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I know it ibeta before you all start on me, however 15 minutes of web browsing = 10% loss of battery. At that rate my phone will be dead an hour and half of web browsing
When the phone is just on stand by battery life is fine
Hope they fix this when the "official" release comes out
Wow where did you learn maths?
BETA Roms effect the mind.
Jamiec902 said:
I know it ibeta before you all start on me, however 15 minutes of web browsing = 10% loss of battery. At that rate my phone will be dead an hour and half of web browsing
When the phone is just on stand by battery life is fine
Hope they fix this when the "official" release comes out
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i think it will be 150 minutes and that's not 1,5h
btw
my phone: few calls, some games - 1,5 day and still 27% of battery
icemac said:
i think it will be 150 minutes and that's not 1,5h
btw
my phone: few calls, some games - 1,5 day and still 27% of battery
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My phone: lots of calls, few minutes wireless =1 day and still 70%. No web browsing.
Agreed 150 mind isn't 1.5hrs. But still bad!
Jamiec902 said:
Agreed 150 mind isn't 1.5hrs. But still bad!
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the screen needs lots of power, processor needs to,
everything needs the power
look it is same like brand new commputer (whit very good graphic card, processor, memory, MB) - you need good and strong power supply without it is crap ...
if you need good long working phone buy something else like :hmm: i dont know what maybe NOKIA with small BW display
no offence
I noticed on the JPC the battery drains soooo fast!
did a full charge while the phone was off today and also deleted the battery stats.. lets see if it improves
icemac said:
the screen needs lots of power, processor needs to,
everything needs the power
look it is same like brand new commputer (whit very good graphic card, processor, memory, MB) - you need good and strong power supply without it is crap ...
if you need good long working phone buy something else like :hmm: i dont know what maybe NOKIA with small BW display
no offence
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I love my SGS and will not being going back to Nokia, also love andriod - just hoping the official release will let me have use for one full day - not too much to ask I dont think
I get 2 days of moderate to high usage with JPC. I think it uses less battery because the GSM signal is better, but the screen uses more power, is always over 90% in battery stats.
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For me it all comes down "display on" time.
if using 3G/edge i get 4,5h
if wifi then 5,5h (no difference if im using it during 1 day or 4 days)
JPC is same as JP3 or JMx
Screen brightness
Just thought I'd say, incase you didn't know, the web browser has it's own brightness setting. That could be killing the battery.
I, for one, already set the brightness to the first level for all aplications that have brightness setting, and still the display sucks the battey like crazy, at list with JPC. With other FW it drops even to 40%.
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speaking of GSM, w/c one is 2G mode for the Galaxy S.. GSM or WCDMA ?
earlz said:
speaking of gsm, w/c one is 2g mode for the galaxy s.. Gsm or wcdma ?
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gsm = 2g
wcdma = 3g
Battery drain was ridiculous with me. The first night I went to sleep I remember my phone was nearly fully charged, when I woke up at morning it had used around 50%... that is, 50% of the battery for around 6 or 7h just sitting in IDLE! When I actually USED the phone it could barely handle 10h with a full charge, and that's with very moderate usage. I had to leave the phone charing all the time to survive a day with it (charging in my car, charging every time I stopped near an AC outlet, etc). And yeah, the funny thing was noticing how exaggeratedly high the screen battery drain was, even though I wasn't using the screen all that much...
Some other symptoms of the high battery drain:
-Charging the phone took FOREVER with the phone being used, took a LOT of time with the phone sitting Idle, but if I turned the off the battery would actually charge very fast... that proved that the phone was draining so much energy even the AC charger (or USB outlet) couldn't effectively charge the battery while supplying power to the phone...
-The phone got HOT very easily...
How did I solve it?
Well, yesterday I decided I would reflash my device. I did a full reflash (as I always do) including a re-repartion. Now the funny thing that I noticed was that my phone actually wouldn't flash! It would always crash at the Galaxy S welcome screen... I have never flashed it using my notebook (since I'm traveling), but I used the exact same procedure I always use with my desktop back home, for some reason it wasn't working. Maybe some corrupt file? I re-downloaded ALL files (that is, Odin with the 803 pit file, and the JPC files)...
For my surprise, this time my phone hanged in a green screen, and it was really scary. I even thought perhaps the Nokia USB cable I was using was causing some kind of incompatibility problem, but that would make no sense at all... so I entered the recovery menu in my phone and reset EVERYTHING, and tried flashing it one LAST time (this time closing ALL background apps in my notebook, to avoid any problems)... and there it went, a perfect flash, as easy as they go with my desktop PC back home.
1st thing I did was a hardreset, and then I reflashed it again with Doc's RomMod V2 (was using V1 the day before), and new hardreset in the sequence. Then I changed as little as possible in the phone configurations, I just turned everything off (GPS, wifi, and even the data connection through the power button shortcut), and went to sleep...
For my surprise, the next day I checked the phone's battery use, it had drained only ~4-5% for more then 10hours, this means it would, at least in theory, be able to last for days and days in this setup...
So I installed my apps again (not that I have many), did lagfix, turned widgets and network connection back on... and it has been working like a breeze, although battery drain can still be considered high, it's nowhere close to being as bad as it was before I flashed it, now at least the battery will last a full day with a charge @ my standards of usage, that's good enough for me...
One thing I did change, I remember my screen setup was always at 10/30min for shutdown, I left it like that because I'm always using the phone in situations where the screen will constantly shut down at my face, and that annoyed me... well, this time I actally left the stock 30 seconds for screen shutdown, not sure if it has anything related, but one of the things I noticed before was that my IDLE battery-drain was as high as you'd expect from a phone that had it's screen on all the time... maybe some bug makes the phone drain screen power even with the screen turn off, let's say if you have the 30min turn-off config, your screen will continue to drain power for 30min (and there you have the reason for so much screen draw in the stats), even though the screen is turned off... despite my hardware knowledge telling me that a black screen should NOT be draining power from your phone battery, you never know how far a software bug can fck things up hardware-wise, so I wouldn't be surprise if that actually DID happen...
I could even try setting my screen back to 30min-turnoff just to check if the battery drain will go back to insane levels.. but the fact is that I'm scared of messing it up again, it's working fine the way it is, why mess it up? I figured out some things that get messed up with this phone appear to only get fixed with a new firmware flash, and I really don't feel like having to flash my phone every two days...
Either way, I hope others here can fix their battery drain... it's just my tip: try reflashing, leave everything as stock as you can (only thing I did was Doc's RomMod v2, and later Ryan ZA's lagfix, none of them seem to be related to JPC's battery drain), and see if it helps...
wth I can only get 3.5 hours max
Sent from my phone so excuse the spelling errors
After a week of using JPC I don't see any real difference in battery usage from the original stock rom and JP3, I charge the phone every second night ( battery is usually around 25% at this point).
My usage isn't that high, I have a couple of notifications running and a weather widget that updates hourly, its my alarm clock, my mp3 player to and from work (about 90 minutes a day), I make and receive 4-5 calls a day and send and receive a dozen texts a day, I check face book 3-4 times a day and on a daily basis someone gets a 10-15 minute demonstration of the beauty of this phone(note: don't let a taxi driver play with your phone whilst in heavy traffic, even if it gets a confession that it makes his iphone look like a piece of crap).
As far as screen time outs are concerned, I set mine at 1 minute but always turn the display off manually when I finish doing something with it including after I have started the music player (btw I use bluetooth headset to listen to music but not for phone conversations).
The highest display percentage I have seen is about 85% but the is usually tied in with using gps or browsing, on a day I don't use gps or browsing display is much lower, on a day that the display is pretty much off it drops to about 10-15% usage.
This phone is the first, of the several pda/smart phones I have owned over the years, that I haven't had to charge every day.
Id battery usage is not a problem for me on JPC, 8hrs idle ( sleeping ) and I still got 100% started to use the phone and it rapidly dropped.. now im playing a 2hr movie and see if i can get it to loop for 2-3 times before it shuts off.. if it reaches 6hrs then i would consider the battery usage the same.
Please turn off the GPS and a-GPS....
You will get a much better battery life.....
I just purchased PowerAmp and I'm blown away with the sound quality of Motorola Defy and how PowerAmp can utilise it.
I never thought I would be happy to use a mobile phone over my Sony Walkman NWZ-S639F. This Motorola Defy thing is simply a jewel : )
BTW, I've been worried about using my in-ear headphone in case I'm going to damage the speaker as it was reported. I'll report back if that was the case over the time of using the jack.
please do!, how long of music playback can you get before your battery dies?
poweramp + defy = awesome
Jt612 said:
please do!, how long of music playback can you get before your battery dies?
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I'm running a test for you and I'll let you know based on my two hours test. The battery was fully charged when started playing back...
Here is the battery test after 4 hours playback.
Network Type: GSM
Software: PowerAmp
MP3: Most tracks were ripped with 320 bit rates
Volume Level: 60%-65%
The battery was fully charged to start with and after 2 hours the battery status was at 10% usage. Two more hours later the battery status still remained at 10%. The battery icon on notification bar didn't lose any bars.
I was so puzzled and impressed at same time that I restarted the phone to make sure all status info remain the same and they were.
Notes:
I hear that the headphone type can impact the battery life. The lower frequency response is the less battery is used.
wicked! so it used less then 10% over 4 hours very good, no idea why i havn't bought this phone yet!
edit: im not sure if you know or not but apparently the battery only changes in 10% increments so its charge would be anywhere between 90-100%
Further test result under the same condition apart from using the phone ever so lightly...
2 Hours more playback + 8 hours standby + a phone call (5 mins)
Battery usage was increased to 30% losing one bar battery icon on the notification bar.
sound quality
Cant wait to get this phone, my current phone a HTC desire has poor sound quality .
I am quite amazed about your statement. Since the first day of my defy ownership, I have been worrying about the poor sound quality compared to my previous Sony Ericsson P1. Since the earphones have a cheap (IMO) feel to them, and dont fit me well either, I decided to hunt for a replacement.
I grabbed some Sony DR-EX39PP earphones, but found that even worsened the situatiuon. I also tried my wife's Defy (yes, I was once quite excited about this device), but hers isn't any better.
I have to turn volume all the way up to get a decent sound level, and the sound itself is thin and like metal. Using PowerAmp even lowers the available volume, and doesnt improve the sound much.
All in all NOT really usable, IMO. On my next android device purchase, I'll make sound quality a high priority item which I will be checking closely. The defy is not a candidate in that race, IMO.
just my opinion, for a balance
chris
I been using this rom (2.0.1.i) a few days until now, with the last update XXX_140709.
Is anyone using this rom?
What`s your opinion about is use vs 123?
I sincerely don`t seem any improvement so far...and i see a massive amount of the lost of battery...
Last night i sleep with 74%, and when i wakeup, i did see 68%....even much worse than Colour 123i
Can`t say about telephone low level on calls because i haven`t receive nine until now.
Yours feedback?
Mord0rr said:
I been using this rom (2.0.1.i) a few days until now, with the last update XXX_140709.
Is anyone using this rom?
What`s your opinion about is use vs 123?
I sincerely don`t seem any improvement so far...and i see a massive amount of the lost of battery...
Last night i sleep with 74%, and when i wakeup, i did see 68%....even much worse than Colour 123i
Can`t say about telephone low level on calls because i haven`t receive nine until now.
Yours feedback?
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my girlfriend hasnt said anything, I flashed radio ( i run cm) and I have noticed that cell standby is second most thing consumed by battery ( @ 20% after a work day)
That might be your new battery drain
yesterday I upgraded from unrooted stable 1.2.3.i to COS 2.0.1.i BETA
my impressions so far are very positive
I had 5 calls today and there is no low in-call volume bug, sound is loud and clear as it was before 1.2.3.i update which brought this bug
battery consumption seems to be more or less the same as on 1.2.3.i (which is good), but still too early to confirm that. Lost 2% overnight.. Interesting though that currently battery manager is showing Android system used 41% of my battery and the screen 31% only (on 1.2.3.i screen was always between 75% and 80%). Right now am with 75% battery left with 1 hour SOT. Mostly gmail-ing on data connection. So, I should easily reach 4 hours SOT before battery is empty (I use wifi connection at home and it uses much less battery than data...) and this is comparable with average 4.5 hrs SOT which I had on 1.2.3.i.
I like new animations and overall more polished look of GUI
music player finally displays proper details and album art of my mp3 songs
..and another thing which is very important to me since my find 7a has a yellow tint issue: apparently oppo changed colour temperature and the yellow tint is now much less noticeable. Pls oppo keep this colour settings also in the future updates
have not encountered any major bugs till now, but again, am on COS 2.0.1.i BETA since y'day only
for now I would say good work oppo!
All the Members, and XDA members,
I am new on this forum.
I am willing to buy Canvas A1.
Canvas A1 users please tell me how is this phone?
How is the sound quality, batery performed & camera quality?
Thx in advance.
kunalwap said:
All the Members, and XDA members,
I am new on this forum.
I am willing to buy Canvas A1.
Canvas A1 users please tell me how is this phone?
How is the sound quality, batery performed & camera quality?
Thx in advance.
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I have been using this device for almost more than a month now, and I am very much satisfied.
The phone performs smooth, with almost no lag at all. Runs on completely stock android and will get guaranteed updates from Google for 2 years. Like we are supposed to get the Lollipop starting by mid-December. But yes, Google is not so energetic with Android One, so don't expect the device to be all sparkling at the top of the devices charts with other nexus and flagships in any news. We had to wait for a lot of time just to get a news of Lollipop for our device. But nevertheless we will get it for sure so no worry there.
Sound quality on loudspeakers is just fine, not great but still satisfactory, on the other hand, sound quality in headphones is pretty good. In-call volume and clarity could have been better, it's a tad bit on the lower side, however, it doesn't bother much.
Camera is strictly "Satisfactory". You can click decent pictures with the rear camera during daytime, however, during night just don't depend on it for any important events. Front camera is okayish too. Does the work, but nothing out of the ordinary.
Battery is a mixed bag. For me it's perfectly fine. I use my device in 2 ways, when I am out (completely on 2G/3G the whole day) and when I am at home (completely on WiFi).
I get an average of 18 hours or so in the first case, with mild-medium usage, i.e continuous shuffling between 2G/3G, 10-15 mins of browsing, half n hour of songs, half n hour of calls, about an hour of whatsapp, 10-15 mins of gaming. Definitely lasts me from morning to evening till I get home.
In the second case, I easily get over a day of battery life (and yes, by day I mean 24 hours) with almost the same usage (perhaps a bit more that the former, with more chatting on whatsapp) as above except for that its connected to WiFi all the time. The longest I was able to run it till date was about for 51 hours I guess on WiFi with minimal use.
Ultimately it all depends on user to user for battery life, some people find it too less, some find it just sufficient, I personally fall somewhere in between those 2 categories. Battery capacity should have been a bit more, I would have used a few extra mins in gaming.
So to get it straight, if you are going to using it for heavy use, like gaming and continuous 3G then you are going to be terribly disappointed with the battery life.
Another thing is that please remember that price point at which we are viewing this, at this price point you can't really complain.
Xadus said:
I have been using this device for almost more than a month now, and I am very much satisfied.
The phone performs smooth, with almost no lag at all. Runs on completely stock android and will get guaranteed updates from Google for 2 years. Like we are supposed to get the Lollipop starting by mid-December. But yes, Google is not so energetic with Android One, so don't expect the device to be all sparkling at the top of the devices charts with other nexus and flagships in any news. We had to wait for a lot of time just to get a news of Lollipop for our device. But nevertheless we will get it for sure so no worry there.
Sound quality on loudspeakers is just fine, not great but still satisfactory, on the other hand, sound quality in headphones is pretty good. In-call volume and clarity could have been better, it's a tad bit on the lower side, however, it doesn't bother much.
Camera is strictly "Satisfactory". You can click decent pictures with the rear camera during daytime, however, during night just don't depend on it for any important events. Front camera is okayish too. Does the work, but nothing out of the ordinary.
Battery is a mixed bag. For me it's perfectly fine. I use my device in 2 ways, when I am out (completely on 2G/3G the whole day) and when I am at home (completely on WiFi).
I get an average of 18 hours or so in the first case, with mild-medium usage, i.e continuous shuffling between 2G/3G, 10-15 mins of browsing, half n hour of songs, half n hour of calls, about an hour of whatsapp, 10-15 mins of gaming. Definitely lasts me from morning to evening till I get home.
In the second case, I easily get over a day of battery life (and yes, by day I mean 24 hours) with almost the same usage (perhaps a bit more that the former, with more chatting on whatsapp) as above except for that its connected to WiFi all the time. The longest I was able to run it till date was about for 51 hours I guess on WiFi with minimal use.
Ultimately it all depends on user to user for battery life, some people find it too less, some find it just sufficient, I personally fall somewhere in between those 2 categories. Battery capacity should have been a bit more, I would have used a few extra mins in gaming.
So to get it straight, if you are going to using it for heavy use, like gaming and continuous 3G then you are going to be terribly disappointed with the battery life.
Another thing is that please remember that price point at which we are viewing this, at this price point you can't really complain.
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thx so much...
Hello,
I've just got mine, it's amazon refurbished, but just because the box was broken, never used before.
I've used it for about a week to let the battery start working as it should, but no way.
Yesterday it went from 100% to 0% (dead) from 10:00 to 23:00
Now this are the expectations for today: http://imgur.com/1UPeXww
Should I just send it back? I've heard lot of people talking about at least two days and I'm not even using it that much...
Since last Wear update by google few days ago there are another time a battery issue on wear watch. My SW3 go from normal 3% by hour to 8% by hours. Same review with Huawei users
I agree, I thought the update made it better... well, it WAS better for a moment but now it's worse.
My watch easily lasted for about 2-3 days on first MM update, now it's barely 2 days with the same usage.
The only thing I've noticed is that the battery drains less from the vibrations, notifications and overall interaction with the watch. So the battery is somehow fixed - it drains less while using the watch but drains more while the watch is "off".
Same here. Mine is just few months old and after the update battery gets drained in about 10 hours or so.
I do miss Pebble...
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Does anyone know if there's a way to downgrade to the previous marshmallow update?
Same problem here, took the update (like you have a choice) and my battery which used to at least last all day with heavy use is now dead by lunch. The problem seems to be related to certain watch faces, i switched to a simple watch face and the battery life is back to normal but should be much longer with this simple watch face. Going to load a custom rom.
dersie said:
Since last Wear update by google few days ago there are another time a battery issue on wear watch. My SW3 go from normal 3% by hour to 8% by hours. Same review with Huawei users
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Since that update the GPS performance is chronic too. GPS takes ages to lock and accuracy suddenly shoots up to 90m+ for no apparent reason. Very annoying as I have written, and been using successfully for months, a stand-alone golf GPS app that is now useless.
Andyman10 said:
Since that update the GPS performance is chronic too. GPS takes ages to lock and accuracy suddenly shoots up to 90m+ for no apparent reason. Very annoying as I have written, and been using successfully for months, a stand-alone golf GPS app that is now useless.
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Not had the GPS issue but hell the battery is poor now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Get a days battery at best and thats if I use it for notifications and for the time and nothing more. Used to get around 60hrs with general usage and around 30hrs with HEAVY usage(GPS ETC).... Heavy usage now gives me around 10hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have an issue with the compass as it rarely points north and when it does south if you turn to face south its usually where east is!!!!
Completely unreliable watch now....
Thinking of going back to 5.1 as everything worked!
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Not had the GPS issue but hell the battery is poor now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Get a days battery at best and thats if I use it for notifications and for the time and nothing more. Used to get around 60hrs with general usage and around 30hrs with HEAVY usage(GPS ETC).... Heavy usage now gives me around 10hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have an issue with the compass as it rarely points north and when it does south if you turn to face south its usually where east is!!!!
Completely unreliable watch now....
Thinking of going back to 5.1 as everything worked!
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I'm thinking the same...and I do occasionally get the hugely accelerated battery drain problem; usually of course just when you need the watch working!
I actually added compass algorithms to the software I wrote to point the way to the next tee on new courses and it was very unstable on 5.1. It's now more stable but seems to drift +/- 30 deg off true North after a few minutes even with regular calibration. I'd suspect my own code but I've tried a few other apps (Bearing seems a good one) and the results are identical.