A few users here suggested me to install GSAM stats and check what drains my battery, so my battery lost 35% within 19 hours of not using at all [just checking the time, checking the stats etc], and it says:
33% screen
35% phone radio
28% apps
So, why does the phone radio drains so much battery? I'm starting to believe that's the problem with my battery.. how can I make it drain less?
You may be using 3G connection. Try going back to 2G and report the result.
I hope you will have alot better battery life.
faiz02 said:
You may be using 3G connection. Try going back to 2G and report the result.
I hope you will have alot better battery life.
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2G is hell slow, isn't it? and how do I do that?
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I feel like my battery life drops fast unless its just cause its going down in 1's but what methods are generally used to conserve battery life? I just got it so right now im doing a test to see how long it'll generally last throughout the day I think i had it unplugged since.....10am and its 5pm and its at 61% is that generally normal? again thats an estimate when i unplugged it.
To decrease battery wear the TP2 will not continuously charge the battery while plugged in. It will charge the battery to 100% and then let it drain till you plug it in again.
ryohazuki said:
I feel like my battery life drops fast unless its just cause its going down in 1's but what methods are generally used to conserve battery life? I just got it so right now im doing a test to see how long it'll generally last throughout the day I think i had it unplugged since.....10am and its 5pm and its at 61% is that generally normal? again thats an estimate when i unplugged it.
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This has been discussed several times here, a search will give you much more detail, but in general, turn off WI-FI and Bluetooth when you are not using them and turn off 3G unless you are using data.
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Check out on the applications too that you have installed. At least I had one application which I cant still figure out the need for it to run in the background, but it did. Once after un-installing the battery is really great.
Disable 3G and WIFI when not needed.
Also have a read here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=478519
hello guys,
i flashed the radio to 12.62.60.27p_26.13.04.19_M after which i flashed update-LC-ICS-1.0.beta4-DesireHD-signed.zip by wiping completely. During standby, the drain was very less (about 1 mA , occasionally reaching 5 mA.) After 24 hours, the drain increased beyond 10 mA, sometimes even reaching 40mA or more in standby mode. It was only after i rebooted the device, the drain is somewhat acceptable now.
Is this normal or something is wrong? what could be the reason?
in the above cases, the phone was in standby mode, no calls, no data, only 2G. the only difference in the second case was additional applications like facebook, etc but no data, no sync.
btw, i just rebooted my phone and lost battery level from 3.735 to 3.691 , drop of 14% as shown in current widget.
any suggestions ?
I'm running cm7 and for me that's quite normal.
The drain per 5 minutes is between 1mA and 10mA while in 2G standby, screen off, data off.
The drain of course jumps up to 40mA to 200mA if the screen is on and i'm using the phone (wifi on, using google reader etc)
Getting 1mA per 5 minutes all the time sounds a bit unrealistic to me. Maybe in airplane mode and no screen on time.
I guess your problem could be the additional apps. Maybe an app is running wild?
And might i ask what you mean by "battery level"? Are you talking about the mV?
First of all, make sure you're are really wiping everything. Just to be sure, you may follow this steps:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1226016
You can also take a look in your battery stats, the battery usage of mediaserver. In come ICS based ROMs, it drained battery a lot.
I tested LCs 1.0.v4 and also got poor battery performance, may be inherent to this ROM.
Dlog said:
I'm running cm7 and for me that's quite normal.
The drain per 5 minutes is between 1mA and 10mA while in 2G standby, screen off, data off.
The drain of course jumps up to 40mA to 200mA if the screen is on and i'm using the phone (wifi on, using google reader etc)
Getting 1mA per 5 minutes all the time sounds a bit unrealistic to me. Maybe in airplane mode and no screen on time.
I guess your problem could be the additional apps. Maybe an app is running wild?
And might i ask what you mean by "battery level"? Are you talking about the mV?
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hi, standby => night time when no screen is on...
it was about 1 mA most of the times and occasionally reaching 5mA
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First of all, make sure you're are really wiping everything. Just to be sure, you may follow this steps:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1226016
You can also take a look in your battery stats, the battery usage of mediaserver. In come ICS based ROMs, it drained battery a lot.
I tested LCs 1.0.v4 and also got poor battery performance, may be inherent to this ROM.
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hi, yes, i have been following the link for wiping since the time i sarted flashing ROMS..
but what you are saying could be right.. the ROM itself could have battery issues...
I'm running LC ICS v1.2. I haven't seen any significant battery drain though I'm using an Inspire 4G. There's also an undervolting app on the second post in his thread. Undervolting has improved the battery performance slightly as well for me...
Hi!
I installed blackout ICS incredible in my DHD. Everything went well but I wanted to calibrate my battery.
So I downloaded Battery Calibration by NeMa from Google play. Before calibration my batterylife was about 12-24h depending on my use.
Now after the calibration my batterylife is about 5h!! And the same usage as I have always had, couple of calls, net surfing and maybe a little of Angry Birds and spotify.
Did I do something wrong or is my battery dead? My DHD is about 2 years old.
According to Google calibrating your battery (erasing your battery stats) doesn't actually do anything, so it shouldn't have made your battery life shorter. You could install BetterBatteryStats from a thread here on XDA to see if something else is eating your battery. Look at alarms and wakelocks.
Ok, thanks. I installed the BBS and I'll tell the alarms and wakelocks here if I don't find anything funny about them...
bananagranola is right.
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calibrating your battery basically tells your OS how much batter it has or doesn't have. IF you flash a rom at less than 100% battery, then the max amount of battery your OS thinks it has might be different from how much your phone actually has. Sometimes this can affect battery life.
The other thing is, did you calibrate at 100%, then unplug immediately? If not, that might trick your OS into burning your battery so quickly.
Otherwise, 12hrs to 24 hours is super amazing, I'm a semi heavy user, and I'll only be able to get 12-14 hours of semi serious use (8 hours standby, 2 hours on off usage, some of that at 100% brightness when i'm outside, and lots of music), end of that I have only 32% left. 24 is pretty amazing, I wouldn't be complaining :laugh:
Well when you simply reboot new stats are generated.
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Ok, so I have had today the BBS running on the background. I tried one thing in afternoon, I switched of Wifi. Wifi was off about 3h and when I came back to home I switched wifi back to on. I have still 70% battery!! and about 12h without charging.
BBS alarms:
android, wakeups:83 (Is this much?)
com.google.android.gsf, wakeups:56
com.android.settings, wakeups:13
and the rest of them is under 10
BBS Kernel Wakelock:
wlan_rx_wake: 14m18s
PowerManagerService: 10m57s
and rest is under 4mins
BBS Partial Wakelocks:
AudioOut_3: 3min16s
Twitter sync: 1m56s
BBS Other:
Deep Sleep is about 10.5h
Wifi On/running is about 6h
Is there something wrong or is there something that uses too much battery? Could the battery be "damaged" due it's about 2 years old now?
Sorry for stupid questions but I find it very annoying that sometimes battery life is 5h and sometimes it's way more than 12h with same usage.
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Ok, so I have had today the BBS running on the background. I tried one thing in afternoon, I switched of Wifi. Wifi was off about 3h and when I came back to home I switched wifi back to on. I have still 70% battery!! and about 12h without charging.
Is there something wrong or is there something that uses too much battery? Could the battery be "damaged" due it's about 2 years old now?
Sorry for stupid questions but I find it very annoying that sometimes battery life is 5h and sometimes it's way more than 12h with same usage.
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What you've got looks fine (which makes sense, since you had good battery life this time). Keep BBS installed. If/when battery life starts tanking, take a look at BBS and see if anything else pops up. If you've got more questions then feel free to post again here.
Although you might miss the customizations of the roms, aospX has great and I mean great, battery life.
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I will leave my phone alone for about two hours and when I check back there will be 25% battery gone. Is this normal? Should I report back after I've used the phone for a week or so? I just got the phone this weekend.
Lte does drain battery very fast but I don't think that is normal. Are you in an area of poor coverage? You could also have a wake lock. You can check for wake locks with better battery stats.
LTE will only drain battery during use so that isn't your problem.
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jefferson9 said:
Lte does drain battery very fast but I don't think that is normal. Are you in an area of poor coverage? You could also have a wake lock. You can check for wake locks with better battery stats.
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Ah I see. Well, my phone died before my work shift was even over. It must be whatever the wake lock thing is. Once I get this resolved I'll love this phone!
Better Battery Stats will help you pin point the wake lock. Post screen shots of this app if you don't understand how to read it.
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Better Battery Stats will help you pin point the wake lock. Post screen shots of this app if you don't understand how to read it.
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Will do. So far after a full recharge after my battery was dead I had it just sitting on my desk for about 40 minutes and it was still at 99%. I'll leave it uncharged while I sleep and see how it is doing in the morning and I'll post the stats.
Hmmm, it seems that from overnight (About 7 hours) it has drained about 9%. Is this normal? I'll see how it does through work today and I'll report back tonight. It doesn't seem to be draining as much as it did before.
Bagel Bear said:
Hmmm, it seems that from overnight (About 7 hours) it has drained about 9%. Is this normal? I'll see how it does through work today and I'll report back tonight. It doesn't seem to be draining as much as it did before.
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Oh yeah. Your good. 1% per hour idle is what you should hope for. But I wouldnt make a ruckus about 2% extra
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Seems I overlooked calibrating the battery with a power run out since it is a new phone. It seems me letting it run down fixed my problem. Its been about 3 hours and I'm only down about 4%. I'll still monitor it every 2 hours or so and post the results at night.
Bagel Bear said:
Hmmm, it seems that from overnight (About 7 hours) it has drained about 9%. Is this normal? I'll see how it does through work today and I'll report back tonight. It doesn't seem to be draining as much as it did before.
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Yup...that's totally normal for a healthy stock battery without any major mods or tweaks.
That's about 1.29% per hour.
If you want to get that number down closer to .5% per hour, try an app called Green Power. You can set it to turn off wifi/data when your screen is off. You can tell it to wait say 30secs before it does this.
Then you can tell it to enable wifi/data at "screen on" or at "screen unlock".
If you don't use push mail etc., this is a good option to keep your battery drain minimal in standby. You can also choose this behavior for night time only. And...you can choose apps to go into the "exceptions" list...a a whole bunch more fine tuning.
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!