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Lately, I noticed my battery has been dying much faster than normal. I got the phone maybe like 3 weeks ago, and it was lasting longer. I'm not sure if it's some app I downloaded or just the bad radios in 4.0.2 causing me to keep searching for signal, but it's definitely impacted how much I use my phone.
Anyone know what's going on? Or if theres some known issue with this?
Attached are some pictures of the running applications and the battery charts.
8.5hrs with 31% is pretty good to me.
You should look at my battery, 5hrs down to 16% (I have all active sync disabled, turned of 4G AND screen brightness only at like 5% for the entire time.)
*sigh*
If you look that is almost all standby time, which should be lasting way longer.
That's not horrible but you should look into what's waking up your phone so often.
Whats your screen-on time there? It looks like its really low.
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MilkPudding said:
8.5hrs with 31% is pretty good to me.
You should look at my battery, 5hrs down to 16% (I have all active sync disabled, turned of 4G AND screen brightness only at like 5% for the entire time.)
*sigh*
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You have a major hardware or software issue. That is not normal.
martonikaj said:
That's not horrible but you should look into what's waking up your phone so often.
Whats your screen-on time there? It looks like its really low.
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It was at about 25 minutes of screen-on, but the keep-awake on the android OS was an hour. Could this be the culprit?
jadesocket said:
It was at about 25 minutes of screen-on, but the keep-awake on the android OS was an hour. Could this be the culprit?
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Well look at your "awake" bar. Something is consistently waking the phone. Just syncing email etc wouldn't keep it awake that long. Its another app.
Use something like "BetterBatteryStats" to monitor microscopically whats waking the device.
Thanks, I'll use that app and post results.
Another thing is I looked at the cell standby, and it told me that 25% of the time it did not have signal. Could searching for signal cause the intense battery usage?
jadesocket said:
Thanks, I'll use that app and post results.
Another thing is I looked at the cell standby, and it told me that 25% of the time it did not have signal. Could searching for signal cause the intense battery usage?
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yes, absolutely
90% of battery problems are either user installed app or radio related so far on the nexus thread
jadesocket said:
Thanks, I'll use that app and post results.
Another thing is I looked at the cell standby, and it told me that 25% of the time it did not have signal. Could searching for signal cause the intense battery usage?
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Looks like you had some times of bad signal based on your screenshots, but not the entire time.
Bottom line your phone should be idling much better than that. Granted I'm on GSM and not LTE, but when I turn off my screen and let it idle (i.e. forget to plug it in over night) the graph is almost flat. It will idle forever. Yours is not seeming to do that.
reboot..
I reboot my phone twice a week. It works really good.
Battery after a reboot and 9 hours standby. 96%
Without a reboot 70%
Big difference..
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martonikaj said:
That's not horrible but you should look into what's waking up your phone so often.
Whats your screen-on time there? It looks like its really low.
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You have a major hardware or software issue. That is not normal.
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After much testing, I found out the anti-theft feature in Avast! is causing the massive battery drain. It prevents the phone from going to sleep.
Ow that sucks well out with that app, I use avg very good. Also I get an average battery usage of 3hours screen on time.
That's with most syncs on also wifi and GPS are always on.
Usually its bad apps that can't handle ics
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I'm also using Avast but I think my awake pattern fairly falls in line with the screen on pattern. Twice out of the 2 months I've owned my nexus the battery has drained really fast - normally I will get about 28 hours. Any ideas?
I am using the official Samsung extended battery, running codename android ( it was doing this on other roms also), and automatic brightness or very low brightness. Why is the screen using so much battery? Does this happen to you too? Anything I can do to fix this?
Some people get two hours, some people get five. Just kinda random unfortunately. I can get 2.5 to 3.
My phone tends to use the screen a lot as well. I have heard that it is due to pushing so many pixels all the time. We do have a 1280 by 720 resolution on a 4.65 inch screen
ourtut said:
I am using the official Samsung extended battery, running codename android ( it was doing this on other roms also), and automatic brightness or very low brightness. Why is the screen using so much battery? Does this happen to you too? Anything I can do to fix this?
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It's showing you how much it uses in comparison to other processes on your phone. Of course it takes more power to run an HD display than it does for Chrome to show you a page or your calculator to do a few calculations.
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The screen will always be the biggest drain unless your phone had like 24hrs of standby w/o turning the screen on or something. If in normal usage something is higher than the screen, there's something wrong.
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sshede said:
Some people get two hours, some people get five. Just kinda random unfortunately. I can get 2.5 to 3.
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Its not random, its that every single person uses their phone differently and has it configured differently, so they get different screen-on times through the course of a battery.
Lol Id be upset if anything other than screen on used that much battery, this is completely normal OP, the longer your screen is on, the lower your life will be.
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just fully charged it last night, play a bit, battery was at 90% when i went to bed, wifi was on, i even had the juice defender installed.
when i got up this morning (6 hr sleep), the battery has 50% left! when i check the battery usage, Cellular Network is the one used battery most, says 30%, then Phone idle came second with 25%. is that normal? ( I don't think so...) even the phone in idle mode it used that much battery? and even i don't have a SIM card in the phone, the Cellular Network still consuming battery?
Sounds like it was searching for the network all night. I would hope it'd be smart enough to just stop, but apparently not! I'm sure it'd sleep like a baby in airplane mode.
crisahan said:
just fully charged it last night, play a bit, battery was at 90% when i went to bed, wifi was on, i even had the juice defender installed.
when i got up this morning (6 hr sleep), the battery has 50% left! when i check the battery usage, Cellular Network is the one used battery most, says 30%, then Phone idle came second with 25%. is that normal? ( I don't think so...) even the phone in idle mode it used that much battery? and even i don't have a SIM card in the phone, the Cellular Network still consuming battery?
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If the radio is on it'll consume power - and with no SIM card inserted, unless you enter airplane mode, it'll leave the radio on for emergency calls.
Might even consume MORE power in that configuration. I've noticed that Qualcomm devices often behave badly in terms of power consumption when they don't have a SIM.
Yep, way more. I work in AK and you often leave coverage, do so without going in to airplane and the battery will plummet as quickly as if you are on an active call because your phone is constantly searching for a network. Some phone will search for a while and then take a break and resume after a set interval. These are not as bad but you're still way ahead of the game going to airplane until you get in coverage.
Some people are not aware that you can go into airplane and then turn on WiFi after.
Anyone else have OppoKinectService.apk show up as a major contributor towards battery drain? When I look at my battery consumption history its always between 30%-40%. Does anyone know what that app does or controls?
Isn't that the service which controls the off screen gestures?
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AngryHapposai said:
Isn't that the service which controls the off screen gestures?
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Not sure to be honest. I have all gestures turned off and yet I still have the drain. Only gesture I have enabled still is knock on/off. That can't account for that much drain. Unless they are still working out the kinks in color OS
You're either out our you're in because enabling one requires the phone to standby for a potential input every bit as much as enabling them all. You do benefit from killing the voice because the phone no longer has to keep a live mic going or use cycles trying to parse out whether you did or did not use the trigger phrase.
dc82 said:
Anyone else have OppoKinectService.apk show up as a major contributor towards battery drain? When I look at my battery consumption history its always between 30%-40%. Does anyone know what that app does or controls?
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Yes, I posted on the Oppo Google+ community yesterday on this very thing. My battery life is atrocious! I even reloaded the phone after a few days (to rule out an app). I have tried everything under the sun to improve the battery performance, even turning the LTE off and going with Edge service - made very little difference. I love the hardware, but this is ridiculous. I understand each phone has its nuance, but there is a limit. Thankfully, Oppo included an extra battery. Perhaps with this freebie, they acknowledge battery drain? Thankful for the rapid charger too. I hope a firmware release is on the way that will address the battery drain issues.
krabman said:
You're either out our you're in because enabling one requires the phone to standby for a potential input every bit as much as enabling them all. You do benefit from killing the voice because the phone no longer has to keep a live mic going or use cycles trying to parse out whether you did or did not use the trigger phrase.
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I've done a hard reset and disables all gestures so will run it for a day and see.
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morphius1966 said:
Yes, I posted on the Oppo Google+ community yesterday on this very thing. My battery life is atrocious! I even reloaded the phone after a few days (to rule out an app). I have tried everything under the sun to improve the battery performance, even turning the LTE off and going with Edge service - made very little difference. I love the hardware, but this is ridiculous. I understand each phone has its nuance, but there is a limit. Thankfully, Oppo included an extra battery. Perhaps with this freebie, they acknowledge battery drain? Thankful for the rapid charger too. I hope a firmware release is on the way that will address the battery drain issues.
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I don't get poor battery life by any means. I got 13+ hours yesterday with 7+ hours of on screen time. I just want to know where that drain is coming from and if it can be avoided and yield better battery life.
dc82 said:
I've done a hard reset and disables all gestures so will run it for a day and see.
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I don't get poor battery life by any means. I got 13+ hours yesterday with 7+ hours of on screen time. I just want to know where that drain is coming from and if it can be avoided and yield better battery life.
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Wow, 7 hrs screen time is incredible. You must have everything off, Greenfield, etc...
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Wow, 7 hrs screen time is incredible. You must have everything off, Greenfield, etc...
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At that point I still had the knock on/off gesture enabled. I just had other gestures off. After disabling the knock feature I noticed the OppoKinectService stopped appearing in my battery manager so I guess that solves that.
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I've done a hard reset and disables all gestures so will run it for a day and see.
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I don't get poor battery life by any means. I got 13+ hours yesterday with 7+ hours of on screen time. I just want to know where that drain is coming from and if it can be avoided and yield better battery life.
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Screenshot please :fingers-crossed:
Boes40 said:
Screenshot please :fingers-crossed:
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Shows a little over 6 hours. I didn't take another screen shot before reseting and recharging the phone but by end of it I was right at 7 hours.
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Shows a little over 6 hours. I didn't take another screen shot before reseting and recharging the phone but by end of it I was right at 7 hours.
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Thanks, do you also have one of the history details?
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Thanks, do you also have one of the history details?
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Nope
So what's your secret @dc82?
Strange you have the OppoKinectService listed in your battery stats, I have all the gestures on and never see that.
But I, and I think many others, aren't seeing anywhere near the screen battery time you're getting.
What else have you configured/disabled? Which software version?
seanpr123 said:
So what's your secret @dc82?
Strange you have the OppoKinectService listed in your battery stats, I have all the gestures on and never see that.
But I, and I think many others, aren't seeing anywhere near the screen battery time you're getting.
What else have you configured/disabled? Which software version?
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i normarlly have over 3hrs screen on time during my 1st week with 7a.
phone used time from 17~30 hrs depends on my usage. but generally i think the battery is very good.
and strangely enough, when i leave the phone idle (during my sleep) , it seems to drain faster than when i use the phone during the day? anyone else have the same experience?
Yes, the reports on poor standby are so ubiquitous that I'm pretty sure the rare few who are claiming otherwise don't know what they are talking about or are mistaken. It was mentioned in every single review that bothered to mention standby at all so you can figure you have a known issue(s) affecting all devices.
Hey everyone, I've noticed that the Asus Zenwatch has very quick battery drainage, for me at least. I don't have any apps installed on it, and the watch face I have isn't too intense. Anyways, I was wondering if anybody had some tips for me on how to conserve battery for the watch.
P.S. I have stay awake disabled, brightness all the way down, and some other common battery saving tips.
Give it a day or two. The first day the battery seems to drain quickly then you get decent battery life. I put my watch on at 7:30 am and now at 10 PM it is at 47% battery. I do nothing special in regards to battery saving besides setting the brightness to 1, as indoors all day i find that plenty bright.
I do regular stuff like check several messages and Google Now cards throughout the day., and control music for an hour or two.
I've had the watch for about a week now (got it as a gift for Christmas) and it still seems to drain quite quickly.
Know of any reason why this could be happening?
P.S. I have the watch on from about 6:30 A.M to about 3-4 P.M and it will have about 50-40% battery left.
It doesn't help you much, but I have found mine to have surprisingly good battery. I have had it about a week now and I generally take it offer the charger at 6:30am and put it back on the charger at 11:00pm with ~30% battery still left. I use it pretty often during the day and have the ambient mode on all day. The only real action I have taken with battery life in mind is that I do avoid the "bright" faces.
What doe the Android Wear app on your phone say is using the most battery on the watch? That is probably where I would start.
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I've had the watch for about a week now...I have the watch on from about 6:30 A.M to about 3-4 P.M and it will have about 50-40% battery left.
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Has your watch updated to 5.0.1? Maybe that could be the problem. I don't have screen always on, mainly use it for notifications (I get maybe a couple of dozen per day), and mine uses less than 3% battery power per hour. I nearly always have at least 70% left at bedtime.
Yes, my watch is 5.0.1. I don't have the watch always on either, and I only use mine to check the time to be honest. Not really notifications too much.
Here is my Battery Status page. There isn't much that it can tell me, sadly.
Hmm. Which watchface? There clearly seems to be something wrong there.
I use a custom watch face created with Intellicom. The only moving thing on there is the digital numbers changing and battery percentage changing. It's also semi-dark.
I don't see anything online about Intellicom being particularly bad on battery. It definitely seems like you're losing battery about twice as fast as you should, though. I'm afraid I don't have any other ideas at the moment. Here's my battery usage today so far:
Wow, that's crazy! Hopefully something will happen, or I find out if something is causing such a battery drain. Thanks for trying though!
xLOLxTSNOOPS said:
Wow, that's crazy! Hopefully something will happen, or I find out if something is causing such a battery drain. Thanks for trying though!
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Just curious, any progress or change on your problem?
It has gotten much better. It doesn't go down nearly as fast as it did. I don't know what it was, but yeah.
Hey, my watch has gotten worse with battery. Dramatically worse. I'm losing about 10 to 15 percent per hour even with notifications off. I do use always on but a few weeks ago was getting better life.
Would apps like instaweather drain even if they aren't the active watch face?
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Hey, my watch has gotten worse with battery. Dramatically worse. I'm losing about 10 to 15 percent per hour even with notifications off. I do use always on but a few weeks ago was getting better life.
Would apps like instaweather drain even if they aren't the active watch face?
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Well it depends, do you get notification and such on your watch throughout the day?
I get 3-6 notifications an hour I would guess.
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I don't get notifications from the weather app, no.
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I get 3-6 notifications an hour I would guess.
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I don't get notifications from the weather app, no.
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Could you send a screenshot of your watch battery manager?
I think you're referring to this. I recharged to 100 about 6 hours ago and have barely used it since other than to check a few notifications. I run always on with a mostly black screen but have tried other screens to rule out that as the change. Brightness set at 3. But as I said, I was getting better life until a week or two ago.
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How is the batter life for you guys? . I seem to be losing 60% in 6 hours with 30 mins Google navigation and some texting and browsing.
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This is what I've been getting for battery life on my Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note 7. I've cut the bloat apps I don't want, almost all of my data connection was on wifi, web browsing, sending and checking emails, no gaming, had to turn it off twice (applying and reapplying a screen protector), used Bluetooth once for about an hour listening to music in the car, made a few calls and received a few calls. I turned battery saver on right around 85% battery life from 100%. The battery saver was custom and I left the screen resolution at 2k just only enabled limit performance and max brightness to 90%. Just over 9 hrs screen on time works for me.
Yeah mine hasn't been great. Think I'm gonna run it until Wednesday and if it's still not good I'm returning it and going back to my s7e in the meantime.
Mine has been doing very well, better than my note 4 did by a good percentage. The other day I tried to use Google maps for navigation but I was apparently in a dead area. Later that night I was checking battery stats and I saw that maps used 11% for a matter of minutes while the next non-system app was like 3%. There might be something wrong with the app on note 7 then maybe.
Mine has been really good. Usually when I leave work I'm at around 40% (on my S6 edge). Today I'm at 79% (on the Note 7).
So far, my best has been down to 14% in almost 16 hours, with about 5 hours of SoT.
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Mine has been really good. Usually when I leave work I'm at around 40% (on my S6 edge). Today I'm at 79% (on the Note 7).
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Same experience here. Almost exactly the same actually, haha. Weird!
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Justinphxaz said:
This is what I've been getting for battery life on my Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note 7. I've cut the bloat apps I don't want, almost all of my data connection was on wifi, web browsing, sending and checking emails, no gaming, had to turn it off twice (applying and reapplying a screen protector), used Bluetooth once for about an hour listening to music in the car, made a few calls and received a few calls. I turned battery saver on right around 85% battery life from 100%. The battery saver was custom and I left the screen resolution at 2k just only enabled limit performance and max brightness to 90%. Just over 9 hrs screen on time works for me.
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Seriously, if you are getting 9 hours of screen on time, you have to have disabled so much of the functionality of the phone that I don't know why you would buy a Note. With every reviewer and average person getting 4.5-5.5 hours SOT, it just seems ridiculous..
I think it's satisfactory.
I find myself actually using it a lot more than the S7E AND the battery is better to boot.
Personally, if I couldn't use the Note 7 any more, I'd go back to using my iphone 6S+ before I'd use the S7E...
Or the Note 5 / 6S+.
From ergonomics, the S7E is just awful. It reminds me of using a Windows 8 PC for the first time! Mainly because of the horrible, horrible touch sensitivity of the screen and edge.
Perhaps the battery life is better because I've never charged wirelessly? I've heard that if you charge with the cord your battery life, particularly idle, is far better. I don't mind plugging in. USB-C connector is long overdue. No more fumbling in the dark trying to plug it in, scratching the bottom around the connector in the process!
The built in battery monitor is bad. I ran antutu benchmark once and it tonight it took up the equivalent of my whole battery. 5 minutes of app time and only 3% in real life. I have done a couple of full battery cycles to just make sure the software learns the top and bottom ends of my battery. Slowly figuring out what is killing battery and what not. If I have extra drain it's because something is glitching. I have been unplugged since 1 am last night. Still at 10% with almost 5 hours of screen on time.
Justinphxaz said:
This is what I've been getting for battery life on my Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note 7. I've cut the bloat apps I don't want, almost all of my data connection was on wifi, web browsing, sending and checking emails, no gaming, had to turn it off twice (applying and reapplying a screen protector), used Bluetooth once for about an hour listening to music in the car, made a few calls and received a few calls. I turned battery saver on right around 85% battery life from 100%. The battery saver was custom and I left the screen resolution at 2k just only enabled limit performance and max brightness to 90%. Just over 9 hrs screen on time works for me.
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What is that dark theme?
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Seriously, if you are getting 9 hours of screen on time, you have to have disabled so much of the functionality of the phone that I don't know why you would buy a Note. With every reviewer and average person getting 4.5-5.5 hours SOT, it just seems ridiculous..
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I don't feel I disabled much of the phone, all I did was disable approximately 12 apps that I don't and or won't use, and at around 85% battery left, I turned on a custom mid power saving feature and used the phone a good amount over a 34+ hour span. This whole setup took me less than 15 minutes, so I'm not sure why you seem to have an issue with my choice in phone. It's not like I went in, rooted the thing and froze an incredible amount of apps, slapped in a custom kernel and messed with voltage and loaded some slim lightweight custom ROM. I simply used power saver and disabled some apps. This took no effort at all, simply sharing what I'd been getting, as others didn't seem to get as much out of their battery.
I got a note because I can pull serious hours SOT, multi task like a boss and enjoy multimedia on this gorgeous screen. I've had Notes since the Note 2.
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What is that dark theme?
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It's sd-black from the theme store.
I agree with the disappointing battery life. I had a galaxy 7 active and after a full day of work doing the same thing I had about 75% after my day ended ,with my note 7 I had about mid 60%. Keep in mind I dont use my phone except a little before work and on my breaks.i also turn my Data off when I'm not using my phone and yes all my bloatware is shut off. If we had root I'm sure I would be happy since I get a lot more out of my battery because of my root setup .
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Im getting great battery life and i can usually find a place to plug in for a short time which refuels me quickly. I had to manually set a few apps to be quiet which is fine otherwise im happy so far.
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Thanks. These white settings pages are blinding me.
Could you please share what apps you disabled and what power settings you are using so I can give it a try? Thank you.
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It's sd-black from the theme store.
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I use that one also.. I just can't settle on an icon theme so far...
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sleevester said:
Thanks. These white settings pages are blinding me.
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lol no problem! I always try and black out as much of the UI as possible!
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MatroxD said:
I use that one also.. I just can't settle on an icon theme so far...
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I use Nova Launcher Pro for my icons (out of the playstore) mixed with the themes from the theme store, I'm enjoying it!
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Could you please share what apps you disabled and what power settings you are using so I can give it a try? Thank you.
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Yeah, sure. I've got a couple things to do first but I'll list the apps I disabled and show you the power saving setup I am using in just a bit.
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lol no problem! I always try and black out as much of the UI as possible!
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I use Nova Launcher Pro for my icons (out of the playstore) mixed with the themes from the theme store, I'm enjoying it!
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Yeah, sure. I've got a couple things to do first but I'll list the apps I disabled and show you the power saving setup I am using in just a bit.
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Lol, I'm trying to not bring nova in just yet.. It is tempting though, as that's normally what I use..
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