Is there an app that will tell you how much longer your battery will last...i know there is a widget that claims to do this but i found that it did not work too well...
Is there really a way to do this? I mean - the battery drains differently depending on what apps are being used, the initial voltage and charge, and various other things (screen brightness, network usage, etc). Seems like it would be EXTREMELY difficult to calculate all those variables.
I was thinking about writing something like this as a widget. The best way is to work with the average (like from 100% to 99%, 10 mins, from 99 to 98 8 mins, so still 9 * 98 mins to go) and maybe an idle value.
Anywho, i saw, that there was already something like this on the market (also as a widget).
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I was thinking about writing something like this as a widget. The best way is to work with the average (like from 100% to 99%, 10 mins, from 99 to 98 8 mins, so still 9 * 98 mins to go) and maybe an idle value.
Anywho, i saw, that there was already something like this on the market (also as a widget).
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well there kinda is the curvefish battery widget. but all it does is tell temperature and how much battery is left in a % value.
The one i meant is called PowerTime Widget and cost .75 pounds.
Slightly offtopic, but I don't suppose there's any way to get detailed battery usage information such as what's available in /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/{info,state} on many versions of desktop Linux, is there? This includes stuff like full and remaining capacity in mWh and current voltage.
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We in the field in the army have no place to recharge the battery, so i have a second spare. After the first battery out, second battery i should calibrate or simply change it? Milestone generally maded to hot replace the battery? Second question: The battery is terribly wasted when data using. when browsing in the internet in dolphin 6.1. Even if 2g on and i in im+ messenger. A couple of sites get away even 1%-2%. An hour in nonstop browsing can drain 60%. YouTube has to look at all when the phone charging for viewing video over a length of 5 minutes, eats about 6% of charge. And i bought a new battery yesterday. And with the same old time of discharge. New battery calibrated. And tried to change the firmware on froyomod same. Right now sitting on the cyan 7 and the same flow rate. Last DSIfix 2..34.
PS. When data off - phone not using too much 2-3% when talking half hour. In the night can drain 3%.
You better calibrate the new battery after the new one charged to 100%
It calibrated already. Same ****.
I got same problem with my MS. Maybe it's high time to change to a new phone
Dieabolo,
What settings do you use for your display, your current frequencies with vsel, are you using this phone in areas with great reception, do you have programs that ate always updating running (Facebook, twitter, weather apps, Widgets, news /sports apps) ?
Also I do like dolphin HD but try the opera mobile browser it'll help by compressing data so therefore less data transferred which ends up with less power being consumed.
~PsyCl0ne
Sent from my Milestone using XDA App
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We in the field in the army have no place to recharge the battery, so i have a second spare. After the first battery out, second battery i should calibrate or simply change it? Milestone generally maded to hot replace the battery? Second question: The battery is terribly wasted when data using. when browsing in the internet in dolphin 6.1. Even if 2g on and i in im+ messenger. A couple of sites get away even 1%-2%. An hour in nonstop browsing can drain 60%. YouTube has to look at all when the phone charging for viewing video over a length of 5 minutes, eats about 6% of charge. And i bought a new battery yesterday. And with the same old time of discharge. New battery calibrated. And tried to change the firmware on froyomod same. Right now sitting on the cyan 7 and the same flow rate. Last DSIfix 2..34.
PS. When data off - phone not using too much 2-3% when talking half hour. In the night can drain 3%.
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i know for a fact, because ive tested it, that i can pull 11+ hours out of my droid. what you need to do is port MIUI to it, then get a lowvoltage overclocking kernal on it. i have a kernal that is 18 slot, and it can run stable at 220 mhz/1.26 ghz on userspace. run it at 220 mhz/900 mhz. if you clock it lower, then the battery life will decrease because it has to deal with a larger load, therefore, giving you battery heat damage, which means no more battery for you! i found that if i run the hight at 900 mhz, then it will have a chance to deal with all of the load. if you put it at 1.0 ghz, then it will ahve the same effect, but if your going to game with the droid, then i would put it at 1.06 ghz. my phone specs: OG droid, OC to 220 mhz/1.0 ghz, running MIUI 108050 on android 2.3.4. have fun!
Two things I would recommend would be to perhaps try a low voltage kernel, and to make sure you don't have any battery-intensive apps running in the background (Ebay, Lookout, etc.). You can check this by going to Settings > Applications > Running Services and seeing which programs are running.
Also if you set profiles withing SetCPU or another similar app, you can have the kernel drop to a lower speed when your screen is off or when the battery drops below a certain percentage. Doing these things should help you save some juice.
EDIT: I just read on another thread that the milestone has a locked bootloader, meaning you can't change the kernel. If this is indeed true, that sucks.
I calibrate my battery with this method:
1. Plug the charger in the phone, and charge at 100%
2. Delete /data/system/batterystats.bin using Terminal emulator or whatever tool
3. Restart the phone, and when it start to boot, and before the soft keys shine take off the battery.
4. The phone will run without battery, after a few minutes (2-5) put the battery in.
5. Left the phone charge for another 30 minutes...
But with CM7 for Mileston RC13 my radio don't work, and I have to restart it again to have phonee signal.
So, having noticed soooo many people report the reasonability of Google potentially hiding the "miscellaneous" battery drain and not actually having fixed the Lollipop battery bug on Nexus 5.
I did some calculations. I am guessing now that 1% drain in batt stats means at least 1% drain and not less.
We don't have 5 significant digits of battery drain. That would be perhaps too specific. Complete accuracy of battery drain for the seemingly simple entropy of heat dissipation would be astonishing too!
However,
I counted up an extra 1 % on sombunall drain counts, and got 47 rather than 36 percent loss. I mean some 1% drains were 1.4% right? Maybe 1.7 or 1.8... I don't know the rounding or truncating algorithm.
Then, I added 35% battery remaining and got 82% of my battery accounted for.
Then... I remembered that I used about 30 more apps and that many syncing apps and services and usages that did happen... were NOT EVEN in my battery stats.
Just assuming that some energy cannot by used in one form without transferring into another form (thanks Grade 9 lesson on conservation of energy!), I will assume every nanosecond of my app usage and syncing services ALL drained part of my battery, even if less than 1%. I wasn't using any magical crystals in my other pocket or anything.... THEREFORE,
I will conclude, only to indulge in hyperbole and be silly, that my phone has a maximum charge capacity of about 113%!!!!
Google's doing something right!!
Well, to be serious for a second, 30+ stat unmentioned apps each used LESS than 1% but must have used MORE than 0%.
Thus I am certain, about 100% of my battery stats makes sense on Lollipop, and NO MORE MISC BATT USAGE BUG!
Yay! Thanks for a decent product Google,
And for great ROMs and kernels all you developers!
You make things work better for people's activities and livelihoods.
W00t, 5 hours SoT, 26% battery left, 4 hours average use left for the day... That's sweet by all counts.
Yay!
Was this really worth creating a new thread?
Could have just posted it here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/nexus-5-battery-results-t2509132
Thread closed, please continue in mentioned thread.
So did anyone else get terrible batterylife with andeoid 10?
I went from 8h SOT to about 5h.
Am thinking of downgrading cause before it was the best phone ive ever had
There isn't 10 for my csc yet
Anybody else confirming bad battery life on 10?
how where you getting 8hours sot... i was getting 6 and now 5 but i do have a lot more idle cause of the quarantine
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how where you getting 8hours sot... i was getting 6 and now 5 but i do have a lot more idle cause of the quarantine
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Wish I could tell you. All I know is it was the best battery I've seen. Was using it 'normally' and throughout 24 hours I got 7-8 hours battery life always, every single day for half a year. With music streaming for 1-2h, some browsing, location on, bluetooth on, and all apps like facebook, instagram etc. disabled.
Now I get 2 hours 20 mins and its already on 48%. Android 10 was a garbage and I wish I could downgrade without much hassle. I cannot find out what is draining the battery, there is no app. If I account for the apps it has used around 1000mah or less, which is 1/3rd, wihc would put me at around 70% - that would be my old battery life. But there is something else draining 20-30% battery and it is not shown in the battery reports, I am using accubatterry.
I really hate it, now I hate this phone
Battery draining mainly depends on how device is used, means how much CPU/GPU are stressed. Has NOTHING to do with Android OS itself: an OS is a piece of software, nothing else, an OS doesn't consume electric power. It are all the running apps/services - either running in foreground or in background, for example Location Providers & Google Play Services - that drain the battery, as also the activated hardware components like the screen, WiFi, GPS, SIM-cards, BlueTooth, etc.pp. even if device is in standby mode. It are the device's power management settings what control the behavior of Android phones that could affect the system's power consumption, such as adjusting lighting, handling the phone's sleep, and the wake-up, idle, turn-off timing, back lighting or display brightness of the device. It are the device implementers who define the related constants suitable to their devces, it's NOT Google , the developers of Android. With regards to Samsung S10 devices it's worldwide known that it has a very poor power management compared to others.
BTW: Since Android 9, the platform can monitor apps for behavior that negatively affects the battery life of devices.
No matter what you do to your device, it will never stop draining the battery.
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You have no idea what you are talking about and should stop wasting everyones time talking about that
So I simply reset my phone and I am back to 8h SOT and happy again.
3h42mins with 62% of the battery at like 8h usage
And after about 15h usage at 51% with 4h10mins SOT ?
I also got terrible battery life after the 10 upgrade.
What do you mean by reset? How?
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I also got terrible battery life after the 10 upgrade.
What do you mean by reset? How?
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A simple factory reset, type reset in your settings in the search bar and do a factory reset.
It will delete everything, so make a backup before
I'm coming from an Exynos S10e which was great but had terrible battery, so one of the main draws for me on the Pixel 5 was the increased battery life - I need to get a full day of quite heavy use.
So I got the phone and like it a lot, but although battery life is better (it couldn't really fail to be) I'm not getting the terrific screen on time that others are boasting about. I tend to charge up to 80% or so and try to recharge on around 20% and don't watch a ton of video, so I'm mainly checking emails and news, surfing the web, reading text and sometimes dipping into YouTube.
I've currently used 60% in 20 hours, but that includes eight hours of sleep when the phone was idle and has virtually no sustained screen on time. Overnight, the phone uses about 1% an hour with the screen off, although I do have AOD on during the day. If I watch video (adaptive battery and adaptive brightness on) it ticks down pretty fast.
I'm told that Accubattery isn't really accurate, but it had 'battery health' down as 3880mAh (97%) from the get-go, which worries me. (It also has screen on time pegged at 7 hours and 51 minutes, which I absolutely don't believe.)
My questions are 1) Is there anything I can do to check/improve battery life and 2) How accurate are the Accubattery readings likely to be?
Or am I simply expecting too much, which is entirely possible?
Thank you!
AOD basically cut my time per charge in half, i am not a heavy user so my screen on time is always on the low side. But turning AOD off (and the AOD on move thingy, which apparently triggers all the time when in a pocket or even next to you on a couch) i jumped from ~1.5 days to 3 days per charge (with 3-4 hours SoT light use: podcasts, reading news, etc.).
After the pixel 5 motivated me to go through all those options i set up my old oneplus 3 with the same settings / android 10 and i am getting basically 2 days out of it (again the AOD changes did the trick). Which basically disillusioned me about the Pixel 5 battery, it's nothing special. Just about what you expect from a phone with this battery size and a simple Full HD screen and a SoC that is somewhat energy efficient.
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I'd really be interested in other peoples experience with AOD. I've red people saying things like "you don't need a notification LED when the AOD is so energy efficient" personally i think that is just not true. If you are a power user and you have a daily sot of 5-6 hours maybe. But for people like me that 1% battery drain per hour (i noticed about the same figure when i had AOD on) just adds up to a lot. In two days basically 50% of your battery is gone, if you follow the 80/20 rule, which i do not think is necessary, that basically leaves you with 10% of your battery for other things. Seems like AOD isn't as efficient as some people might want you to believe and a notification LED might something i will look out for on my next phone.
I can't remember what the train without AOD was but it was noticeably less.
AOD is a stand by battery killer. For anyone that uses the phone on a desk facing up. Especially in bright areas where the AOD triggers the max brightness.
However. This affects people who has more than 20-24 hours of standby time. People who do... 8:00 to 24:00 every day (so 16 hours standby) is much less affected by AOD battery drain.
So yeah. For light users. Disable AOD is my main recommendations. I stopped using AOD in the last year that I used the Pixel 2.
All the other tweaks are less relevant. But my rule is to just enable what you need.
Example: every time I say ok Google I'm at home with a google home around. So I disabled ok Google from the phone. (I just tap de assistant icon).
It is my second day with the phone. Exyons version. I charged it 100% and left home at 5pm and here were are 11:40 pm 21% with 2hours 44 mins SOT
How?
4g enabled about 40 mins
I only used camera, google maps, a little facebook and uber.
Bluetooth enabled for the watch and the buds.
No wifi. No nfs.
Adaptive refresh rate and 1080p resolution after it dropped to 60%.
What have I done wrong?
This is very similar to my situation but I have snapdragon version my SOT is not that good get about 2-3 hours with 8 hours of use. I already resetting my phone once I'm currently still going through the learning usage pattern after my reset. Hopefully it improves because I'm hoping that my phone is not defective.
I thought about resting the phone but I have already downloaded about 20gb of games :/
I will wait couple days to see maybe the phone is still learning usage pattern . Please keep us updated if SOT got improved with you
I sincerely advise you to do a factory reset, don't restore any data (except stuff like picture and video) and start again installing apps, don't install everything, just the necessary and check the battery, you will see a big improvement.
start from there and then look at the difference.
different apps can behave differently.
And of course put anything you don't constantly use to deep sleep in battery setting!
I did it and my battery now is totally fine.
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I sincerely advise you to do a factory reset, don't restore any data (except stuff like picture and video) and start again installing apps, don't install everything, just the necessary and check the battery, you will see a big improvement.
start from there and then look at the difference.
different apps can behave differently.
And of course put anything you don't constantly use to deep sleep in battery setting!
I did it and my battery now is totally fine.
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Question for you. What is normal battery draining for you. For example, if you leave your phone over night usually how much percent does your phone drop. And how long does it take your phone to drop by 1% obviously this last question depends on what app you're using but ideally on average how long does it take your phone to drop by 1%. The reason I'm asking is Because I kind of want to gage how my phone Is performing compared to others. Thanks!
Yea what's been said above, don't use smart switch and give it about a week to settle in, you will genuinely see an improvement.
Put all apps you don't use regularly/ need notifications from in deep sleep. If you have crap signal at home turn on WiFi calling. Turn off nearby decide scanning in connections.
If you're still struggling after a week, download GSAM as it gives much more detailed stats
I lose around 0.5% an hour overnight on standby
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Question for you. What is normal battery draining for you. For example, if you leave your phone over night usually how much percent does your phone drop. And how long does it take your phone to drop by 1% obviously this last question depends on what app you're using but ideally on average how long does it take your phone to drop by 1%. The reason I'm asking is Because I kind of want to gage how my phone Is performing compared to others. Thanks!
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on average I lose 0,6-0,7%/h when the screen is off and an average of 10%/h when the screen is on.
fhd+, bt with smartwatch, location off, mostly on wi-fi (when I'm on wifi I use a Bixby routine to turn off data and switch to 2g but I don't think it makes much difference), lots of apps to deep sleep but not apps like whatsapp telegram and gmail.
anyway, everything depends on your specific use and apps installed but I can say my battery life was half than now when I restored my settings and apps data using samsung stuff.
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I sincerely advise you to do a factory reset, don't restore any data (except stuff like picture and video) and start again installing apps, don't install everything, just the necessary and check the battery, you will see a big improvement.
start from there and then look at the difference.
different apps can behave differently.
And of course put anything you don't constantly use to deep sleep in battery setting!
I did it and my battery now is totally fine.
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Thank you. I will do a factory reset and update you guys later
I heard that uwb application is the culprit. Many users reported worst battery life with it. It's something related to 5g ultra wide band. Hopefully future update fixes it. Check below thread on how you can remove it. Not sure what functionality gets impacted by removing it
What is Uwb Application and how do I stop it??
So this morning I noticed this app I've never seen before, Uwb Application hogged 14%. I've never seen it before. What does it do and how do I stop it? I recently installed microg and YouTube vanced? Does this have anything to do with these apps...
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Question for you. What is normal battery draining for you. For example, if you leave your phone over night usually how much percent does your phone drop. And how long does it take your phone to drop by 1% obviously this last question depends on what app you're using but ideally on average how long does it take your phone to drop by 1%. The reason I'm asking is Because I kind of want to gage how my phone Is performing compared to others. Thanks!
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FHD+/120hz/5g off/smart things off/ everything else normal
Overnight loss is about 2-3%
From 100% to 99% withing 3 minutes after wake up in the morning. That's turning screen on checking Facebook, or browse news.
My Huawei P30 pro would go 99% probably after 30 or 40 min of morning browsing
iPhone 12 pro max I am testing now, stays 100% for about an hour fr a wake up, that's browsing internet social networks
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FHD+/120hz/5g off/smart things off/ everything else normal
Overnight loss is about 2-3%
From 100% to 99% withing 3 minutes after wake up in the morning. That's turning screen on checking Facebook, or browse news.
My Huawei P30 pro would go 99% probably after 30 or 40 min of morning browsing
iPhone 12 pro max I am testing now, stays 100% for about an hour fr a wake up, that's browsing internet social networks
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To measure battery loss from 100-99 is meaningless. The last several generations of the iPhone have behaved like this but clearly this has no real meaning, Which is more accurate? From that clearly the Samsung is the "least worse". To stay at 100% for an hour is absurd. BS calibration. Similar for the P30 Pro. Overnight loss of 2-3% is par for the course (I lose -using GSAM Pro - 0.6% per hour overnight which is probably very similar to you) So ignore a 1% drop in 3 minutes. It is just a matter of calibration.
Edit - added per hour re the 0.6% to clarify.
iOS is lying about battery percentage. If you see 100% it's in 100-95% range.
Anyway, it has more efficient deep sleep.
Yeah. Shouldn't the battery only be at 100 while it's plugged in? Cause as soon as you unplug it, it's obviously using the battery juice...which means it's no longer at 100.
I'm not sure if these Temps and cpu usage are normal, which I don't feel like it's normal, but every time I pick up my phone My phone is just running at 100% cpu usage. Granted I already reset my phone two days ago and got two full charges in. And my battery says it's still learning usage pattern. I'm not sure if this is part of the learning usage pattern phase.
Khalid Madkour said:
It is my second day with the phone. Exyons version. I charged it 100% and left home at 5pm and here were are 11:40 pm 21% with 2hours 44 mins SOT
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Wait at least 3 full days after setting up a new Android phone before you assess battery life and SOT.
I have exynos S21U and get 8 or 9 hrs SOT with the 90Hz screen refresh rate mod.
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90Hz screen refresh rate mod
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link, please? Does it support the adaptive screen refresh rate or sticks to 90 Hz?
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link, please? Does it support the adaptive screen refresh rate or sticks to 90 Hz?
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Adaptive refreh... There you go
Khalid Madkour said:
It is my second day with the phone. Exyons version. I charged it 100% and left home at 5pm and here were are 11:40 pm 21% with 2hours 44 mins SOT
How?
4g enabled about 40 mins
I only used camera, google maps, a little facebook and uber.
Bluetooth enabled for the watch and the buds.
No wifi. No nfs.
Adaptive refresh rate and 1080p resolution after it dropped to 60%.
What have I done wrong?
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I reset my phone and waited around days
And after I was getting 4~5H SOT with no 4G, I am getting now 5h SOT with 50% only
Duel sim
4G
96hz QHD
Social media, browsing ans watching movies offline
And thats so satisfying!!