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At first my girlfriend had her Nexus S updated to ics and immediately we noticed a huge difference in how long her battery lasted and she is the furthest thing from a heavy user.
So when I heard that ics ws being released for our phone my first thought was i hope that what she experienced won't be what i do as we have a better phone right?
Well I am sad to say on a stock but rooted rom I experience the same lack of battery life as her.
Now I am no beginner to Android and have changed all sorts of settings available and nothing syncs on its own and when I unplug my phone from charging in the morning I will need to plug my phone in at night before bed as my phone will be completely dead.
I have to say I am very disappointed in the battery life of thr the stock rom and hope some good kernels make it out to help.
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Have you tried to find out which app/process is draining your battery? Better Battery Stats can help you identify what is using up your battery.
I had a big keep awake problem when i first installed stock ICS on my T989D. I did a full wipe of the phone and formatted my internal SD card (after backing things up of course), reinstall the same stock ICS and everything works great now. Battery life is about the same as before (stock GB w/ Synergy kernel), which is about 30 hours with moderate use.
Try CM 9. I get almost 2 days of battery life.
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I've never had better battery life personally.
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Though I am now on AOKP, I had great battery life on stock ICS as well. But, everything is subjective. How many email accounts are being synced? Do you have Facebook / Twitter / G+ updating every hour? Do you have news feeds continuously updating as well?
I have to agree with the poster above. Get Better Battery Stats and find the culprit draining your battery and work from there.
biggest thing draining the battery is the screen.
you can literally watch the battery usage drop 10-15% in a period of 10 to 15 minutes which is absurd when its set to low.
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Wait for kernel development. Its underway as we speak. It will make a significant difference.
Some battery saving tips:
- use juicedefender and set it to aggressive mode.
- use romtoolbox or other programs to underclock cpu frequency.
- also try using telus stock ics. Very good battery life.
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I have a brand new T989D (I'm new to Android, former iPhone user) and got the ICS upgrade the day I got it (9 days ago). Battery life is terrible, I'm lucky if I get 10 hours of moderate usage. The phone also tends to run very, very hot. Sometimes apps freeze and all I can do is either wait or, in some cases, remove the battery to reboot.
I'm open to any tips that will get this fixed! I haven't rooted yet (no time). I think I will try those wipe tools and reflash the stock ICS ROM.
First post btw - glad to have joined XDA!
Rooting takes 5 seconds. Follow the sticky. Use odin.
Run a custom rom.
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Rooting takes 5 seconds. Follow the sticky. Use odin.
Run a custom rom.
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Thanks, although a lot of howtos seem to be for GB since ICS only landed 9 days ago. Also there's a lot of conflicting information, so I prefer this one:
http : // galaxys2root.com/t-mobile-galaxy-s2/how-to-root-icsgb-on-t-mobile-galaxy-s2-sgh-t989/
Aaaannnd... rooted! \o/
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Wait for kernel development. Its underway as we speak. It will make a significant difference.
Some battery saving tips:
- use juicedefender and set it to aggressive mode.
- use romtoolbox or other programs to underclock cpu frequency.
- also try using telus stock ics. Very good battery life.
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phone is a telus phone so its already using that rom.
setcpu us setup already but thinking perhaps to undervolt
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Stock, not rooted, my battery life is great. Something is using your battery up, and flashing some exotic kernel isn't going to change that. The stock kernel works fine. You'll want to find the root of the problem. Keep a real-time (or 1-5s interval anyway) eye on the phone's current (mA) usage, and when it's high for no apparent reason, you'll know that whatever is sucking your battery is doing it right then. That should help you characterize the problem. I've noticed when my WCDMA/GSM radio signal sucks, so does the battery life, so I either turn off the radio or switch to GSM only when I'm in that area. If your display is what's eating your battery, well a kernel can't stop that. Turn the brightness down, leave it on auto-brightness, or just deal with it if you need the display on all the time. But if tweaking and modding makes you happy, by all means...
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biggest thing draining the battery is the screen.
you can literally watch the battery usage drop 10-15% in a period of 10 to 15 minutes which is absurd when its set to low.
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I have the same complaint. The "screen" battery usage is just unacceptable, especially compared to GB. My phone has been draining from a full charge for ~4.5 hours and my screen usage is 70% and battery is down to 65% with hardly 10 minutes of screen-on time.
I use an app called autostarts and you basically enable/disable apps that start running when certain events happen (phone startup, wifi being turned on, incoming call/sms/mms, other apps turning on, etc.). Just make sure you do your homework so you dont disable something critical. Hopefully this app works on ICS. You'll be surprised what different events make certain apps turn on automaticly. Screen, data/wifi, gps and bluetooth are the biggest battery drainers. No matter what Rom you are on if you don't keep control of those items your battery will drain fast. Keep ur screen on auto, let it go off @ 15 seconds ( you have to be pretty used to your phone for that setting not to annoy you), turn OFF your data or wifi when not in use. With bluetooth and gps...well u know that when you use them your battery is gonna drain faster than normal...just keep that in mind. Its all pretty much common sense.
I'm not going to tell you how much battery time I get cuz its nonsense. There are times my phone lasts till the next day and others Im charging it by sundown. Then again Im still on Juggs n Darkside kernel and Im gonna wait a bit still b4 I make the switch. Also don't go by what other people say on battery life cuz if you might not get the same results on that ROM. Everyone of our devices is unique and acts different. Everyone user uses their phone different. You can't define "light, moderate, heavy" use so don't go by that either.
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Duel core vs single core
Larger brighter screen
Processor is clocked higher
Radio is connected to hspa+ network
Tw vs Samsung.
These things make a difference
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After upgrading to ICS stock unrooted battery life sucked (5-6hrs). I did the whole remove battery, factory reset and still sucked.
Broke down rooted (still stock), downloaded batterycalibration from play, followed the instructions. Easily get over 24hrs before having to charge again. and when I say easily, I mean I still have over 25% left.
Get a gnex extended....maybe a bad battery
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AOKP build 40, latest eugene373 streamline kernel. I went 9 hours earlier it earlier and it was still at 70% You will see a difference!!
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Im not going to tell you how much battery time I get cuz its nonsense. .........Everyone user uses their phone different. You can't define "light, moderate, heavy" use so don't go by that either.
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Bingo. Vastly different battery life between ROM's is generally BS. Every once in a great while one of these threads has merit but typically someone saying ROM X had "Killer" battery life is clueless and drinking the koolaid. Then a placebo effect takes place. And definitely someones "Heavy" use is subjective. If someone says they get a day out of an android phone they are not heavy users by my definition. It doesn't happen with heavy use. Perhaps the Razr Maxx or another phone with a very large battery but I've had 5 Android phones. If I get past noon it's because I am not using my phone that much and forget about a full day. It's never happened in the 4 years I've used google OS phones. Never.
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Bingo. Vastly different battery life between ROM's is generally BS. Every once in a great while one of these threads has merit but typically someone saying ROM X had "Killer" battery life is clueless and drinking the koolaid. Then a placebo effect takes place. And definitely someones "Heavy" use is subjective. If someone says they get a day out of an android phone they are not heavy users by my definition. It doesn't happen with heavy use. Perhaps the Razr Maxx or another phone with a very large battery but I've had 5 Android phones. If I get past noon it's because I am not using my phone that much and forget about a full day. It's never happened in the 4 years I've used google OS phones. Never.
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Yes exactly, I hate when people post screenshots of their phone getting 24+ hours, I'm there thinking "well obviously they don't use their phone alot". There is no way in hell i could get 24 hours no matter what rom/kernal I use. Im just happy when my phone can make it till I get home at night
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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.
Battery Life
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.
Epic4GT with different ROMs every few days. Thanks Devs!
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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.
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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.
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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
How many people here use juice defender and what do u think of it? I recently purchased juice defender ultimate and want to know if it is really worth it or not.
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From my own opinion, don't use any app that said for saving battery, I feel useless.
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It's useless tbh
Battery can save only by low brightness, less active connections and less ram consuming apps...
Battery savor apps do it automatically... don't waste your money on this kind of apps... do it manually; like me...
I see thanks for the input
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Any app that claims to save battery only uses more battery by doing processes you can do yourself, so all you are doing is wasting battery instead of saving it...
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Any app that claims to save battery only uses more battery by doing processes you can do yourself, so all you are doing is wasting battery instead of saving it...
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well actually it does save battery but it depends on how well you know your device
if you know you can manage it yourself then ok you dont need it but it also helps by turning off data when the screen is off
but really for most people its not worth it and i would highly not recommend it
I used it on another (older) phone and it helped noticeably and I bought the plus version.
On this phone, I'm not so sure. Newer phones seem pretty efficient in the way they turn on/off radios. Currently, I can see JD offering a little benifit if you use it to schedule your syncing times at longer intervals (and you get a lot of email/notifications), and using the night time feature to shut down sync altogether during the night.
On this phone, I've actually had much better results using some customized init.d scripts put together by someone in my other phone's forum. I'm still testing them out, so perhaps I'll have him post it here once I know for sure there aren't any issues.
on this phone, those scripts made much more of a difference than JD did. here's some screen shots of the last two charges. The scripts seems to help most with saving battery when the screen is off. I'm a light user also, and hardly used my phone yesterday.
What are your settings?
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I'm on Darkside Evo rom (ICS 4.04) and the jedi ics kernal basted on 3.0.8
I turned JD off last night before I went to bed and when I got up for work this morning, my battery had dropped from 68% to 48%. With JD on, I usually only get about 9-10% drop. So I'm keeping JD.
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*edit* I had tried that cpu sleeper app (old version I believe), and I think it messed up some things I had going before I installed it, since my batter life dropped off a lot. So I'm going to reflash the rom today and set everything up again without it. I see there is a newer version in the market, so perhaps I'll try that one later.
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For JD, I use the customize profile, and have the mobile data option enabled (turns off when screen is off),
I have the wifi option disabled (since I have it off most of the time anyway). And you can't use wifi calling if it's enabled because it turns wifi off when the screen is off.
sync is at every 30 mins
Night mode from 12am to 6am
I don't use app control, since I didn't want data enabled when I wasn't using my phone
Also, go to the google play store app, and disable automatic updating. I only have it set to update over wifi only. And be sure to disable notifications in any social networking app like facebook.
and use dark wallpapers, since the screen sucks the most juice. Mine are nearly black.
with the jedi kernal, you can use antutu cpu master to underclock and undervolt the phone. I just enabled some minor UV and UC, so we'll see how it does.
I paid for JD a long time ago....before I ever knew about programs like gsam. And when I saw it woke my phone over 200 times in a work day on aggressive mode....I uninstalled it and will never use it again.
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Alot of people talk alot of smack about Juice Defender. I decided to go awhile without it and noticed a considerable difference over a week period. I'll never go without it again. It's reliable easy to use and I've got the free version so it's even better. I know it's not for everyone for whatever reason but I work in a building 10+ hours a day and the fact that it turns my data off for me as needed is great..
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Can any one confirm that this app keeps the phone awake too often than help it going into deep sleep
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Can any one confirm that this app keeps the phone awake too often than help it going into deep sleep
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i can confirm. i am a credible source, check my thanks meter :good:
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Alot of people talk alot of smack about Juice Defender. I decided to go awhile without it and noticed a considerable difference over a week period. I'll never go without it again. It's reliable easy to use and I've got the free version so it's even better. I know it's not for everyone for whatever reason but I work in a building 10+ hours a day and the fact that it turns my data off for me as needed is great..
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your experience differs from many, pretty much everyone else lol. but whatever works for u. but I'm almost sure that with proper configuration even with the data left on all day u'd get more juice. that being said I'm not u and I don't use your phone so I agree to disagree
well i never trust third party anti viruses and battery savers - for a belief that they are all gimmicks has somehow been implanted into my mind during the early stages of my xda induction. But following the hype all around regarding jb i have had tried it once but didn't notice any difference - neither did it make things worse nor did it make em better - so i gave it up and now believe that a power user has many stuff at his discretion that he could configure to his liking to make extraction of juice from his pack more or less suitable with respect to his usage patterns
just my 2 cents
why fix it if it ain't broken ?
Juice defender is for noobs who don't know how to turn off sync, GPS, data or wifi.
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I'm on Darkside Evo rom (ICS 4.04) and the jedi ics kernal basted on 3.0.8
I turned JD off last night before I went to bed and when I got up for work this morning, my battery had dropped from 68% to 48%. With JD on, I usually only get about 9-10% drop. So I'm keeping JD.
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*edit* I had tried that cpu sleeper app (old version I believe), and I think it messed up some things I had going before I installed it, since my batter life dropped off a lot. So I'm going to reflash the rom today and set everything up again without it. I see there is a newer version in the market, so perhaps I'll try that one later.
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For JD, I use the customize profile, and have the mobile data option enabled (turns off when screen is off),
I have the wifi option disabled (since I have it off most of the time anyway). And you can't use wifi calling if it's enabled because it turns wifi off when the screen is off.
sync is at every 30 mins
Night mode from 12am to 6am
I don't use app control, since I didn't want data enabled when I wasn't using my phone
Also, go to the google play store app, and disable automatic updating. I only have it set to update over wifi only. And be sure to disable notifications in any social networking app like facebook.
and use dark wallpapers, since the screen sucks the most juice. Mine are nearly black.
with the jedi kernal, you can use antutu cpu master to underclock and undervolt the phone. I just enabled some minor UV and UC, so we'll see how it does.
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Can any one confirm that this app keeps the phone awake too often than help it going into deep sleep
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CPU spy and better battery stats will demonstrate that this app does not cause wake locks or cause you're phone to wake to often. All juice defender is is essentially a toggle for data. And I'm apparently not the only one with a positive experience with this app. I put forth an effort to not use it because I trust most the guys in these forums especially ASD's this was just one area where personal experience out weighed others. It's a free app. Heck, test it yourself. Lol. That's the real best answer for anyone.
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Juice defender is for noobs who don't know how to turn off sync, GPS, data or wifi.
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Anyone can turn off simple toggles. The handiest thing about JD is that it's automatic and easy to set up. I don't have to turn on and off all these various things all day. Set it and forget it.
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yeah, it would drive me crazy turning toggles on and off every single time I touched my phone to look at something. JD automates things and limits how often your phone syncs if you set it up properly.
right now I'm sitting at 18 hours up time with 72% battery left. 37 minutes of voice calls and 14 minutes with the screen on. I don't use my phone much at work because I'm in front of a computer all day, so I typically get better battery life than most people who are out-and-about all day.
I just got this phone 2 weeks ago, and I was getting about 18-24 hours total for each charge.. Now that I've got some things figured out, using my init.d scripts and JD, I'm getting about 48 hrs on a single charge.
after this charge, I'll disable JD and see how the phone does. typically at night, my phone loses less than 1% per hour. so maybe 7%-8% battery loss over 10 hours or so. before JD, it was like 15-20% loss over the same amount of time. I figure that's a pretty good test since the phone isn't being touched at all. But I'll test again, just to be sure it wasn't anything else I installed (since I had been trying different roms and apps a lot).
I haven't installed anything new since the weekend, so the phone should be pretty well settled in by now. Next charge, I'll disable JD and report back.
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yeah, it would drive me crazy turning toggles on and off every single time I touched my phone to look at something. JD automates things and limits how often your phone syncs if you set it up properly.
right now I'm sitting at 18 hours up time with 72% battery left. 37 minutes of voice calls and 14 minutes with the screen on. I don't use my phone much at work because I'm in front of a computer all day, so I typically get better battery life than most people who are out-and-about all day.
I just got this phone 2 weeks ago, and I was getting about 18-24 hours total for each charge.. Now that I've got some things figured out, using my init.d scripts and JD, I'm getting about 48 hrs on a single charge.
after this charge, I'll disable JD and see how the phone does. typically at night, my phone loses less than 1% per hour. so maybe 7%-8% battery loss over 10 hours or so. before JD, it was like 15-20% loss over the same amount of time. I figure that's a pretty good test since the phone isn't being touched at all. But I'll test again, just to be sure it wasn't anything else I installed (since I had been trying different roms and apps a lot).
I haven't installed anything new since the weekend, so the phone should be pretty well settled in by now. Next charge, I'll disable JD and report back.
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Here's the thing. I consider myself to be a power user. Maybe I just don't know what some of these other options are. If there's a better way to do it I'm open to more education. I like to learn new things. So let's here it. What else can I use to turn off my mobile data when I turn my screen off to save battery. Something automated and easy to use.
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I can tell u straight up if you're using JD to disable the internal radios and only turn them on once every 30 minutes or so you won't get as much without it to have 48 hours total time off one charge, u must be doing that, or having it switch to airplane mode inbetween certain hours. nI would also think u probably have location awareness on, and switch to WiFi at work.
Just installed a battery saving app from snapdragon..
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiam.snapdragon.app
Has someone used this app for a while... please share experiences and comparison with other apps like juuce defender.
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I just downloaded it to see how it does compare to Juice Defender and DS Battery Saver Pro. I never really like Juice Defender and have been using Battery Saver for a month and it seems to help my battery life.
Once I have been using for a few days I will report back what I think about it. Thanks for the post tho otherwise I wouldn't have found this app.
Just installed this.... will report back when it's done learning and switches to saving mode.
Thanks for the heads up, i'll give this a try.
nice grabbed this up will be checking it out.
Just posted this in the Verizon Galaxy S III forum as well.
Still seems silly to me that we are going to have to have 4 separate discussions for an app that will work the same on each carrier.
I'm not really sure on what the value of these apps are.
Letting my phone do whatever it wants when I'm on wifi and my phone is sitting idle, my phone uses around 1%/hour of battery life.
Some portion of that is all this app could really save then, right?
Why bother if, in exchange, I'm possibly having delayed notifications, apps not updating in the background, etc.?
I've been running this app .today is 3 day (around) have not rebooted or anything using phone as always honestly don't see a difference yet..
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This app just switched from learning to power saving mode. Will see how it goes.
hedphones said:
This app just switched from learning to power saving mode. Will see how it goes.
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Mine too. I didn't think it would ever switch over. I'm interested to see how it goes. I currently use 5.8% battery per hour. Hope it helps out.
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I just downloaded it to see how it does compare to Juice Defender and DS Battery Saver Pro. I never really like Juice Defender and have been using Battery Saver for a month and it seems to help my battery life.
Once I have been using for a few days I will report back what I think about it. Thanks for the post tho otherwise I wouldn't have found this app.
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Let us know how it fares against JD and BSP. I have JD Uktmate and have been happy with it. I lose about 1% an hour at night which is better than the 3% I was losing prior to purchasing JDU.
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Let us know how it fares against JD and BSP. I have JD Uktmate and have been happy with it. I lose about 1% an hour at night which is better than the 3% I was losing prior to purchasing JDU.
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doesnt do anything, i get about 12% drain in 9 hours when im sleeping, what it does just turn off wifi for me if im not in range, which is useless, having wifi on doesnt drain much battery at all
Thanks for the link! Will update in a few days with results
can't tell if it's just a placebo effect or not, but i feel like my battery life is a little better after using this app
I haver never once had a random reboot until I installed this today not sure its related just throwing it out there
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After using this for the past few days I would say overall it is not that bad of an app. I am really starting to like it. My average battery usage went from 5-6%/hr to 3-4%/hr. I know there are a lot of variables that go into this but I would say it works as well DS Battery Saver. I have also used JD but never really liked that app. I will continue to use this app to see what the long term would be on here but its a good find in my opinion.
If nothing else try it out for a week or so and compare stats. I use Better Battery Stats to get my info from.
Has anyone compared this to the relatively new "Greenify" battery saving app?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2155737
Anything that suggests it saves battery makes me nervous. Because the only way to do that is to shut down apps. And when you shut down the app, it may not get updated, or it may open very slowly when you do need it, etc.
I did not like it much... i am guessing that all this app does is change sync frequencies of different apps. To do it it tries to determine your location so that it can turn sync off/on or change sync interval based on your prior usage patterns.
Once it was out of learning mode, i noticed that my s3 battery drain was quicker due to excessive usage of maps by this app.
I uninstalled the app... and have got my battery life back.
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Has anyone compared this to the relatively new "Greenify" battery saving app?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2155737
Anything that suggests it saves battery makes me nervous. Because the only way to do that is to shut down apps. And when you shut down the app, it may not get updated, or it may open very slowly when you do need it, etc.
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I just downloaded it and Greenified Facebook, ESPN Radio and ScoreCenter so far too see if I notice any difference.
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I don't like this app. It turned off almost all my syncing for my Google account lol. I was wondering why I wasn't getting my emails lol
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First off, I would like to say that I have searched several times for this answer to no avail.
I just came from a Maxx HD (XT926) which obviously had phenomenal battery life. So I'm not terribly surprised by the reduced battery life moving to the One. However, I'm currently only getting about 8 hours off of the charger with 2.5 hours screen time. Via GSam, there do not appear to be any terrible wake locks or rampant apps running in the background. I typically observe a wake time of +/- 10 minutes from my screen on time.
My typical usage right now is some heavy texting, light Facebook browsing, a GroupMe thread, and that's about it.
System settings are generally screen brightness on one bar (from the notification pull down, not sure what the actual percentage is), wifi/bluetooth/gps OFF, NFC and mobile data on all the time.
I have disabled the location via wifi options, so that's not currently a factor either.
What is the typical off charger and screen time for you folks? I love the phone, but a bit frustrated with the ~10% per hour battery drain at idle...
Thanks in advance for any input!
unrooted this seems to be the norm. there's a slew of VZW bloat apps that will check to see if you are using them once an a while, also blink feed refreshing often will have this impact.
right now on rooted Ecliptic rom i can get about 12 hours up time with 3.5 hours screen and still have 45% battery left. This is mainly on 4g some WiFi. this a 4.4 rom and has the options to turn things off the stock system cant like blinkfeed.
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unrooted this seems to be the norm. there's a slew of VZW bloat apps that will check to see if you are using them once an a while, also blink feed refreshing often will have this impact.
right now on rooted Ecliptic rom i can get about 12 hours up time with 3.5 hours screen and still have 45% battery left. This is mainly on 4g some WiFi. this a 4.4 rom and has the options to turn things off the stock system cant like blinkfeed.
-wait till the offical comes out ( rummored to be at the end of this month) it should help-
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Thanks, Synisterwolf.
That definitely helps put to bed some of the concerns I was having.
I'm definitely not opposed to rooting, but if I remember correctly, build 2.10.605.1 doesn't yet have an exploit, correct?
Again, thanks for the input.
That seems low to me, even for stock. Granted I debloated even when I was running stock, since I was rooted. I was getting closer to 3.75 hours of screen time for that amount of time off charger. But like I said, I was debloated.
Edit: I also don't use NFC, so that was off too. Not sure how much NFC affects the battery, as I've never really used it on any phone I've had.
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That seems low to me, even for stock. Granted I debloated even when I was running stock, since I was rooted. I was getting closer to 3.75 hours of screen time for that amount of time off charger. But like I said, I was debloated.
Edit: I also don't use NFC, so that was off too. Not sure how much NFC affects the battery, as I've never really used it on any phone I've had.
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there are a lot of things that can make the battery not last. i know the bloat the try to see ya is one of them
@ op no exploit as of yet. but on 4.4 you can go settngs > apps > all apps and click the ones you want to disable. its almost like uninstalling them for the non rooted devices.
I think there's a disable option option in 4.3 as well, so I'll give that a try.
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Completely stock, bloatware disabled. 2.5 hours screen on 14 hours heavy use.
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Ouch... I'm way off then.
Has anyone compiled a list of safely disabled bloatware for these? Or is it kind of trial and error?
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Stock won't let you disable anything that can cause issues, as far as I know.
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Awesome. Now hopefully there's less chance for me to bork my phone.
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With the help of Green Power Premium, my phone lasts 14 hours with moderate use and 8 hours with constant/heavy use. I don't use NFC or Bluetooth and turn off gps when I'm not using Google Maps. Honestly this phone is a god send coming from an Incredible 4G LTE
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You can range between 8 and 16 unrooted stock. Depends on the use age and what you use. I do know with viper ROM and elemental x kernel its has superior deep sleep and hardly uses the battery at all. To give you an example of stock and other ROMs/ kernels I use to get about 14 while at work and finish with about 14% battery life at the end of my 12 hr shift. With my current setup I can go the 14 hr run and have between 75 to 65 percent battery life left and this is with sync active for mail Facebook and so on. So that's just an example of stock vs rooted.
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You can range between 8 and 16 unrooted stock. Depends on the use age and what you use. I do know with viper ROM and elemental x kernel its has superior deep sleep and hardly uses the battery at all. To give you an example of stock and other ROMs/ kernels I use to get about 14 while at work and finish with about 14% battery life at the end of my 12 hr shift. With my current setup I can go the 14 hr run and have between 75 to 65 percent battery life left and this is with sync active for mail Facebook and so on. So that's just an example of stock vs rooted.
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With moderate use I drain about 40-50% of the battery throughout a 15 hour day. I'm running a battery saving script though which disables 2 minutes after screen off for cellular and 7 for wifi with interval updates. I also disabled a bunch of permissions for apps that I know I'll never need but for apps I frequent. On average I use my GPS for about 20-30 minutes of the day playing Ingress.
If I'm at work I only lose about 35% battery throughout the entire day. I only send/receive a total of about 100 text a day, and don't game other than Ingress. Very light Facebook use, browsing, and such.
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Those usage times are pretty good for stock. I would be happy with anything over 12 hours right now.
I did notice bit better battery life after freezing/disabling some of the stock bloatware, but now I'm trying out an old fallback: JuiceDefender.
So far, it seems to be helping substantially (although it obviously only helps during idle times as it shuts off mobile data until the screen is on/unlocked), but I'll wait until I've had a full cycle before passing any final judgement.
run this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiam.snapdragon.app
for 2 days and it will start controlling things in the background based off of how you use your phone. It will manage gps, wifi, data and not allow apps that you don't use regularly run in the background.
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run this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiam.snapdragon.app
for 2 days and it will start controlling things in the background based off of how you use your phone. It will manage gps, wifi, data and not allow apps that you don't use regularly run in the background.
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I had heard of this app, never installed it till now though. Would you suggest ditching the JuiceDefender app, or leave it running in conjunction with Battery Guru?
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I had heard of this app, never installed it till now though. Would you suggest ditching the JuiceDefender app, or leave it running in conjunction with Battery Guru?
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I would try just that and see if it helps. It just monitors your usage for the first 48 hours so if you are running other battery savers it might not work as well.
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I'm totally stock and I regularly get 30 or more hours of battery. And I don't just keep my phone on the desk all day. I get 3.5-4 hours screen on time. 10% drain when not using your phone seems like an awful lot.
I have everything off that I don't need or use. That's pretty much it. I'm also on WiFi pretty much all the time too at home and at work. Don't know if that has anything to do with it
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Yeah, WiFi doesn't kill the battery nearly as much as the CDMA/LTE radio does. Unfortunately, I have both poor signal, AND lack of WiFi at work. Haha. Oh well.
30/3.5 would be fantastic. I'm jealous.
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So question, where are you finding these screen on numbers? I looked under battery and the usage part shows apps but not screen on. The graph shows when the screen is on at what point during the day but no durations are given.