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[Q] Qucikest way to drain battery

Yes you heard me right! I got a new battery for my arc and I am trying to charge it discharge it so it lasts longer before I go travelling tomorrow.
I currently have it set to everything on, and watching a .avi film on screen brightness max. anyone got a suggestion for something to run?
thanks

If your phone is rooted you can set the CPU governor to performance.

Use a torrent app and start downloading a Linux distro on 3g.
That'll kill your battery in a few hours
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Try watching one of those ten hour videos on youtube?

Activate everything, max luminosity, download a big file with Wi-fi, launch google maps navigation to launch GPS in background and watch a long .avi movie with sound set at max.

Remove the battery and cross all the terminals
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The quickest way to drain your battery is removing the battery and tossing it down the drain
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use touch screen intensive
The quiqest way is to play a high demanding touch screen game (like fruit ninja or jewels star) with cpu set to performance. But what are you trying to do is not a solution, quik discharging your battery will not prolong your battery life, you have to let it to fully discharge slowly and then charget it again at low courent (USB port is excelent). If you force your battery to discharge faster, you can seriuosly damage your battery.
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batwingnz said:
Remove the battery and cross all the terminals
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i understand he asked a not so smart question... but let`s not make fun of him, if he realy tries out what you said he will damage his battery.

Use Skype with max sound,
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Marmalux said:
The quiqest way is to play a high demanding touch screen game (like fruit ninja or jewels star) with cpu set to performance. But what are you trying to do is not a solution, quik discharging your battery will not prolong your battery life, you have to let it to fully discharge slowly and then charget it again at low courent (USB port is excelent). If you force your battery to discharge faster, you can seriuosly damage your battery.
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i understand he asked a not so smart question... but let`s not make fun of him, if he realy tries out what you said he will damage his battery.
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Cheers for your little condensing speech, the battery instructions actually recommend you charge/discharge 5 times from new to get it working fully and at its best. Not that stupid a question and yes pretty obvious batwingnz was joking...
@all thanks for your advice, leaving it on standby the whole day seems to do the trick.

adsada arc said:
Cheers for your little condensing speech, the battery instructions actually recommend you charge/discharge 5 times from new to get it working fully and at its best. Not that stupid a question and yes pretty obvious batwingnz was joking...
@all thanks for your advice, leaving it on standby the whole day seems to do the trick.
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Yes it say`s to discharge and charge 5 times, but not to discharge it as fast as you can... that is wrong. They actaly mean that after 5 full discharges and charges your battery will work as optimal ... that doesen`t mean you can overload the battery. If you do not want my advice it is your choice... but just for your knowledge i have finished a university and i`m working for 8 years now in field of electronics and automatizations....

Battery drain with max settings

I'm a bit worried about my battery drains and wanted to compare with others. With max brightness and power saving off my battery drains about 1 percent every 2-3 minutes with basic web browsing (no videos)
Is this fairly typical or is there something I should do to find out if an app is draining resources more than usual
Advance thanks

Sounds normal. And what kind of test is that? Lol
Screen as dim as you can handle is how to run for good battery.
Sorry, but I don't see the point of this test? There's far more to battery life than the screen brightness. ?
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Also... No one can give you anything but guesses without useful screenshot. From gsam or something similar. ?

Ok thanks for advice, I heard Skype doesn't play well with 4.4.3 update at the moment and can cause battery drain so I have uninstalled it to see if that will make a difference...

Battery life comparisons with others are not going to yield a heck of a lot of useful info. Aside from screen on time, network reception in your specific location has a big impact on battery life.

I wonder if there is a list of apps that are known to drain the phone...when I factory feet the phone with all my apps my phone was working really great with long battery life...and then I started putting some apps back on and it started draining crazily again

Gsam will tell you what's draining you. Or what wakelocks you have. No need for a list. ?
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And as I've said... Without screenshots... Useful ones, like post 4 in the battery thread in my signature... No one here can really help.

battery draining

Hello guys, i need help!
From the last stability update (270MB) on my htc one m8 Taiwanese version, from 2 days ago, when I was install it, a huge battery drain show up.
20 minutes on screen time, 10 minutes with mobile data turn on and battery goes from 100% to 89%.
before this update it was 100% to 97-95%.
what is happening here with my battery?
can anyone provide solution for this. Thanx guys on front

Right now it is allready 86%

Lawyer007 said:
Hello guys, i need help!
From the last stability update (270MB) on my htc one m8 Taiwanese version, from 2 days ago, when I was install it, a huge battery drain show up.
20 minutes on screen time, 10 minutes with mobile data turn on and battery goes from 100% to 89%.
before this update it was 100% to 97-95%.
what is happening here with my battery?
can anyone provide solution for this. Thanx guys on front
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Can you post some images bcos no one here has any idea if you only tell us battery is dropping with no additions of picture to help you. Download gsam and use your phone normally and before you decided to plug it into the charger, grab some screenshots from gsam and there'll be people to help you out

Bobbi lim said:
Can you post some images bcos no one here has any idea if you only tell us battery is dropping with no additions of picture to help you. Download gsam and use your phone normally and before you decided to plug it into the charger, grab some screenshots from gsam and there'll be people to help you out
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here

Lawyer007 said:
here
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The power app that's built into settings isn't quite useful but it shows some relevant data. What you posted isn't useful at all, there's barely much information
Please grab some screenshots from Gsam battery monitor (Don't be lazy to download it!) and from HTC Power app, that's a page that shows app usage, grab that as well

Gsam. And hopefully your rooted, or you won't see your app wakelocks (the likely problem) then you need gsam root companion as well.
Need to see the main gsam screen, app screen, and from the app screen drop down, times waking device and held awake time.
Without those, all you'll get is blind guesses. ?
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Oh, and go from 100 percent to near dead, then take the screen shots.

Should my G4 screen be using much battery?

Ever since I got my G4 in December the battery usage tab has always shown the Screen using 50% of Battery or more. I don't know if this is a normal amount it should be using, can someone confirm if this is normal? Here's the battery usage tab of my G4. I usually get less than 5 hours of screen on time with it imgur com/D6B28yg (Just made my account I can't post links yet)

Kevinthemew said:
Ever since I got my G4 in December the battery usage tab has always shown the Screen using 50% of Battery or more. I don't know if this is a normal amount it should be using, can someone confirm if this is normal? Here's the battery usage tab of my G4. I usually get less than 5 hours of screen on time with it imgur com/D6B28yg (Just made my account I can't post links yet)
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You could try turning down the brightness or setting the brightness to auto.

drewmrk8 said:
You could try turning down the brightness or setting the brightness to auto.
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Completely normal mine uses about 65% followed by the million other apps i got. The quad hd screens are power hogs turn briteness down and shut off auto brite. Helps but if u got anything else coming close to using what the screen does then theres a issue.
Next highest usage i got is chrome coming in at 8% followed by os. At 6. I get about 3 hours of sot which is horrible. Id rather see the screen use the battery power than anything else.
So like i was saying your good its normal
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drewmrk8 said:
You could try turning down the brightness or setting the brightness to auto.
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Auto btrite uses more power seeing that the light sensor is also active is better to have it set. Off

i think thats normal screen always on top.

Fast charging Nokia X7

Im using a charger suport quick charge 3.0.
But nokia x7 only fast charging when turn off screen.
Anyone like me???

hi. I am using Belkin 3.0 and it doesn't say fast charging. It says 1.5 hour is needed until full from 50 - 100%.
is it really working with the fast chargers? I am now contacting nokia about this.
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Here's what they said:
The technology of Fast charging is such that it doesn't fast charge all the time, but does it in waves, so to say
Yes, your device does support fast charging indeed

engineer000 said:
hi. I am using Belkin 3.0 and it doesn't say fast charging. It says 1.5 hour is needed until full from 50 - 100%.
is it really working with the fast chargers? I am now contacting nokia about this.
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Here's what they said:
The technology of Fast charging is such that it doesn't fast charge all the time, but does it in waves, so to say
Yes, your device does support fast charging indeed
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THanks man!

loveuhp said:
THanks man!
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do you think it is really fast charging? this will be a problem. I can't wait 8 hours just to charge everyday
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now I am charging. when I press power button, it says rapidly and when the screen on, it goes to normal. So I guess rapid charging is only working when you are not using your device.
Also, I read that you need to turn off the Ambient display in settings for the rapid charging to work. thanks

engineer000 said:
do you think it is really fast charging? this will be a problem. I can't wait 8 hours just to charge everyday
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now I am charging. when I press power button, it says rapidly and when the screen on, it goes to normal. So I guess rapid charging is only working when you are not using your device.
Also, I read that you need to turn off the Ambient display in settings for the rapid charging to work. thanks
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it only fast chaging when u off screen.

yeah man. its working