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First off, sorry if this is similar to another thread. I had very specific things happening so I thought it warranted a new post.
Okay, so I was wondering if my battery life was normal. I was browsing the web earlier for about one hour (looking for info on my battery troubled, oddly enough) on wifi. After I finished I noticed my battery had dropped significantly: from 79 to 58 to be precise. I use the lowest backlight setting, I kill apps frequently.
My ROM right now is Serendipity 6.1, stock serendipity kernel. No oc or uv. Is this normal for a battery to die so quickly?
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ive been having the same problem(sudden change of battery levels). Wifi has been known to kill batteries on the captivate, or at least in my opinion. also, check if you have any background apps running that use up cpu resources. those kill your battery too.
KreacherComfort said:
First off, sorry if this is similar to another thread. I had very specific things happening so I thought it warranted a new post.
Okay, so I was wondering if my battery life was normal. I was browsing the web earlier for about one hour (looking for info on my battery troubled, oddly enough) on wifi. After I finished I noticed my battery had dropped significantly: from 79 to 58 to be precise. I use the lowest backlight setting, I kill apps frequently.
My ROM right now is Serendipity 6.1, stock serendipity kernel. No oc or uv. Is this normal for a battery to die so quickly?
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depending on what you are doing.. if you watch movies thru it which requires intensive processor use then thats normal it really depends...it also eats up battery easily if backlight is set at the highest.
KreacherComfort said:
My ROM right now is Serendipity 6.1, stock serendipity kernel. No oc or uv. Is this normal for a battery to die so quickly?
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It's possible that you have a bad flash. You could try flashing back to stock, running master clear, and then reflashing Serendipity.
gorgy76 said:
depending on what you are doing.. if you watch movies thru it which requires intensive processor use then thats normal it really depends...it also eats up battery easily if backlight is set at the highest.
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Actually, watching movies does not use a lot of processing power. On a recent flight I watched over 6 hours of movies and still had over 30% battery left when I landed. You can also adjust the backlight from within the movie player so it isn't too bright. Wifi is a huge drain, especially with the screen on while web surfing. Another drain is poor cell service since the phone will be continuously looking for signal. Having only 1-2 bars reception uses more power than having 4-5. When it drops below one bar repeatedly it uses even more. A 20% drop after an hour of web surfing on wifi is not that unusual.
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Actually, watching movies does not use a lot of processing power. On a recent flight I watched over 6 hours of movies and still had over 30% battery left when I landed. You can also adjust the backlight from within the movie player so it isn't too bright. Wifi is a huge drain, especially with the screen on while web surfing. Another drain is poor cell service since the phone will be continuously looking for signal. Having only 1-2 bars reception uses more power than having 4-5. When it drops below one bar repeatedly it uses even more. A 20% drop after an hour of web surfing on wifi is not that unusual.
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yeah you have a point in there that's why I say it depends. when you only watch a you tube that has short buffering time it may not uses more processing power try watching movies from other site like webtv360 that constantly buffer until the end of the movie it will drain your battery fast sky high. maybe clearing dalvik cache and battery stats or even doing factory reset with his current rom will solve the issue as there might be some datas left lurking from previous rom after flashing that causes undesired effect with regards to battery drain. most of the time this will cure some icompatibility issues and force closes, doing this after flashing a new rom will save you more headache in the future.
Thanks for the help guys. I'll try to keep it off of wifi when im not using it and I've been putting it in airplane mode at points during he day. I just undervolted, so hopefully that'll help my battery.
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yeah you have a point in there that's why I say it depends. when you only watch a you tube that has short buffering time it may not uses more processing power try watching movies from other site like webtv360 that constantly buffer until the end of the movie it will drain your battery fast sky high.
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Ahh, you didn't say streaming movies from a website. That's a double whammy since you are using the network or wifi and having to decode the stream on the fly. Very processor intensive, as you stated. I was referring to watching movies stored on my external SD card.
Im starting to question the battery of my htc one, it seems to die fairly quickly compared to what ive read around the internet about it. It goes from 100 to 90 percent within 20 minutes of gradually texting (about 10 texts).
Thus i want to test the battery before i consider sending it to be checked/repaired. So is there anyway to test the htc one battery and compare the results to an average of what is expected for the device? My best bet would be a video playback loop, in which the htc one is said to last 10 hours. But the problem is..how is the video playback loop test conducted?
1. what setting is the screen brightness?
2. how high is the volume?
3. and essentially what video is used, how good is the quality?
If there is a norm for how video playback is conducted, or if anyone has tried to test their battery using a playback loop, can you post the parameters for the test, as well as how long the battery lasted?
I know its kind of a weird question, but hopefully someone has some insight as to how its done, thanks in advance.
Edit: Dont post this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2155788, as it doesnt answer my question at all.
I have been searching the forum but i cannot seem to get any answers to this.
I have installed null 23 on my GG V1 with excitement that i would be able to tether Bluetooth to my GG so i can use stock apps etc on my wrist.
I have it up and working but it becomes insanely hot after around 4 minutes or so,to the degree of feeling like it will explode any minute.
So having Bluetooth tethering using the wifi spoof is pointless then if the watch overheats and needs to be turned off.
Has anyone else experienced this or found a fix for it please,as all the hype to use google,apps etc seem pointless.
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I have been searching the forum but i cannot seem to get any answers to this.
I have installed null 23 on my GG V1 with excitement that i would be able to tether Bluetooth to my GG so i can use stock apps etc on my wrist.
I have it up and working but it becomes insanely hot after around 4 minutes or so,to the degree of feeling like it will explode any minute.
So having Bluetooth tethering using the wifi spoof is pointless then if the watch overheats and needs to be turned off.
Has anyone else experienced this or found a fix for it please,as all the hype to use google,apps etc seem pointless.
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I installed null a couple of days back and don't have this problem. my phone however went into meltdown, and it was due to the phones lookout security not knowing what was going on.
delboydell said:
I installed null a couple of days back and don't have this problem. my phone however went into meltdown, and it was due to the phones lookout security not knowing what was going on.
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Really i have had numerous people who have rooted their Galaxy Gear who have said when they tether on the null rom the watch heats up,so your saying that that does not happen with yours? So you can keep the tethering going for a long time on the watch with no issues?
warrencoakley said:
Really i have had numerous people who have rooted their Galaxy Gear who have said when they tether on the null rom the watch heats up,so your saying that that does not happen with yours? So you can keep the tethering going for a long time on the watch with no issues?
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Yes mine is fine I used the video mix app and watched about 15 mins of the new robocop film without issues
warrencoakley said:
I have been searching the forum but i cannot seem to get any answers to this.
I have installed null 23 on my GG V1 with excitement that i would be able to tether Bluetooth to my GG so i can use stock apps etc on my wrist.
I have it up and working but it becomes insanely hot after around 4 minutes or so,to the degree of feeling like it will explode any minute.
So having Bluetooth tethering using the wifi spoof is pointless then if the watch overheats and needs to be turned off.
Has anyone else experienced this or found a fix for it please,as all the hype to use google,apps etc seem pointless.
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i had this issue too, it heats up in 3 to 4 min. i can tell you why!
while you are tethering, go to voltage control and there you can notice that the cpu is fully loaded.
i solved that by putting the governor to "power save" and the minimal power to 600 MHZ. in this way, cpu will stick to the minimal power that you defined.
i will try to change the kernel to "triangulum" and give you feedback for that.
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i had this issue too, it heats up in 3 to 4 min. i can tell you why!
while you are tethering, go to voltage control and there you can notice that the cpu is fully loaded.
i solved that by putting the governor to "power save" and the minimal power to 600 MHZ. in this way, cpu will stick to the minimal power that you defined.
i will try to change the kernel to "triangulum" and give you feedback for that.
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OK i will try that and see if it stops the over heating but i would love to hear some feedback on the triangulum. Thanks
delboydell said:
Yes mine is fine I used the video mix app and watched about 15 mins of the new robocop film without issues
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Did you do anything within null 23 or settings? in order to reduce the heat completely? What way are you tethering?
Issa Eid said:
i had this issue too, it heats up in 3 to 4 min. i can tell you why!
while you are tethering, go to voltage control and there you can notice that the cpu is fully loaded.
i solved that by putting the governor to "power save" and the minimal power to 600 MHZ. in this way, cpu will stick to the minimal power that you defined.
i will try to change the kernel to "triangulum" and give you feedback for that.
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OK i done that and it seems to be still heating up. DO i need to change the scheduler to anything?
Issa Eid said:
i had this issue too, it heats up in 3 to 4 min. i can tell you why!
while you are tethering, go to voltage control and there you can notice that the cpu is fully loaded.
i solved that by putting the governor to "power save" and the minimal power to 600 MHZ. in this way, cpu will stick to the minimal power that you defined.
i will try to change the kernel to "triangulum" and give you feedback for that.
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OK tried it a few times,it doesn't hit up as much but there is some heat there. Am i doing anything wrong?
Can't really help other than to say I haven't had any heating issues
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OK tried it a few times,it doesn't hit up as much but there is some heat there. Am i doing anything wrong?
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no there is nothing wrong, it's just heat bcz the cpu stick to 600 MHZ all the time while the tethering is on.
i tried triangulum for some time, i found the same thing! the cpu is fully loaded untill you limit his power by the same procedure.
the thing is you can apply power save with minimal power to 200 MHZ and it will never heat! but you will face a huge lag !!
i couldn't find any other way.
Issa Eid said:
no there is nothing wrong, it's just heat bcz the cpu stick to 600 MHZ all the time while the tethering is on.
i tried triangulum for some time, i found the same thing! the cpu is fully loaded untill you limit his power by the same procedure.
the thing is you can apply power save with minimal power to 200 MHZ and it will never heat! but you will face a huge lag !!
i couldn't find any other way.
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I've been tethered with my Gear for about 9 hours and I haven't noticed heating. I'm mostly tethered, with some random sync going in the background, but it's never truly hot.
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Did you do anything within null 23 or settings? in order to reduce the heat completely? What way are you tethering?
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when I 1st installed null, I didn't alter any settings (about processer and cores) as I don't mess with things I don't understand. I also am in the uk and have teathering as standard on my S4 so I didn't install the extra stuff for doing that? perhaps that's the problem.
Hello everyone, im here to share my future experiences with seeing just how far i can push my battery and share how i did it with everyone.
Backstory:
I'm going hiking in Virginia tomorrow for a week, and would really like to have a camera without carrying extra devices, so..... its time to mod my nexus 5 as low power as possible!
here are some of the "prep steps" that ive done in order to obtain my battery life, i'll update the thread to let everyone know how it worked out!
Rooted
CM stable installed. (up to date as of this post)
Screen Brightness set to low as possibe.
Elemental X Kernel installed (Using TricksterMOD, these are my settings)
Multicore power saving = 2
CPU Freq. Lock= Min( 652800) Max( 652800) Max.screen off(300mhz)
Google Now/voice anything turned off
Home screen has only one page
Airplane Mode
Greenify Installed, Using Xposed Module for advanced/better control
Hibernating almost everything 3rd party, esp things like Facebook,KiK etc.)
BootManager xposed module installed, everything disabled that isn't needed.
Installed gsam for more meaningful data logging.
Unchecked Auto Sync Data in the Data Usage settings
Changed CPU clock min/max 652800
Installed Deep sleep battery saver Xposed module. (on slumber profile) buts phone into deep sleep when screen is off.
If i remember anything else i did on here, i'll post it.
(sorry its taking so long for replies/updates, "new user status" prevents my posts 5 minutes in between.) (hard to believe, been a member since 2011, just lurked alot.)
*May have found lower limit on the CPU, no instability as of yet, however phone is acting a bit erratic, looking into this currently. (booting takes FOREVER. this is a problem.)
*Trickster seems to pick and choose sometimes whether it wants to listen to me, sometimes CPU freq. on sreen off is changing to 652800 on its own. :/ anyone know of a way to get it to respect my settings?
*Changed CPU freq. to min max 652800 based on advice of the community.
Usage scenario:
I'll be using my phone mainly for pictures throughout the trip and possibly listening to some music, anytime its not in use, ill be turning it outright off, however, id really like to see just how far i can take this.
Anyone have any other suggestions for longevity?
gh0stpirate said:
Hello everyone, im here to share my future experiences with seeing just how far i can push my battery and share how i did it with everyone.
Backstory:
I'm going hiking in Virginia tomorrow for a week, and would really like to have a camera without carrying extra devices, so..... its time to mod my nexus 5 as low power as possible!
here are some of the "prep steps" that ive done in order to obtain my battery life, i'll update the thread to let everyone know how it worked out!
Rooted
CM stable installed. (up to date as of this post)
Screen Brightness set to low as possibe.
Elemental X Kernel installed (Using TricksterMOD, these are my settings)
Multicore power saving = 2
CPU Freq. Lock= Min(960000) Max(stock) Max.screen off(157440)
Google Now/voice anything turned off
Home screen has only one page
Airplane Mode
Greenify Installed, Using Xposed Module for advanced/better control
Hibernating almost everything 3rd party, esp things like Facebook,KiK etc.)
BootManager xposed module installed, everything disabled that isn't needed.
If i remember anything else i did on here, i'll post it.
Usage scenario:
I'll be using my phone mainly for pictures throughout the trip and possibly listening to some music, anytime its not in use, ill be turning it outright off, however, id really like to see just how far i can take this.
Anyone have any other suggestions for longevity?
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Don't forget Google Now and Auto Syncs. (uncheck Auto Sync Data in the Data Usage settings).
Check out this thread here for some more suggestions.
I've been able to push it pretty far even with an active internet connection, though most of the usage comes from reading Reddit or forums with Tapatalk. That was on stock with no root access.
It's possible that it will take less power to just put your phone to sleep when not using than booting it up every time you need it. Depends on how often you boot though.
bblzd said:
Don't forget Google Now and Auto Syncs. (uncheck Auto Sync Data in the Data Usage settings).
Check out this thread here for some more suggestions.
I've been able to push it pretty far even with an active internet connection, though most of the usage comes from reading Reddit or forums with Tapatalk. That was on stock with no root access.
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Thanks for the tips! heres what i changed:
installed gsam for more meaningful data logging.
unchecked Auto Sync Data in the Data Usage settings
changed CPU clock min/max 300mhz
Zainiak said:
It's possible that it will take less power to just put your phone to sleep when not using than booting it up every time you need it. Depends on how often you boot though.
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I was thinking that as well, however it would be difficult to find that "mid point" if i had an emergency backup of battery bank to test this theory, i would. However, im going to be stuck in the mountains and would rather have the ability to take the pictures i want rather then pure data log expedition. Great insight/hivemind though.
gh0stpirate said:
I was thinking that as well, however it would be difficult to find that "mid point" if i had an emergency backup of battery bank to test this theory, i would. However, im going to be stuck in the mountains and would rather have the ability to take the pictures i want rather then pure data log expedition. Great insight/hivemind though.
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Based off my experiments, it takes less than 1% of battery to reboot the phone though I would guess somewhere in the 0.5% range. In airplane mode with all of these functions disabled and in deep sleep, 1% would probably get you 6 hours of idle time or even more. Therefore I would only power it down if you won't be using the phone for at least the next 6 hours. Rough estimations of course, I think either way it would be pretty similar.
If the phone is not powered down you might be inclined to use more than you would otherwise.
bblzd said:
Based off my experiments, it takes less than 1% of battery to reboot the phone though I would guess somewhere in the 0.5% range. In airplane mode with all of these functions disabled and in deep sleep, 1% would probably get you 6 hours of idle time or even more. Therefore I would only power it down if you won't be using the phone for at least the next 6 hours. Rough estimations of course, I think either way it would be pretty similar.
If the phone is not powered down you might be inclined to use more than you would otherwise.
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Extremely interesting/relevant! do you still have any screenshots or data logs on these restarts anymore?? if thats the case, then yes, id only turn it off while im sleeping then!
gh0stpirate said:
Extremely interesting/relevant! do you still have any screenshots or data logs on these restarts anymore?? if thats the case, then yes, id only turn it off while im sleeping then!
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Unfortunately I do not, just speculation based off what I've seen when monitoring current draw (using Current Widget) and the battery percentage before and after a reboot.
I do have shots demonstrating low idle drain with Auto Syncs and Locations disabled. On average I'd say my drop is about 1% over 5 hours of deep sleep, but it's always hard to tell because there's no way for me to know exactly when it drops without active logging which would interfere with the phone's deep sleep.
Generally speaking a reboot uses ~1% of your battery. If you're locking your CPU to run at only 300mhz I would just leave it on the entire time. Especially if mobile data is off and so is WiFi. Make sure you go into Settings > WiFi > *Touch the 3-dot menu* > Advanced > Disable "Scanning Always Available". I lose about 1-2% in airplane mode overnight over clocked with high quality sound driver from Viper4Android. Plus the Google now hotword activated everywhere but lock screen.
A while back I did a test with my N5 to purposely nerf its power to see how long of a SoT I could get with it. I did pretty much everything you mentioned in the OP. Locked max CPU frequency to match min. Lowest screen brightness, airplane mode, etc. I was able to get over 12 hours SoT. So if the N5 can get 12 hours with the screen on using the same setup you plan in using with the phone getting nice and warm... I don't think a week standby time is too farfetched as long as it's idle most of the time except for pictures. Depends on how much music you listen to I guess. Only problem is even with music saved on the device itself, running at 300mhz you're going to run into skips and pops. Especially when the screen is off. Music playback will be kinda iffy.
Good luck though and let us know how it goes.
Edit: Actually I was mistaken. I just disabled everything like location, sync, etc. Default kernel parameters except switching to ondemandplus governor. This was on an older release of Uber kernel. 12+ hours SoT with ~30% battery remaining!
Here's my post;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=52133394
You'll suffer Lag I would think with CPU at 300mhz max. And likely use more battery than your saving with the phone struggling to process anything.
May have instability issues too. I'd rethink that.
KJ said:
You'll suffer Lag I would think with CPU at 300mhz max. And likely use more battery than your saving with the phone struggling to process anything.
May have instability issues too. I'd rethink that.
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I agree, but I think that if the phone isn't used at all besides some pictures here and there, it should be fine. If he plans on music playback he's going to have to raise the max frequency, no question. Music playback won't work reliably that low. I don't think lag will be an issue for him considering what's he's trying to accomplish with the phone, but I can't speak to instabilities with 300mhz as max as I've never tried it.
RoyJ said:
I agree, but I think that if the phone isn't used at all besides some pictures here and there, it should be fine. If he plans on music playback he's going to have to raise the max frequency, no question. Music playback won't work reliably that low. I don't think lag will be an issue for him considering what's he's trying to accomplish with the phone, but I can't speak to instabilities with 300mhz as max as I've never tried it.
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Currently Using Apollo music player, can confirm Zero issues using music playback, confirmed CPU freq. using cpu frequency app. most of these things are using hardware decoders
RoyJ said:
I agree, but I think that if the phone isn't used at all besides some pictures here and there, it should be fine. If he plans on music playback he's going to have to raise the max frequency, no question. Music playback won't work reliably that low. I don't think lag will be an issue for him considering what's he's trying to accomplish with the phone, but I can't speak to instabilities with 300mhz as max as I've never tried it.
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But if the phone is sleeping soundly as it should.... The max CPU is irrelevant if not being used. The lag and strain to run processes may hurt a lot though.
You let the music play while the screen was off for a few minutes or did you just play it for a few seconds? I have music stutter on screen off with frequencies higher than 300mhz. I get it with 729mhz. If it doesn't happen to you, awesome. Not sure why though. Do you have time to purchase an OTG charger? Might be worth looking into and they aren't that expensive.
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-...-Phone-Battery-Packs/zgbs/wireless/7073960011
Currently listening with screen off/on full songs. No issues. no time to purchase an OTG charger however :/
Updated main post to reflect newest enhancements.
Trickster seems to pick and choose sometimes whether it wants to listen to me, sometimes CPU freq. on sreen off is changing to 652800 on its own. :/ anyone know of a way to get it to respect my settings?
It can be done
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I seem to remember a thread somewhere on xda regarding a CPU's "race to finish". Basically a cpu will work as much as it can (or better said "is allowed) to finish each task after which go to a low power state, like a marathon runner accelerates on certain portions and then "coasts" to conserve energy or a a car running on a near empty gas stank. Since you have a couple of days left I would try raising the frequency (600,800 and 1000) and see what happens to the power drained. It would definitely help with usability, as well as enable using photosphere or panorama ( which take quite a few seconds even at full speed to process) if needed. If the power drain would increase by less than 10% I would call that an acceptable trade-off.
While there is nothing wrong with finding the limit of your device, I think that an external battery pack would be a much better solution. There are ones available for less than $20 that could fully charge your device twice,
Flukzr said:
I seem to remember a thread somewhere on xda regarding a CPU's "race to finish". Basically a cpu will work as much as it can (or better said "is allowed) to finish each task after which go to a low power state, like a marathon runner accelerates on certain portions and then "coasts" to conserve energy or a a car running on a near empty gas stank. Since you have a couple of days left I would try raising the frequency (600,800 and 1000) and see what happens to the power drained. It would definitely help with usability, as well as enable using photosphere or panorama ( which take quite a few seconds even at full speed to process) if needed. If the power drain would increase by less than 10% I would call that an acceptable trade-off.
While there is nothing wrong with finding the limit of your device, I think that an external battery pack would be a much better solution. There are ones available for less than $20 that could fully charge your device twice,
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I remembered a discussion along those lines, ill bump the freq. to 652800 min max, and update the main post. An external pack would be great, but i unfortunately just don't have the cash at the moment. between the trip and i just ordered a triple monitor stand and a new wifi usb to play with nethunter
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Screen Brightness set to low as possibe.
Airplane Mode
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This is basically all you need, the phone will idle for a week or so in airplane mode.
I'm at the end of my rope struggling with this battery. My average sot is 3.5 to 4 hours and I cannot seem to improve that. I've tried everything. Romming, disabling everything, running clean installs, no apps, etc. I think I've wiped this phone more than my..... Probably 10 times trying to improve this battery life. In 2 weeks.
I have wugs kit installed. I will match your settings, I will go appless, I'll root, remove stock apps, I'll do whatever you tell me to. I don't want to go back to my z3 but I need some decent sot in my life.
Just looking for one person with stellar battery life and a little bit of time.
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I'm at the end of my rope struggling with this battery. My average sot is 3.5 to 4 hours and I cannot seem to improve that. I've tried everything. Romming, disabling everything, running clean installs, no apps, etc. I think I've wiped this phone more than my..... Probably 10 times trying to improve this battery life. In 2 weeks.
I have wugs kit installed. I will match your settings, I will go appless, I'll root, remove stock apps, I'll do whatever you tell me to. I don't want to go back to my z3 but I need some decent sot in my life.
Just looking for one person with stellar battery life and a little bit of time.
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3.5 to 4 hours sot? or the battery in general even the phone is sleep?
My average sot is 3.5 to 4 hours.
You borrowing someone else's settings isn't going to do anything because everybody uses their phone differently. Just because you get 3.5 - 4 hours of sot doesn't mean anything because your cellular signal is going to be different to other users, the better cellular signal you have the less battery it'll drain (and vice versa), if you're on WiFi all day then your battery life will be better.
As a good start, I'd recommend getting a app such as BetterBatteryStats to check for any apps that can be causing wakelocks.
Flash a custom kernel such as LeanKernel and underclock the phone's CPU/GPU frequency while disabling mpdecision.
Download App Ops (unless your ROM has it embedded) and deny permission to "Keep Awake" for Google Play Services. Google Play Services drain battery when having Keep Awake permission.
I've tried bbs, even posted logs in the main battery thread, but nothing ever sticks out.
I've tried lean kernel on rasta rom. That's how I got the actual four hours. I'm also on wifi all day, every day. Probably 99% total time is on wifi.
But right now my phone is a clean slate and I'm looking to borrow settings.
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I've tried bbs, even posted logs in the main battery thread, but nothing ever sticks out.
I've tried lean kernel on rasta rom. That's how I got the actual four hours. I'm also on wifi all day, every day. Probably 99% total time is on wifi.
But right now my phone is a clean slate and I'm looking to borrow settings.
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You're not listening to what I said. You cannot just borrow someone's settings, it doesn't work that way because there is no universal setting that works for everybody. Perform the two other battery tips that I've mentioned.
Flash LeanKernel B10 and disable mpdecision and underclocking your CPU/GPU frequencies to a lower clock such as 1.5 GHz max CPU and 389 max GPU will help significantly as well as the Google Play Services permission deny as well as lowering screen off max freq to 960MHz or 1.2GHz.
Using black/dark backgrounds help as well since N6 is a AMOLED screen. Whites consume more battery, disable ambient display as well.
Don't use Gapps that include all the Google bloatware with Google+ etc. If you have BBS, then you aren't looking at it right. You need to look at partial wakelocks as well as alarms.
Greenify helps with apps that you need but consume a lot of battery (e.g. Facebook)
Disable sync for Google for the apps you don't need.
Make refresh interval for your apps longer or refresh manually (e.g. Twitter, weather apps)
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I've tried bbs, even posted logs in the main battery thread, but nothing ever sticks out.
I've tried lean kernel on rasta rom. That's how I got the actual four hours. I'm also on wifi all day, every day. Probably 99% total time is on wifi.
But right now my phone is a clean slate and I'm looking to borrow settings.
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4 hours of sot is not bad. Mine is the same as you. The only thing that made me not returning that phone is the fast charging. This thing is fast I had a note 4 and it was not charging fast like this one. So battery is not a problem for me when I can put my phone on the charger for 15 min and get 50%.
zephiK said:
You're not listening to what I said. You cannot just borrow someone's settings, it doesn't work that way because there is no universal setting that works for everybody. Perform the two other battery tips that I've mentioned.
Flash LeanKernel B10 and disable mpdecision and underclocking your CPU/GPU frequencies to a lower clock such as 1.5 GHz max CPU and 389 max GPU will help significantly as well as the Google Play Services permission deny as well as lowering screen off max freq to 960MHz or 1.2GHz.
Using black/dark backgrounds help as well since N6 is a AMOLED screen. Whites consume more battery, disable ambient display as well.
Don't use Gapps that include all the Google bloatware with Google+ etc. If you have BBS, then you aren't looking at it right. You need to look at partial wakelocks as well as alarms.
Greenify helps with apps that you need but consume a lot of battery (e.g. Facebook)
Disable sync for Google for the apps you don't need.
Make refresh interval for your apps longer or refresh manually (e.g. Twitter, weather apps)
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Thanks for your help.
I've installed lean kernel b10, installed appops (and disabled gp services wake), disabled google syncs I don't use, underclocked CPU/GPU to your recommended values with kernel tweaker, installed a pure black wallpaper. But I do not see where I disable mpdecision.
FMMFL said:
Thanks for your help.
I've installed lean kernel b10, installed appops (and disabled gp services wake), disabled google syncs I don't use, underclocked CPU/GPU to your recommended values with kernel tweaker, installed a pure black wallpaper. But I do not see where I disable mpdecision.
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You have to use a app such as trickster mod which you can find it on the play store. Set the cpu gpu mpdecision as well as other kernel settings there.
Don't forget to flash the set min mpdecision zip from the lean thread so the gpu cpu frequencies stick.
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FMMFL said:
I've tried bbs, even posted logs in the main battery thread, but nothing ever sticks out.
I've tried lean kernel on rasta rom. That's how I got the actual four hours. I'm also on wifi all day, every day. Probably 99% total time is on wifi.
But right now my phone is a clean slate and I'm looking to borrow settings.
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on wifi is when i get my worst battery life. wifi is like your network signal quality, it can be great quality, and it could be lousy quality. the worse the quality of your wifi signal, the worse your battery will be, no matter what. not using, i can lose 10-15% battery on wifi in about an hour. yes, not doing anything with the phone at all. on my network signal, i easily get 6h+ sot a cycle. so, repeating, your issue is probably your wifi.
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on wifi is when i get my worst battery life. wifi is like your network signal quality, it can be great quality, and it could be lousy quality. the worse the quality of your wifi signal, the worse your battery will be, no matter what. not using, i can lose 10-15% battery on wifi in about an hour. yes, not doing anything with the phone at all. on my network signal, i easily get 6h+ sot a cycle. so, repeating, your issue is probably your wifi.
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Interesting. What kind of router are you using? I have a netgear R6300 which has been solid in every other aspect of wifi.
I had my sim out of my phone yesterday while I used my Z3 and noticed, when I picked it up later in the day, it had used about 1% every three hours. This was turned on, connected to wifi, with my usual apps running. So it seems like my problem would be the opposite. Seems like I run into issues once I pop my sim into it.
FMMFL said:
Interesting. What kind of router are you using? I have a netgear R6300 which has been solid in every other aspect of wifi.
I had my sim out of my phone yesterday while I used my Z3 and noticed, when I picked it up later in the day, it had used about 1% every three hours. This was turned on, connected to wifi, with my usual apps running. So it seems like my problem would be the opposite. Seems like I run into issues once I pop my sim into it.
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well, then your wifi is much better than what i have around, for sure. what do you keep your brightness at? that could also make a huge difference in battery life. i keep mine around 15-20%. if i raise it to about 40-45%, ill get about an hour less screen on time.
simms22 said:
well, then your wifi is much better than what i have around, for sure. what do you keep your brightness at? that could also make a huge difference in battery life. i keep mine around 15-20%. if i raise it to about 40-45%, ill get about an hour less screen on time.
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Yeah I definitely wouldn't suspect the wifi at this point but I will try to run tomorrow without it to see if anything changes.
I usually have my brightness around 40% but today it is down closer to 25% while I test the changes I've made.