I am trying to calibrate my battery. And, on any other day, my battery would be dead by now. But since I need it to be dead so I can get it charged...its doing ok. So. How do I quickly discharge my battery so I can get it recharged to calibrate?
Are some apps worse than others? Any thoughts? And yes I promise I'll whine and complain about how bad my battery life is later.
Thanks All!!
Download crackle from the app market and just stream a movie without charging
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Question about calibrating...I discharged the battery fully and was in the process of fully recharging but it got unplugged briefly, will that mess up the calibration?
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1.Turn off automatic brightness, set display brightness to 100%
2.Stream music or movie
3.play angry birds
Your battery will be dead in 15 minutes
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revo_65 said:
Question about calibrating...I discharged the battery fully and was in the process of fully recharging but it got unplugged briefly, will that mess up the calibration?
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I think it will depend on how briefly it was. If it wasn't too long, it should be ok.
ethonyy said:
Download crackle from the app market and just stream a movie without charging
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Good Idea with Crackle. but how in hades can anyone watch the movies when the audio laggs.
You could just leave the screen on 100% for awhile.
ufkal said:
Good Idea with Crackle. but how in hades can anyone watch the movies when the audio laggs.
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It wouldn't be a bad app if it weren't for the 3 second delayed audio lol.
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It wouldn't be a bad app if it weren't for the 3 second delayed audio lol.
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agreed. but a decent app. Good to have something playing while I'm working.
Flash light app plus Netflix with 4g on downloading something lol
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Lol, flashlight app, netflix, and a vibrator app, should kill your battery.
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Lol, flashlight app, netflix, and a vibrator app, should kill your battery.
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I'm just curious on your knowledge of vibrator apps lol.
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Lol @mt.
Angry Birds is definitely a battery killer!
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I'm just curious on your knowledge of vibrator apps lol.
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I bet you are, sicko.
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So for some reason I was charging my phone last night and it rebooted while charging... Then ever since then my soft key buttons will never light up ever. I rebooted. Hard reboot. Re flashed gingrrvolt. Idk what else to do. I've had issues with soft keys staying lit up 24 7 but a simple power off and on fixes it. But this kinda annoys me that I cannot fix this. Any help??
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OK so the soft key lights do work as I unplugged my battery while it was on and charging and then the soft keys started to blink on and off. But then reset my phone and they still won't turn on... Ugh so frustrating.
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magesticschu said:
OK so the soft key lights do work as I unplugged my battery while it was on and charging and then the soft keys started to blink on and off. But then reset my phone and they still won't turn on... Ugh so frustrating.
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Shine a light in the sensor.
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Wowwww it's fixed... All that work for nothing. Haha. Thank you.
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magesticschu said:
Wowwww it's fixed... All that work for nothing. Haha. Thank you.
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No problem. That will happen on almost every reboot just an fyi
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magesticschu said:
Wowwww it's fixed... All that work for nothing. Haha. Thank you.
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What I did was: go into display and lower the brightness. Take the checkmark out.
Battery doesn't last with me for a whole day with 3 hours and a half of screen usage
On cm7
Same with new jellybean rom unofficial CM10
What could be causing that??
Thanks in advance
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Maybe you need to change you battery
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I guess so
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Mine is the same as yours on any Rom
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anonymousss said:
Battery doesn't last with me for a whole day with 3 hours and a half of screen usage
On cm7
Same with new jellybean rom unofficial CM10
What could be causing that??
Thanks in advance
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none of these custom ROM are optimized for battery.. i have tried a couple of them..
you can give 'Easy battery saver' from google play a shot.. it is a good tool and can help you in optimizing the battery..
BTW what do you primarily use your phone for?
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Mine is the same as yours on any Rom
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Thats so bad :s my battery drops like 20% after 8 hours when its untouched it has never been that bad !
srv.abhishek said:
none of these custom ROM are optimized for battery.. i have tried a couple of them..
you can give 'Easy battery saver' from google play a shot.. it is a good tool and can help you in optimizing the battery..
BTW what do you primarily use your phone for?
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I use it mainly for chatting and texting
Twitter fbook whatsapp and some music occasionally
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Battery charging doesn't reach 100% now :sly:
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Thats so bad :s my battery drops like 20% after 8 hours when its untouched it has never been that bad !
I use it mainly for chatting and texting
Twitter fbook whatsapp and some music occasionally
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If youre syncing Twitter, facebook, whatsapp all the time, of course it will drain fast
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Is that possible with 1 min of on screen ?? I just made a call for like 5 mins or sth
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Calling takes up a lot of battery too
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Calling takes up a lot of battery too
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Not 5% for that short period of time.
Something is seriously wrong dude, download betterbatterystats and run it a bit and see what drains so much. Either your battery is bad or you have some app that drains a lot battery in background.
Can someone please guide me on how to use betterbatterystats?? I installed it but I don't know how to make it work :s
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What does that mean?
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Guys is that good or bad ??
Plz help me
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3 hours and 30 mins screen on. What the hell is wrong with my phone?!?
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Betterbatterystats
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anonymousss said:
Thats so bad :s my battery drops like 20% after 8 hours when its untouched it has never been that bad !
I use it mainly for chatting and texting
Twitter fbook whatsapp and some music occasionally
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Go uninstall facebook.
it made my incredible S last like, 3 hours longer
and my nexus 7 battery life went from 3 days to 4 days
3.5 hours of screen on time is a lot, id say at almost lasting a whole day you're doing pretty well?
I'm having a problem with my phone not going into deep sleep, I've tried reboots and stopping background processes, it didn't help. Any ideas?
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Try betterbatterystats from store then see what's actually happening behind the scenes.
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darkynk said:
I'm having a problem with my phone not going into deep sleep, I've tried reboots and stopping background processes, it didn't help. Any ideas?
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Why are you complaining? You got more than 17 hours from only 35% battery loss! I get maybe 15 hours with 100% battery loss -_-
But to help your problem, install an app called greenify. It allows you to block certain apps from being active in the background.
I usually lose about 5% tho after 12 hours with everything off
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Try betterbatterystats from store then see what's actually happening behind the scenes.
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Now go into betterbattery and click on wakelocks and such till you find the offender preventing sleep. Partial might show it as well. Scroll list and click on item to reveal the culprits
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I'm getting 25% drain after about 9 hours of deep sleep on the newest Slimbeaan 4.1 release. I seem to remember only having 5-10% drain overnight on the first few builds. Is my battery dying or is it the newer builds?
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I'm getting 25% drain after about 9 hours of deep sleep on the newest Slimbeaan 4.1 release. I seem to remember only having 5-10% drain overnight on the first few builds. Is my battery dying or is it the newer builds?
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Are you sure you mean 4.1 or 4.2 which has recently been released? The battery drain on 4.2 ROMs is an issue right now, although 4.1 isn't a whole lot better either.
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Are you sure you mean 4.1 or 4.2 which has recently been released? The battery drain on 4.2 ROMs is an issue right now, although 4.1 isn't a whole lot better either.
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I switched onto the 4.2 bandwagon a while ago and just recently reverted back to Slimbean 4.1 as I had remembered having great battery life on it. But after flashing and using for a few days, it's really not that much better. I still lose about 20-25% overnight on both 4.2 and 4.1 on the stock battery.
Well I just noticed something, it clearly says 17 hours, I assume on a 1+ year old battery am I correct? If so, then why are you complaining!!! Lmao you have Fantastic battery life!!!!
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tazmaniondvl said:
Well I just noticed something, it clearly says 17 hours, I assume on a 1+ year old battery am I correct? If so, then why are you complaining!!! Lmao you have Fantastic battery life!!!!
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Not even, got this October 2012
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17 hours is still great I get about 8 hours
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17 hours?
I'd be interested to know what ROM, etc. the OP is using to get 17+ hours of battery life out of this phone. Is it an extended battery? I'm getting pretty poor batter life after recently switching from Peach to Slimbean 4.1.2. Greenify seems to help.
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I'd be interested to know what ROM, etc. the OP is using to get 17+ hours of battery life out of this phone. Is it an extended battery? I'm getting pretty poor batter life after recently switching from Peach to Slimbean 4.1.2. Greenify seems to help.
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I'm using smoothie jb v3 with dbk v8 and there's no extended battery. since my OP I've been able to get about 24 hours with 55% still left, I've been using "DS battery saver"
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If you have noticed, most people with good battery life seem not to use the phone to make calls. I think searching for a network drains the battery
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If you have noticed, most people with good battery life seem not to use the phone to make calls. I think searching for a network drains the battery
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Yeah I usually have my phone in airplane mode
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darkynk said:
Yeah I usually have my phone in airplane mode
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That explains the seemingly AWESOME battery life.
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Haha it seems as if you use your phone as more of a gameboy than a phone...
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Haha it seems as if you use your phone as more of a gameboy than a phone...
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It's cause I don't like taking over the phone, it's weird
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Explain this to me
It is hard to tell by the screen shot, but could be that you had the screen on for a long time, or that your phone was spending energy to trying to connect to cell service?
Ok I'll post some neescreenshots in next few days.which screenshots should I post? Also should I leave power saver off?
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racingmatt1 said:
Ok I'll post some neescreenshots in next few days.which screenshots should I post? Also should I turn power saver off?
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Download GSAM battery monitor and post screens from it. It has a very detailed breakdown of where your juice is going.
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Is there a app like Google maps that's does the same thing cause I want to be able to use mobile network location without it draining my battery
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Try using Juice defender to make WiFi turn off when your screen is off. Also, if you're rooted you can download greenify from the market. All those little things drain battery fast. :thumbup:
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Here you go
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Your battery is fine. 30 min wakelock in 12 h is very good actually
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If I turn Google location service on will my battery drain be worse?
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Your battery is fine. 30 min wakelock in 12 h is very good actually
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I would agree. GSAM says 12 hours since last recharge and you are at 55% battery. I think that is pretty good.
When I turn on GPS or network location I get a wakelock from Google play services or Google "network location" I want to be able to use the features. When I turn on GPS I have to force close one of them or the GPS icon is on the whole time!!
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Google Now
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When I turn on GPS or network location I get a wakelock from Google play services or Google "network location" I want to be able to use the features. When I turn on GPS I have to force close one of them or the GPS icon is on the whole time!!
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Is your phone hooked up to Google now? Try looking at some of those features, I know for me it was pretty much running the entire time, even if you closed out of it. I mean, it constantly monitors where you are...Also, any type of weather app, widget etc does the same, in my experience.
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My battery drains 6% every half hour. I've tried flashing two different Roms from a stock sense to CM11 but no avail. Plus it takes all day to get to a full charge when charging. Could my battery be bad or something I'm not noticing? #noob
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When I'm on WiFi for any amount of time makes my battery drain fast with nothing else on (GPS,Bluetooth etc...). I have power saver,sleep mode abd WiFi optimization on if that makes a difference. Dropbox upload is off.
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I think you're in the normal range. I have 6.2% an hour today with moderate (similar to yours) use.
I was just curious if this was about the norm or if I should do some stuff the try to improve it
14 hours and 20 minutes from last charged with 4% left of battery with 4&a half hours of screen time on
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What ROM are you using?
As always mileage may vary lol
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Stock at the moment
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Stock at the moment
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I know that with DynamicKat KK I can use my phone for 2 days without charging it if I'm just making calls and not playing with it at all.
Hmm that's a little bit on the short side, have you cleared cache or rebooted your phone recently?
Also, has anything been keeping your phone awake when you weren't using it?
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Did a full reset don't think anything awakes my phone i do work 12- 14 hrs a day all my work stuff is over Texts up to 9k a month in texts can that hurt it
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It seems to be working better now Google some battery tips.
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zaptear said:
It seems to be working better now Google some battery tips.
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can u share some tips that u uses to improve battery life
vignesh1985 said:
can u share some tips that u uses to improve battery life
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Use the search function, this has been discussed ad nauseam already, many time.