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Do i need to do a battery calibration when switching between the extended battery and the regular? Depending on my work day i take a different batter with me but the extended seems to be dropping as fast at the standard one. I am running Blurry 1.3 ROM.
IMO its just a placebo effect
magneticzero said:
IMO its just a placebo effect
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I had never run one before but when I stitched to blurry 1.3 I was losing 10% battery life every thirty minutes while not in use!! I was told to run the calibration on it and boy did it help, now I drop ten or so every hour/hour and a half with heavy usage, and only a percent or two when not in use.
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Absolutely. Placebo? The battery stats are for the stock battery. You put a bigger battery in, and you don't think you need to tell your system?
Don't calibrate and enjoy the same battery life you got on the regular battery.
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I'll post a link to a great calibration trick in a minute. I was easily getting a day and a half on my x2, with heavy use.
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So you think the battery calibrator app is not good enough
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denpad2010 said:
So you think the battery calibrator app is not good enough
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I think it's good. I use it in conjunction with the other one. Google "juhde calibration DROID" and you'll find the thread. Made a world of difference for me...
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I don't have problem with my bat but i gonna try
Thanks
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So those that have a Vivid how has the battery life been? HTC has been getting a bad wrap for that.
http://i358.photobucket.com/albums/oo26/mktrp/2011-11-08_09-33-05.jpg
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Its bad not as bad as the Inspire but bad.
RE: Battery Vivid Life
Mine has been absolutely horrid. With moderate use I'm lucky if it lasts 3 hours. To be honest, though, I didn't let it charge completely when I first got it - I was too excited. I'm actually recalibrating it now in hopes of improving it.
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Mine has been absolutely horrid. With moderate use I'm lucky if it lasts 3 hours. To be honest, though, I didn't let it charge completely when I first got it - I was too excited. I'm actually recalibrating it now in hopes of improving it.
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3 hours? Meh, that isn't normal at all.
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Getting great battery life, probabably about the same if not slightly better than I got with my iPhone4. Definaletly the best switch I've made.
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2lazy2day said:
Getting great battery life, probabably about the same if not slightly better than I got with my iPhone4. Definaletly the best switch I've made.
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That's what I like to hear!
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flash kernel/rom or decrease display light to low and slap a anti-glare film on there..
I got mine this afternoon. I had an Infuse 4G and traded it in for a Vivid. According to my Battery Monitor Widget after 3 hrs 48 mins (battery was fully charged) I'm at 86%. I am using Juice Defender Ultimate.
Yet another battery life thread...
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My battery life is quite a bit better than even the GS2 I had for a short while. I don't even know what the low battery alert looks/sounds like.
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Jirv311 said:
My battery life is quite a bit better than even the GS2 I had for a short while. I don't even know what the low battery alert looks/sounds like.
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The notification light blinks yellow, and a big battery image and a message pop up on the screen when the battery level hits 10%, then again at 5%. It's pretty obvious. Also, the phone shuts down some background functions such as data syncing to conserve battery power.
Full on data streaming of my podcast or Rdio on Hspa drains my battery in 5 hours or so. With sporadic web browsing in there, just listening to cached music and podcast I stretch it past 8 hours. Better then my desire by 2/3 hours
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Jirv311 said:
My battery life is quite a bit better than even the GS2 I had for a short while. I don't even know what the low battery alert looks/sounds like.
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Yeah, I thought my GS2 was good, but this is definitely better, especially considering LTE.
I finally ran it down to low battery the other day because an app ran away with my processor and drained my battery in the background. It did this in my locker while I was at the gym. When I finally pulled it out of my pants, it was super hot and down 20% lower than usual for that time of day. I restarted the phone and still managed to make it through the rest of the day and night before it died, but just barely.
Runaway apps is one of the things I have always hated about android, but that was the only time it happened since I bought the phone, so I can live with it.
slapshot30 said:
3 hours? Meh, that isn't normal at all.
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Yeah, I'd read reviews that the battery life wasn't spectacular - but this is downright confusing! Do you think I ruined it by just using right out of the box without letting it do a few charge cycles (again I was TOO excited, the most excited I'd ever been about a phone)?
2lazy2day said:
Getting great battery life, probabably about the same if not slightly better than I got with my iPhone4. Definaletly the best switch I've made.
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Which rom you use?
Any battery related apps?
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Which rom you use?
Any battery related apps?
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Modified stock ROM for now. Got juice defender running. settings for low display, 20%
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Just talked to att fond out LG has problems with the thrill and are working on fixing it, I hope they do this soon and I'm getting a 4G sim card turns out I'm not getting 4G speeds because my sim is to old
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What problems? They say that about every Android device.
Mine is working just fine, sans the occasional glitch, which I also had on my Atrix, and the wife's Inspire, and my captivate, and the GS2 I tried... See a pattern?
Oh, and even my iPhones had problems.
No problems here.
They said that some of the thrill's battery's cause power failures like mine and have freezing problems another problem I have I had to warranty mine out
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So its a battery problem and not a phone problem?
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Well that's what they have to do first with my thrill replace the battery
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Well after getting a new battery it does seem to work better and it is nice not having to charge 2-3 times a day.
Juice defender.
Lately my battery has been dying pretty fast. I think it's either going bad or SPB Launcher is draining it.
Got my new battery my phone already works better
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I'm very lucky that I haven't had too much trouble with my thrill. Battery life sucks, but that's because of the software...
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Lately my battery has been dying pretty fast. I think it's either going bad or SPB Launcher is draining it.
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i can imagine a graphics intensive launcher like spb will drain your battery pretty quickly.
...fighting ninjas at night, talkin' about this and that.
Found this new CPU app and you can change the voltage in it
https://market.android.com/details?...29tLnNtYXJ0cHJvamVjdHMuQ1BVQ29udHJvbExpdGUiXQ..
I was wondering if blitz supported the voltage adjustments as maybe it would help us that get a decrease in battery life because of blitz? Ik its UC already but thought fine tuning it to phone could help even more?
Also, if you were to use this with rom toolbox would the CPU settings interfere? Would you have to remove rom toolbox?
Can't change voltage. Lol
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revo_65 said:
I was wondering if blitz supported the voltage adjustments as maybe it would help us that get a decrease in battery life because of blitz? Ik its UC already but thought fine tuning it to phone could help even more?
Also, if you were to use this with rom toolbox would the CPU settings interfere? Would you have to remove rom toolbox?
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You don't have to remove toolbox, just uncheck the supply on boot setting
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revo_65 said:
Can't change voltage. Lol
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Blitz is already waaayyyy undervolted anyway lol
spc_hicks09 said:
Blitz is already waaayyyy undervolted anyway lol
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Lol ik, willing change anything and everything to fix my battery drain when in idle
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revo_65 said:
Lol ik, willing change anything and everything to fix my battery drain when in idle
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It's so weird that yours is that bad. My "phone at idle" uses just 4%. Have you tried using "Watchdog" to see if you have some rouge app using up all your battery?
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spc_hicks09 said:
It's so weird that yours is that bad. My "phone at idle" uses just 4%. Have you tried using "Watchdog" to see if you have some rouge app using up all your battery?
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No, just because I only get the drain with blitz, but heck I'll give it a shot
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revo_65 said:
No, just because I only get the drain with blitz, but heck I'll give it a shot
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Let me know if it helps out any.
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revo_65 said:
Lol ik, willing change anything and everything to fix my battery drain when in idle
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that is strange, just this morning my phone was idle for about 2.5 hours and was at 80%
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that is strange, just this morning my phone was idle for about 2.5 hours and was at 80%
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Usually not that bad I'm guessing?
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I unplugged mine last night at 7, this morning at 6 it was at 82%
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So at 5 hours I am sitting at 70% when the last time I used blitz at three hours I had 65% Idk if it is this app or some other magical reason that my battery life is improving but I am definitely happy it finally did!
Also, hicks, watchdog didnt show me anything abnormal so I dont think that was my issue.
Running 122/1200 with smoothass.
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So at 5 hours I am sitting at 70% when the last time I used blitz at three hours I had 65% Idk if it is this app or some other magical reason that my battery life is improving but I am definitely happy it finally did!
Also, hicks, watchdog didnt show me anything abnormal so I dont think that was my issue.
Running 122/1200 with smoothass.
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Oh ok, well I'm glad it's getting better for you though.
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revo_65 said:
So at 5 hours I am sitting at 70% when the last time I used blitz at three hours I had 65% Idk if it is this app or some other magical reason that my battery life is improving but I am definitely happy it finally did!
Also, hicks, watchdog didnt show me anything abnormal so I dont think that was my issue.
Running 122/1200 with smoothass.
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You got that with the CPU app you posted?
My battery drains 10% every hour on idle. It's horrible.
That's about what mine was. And yep that app
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That's about what mine was. And yep that app
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Okay thanks I'll try it out.
A few things that people seem to forget when comparing battery life. One person can get twice the battery life than someone else for many reasons.
A few:
1) are you in a 3g or 4g area? 4g will use more battery because of dual radio (recommend to switch to CDMA only mode when in a 3g only area, OR when you don't need 4g connectivity)
2) What options are running? (Wifi, GPS, Bluetooth, etc) Don't have any of those features on, especially Wifi, it will suck your battery down quick.
3) Your CPU app (Such as SetCPU). Is is set to Performance, OnDemand, PowerSave? I don't fiddle around with custom settings, just use the stock of those 3 and notice a major battery improvement with just the stock PowerSave.
4) Is your screen brightness on manual or auto mode? Auto mode will take 2-5 times as much juice as it's constantly scanning and changing screen brightness.
5) (almost forgot this) Most importantly, make sure you are in a good signal area (at least 80%) before complaining of poor battery life. Anything below 80% signal can cause your phone to search hi and low for a better tower and better signal. Anything below 50% is likely to draing your battery in half the time, or even less. Constant scanning for a better signal uses up a LOT of juice. I've had past phones that lasted for 2.5 days on a single charge when in full signal. Down to about 10-12 hours in poor signal and similar usage in both areas.
5.5) Those who don't yet know... Don't complain like the ones on Verizon website/reviews where the only thing that some will complain, or markdown on, is battery life. You are using (by assumption you reading this in this forum) a 4g, dual mode phone. NOOBS: This means there are two radios/antennas in your phone that are working together. One on 3g(CDMA) and one on 4g(LTE). This automatically makes your 4g phone use more battery. Don't like it? Go buy a 3g only phone... :O
Make sure to also not have any 'task manager/killer' running. These apps are not only bad for your phone (been proven), but they also use more juice than they save. At least in my experience and from other posts I have read.
-Cybie
This is with screen on full brightness, moderate use, all sensors, sync enabled, and on mobile data. Leaps and bounds over E4GT.
Edit: battery is at 57% still
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What's your screen time?
My battery life actually hasn't been that great, almost equal to my S3 if not worse :/
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inlineboy said:
What's your screen time?
My battery life actually hasn't been that great, almost equal to my S3 if not worse :/
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3hrs 13mins. About 30 minutes of that was using the camera.
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Agreed. Mine has blown my E4GT away in battery life, and I haven't even been using the little tricks like turning data off when I'm at work yet.
I normally would have to plug mine in by noon after being unplugged since 7am. And that was screen halfway dimmed and barely any use
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Zerolemon 3000mah = win
I agree. Compared to my 3D, AMAZING. Walked out of work at 6PM, it had just dropped below 60% and my 3D would get to that point by 11:30AM.
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I'm consistently getting 5 hours of screen time, which I'm pretty happy with. Haven't ever ran it all the way to zero, so could probably get a little more.
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All phones have ****ty battery life when you're hacking and popping bursters everywhere. But my GS4 has done the best so far!
I'm excited to see it. I'll leave my house with a full charge, and streaming radio over 3G to my bluetooth headset for 2 hours and browsing the web for 20 minutes knocks my Evo 3D down to 30%.
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I'm consistently getting 5 hours of screen time, which I'm pretty happy with. Haven't ever ran it all the way to zero, so could probably get a little more.
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How?? I only get 4 hrs of screen on time when I have wifi on, power saving mode on, and have brightness at the bare minimum.. Did you 5 hr screen timers do something else to your device like disable sprint bloatware or something?
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Not doing anything special here. Haven't removed any bloat yet, not using power saving mode, using auto brightness.
Maybe I just have a strong signal. Weak signal can cause the radio to ramp up power and chew up a lot of battery...
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Not doing anything special here. Haven't removed any bloat yet, not using power saving mode, using auto brightness.
Maybe I just have a strong signal. Weak signal can cause the radio to ramp up power and chew up a lot of battery...
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This. Turning data off when I'm at work (in a thick building) makes a ton of difference.
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mjs2011 said:
This. Turning data off when I'm at work (in a thick building) makes a ton of difference.
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Will try especially since I have wifi access at work. But yes, I do have a not so great data connection in my area with sprint.
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Does killing the data make it impossible to send SMS?
My battery sucked till I installed Greenify, and Juice Defender
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This is from today. Only an hour screen on time. Everything enabled, screen full brightness.
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Pretty good. The last phone I had with this good of battery life was my Samsung a920 flip phone!
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