Hi all,
I have been testing (sofar day 5) how long can my HTC Diamond last on standby without needing to recharge.
Phone is constantly on (day and night). It is on standby i.e. screen off, but the power is on. So every time I tap the little power button it shows me how much (%) of the battery is left.
I am on day 5 and the battery is 66%.
Will update tomorrow.
I don't know if anyone done this before, but I am trying to find out, how long will battery actually last in real world (in standby).
Cheers.
Are you just using Flight Mode?
And none of them is turning on ?
1. 2G / 3G phone (stay at one place / moving day & night )
2. Wi-Fi
3. Bluetooth
day 6
DAY6......checked battery status this evening.....52% left.
Phone is on standby (screen off). Everything else is on.
This is just my little experiment. Probably does not make sense to many, but maybe someday,someone would wanna know that, how long the battery lasts this way
to ykwong
sorry did not notice someone has replied.
phone is essentially in flight mode.....phone itself is off (no calls coming in or out)
but, Bluetooth and WIFI is on. Everytime I check for battery status....it notifies me of my WIFI connection.
If your mobile is in standby Wi-Fi and Bluetooth even if they are turned on are in standby too (except when you turn it on to check battery charge) thus they don't consume power.
Ive been testing mine aswell andi've found i lose 6% every 8 hours, thats with minimal use and screen off once used. radio 1.25.00.5 and the offficial 1.93 rom and with settings from shcaps advanced config.
wifi is turned off automatically when in standby mode, and turned on when you activate the phone again unless you've done a registry hack to force it on.
Moreover this test is quite useless as battery life consumption depends on the power of the signal, your battery can easily last half the usual time if the signal is weak and twice longer if you just under a cell
johnnymatrix said:
wifi is turned off automatically when in standby mode, and turned on when you activate the phone again unless you've done a registry hack to force it on.
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Indeed, thats true.
Battery life is poor
I got Diamond 2 days ago. What I noticed was the battery life is appalling actually. I charged full and with normal usage (ie, 5-6 calls lasting about altogether lasting less than an hour and some pplaying around) it doesnt last more than a day. Battery shows 10% at the end of the day. Is that normal? Or is it just mine. (By the way 3G on, Wifi, bluetooth off)
I charge mine twice a day...
i have to charge mine everyday after work and im not using in THAT much, some calls and checking some mails. the batterytime really sucks, my old phones have loads of better batterytime, so what if i surf some on the net and checking some videos to do i have to charge it every hour or what? really sucks :/
htc has released a new battery for longer standby time. the battery volumn is 1350MA, with a back cover. the price is around 40 pounds.
unlike the third party battery some of us have bought, does the gps still work with this one?
ehe12 said:
htc has released a new battery for longer standby time. the battery volumn is 1350MA, with a back cover. the price is around 40 pounds.
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How much volume and weight doe it add up to the sleek diamond? Does it not kill the joy? What will be the difference then b/w diamond and raphael thickness and weight??
day7
today.....power at 43%
to posters: I know that this test may sound pointless to some. All I am saying that someone someday may find this informative.
If you have the phone off, there's no point in this test - at all. When the screen turns off, wifi turns off as well. This would be the most battery consuming application you have, so it would last a long time regardless of battery or phone.
My settings shows fully loaded battery but the ROM update screen tells me that i have less than 50% available. Who is correct? And is there a way to unload the battery totally w/o having the diamond on all the way (already tried, is not working) to refresh it from base? Thanks!
day 8
battery at: 29%
........I will check and finish this test tomorrow , I assume it will we under 20 %
I'm starting such a test myself today, see if I can make it to Monday. I will be using my phone for calling, i.e. the phone function is on (except when I sleep, don't want to be disturbed ), the occasional internet (checking train schedule, maybe using it as a router for my laptop for 5 minutes), and maybe 5 minutes of teeter or something. The average day use I'd say.
Question: how do I see the percentage of my battery charge?
Test starts as of NOW, 15:47 in Amsterdam, which is 13:57 UTC. It's fully charged, so I don't need a percentage reading on this one
Ever since I did the LG update from B to D and baseband to 405 I have had issues with my wifi. Two things,
1. After a while wifi looses my home WAN network and will only reacquire it if I turn off the wifi then turn it back on. This did not happen before the update. It occurs whatever wifi sleep setting I use. I am consequently using much more 3G data than before.
2. Wifi now uses ~50% of my battery usage. Overnight it chewed through my entire battery. When I woke I thought I had BSOD but instead my entire battery had been used.
Any ideas what the problem might be?
cheers
I am on the 0828 ezgingerbread. I have wifi sleep policy set to "never", because I need VoIP. This is a G1 with wifi on, sitting on the desk very close to the wifi AP, the battery drops from >90% to ~40% in 14 hours with almost no usage. I checked the battery usage and found "Wifi" used 60-70% power.
This is different from my previous experience with MT3G rom (froyo) also from ezterry, for that the battery drain was about half of that speed I would say, with wifi always on.
Do you also see the same high battery usage for wifi? Thanks!
I'm now with ginsense 2.3.7 from rushnees and i can tell you that it drains the battery.
As i know, wifi for a long-usage is better than 3G in the battery section.Ask to the developer about another kernel.
Wifi alway drain battery if you constantly have it on. If that how much the drain is, you are pretty good. My would drop to the point where I have to charge it.
How do you turn off WiFi ?
I do not know why it is on ? It is paired by bluetooth to my phone and Wifi is useless.
Lately last week I can not get through a day with my watch. Display is in ambient mode but is on 1 !!!!
Trying to find and way I can keep using the watch ..... it loses 10% an hour. My average day is 6am to 10pm it is dead at 4pm.
Used to be I turned if off and back on if would drain 3% an hour and easily make it through a day but now more often than not it is down 10% an hour.
If I turn of WiFi it may help.
Settings WiFi
WiFi automatic
Select this and it sets up an access point !!!!!! I want it off and I want it to stay off.
But how do I change it from saying WiFi automatic to disabled ?
When I tap the wifi-automatic icon, it asks me if I'm sure I want to turn it off. I'm not sure what you're doing differently. Maybe if you set up an access point, then the automatic icon will switch to turning off?
If it is connected to BT, your wifi isn't being used. By default, if it's on wifi because the BT isn't being used, it will shut off after 2 hours to save battery.
For me, I got about twice the battery life when I turned off ambient mode (why do I want it showing the time when I'm not looking at it?) and set screen timeout to 10-15 seconds. I think I use it a lot, or should I say, play with it a lot. After a day of heavy use, I can usually go from 6am to about 9pm (only once did it shut down due to heavy day and excessive text notifications).
Lately I have been trying to track my sleep on it every night and just to be safe, will throw on a charger for 15-30 minutes in the afternoon or evening to ensure enough charge. Last night with a quick charge I was able to have about 60% when I woke this morning.
Not sure what notifications come through normally, but I'm running Feel the Wear along side Android Wear for a variety of notifications.
i don't know if it was always this bad but i don't think so... just noticed that my phone drains battery like crazy on idle.
it was my main phone for 3 years so it was not staying idle as much but i think i would notice it from overnight drain if it was this bad.
i charged it to 80% then found it at 15% after 12-13 hours, i didn't touch it at all... i'm losing about 5% per hour
tried factory reset, debloating evenwell crap, uninstalling google apps that i don't use as well and didn't install anything yet the drain is still same. installed accubattery and it shows over 120mA consumption on idle, screen off... my new main phone drains around 20mA for example.
https://imgur.com/L16JjXW
this problem started after a battery replacement i think. the original battery was dead, it was rebooting at around 50% if i play a game or launch the camera... i had to replace that battery and those problems are solved now.
according to accubattery(it's pretty accurate imo) the capacity of the new battery is around 2650mah
and side button flex is replaced since my power button was faulty. did the service do something wrong? is there anything to explain this battery drain? maybe they didn't reapply a new thermal paste for example so cooling might be worse but i believe it shouldn't matter on idle. and i can't think of anything else...
edit: tried airplane mode and idle consumption was 22mA, anyone else had a similar issue?
edit2: tried mobile network active but wifi turned off, still 22mA i think wifi is draining like 100mA on its own...
okay i'm like 99% sure its a wifi problem.
when i turn off wifi the drain is normal if i turn on a hotspot from my other phone and keep it reaaaally close then drain is normal again. but if i put it far away drains over 100ma again. even worse if i leave the room and there a wall between them.
also i can connect to my router's 5ghz band but it always disconnects, can't stay connected. aaand it can't see my other phone's hotspot at all if i turn on the 5ghz hotspot.
i hope they just didn't connect the antenna cables properly and didn't permanently damage anything, can badly connected antenna wires cause a problem like that? i wanna be sure before opening the phone. i don't have proper glue yet i'll have to spend some money on it. don't wanna waste it if it's not something i can fix by reconnecting the wires...