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I noticed a huge battery consuption in standby, about 38mA in stanby (on Desire was 5-8mA). I tried many different ways: disabeled mobile networks, hard resetted the device, but the result is the same. On the device 1.36.405.1 built is running.
Has anybody met the same problem?
Yeap, probably because sense is anoying, constant sync or something like that. And somehow I think they didn't optimized it very well.. probably wait for updates
And 1 or 2 mA is something I have never seen. How did u managed that?
I get between 30mA and 150mA in standby, rising to around 260mA when screen is on, peaking up to around 400mA occationly. I got these results from a free app called Battery Monitor. Would be interesting to see what others get, and anything that can help reduce the mA figures significantly ? I'm not overly impressed with the IS battery life so far.
there is a huge difference on stand-by battery consumption in htc official website..
with Incr. S you have 8mp cam, but with Desire S you got better battery...
The difference is huge.. :/
isnt is the desire S released with gingerbread and the Incredible S with froyo?
maybe thats the reason
However, battery lasts much longer than dhd, hd2, and even desire z! It's a fact, I have tested myself. It's all due that ugly bump at the back of the phone which covers new 1450ma battery which lasts me all day without charge.
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cant really complaign about battery at all, since my old phone whas hardly making it for 18 hours, this phone would even reach 36hrs for sure, and i use wifi at home, bluetooth in the car, 3g all day, and play games as well
CurrentWidget use to measure power consumption.
In standby using 3G i got 38mA, when i switch to airplane mode increase to 142mA!!! How is this possible? What values you measured?
battery consumption
In my case, minimum 36mA and maximum 440mA, but battery life very good, two times better as by my HD2, also better as by my, already sold, Trophy. I am curios when Gingerbread will come Q2 this year, will be better or not?!
I think Incredible s battery life is pretty good for me.
Link is my inaccurately test.Standby for almost 192 hours or 7.4mA.
Better than Desire HD,Desire Z and Desire in my hand.
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retujoy.blogspot.com/2011/03/htc-incredible-s.html
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How do you get such a long time? My IS only last 10 hours with 3g all day .
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alienjohn said:
How do you get such a long time? My IS only last 10 hours with 3g all day .
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With 3g network ?
11hours using time with 3g and sync in my hand.
So I think yours is at average.
retu77 said:
With 3g network ?
11hours using time with 3g and sync in my hand.
So I think yours is at average.
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12 hours with 2g network...
alienjohn said:
12 hours with 2g network...
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wow.
Did you turn off sync?
Try to kill all running app.
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Anderson Did an experiment to see how far the battery life can last on normal usage.The battery power was monitored using the app "Battery Monitory Widget"
And he came to the conclusion that The battery life could well last more than 2 days if you use just the communication tools (whatsapp, Facebook, sms) on a 2G network. With heavy data usage, the battery power got zapped out rather quickly.
You can have a look at the full experiment
optimus2x.net/index.php?topic=907.0
I'm kind of experimenting in this too..
Today i unplugged my phone this morning (6am) and its dropped to 97% now @ (3pm).
So thats only 3% in 9 hours..
I use Facebook widget which updates + Twitter widget same setting (both auto update every hour)
I sent about 10 text messages (also received about that amount) and made 1 phone call (about 3 minutes)
All this on 3G network, i dont save on 2G/3G setting
2G coverage is very suboptimal in Switzerland, especially if you are using a Sunrise.ch contract. Their 2G performance with Edge is about 100kbit/s for download. This is a joke. I am not able to use a phone with 2G and enjoy it. Therefore whenever possible I have to switch on 3G (which is of course also not great, but at least it is much faster).
Therefore, 2G is not an option at all for me.
I am running stock on mine and I seem to at least have found some form of "battery" drain. Trying to reproduce the usage.
But I charged my phone fully, and then restarted it and "at the moment" it is holding its power sorta alright. But when I use it normally it lasts like 7-8 hours before needing a recharge, even if its just laying on my desk and not being touched.
Ok testings done. These figures are after a reboot and where I have more or less left the phone laying on my table only having a short call, and otherwise reading a few emails and responding to a few texts. The entire time autosync was on, as well as 3G Data.
1H30M -08%
5H30M -30%
8H20M -50%
11H00M -68%
12H15M -74%
13H08M -79%
14H15M -85%
15H20M -93%
At which point I stopped the test and then put my phone in the charger. Tomorrow once it is done charging I will start up all the stuff I normally run on it, charge it to full and see how well it does there when I am not using the phone at all. Quite frankly I expect a large difference simply because that is what I have seen, but starting program and then exiting said programs and leaving the phone on standby "should" not impact consumption in my view at least.
I think there is something bad with my battery, because Battery Monitor Widget says that my battery is a 1200 not 1500, without doing nothing at all it lose 1% per hour and suddenly in 10mins drops like 6%, so in 8hs aprox from 86% goes to 68% (the phone doing nothing)
I have 3G always active, whatsapp and gmail, just that. Will try to do the test again with 2G, but what I don´t understand is why it says 1200 instead 1500.
Should I get a new battery? could be deffective this one?
snakewar said:
I think there is something bad with my battery, because Battery Monitor Widget says that my battery is a 1200 not 1500, without doing nothing at all it lose 1% per hour and suddenly in 10mins drops like 6%, so in 8hs aprox from 86% goes to 68% (the phone doing nothing)
I have 3G always active, whatsapp and gmail, just that. Will try to do the test again with 2G, but what I don´t understand is why it says 1200 instead 1500.
Should I get a new battery? could be deffective this one?
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You define your battery size in settings, 1200 mAh is default.
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What rom is best on battery?
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reidar.ostrem said:
You define your battery size in settings, 1200 mAh is default.
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OMG I feel kinda dumb now, thank you so much for your reply.
I can´t understand why it doesn´t last my battery.
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What rom is best on battery?
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CM7 is the best for me
CM7 seems to be really good for me, i used 28% of it with medium-heavy use (no games, but wifi always on and a lot of playing about with) in 5 hours and at night i lost 3% in 7 hours sleep with 3G on. Not fully stable but seems better than sacrificing the smartness of my smartphone.
Lost 0% 2 days ago when sleeping for 9-10 hours i think
Today i lost 1% when sleeping for 9-10 hours
I am using 2g since i don't have 3g connection in my house.
It's a bit unstable but battery improvement is more important for me then some little bugs
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OMG I feel kinda dumb now, thank you so much for your reply.
I can´t understand why it doesn´t last my battery.
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No problem .
The O2X does not have good battery management, so it will drain.. getting usable results with mcr r15
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reidar.ostrem said:
No problem .
The O2X does not have good battery management, so it will drain.. getting usable results with mcr r15
Not realy stil not much of a difference froam stock
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Hey guys Thanks for stopping by, I've seen many posts like this which I really didn't want to post but I ran out of options... Im. Currently running on gingervolt 1.3/ blitzkrieg+ 2.6.35.7, I hope you guys have all the info you need. I leave it running over night and when I leave for work in the morning at noon its already powered off because no more battery... Please let me know if there's something I can do to make it last longer... I'm not the type of person that uses the phone all day.. Thank you
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Should be in General not Development, And why don't you just shut the phone off until you go to work?
You can try: Setting the CPU lower with an apk like CPU master, CPU set, ROM toolbox, ect.... Turn down the brightness of your screen. .. Uninstall some of the apk that are always running in the background... Turn off LED message alert. Stop using apks like advanced task killer (unless you custom set it up to not kill system vital apk.) Turn off 4g unless in an area that has strong 4g sig. Recalibrate your battery after a full charge. Install GingerVolt 2.0. Buy extended battery (still $25 @ vzw website)
There are many different things you can do to get more battery life out of your phone... Look in the GingerVolt forum and check out where others have done. But get a custom to bringing your charger everywhere you go.
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Turning off background data saves a good bit too. And unless im gaming or seriously multitasking i keep cpu speeds @ 245 & 1200
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Turn off 4g. I didn't use my phone at all but to check battery status every few hours and it lasted 1 day 16 hours.
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For those that helped me out with some tips I greatly appreciate your suggestions... I will go ahead and do some tweaking and see if that helps. Once again thanks guys
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Not just turn off 4G but turn off data and wifi. These 2 radios are constantly working. The more time with them off the longer the battery will last.
mtmichaelson said:
Turn off 4g. I didn't use my phone at all but to check battery status every few hours and it lasted 1 day 16 hours.
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I hope with all the wonderful work you do for us that you get to enjoy it more than that...
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My own experience and take is that daily battery life depends on good cell signal. I live at the fringe between three cell sites. My signal is typically two bars or less. At work I have a similar situation, but shielded by building opposite the cell side.
I always stay plugged in because my battery is always being used otherwise. My guess is that people who report much greater battery life are lucky enough to be in areas with good signal strength.
As an example, this morning I got up 1.5 hours ago, took the phone off the wall charger, rebooted it and used it a bit during my morning prep. I left home an hour ago with the phone plugged in to the car charger for 20 minutes (which charges at the lower USB rate). I have been at work for 40 minutes off charger since and now have 90% left on my EXTENDED battery.
At home reception is 3G most of the time. Work 4G.
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yeah I agree, turning off 4G is not an acceptable solution....
GV2.0 unmodified with a cpu tool worked fine for me but I have gotten accustomed to having chargers with me wherever I go (home, office, car)
We are hearing battery life is much improved on ZV8, so maybe that will help too with the next GV release....
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yeah I agree, turning off 4G is not an acceptable solution....
GV2.0 unmodified with a cpu tool worked fine for me but I have gotten accustomed to having chargers with me wherever I go (home, office, car)
We are hearing battery life is much improved on ZV8, so maybe that will help too with the next GV release....
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V8 battery life for me is now crap. I have gone from about 3% per hour usage to 7 to 10% usage and that is with almost no usage of the phone. This is sucking. I am about to roll back to v7 if this does not improve.
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V8 battery life for me is now crap. I have gone from about 3% per hour usage to 7 to 10% usage and that is with almost no usage of the phone. This is sucking. I am about to roll back to v7 if this does not improve.
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Not sure how your phone is different. Maybe you need a new battery or possibly a new phone. Forgot my phone at home during work today. I'm at 86% after 9.5 hours.
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I've got the same problem he has except it got worse after I went to Gingervolt 2.0. From what I've read on here it seems that not wiping date may have something to do with that so once he gets the new update incorporated into Gingervolt I'll be doing a complete wipe and trying from there.
DOWN WITH BING
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My own experience and take is that daily battery life depends on good cell signal. I live at the fringe between three cell sites. My signal is typically two bars or less. At work I have a similar situation, but shielded by building opposite the cell side.
I always stay plugged in because my battery is always being used otherwise. My guess is that people who report much greater battery life are lucky enough to be in areas with good signal strength.
As an example, this morning I got up 1.5 hours ago, took the phone off the wall charger, rebooted it and used it a bit during my morning prep. I left home an hour ago with the phone plugged in to the car charger for 20 minutes (which charges at the lower USB rate). I have been at work for 40 minutes off charger since and now have 90% left on my EXTENDED battery.
At home reception is 3G most of the time. Work 4G.
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Sounds like you're killing the battery by always staying plugged in. I go about 11-14 hours a day on 3G (no 4G in my area) with stock battery with moderate use
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Gel Pen6 said:
Sounds like you're killing the battery by always staying plugged in. I go about 11-14 hours a day on 3G (no 4G in my area) with stock battery with moderate use
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+1 to that, my standard battery made it 16 hours today, and I live between two mountains where service is spotty and my phone continuously switches between 3g and 4g
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Killing a battery by keeping it topped off or cycling it. Which is the greater evil? This type of battery has a number of discharge life cycles. So, stressing by keeping the voltage at max or consume those life cycles? I don't know, but I certainly want to have it most available, and keeping it charged works for me. Some people don't let their fuel tanks go less than 1/2.
In the end, I have way more battery, extended and spares, to care if keeping it charged up is hurting the battery because I only have it until the next upgrade in a year.
Ideally, I would prefer to change the charge scheme so it wouldn't run the charge voltage so high maybe to 95%, to protect the battery further. But, in my time frame, doesn't matter.
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I run JuiceDefender Ultimate and it helps quite a bit. I'm using it in aggressive mode on Gingervolt 1.3 ROM, and ran it with stock before that.
I personally don't think hes killed the battery.
I have two because they gave me a special on docking station that came with an extra battery when I bought the phone. Anyway I sleep during the day because I work night shift. If my battery is almost dead I pop a new one in before bed otherwise its at about 97 percent after I got home from work. When I wake up 5-8 hours later I've lost almost 50 percent. Sometimes more from either battery.
I check the batter usage stats and Android System is up at about %97 percent...
I have all notifications turned off except Gmail and theres no WiFi or anything.
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When I wake up 5-8 hours later I've lost almost 50 percent. Sometimes more from either battery.
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I'm loosing abt 20% over that same time period letting JuiceDefender manage things.
My several day old HTC One is a fantastic phone (best I have owned yet), but I'm having to be very careful to keep the battery lasting an entire day.
In particular I am noticing that voice calls are the biggest drain on my battery.
2 hours and 20 minutes of talk time used 55% of my battery life yesterday.
I have read multiple sources with tests pegging the talk time at 14 hours+ (AnandTech, HTC official).
Is this typical or is there potentially a software or hardware issue?
I haven't done any serious tweaking to the software, and am running powersaver and have screen dimmed to 30%.
Thanks!
You have to see a lot of thing...
1) You had the full signal for all the calls?
2) Your phone was all time with the idle screen?
3) Did you have 3G or 4G on?
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I have three bars usually. I am always in 3G. As far as idle screen sometimes I am browsing while phone call is happening.
Does the strength of the signal effect talk time?
Strength of signal definitely affects the talk time. Also if you put the phone on 2g mode when you are not using data and just talking you will get a better battery life. Check for wakelocks as well. I also discovered when I was using htc sense launcher my app usage was about 89% but now I'm using smart launcher and my app usage is 70% and I'm getting better battery life. I've also disabled the maps coz it has a lot of wake locks.
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Also, in my opinion, is the best phone I already had and I have been a iPhone fan for a longue time... With LTE one is very difficult to manage the battery for one day... If you can't charge during the day you are in trouble... Other complain I have is the high temperature on the back if i'm using for a longer time....
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I have three bars usually. I am always in 3G. As far as idle screen sometimes I am browsing while phone call is happening.
Does the strength of the signal effect talk time?
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The tests for the timings are done with voice calls and no screen on. If your using the screen as well its double trouble
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I have read multiple sources with tests pegging the talk time at 14 hours+ (AnandTech, HTC official).
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That's really low compared to yours. Also, using the speakers eat up a ton more battery, and if the screen is on as well, well that's another issue
I think I figured it out...
In case anyone else reads this thread, after some testing I think I found out what was causing the huge spike in voice app usage.
I now believe that playing music through the phones speakers counts toward the usage of the voice app.
When I use the speakers, huge battery drain. When I don't it's ok.
Hopefully case closed!
For anyone that's interested, this is today's battery life on my Nexus 5. Came from a Galaxy S4 and I must say, I'm impressed.
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For anyone that's interested, this is today's battery life on my Nexus 5. Came from a Galaxy S4 and I must say, I'm impressed.
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Wi-Fi connection the whole time?
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Man!
Almost 7 hrs of SOT... Thats Frigging AWESOME! Can you tell us your usage patterns? What was enabled/disabled...? Majority time on WiFi or Mobile Network (2g/3g/HSPA/LTE). Signal Strength of the Carrier
On my N4, the highest ive gotten is 5 1/2 hrs of SOT and that is with most of the stuff disabled and on wifi!
Whoa! At first 11 hours looked bleak, but 7 hours of screen-on time sounds fantastic! :laugh:
Wifi on the whole time or not.. 7 hours of SOT is impressive.. especially on a 2300mAh battery
as a current S4 user, seeing things like this is making me really impatient in waiting for the N5! i could barely get 5 hours SOT on an AOSP rom on my S4 or even on TW and this was with greenify and auto sync off at night.
really hoping that once I get my N5 average SOT time will be 4-5 hours as thats all i really need to be satified
Where's Google services?
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kava1 said:
Where's Google services?
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What screen brightness setting are you using? I barely hit 3 hours of on-screen time on my galaxy S3 so this looks really good! :good:
The most screen on time I used to get on my S4 is 5:30 with wifi only use. That number has dropped to 4:00 now on wifi and 3:00 when I am on LTE for pretty much the whole time.
This battery life is impressive to me and seeing the camera comparisons between nexus 5/S4 and having the Nexus 5 win has solidified by decision to get a nexus 5. Now if only I didn't have to wait 3-4 weeks...
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Few questions:
1) google now on or off
2) Do you have sync on?
3) Do you have facebook/twitter/instragram...etc?
That looks amazing. Also that resolution on the screenshot....
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For anyone that's interested, this is today's battery life on my Nexus 5. Came from a Galaxy S4 and I must say, I'm impressed.
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Hey mate, that's a miracle, the curve goes even up at times :angel:
You obviously made some micro-charges during the day, you cheeky troll
For the first charge out of the box, should you charge the device on or off in order to get the best out of the battery as well as improving battery's lifespan? Cheers
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Those two little bumps where it goes up in charge I think are where I had it plugged into the pc to transfer stuff across.
Anyway.....
Wi-fi was on all day apart from a couple of occasions where I went out for a short while and it was on H+ (full signal)
Google Now is disabled.
Sync is enabled.
Screen is on auto-brightness but my living room is fairly bright and so I'd guess at the screen being on 50-75% brightness all the time.
Those 7 hours of screen on time were pretty much all down to browsing on Chrome and aimlessly scrolling on Facebook.
I'm very impressed with this phone (even though my power button rattles) and at first didn't know if I'd made the right choice ditching my S4 to get it, but after having it since Friday I'm glad I did now. Another thing, the signal is great. On my S4 in the gym I used to get 1- 2 bars of 3G signal at best, with the N5 I get 4 bars of H+.
For anyone thinking about getting this phone, you won't regret it, especially if you're not a fan of having to charge your phone at 3pm because it's dead.
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For the first charge out of the box, should you charge the device on or off in order to get the best out of the battery as well as improving battery's lifespan? Cheers
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I ran it down Friday and charged it overnight, then ran it down again Saturday, charged it over night (both times 0% to 100% and both times whilst I was in bed I left it switched on but in aeroplane mode) and this was the result on Sunday's usage.
Did you put the charger twice?, the charging bar is empty, but in the graph there're two times it seems it was charging.
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Did you put the charger twice?, the charging bar it's empty, but in the graph there're two times it seems it was charging.
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I mentioned that above, I think it's where I plugged the phone into my pc to transfer stuff across.
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Where's Google services?
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They were underneath wi-fi. I think they only equated to about 2 or 3%
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I mentioned that above, I think it's where I plugged the phone into my pc to transfer stuff across.
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Thanks, nice results though!.
I've seen multiple devices I've owned including this one where the battstats go up in tiny peaks without me charging it. Just saying, it happens even if it wasn't plugged in to PC. If u were in the PC we would have seen the charging bar wouldn't be empty. Its almost like the battstats graph predicts usage and where the batt prolly will fall to but then if u stop using it it goes back. Idk hard to explain.
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