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Anybody using one of these 2400mah batteries on their evo?
http://www.amazon.com/Extended-Cell-Phone-Battery-2400/dp/B0040MNJPC
not bad for the price
I just don't see why people get extended batteries when kernels now days are supporting my battery all day dragging on into the mornings.. i guess every phone reacts differently.
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I just don't see why people get extended batteries when kernels now days are supporting my battery all day dragging on into the mornings.. i guess every phone reacts differently.
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pm me where the crap are these battery saving kernals cause all i get is **** and can't find the right link any and all help would be appreciative cause seriously thinking about going to the epic.
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pm me where the crap are these battery saving kernals cause all i get is **** and can't find the right link any and all help would be appreciative cause seriously thinking about going to the epic.
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I've tried all the hottest kernels and battery saving tricks and still average only 8hrs under real world use
Running Evo Deck 1.2.1, display at 12%, couple widgets, data off (using wifi at home) , sync off, and all of that. Underclocked, undervolted too.
Browsing, xda app, etc results in 20% battery usage per hour. Battery consumption is zero at idle, but drops like a rock if i use the phone at all.
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I'm using Seidio 3500mah and enjoying the 5 days no charging. I use my phone mainly for texting/facebooking.
Braneless said:
I've tried all the hottest kernels and battery saving tricks and still average only 8hrs under real world use
Running Evo Deck 1.2.1, display at 12%, couple widgets, data off (using wifi at home) , sync off, and all of that. Underclocked, undervolted too.
Browsing, xda app, etc results in 20% battery usage per hour. Battery consumption is zero at idle, but drops like a rock if i use the phone at all.
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I'm evo deck 1.2.1 with sz 2.2.1
Setcpu at 245/1152 sz governor
Chainfire 3d
Battery calibrated
VM heap at 48
SD card cache set to 8192 on my class six
Brightness on auto
I get 20+ hours of heavy use, xda, music, browsing I'm sixteen so my girlfriend is ALWAYS texting me some pandora, youtube tossed in there
Oh and I'm using a live wallpaper (pixel rain) I keep sync on, gmail hourly everything else daily, weather on the half hour, right now my phone is at 17 hours with 38 percent left.
Under lighter usage ( more pocket time, less texting, less sitting around bored on xda and Facebook )
30 hours is pretty common
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Zac95....I hate you lol.
Maybe my batteries are shot - their health shows "good " though. I have two OEM 1500 batteries that I swap, but I did buy an HTC 2150mAh, just waiting on my battery cover to arrive before I use it.
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Battery calibration is very important, don't know how I lived without it
Setting the VM heap to 48 allows the dalvik garbage collector to run less, improving battery
Chainfire 3d helps with anything graphical, makes home using lwps smoother, games run better etc, also saves battery by making all animations, graphics processing more efficient
If you use apps2sd bumping the cache makes it faster, and more efficient saving battery
Also updating to the latest radios etc, and making sure your prls and profile is up to date is essential, many aosp users, formerly including my self forget about that stuff
I've spent a huge amount of time expirementing with different setups, I think I've found my phones sweet spot
I have loads of friends with rooted evos, mine has the best battery and is typically fastest (chainfire 3d) makes everything snappier
Maybe with all of this info you can test these apps / settings and find your phones sweet spot. Good luck man
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Battery calibration is very important, don't know how I lived without it
Setting the VM heap to 48 allows the dalvik garbage collector to run less, improving battery
Chainfire 3d helps with anything graphical, makes home using lwps smoother, games run better etc, also saves battery by making all animations, graphics processing more efficient
If you use apps2sd bumping the cache makes it faster, and more efficient saving battery
Also updating to the latest radios etc, and making sure your prls and profile is up to date is essential, many aosp users, formerly including my self forget about that stuff
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would love to know what you did exactly and how to do it...need major battery life improvement.
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would love to know what you did exactly and how to do it...need major battery life improvement.
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What would you like to know? I'd love to help. You can pm me if you'd like
My setup is also posted a few posts back.
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Since I'm stock for now, my battery sucks.
thinking of buying this since its apparently the same size as the original.
http://cgi.ebay.com/HTC-EVO-4G-EXTE...ltDomain_0&hash=item4aad318894#ht_2377wt_1270
what do you guys think? Can't get a 3500 due to my otterbox case
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Since I'm stock for now, my battery sucks.
thinking of buying this since its apparently the same size as the original.
http://cgi.ebay.com/HTC-EVO-4G-EXTE...ltDomain_0&hash=item4aad318894#ht_2377wt_1270
what do you guys think? Can't get a 3500 due to my otterbox case
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I wonder how the mfg pulled that off? My HTC 2150mAh battery is twice as thick as the 1500. I'd bet that that eBay battery will not yield the stated 2100mAh.
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I just bought 2 batteries and a wall charger from amazon, and I just switch out batteries, no more charging or being tied down to a seat
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I'm evo deck 1.2.1 with sz 2.2.1
Setcpu at 245/1152 sz governor
Chainfire 3d
Battery calibrated
VM heap at 48
SD card cache set to 8192 on my class six
Brightness on auto
I get 20+ hours of heavy use, xda, music, browsing I'm sixteen so my girlfriend is ALWAYS texting me some pandora, youtube tossed in there
Oh and I'm using a live wallpaper (pixel rain) I keep sync on, gmail hourly everything else daily, weather on the half hour, right now my phone is at 17 hours with 38 percent left.
Under lighter usage ( more pocket time, less texting, less sitting around bored on xda and Facebook )
30 hours is pretty common
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I'll agree with Zac here,
evo 3d with CM7 nightly, SavagedZen 2.2.1 CFS. removed all the crap i dont use or think they suck the battery down. live wallpaper etc.
InteractiveX governor, 245-1113mhz
No setCPU.
no juice defender
no taskkiller.
no 4g - no gps - no wifi
blutooth ON
3g always ON.
battery calibrated is a must
display set to manual around 33% brightness. but i change it on the fly (swipe the notif bar).
Now the results are pretty interesting here:
With the stock battery and all the above; if the reception is good, i can go for 2 days with moderate usage. yes i know i night i sleep, so it idles nicely.
If the signal is not so good, it will destroy the battery, and can't really get anything more than 13hours.
My typical use:
unplug at 10am.
use the phone normally.
plug it back in at midnight that night, and i would have between 35% or up to 67% battery left in the phone, depending on the factors mentioned.
Which to me, going all day is all i wanted before i started tweaking. Mission accomplished.
The quality of the reception is a killer, i'll tell you.
I bought a 3500mah battery from the same company, and it is trash.
are there any extended batteries that fit in an otterbox commuter case?
Here is a tip on how to increase battery life by at least 50%. For me, it has increased by 83%, given that my S II is relatively new (3 months old). It is an app in the market which you can get for free: JuiceDefender
MUST:
Remove any task killing apps (Advanced Task Killer) otherwise this app is useless as it needs to be on at all times.
I have my settings set to Aggressive, as I don't use my phone much during the day.
My normal on the Bombaridier v3.5 ROM by TricH was 100% at 7:00 AM and 88% at 10:23 AM with only 40 minutes of music and standby with no data connection or Wi-Fi. With JuiceDefender, I get 100% at 7:00 AM and 98% at 10:23 AM with the same circumstances of use. It is worth downloading and will extend battery life. I have 83% more battery life according to my math (which is (10/12)=(x/100)) and it is amazing.
I agree that JuiceDefender is an excellent product for extending battery life.
I have the "Ultimate" version.
JuiceDefender alongside "Battery Monitor Widget Pro" is the killer combination...
I did notice one slight bug with JuiceDefender (JD) - there's a known issue with wifi management. Phone turns itself off occasionally. The fix is to simply set JD "disabled" for WiFi management - problem then goes away.
I also listen to music (Pandora) over a Bluetooth headset (about 3 hours per day).
I regularly get about 18hrs+ (combination, on average: 3 hours on voice, lots of email). Stock, rooted ROM... bloat removed.
I agree Juice defender is purely amazing, according to JD stats, I get 1.83% more battery life, that's with aggressive settings.
Ps: Thanks for the Wifi tip
It'll be hard pressed for any app to extend my 3+ days of usage on a single charge. Just sayin..
I just bought the ultimate. I will let everyone know how it goes after a week of using it.
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It'll be hard pressed for any app to extend my 3+ days of usage on a single charge. Just sayin..
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That's not called usage. That's just carrying a weight around with you. I'm sorry but you're not getting 72 hours on a single charge.
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avarize said:
That's not called usage. That's just carrying a weight around with you. I'm sorry but you're not getting 72 hours on a single charge.
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Beat me to it
avarize said:
That's not called usage. That's just carrying a weight around with you. I'm sorry but you're not getting 72 hours on a single charge.
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The first thing that came to mind is; haters gotta hate.
I use it just fine with my purposes.
Check/write emails, make calls. Nifty info widgets for updates. I just don't use it for everything because that's just silly. That's the reason why I get such a long run-time. I already have a dedicated media device, no need to watch videos, etc etc on the phone.
Just because most people don't get more than a day usage, don't mean it doesn't happen.
GaryAustin said:
I agree that JuiceDefender is an excellent product for extending battery life.
I have the "Ultimate" version.
JuiceDefender alongside "Battery Monitor Widget Pro" is the killer combination...
I did notice one slight bug with JuiceDefender (JD) - there's a known issue with wifi management. Phone turns itself off occasionally. The fix is to simply set JD "disabled" for WiFi management - problem then goes away.
I also listen to music (Pandora) over a Bluetooth headset (about 3 hours per day).
I regularly get about 18hrs+ (combination, on average: 3 hours on voice, lots of email). Stock, rooted ROM... bloat removed.
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whoa 18+ with 3hours voice is killer.
i barely get about 16 with 2.5 voice and roughly 2.5 display on time
just fyi to those who don't know. voice weighs heaviest on battery usage, even more so than display.
I can get 2 days with moderate use but I dont realy tLk on the phone and I use wifi most of the time
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Seems to me that most people who use this app set to Aggressive, get around 83% more battery life. Amazing app and my math was on point.
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will definitely try this out! thanks for the tip!
on a side note, has anyone tried to undervolt and underclock? if so, which is the best program for this? i am using setcpu but doesn't seem to allow voltage tweaks. with JD and undervolting, i can only imagine what type of battery life this would have
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The first thing that came to mind is; haters gotta hate.
I use it just fine with my purposes.
Check/write emails, make calls. Nifty info widgets for updates. I just don't use it for everything because that's just silly. That's the reason why I get such a long run-time. I already have a dedicated media device, no need to watch videos, etc etc on the phone.
Just because most people don't get more than a day usage, don't mean it doesn't happen.
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Not trying to "hate" Just don't see it getting 72 hours. I'd like to see some screen caps of that if it's somehow possible with any use.
chhan02 said:
will definitely try this out! thanks for the tip!
on a side note, has anyone tried to undervolt and underclock? if so, which is the best program for this? i am using setcpu but doesn't seem to allow voltage tweaks. with JD and undervolting, i can only imagine what type of battery life this would have
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Use the Darkside X kernel and under clock to 1128000 or something and it still runs smooth.
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Best thing you can do to to increase battery life is to disable all those Google services. I don't know why but I make it pretty clear in the settings that I do not want any auto-update or syncing of any sort but it happens anyway, so I have to manually freeze all the **** that Google insists on running 24/7.
Thanks for the tip! Extra battery life is always welcome.
Although jd isn't exactly new, but there seems to be a lot of people who just heard of it now. Not bashing but this just shows that there seems to be a lot of new android users or well xda members since the release of our awesome device. I bet most are all former ifags (don't take me seriously).
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Although jd isn't exactly new, but there seems to be a lot of people who just heard of it now. Not bashing but this just shows that there seems to be a lot of new android users or well xda members since the release of our awesome device. I bet most are all former ifags (don't take me seriously).
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Lmao. I think this made my day. xD I was using juice defender way back when the droid eris was new and I still do! It works wonders. When I had a dell streak I went from 6-8 hrs of batt life with no usage to over 2 days.
Sorry if I sound like a tool for asking this but if you turn off the Google gmail and calender sync then how do you get your emails?
U have to manually check for mail all the time?
sorry, having issues with my battery also. I use Juice Defender but the free version - everyone that is having success with it are you using the purchase one, Juice Defender Ultimate?
Ive had my phone since october, and the battery has gotten better and better. And im not doing anything special, stock rom, no juice defender, no task killer, nothing of that sort.
I use wifi tether almost all day at work(about 6 to 8 hours) and I still have 20 to 30 percent left when i head home.
im posting a day's usage for GS3 Tmo
can you guys tell me if the battery life is normal, bad, good?
(im posting the batt. life and top 5 usages)
the next 2 apps
What rom ?
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What rom ?
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completely stock, tmo bloat disabled, screen @ lowest brightness, sync off
With 27% left, I'd say that's about average-good.
Dear God, I get about 8 hours with average usage. Seems very good life to me. Do you have power saver and/or sync enabled?
It's exactly like mine. However, some users actually got theirs up to 5 hours screen time. How? I'll never know
Battery life good bro, cool story
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Mine's absolutely horrid, I can't for the life of me figure out what the hell's wrong with it. I'll run out of battery after about 12 hours, with the screen time at 1 hour and maybe 30 minutes if I'm lucky? The phone drinks away my battery in standby mode like a former alcoholic united with an opened beer. When I was on ICS, turning off 4G every time the screen was off with the AutomateIt app would give me excellent battery life. Ever since Jelly Bean, it doesn't seem to make a difference. I just don't even bother using AutomateIt anymore, I even uninstalled it. Useless. I check marked the option, "Restrict Background Data," but I actually had worse results with that on even. Following the thread about the Guide to good battery life, I turned off auto-sync. The only thing that seems to do for me is not get my emails in real time. No effect on the battery though. I'm guessing the battery drain has something to do with being on data (even though turning it off doesn't seem to do much) because everytime I go to school where there's little WiFi, battery's worse. Also, somehow my Messaging app takes up more battery than the screen. What's with that? I'll text every now and then, but it shouldn't eat away my battery like a fat man with the last batch of Twinkies. Enough with the dumb similes, haha, but I actually need help with this. I really don't wanna buy a battery off eBay cause the damn people are too lazy to send you the battery until a month passes, and I hate charging in the middle of the day.
I'm on 100% stock. I used to root and mess around with a ton of ROMs, but then I realized all my favourite ROMs were the ones closest to stock...
.... look at the eBay expected arrival and/or look for a seller in the USA ?
Anyway, that bit aside - have you installed something like BetterBatteryStats to be able to see what the problem is so you can fix it ?
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It's exactly like mine. However, some users actually got theirs up to 5 hours screen time. How? I'll never know
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5 hours... how !?
Easy !
I'm on stock and if I'm almost all the day on WIFI, not playing too much games, and with auto-brightness,
I can get 5 to 6 hours screen time.
(but on 4G all the day, it's more around 3 hours screen time)
This is what most people get with normal use around 14 to 16 hours and 4 to 5 hours screen time. I think the biggest issue is that 4G radio that most people have on all the time. I I have wifi everywhere so most of the time I have mine off that helps a ton. Plus all the sync stuff off, I get about 6 hours over 17 hours battery life and about 30 to 40% brightness.
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14-16 is what was normal for me when I first got my GS3 (after JB update). If you want more battery life, I recommend trying juice defender (custom settings for data off while locked). If you have stretches where you don't use your phone it works really well. Just thought I would throw that out there.
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I noticed when I was looking at battery stats (trying to figure out what's eating the battery; very little in the way of apps installed)
I bought the phone last week, but I bought it used on eBay. It came with the original box and the manufacture date is 6/30/12, so I figure this was someone's everyday device for 10 months.
The reason I ask is that sudden dip from 20 to 30%. And the other reason I ask is that I only get about 10 hours with 3 hours of screen-on time on a full charge. If the battery is just losing capacity, that's fine - I'll get a ZeroLemon 2300maH battery and I should get much better life. If the battery still has close to full capacity, then I'll get an extended-capacity battery. I just need some guidance as to whether or not it's crapping out so I have a better idea of what to buy.
Thanks!
Jump is weird. Could be the battery is flaky. But I would make effort to reseat it. I want to see what BetterBatteryStats says about that terrible wakelocking, though.
You can delete batterystats.bin from /data/system. Everyone says it does nothing. But I do it anyway. Because I can.
My stock battery usually gives me 7-8hrs of standby and 3hrs of screen time.
Zerolemon 2300mah gives me 20hrs of standby and usually 5hrs of screen time.
You can check in the accessories section in the zerolemon 2300mah that I've posted some of my results via screenshots.
About the dip, I'm not sure I've never noticed that on any of my batteries.
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Jump has been there consistently. Had the phone 4 days, and every day when it hits 30% it drops to 20%.
Installed Betterbatterystats and I'll see what's keeping it awake. It does seem to be awake an awful lot compared to my old Atrix (switched to T-Mobile a month or so ago, and just got the phone after I was switched for a bit), which got way better battery life.
10 hours with 3 hours of on screen time is just about average for the stock battery.
I would recommended getting the zero lemon 2300 mAh slim batteries if you're lucky enough to place an order for them. They only restock in small amounts and they disappear quick.
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10 hours with 3 hours of on screen time is just about average for the stock battery.
I would recommended getting the zero lemon 2300 mAh slim batteries if you're lucky enough to place an order for them. They only restock in small amounts and they disappear quick.
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Well that's good to know. They're in stock right now on Amazon so I'll pick up the 2-pack with the charger.
OK so far the phone has spent half its time unplugged staying awake, and about half of that is being caused by DeskSMS. I got a trial a long time back and decided not to bother because I didn't use it, and when my google account restored to the phone, it apparently got installed and I didn't notice. I've uninstalled that and we'll see what else happens. Very thankful for the BetterBatteryStats suggestion; I'd never heard of it.
Well the battery is lithium ion. With repeated charging the battery loses capacity. If the battery is the one that came with the phone, buy a new stock one for cheap off Amazon. That is if you use NFC and have a certain fitted case. If not, go for an extended battery by reviews on Amazon and XDA. My battery is from December and I haven't noticed any decrease yet. The temperature of which your phone runs and the temperature of the environment also effect battery life.
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Great news, everyone. Desk Sms was the culprit all along. This is 3 hours of Netflix and then sleep over night. Just a couple wake locks that I can attribute to emails received overnight.
So out turns out the battery other than the weird drop, at least with the power saver on.
Thanks in particular for the Better Battery Stats suggestion. Without it I would have been majorly confused.
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Great news, everyone. Desk Sms was the culprit all along. This is 3 hours of Netflix and then sleep over night. Just a couple wake locks that I can attribute to emails received overnight.
So out turns out the battery other than the weird drop, at least with the power saver on.
Thanks in particular for the Better Battery Stats suggestion. Without it I would have been majorly confused.
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Glad you were able to get it all figured out. Wakelocks are VERY annoying. Search for kms.apk if Mediaserver is ever draining your battery in the future, it is a common battery draining problem as well.
If you're on TouchWiz using Power Saver, I'd recommend disabling it. It throttles your CPU in half. This may cause instability, or overheating problems or sometimes even battery drain ironically. I do however recommend, KT747 kernel with changing govs, and I/O scheduler and using Team Kernelizer tweaks. Try Eugene's CPUSleeper and it may help put DeskSMS to sleep for good. And how could I forget? Definitely try Greenify. It makes apps behave akin to iOS devices. Best of luck.
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Glad you were able to get it all figured out. Wakelocks are VERY annoying. Search for kms.apk if Mediaserver is ever draining your battery in the future, it is a common battery draining problem as well.
If you're on TouchWiz using Power Saver, I'd recommend disabling it. It throttles your CPU in half. This may cause instability, or overheating problems or sometimes even battery drain ironically. I do however recommend, KT747 kernel with changing govs, and I/O scheduler and using Team Kernelizer tweaks. Try Eugene's CPUSleeper and it may help put DeskSMS to sleep for good. And how could I forget? Definitely try Greenify. It makes apps behave akin to iOS devices. Best of luck.
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The problem with Greenify, in this case, is you can't hibernate apps that send notifications, or you will never get them.
The power saver doesn't bother me. Being in the notification area makes it easy to toggle and performance has been fine. Better Battery Stats says it gets up to 1 GHz Mac and that is plenty on the web or Facebook or Netflix.
I had assumed the media server popping up was due to Netflix streaming. It hasn't been back today since recharging. If it comes back I'll look more at disabling. Today battery life has been great. 12 hours with 2 hours of on time and at 45 percent. I definitely over reacted to the drop and it must have been Desk SMS which never should have been installed.
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If anyone has any issue with their battery sprint corp stores have a tester takes about ten min. They won't have a problem doing it if you're nice, sprint or not. It will either end up excellent marginal or poor... they don't charge for the test.
tmobile s3 running wicked. best rom i've ever used
I am extremely frustrated. My phone has always been bad with battery life. Its been over a year or so that I have not seen my phone last longer than 5-6 hours. I am constantly looking for any chance I get to charge my phone. My life revolves around checking battery %age and plugs to charge. Smart phones were suppose to be helping us, but its like they are using me to feed the juice every chance they get.
My T989 is a "SMART" phone with
- lowest on screen brightness (and a screen dimmer overlay)
- no NFC
- no haptic feedback or keytone sounds
- No animations or graphic heavy launchers
- dont play games any more
- turn off 4G/data anytime I get a chance
- No GPS
- Manual Sync emails, facebook and whatsapp
HELL, I want to go back to the age of Nokia's where the batteries would last you through weekend and still some juice left even after it goes through laundry.
But that is not what I am here to complaint about.
I would like to know what ROM+Kernel you have and how much battery life you get ? (w/ screen time)
Who else is going through these ?
Note: Currently on JB stock and a new OEM replacement battery
How often are you using your phone? It uses a lot more battery when the screen is on. You can get over 24 hours of battery life by not touching your phone at all/no apps running.
I think most people average around 3 hours of display time without charging. Check in settings/battery/display.
I'm running AOKP and depending on how often I use my phone it can really deplete my battery.
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Get a new battery maybe? I'm sorry for your issues.
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I've been running CM 10 for awhile, and I've been getting great battery life. Recently It's been sliding, and it's due to my battery just being old. I've got a new one I'll be putting in tonight. Get Gsam Battery monitor and check out what's using the battery.
easiest way i have found to extend my battery during the day is to toggle my data..if i am not using it for a bit, just toggle it off, takes 2 sec to toggle it on, and can easily double my battery life..
I use Jedi mind trick with Tiberius kernel. It fly's and I get around 12-14hrs with 1hr and 30mins or so with Facebook 1hour and half of music and texting. So get it!
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Do this stuff and read it carefully. And yes 3 to 4 hours is about average screen time. Makes no difference discussing total battery time. You can kill it 3 hours from a full charge with continuous use...or it can last 24 hours....all depends how often your using it and what you are doing with it.
If you go thru this other thread and follow all of the advice ....you should be fine.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2461864
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Try this :thumbup:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0083M5CIM/ref=mp_s_a_2?pi=SL75&qid=1348506195&sr=8-2
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Areyoucrazy, 5-6 hours of on screen time or total? If that's all you get even with screen off, something is probably keeping your phone awake. Get an app called better battery stats or gsam battery monitor to figure out what is keeping it awake.
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These are my results, after buying the LAZA 3800mAh battery. I just had it for one day and it is light years ahead of the stock battery. I don't use NFC, and my brightness is all the way down. (Still I don't believe the brightness is low enough, seems too bright). I am a student so when I'm in class I can't obviously use my phone, so that is why the screen time is below what you guys expect. Still this battery is legit! I got it for $23 shipped (Amazon Prime). On the stock battery I had to revert back to ICS, but with this Laza battery I have no gripes on leaving it on the latest CM10.2 (4.3.1) and letting it go on Dual Carriage (DC, HSPA+42) mode. As long as I leave school with more than 70 percent battery like on my HTC Sensation, I am fine.
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I'm curious to see what screen time you get on a full charge.
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DJ Scooby Doo said:
These are my results, after buying the LAZA 3800mAh battery. I just had it for one day and it is light years ahead of the stock battery. I don't use NFC, and my brightness is all the way down. (Still I don't believe the brightness is low enough, seems too bright). I am a student so when I'm in class I can't obviously use my phone, so that is why the screen time is below what you guys expect. Still this battery is legit! I got it for $23 shipped (Amazon Prime). On the stock battery I had to revert back to ICS, but with this Laza battery I have no gripes on leaving it on the latest CM10.2 (4.3.1) and letting it go on Dual Carriage (DC, HSPA+42) mode. As long as I leave school with more than 70 percent battery like on my HTC Sensation, I am fine.
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I get the same on stock battery
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13~BigBear~13 said:
I get the same on stock battery
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On Jedi or on CM10.2? I don't know if Stock lets you use Dual Carriage or not. (Probably does, doesn't show it).
gc84245 said:
Areyoucrazy, 5-6 hours of on screen time or total? If that's all you get even with screen off, something is probably keeping your phone awake. Get an app called better battery stats or gsam battery monitor to figure out what is keeping it awake.
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It is the total battery hours. My screan time is barely 1 hour.
coltonbauman said:
I've been running CM 10 for awhile, and I've been getting great battery life. Recently It's been sliding, and it's due to my battery just being old. I've got a new one I'll be putting in tonight. Get Gsam Battery monitor and check out what's using the battery.
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I do have GSAM battery monitor installed. I had it installed since it was called "bad ass battery monitor". It always is consistent and shows that screen uses most battery (abt 35% of overall usage), even at lowest setting. I also have a screen Filter app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.haxor That overlays on the screen that dims it even further and is believed to save some more battery.
The other major user is the apps which is
- Android &
- Kernel
kj2112 said:
Do this stuff and read it carefully. And yes 3 to 4 hours is about average screen time. Makes no difference discussing total battery time. You can kill it 3 hours from a full charge with continuous use...or it can last 24 hours....all depends how often your using it and what you are doing with it.
If you go thru this other thread and follow all of the advice ....you should be fine.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2461864
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I will try the cpu spy again. I remember doing it before and it was almost inconclusive if there were things I could control vs system related drain that I couldnt control.
I am currently on a new OEM battery (2 months old) and several ROMs later,. Some ppl claim they get best battery life, I just want to mirror exact same ROM, kernel... even the apps they have and their refresh settings if I need to.
DJ Scooby Doo said:
On Jedi or on CM10.2? I don't know if Stock lets you use Dual Carriage or not. (Probably does, doesn't show it).
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Jedi
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Dude.....less than an hour screen time tells something is very wrong.
First...I would bet the screen dimmer app Burns more battery than it saves.....that'd be my guess.
Second....flash a fresh rom, or stock. Run it at least a few days as is. With only gsam and cpuspy installed. Nothing else. I know you may really miss some apps....but its the only way to see if its an app, or rom, or hardware.
Then off gps after your install. Its on by default and is a huge battery sucker.
I'll bet things will be greatly improved. Then install apps.....monitor closely for changes in gsam or cpuspy.
Your screen battery usage should be more like 60 percent or higher....even as dim as it goes. That's normal. Apps, maybe 30 percent and then the other stuff. A 35 percent battery drain from the screen says you have problems.
After all your apps are installed.....try everything in that link I posted. Everything. And things should stay good.
Keep us posted.
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wow, and i thought mine was bad... i have my screen on alot and play 3d games, i guess im doing good. running slimbean.
I do believe that the battery life on this phone is not the greatest, a spare 5$ ebay battery in the wallet keeps me worry free
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