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IN the "about phone" battery use the "display" shows 53%, Voice calls show 36% android 5% Cell Standby $% Phone idle 3%, I made one call 3 hours ago and since then havent touched it...what the heck are these results telling me? IM so confused.
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IN the "about phone" battery use the "display" shows 53%, Voice calls show 36% android 5% Cell Standby $% Phone idle 3%, I made one call 3 hours ago and since then havent touched it...what the heck are these results telling me? IM so confused.
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Of the percentage of the battery thats been used, those percentages is what has used the batter thus far.
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Of the percentage of the battery thats been used, those percentages is what has used the batter thus far.
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thanks porkchop! That much I get I honeslty do, but if my phone is sleeping, and its been three hours since the call took place, why are those the hogs?
Your reading too much into it. It's a percent of a percent and even if your phone has been sleeping for hours it will still show those numbers because that's what had been using the battery the most.
The way its displayed is confusing. If your battery is at 50% and it says the display used 50%. The display has really only used 25% of the battery so far. It doesn't matter if your phone has been asleep after you used it.
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zenulator said:
Your reading too much into it. It's a percent of a percent and even if your phone has been sleeping for hours it will still show those numbers because that's what had been using the battery the most.
The way its displayed is confusing. If your battery is at 50% and it says the display used 50%. The display has really only used 25% of the battery so far. It doesn't matter if your phone has been asleep after you used it.
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And its since the phone has been last unplugged. They aren't really the hogs, its just what has been used in the last how ever long the battery has been off the charger. The display and the phone use way more battery than cell standby and phone idle. now say the battery was at 70% when you took these readings...and left it on sleep til it was 1%, cell standby and phone idle would then be the top percentages.
I'm having like 13hours to 14hours of battery life..Running stock ota 2.3.3..is it normal for such a battery life?(when my phone is fully charged right after I plugged out the charger,my battery drop to 94% to 96%is it normal too?kindly advice..thanks..
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My battery indicator also drops from 100% to 96% a few seconds after i take out the charger. But after 2 days i stille have about 15% battery left.
infatality said:
I'm having like 13hours to 14hours of battery life..Running stock ota 2.3.3..is it normal for such a battery life?(when my phone is fully charged right after I plugged out the charger,my battery drop to 94% to 96%is it normal too?kindly advice..thanks..
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My battery life increased after upgrading to gingerbread. I can usually go through the day (15 hours) with 3g always on, twitter and fb sync on, with light gaming and surfing of the web, 75% brightness.
My record was 2 days 9 hours with 0% brightness, no 3g, only wifi, no gaming, twitter and fb sync on.
For your percentage problem, you can try draining your battery, then when the phone shuts down, hold the power button to switch it on again. Start up an intensive app like a game to further drain the power. Do this until the phone does not start up (no bootscreen), then plug into the charger and charge overnight. DO NOT turn the phone on during the charge. When you turn on your phone after the overnight charge, it should read 100%
I am not too sure what triggers this, but its likely due to battery memory or something, although this should not be happening for lithium batteries. Maybe its a software fault. Do this every month or so to hit that 100% indicator. It is not advisable to do this all the time as draining the battery completely MAY damage the battery over time. Cheers!
How did you manage to get pass 2days of usage?
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Hey,
I'm also having the same issue. Off the charger, BANG! 96% or so, sometimes more. My phone will be at 90% after like 3 texts. Its only had 5 charges mind you, I know there's a "conditioning" time but still, is this normal? I can almost say a text is a percent...my 3gs had more batt life after 1yr... now that's saying something...haha
I can almost watch it drain with the screen on...like 60 secs is a percent or 2...not cool...
Maybe I can do the "Desire Battery Calibration" procedure after a few more full charges...might make a diff...what do you guys think? I may be jumping the gun here...
Thanks in advance.
I remember someone said modern phones are designed not to keep on charging after reaching 100% and resume only after dropping to certain level, maybe 9x%. That could be the reason why I see different percentage left every day I unplug the phone in the morning. But my last Hero always show 100%.
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itandy said:
I remember someone said modern phones are designed not to keep on charging after reaching 100% and resume only after dropping to certain level, maybe 9x%. That could be the reason why I see different percentage left every day I unplug the phone in the morning. But my last Hero always show 100%.
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That sounds right, because it drops from 100% to 96% after a few seconds, and its direct from 100 to 96.
But if you put the charger back it taks a couple of minuts to get from 96% to 99% and about 10 minuts to go from 99% to 100%
As far as i have noticed, this was the issue with X100 too after 2.1 update-
Once connected to the wall socket, the phone charges to 100% and starts dropping.
it does not charge again unless you reconnect the charger.
till the time it is connected, it will display as 100% but once you remove it drops to how much ever time has been spent since it reached 100%.
why that happens, i really don't know.
Ideally the phone should continue charging if the level is below 100. anyways....
about the battery backup, i think 13-15 hours is quite good for a phone with this display and capabilities.
with 3g, a little gaming, surfing, chatting etc. this should really do.
in fact, post the 2.3.3 update, the battery life has definitely increased.
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As far as i have noticed, this was the issue with X100 too after 2.1 update-
Once connected to the wall socket, the phone charges to 100% and starts dropping.
it does not charge again unless you reconnect the charger.
till the time it is connected, it will display as 100% but once you remove it drops to how much ever time has been spent since it reached 100%.
why that happens, i really don't know.
Ideally the phone should continue charging if the level is below 100. anyways....
about the battery backup, i think 13-15 hours is quite good for a phone with this display and capabilities.
with 3g, a little gaming, surfing, chatting etc. this should really do.
in fact, post the 2.3.3 update, the battery life has definitely increased.
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So you think that having a 13hrs ++ battery life is good enough?More advice please..thanks..
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I am on a VzW Inc2 w/ Froyo so not sure how applicable any of this is for you guys...but anyway....
My battery life is fantastic. I too see the 100% down to whatever after unplugging - I am pretty sure this is like others have said; once it reaches 100% during charging it stops charging and does not start again until you unplug and it re-plug it in. I know in my case charging from dead to 100% only takes like 3 or 4 hours. So if you are plugging your phone in when you go to bed it is probably hitting 100% after 3-4 hours and then the rest of the night it is draining down...
I have found JuiceDefender Ultimate and JuicePlotter to be huge helps to me in decreasing battery drain (JD) and understanding what uses the battery (JP).
Also just going into settings, About Phone, Battery, Battery use - this helps understand what is using it.
*Note: JuiceDefender Ultimate can create more problems than good if you are not willing to take the time to learn/set it up.
Prior to using JD and JP I would generally make it through the day, sometimes have a bit of power left over. After using these I always make it through the day, and sometimes through 2 days.
But let's not kid anyone - what JD does you CAN do manually...but more than likely wont or will forget. So for anyone that doesnt want to use JD, do you leave your WiFi on all the time, or do you switch it on/off? Leaving it on all the time drains battery. When WiFi is available, do you use it? I have found WiFi on this phone to use a lot less battery than 3G.
Probably my favorite function of JD I have it disable 3G and WiFi when the screen is off (for getting emails, updates, etc... you can set a schedule where it turns it back on during intervals or whatever).
Also I like the WiFi Location setting - you can teach it where you use WiFi and it will automatically turn WiFi on/off based on your location.
Anyway - my guess is if you are having low battery life, either you are using the device a lot more than you think (voice calls use a lot of battery), you have things syncing too often, or you are leaving radios/etc... on all the time that do not need to be on.
I tried to take the charger out at the same time the battery was on 100% and the LCD light went green.
Then the battery stayed at 100% for about 11 minuts and then went down to 99%.
After 3 1/2 houres the battery is at 95%!!!!!!!!
Bagground Data is enabled.
3G is active.
I have mail check every 15 minuts.
Screen brightnes at 40%
Weather update every 1 houre.
I don't use Facebook, Twitter, Stcoks and News.
I don't understand the battery in my IncS...
You guys know that these batteries don't have memory right? So when you charge doesn't matter, your phone just thinks there is that percentage of battery, do a full drain once and then it should back on track. Also, these batteries never get charged to 100%, its a safety precaution or something of that sort. They hover around 94-96% which is why the phone drops down to that area in what seems like a short amount of time. The fact that the phone says 100% when you unplug it is for effect. I used to always think I had battery problems, just stop being so worried about the battery and you'll notice an improvement. Hope this helped.
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Also draining them completely flat, as in device won't power on, is the worst thing you can do to them
It sort of kills off a little of the capacity, every time you do it
So to the bloke that recommended it, no it does more damage than good
Rellikzephyr
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After 17 houres battery is down from 100% to 84%.
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After 17 houres battery is down from 100% to 84%.
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That's unreal...do you even use the phone?
Rellikzephyr
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jkolner said:
After 17 houres battery is down from 100% to 84%.
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What a joke!! Thats impossible!
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I'm finding turning to GSM only helps massively. I mean, so it should but I was hoping I didn't have to do this all the time, like I had to with my 3GS... And its a pain in the butt having to change it.
Still cant find a widget that will do it for me...not mobile data, ACTUAL WCDMA-GSM and back...
On the side, if anyone knows of one, please tell! haha
Thanks
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What a joke!! Thats impossible!
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I tell you is true, and i don't understand i either!!!
Most of the 17 houres the phone was only in standby and i only read mail twice.
I guess its just a fantastic ROM that Mike1986 has made with no Sense ;-)
I can get a day and a half out of my IncS with heavy use on a pretty regular basis. Set brightness to automatic, switch off unnecessary auto updates, GPS, bluetooth, and keep volume down or off in games. My screen timeout is 1 min (reduce for longer battery life), and I have always on internet switched off. I generally leave my Wi-Fi on a lot by mistake but don't find this to affect things too much really.
You will get 96% a lot after a charge as it is bad for your battery to stay plugged in when it's fully charged, so the s/w on HTC phone switch the charge off for a little while so it runs down a little and back up again. I had Hero before and that did this as well.
juice defender ultimate is excellent in my experience.
i had it set to switch on data every 5mins for 15secs to receive notifications and do updates (i have quite lot syncing - twitter, fb, sky news widgets x2, weather) and i would sometimes have gotten 30 hours out of the phone (ie. i wouldnt have charged it 2 nights in a row sometimes), but always easily 1 full day.
im getting sick of having to use JD though, because i figured something HAD to be wrong as my battery would drain in maybe 5-8 hours without JD which I just dont think is good enough and so could not be how its meant to be.
i then read about some people having problems with cyanogen rom battery drain, and that if you switch off android market notifications, it solves it.
so i tried it, charged my phone to 99% again and im now at 82% after 5 hours 10mins, which means if i keep using the phone at this rate, ill make it 25 hours - which is more than good enough for me. (~and i still have all the same stuff syncing as before, except market notifications~)
also i have wifi set to never sleep, so its always on. (its my ideal that everything that you buy the phone for should be able to be kept on 24/7, eg data, gps etc always on - so i keep them like that. bluetooth i dont use though - if i can make it through the day on a charge with decent use, im happy)
try it.
im calling BS on jkolner btw - pics or it didnt happen
Hi all,
I have a att HTC one m7 running sixth sense with the stock kernel. Just checking on my battery life. With power saver on and brightness set to minimum with location off and LTE on, I have 2:41 screen on time with 36% left in the tank. I bought my phone August last year. Is this normal battery life?
Basically no, what's hogging up your battery life? (Any apps running in the background for example?)
Well gsam says apps are using 57.5% with screen using 34%. The top offenders in apps are chrome at 12%, system... At 9.3%, and android system also at 9.3%, and kernel at 5.6%.The HTC battery utility says android system is using 80% in app usage
I have been looking at this forever now... its this keep alive sob. a lot of people is having this issue
Well the official sense 6 update will be coming out soon, I'll update to that. Think that will fix the issue?
i already updated to sence 6, nope.
this is my phone's normal activity, when no app is running in the back ground.
If you go into Power > History - is your awake bar almost solid color? Looks like some app or setting won't let the phone go to Deep Sleep, causing battery issues.
After converting back to stock with power saver on and brightness set to low, I'm at 3 hours screen on time with 48% left. Is this more normal?
Arcturus314 said:
After converting back to stock with power saver on and brightness set to low, I'm at 3 hours screen on time with 48% left. Is this more normal?
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Depends on what programs did you use and if you had Wifi/Mobile internet connection. As always, showing screens from a battery app (GSAM/BBS) makes it much easier to decide.
For example on WiFi the longest screen on time I had was 6Hrs 16 mins with 23% left - I watched 3 movies in a day with headphones.
But usually I am getting 2-3 hours screen on per charge if I use my phone "normally" and not watching movies.
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The first day I had it, I woke up around 8:00 AM and got to about 6:00 PM when it ran out of juice. This was with heavy use, screen always on and brightness set to about 60%.
I changed the settings so that the screen is not always on and brightness is now set to 40%. This made a huge difference. Today, for example, I've already had it off the charger for 8 hours and it's still at 79% battery. I'm at work, and it's getting used as it normally would be.
The screen being set to always on will obviously burn through battery at a fairly quick rate, especially if the brightness is set high. It's worth noting that letting the screen turn off automatically does not impede its usefulness. The screen comes on automatically when your turn your writes to look at the device, and when you touch the screen.
100% @ 7:30 a.m. & @ 31% battery as of this post, 9:20 p.m. with heavy use throughout the day. I had the screen @ always on through the majority of the day; however switched to off @ around 7 p.m.
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The first day I had it, I woke up around 8:00 AM and got to about 6:00 PM when it ran out of juice. This was with heavy use, screen always on and brightness set to about 60%.
I changed the settings so that the screen is not always on and brightness is now set to 40%. This made a huge difference. Today, for example, I've already had it off the charger for 8 hours and it's still at 79% battery. I'm at work, and it's getting used as it normally would be.
The screen being set to always on will obviously burn through battery at a fairly quick rate, especially if the brightness is set high. It's worth noting that letting the screen turn off automatically does not impede its usefulness. The screen comes on automatically when your turn your writes to look at the device, and when you touch the screen.
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So which mode will you run daily? Screen-off?
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So which mode will you run daily? Screen-off?
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Screen off for sure. It comes on automatically when I go to look at it, and I want to conserve battery.
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Screen off for sure. It comes on automatically when I go to look at it, and I want to conserve battery.
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Undocked at 8 AM with 100% charged, used till mid night with heavy usage with 32% left when got to bed. Very impressed with battery performance. I am using default settings (brightness - 4, Always-on screen, showing cards on dimmed screen, alert on watch and phone when connected).
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Undocked at 8 AM with 100% charged, used till mid night with heavy usage with 32% left when got to bed. Very impressed with battery performance. I am using default settings (brightness - 4, Always-on screen, showing cards on dimmed screen, alert on watch and phone when connected).
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Unplug at 7:30am @11pm still 49% battery but my note 3 battery goes down, i have to plug it in the afternoon.
My battery usage on my phone shows android wear being the main culprit.
Before that, I could last all day in one charge.
unplugged at 8a.m. plugged back in around 1:30a.m. about 18% left.
Screen set to "always on", brightness set to "4".
I'm not sure what constitutes heavy usage, but I do look at my screen and do a couple of swipes about every 15 minutes or so, unless I'm expecting an email or something.
Why do you need the screen always on?
The screen on when you look at it functions really well, and saves a lot of battery.
I unplug at 6.45 am. Still got 60% by 10.30 pm
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Wow, guys, what am I doing wrong?
I take mine off charge when I get up at 5.30 AM.
It's down to 85% by the time I leave the house at 7am (it's maybe had the screen on for a total of a minute maximum).
I lose roughly 10% an hour (with maximum "screen on" time of a minute or 2 an hour.
It's below 20% by 3 or 4pm.
So I thought it might be that I had brightness on 4/5, so I've changed to 1/5, but still, it's little better. I might get an extra hour maybe.
I like the idea of it, and when it's alive, it's great. But for me, I'm struggling to get 10-12 hours, with low use.
i'm gonna try it tomorrow with Screen-off mode enabled.
I'd happily accept charging it every night, but I'm struggling to get half a day here.
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Wow, guys, what am I doing wrong?.
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There's definitely something wrong there. I would try unpairing and resetting the watch (the only thing you'll lose is fitness data).
Then I'd uninstall Android wear from the phone, reset the phone and start all over again.
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There's definitely something wrong there. I would try unpairing and resetting the watch (the only thing you'll lose is fitness data).
Then I'd uninstall Android wear from the phone, reset the phone and start all over again.
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Thanks.
Gonna try that now..........
i agree, there's something not right in your situation.
i took mine off at 11am and it's almost 3am now and i'm at 43% screen always on and moderate use
Got mine on Thursday. Since then it's off the charger for 16h/day. Setting is always on. Indoor I usually keep the brightness at 1 since I really don't need more. Outdoor it's always at 5.
I always end my day with 20-30% left.
One thing I noticed is colourful watch face kill the battery. Specifically while driving since the brightness it at 5 at the screen come on often while driving or doing other activities.
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Having reset the watch as suggested, It does seem greatly improved for me.
It came off charge this morning at 7am, so by now I'd normally be down to maybe 30-40%, but I'm currently still on 82%.
Thanks for the suggestion - it looks like it may have solved it.
I'd normally end the day with about 50% left. Two days ago I installed Pinterest and Fancy to see what the interface is like. The next day I ended the day at 7%. Today by around 4pm I was down to 30%.
i uninstalled both apps, charged it up, and the battery usage seems to have gone back to normal.
On my watch the battery is not that great comparing to some of you. Have you activated some battery saving options ?
Mine comes off charge at around 7am. By 10pm I'm usually around 25-35% battery. Usage is light to medium, with screen set to always on at default brightness.
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On my watch the battery is not that great comparing to some of you. Have you activated some battery saving options ?
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i think it generally comes down to how much you interact with the watch. while i have somewhat moderate usage, the interaction time with the screen fully lit is fairly short, a majority of the day my watch is in the low power screen state (b&w mode) and i think that prolongs the battery quite a bit since it is a samoled screen and i'm sure the processor drops down to a low power state.
a lot of my use is swiping away notifications and navigation (but while in navigation the watch is mostly in the low power state since it shows my next step on that screen)
I'm not interacting that much with it, but each time I turn my wrist, the screen turns on, and I think that's the problem. The B&W mode is nice, when I just want to use it like a real watch the B&W mode is sufficient, is there a way to stay in B&W mode when I turn my wrist, but still have the vibrations on?
Thanks.
Hi all, How to check screen on time with Mini 2? Can't find it under power settings, it shows only hardware and apps battery time but what about screen? Also what is your readings, is it bad, good or mediocre?
osstis said:
Hi all, How to check screen on time with Mini 2? Can't find it under power settings, it shows only hardware and apps battery time but what about screen? Also what is your readings, is it bad, good or mediocre?
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Setting> display and gestures> screen time out.
Love it Love it Love it
I don't mind screen timeout, I'm talking about battery life and screen on time (SOT).
osstis said:
I don't mind screen timeout, I'm talking about battery life and screen on time (SOT).
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sorry my bad
settings> power> history
youll find a graphic there.
hi yes I know there is a graphics with timeline but not hours and minutes to tell you how long screen has been turned on since last charging. I'm using GSam Battery Monitor app to calculate my SOT, I'm got this HTC from new 3 days now and I'm after second charge.
My results are not bad, see picture Time since last full charge: 18h34m, 69% remaining including
Screen on Time 1h29m, Calls 20min, WiFi 10h, Web Browsing 30min, Nova 3 gaming 30min, few emails, txt, Auto sync off (just check emails when I want), location off, Auto brightness on, power saving mode on (turned off while gaming). While I sleep 7hrs battery dropped 2% only. Due to not big 2100mAh battery it seems to be good.
osstis said:
hi yes I know there is a graphics with timeline but not hours and minutes to tell you how long screen has been turned on since last charging. I'm using GSam Battery Monitor app to calculate my SOT, I'm got this HTC from new 3 days now and I'm after second charge.
My results are not bad, see picture Time since last full charge: 18h34m, 69% remaining including
Screen on Time 1h29m, Calls 20min, WiFi 10h, Web Browsing 30min, Nova 3 gaming 30min, few emails, txt, Auto sync off (just check emails when I want), location off, Auto brightness on, power saving mode on (turned off while gaming). While I sleep 7hrs battery dropped 2% only. Due to not big 2100mAh battery it seems to be good.
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Go to settings> power> usage >
click android system. its all there.
CPU Total
CPU Foreground
Screen On
Keep Awake
etc
etc
same for individual apps.