I don't seem to have the standard Android OS killing my battery, but I am still losing battery fast and it seems to be coming from the screen. I have turned down my screen to 10-20% (30 second turn off delay) with no change really.
Screen is normally eating 40-50% of the battery. Android OS only has 14%. Anyone getting similar numbers?
reactortrip said:
Screen is normally eating 40-50% of the battery. Android OS only has 14%. Anyone getting similar numbers?
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Yes. But in the evening when I plug my phone to the charger before I go to sleep, it still has around 30% battery. I'm quite happy with the battery usage so far.
Petrovski80 said:
Yes. But in the evening when I plug my phone to the charger before I go to sleep, it still has around 30% battery. I'm quite happy with the battery usage so far.
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Good to know, I am a verizon user. I only had the phone since yesterday, so I am hoping this is just a battery burn in thing and my battery life will improve.
Today is my first full day to test my normal battery conditions.. and I am experiencing the same.
45% is currently going to the screen and 20 to the OS.
It still looks like i'll squeek by with about 9 hours of battery life (which is alright).
I refuse to have the screen at anything other than 100% brightness though.
reactortrip said:
I don't seem to have the standard Android OS killing my battery, but I am still losing battery fast and it seems to be coming from the screen. I have turned down my screen to 10-20% (30 second turn off delay) with no change really.
Screen is normally eating 40-50% of the battery. Android OS only has 14%. Anyone getting similar numbers?
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Can u provide some more details please? How much screen time are you getting on this phone on a charge? I've been getting like 3.25 - 3.5 house on a charge.
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orangedude654 said:
I refuse to have the screen at anything other than 100% brightness though.
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There's your problem.
It's a beautiful screen, especially at full brightness, but I'm fairly certain you can hear the battery sobbing quietly if you listen closely.
Uploaded a screenshot of my battery performance today. It's 9 PM over here, about 2 hours to go before it gets juice again. My screen brightness is set to auto.
mike2518 said:
Can u provide some more details please? How much screen time are you getting on this phone on a charge? I've been getting like 3.25 - 3.5 house on a charge.
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Let me finish the charge today and I will get these numbers for you. I am just through 60% for the day.
I have had my Nexus for almost two months now and the battery life on it... well I get maybe two hours of usage on it (screen on, auto brightness) and i came from an iPhone which gave like 5 on full brightness.
All the reviews I read about the phone talked about great battery but really... When i get home everyday the battery is almost dead and i'm talking light usage.
This does not sound normal. I'm on a GSM nexus and I can typically get close to 4 hours of screen on time without trying too hard. On a typical day, I go to bed with about 50% left. Check the battery stats in settings and see if your phone is constantly awake. Sometimes rouge apps can do that. Sitting in a dead zone can also use up battery quickly. Its possible you have a bad battery, but I bet something else is causing poor battery life.
Dark lord me said:
I have had my Nexus for almost two months now and the battery life on it... well I get maybe two hours of usage on it (screen on, auto brightness) and i came from an iPhone which gave like 5 on full brightness.
All the reviews I read about the phone talked about great battery but really... When i get home everyday the battery is almost dead and i'm talking light usage.
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That is dependent on a lot of variables. You could be listening to a lot of music, preventing the phone to go in deep sleep, an app could cause a wakelock, preventing it again to go to deep sleep, are you on Stock? Do you use a dark or a white wallpaper, are you in an area with bad phone reception etc. etc.
If you could give us some more info (preferrably screenshots) we might be able to help you. Screenshots of the battery usage during the day, the apps that consume most, the diagram which states how battery usage is combined with network reception etc.
Besides that you could install CPU SPY to see how much your phone spends in deepsleep. If that isn't looking well you could install betterbatterystats to find out if there is an app causing a wakelock.
I don't listen to much music and have a black background. It is running stock 4.0.1 and for about half my day I have no service but the phone is in airplane mode at that time so it doesn't kill the battery using the radios.
I'll update with screenshots of normal usage
I charged my HTC ONE X to 100%, took it out of the charger and I have now been 1h 37m 46s on battery, and it ALREADY has drained to 70% !!!
what my phone uses or so it says :
screen 78%
cell standby 6%
android OS 5%
android system 4%
phone idle 4%
whatsapp 3%
what does it mean 78% screen? that my screen is the big killer for my drain? because that would make non sense since I have not had it on that much..and still.....30% in 1.3hours? that's just insanely bad!
stock rom from Holland btw...didn't change a single thing to my phone since I do not know how....
any input on why it drains so rapidly?
thanks!
I would post a screenshot but I don't have ''root'' access'' or something lol sorry!
lunaticz0r said:
I charged my HTC ONE X to 100%, took it out of the charger and I have now been 1h 37m 46s on battery, and it ALREADY has drained to 70% !!!
what my phone uses or so it says :
screen 78%
cell standby 6%
android OS 5%
android system 4%
phone idle 4%
whatsapp 3%
what does it mean 78% screen? that my screen is the big killer for my drain? because that would make non sense since I have not had it on that much..and still.....30% in 1.3hours? that's just insanely bad!
stock rom from Holland btw...didn't change a single thing to my phone since I do not know how....
any input on why it drains so rapidly?
thanks!
I would post a screenshot but I don't have ''root'' access'' or something lol sorry!
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Um... what's your brightness set at?
lunaticz0r said:
I charged my HTC ONE X to 100%, took it out of the charger and I have now been 1h 37m 46s on battery, and it ALREADY has drained to 70% !!!
what my phone uses or so it says :
screen 78%
cell standby 6%
android OS 5%
android system 4%
phone idle 4%
whatsapp 3%
what does it mean 78% screen? that my screen is the big killer for my drain? because that would make non sense since I have not had it on that much..and still.....30% in 1.3hours? that's just insanely bad!
stock rom from Holland btw...didn't change a single thing to my phone since I do not know how....
any input on why it drains so rapidly?
thanks!
I would post a screenshot but I don't have ''root'' access'' or something lol sorry!
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firstly you can take a screenshot by pressing power button and home button at
the same time..
how old is the phone?
you are ok bro. for me it drained 17% with 15 minutes screen on time.
this is one big lol.
i am struggling to get 7 hours battery life
If you don't mind the effects on warranty, there are some system mods things that can be done to improve battery life...
Otherwise try turning off extra wireless services, and lowering the brightness on your screen.
I was getting 8-9 hours outa my battery, since rooted and flashed leedroid's rom and I got 26 hours with 30% to go....
what a difference.....
Basically in android, especially LCD screens, you can expect under 3 hours of continual screen use in daily activities. Often way under.
I've gone through a Motorola Milestone, Samsung Galaxy S and Nexus S, HTC Sensation and now One X. None of them broke the three hour mark for screen on time.
Standby and other use, sure, you can push a day or so but the screen is the major killer. Even with 1900mAh after-market batteries for the Sensation I was just about pushing 2.x hours. Screen usually on auto, but often inside buildings.
Counter to what may seem obvious is that if you have WiFi available - use it. It uses less power than the data connection on cellular networks and can improve standby time by a fair bit. Assuming you use push notifications and the like.
samreedy said:
I was getting 8-9 hours outa my battery, since rooted and flashed leedroid's rom and I got 26 hours with 30% to go....
what a difference.....
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is rooting hard? i searched it on the internet but the only thing i found was some half-assed english site trying to explain what to do...couldn't follow it, and also it didn't work :/
I don't know all the terms etc they use so that makes it quite a fair bit harder for me!
Two Questions:
- What are your Brightness settings?
(Settings - Display & gestures - Brightness)
- Do you have Wifi/3G constantly on?
(Settings - Wireless & networks: is Wi-Fi and/or Mobile network: ON?)
How to improve Battery drain:
- Go to: Settings - Display & gestures - Brightness:
and untick: Automatic brightness
with your finger slide the brightness level to much lower than it is now (I have it at only 1/4)
confirm with: OK
- Whenever you do not need to be online (internet), make sure to switch off Wi-Fi and Mobile network
- Switch off notifications for e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Email (you need to open each app and in the Menu have to untick notifications)
From personal experience, I can tell you that having internet on constantly aka WhatsApp sending notifications for each chat message, Facebook and Email sending notifications, ... costs you a lot of battery
Brightness at full level also drains battery badly.
- Following above-mentioned tips, you will get a standby time on the HTC One X of up to 2 full days.
Hope I could help a bit.
lunaticz0r said:
I charged my HTC ONE X to 100%, took it out of the charger and I have now been 1h 37m 46s on battery, and it ALREADY has drained to 70% !!!
what my phone uses or so it says :
screen 78%
cell standby 6%
android OS 5%
android system 4%
phone idle 4%
whatsapp 3%
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You need to get on leedroid Currently on 71% battery also, but slight difference in how i got there:
16hrs standby
half hour screen on (auto brightness)
5 mins calls,
3g/wifi/locations always on.
Very light usage day for me, but it's very different results to yours
M.
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who would you have your phone on standby for 16hours....I used it more than half an hour a day (half hour screen on as you said) so that says nothing for me lol
and my screen has low brightness but that doesn't really seem to effect it THAT much, but yesn i do have 3d on constantly aswel as fb whatsapp etc...but I do need to be in contact with people so I guess there nothing to fix :/ except maybe a ligh rom but i have no idea how that works haha, might search youtube
I have the same problem but i'm actually using the phone.
As a heavy user (and i mean heavy user) i've yet to get more than 3 hours on screen time with this. once i used it for only 2hours 20 mins and the battery was dead. I'm rooted running leedroid and the battery life is very bad for onscreen time.
Anyone else getting these figures.
hi guys..
i am on stock rom updated to latest but having problems with my battery
take a look at the screenshot. i currently have 30% battery.
as you can see from almost 11 hours of my latest charge 9hours and 20 mins
my phone was at deep sleep.(only 1hour and 40 mins of light usage)
when its locked it shows excelent battery (1% per hour) but after an hour passes and even if i just unlock it and browse a bit my phone ,i lose 5-6% .
my phone is 4days old only.
maybe the problem is just temporary?
thnx in advance for any help.
I'm using an App called 'Screen Adjuster', in which you can set the screen brightness (say 50%), and then auto adjust brightness within the selected range (50% range).
You can adjust the brightness anytime, I found it is very handy because the original auto brightness is simply too bright.
One drawback is that you can click to install 3rd party apk with this App running, don't know why, but just for your reference.
This is what i get.
With surfing a little bit gaming and chatting.
Hi
My GN is a australian GSM version
My batt life sux as does everybody elses i am guessing
Need help on the screen brightness which chews the batt in my understanding as u can see from the pictures
Normally i keep my screen to auto brightness at night sometimes i chnage it to 0% as its still bright enough for me.
1) i dont wish to root my phone as i find it too complicated
2) Should i update manually to 4.0.4? does it help the battery im a bit shakey bout the signal loss drama it causes.
3) is the extended battery really worth the money?
4) has any1 in australia got a OTA push notification?
any tips on savin battery and the screen not chewing 60% of the battery would be greatly appreciated
regards
N
That's still pretty bad.... what's your Awake / Screen On times? You should use something like "Better Battery Stats" to see if theres something keeping your phone awake.
Your screen will always be the top of your usage. If its not, either you didn't turn your screen on for like 10 hours or something is wrong. My screen is regularly 60%-80% of my battery drain. Welcome to a big 720P AMOLED screen.
The extended battery is only 14% bigger than stock so its not gonna drastically turn things around. Looks like you have some kinda system problem keeping your battery drained (again depending on what your Awake / Screen On times are).
Try BBS as mentioned above along with CPUspy to see if your phone enters deep sleep when the screen is off.
IMO nothing can be done on the drain when the screen is on, but I have noticed that if the phone does not enter deep sleep during screen off, the battery drain is quite heavy indeed.
Hi guys, just looking for some quick help. I woke up today with some lower than expected battery. I checked my battery monitors and it said that Reddit was on for over 6 hours active screen-on time while I slept!
Is it possible this is a system reporting bug? I just have a hard time believing the screen was on the entire time. I was using Reddit for about 30 minutes before bed, but I also always listen to music before. When I'm about to sleep, I take out my earbuds and put them in their case. During this process I lock my screen. I also have a pretty short screen timeout set. So I just have a hard time believing the screen was on the entire time I was sleeping.
Yet, the battery was low when I woke up. The screen was not on when I woke up. I'm kind of OCD about burn-in and unnecessary battery wear, so I'm a bit concerned. What do you guys think could have happened? Are ghosts using my phone while I sleep?
Edit: I'm going to attach some screenshots so you get the full picture.