Has anyone ever used the Galaxy S as a media player only (turn 3G/GSM off completely). Any idea what the battery life is like? I never tested this out with my captivate when I had it and now I'm looking for a new media player to replace my POS ipod touch
I'm looking to get at least ~30 hours of audio playback, but the more the merrier
Not sure if this is a good example but have been doing some travel between Singapore and Ohio (USA). Total travel time to my destination is about 27 hours and basically keep my Galaxy S I9000 on airplane mode.
My main usage is for music and playing TV shows. If I play music, some soduku, and check the time and messages between stopovers, I can probably get through the 27 hours with about 5% left. If I play TV shows, then I won't make through the flight (maybe 12 approx). I make sure I carry a spare battery. Something to also be aware of, is that on my I9000, you cannot play any video or music less than 15% battery power (not sure if this is Android specific). The last 15% can seem to last a lot longer which is a shame.
BTW, I had a Gb iPod nano on a previous trip. If I had not lost it on the flight, then I would prefer using that mainly because of the size and battery life. I have added a 32 Gb micro sd card to my Galaxy so I have all my music which helps, but am always concerned about battery life. Again, not sure if this helps or is a good example.
Zhousibo said:
Not sure if this is a good example but have been doing some travel between Singapore and Ohio (USA). Total travel time to my destination is about 27 hours and basically keep my Galaxy S I9000 on airplane mode.
My main usage is for music and playing TV shows. If I play music, some soduku, and check the time and messages between stopovers, I can probably get through the 27 hours with about 5% left. If I play TV shows, then I won't make through the flight (maybe 12 approx). I make sure I carry a spare battery. Something to also be aware of, is that on my I9000, you cannot play any video or music less than 15% battery power (not sure if this is Android specific). The last 15% can seem to last a lot longer which is a shame.
BTW, I had a Gb iPod nano on a previous trip. If I had not lost it on the flight, then I would prefer using that mainly because of the size and battery life. I have added a 32 Gb micro sd card to my Galaxy so I have all my music which helps, but am always concerned about battery life. Again, not sure if this helps or is a good example.
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Is it the default player that doesn't let you play with less than 15% battery life?
Good information though Thanks
I use the default samsung player but will try others later on.
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Buff.. I've tried with the MIUI music player on Froyo and the same issue, no more than 27 hours of life
Bullsh***!!
Why on the hell i9000 eats so battery?
lukassky said:
Buff.. I've tried with the MIUI music player on Froyo and the same issue, no more than 27 hours of life
Bullsh***!!
Why on the hell i9000 eats so battery?
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Is this with the cellular radio off? Is that 27 hours of continuous battery life? What ROM/kernel are you running?
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I recharged my phone in an hour when it had just powered off by itself for being too low... I used it for like 5 minutes and it was already down to 80%... Bad battery?
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I recharged my phone in an hour when it had just powered off by itself for being too low... I used it for like 5 minutes and it was already down to 80%... Bad battery?
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Sure sounds like a bad battery.
Just to make sure...
1) make sure you don't have some app that is running GPS
2) If not needed, try turning off BlueTooth
Those two items will drain battery faster than usual.
I sometimes find the battery is really inaccurate, depends on if the phone's running hot or whatnot...
Also you might want to get a task manager and periodically close all the apps (some apps have a one-click kill all widget), and turn off syncing, gps, and bluetooth
Battery indicator hasn't always been accurate or me - even with a brand new battery
There are several apps/widgets that are poorly coded which cause high battery drain as well.
Try only using stock widgets as well, I find that helps alot.
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There are several apps/widgets that are poorly coded which cause high battery drain as well.
Try only using stock widgets as well, I find that helps alot.
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Yea, the only Widget I run thats not stock is Beautiful Widgets Home Small, set to update every 2 hours.
I have bluetooth and GPS off always unless I'm actively using them. I just seemed strange it was so fast to recharge mainly.
I've noticed the battery capacity jumps up and down depending on what you are doing. For example if I disable 3G, it jumps up, if I enable it, it might jump down 10% briefly then go back to where it was...
Very strange.
Also, I find the app Juice Defender (free version) is a life saver. My battery life has gone from around 12 hours to > 2 days since using it.
What it does is disable your 3G AP and only enables it every X minutes for Y minutes.. I think the default is 15/2. The result is you still get your notifications (a few mins behind), but your battery lasts WAAAYYYY longer.
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Also, I find the app Juice Defender (free version) is a life saver. My battery life has gone from around 12 hours to > 2 days since using it.
What it does is disable your 3G AP and only enables it every X minutes for Y minutes.. I think the default is 15/2. The result is you still get your notifications (a few mins behind), but your battery lasts WAAAYYYY longer.
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Thanks for the tip!
Now going hunting for "Juice Defender".
yeah, juice defender is great. The free version has limited options but the default options really save battery life on my vogue.
I read a while ago that there was a problem with the stock text messaging app. Is that resolved? I use Handcent SMS, but i don't know if it is good or bad for battery life comparatively.
JuiceDefender is fantastic, it works. Except you can't be listening to anything and have it running (music, podcasts, etc...) because when it kills the 3G connection the audio stops. I've talked with dzo and looked at the code myself and I don't see a way to keep it from happening unless there's a way to kill the 3G connection without issuing an 'ATH' to the modem or somehow ignoring the 'No Carrier' message that follows it...
this happens no matter what music player you are using? I was hoping it was just Cube, but had not gotten a chance to try with other media players. Is there a way to create an ap that autodiables jucedefender when you play music?
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this happens no matter what music player you are using? I was hoping it was just Cube, but had not gotten a chance to try with other media players. Is there a way to create an ap that autodiables jucedefender when you play music?
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Not that I'm away of... I just manually disable juicedefender before I start playing my music... and HOPE that I remember to turn it back on...
I am not endorsing this battery/seller/etc or that this is the battery to buy in any way. Just came across this opportunity and wanted to put it out there for anyone that wanted to check it out:
http://www.amazon.com/UTStarcom-Ext..._28?ie=UTF8&s=wireless&qid=1274569716&sr=8-28
Personally I just don't want the extended battery cover sticking out of my phone...
Ok guys\gals, I have a question that I haven’t seem to find. Right now I’m using CM7 stable on my Nook emmc drive and it works great (Special thanks to all Devs in the Android world that make all is possible). Me and the family are going on vacation at the end of next month and I’m little concerned about battery life on a 5 hour plane ride with my Nook. I know of the sleep bug that CM has and everyone has been working on it but right now I get about day use out of it with normal to heavy use. This is fine because I’m always somewhere I can plug into if the power starts to get low, but now have a little concern since won’t have power. I have successfully converted a few movies using Handbrake and would love to use my nook as entertainment\movies for me and the family while in the Air. So in my testing I haven’t been able to get through a few 2 hours or so movies without the power draining down fast.
Ok with all that being said, it’s my understanding is that the stock ROM with root (Nooter 3.0) works great with Video and has good battery life. Would it be idea for me to just restore to a stock rooted Rom, then create a CM7 SD-Card? The cm7 card would be for my use only till we great back from Seattle. Mainly I’m just trying to keep the kiddos happy since they have never been on a plane before LOL. They LOVE all what my little Nook can do and love watching movies on the bigger 7 in screen (Transformers is Awesome on the Nook by the way). Any suggestions would be great.
Thanks Guys\Gals…
Derek.
Yes, what you propose will work.
I actually have a dualboot on my NC with CM7 as a primary boot; and the stock (rooted) on the secondary partition. (you can follow the dualboot thread in the developer section).
However, while you are actually USING the NC, the battery life shouldn't be terribly different between CM7 and stock. The biggest difference in battery life is while in "suspend" mode, because CM7 doesn't go into as deep of a sleep mode as when in suspend while in stock; so if you are willing to actually power down the NC, rather than suspend, you shouldn't experience any additional power drain while on CM7.
If you still have significantly more power drain on CM7, it is probably because you are overclocking. I have found that shutting wifi off when not being used, being conservative in the screen brightness, and adjust the the processor tweak in the cyanogen settings to "conservative" will help with battery.
All of that being said, I hope to get an external USB battery the next time I need to fly ....
My Nook, running CM7 Stable with screen brightness at 100% and wifi off, uses about 18% of its battery life for every one hour of full-screen video that I watch (.avi files, Rockplayer, mostly). The times that I've flown with it (only once since installing CM7) I usually watch an hour or two of video with internal battery then plug in one of those Duracell rechargeable batteries that you use with a USB cable to power portable devices. Using the rechargeable with a Nook-specific cable (in case that helps) my battery drain per hour of video drops to 10%. On night flights both rates improve somewhat due to much lower brightness levels. Plus, if the Nook is plugged in but inactive (powered on or off) it'll ADD charge 5-10% per hour. One charged 750MAH battery (half the size of a deck of cards) and I'm good for at least 8 hours of heavy use (could go longer, that's the most I've needed).
As jasoraso mentioned, you're really not going to get much better life while using it, if you switch to Stock. Cm7's battery usage is only when usage is suspended as it can't go as deep into sleep as the stock os can.
So even if you move back to stock, you're not going to get better life while watching videos. Your best option would be as both posters before me mentioned, an external charger.
Hi,
Sorry for the stupid query but i just want to know if is normal or not.
Optimus 2x P990 2.3.4 stock fairly new phone so the battery hasn't got the chance to do many charge cycles (only 4)
The thing is when watching a movie (normal m4v or avi not HD or such) i see the battery drain 1% every 3 minutes so if i start a movie with 100% i get with around 65-68% ~ of battery left.
low brightness, no wifi, no data, no BT, low sound and using MX Videoplayer.
Is the drainage fair or is too much ??......1% every 2-3 minutes of movie played.
Thanx,
I think thats good draining percent for watching video =)
I agree with that. The draining is normal.
But maybe the stock video player is a bit more efficient and battery friendly because of the better hw acceleration.
Hello!
Yes, this is perfectly normal as you should keep in mind what playing video means for your device…
CPU can’t sleep, the backlight of your display (on of the heaviest power consumer in this phone) is alight all the time, data access to SD card all the time and you have sound playing too - I assume.
I usually get 2h-4h of video playback on a full charge before 15% warning pops up – depending on other apps running in the background like i.e. gsm-data/cloud syncs etc.
In Airplane mode using the phone on a flight I get max. 5h.
So if you plan to use the phone as a video player, I would recommend to have a external power source handy…
BTW: I usually use moboplayer and non converted standard resolution mpeg-files from onlinetvrecorder.com.
thanx all for replay,
and yes with stock player i get better battery life.
hello,
I plan to buy a Note. I don't panto use it as phone, because I have one which works well.
what I plan to do is :
read ebooks, internet, draw (as hobby...), takes notes, report ( jobs), schedule, read news, ...
In fact, I would use it as a small tablet, easy to get in pocket, easy to read, and not so bad to use keyboard.
galaxy tab 10.1 ( which I have) is to big.
galaxy tab7.7 could be the good choice,but I can't really draw ( with finger, I tried, it does not work well)
galaxy note could be my choice, if battery life is enough.
I would like to know what range of battey life this device could have, without 3g, data, or sim card ( airplane mode, with wifi), as I don't plan to use it with sim card.
thank you
olivier
I've travelled alot and have used the Note on flights to listen to music, play games, watch movies and take the occasional photo, all in flight mode. It seemed to me that there was no significant difference in the battery life. A 1:30 hour movie would usually result in about 20% battery drain. After a 5 hour flight from fully charged I would have roughly 30-40% battery.
I'm using the stock rom which has been rooted and I'm careful to not have unnecessary applications running in the background.
My battery usually lasts about 15 hours regular usage, and I turn my radios (3g,wifi) as I need them.
Have you checked out the Galaxy player? My little cousin had one and it's exactly the same as the Note, just not a phone and no removable battery.
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orobin said:
hello,
I plan to buy a Note. I don't panto use it as phone, because I have one which works well.
what I plan to do is :
read ebooks, internet, draw (as hobby...), takes notes, report ( jobs), schedule, read news, ...
In fact, I would use it as a small tablet, easy to get in pocket, easy to read, and not so bad to use keyboard.
galaxy tab 10.1 ( which I have) is to big.
galaxy tab7.7 could be the good choice,but I can't really draw ( with finger, I tried, it does not work well)
galaxy note could be my choice, if battery life is enough.
I would like to know what range of battey life this device could have, without 3g, data, or sim card ( airplane mode, with wifi), as I don't plan to use it with sim card.
thank you
olivier
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The Note is great for what you are describing. Not sure anyone has ever tested what you are asking about battery life. The display is the main battery user and from what I have read and experienced (used Note for six months) the most you can expect with screen on fulltime is 6 hours. That may not sound like a lot but average use will mean you have screen on for three hours and still have around 40-50% battery at the end of the day.
kyrirhcp said:
I've travelled alot and have used the Note on flights to listen to music, play games, watch movies and take the occasional photo, all in flight mode. It seemed to me that there was no significant difference in the battery life. A 1:30 hour movie would usually result in about 20% battery drain. After a 5 hour flight from fully charged I would have roughly 30-40% battery.
I'm using the stock rom which has been rooted and I'm careful to not have unnecessary applications running in the background.
My battery usually lasts about 15 hours regular usage, and I turn my radios (3g,wifi) as I need them.
Have you checked out the Galaxy player? My little cousin had one and it's exactly the same as the Note, just not a phone and no removable battery.
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I use my Note to read ebook a lot. With Kindle, low intensity and night screen I can use the Note for about 6 hr with 10% battery left.
So all my music is online on Google play music but GPM is draining too much of battery, is there any other player to play the music that is stored online on my account in Google Play Music?
Nope. How much drain are we talking about here?
Like a 2 percent every song drain
I played the following three songs, in order, from "Dr. Demento's 20th Anniversary Greatest Novelty Records of All Time". The battery started at 87% on the first of the three songs and didn't hit 86% until about half-way through the third.
The Scotsman (2:27)
Junk Food Junkie (3:05)
Eat It (3:20)
Something else is causing your battery drain. You'll need to investigate and see what's causing it.
Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
I played the following three songs, in order, from "Dr. Demento's 20th Anniversary Greatest Novelty Records of All Time". The battery started at 87% on the first of the three songs and didn't hit 86% until about half-way through the third.
The Scotsman (2:27)
Junk Food Junkie (3:05)
Eat It (3:20)
Something else is causing your battery drain. You'll need to investigate and see what's causing it.
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It most likely relates to his signal and google music trying to stream it. This is part of of the same reason no one where I live use streaming apps like that. Signal will eat your battery alive. 99% of people here you will find keep their music on board.
Good point about the signal.
I happen to be that 1% that streams my music, though I still have an MP3 player just in case.
Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
Good point about the signal.
I happen to be that 1% that streams my music, though I still have an MP3 player just in case.
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When I said 99% I was talking about the people around where I live. Due to many factors, not the least being location, signal here sucks no matter the carrier or device. So keeping many things on device is still handy here. Most devices sold still have an SD card slot. One bonus is that one carrier here sells only European device models even though we are in the states. So we have a good selection.
When you said "here" I thought you meant "here on XDA".
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When you said "here" I thought you meant "here on XDA".
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I kinda figured that from the reply:highfive: I wouldnt be surprised if many on XDA still did. With the data limits in some countries, it would have to be a complete pain to stream anything let alone reliably.
As to stay on topic, Any streaming service will eat battery. Mainly if signal is weak or unstable. So my advise would be to do what I ended up doing. Get an OTG flash drive and keep your whole collection with you.
Well it's not my signal because when I use Google play music and even after than it somehow keeps running in the background and when I see my battery stats, GPM has somehow taken 2 position next to screen in draining battery, I'm on Cm14.1 with latest elemental kernel running and I get about 3 hrs of sot, any better options for kernels?
If you have the premium version of Plex you can stream media (like music, movies, tv shows, etc...) as long as your plex server is up at home and have working Internet. Not sure on the battery drain vs Play Music. I personally use Spotify and stream everything but obviously that's a paid service.
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Well it's not my signal because when I use Google play music and even after than it somehow keeps running in the background and when I see my battery stats, GPM has somehow taken 2 position next to screen in draining battery, I'm on Cm14.1 with latest elemental kernel running and I get about 3 hrs of sot, any better options for kernels?
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I cant say anything about SOT. I dont keep track of it nor is it a big factor for me. My biggest usage of my device is with the screen off.
I would get something like Better battery states and see if you can track it down from there. It could be the media server issue that CM has suffered from for years but without a deeper look you really cant be sure. Also grab a logcat app and see if something is going on in the back ground.
I got the alternative, it's Tomahawk player, it's actually really good, and doesn't seem to drain that much either, another one is GMusicFs, but it doesn't seem to be working on Nougat
Why don't you just download your music to your device from GPM?