Hi guys, even though my Battery Life is certified as good, the "Screen time" use of the phone is only about 2 hours of light use. I found it curious, so i've took a closer look after i rooted my 4.2.2 stock version rom, just to find out that my Panasonic 3 axis sensor (gyro) is allways on and the light sensor is on just as well but for about the quarter of the duration. I specify that i do not use the automatic brightness or other apps that might use one of these 2 features in standby. Any advice is well recieved, thanks
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Hi,
I just got a DHD a few days ago and so far it is wicked! Battery lasts about 2 days (for my normal usage).
One annoying thing I have found yesterday is that I cannot take pictures with the flash on when the battery is under 15%. I was at a party, just about to go home, wanted to take a few pics and I couldn't! Also, after getting home, I couldn't use the flashlight and I didnt want to wake up anyone... Is there anyway to disable this silly feature?
Hello Vikeor,
Maybe you should try to disable power saver in your case.
Go to settings -> Power saver and there you have some options.
haha.... good point
Thanks!
ufortunately the flash cant be enabled from there
This is just something HTC do to try and preserve battery. If you get a widget (or app) which has an LED flashlight option, it should work from there. I use the extended control widget which has a flashlight option; and it works under 15%.
kinda silly.... what if you come home late with under 15% and want to charge your phone without waking anyone up :/ The flash doesnt work for the camera either, so those last second photo moments might be lost forever!
Try a high ISO and a steady hand in low light with no flash. If you can, also prop the phone up against something solid to reduce shake
Hi, i just noted .. every time that i see the battery usage the most percentage is for the screen!! (41 % after 21 hours) is this normal??
i have disabled the animations and other effects leaving just the bravia engine
Yeah the screen is the biggest battery drainer by quite a bit. Try turning screen brightness down or put on auto if you havent already given that a go
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Don't worry much about it, it's normal that the display is always on top in terms of usage stats, it's ON most of the time coz we are using it(unless for music wherein display can be OFF).
If you actually want to minimize the battery drain due to display, just set the brightness as low as you can handle(i set mine usually around 30 to 40% brigthness only).
I'm actually surprised that you have low display usage in 21 hours, you must be a very casual user only. As far as I can remember, my fone never last me a day since I bought it. Coz I used 3g/data most of the time, surfing net and messenger.
hmm may be a dumb question but, how i can set the brightness on auto?
I use the Power Control widget on screen. The three options are low, auto and full brightness so its just a case of cycling through each. You will know when youre on auto if you put your finger over the ambient light sensor you should see display adjusting
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hmm on android assistant appears "Light sensor not avalible" .. it's possible that my arc doesn't have the light sensor, it's a prototype after all
Not sure mate, maybe. Have u tried a reboot?
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Yep still "not avalible" ..
A last question, this arc (just as i said) it's a prototype, a very complete prototype. I just wanna know if this device is Sim unlocked (being a prototype). Or if the bootloader unlock can unlock the SIM too, i want to change of carrier.
please tell me when your battery is almost at the end, check how long was your screen turned on? i get around 4 hours, brightness 30-40%, with auto rotation, bravia off...
Hi all,
Rooted one X, stock 4.2.2 with sense 5.0
Having a little problem with my ancient one X (purchased June 2012), just placed the battery and power/proximity/light sensor module(lock button broke), and since my proximity and light sensor do not appear to work (no auto screen adjustments and no screen off during calls).
I've tried apps to adjust the parameters for these sensors, but to no avail.
I have also noted a significant reduction in battery life (my old one was pretty bad, but this is even worse) 100% battery going in about 4 hours.
Battery seems to be used mainly by Android OS when looking in the settings menu. But as this doesn't tell much, I've been using wakelock detector, with this I can see that my phone rarely goes into deep sleep, and is awake around 90% of the time for a typical day. all wakelocks seem normal - usual syncing stuff, but kernel wakelocks seem over active with proximity being number 1 on the list, with a timer of roughly that of the % of awake time. In a 2 hour period, proximity was counted 20,000 times. I'm not phone genius, but this doesn't seem right to me...
I'm thinking that the new module I fitted is faulty? Is there anyway I could test this to be the case? or any advise on more trouble shooting?
Need any more information, give me a shout.
Pictures from left to right - Kernel wakelocks, Wakeup triggers, CPU wakelock and Screen Wakelock
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I've had this phone for almost 3 weeks now and I have been experiencing battery drainage when on standby. My battery would start off at 100% when I unplug it from the charger, and without using at all after half an hour I'd find it at 93 - 95%. So I installed a battery monitor (GSam Battery Monitor) and after a week I found that there were 2 things consuming most of the battery, the screen and multiple apps. So I decided to do a factory reset and test out the phone with the apps that came with the phone. The battery life improved slightly but it was still too much. I decided to check out the display, at first I thought it might be the brightness but then I remembered that motion launch also uses the screen (duh!). I turned it off today and so far I've only lost only 2% battery in 1 hour and 37 min, on standby. This is good and all but I really like motion launch, it's easier than reaching for the top of my phone when I'm using it with one-hand . My question is, does anyone have the same problem as I do? Cause if so it might be an issue with all the One (M8) phones running the software. If not, It might be my phone and I can send it to get fixed or something. Thanks
Revel1021 said:
I've had this phone for almost 3 weeks now and I have been experiencing battery drainage when on standby. My battery would start off at 100% when I unplug it from the charger, and without using at all after half an hour I'd find it at 93 - 95%. So I installed a battery monitor (GSam Battery Monitor) and after a week I found that there were 2 things consuming most of the battery, the screen and multiple apps. So I decided to do a factory reset and test out the phone with the apps that came with the phone. The battery life improved slightly but it was still too much. I decided to check out the display, at first I thought it might be the brightness but then I remembered that motion launch also uses the screen (duh!). I turned it off today and so far I've only lost only 2% battery in 1 hour and 37 min, on standby. This is good and all but I really like motion launch, it's easier than reaching for the top of my phone when I'm using it with one-hand . My question is, does anyone have the same problem as I do? Cause if so it might be an issue with all the One (M8) phones running the software. If not, It might be my phone and I can send it to get fixed or something. Thanks
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I don't have this issue.I have viper rom installed and motion launch all the time and I lose only 2% in 8 hours in standby.My screen on time is 7h30min.Try another rom or send it to change with another one.cheers
Motion launch isn't draining battery for me. I lose about 1-2 % when I leave it for the whole night
Motion launch shouldn't use much battery. Firstly the screen isn't always on waiting for touch input as you say. The touch response is only awakened when the phone sensors pick up movement. For this the HTC one uses a new device called a fusion sensor hub. This hub is a collection of sensors and is able to have active sensors that don't need the cpu and thus have a very low power requirement.
I'd look more into display options and turning the WiFi off when not needed and disabling some of the sync options.
I don't think that the battery draining has something with the motion launch to do. For example for me during the night on airplane mode, lose about 0,5% per hour.
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ashyx said:
Motion launch shouldn't use much battery. Firstly the screen isn't always on waiting for touch input as you say. The touch response is only awakened when the phone sensors pick up movement. For this the HTC one uses a new device called a fusion sensor hub. This hub is a collection of sensors and is able to have active sensors that don't need the cpu and thus have a very low power requirement.
I'd look more into display options and turning the WiFi off when not needed and disabling some of the sync options.
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Yeah I think my issue is with sync. I'll test it out for the week maybe something will change. Thanks
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So I decided to try Wakelock Detector, I found something called "1013" keeping my phone almost 2 hours awake. I researched it and found no solutions to this problem just people reporting on the same issue with other devices. The app also showed me that my phone only gets 3 hours of deep sleep and it stays 8 hours awake. How can I fix this on a non-rooted device?
Edit: I found something that says that the 1013 is a partial wakelock and can be solved by a silencing touch sounds. Going to try it out and post the results here
Hi,
I owe a Note 2 N7100 with stock ROM Android 4.4.2. I have only 3G enabled round the clock with sync enabled. I use third party app to manage the screen brightness automatically for lower down the power consumption. Since past few weeks I am noticing that the battery is being drained very fast and resulting into a backup of 10-11 hrs in standby condition with no phone calls at all.
I used both the in-built and Gsam battery monitoring utilities to find out the cause but couldn't tracked it down. Can anyone here will help me out with the root cause of the drainage problem by analysing the snapshots ?