[Q] whats best network setting - LG Nitro HD

I am no the At&t network, I have installed a rom that lets you choose your singnal type. what is the best signal to use for low power consumption but isnt too slow?

theandroidboss said:
I am no the At&t network, I have installed a rom that lets you choose your singnal type. what is the best signal to use for low power consumption but isnt too slow?
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For less power consumption, choose one that avoids LTE, especially if you don't have LTE signal in your area. I use GSM/WCDMA. I get HSPA+ speeds all day long.
If you REALLY want to save power, choose the "2G Only" option... and be prepared to switch it back when you realize how slow it is!

Is there a way to disable cell standby when out of service or at least make it not cheeck so often, my house has spots without signal so standby is ussaly 10% of battery usage.

theandroidboss said:
Is there a way to disable cell standby when out of service or at least make it not cheeck so often, my house has spots without signal so standby is ussaly 10% of battery usage.
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standby is important and cannot be disabled
you can disable your data connection when your in a poor zone manually, just get a widget like power toggles and its a one click button on your homescreen to toggle data on/off

theandroidboss said:
Is there a way to disable cell standby when out of service or at least make it not cheeck so often, my house has spots without signal so standby is ussaly 10% of battery usage.
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Yes, turn on airplane mode which disables the cell standby
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[Q] 3 Questions for Android Battery Life

Was wondering for android devices if having wifi on is best for the power.. as phones use power trying to find better signals. I have a wifi, and a good signal at my house, what should i use?
And also for battery life, when i hold the off button, there is an option to turn Data network on/off, if i turn it off, do i save power? Thanks!
Also.. is it bad for my phone if i swap between 2 batteries that have different levels of power on the at the time? like 40% and 90%? Thanks!
If you're at home with WiFi then turn it on and kill mobile data. WiFi can save more juice even if you don't necessarily have poor reception at your house. Your voice is still active. It's not like airplane which kills all the radios. But you can do that as well and still connect to WiFi.
As for the battery switching, I don't see why that would be an issue.
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When out of range of Wifi, turn Wifi off, When in range turn it on for best battery life
There's an app called WiFi Status that I use. When you go out of a wifi range, it notifies you to remind you to turn off wifi. Saves a lot of battery, as wifi isn't constantly scanning.
I think it's justified to make it stay on for smartphones. And my Atrix's battery life sucks. Irony is - it seems to be the best smartphone battery (for an Android device, yet).
And honestly, smartphones' battery benchmark tests should only be done with Wi-Fi turned on..
I use an app called Y5 https://market.android.com/details?id=pl.polidea.y5&feature=search_result. The app can record your wifi zone, and will disable wifi when out of range, and re-enable when in range. It saves me time and energy when I get home from work.
use wifi at home.
Yes turn on wifi only when needed.

Signal refresh interval.

Is there a way to change the update interval that the phone will use to look for/update the [CDMA] signal? This would be usefull for saving battery life and such. When you are roaming, having it "search" for a signal drains battery life fast. And when you are home (or somewhere where you are mostly staying in one place) there is no need to constantly be looking to see if the signal has changed.
matdombrock said:
Is there a way to change the update interval that the phone will use to look for/update the [CDMA] signal? This would be usefull for saving battery life and such. When you are roaming, having it "search" for a signal drains battery life fast. And when you are home (or somewhere where you are mostly staying in one place) there is no need to constantly be looking to see if the signal has changed.
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I just use airplane mode in areas of low or no signal areas. there are some apps which can turn on airplane mode and check fro messages, missed calls every X minutes of time, i forgot the name though

[Q] HTC One X - Poor reception causing battery drain

I just upgraded from a Samsung captivate to the HTC One X. Actually, I have two of these devices - one for the wife. We went to a rural area yesterday with bad reception, and by the middle of the afternoon both of our phones were dead. Looking at the power usage, cell standby ate up 60-something percent of the battery with 22-percent of the time with no signal. Is this the accepted behavior? I never had this problem with other phones. Searching the forums basically returns answers like "put your phone in airplane mode when you have bad reception." It just seems like the phone should figure out how to quit wasting power somehow (like I assume other phones do). Any advice? Any way to limit the max power of the radio when in a poor reception area?
bignate2k1 said:
I just upgraded from a Samsung captivate to the HTC One X. Actually, I have two of these devices - one for the wife. We went to a rural area yesterday with bad reception, and by the middle of the afternoon both of our phones were dead. Looking at the power usage, cell standby ate up 60-something percent of the battery with 22-percent of the time with no signal. Is this the accepted behavior? I never had this problem with other phones. Searching the forums basically returns answers like "put your phone in airplane mode when you have bad reception." It just seems like the phone should figure out how to quit wasting power somehow (like I assume other phones do). Any advice? Any way to limit the max power of the radio when in a poor reception area?
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From the dialer type *#*#4636#*#* (*#*#INFO#*#*)
Go to phone information
scroll down to set preferred network type, it probably have in 'WCDMA preferred'
click on it and choose 'GSM AUTO (PRL)'
This will lower the power usage of the radio searching for a better signal, this will be ideal in low signal areas, i use this also and it saves a lot of battery.
If your phone is rebooted this setting will probably revert back to WCDMA preferred by the way :highfive:
Ok, thanks, I'll give that a try.
25092992 said:
From the dialer type *#*#4636#*#* (*#*#INFO#*#*)
Go to phone information
scroll down to set preferred network type, it probably have in 'WCDMA preferred'
click on it and choose 'GSM AUTO (PRL)'
This will lower the power usage of the radio searching for a better signal, this will be ideal in low signal areas, i use this also and it saves a lot of battery.
If your phone is rebooted this setting will probably revert back to WCDMA preferred by the way :highfive:
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Since when does this work? When you check the setting again it's back on WCDMA. Not just reboot.
He could just shutdown data and use GSM from the menu... That will stick...
Settings > Mobile network > Network mode
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Hello, i tried on mine, and it gets back on WCDMA preferred on reboot.
I didn't noticed that.
I set it "again" to GSM Auto (PRL) and it looks to stay active
but i have to quit the menu with the home button.
I noticed that if i quit parameters menu with the back button, it is resetted to WCDMA preffered
when i get back in the hidden options ...
No way to force this parameter to stay ?
Yeah, my phone won't event let me change it from "gsm/wcdma/lte auto". Every time I try, it just changes right back. I thought about trying to set up tasker to detect no signal and turn off data. Then when back in range, turn data back on. Any other ideas?
bignate2k1 said:
Yeah, my phone won't event let me change it from "gsm/wcdma/lte auto". Every time I try, it just changes right back. I thought about trying to set up tasker to detect no signal and turn off data. Then when back in range, turn data back on. Any other ideas?
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Isn't this how this actually works now? What about just setup tasker on location or time. Or just have a manual switch to turn to gprs/edge. Not entirely data of. But then again slow data much syncing big drain.
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[Q] S3 Battery Usage

Hi there,
I'm currently trying to maximize my battery life and I ran into something weird.
I've currently have tasker on disabling and enabling data (screen on/off), greenifying, kt747 with under volt and under clock etc.
Under normal usage I can probably get 2-2.5 hours of screen time and a total of 6 hours of usage time at work. I was told this time wasn't great and I couldnt see how I can fix this problem.
Then at home I had my wifi enabled and left my phone sitting idle and noticed it drained a lot slower. I ended up with over 1.5 days of usage and 2-3 hours of on screen time.
The odd thing is...my screen was off most of the time, meaning data was both off. Wifi was on at home, also to note the signal strength was significantly weaker at home and its LTE. Thats why I'm so piuzzled why at home I can get much better battery life
To recap:
At work: (6 hours)
HSPA (not LTE)
Great signal (full bars or over 22 on the real signal app)
screen off during idle data is off
no wifi on
At home (36 hours)
LTE/HSPA (swapping back and forth trying to get a good signal)
Terrible signal 1-2 bars (0-5 on the real signal app)
Screen off and data off
wifi is left on the entire time
My question is what is causing this difference? What am I missing here. How can I get the longer battery life without being on wifi
mikoal said:
Hi there,
I'm currently trying to maximize my battery life and I ran into something weird.
I've currently have tasker on disabling and enabling data (screen on/off), greenifying, kt747 with under volt and under clock etc.
Under normal usage I can probably get 2-2.5 hours of screen time and a total of 6 hours of usage time at work. I was told this time wasn't great and I couldnt see how I can fix this problem.
Then at home I had my wifi enabled and left my phone sitting idle and noticed it drained a lot slower. I ended up with over 1.5 days of usage and 2-3 hours of on screen time.
The odd thing is...my screen was off most of the time, meaning data was both off. Wifi was on at home, also to note the signal strength was significantly weaker at home and its LTE. Thats why I'm so piuzzled why at home I can get much better battery life
To recap:
At work: (6 hours)
HSPA (not LTE)
Great signal (full bars or over 22 on the real signal app)
screen off during idle data is off
no wifi on
At home (36 hours)
LTE/HSPA (swapping back and forth trying to get a good signal)
Terrible signal 1-2 bars (0-5 on the real signal app)
Screen off and data off
wifi is left on the entire time
My question is what is causing this difference? What am I missing here. How can I get the longer battery life without being on wifi
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Ever looked in BBS (betterbatterystats) to see what was using your battery?
Also, battery life depends on a lot of factors: kernel settings, widgets, refreshes, app running in background, etc.
Running on Wifi is much easier for our device than running on data, which can explain a bit of the difference but not 5x the battery life. UC/UV can be good like it can be bad, if it takes too much time to load something = more screen time = more battery drain.
Btw, you didn't mentioned what ROM/kernel you are running?
BWolf56 said:
Ever looked in BBS (betterbatterystats) to see what was using your battery?
Also, battery life depends on a lot of factors: kernel settings, widgets, refreshes, app running in background, etc.
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hey bwolf56... oh yea definitely look at my BBS, thats another question i have to resolve since it stays awake quite a bit more than I would like........but I'll go into the BBS portion a bit later.........
To address your questions.....and whats puzzling is that in both the at home and at work scenarios
- bbs are the same
- kernel settings remain the same
- widgets have been the same, refresh have been the same
- no syncs
BWolf56 said:
Running on Wifi is much easier for our device than running on data, which can explain a bit of the difference but not 5x the battery life.
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I agree that running on wifi is easier....but in both those scenario data is off. At home its wifi, and at work its no data. Shouldn't no data take less power than wifi?
Additionally at home its, LTE, low signal, etc. Which all supposedly drain batteries.
BWolf56 said:
UC/UV can be good like it can be bad, if it takes too much time to load something = more screen time = more battery drain.
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That is true, my underclock has nearly insignicant increase in load time. Plus I am comapring on screen time with on screen time, not data I've read or information processed/downloaded.
BWolf56 said:
Btw, you didn't mentioned what ROM/kernel you are running?
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Stock TW JB 4.1.1
Kernel KT747 ktoonsez latest
BWolf56 said:
....... app running in background, etc.
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hmmm ....app running in background.......I'm not sure......this could be it? Though I try to greenify everything.
I do leave items like smanager, tasker, BBS, GO SMS Pro, and all the chats Facebook, gtalk, whats app etc......
Could it be the attempt of using those apps causes more drain when theres no data vs wifi?
BWolf56 said:
Ever looked in BBS (betterbatterystats) to see what was using your battery?
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As for BBS.........deep sleep for the processor accounts for majority of the processor state.
Though the "awake" bar on the battery status shows it gets woken up quite a bit.
Both at home and at work here are the BBS data I gathered.
Kernel Wakelock
Powermanagerservice
Deleted_wake_locks
Mmc1_detect
Sec-battery-monitor
Partial Wakelock
Alarm manager
Event log services
Alarms:
Android
Android.intent.action.date_changed
Com.android.server.lightservice.action.update_svc_led
Android.intent.action.time_tick
Com.android.server.wifimanager.action.device_idle
Com.android.server.action.network_stats_poll
Com.android.server.throttlemanager.action.poll
Android.appwidget.action.appwidget_update
Com.Android.internal.policy.impl.phonewindowmanager.delayed_keyguardandroid.app.backup.intent.run
Android.content.syncmanager.sync_alarm
Android.server.wifimanager.action.delayed_driver_stop
There is an additional finding.......... I did a brief test at home without the wifi on.........with screen off.......about 4 hours the battery drain 8%....I want to say its worse without the wifi, but not as bad as I would have had at work with the screen off.......I'm still inconclusive on this point.....
What would make this easier to test is if I had wifi at work. Then I can narrow it down to wifi only......but i dont.
I'm try to investigate as much and I'm stuck.
mikoal said:
hey bwolf56... oh yea definitely look at my BBS, thats another question i have to resolve since it stays awake quite a bit more than I would like........but I'll go into the BBS portion a bit later.........
To address your questions.....and whats puzzling is that in both the at home and at work scenarios
- bbs are the same
- kernel settings remain the same
- widgets have been the same, refresh have been the same
- no syncs
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Here, I meant more to safe battery in general. Playing with your kernel settings can make a big difference as well as what you have on auto-refresh and widgets.
I agree that running on wifi is easier....but in both those scenario data is off. At home its wifi, and at work its no data. Shouldn't no data take less power than wifi?
Additionally at home its, LTE, low signal, etc. Which all supposedly drain batteries.
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Your signal strength doesn't matter so much on newer devices (especially on Wifi). Being singal-less will drain your battery but as long as you have signal, it shouldn't affect it (too much).
That is true, my underclock has nearly insignicant increase in load time. Plus I am comapring on screen time with on screen time, not data I've read or information processed/downloaded.
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A 30min to 1hr screen time difference it basically what data will do. If you compare screen on time, it means your data is on. So there's something else that is hard on your battery while your screen is off at work.
Stock TW JB 4.1.1
Kernel KT747 ktoonsez latest
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Might wanna look into AOSP or a TW custom ROM if you wanna get the best battery life.
hmmm ....app running in background.......I'm not sure......this could be it? Though I try to greenify everything.
I do leave items like smanager, tasker, BBS, GO SMS Pro, and all the chats Facebook, gtalk, whats app etc......
Could it be the attempt of using those apps causes more drain when theres no data vs wifi?
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Most of those will use a lot of battery if GPS/location access is on. Data doesn't help of course.
As for BBS.........deep sleep for the processor accounts for majority of the processor state.
Though the "awake" bar on the battery status shows it gets woken up quite a bit.
Both at home and at work here are the BBS data I gathered.
Kernel Wakelock
Powermanagerservice
Deleted_wake_locks
Mmc1_detect
Sec-battery-monitor
Partial Wakelock
Alarm manager
Event log services
Alarms:
Android
Android.intent.action.date_changed
Com.android.server.lightservice.action.update_svc_led
Android.intent.action.time_tick
Com.android.server.wifimanager.action.device_idle
Com.android.server.action.network_stats_poll
Com.android.server.throttlemanager.action.poll
Android.appwidget.action.appwidget_update
Com.Android.internal.policy.impl.phonewindowmanager.delayed_keyguardandroid.app.backup.intent.run
Android.content.syncmanager.sync_alarm
Android.server.wifimanager.action.delayed_driver_stop
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Kernel wakelocks are the usual;
Partial wakelocks, I dunno what event log services is coming from but if it's low, it shouldn't matter. (if high though, look into it)
Alarms, you have a lot of managers in there. Sure you need all those? lol (Are they coming from 3rd party apps?)
The time and alarms # of the above would be quite useful to know if they're bad or not.
There is an additional finding.......... I did a brief test at home without the wifi on.........with screen off.......about 4 hours the battery drain 8%....I want to say its worse without the wifi, but not as bad as I would have had at work with the screen off.......I'm still inconclusive on this point.....
What would make this easier to test is if I had wifi at work. Then I can narrow it down to wifi only......but i dont.
I'm try to investigate as much and I'm stuck.
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Ok this last part makes it seem like it's something with your area/carrier. You mentioned that you get LTE at home but only H+ at work, which means that either your work building is in a bad reception area (or simply hard on the signal), or your carriers' towers need update.
Are you able to do some testing outside your building? In the same general area (couple kms near it).
Have you tried to disable LTE while you are at work? You might be getting battery drain while looking for LTE. I could be wrong about this but it would seem logical.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747
BWolf56 said:
Here, I meant more to safe battery in general. Playing with your kernel settings can make a big difference as well as what you have on auto-refresh and widgets.
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Yea... I think i tried to cut down on all syncs and auto refreshes. Kernel, i've applied the most battery saving one I can find in the team kernelizer's thread. Along with changing my second CPU governor to conservative. I've tested a ton of combination, so far this is the best one I have.....
BWolf56 said:
Your signal strength doesn't matter so much on newer devices (especially on Wifi). Being singal-less will drain your battery but as long as you have signal, it shouldn't affect it (too much).
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Ive been reading in a lot of threads that LTE supposedly drains more than H+ and other non 4G signals. Either case, it doesnt apply to me.
I also wasnt aware that signal-less was what caused the battery drain. I do know my LTE at home fluctuates from really bad signal and the odd signal-less.
As for Wifi, I wasn't comparing the signal strength of wifi. I was simply compairing that during the off screen state
At home uses wifi
At work uses nothing.
One would think the nothing drains less than wifi?
BWolf56 said:
A 30min to 1hr screen time difference it basically what data will do. If you compare screen on time, it means your data is on. So there's something else that is hard on your battery while your screen is off at work.
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During screen on time, the draining speed is understandable to see H+ draining faster than wifi.
However during off screen time, you are right, something is draining during at work.......which is a bit of a mystery
BWolf56 said:
Might wanna look into AOSP or a TW custom ROM if you wanna get the best battery life.
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I tried CM10, AOKP, PA
sort of reverted back to stock. I just like bug and glitch free over the small customizations.
If I can apply my hours that I had from wifi to regular use....i'd be happy........
BWolf56 said:
Most of those will use a lot of battery if GPS/location access is on. Data doesn't help of course.
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of the 3
- Use wireless network
-Use GPS satellites
-location and google search
I have location and google search checked, simply because I cannot find an action in Tasker to turn that on.
When I use map, it would automatically turn on the other two.
So during screen off when data is off.......do you think this is the culprit?
BWolf56 said:
Kernel wakelocks are the usual;
Partial wakelocks, I dunno what event log services is coming from but if it's low, it shouldn't matter. (if high though, look into it)
Alarms, you have a lot of managers in there. Sure you need all those? lol (Are they coming from 3rd party apps?)
The time and alarms # of the above would be quite useful to know if they're bad or not.
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ALarm maanger was higher than event log services.......
As for Alarms......I really dont know where they are coming from. I would like to rid them if poissible
Sure thing! Im not too familiar with reading logcats and BBS dumps. I've attached them here. Maybe you can decipher them.
I may do the same over in Chamonix's thread.
BWolf56 said:
Ok this last part makes it seem like it's something with your area/carrier. You mentioned that you get LTE at home but only H+ at work, which means that either your work building is in a bad reception area (or simply hard on the signal), or your carriers' towers need update.
Are you able to do some testing outside your building? In the same general area (couple kms near it).
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Yea at home its LTE but the signal is so bad i would lose all signal sometimes and sometimes get H+
At work its a constant powerful and strong H+ full bars.
aybarrap1 said:
Have you tried to disable LTE while you are at work? You might be getting battery drain while looking for LTE. I could be wrong about this but it would seem logical.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747
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i can give this a try and test it out.
I assumed that since Im getting full H+ that they wont look for LTE......
mikoal said:
Yea... I think i tried to cut down on all syncs and auto refreshes. Kernel, i've applied the most battery saving one I can find in the team kernelizer's thread. Along with changing my second CPU governor to conservative. I've tested a ton of combination, so far this is the best one I have.....
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Your cpu_0 governor being.. Ktoonservative? And what about your scheduler? I personally get great results with row (noop screen off).
Ive been reading in a lot of threads that LTE supposedly drains more than H+ and other non 4G signals. Either case, it doesnt apply to me.
I also wasnt aware that signal-less was what caused the battery drain. I do know my LTE at home fluctuates from really bad signal and the odd signal-less.
As for Wifi, I wasn't comparing the signal strength of wifi. I was simply compairing that during the off screen state
At home uses wifi
At work uses nothing.
One would think the nothing drains less than wifi?
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It isn't actually ''nothing''. It still has to communicate with the towers, if it only sends H+, it might be because it's having trouble (or that area doesn't have LTE just yet). That being said, your device might be perma looking for LTE and can't get it = causing battery drain.
During screen on time, the draining speed is understandable to see H+ draining faster than wifi.
However during off screen time, you are right, something is draining during at work.......which is a bit of a mystery
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Answer *might* be just above.
I tried CM10, AOKP, PA
sort of reverted back to stock. I just like bug and glitch free over the small customizations.
If I can apply my hours that I had from wifi to regular use....i'd be happy........
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Might wanna look into a custom TW ROM that is stable then. Intergalactic, Rootbox and couple others are quite popular around here.
of the 3
- Use wireless network
-Use GPS satellites
-location and google search
I have location and google search checked, simply because I cannot find an action in Tasker to turn that on.
When I use map, it would automatically turn on the other two.
So during screen off when data is off.......do you think this is the culprit?
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It definitely doesn't help. location access is a big battery drainer for sure. Might wanna look into manually turning it on when you need it.
ALarm maanger was higher than event log services.......
As for Alarms......I really dont know where they are coming from. I would like to rid them if poissible
Sure thing! Im not too familiar with reading logcats and BBS dumps. I've attached them here. Maybe you can decipher them.
I may do the same over in Chamonix's thread.
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At work atm, can't take a look at them. Perhaps someone else can help you in the meantime for those.
Yea at home its LTE but the signal is so bad i would lose all signal sometimes and sometimes get H+
At work its a constant powerful and strong H+ full bars.
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Like I mentioned above, powerful H+ doesn't mean it's good on your battery if it perma looking for LTE (this is a guess btw). Like it was mentioned, turning your LTE off while at work would help a lot if it's the case.
BWolf56 said:
Your cpu_0 governor being.. Ktoonservative? And what about your scheduler? I personally get great results with row (noop screen off).
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CPU0 Ktoonservative with scheduler NOOP (on and off screen)
CPU1 Conservative instead of ondemand to further conserve power
UV like 100mv across the board.
UC to 1350
BWolf56 said:
It isn't actually ''nothing''. It still has to communicate with the towers, if it only sends H+, it might be because it's having trouble (or that area doesn't have LTE just yet). That being said, your device might be perma looking for LTE and can't get it = causing battery drain.
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This could be a possibilty......and with Wifi on, it stops it from looking.
I can disable LTE, however that would mean disabling 2G as well......I looked into the disabling methods and I would like to keep my automatic setting but just without LTE........
I can test WCDMA only for a day or two to see if theres any improvements.
BWolf56 said:
Answer *might* be just above.
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Isn't that sort of weird that with data OFF, that it still searches for LTE? Doesnt that defeat the purpose of having the data being off?
BWolf56 said:
Might wanna look into a custom TW ROM that is stable then. Intergalactic, Rootbox and couple others are quite popular around here.
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I heard slim bean or sometihng laong the lines of that was good..... I may switch once I can iron the battery settings out.
BWolf56 said:
It definitely doesn't help. location access is a big battery drainer for sure. Might wanna look into manually turning it on when you need it.
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I'll add this to the list of trying things. LTE and this.
THough i always had this off and from what i remember my bat life was around the same as before.
BWolf56 said:
At work atm, can't take a look at them. Perhaps someone else can help you in the meantime for those.
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Ill try posting on chamonix's thread . thanks though!
BWolf56 said:
Like I mentioned above, powerful H+ doesn't mean it's good on your battery if it perma looking for LTE (this is a guess btw). Like it was mentioned, turning your LTE off while at work would help a lot if it's the case.
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I'll test this and get back to you later.
mikoal said:
Isn't that sort of weird that with data OFF, that it still searches for LTE? Doesnt that defeat the purpose of having the data being off?
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I think LTE is more than data, it's the signal.
I heard slim bean or sometihng laong the lines of that was good..... I may switch once I can iron the battery settings out.
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Custom ROMs definitely have better battery life than stock, whether it's on TW or AOSP.
I'll add this to the list of trying things. LTE and this.
THough i always had this off and from what i remember my bat life was around the same as before.
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Worth trying
I'll test this and get back to you later.
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Aight, I'll wait to hear back from ya.
mikoal said:
I can disable LTE, however that would mean disabling 2G as well......I looked into the disabling methods and I would like to keep my automatic setting but just without LTE........
I can test WCDMA only for a day or two to see if theres any improvements.
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Assuming you are on an AT&T device running stock TW, you can disable LTE only. However it is only good until you reboot or switch in and out of airplane mode (it reverts to looking for LTE). Create a new APN with name and APN name only filled out and save. Select it. Wait 20 seconds and go into dialer and dial *#*#4636#*#* and select "Device information". It should say "WCDMA preferred" under preferred network type. You need to change it to GSM/CDMA auto (PRL). Exit and go back to your APN and select the one for LTE. After a couple seconds you will have data back and it can switch automatically between 2G and 3G.
aybarrap1 said:
Assuming you are on an AT&T device running stock TW, you can disable LTE only. However it is only good until you reboot or switch in and out of airplane mode (it reverts to looking for LTE). Create a new APN with name and APN name only filled out and save. Select it. Wait 20 seconds and go into dialer and dial *#*#4636#*#* and select "Device information". It should say "WCDMA preferred" under preferred network type. You need to change it to GSM/CDMA auto (PRL). Exit and go back to your APN and select the one for LTE. After a couple seconds you will have data back and it can switch automatically between 2G and 3G.
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thanks but i got rogers and that dial code didnt work....
BWolf56 said:
I think LTE is more than data, it's the signal.
Custom ROMs definitely have better battery life than stock, whether it's on TW or AOSP.
Worth trying
Aight, I'll wait to hear back from ya.
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So yesterday i left it idle with 8 hours and it drained .6%/hour, i lost 5% in 8 hours
I woke up turned off wifi and in 3 hours I lost 2% which is about .7%/hour.
I'll give it a try at work.....
the only change i made was wifi off.
The location is still on
I have a new radio firmware i want to try as well, but that will have to wait.
Attached are my BBS logs, seems like theres lots of wakeups
EDIT: i have battery spy, during idle it drains at .5%/hour, but when i wake it up then make it go to sleep, it hovers at 8% then 3 % for a while. Why is that? How can I make it drop to .5% immediately?

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At home using wifi. When at work or on the road, LG G4 uses LTE but wifi setting remains on. Question, does this reduce battery life? In other words, does the phone keep looking for wifi networks and drain the battery in the process? If so, should I find an app that turns wifi off automatically whenever leaving home?
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At home using wifi. When at work or on the road, LG G4 uses LTE but wifi setting remains on. Question, does this reduce battery life? In other words, does the phone keep looking for wifi networks and drain the battery in the process? If so, should I find an app that turns wifi off automatically whenever leaving home?
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I would asume yes it uses power always trying to find a open hotspot even if data is on. If u leave wifi on its on all the time. Prob in a lower power state just searching for open spot or known wifi . instead of downloading or streaming which bring it to full power.
I am going to try an app called wi-fi matic for the next few weeks. It allows turning off wifi radio when away from home. Let's see if it makes any difference with battery life.

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