Thinking of turning them off... you guys think it makes a difference?
negligible.
Really the back ight of your screen uses about 70x the amount of light your LED's would use.
Meaning using your screen backlight for about 50 seconds would power the LED's alone for about an hour.
Yeah, it's relatively minimal.
It's negligible. See my related tests in the Wiki: http://wiki.xda-developers.com/inde...your HP iPAQ hx4700's wireless units consume?
Even the brightest LED's (MUCH more brighter than the ones in the Kaiser) not blinking but being illiminated all the time consume about 2 mA current - that is, WAY lower than for example the screen backlight.
LED's use very little power so if you can have stand by for about 2 days with out the LED's, you would probably use about 10% of the battery between those days with them on.
Hello, I am using MightyROM and Alltel is my service. I have a question about the battery life meter. Somedays it seems like I can text A LOT, make a few calls, use the internet a little and maybe update the weather and my battery is still at 4/4 or 3/4 battery bars (after ~8-12 hours). Other days I hardly use my phone and I find my battery life is all the way down to 1/4 bars after only about 3-5 hours. Does anyone else have this problem? could it be a glitch of some sort? I use most of the battery saving ideas (no beams, no wifi, low backlight level, no auto adjust backlight, etc)
im on cm7.2.0
i wanna know how to stop my trackball from blinking until i open and read my sms. i want it to blink a couple of time then stop..
is there any way to fix this?
Why? Battery savings will be negligible, and it would entirely defeat the purpose.
there are some settings in the led notifications settings that mention it increasing the power usage by 3% an hour. what if i get a text at night that i don't read and wake up to 27% battery that i could have saved. that's why its my concern..
Don't use those settings
Just curious, if having Motion Sense on hurts battery life much? I only have the minimal of Motion Sense enabled, just Reach to check phone only. Skip songs off. Silence interruptions off. Always on display off.
And my Display settings I have Reach to check phone On. Tap to check phone On. Lift to check phone On.
Do these settings effect battery much, or not at all? What do you recommend for best battery life for Motion Sense and Display settings?
I have my settings exactly like you do actually. I can only assume they are helping battery life vs having all the motion sense settings on. I have no need for the others for my usage currently though that may change.
It's a 10% drain overnight sleeping with literally nothing swinging above it. For me that's a huge drain that I will not put up with. I disabled everything just like you and it was the same, doesn't matterwhat's feature your enable or disable, if you have it enabled it rains cuz it's constantly trying to send motion above it. At least that's what my testing showed.
I have it disabled altogether because that function is literally useless. When you can enable "turn screen on pick up" or "turn screen on with a tap"
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I turned off Motion Sense couple days ago, but in my battery use, showing which things used the most, #2 on the list was Ambient Display. But with Motion Sense off, what's using Ambient Display?
I did turn AoD back on, so is it the always on display draining?
I was having great battery life yesterday, at end of day, bedtime I had like 5h 30m SoT with like 33% battery life left. I didn't charge overnight, and this morning checked the phone and it was at 19%. I was like, how the heck did the phone lose like 10% overnight, when not in use, but unplugged. It's on WiFi. Does Always on Display kill it?
I initially used it but eventually just turned it off. I have a couple of trusted devices set up (my watch and my car) so my phone is never locked when I'm near it. Also, since the screen touch to activate works so well, I can tap the screen to check notifications so having Soli turn on the screen before I can touch it, but still needing to reach for it, it just didn't seem to be worth feeding it electrons just for that. Perhaps when they work out some more useful functions, like volume or muting, I'll turn it back on.
My battery life is like Zorachus (though I keep it on a charging stand overnight so I don't care about idle drain). I did this in the first couple of days of owning the phone before battery usage stabilized so I don't really know if it drains it significantly or not. Maybe I'll turn it on one day just to see.
With motion sense off but always on display on throughout the day yesterday and evening I was getting really good battery life I think I was just concerned cuz I left the phone at like 35% last night before bed I purposely didn't plug it in just to see and when I wake up and it had like 20% battery life so it went down over 10% while I was sleeping and I have everything pretty much turned off no location finder no push notifications I've got it stripped down pretty good on Wi-Fi so not sure what happened?
Mine dropped that much overnight Saturday but that was also the weekend I went 46 hours between charges and got 5-something hours of screen time (the only thing shut off was Soli and NFC (WiFi, BT, data, Location services, AOD, etc. were all on). Idle drain of ~1-1.5% per hour doesn't sound that bad to me.
hmmmm after reading this i turned motion sense totally off and AOD back on and will see the battery life over the next two days and compare.
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hmmmm after reading this i turned motion sense totally off and AOD back on and will see the battery life over the next two days and compare.
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Seems Motion Sense is a drainer, but AoD not so much. So for me, using my Pixel 4 XL with no Motion Sense, my battery life lately;
My battery life on my 4 XL seems to be all over the board, but it's never less than 5.5h SoT, and that's at the 10% mark when battery saver kicks in. Some days it seems I can get close to 7.5h SoT if run down to 1%. So I'd say I get on average 6.5h+ SoT.
I get better battery life at work, where my mobile signal is perfect connection, never searching. So that helps keep battery drain down.
- 90hz forced on always ( too nice and smooth not to keep on )
- Motion Sense off
- AoD on ( always on display )
- Location off always. Anything GPS related off
- Lift to reach on
- Tap display to turn on
- Display set to auto brightness always
I've always had it on, so, not sure what the difference is. But, my phone lasts from 6am and still has 30+ percent of battery left at 10pm. Definitely getting a full 20-24+ hours.
I have Soli on full, AOD, smooth display forced on, location on full, lift to wake off, tap to wake on, auto brightness on.
Does anybody use their Pixels with AOD off and Motion Sense on..? How's that affecting the battery..?
And, with that setup, when you reach for you phone, does it turn on the screen when the radar is triggered?
Yes that's the setup I have with only reach to wake turned on. Yes, it does wake up the screen and start looking for your face. Need to check the idle drain overnight.
Cant really say destroyed. It is a little less for me but definitely useable if one really likes the features. And thats coming from a small pixel 4.
This is somewhat trivial, but I can't figure out what is causing the Polaris ringtone to play at times when my S21 Ultra's battery is at 15% or lower. It does not seem to always trigger at 15% - the low battery level--but the battery is always at 15% or lower when it does.
I sometimes can see that System UI has just triggered a notification when Polaris plays, but I'm not sure there's an actual cause and effect there.
Can anyone shed any light on this for me? Is there some app that I may have installed that plays that sound when the battery is low but does not trigger a notification that I can see when I check recent notifications?
Thanks very much!