
That's with my use anyway. Games will drain your battery quick...also no matter what rom you're on.
I'd say use whatever rom appeals to you...I think drastic battery difference among roms is an urban legend.
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I found out that I have a charger that my phone wont go into deep sleep after use , its crazy. I spent 3 days testing roms and kernels to figure out it is in did the charger.
I only half agree about it being urban legend, some Roms are much better than others battery management. just my opinion
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I found out that I have a charger that my phone wont go into deep sleep after use , its crazy. I spent 3 days testing roms and kernels to figure out it is in did the charger.
I only half agree about it being urban legend, some Roms are much better than others battery management. just my opinion
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I heard about the charger issue. I've gotten in the habit for awhile now of always rebooting after a charge. Haven't had sleep issues on any rom with rebooting after a charge.
I do agree that some roms and kernel are better on the battery....but it seems like a minor increase...not enough to influence my choice in roms anyway. I choose a rom that has what I need it to have, has good support, an active thread with dev active in thread....plus dev track history plays some role....I do tend to stick with certain devs.
For me anyway....my 30 hour average....3 1/2 to 4 1/2 screen time has been consistent on any jb rom I've tried. But hey....others may have different experiences.
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I have one that was a little better I believe I got about 35 hours but I can't find SS right now
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You never use your phone, do you? Most of the time, there was no phone signal. You must be in Airplane mode.
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My benchmark for best battery is how well the phone sleeps, the lastest AOKP nightly has my phone sleeping better than any other rom I have run. I am also running eugene's dual core sleeper app though I have not tested the build without the sleeper app. screen on battery use is going to be a pig, only an hour or so of difference between roms/kernels...
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You never use your phone, do you? Most of the time, there was no phone signal. You must be in Airplane mode.
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A lot of people read the signal wrong.
Red is horrible.
yellow is bad.
The grey is regular signal.
Green is very good signal.
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A lot of people read the signal wrong.
Red is horrible.
yellow is bad.
The grey is regular signal.
Green is very good signal.
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You seem right. But why it is also grey when im on airplane mode?
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Alarmmy said:
You never use your phone, do you? Most of the time, there was no phone signal. You must be in Airplane mode.
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I actually use it quite bit, obviously a 35 hr charge isn't day I watch netfix, but i listen to iheart radio everyday (truck stereo died )
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I heard about the charger issue. I've gotten in the habit for awhile now of always rebooting after a charge. Haven't had sleep issues on any rom with rebooting after a charge.
I do agree that some roms and kernel are better on the battery....but it seems like a minor increase...not enough to influence my choice in roms anyway. I choose a rom that has what I need it to have, has good support, an active thread with dev active in thread....plus dev track history plays some role....I do tend to stick with certain devs.
For me anyway....my 30 hour average....3 1/2 to 4 1/2 screen time has been consistent on any jb rom I've tried. But hey....others may have different experiences.
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Thanks for all the suggestions. I'm currently on Vincom's SuperLite CM10 Rom and I'm getting amazing battery life... well at least better than any Touchwiz and AOSP I've tried before. I'm gonna stay on this for a few more days and then switch to Slim Star and compare the batteries.
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I want to try an AOSP ROM but I need the battery to be as good as touch wiz with no under clocking. Any help would be appreciated.
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My recommendation is onlychevys unofficial slim bean 3.1.0. Great battery life for me.
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Try slimstar, best results I got on aosp
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How much screen time do u get ?
I can't possibly be the first one to create a thread about this. Yet I have been searching and can't find it. So here I go.
I obviously have a T-mobile GS3 T-999. I was on stock unrooted 4.1.1 just fine with great battery life. I updated to 4.1.2 stock unrooted and now my battery life is terrible. I can't even come close to lasting all day like I could before. My habits haven't changed. I haven't installed anything else since they update. I have rebooted and power cycled several times, no change.
Anyone else have a reduction in battery life since upgrading to 4.1.2? Is there anything I can do without going beyond the usual? I have been using power save mode since I bought the phone. So it was that way before and after the update.
Rooting and flashing a custom Rom will increase battery life tremendously. If you don't want to root then disable all the bloat ware. This will speed up phone and increase battery.
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Haven't been able to get awesome battery life on my end either. Played with all kernels available even going backwards to kernels I know gave good life on 4.1.1... Something internal is causing it, it seems. I don't get wake locks that I don't cause my self, just battery drops faster now compared to what it did before.
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I suspect that the premium suite, which added multi window and a bunch of new apps and features, is probably causing the increased battery usage. With the increasing amount of bloat Samsung is stuffing into their ROMs, decreased battery life is expected.
The life on 4.1.2 is terrible over all not sure why best bet would be routing flashing a custom rom or you could try playing with kernels but those are tricky business. I feel 4.1.1 Roms get the best battery though I'm on 4.2 and not very good battery life on that either
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I flashed a number of 4.1.2 roms and found out that for some reason the cpu stays at the max clock constantly. No clue why.. Maybe that's the issue?
Doesn't matter to me at the end since I got a lemon
Yeah I'm not really liking it much. I would do better on 4.1.1
These are my results on Stockorama v2. Stock Kernel.
I don't think it's that bad but I wish it was better.
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Yeah I'm not really liking it much. I would do better on 4.1.1
These are my results on Stockorama v2. Stock Kernel.
I don't think it's that bad but I wish it was better.
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That's actually quite good compared to what I get with the latest CM 10.1 nightly.
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That's actually quite good compared to what I get with the latest CM 10.1 nightly.
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That's terrible on both accounts lol. I usually get 18 hours with that battery time. I remove all the bloat I mean all of it. I have maybe 20 apps total in my app drawer, I disable all the sync besides contacts, gmail, and calender. But still have drain. On stock kernel it was bad and deep sleep was hardly achieved with no apps running in the back ground. I'm gonna Odin root66 md5, tomorrow and see if it helps. Other then that I'm going back to 4.1.1. I'll report back tomorrow or Friday with results.
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Well, I don't plan on rooting or using a custom rom any time soon. But I am hoping to find out what I can tweak to get my battery life back to what it was. I am guessing I don't have the option to go back to 4.1.2 using Kies. And I hear that 4.2 has poor battery life as well, so now I don't have that to look forward too either.
I'm on Stockorama V1 and still had 50% battery when I went to bed this morning (I work nights). The first day after I flashed it the battery was pretty bad, mostly due to wake locks from the Media Server, but that was an easy fix with an app from the Market. I would actually say my battery life is a little bit better now than it was on 4.1.1.
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I don't know if Sammy ever solved it, but iwith past updates the media scanner would hang up and drain batteries quick. Some had their phones heat up.
Another culprit can be that when going to a different android version, it may handle some data differently, causing hang ups when it runs into something they didn't plan for.
In either of these cases, its best to do a full wipe (backup first) and then reinstall your apps. Don't restore them from backup as that's just like not wiping in the first place.
Then wherever possible, import your data through the app itself. Not many do this but some do. Contacts is one.
I know it can be a pain, but it can help a lot. Plus you wind up cleaning out stuff you don't use or need anymore.
I always wipe data when updating , unless its to the same android version (4.1.1 to 4.1.1). Going to 4.1.2 shouldn't be to big a deal, but you never know.
Another thing to try:
If you verify media server/scanner is a oroblem, copy all your music, pics, vids, etc to your computer and wioe it from the phone. Then reboot and wait a few min to see if its acting ok. Then copy your files back, wait a few min and reboot again. Hopefully it'll calm down after this.
Hope that's more helpful than confusing!
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You wonder why carriers take so long to release an update because usually people would start complaining. It's not 4.1 so don't expect the same thing, usually when there's an update things are the never the same. It was the same thing the jump from ics to jelly bean, when creating voltages for batteries I don't think companies anticipate all the extra stuff a update can bring this is still kinda of an ics phone.
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My battery life went up so much. I'm on stock but rooted. I usually drain my battery before the day is over. Now I'm going over a full day.
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I was able to get 32 hours on average with CM 10.1 and KTunez kernel. I recently switched to the Stock latest TW and I'm seeing 22-24 hours with the KTunez kernel. I am rooted and removed all the bloatware.
I'm running stock rooted for now. I hardly have even noticed any battery drain on my phone. Stock Battery, nothing really battery-heavy, no customer kernels. However I dont really see the use of this Sidebar thing. Its like
HAY GUIZ LETS PUT THE UBUNTU UNITY BAR ON ANDROID HUEHUEHUEHUE SO CLEVER!
But in all seriousness, I seem to be running just fine. So I cant really vouch for Multiwindow being the culprit. I may run some tests though.
I don't remember what it was before. But usually by the time I went to bed, it was in the 40's and sometimes the 30's if it was a heavy day for me. Now it drops into the teens.
I see that as of today, the phone has been discharging for just under 4 hours and is already at 88%. And I haven't even used the phone in any way today before checking it right now. Shows "Google Services" as 41% of the battery use. But that only shows CPU total at 33 seconds. Next item is "Device Idle" at 15%. So I don't understand why it's down to 87% in 4 hours of basically doing nothing.
Though I don't think that info alone means anything to me right now as I don't recall what that info was like on 4.1.1, only that my battery % by bedtime is significantly lower than when on 4.1.1
I was just curious how many other Tmobile people experienced the same thing when going from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2. All stock that is.
I don't have time to deal with wiping the phone clean and starting over. But I may try that someday. My phone never gets hot and I never see the CPU getting much use at any given time.
I do wonder about facebook though. I think it also did an update of it's own around the same time I did the 4.1.2 update. I will check into that.
I have found battery life to be about the same, at first it wasn't that great but now I was able to get over 2 days with minimal use 4g on all day. With normal I use I still get better battery life that 4.1.1
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aamir123 said:
I have found battery life to be about the same, at first it wasn't that great but now I was able to get over 2 days with minimal use 4g on all day. With normal I use I still get better battery life that 4.1.1
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I am confused. So it wasn't good and then it just became good over time? Or have you made some setting changes?
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I am confused. So it wasn't good and then it just became good over time? Or have you made some setting changes?
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Well when I first updated it was stock and battery life didn't seem very good but I've since flashed a custom rom and all is well. Also I think stock rom got better battery with use, maybe had to settle in? But within 3 days of using 4.1.2 my battery was back to normal again.