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Usually charge my Tilt over night. But just to check it I unplug it before going to bed.
Started at 100% when I went to bed, I got up 7 hours later and it was at 56%. That is far worse than I expected!
Is this normal? Or shouls I restore it back the the original ROM and exchange it while I still have time.
What did you have turned on? If you leave Bluetooth and WiFi on overnight it'll definitely kill your battery... you should disable them in the commanger when not in use to save battery life.
Also, if you have the mail client set to check for new mail often (every 5 minutes or so) it'll keep firing up a data connection which uses the battery.
Thats certainly not normal. check if you dont have Wifi or an 3G connection at the moment.
I did have bluetooth on. I am on a 3G network, but not connected to a data session.
I had this problem with one of the 'cooked' roms. For the 5 weeks I had my phone, I never had a problem with it draining overnight. I flashed one of the roms, and two nights in a row I woke up to a dead battery. I reflashed the ATT rom, and haven't had a problem since.
Overnight battery drain
I have a tilt, std AT&T rom, with some modifications and updates, found here. I have pop email service running every 15 minutes, and commontime Mnotes push email to my lotus notes files and email, bluetooth on at all times. My overnight battery drain, 8-9 hours will be from 100% down to 89-92%, so I would say there is something else wrong. If you have "battery status" (found in this wiki) on your today screen, it will show you battery drain. You should also have the tweak settings to turn off your 3G connection after 1 minute after completion of data transfer. If this does not do it, go back to the OEM rom and then add your updates.
It should not drain the battery like you are seeing, my reference as a guide and I push my phone pretty hard for data and email.
Good luck,
MS0529
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I have a tilt, std AT&T rom, with some modifications and updates, found here. I have pop email service running every 15 minutes, and commontime Mnotes push email to my lotus notes files and email, bluetooth on at all times. My overnight battery drain, 8-9 hours will be from 100% down to 89-92%, so I would say there is something else wrong. If you have "battery status" (found in this wiki) on your today screen, it will show you battery drain. You should also have the tweak settings to turn off your 3G connection after 1 minute after completion of data transfer. If this does not do it, go back to the OEM rom and then add your updates.
It should not drain the battery like you are seeing, my reference as a guide and I push my phone pretty hard for data and email.
Good luck,
MS0529
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Totally agree.
there is also the posibility that you have a defective battery that's not holding charge. If you check with your phone supplier and tell them nicely that's the problem they will most likely give you a replacement (as they will send the old one back in the packaging as a return).
OK, I'll flash back to my original AT&T ROM and see what that does. I have another batter (1650 from ebay, a cheap one) but don't expect to have it for another 4 or 5 days.
it's a shame because I really like this Dutty's ATT Beta 2.
Anyone have a good full featured ROM their using that I can try if I find the AT&T original give me better battery life?
My overnight drain with bluetooth On and band set on EDGE is 4%. The only times I've found it low to dead overnite is when I've left WiFi On, not sure why as it should standby when off, but at least twice it's sapped the battery dead.
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My overnight drain with bluetooth On and band set on EDGE is 4%. The only times I've found it low to dead overnite is when I've left WiFi On, not sure why as it should standby when off, but at least twice it's sapped the battery dead.
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I wonder if when you get below a certain crital % battery level that cellphone or any Tx/Rx connection drops off? I have noticed once before (and never associated it with anything) that when I was near an audio device (my PC speakers are best for this) and my battery was low that it was 'polling' the cell network like crazy as if losing connection! This may also work for WiFi (which in sleep periodically checks if the network is still in range) and BT?
Something to investigate!
Overnight, around 7hrs, from a 100% battery with BT always on Wi-Fi off, 3G always connected and it's setup to check my email every 2hrs, I only loose 1 to 2% battery life and my alarm going off for about 5mins , this is with the Orange HTC Tytn 2 using their original ROM
Wel, I flashed the latest Dutty's ATT touch ROM. My battery did improve.
From 100% to 78% over night with bluetooth on. Not great but much better.
I'll see how it goes tonight.
My overnight drain is typically 5-7%.
This is with e-mail poll every 5 minutes, so data connection is on.
Bluetooth & WiFi off.
OK, checked it again this morning and this time at was at 98%!
I couldnet figure out why the day before it was at 78% and today at 97%. everything was the same (or so I thought).
I noticed later that the Radio pluging (to toggle BT, WiFi, and phone radios on/off) was not on my today screen. It was set to, but apparently didn't load. Maybe that is somehow the issue. I'll keep it off all day and see it I don't have more juice at the end of the day than usual. I'll turn it on again for tomorrow and see my my battery drains quickly again.
I think the battery capabilities may have a lot to do with this.
Anyone here use Li-Polimer for anything else? I do, minature 3D (no pun intended!) RC helicopters, and the individual packs NEVER produce the same charge/discharge cycle..
Not one is the same from purchase.
Some packs can devolve a low current without much adverse effect, others can charge with a greater sustain. If you present a charge cycle whilst discharge is taking place, it can effect performance.
Lots to look at here guys including device settings but when you put all these aspects together, as in this thread, there is something to work on...
I could've swore that when you turn your phone on stand-by (press the power button on the side to turn the screen off) that it also disables wifi until you wake the phone up.
I was having this same issue. Turned off Bluetooth and Wi-fi at night, hit the power button on the phone and now it only drains about 3% in the 6 hours I sleep.
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I could've swore that when you turn your phone on stand-by (press the power button on the side to turn the screen off) that it also disables wifi until you wake the phone up.
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It does unless the ROM you install changes the registry keys or you do yourself.
ah, okay.. well as long as the battery life lasts longer than the tytns then i'm happy
don't forget the default design of WM !!! ( X does not closes running programs ) ... get a task manager and make sure X DOES fully exit
I had to add that in to cover all the bases
What's one thing that cell phone users worry about? When cell phones are getting bigger and processors are getting smaller, there is still one aspect of cell phones remains the same. Perhaps you've already got answer in your mind, that is the battery. The breakthrough in battery field, in recent years, hasn't made any progress yet. Even though we can't do anything on improving, we still can make our battery last longer by learning some tips and tricks.
The first tricks is about screen brightness. The brighter the screen, the faster you will see your battery dead. Screen is the biggest power consumer in a smartphone. The easiest way to solve this problem is to use automatic brightness adjustment. Also sometimes brighter screen might damage your eyes. Turn down a little bit for your own good.
The second trick is about Bluetooth. If there is no bluetooth module in your smartphone, that's very nice, but most of smartphone have one. Bluetooth can consumer battery faster than you think. If you keep bluetooth on for a while, you might see the speed of battery decreasing by naked eyes. Please remember, always turn off Bluetooth when you don't need it.
Last but no least, it is about mobile network signal. Network signal do have effects on battery consuming. Low network signal will drain your battery much faster. However, there is nothing you can about this but you know the problem and might think to change carriers that offers better coverages.
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Turn off the phone
Problem solved
Greenify
I got 99 problems but my battery life ain't 1.
How to get the best battery life out of your Nexus 5
1. Location Services : If you are not in a neighborhood with a lot of wifi spots you will most likely feel this draining your battery life. Under settings make sure that Location Services is set to battery saving and not High accuracy.
2. Widgets : Weather widgets, games eat battery by constantly fetching information . Check the settings for these widgets and make sure they are using wifi and not updating the weather information every 30 mins or so. I keep my settings to update weather information every hour to keep it reasonable. The Gmail widget sometimes eats your battery too. I removed the widget and used an icon in the dock at the bottom to check my email.
3. Restart your phone : Sometimes residual processes from closed apps could cause issues. Restart your phone if you haven't done it in a while and it should clear up any unnecessary things.
4. Keep wifi on during sleep : I made sure my phone uses wifi even when its sleeping. 3g / 4g eats the battery like crazy if you turn off wifi when your phone sleeps. This should be a default setting as pointed out by some users. In my case it had been changed probably when I was tinkering with the phone. You can find this setting in the Settings -> Wifi -> advanced -> Keep wifi on during sleep.
You can also use apps like Greenify , Tasker , and Llama.
5. Don't use Automatic Brightness : Turns out if the sensors are constantly looking to adjust brightness it takes up more battery. I set my brightness at around 60% and it works just fine throughout the day.
6. Use wifi over 3G/4G/LTE if possible
7. Switch off wifi when using Data: Android doesnt switch off your WiFi when you use data because Google wants you to use it for Locations and help build their database of networks.Switch off WiFi completely when using data to save a good chunk of battery.
8. Turn off Vibration on touch : Typing uses quite a bit of battery over the course of a day. Try switching Vibration on touch off.
9. Use Franco Kernel: : This will require rooting your device however it makes it a lot more power efficient.
10. Turn down the Facebook refresh rate : Make sure it updates not very often( every 3-4 hours) or never. IMO your phone is better off without Facebook or any other battery hog social networking apps.
11. Greenify: Works with and without root. Use Greenify to hibernate apps when they should not be running in the background. This is best used for games that fetch information about deals or daily events (i.e. Battle Nations or Real Racing 3)
Feel free to add anything to my list.
Moynia said:
I got 99 problems but my battery life ain't 1.
How to get the best battery life out of your Nexus 5
1. Location Services : If you are not in a neighborhood with a lot of wifi spots you will most likely feel this draining your battery life. Under settings make sure that Location Services is set to battery saving and not High accuracy.
2. Widgets : Weather widgets, games eat battery by constantly fetching information . Check the settings for these widgets and make sure they are using wifi and not updating the weather information every 30 mins or so. I keep my settings to update weather information every hour to keep it reasonable. The Gmail widget sometimes eats your battery too. I removed the widget and used an icon in the dock at the bottom to check my email.
3. Restart your phone : Sometimes residual processes from closed apps could cause issues. Restart your phone if you haven't done it in a while and it should clear up any unnecessary things.
4. Keep wifi on during sleep : I made sure my phone uses wifi even when its sleeping. 3g / 4g eats the battery like crazy if you turn off wifi when your phone sleeps. This should be a default setting as pointed out by some users. In my case it had been changed probably when I was tinkering with the phone. You can find this setting in the Settings -> Wifi -> advanced -> Keep wifi on during sleep.
You can also use apps like Greenify , Tasker , and Llama.
5. Don't use Automatic Brightness : Turns out if the sensors are constantly looking to adjust brightness it takes up more battery. I set my brightness at around 60% and it works just fine throughout the day.
6. Use wifi over 3G/4G/LTE if possible
7. Switch off wifi when using Data: Android doesnt switch off your WiFi when you use data because Google wants you to use it for Locations and help build their database of networks.Switch off WiFi completely when using data to save a good chunk of battery.
8. Turn off Vibration on touch : Typing uses quite a bit of battery over the course of a day. Try switching Vibration on touch off.
9. Use Franco Kernel: : This will require rooting your device however it makes it a lot more power efficient.
10. Turn down the Facebook refresh rate : Make sure it updates not very often( every 3-4 hours) or never. IMO your phone is better off without Facebook or any other battery hog social networking apps.
11. Greenify: Works with and without root. Use Greenify to hibernate apps when they should not be running in the background. This is best used for games that fetch information about deals or daily events (i.e. Battle Nations or Real Racing 3)
Feel free to add anything to my list.
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4, 6, and 7.. it would all depend on your signal quality. i get MUCH better battery life on lte than on wifi. and i mean much! i get 5-6 hour screen on time without doing anything special. on wifi i get an hour to hour and a half less. so the wifi thing is just in your situation, and not for everyone.
9.. there are better kernels than franco kernel. and on top of that, kernels have so little influence on battery life. battery life is mostly about your personal use, your personal setup, your choice of apps used, and very much on the quality of your phone/data connection. everything else has very little influence, including kernels.
3. This I agree. I've had super strange battery drain if I don't restart the phone once in a few days. I refuse to believe its a bad app as there are no wakelocks, seems to be more of a phone idle battery drain or radio drain.
4. To be honest, it depends on the WiFi network. Some WiFi networks (typically at universities) have a strange and outright horrible battery drain the moment you connect to their network and leave the screen off.
6. Again to not repeat what I said earlier, I get better battery life if I connect to LTE instead of my school's WiFi. Download speeds over LTE are 2-5x greater than my school's WiFi, so race to idle may be happening here.
7. Most android phones today have minimal battery drain with WiFi left turned on. But it doesn't hurt turning WiFi off if there are many weak known WiFi networks around you.
8. Not sure how much you'll save, I don't even recall much of an increase of battery with this off. YMMV situation I suppose.
9. I've had better battery life with other kernels. Again it's a YMMV situation.
Not a bad guide really
Another tip is that if Google Play services keeps your phone awake for a long time, revert Google Search to an older version, reboot the phone. The wakelocks should be drastically reduced.
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Using Nexus 5 with:
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ElementalX kernel
1d 2h 9ms on battery / 2h 17ms screen-on time / with 38% remaining!
Good information! ?
Only thing I'd say is to just remove the part about kernel completely. As said above, kernel makes little difference. I get 24 plus hours and 6 hours screen time on any ROM or kernel. It's all setup and usage.
Nothing new here. Good for noobs, but most will have done this already
I have found that turning location off completely has helped my battery life tremendously. While I was barely able to make it through the day before, now I can easily pass by with 40% or something and light usage. I've tried other things but nothing has improved my battery life as much as turning location off.
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I have found that turning location off completely has helped my battery life tremendously. While I was barely able to make it through the day before, now I can easily pass by with 40% or something and light usage. I've tried other things but nothing has improved my battery life as much as turning location off.
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Yup! That's what toggles are for. Need it? 2 clicks and its on. That's always my advice.
Hello All,
I have been noticing battery drainage issues on my Note 4, ever since I got the device. I have had it for a week (I got it on 10-28-14 right from T-Mobile but I didn't fully set it up until the 29th, and today's the 5th) and thought maybe after a few discharges and recharges, I would notice improvement. Coming from a Verizon LG G2, I have been used to starting my day at 8:00AM with 100% and coming home by 6:00PM with 30-40%, without having to employ any Battery Saving features or tricks. Obviously on days where I used my phone more, it will go under 20% and I would turn on battery saving mode, turn off any unnecessary wireless network signals, etc. I have been trying to keep patient because this phone is a spec powerhouse and I know theres just something running wrong in the background, but when I look at Battery usage, 9/10 times, Android system is using up ~40% of my battery, while screen is ~20%.
Has ANYONE had similar issues, or have any ideas on how to fix it?
Notes (no pun intended):
-I have the latest software update, the one that fixed battery life.
-I am running completely stock android, albeit with Nova launcher over touchwiz (all my apps downloaded from Play Store, no root)
- I do have "Ok, google" enabled and always listening
-I have turned off all animations in Developer Options (to counter some of that touchwiz lag)
-I use signals like bluetooth, nfc & gps RARELY, they are usually never on.
-Synch is usually on, because I want my notifications, but I have even turned this and Data off to try to save battery, but even on just Cellular or Wi-Fi, battery drains quick.
-Screen Brightness is on auto, but if I watch a youtube video, I usually turn it up to full.
-I haven't wanted to use power saving just because I shouldn't HAVE to in order to get through my day if I barely turn my phone on.
-Battery drain ranges from 5-15% per hour on mostly standby, the most screen on-time I have gotten thus far is under 2 hrs.
If you want amazing battery life (I'm talking truly 50% more), root your phone and flash FireKatv3 ROM. It's no joke. Dead serious. The battery life is insane, let alone a faster, smoother, lighter, cooler (temp.) phone...whatever you do, don't stay stock. It doesn't do the n4 any justice.
Let me know if you have any other questions. I'd be glad to help.
I've attached a few Screenshots of how today went, barely any usage, yet I drained so much during standby.
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If you want amazing battery life (I'm talking truly 50% more), root your phone and flash FireKatv3 ROM. It's no joke. Dead serious. The battery life is insane, let alone a faster, smoother, lighter, cooler (temp.) phone...whatever you do, don't stay stock. It doesn't do the n4 any justice.
Let me know if you have any other questions. I'd be glad to help.
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Thanks, but for now i wanna keep my warranty and use the S-pen for at least a few months.
I've got a Galaxy s4 active on vodafone (UK) running 4.4.2, kernel version 3.4.0-2450186. The battery has been getting bad ever since kitcat went on it, but its now got ridiculous. Having looked at battery usage, a massive amount is being taken up by the system. Clicking on the graph very dramatically shows why - unless I turn on aeroplane mode, the Wifi is sitting there quite happily on, but not telling me. And I have no idea how to fix this. A few internet searches have suggested that there is a programme on there that keeps the wifi on to find a wifi signal to latch on to, but I cannot find that programme for the life of me. Anyone got any suggestions? This is completely ruining my phone - the battery isn't lasting half a day on standby at the minute.
Thanks.