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Change Shake to Wake Sensitivity?

My gear turns on every time I move my arm it seems. Is there a way to adjust the sensitivity of it?

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DXL007 said:
My gear turns on every time I move my arm it seems. Is there a way to adjust the sensitivity of it?
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You can sideload the shake app (available in the playstore) and use this instead of the Samsung shake to wake motion.
In this app you can adjust the sensitivity. You also have more configuration options.
However, there is significatn baterry drain which in my case is comparable to what i have with the original shake to wake motion.

gidi said:
You can sideload the shake app (available in the playstore) and use this instead of the Samsung shake to wake motion.
In this app you can adjust the sensitivity. You also have more configuration options.
However, there is significatn baterry drain which in my case is comparable to what i have with the original shake to wake motion.
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See Post #5242
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48044629#post48044629
I have made short test to this app, it is useless for gear as it draws close to 10% of power an hour...

lukasz said:
See Post #5242
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48044629#post48044629
I have made short test to this app, it is useless for gear as it draws close to 10% of power an hour...
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In my case when i have the official shake to wake motion enabled i have a battery drained that is comparable to what the shake app costs.
What about you?

gidi said:
In my case when i have the official shake to wake motion enabled i have a battery drained that is comparable to what the shake app costs.
What about you?
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I get a whole lot less than 10% battery drain an hour using stock wake up gesture. What do you get?

I have stock wake up gesture 7 sec ON time, screen brightness 3, and at the end of the day (7 hours of sleep + 15-18 hours of activity) I have around 50% of battery.
If You have substantially less - check in full setting what is eating your juice....
Install the fOmey ROM... wipe etc.

Thanks guys keep the ideas coming. I am going to try the shake app and see how that goes.

lukasz said:
I have shake to wake, 7 sec ON time, screen brightness 3, and at the end of the day (7 hours of sleep + 15-18 hours of activity) I have around 50% of battery.
If You have substantially less - check in full setting what is eating your juice....
Install the fOmey ROM... wipe etc.
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Maybe smth is wrong with my watch. Cannot explain it otherwise.
If i have Samsung shake to wake, 7 sec ON time, screen at 2 i may make the whole day. That is 15 hours of (low) activity.
I have null 10.1 and have wiped.
Is there a way for me to discover what the battery hog is? Someone has proposed the wakelock app but i cannot get any useful info out of it.
Can somebody help me?
Thanx

gidi said:
Maybe smth is wrong with my watch. Cannot explain it otherwise.
If i have Samsung shake to wake, 7 sec ON time, screen at 2 i may make the whole day. That is 15 hours of (low) activity.
I have null 10.1 and have wiped.
Is there a way for me to discover what the battery hog is? Someone has proposed the wakelock app but i cannot get any useful info out of it.
Can somebody help me?
Thanx
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I am using stock wake up (sorry earlier post may have been misleading). GO to full settngs and battery to see what is consuming most... are You using custom watch faces maybe? Try to minimize amount of bright pixels on the watch face - make background black, use thin fonts, do not use GAAPS if you do not need it, do not use teethering... that what I can suggest.
In my battery stats screen consumes up to 60%, screen ON time for the day can be like 1 hour, I end up the day with around 50% of battery

lukasz said:
I am using stock wake up (sorry earlier post may have been misleading). GO to full settngs and battery to see what is consuming most... are You using custom watch faces maybe? Try to minimize amount of bright pixels on the watch face - make background black, use thin fonts, do not use GAAPS if you do not need it, do not use teethering... that what I can suggest.
In my battery stats screen consumes up to 60%, screen ON time for the day can be like 1 hour, I end up the day with around 50% of battery
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No custom watch face, black background of course, thin fonts of course. Tethering very rare and gaps the same.
This time i had 25 hours of operations (now at 10%) with samsung shake to wake always off and the shake app active for about 4 hours.
Here are my stats:
screen 34%
phone idle 23%
andorid os 17%
android system 8%
shake 3%
bluetooth share 3%
nova launcher 3%
google services 2%
media server 2%
I will post again the stats with the original shake to wake on and compare.

An exercise in battery longevity.

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
Sent from my Nexus 5 using XDA Free mobile app

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

gh0stpirate said:
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.

Heavy Battery Drain related to CPU usage?

Hey guys,
I've been having some issues recently with battery drain on my Turbo which I think is related to an unncessarily high CPU usage for apps that shouldn't be that demanding. Let me start way back
I work in a radiation shielded environment so I keep my phone in airplane mode at work with WiFi on. I don't think this has to do with the phone constantly searching for signal.
I also greenify apps like an OCD madman. I do have a Moto 360 1st gen paired to my phone along with a pair of bluetooth stereo headphones essentially all the time. I've been using amplify to block location based wakelocks and to override the sync rate to every 10 minutes instead of push for certain google apps. I've been watching the wakelocks closely and I haven't found anything like rogue programs as far as I can tell eating up battery (i.e. apps I wasn't already actively aware of running). Adaptive brightness is enabled but attentive display (where it's supposed to watch you) is disabled. I use moto display including the IR sensor wave gesture. I don't use the alarm gesture. I don't use Moto Assist.
My issue basically has been with listening to music/radio from my phone. Streaming radio from Tune In Radio Pro dropped my battery about 10% in 20 minutes with the screen on (I was texting and reading emails on the bus while listening to it). The phone was definitely hot to the touch. If I disable internet and do the same thing with Google Play music and local storage, the battery is slightly better but still drops significantly. Again, the phone ends up feeling like it's running hot. I looked at the CPU states under Bettery Battery Stats and the phone was at fairly high clock speeds (20% 1.73 GHz, 5% 2.65 GHz). I don't know if this was the definitive way to establish this.
Here's the kicker though. I enabled Android's battery saver option (it says it basically disabled sync, vibrate, and throttles the CPU) and have been running radio/music with FAR better battery drain. Like barely a percent or 2 in a half hour. I know that with sync disabled I would expect better battery too but the phone isn't hot and it wasn't always like this.
I'm running Computer Freak's 1.2.6 unlocked ROM. I guess my main question would be could I selectively choose power save features (i.e. CPU throttling WITHOUT disabling sync, vibrate, etc.) or is there any way to figure out why these apps end up making the phone run hot? Thanks!

vahx129 said:
Hey guys,
I've been having some issues recently with battery drain on my Turbo which I think is related to an unncessarily high CPU usage for apps that shouldn't be that demanding. Let me start way back
I work in a radiation shielded environment so I keep my phone in airplane mode at work with WiFi on. I don't think this has to do with the phone constantly searching for signal.
I also greenify apps like an OCD madman. I do have a Moto 360 1st gen paired to my phone along with a pair of bluetooth stereo headphones essentially all the time. I've been using amplify to block location based wakelocks and to override the sync rate to every 10 minutes instead of push for certain google apps. I've been watching the wakelocks closely and I haven't found anything like rogue programs as far as I can tell eating up battery (i.e. apps I wasn't already actively aware of running). Adaptive brightness is enabled but attentive display (where it's supposed to watch you) is disabled. I use moto display including the IR sensor wave gesture. I don't use the alarm gesture. I don't use Moto Assist.
My issue basically has been with listening to music/radio from my phone. Streaming radio from Tune In Radio Pro dropped my battery about 10% in 20 minutes with the screen on (I was texting and reading emails on the bus while listening to it). The phone was definitely hot to the touch. If I disable internet and do the same thing with Google Play music and local storage, the battery is slightly better but still drops significantly. Again, the phone ends up feeling like it's running hot. I looked at the CPU states under Bettery Battery Stats and the phone was at fairly high clock speeds (20% 1.73 GHz, 5% 2.65 GHz). I don't know if this was the definitive way to establish this.
Here's the kicker though. I enabled Android's battery saver option (it says it basically disabled sync, vibrate, and throttles the CPU) and have been running radio/music with FAR better battery drain. Like barely a percent or 2 in a half hour. I know that with sync disabled I would expect better battery too but the phone isn't hot and it wasn't always like this.
I'm running Computer Freak's 1.2.6 unlocked ROM. I guess my main question would be could I selectively choose power save features (i.e. CPU throttling WITHOUT disabling sync, vibrate, etc.) or is there any way to figure out why these apps end up making the phone run hot? Thanks!
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If you used baybutcher's custom kernel, you could throttle the CPUs frequencies, and set a more power saving CPU governer, as well as other battery saving options.
That would probably require you to flash RR.

vahx129 said:
Hey guys,
I've been having some issues recently with battery drain on my Turbo which I think is related to an unncessarily high CPU usage for apps that shouldn't be that demanding. Let me start way back
I work in a radiation shielded environment so I keep my phone in airplane mode at work with WiFi on. I don't think this has to do with the phone constantly searching for signal.
I also greenify apps like an OCD madman. I do have a Moto 360 1st gen paired to my phone along with a pair of bluetooth stereo headphones essentially all the time. I've been using amplify to block location based wakelocks and to override the sync rate to every 10 minutes instead of push for certain google apps. I've been watching the wakelocks closely and I haven't found anything like rogue programs as far as I can tell eating up battery (i.e. apps I wasn't already actively aware of running). Adaptive brightness is enabled but attentive display (where it's supposed to watch you) is disabled. I use moto display including the IR sensor wave gesture. I don't use the alarm gesture. I don't use Moto Assist.
My issue basically has been with listening to music/radio from my phone. Streaming radio from Tune In Radio Pro dropped my battery about 10% in 20 minutes with the screen on (I was texting and reading emails on the bus while listening to it). The phone was definitely hot to the touch. If I disable internet and do the same thing with Google Play music and local storage, the battery is slightly better but still drops significantly. Again, the phone ends up feeling like it's running hot. I looked at the CPU states under Bettery Battery Stats and the phone was at fairly high clock speeds (20% 1.73 GHz, 5% 2.65 GHz). I don't know if this was the definitive way to establish this.
Here's the kicker though. I enabled Android's battery saver option (it says it basically disabled sync, vibrate, and throttles the CPU) and have been running radio/music with FAR better battery drain. Like barely a percent or 2 in a half hour. I know that with sync disabled I would expect better battery too but the phone isn't hot and it wasn't always like this.
I'm running Computer Freak's 1.2.6 unlocked ROM. I guess my main question would be could I selectively choose power save features (i.e. CPU throttling WITHOUT disabling sync, vibrate, etc.) or is there any way to figure out why these apps end up making the phone run hot? Thanks!
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You could try messing around with Kernel Adiutor from the Play Store to control throttling.

Thanks guys I'll give those suggestions a shot and see how it works. I also did reflash my rom and modules and that seemed to help slightly as far as the overheating for today at least.

vahx129 said:
Thanks guys I'll give those suggestions a shot and see how it works. I also did reflash my rom and modules and that seemed to help slightly as far as the overheating for today at least.
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You might also want to constantly check for updates every week or so.
Also take advantage of the AMOLED screen to save battery i.e. use black themed apps, themes, wallpapers. Avoid white backgrounds wherever possible, avoid using the phone at max brightness (that'll kill your screen very fast.)

Hey any updates? I am running unrooted and have been noticing after I open certain apps my phone starts heating up and the battery draining. I haven't had much time to do troubleshooting but it seems that certain apps, not sure yet which ones, have runaway loops that end up eating up the processor and draining the battery. I am willing to root if I have to to solve this, but would prefer not to. Let me know if you have found anything out.

Set charging limit

Hey all,
Someone on reddit just posted a link to an apk file that let's you set a custom charging limit. Should be a great tool to limit battery wear.
Here you go: https://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus6P/comments/5x9xax/set_changing_limit_requires_root/

See Battery Warner : https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-battery-warner-t3560920 :good:

swa100 said:
Hey all,
Someone on reddit just posted a link to an apk file that let's you set a custom charging limit. Should be a great tool to limit battery wear.
Here you go: https://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus6P/comments/5x9xax/set_changing_limit_requires_root/
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I highly recommend accubattery. It lets you check lots of things like discharging, charging speed, battery health, what apps use how much charge an hour etc and tells you how long you have sot and deep sleep and hibernation etc. You can set an alarm for it to tell you when you get to a certain charge. When mine gets to 80% it tells me in a notification that makes noise to disconnect the charger. Really useful and works great.

DEVILOPS 007 said:
I highly recommend accubattery. It lets you check lots of things like discharging, charging speed, battery health, what apps use how much charge an hour etc and tells you how long you have sot and deep sleep and hibernation etc. You can set an alarm for it to tell you when you get to a certain charge. When mine gets to 80% it tells me in a notification that makes noise to disconnect the charger. Really useful and works great.
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It doesn't help when you're charging overnight. The app linked in OP let's the user define a threshold, such that the phone doesn't get charged beyond this threshold, regarding if it's plugged in

Download automate, theres a flow that lets you choose what to limit it to. you will need the premium version of automate though

https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/root-battery-charge-limit-t3557002

Tips to get better battery life. With or without root.

General tips I can think of are:
Use black theme on display settings,
greenify doze setting using adb.
Any suggestions just post below.

beache said:
General tips I can think of are:
Use black theme on display settings,
greenify doze setting using adb.
Any suggestions just post below.
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I take it you mean non-root?
- Brightness!!!!
- Apps running in the background and preventing phone from sleeping permission; Downlaod Shizuku Manager and App Ops from the Play Store, run the script via adb and limit the apps you don't want to have those permissions. Instant messaging: Don't limit run in background
- Did I mention brightness!?!?
- I don't do this one, but don't charge your phone past 80%. This is more of a long term battery saver, as it will cause less damage to the battery. Also don't keep your phone plugged in overnight. (I don't leave mine in)
- Disable radios while not in use. I never use NFC or nearby device scanning, I turn those off. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are never on while not in use. You'll get in the habit of turning them off it you start.

Craz Basics said:
I take it you mean non-root?
- Brightness!!!!
- Apps running in the background and preventing phone from sleeping permission; Downlaod Shizuku Manager and App Ops from the Play Store, run the script via adb and limit the apps you don't want to have those permissions. Instant messaging: Don't limit run in background
- Did I mention brightness!?!?
- I don't do this one, but don't charge your phone past 80%. This is more of a long term battery saver, as it will cause less damage to the battery. Also don't keep your phone plugged in overnight. (I don't leave mine in)
- Disable radios while not in use. I never use NFC or nearby device scanning, I turn those off. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are never on while not in use. You'll get in the habit of turning them off it you start.
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Leaving the phone plugged in all night wont do any damage to the battery. Once charged the current to the battery is cut off except for when it needs trickle charging throughout the night, the power used by the phone will then come from the wall adapter. But if you dont want to charge your phone all of the way, then thats when you dont leave it plugged in all night unless you have a circuit to disconnect power at a certain battery percentage. Oh man that gives me an idea.
I should make a small circuit thats linked via bluetooth to an app, so pretty much a power adapter that you plug your phone into, but once you reach a certain percentage, the phone tells the adapter to cut power and only turn on to get it back up to that certain percentage.
Okay that was really side tracked.
Back to the post.
Like Craz said, brightness and radios.
If you are rooted, download KA or EXKM and underclock your cpu, thatll help out a bit, also if rooted you could try a custom kernel
Root:
Force Doze
Naptime
Greenify
Custom kernel
CPU underclock
Use tasker to limit cpu speed when screen off or in certain apps
Non Root:
Dark themes
Lower brightness
Make sure apps arent running in the background that use a lot of power
Disable location services
Disable radios unless in use (tasker helps especially with root)
If you plan to have your phone for over a year or two, then the charge limits, but capacity wont change much within the first few hundred cycles
Use Wifi as much as possible (cell uses more power)
Disable screen off gestures
Make sure doze and advanced optimizations are enabled

Tips for better battery life.
And a lot of common sense.

tuncan said:
Tips for better battery life.
And a lot of common sense.
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very helpful thanks

chewingum16 said:
very helpful thanks
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Tnx. :good:

Zombie said:
Leaving the phone plugged in all night wont do any damage to the battery. Once charged the current to the battery is cut off except for when it needs trickle charging throughout the night, the power used by the phone will then come from the wall adapter. But if you dont want to charge your phone all of the way, then thats when you dont leave it plugged in all night unless you have a circuit to disconnect power at a certain battery percentage. Oh man that gives me an idea.
I should make a small circuit thats linked via bluetooth to an app, so pretty much a power adapter that you plug your phone into, but once you reach a certain percentage, the phone tells the adapter to cut power and only turn on to get it back up to that certain percentage.
Okay that was really side tracked.
Back to the post.
Like Craz said, brightness and radios.
If you are rooted, download KA or EXKM and underclock your cpu, thatll help out a bit, also if rooted you could try a custom kernel
Root:
Force Doze
Naptime
Greenify
Custom kernel
CPU underclock
Use tasker to limit cpu speed when screen off or in certain apps
Non Root:
Dark themes
Lower brightness
Make sure apps arent running in the background that use a lot of power
Disable location services
Disable radios unless in use (tasker helps especially with root)
If you plan to have your phone for over a year or two, then the charge limits, but capacity wont change much within the first few hundred cycles
Use Wifi as much as possible (cell uses more power)
Disable screen off gestures
Make sure doze and advanced optimizations are enabled
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yes it will on many cases, but I can't tell with the OP5. Is the circuit will cut-off the battery from the phone to avoid drain? If yes, in that case, it won't hurt significantly the battery.
In general , what can hurt li based batteries : time, heat and numbers of time of electrons changing direction.
Having the phone plugged in, every X time the % will drop, and the charging circuit will trigger the battery.
As I said, can't tell how op5 is working, and it probably be minimal anyway. But technically it will reduce the capacity : http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/charging_lithium_ion_batteries
Heat : 20W charger, even if its a vooc, at one point the battery will get a high current load = heat, and chemical li-po arrangement changes.
Time : cant do nothing here, chemical arrangement will degrade, its a normal process for most battery, specially li based one.
But at the end, not much people would see any difference, since nowadays people changing their phone every 1-2 years, fck ridiculous...
Back to topic :
Pixel off apps , many of them on the play strore, can't tell which one is good or not.
Basically, it will turn off pixels on the screen.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.anrapps.pixelbatterysaver&hl=fr

i find if i turn off the wifi always scanning feature and also turn off keep wifi on during sleep saves battery. actually i keep all wifi off unless i'm currently using it. as already mentioned, location services off, since i keep phone on all the time i get data through that. i've experienced battery times up to 6 days if calls in&out are 10 or lower each day and each call no more than 3 min, i'm a firm believer in hello, just facts, goodbye. i know people that live life via a phone find that strange but they will die of brain cancer not me. my neighbor is on phone no less than 7 hours a day just bullsh*tting and he talks real funny, i think his brain is rotting already. check to see which apps run all the time and kill those you do not need. as mentioned, lower screen brightness. 90% of the time mine is a couple clicks from as low as it can be and it is fine. i'd do the dark thing but it f*cks with my eyes. keep all apps closed you are not presently using instead of loaded in background.

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i find if i turn off the wifi always scanning feature and also turn off keep wifi on during sleep saves battery. actually i keep all wifi off unless i'm currently using it. as already mentioned, location services off, since i keep phone on all the time i get data through that. i've experienced battery times up to 6 days if calls in&out are 10 or lower each day and each call no more than 3 min, i'm a firm believer in hello, just facts, goodbye. i know people that live life via a phone find that strange but they will die of brain cancer not me. my neighbor is on phone no less than 7 hours a day just bullsh*tting and he talks real funny, i think his brain is rotting already. check to see which apps run all the time and kill those you do not need. as mentioned, lower screen brightness. 90% of the time mine is a couple clicks from as low as it can be and it is fine. i'd do the dark thing but it f*cks with my eyes. keep all apps closed you are not presently using instead of loaded in background.
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I can't really tell if you are joking about the brain cancer part or not. Some people might take you seriously

shangxor said:
I can't really tell if you are joking about the brain cancer part or not. Some people might take you seriously
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oh, sorry about that.
https://www.jrselectrohealth.com/in...ween-1985-and-2015-in-the-u-k/?c=cf13ce20305c

dkryder said:
oh, sorry about that.
https://www.jrselectrohealth.com/in...ween-1985-and-2015-in-the-u-k/?c=cf13ce20305c
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"While the new plots in themselves say nothing about any possible links between cell phones and brain tumors, they go a long way toward puncturing the argument offered by numerous public health officials and media outlets that such an association is highly unlikely because the overall incidence of brain tumors has remained relatively stable over the last number of years."
http://microwavenews.com/short-takes-archive/changing-mix-uk-bts
He had based part of his study on incorrect data also.

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shangxor said:
"While the new plots in themselves say nothing about any possible links between cell phones and brain tumors, they go a long way toward puncturing the argument offered by numerous public health officials and media outlets that such an association is highly unlikely because the overall incidence of brain tumors has remained relatively stable over the last number of years."
http://microwavenews.com/short-takes-archive/changing-mix-uk-bts
He had based part of his study on incorrect data also.
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yes, i offered the link as a punchline to your comment about joking. however i do have a question about your comment,
"He had based part of his study on incorrect data also"
why didn't you include the part of the study and the incorrect data? because, when statement like this is made it is left to the reader to determine the part of the study and the incorrect data which may lead to misunderstandings.