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[Q] Battery Drain is making my life horrible!!

Hi All,
I am using mini for the past one year and for the past 2-3 months am facing a lot of battery drain in my mobile. Before that also my battery drained quickly but now it happens in a drastic manner. Previously i used to have my battery life as 7-8 hours with full internet activities and games.
But, i am able to keep my mobile up to 5 hours only by stopping everything that runs and disabling internet and also making brightness to zero.
And one main issue is, when i am putting in charge, it gains 20-30 % in 10 mins and when i take it from charge, it reduces 5-10 % immediately and when i make a call or something it again drops 15-20 %. With this battery i am unable to predict how much time my battery will live before next charge.
Please help me out !! I will be grateful to you if u can help..
Just an update. Mt battery went down from 65 % to 16 % in a single phone call for 10 mins. Please help me guys. this thing freaks me out !!!

premsurya said:
Hi All,
I am using mini for the past one year and for the past 2-3 months am facing a lot of battery drain in my mobile. Before that also my battery drained quickly but now it happens in a drastic manner. Previously i used to have my battery life as 7-8 hours with full internet activities and games.
But, i am able to keep my mobile up to 5 hours only by stopping everything that runs and disabling internet and also making brightness to zero.
And one main issue is, when i am putting in charge, it gains 20-30 % in 10 mins and when i take it from charge, it reduces 5-10 % immediately and when i make a call or something it again drops 15-20 %. With this battery i am unable to predict how much time my battery will live before next charge.
Please help me out !! I will be grateful to you if u can help..
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Maybe try to recalibrate your battery. I did that to mine and the life is much better!

Thank u friend ! tried that too. But no luck !!

Try some custom rom...might help...
If not, then you need a new one...
And remember, it is advisable to use your phone and let battery fall from 100 to 0% (or say 5-10) quite often...I.e. a full discharge...
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premsurya said:
Thank u friend ! tried that too. But no luck !!
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Sorry to hear that. I hope something works!

Maybe its time to buy new batery beacuse batery hawe limited circle chargin if you chargin you batery 2 times per day she is hardly used

a.cid said:
Try some custom rom...might help...
If not, then you need a new one...
And remember, it is advisable to use your phone and let battery fall from 100 to 0% (or say 5-10) quite often...I.e. a full discharge...
drunk-texted from my dkxjsovzzzzz
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No no no.
It's a Lithium Ion battery, do not let it fully discharge, it's better to charge it before it's fully drained.
That said, if you deleted battery stats, charged it up and it still has such drain, you may need to request a new battery.
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries
You don't have to read all of it, just look at the the little boxes with info in them and see there how it is better to frequently charge your battery than it is to fully discharge.
It also shows, temperature is very important, so don't put it near any heating things (or laptops). You might not want to overclock too much either.

luki2411 said:
Maybe its time to buy new batery beacuse batery hawe limited circle chargin if you chargin you batery 2 times per day she is hardly used
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Bought a new battery of 1500 mAH from dealxtreame. results are not so different. But i am using that one also for more than 5 months.

a.cid said:
Try some custom rom...might help...
If not, then you need a new one...
And remember, it is advisable to use your phone and let battery fall from 100 to 0% (or say 5-10) quite often...I.e. a full discharge...
drunk-texted from my dkxjsovzzzzz
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I feel stock rom is better in terms of battery than custom one's. tried a lot like cyanogen,andro-id.. after that came back to stock gb. did a last official update last month i think. could it be a problem ?

LeQuazz said:
No no no.
It's a Lithium Ion battery, do not let it fully discharge, it's better to charge it before it's fully drained.
That said, if you deleted battery stats, charged it up and it still has such drain, you may need to request a new battery.
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries
You don't have to read all of it, just look at the the little boxes with info in them and see there how it is better to frequently charge your battery than it is to fully discharge.
It also shows, temperature is very important, so don't put it near any heating things (or laptops). You might not want to overclock too much either.
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Thank u friend. i tried with two batteries and both of them are lives for same time approxly.. hence am feeling whether thats a defective phone or some software glitch !!

I too had that problem. But then I switched to Andro-ID. Life is less frustrating now.

premsurya said:
I feel stock rom is better in terms of battery than custom one's. tried a lot like cyanogen,andro-id.. after that came back to stock gb. did a last official update last month i think. could it be a problem ?
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We fit users also had an update (ddkt1, 2.3.6), which had a horrible battery life...and if we flashed any custom rom on it (I.e. using it as baseband), then the custom rom also gave poor life...
Because of that, I myself, am using an older stock rom (ddkq5, 2.3.4) as baseband...
So maybe that is the problem?
Ask other mini users from your region about which baseband they prefer for battery...
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a.cid said:
We fit users also had an update (ddkt1, 2.3.6), which had a horrible battery life...and if we flashed any custom rom on it (I.e. using it as baseband), then the custom rom also gave poor life...
Because of that, I myself, am using an older stock rom (ddkq5, 2.3.4) as baseband...
So maybe that is the problem?
Ask other mini users from your region about which baseband they prefer for battery...
drunk-texted from my dkxjsovzzzzz
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I'm also facing a similar problem, battery life really bad. I'm on CM7.2 Stable with the kernel provided with the ROM. Here is the link. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1697912
and my Baseband version is DDKT2, 2.3.7
Which baseband do you recommend?
Dude, do you have the DDKQ5 firmware? The hotfile links don't seem to work.

My mini also suffers from this kind of problem, from past 2½ months (or more).
And I suspect, the custom Rom or the battery mod tweak, by sterricson.
My pc is dead, so I couldn't Flash stock Rom.
Current Rom: Latest CMX from squadzone
Base: KPK 2.3.4
Please help us out.

i agree, its better to use stock rom(or stock-rom-like-customroms) it has better battery life than cm7 roms

Set a screen off cpu profile to under clock at max 122mhz min 122mhz. Your phone will go into deep sleep, and save you lots of juice. Also, use Juice defender to control mobile data, and that will also save lots of battery
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U might try reseting phone to its factory settings, if u don't have anything important on you're phone... It worked for me...

Winston O'Boogie said:
Set a screen off cpu profile to under clock at max 122mhz min 122mhz. Your phone will go into deep sleep, and save you lots of juice. Also, use Juice defender to control mobile data, and that will also save lots of battery
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Your suggestion is right, but the battery is !ABNORMAL!
Just let me explain,
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Phone-ON scenario:
1. Charged to 100% - 4200v
2. In just a minute, battery drops to 90%(egprs data on)
3. For Next 30m - battery 51%
4. In 10m battery Rapidly drops to 14%
5. After 10m, Battery drains slowly, now @ 4%
6. @ 1% after 24m.
Phone-OFF scenario: here phone is OFF
1. Plugged-in, shows directly 10% battery available
2. Battery charging @ 2%/sec till 50% within 10min(estimate)
3. Now the battery is charging as usual but a bit faster
4. @80% battery it's charging as normal.
5. Got 100% in 2 hrs(estimate)
6. At last, I Switched ON the phone. Voila battery 67%(much less than 3. But actual it's 100%
Battery HEALTH: good? :banghead:
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First, try re-calibrate your battery using batterycalibrator. If you fail, then using CWM -> advanced -> wipe battery stats. Its working for me
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Do a pumb charge before calibrate ur battery
1.Charge to 100%
2.unplug the charger then plug again immidiately
3. Wait for 100% again and do it again and again until ur phone show full almost instantly after plug in.

Good battery life for 2 days after ROM install then getting worse.

Hi, I know a lot of people are having this issue with battery draining, but mine it's kind of illogical, After I install a new ROM the battery life is good, even very good, then after the 3rd or 4th charging the battery life gets worse and worse with no apparent reason. I'm struggling with this problem for over a year now and I can't seem to find a solution. It was all ok, till I got back from France last summer and I observed my battery was draining verry fast, I was on ICS then, after changing almost every ROM I could find I bought a new battery, an original samsung 1650 mA battery, but the problem persisted so I tried all the ROM's in hope I would find the right one for my phone (also changed a lot of modems, the captivate ones seemed to have a slightly better battery life, but I couldn't hear the voice of anyone calling me). So what do you think might be the problem, software or hardware.
Now I'm on SuperNexus 2.0 - I9000 - Milestone 1 [02-06-13] and I think this is the best rom for battery life I found till now.
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My battery life the second day of using Supernexus 2.0 after second recharge:
My battery life after 3rd recharge:
After 4th recharge and using juice defender:
In standby while I was sleeping (I thought everything was ok)
Than after going out with my friends: (The standby time was at least 12 hours.)
My location is disabled, no sync, I rarely check my mails, I'm mostly using Whatsapp, Google Play Music, Making a few calls and a little Facebook and iGag.
So any advice is welcome/d.

Have you tried calibrating? Search play store for "battery calibration" (cant post links, im on mobile )
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foggydisaster said:
Have you tried calibrating? Search play store for "battery calibration" (cant post links, im on mobile )
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Yes, I tried calibrating a few times, but it doesn't seem to do much good.

Tsunami26 said:
Yes, I tried calibrating a few times, but it doesn't seem to do much good.
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If its those apps that wipe that certain file (batterystats or something like that) then it won't work. The battery "calibrators" wipe a file in the system that actually has absolutely nothing to do with battery life.
Proper battery calibration is done through charge/discharge cycles. So at this point your phone should be calibrated.
By the looks of your screenshots it does appear that you use wifi and data quite frequently (correct me if I'm wrong).
Few things you can try:
1.) Change kernel. Many battery drain problems are related to the kernel. If you're on Supernexus, try Mackay or Latrop kernel.
2.) Change rom. Some roms are optimised for longer battery life (Gamerzrom, EXTRAordinary and Sexynogenmod are examples)
3.) Greenify. Very good app that allows you to "freeze" apps running in the background such as Facebook. It doesn't disable them completely, but prevents them from running in the background.
4.) Turn off auto-sync. This is under Data Usage. It does mean that you might lose some notifications and you won't have data synced unless you do it manually, but I've found it helps to save that extra bit of juice. Not such an important one as the others though.
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I've always used Semaphore as a kernel (ondemand governor setting) and I at least experience 1 to 1.5 days of battery life (assuming normal usage)

Soryuu said:
If its those apps that wipe that certain file (batterystats or something like that) then it won't work. The battery "calibrators" wipe a file in the system that actually has absolutely nothing to do with battery life.
Proper battery calibration is done through charge/discharge cycles. So at this point your phone should be calibrated.
By the looks of your screenshots it does appear that you use wifi and data quite frequently (correct me if I'm wrong).
Few things you can try:
1.) Change kernel. Many battery drain problems are related to the kernel. If you're on Supernexus, try Mackay or Latrop kernel.
2.) Change rom. Some roms are optimised for longer battery life (Gamerzrom, EXTRAordinary and Sexynogenmod are examples)
3.) Greenify. Very good app that allows you to "freeze" apps running in the background such as Facebook. It doesn't disable them completely, but prevents them from running in the background.
4.) Turn off auto-sync. This is under Data Usage. It does mean that you might lose some notifications and you won't have data synced unless you do it manually, but I've found it helps to save that extra bit of juice. Not such an important one as the others though.
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Yes, you are right, I use wifi and data everyday, mostly data. I'll try to change the kernel to latrop, never tried it 'till now. As for the auto-sync I think i never had it enabled. The only app tha syncs is facebook. thank you for your tips.

Tsunami26 said:
Yes, you are right, I use wifi and data everyday, mostly data. I'll try to change the kernel to latrop, never tried it 'till now. As for the auto-sync I think i never had it enabled. The only app tha syncs is facebook. thank you for your tips.
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It's enabled by default, so if you haven't changed that setting, auto-sync is on.
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I have the same problem. It happened every since I flashed CyanogenMod 10, and now the battery drains 1 percent every few minutes.
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no matter what you do with cooked roms always ends up consuming a lot of battery

nice reply
either custom nor stock, everyone here will comment on battery life.
i will n still wait for tony stark to develop some battery for mobile device with his dreamy architecture
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Soryuu said:
It's enabled by default, so if you haven't changed that setting, auto-sync is on.
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After I install a ROM I allways put the power widget on the screen so I can deactivate gps and sync easily. I cheked under data usage too now and it's off.
compacity said:
nice reply
either custom nor stock, everyone here will comment on battery life.
i will n still wait for tony stark to develop some battery for mobile device with his dreamy architecture
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Well said )

compacity said:
nice reply
either custom nor stock, everyone here will comment on battery life.
i will n still wait for tony stark to develop some battery for mobile device with his dreamy architecture
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His Arc reactor as a battery.... 20 days battery life, full brightness, wifi, GPS and data always on, 20 apps running in the background, still 50%? ;D LOL
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juz 20 days for arc reactor?? d**n fast, i hope it ll powered my device for da rest of my life without ever charging.
no kidding guys, but even 3000 mAh battery still hurt in my i9000, so i ll stick on 1600mAh n packed up with second battery in my wallet.
thats my solution..
Getting arc reactor/palladium inside ur pocket??? gonna die in painful way guys no kidding
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compacity said:
juz 20 days for arc reactor?? d**n fast, i hope it ll powered my device for da rest of my life without ever charging.
no kidding guys, but even 3000 mAh battery still hurt in my i9000, so i ll stick on 1600mAh n packed up with second battery in my wallet.
thats my solution..
Getting arc reactor/palladium inside ur pocket??? gonna die in painful way guys no kidding
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I'm stuck with two 3 year old 1500mAh batteries that I swap every so often... Stock gives enough/good battery life anyways
Hell, can you imagine if Stark's whole suit was hooked up to the S LOL
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Tell us about the battery

As you all know HTC Butterfly S have one of the biggest batteries in the market (for a smartphone) .
So i wish that you tell us about your experience with the battery and what you usually do to keep it alive for a longer time .
Here is a screenshot i've just taken after extensive use .
( to save the battery juice i've set the brightness to low and used static wallpapers )
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Dark Sector said:
As you all know HTC Butterfly S have one of the biggest batteries in the market (for a smartphone) .
So i wish that you tell us about your experience with the battery and what you usually do to keep it alive for a longer time .
Here is a screenshot i've just taken after extensive use .
( to save the battery juice i've set the brightness to low and used static wallpapers )
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What is your on screen time here?

Heres mine:
WIFI on all the time, some calls not much, a few videos, 15 min gaming, a lot of tweeter/facebook

Dark Sector said:
As you all know HTC Butterfly S have one of the biggest batteries in the market (for a smartphone) .
So i wish that you tell us about your experience with the battery and what you usually do to keep it alive for a longer time .
Here is a screenshot i've just taken after extensive use .
( to save the battery juice i've set the brightness to low and used static wallpapers )
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Omg my butterfly has more than a day with medium usage
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joshuadjohnson22 said:
What is your on screen time here?
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It is more than 6 hours of reading ebooks, browsing and YouTube , i never use mobile data so it is all on WiFi .
I also listen to music a lot and make some calls
orb3000 said:
Heres mine:
WIFI on all the time, some calls not much, a few videos, 15 min gaming, a lot of tweeter/facebook
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Dude ! Do you use something to keep the battery all this time
daorderdillon said:
Omg my butterfly S has more than a day with medium usage
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Yeap , same here but this is an extensive use

LOVE IT! Got it to run on battery for 1 day 10 hours with more than 10 hours of music, >6 hours of instagram, Facebook, whatsapp :good::good::good: Does the new rom increase the duration?

LOVE IT
1d 7h on battery :good:
gaming 4h, music 1h, browsing 1h, WIFI, browsing etc
but if plus gps & mobile data on, the battery about 23h

I get only about 16 hours worth...push mail on...3G...don't play music or videos extensively...voice calls about 30-45 mins in the day. What am I missing? Why am I not able to get it to last beyond a day?

anshkhanna said:
I get only about 16 hours worth...push mail on...3G...don't play music or videos extensively...voice calls about 30-45 mins in the day. What am I missing? Why am I not able to get it to last beyond a day?
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i recommend using a wakelock app to see what drains your battery .

Dark Sector said:
i recommend using a wakelock app to see what drains your battery .
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This is my HTC butterfly x920d running sense 4+ meteor rom with updated hboot at 1.54
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My Bro ! This Phone is a Monster of battery !
What is a "charger" ? :laugh:

wolfgart said:
My Bro ! This Phone is a Monster of battery !
What is a "charger" ? :laugh:
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Huh
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wolfgart said:
My Bro ! This Phone is a Monster of battery !
What is a "charger" ? :laugh:
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Lol. True true! Hey, I'll add my usage, and batt life once I get mine, and run it through it's paces. It will b here tomorrow morning.
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Can anybody here comment on its heat dissipating efficiency? I know this is a battery thread but less heat always gives better battery efficiency. I wonder whether the larger phone of Butterfly S will give heat better than the aluminium HTC One?
p/s: I really love how the graph drops less steeply when the screen is on compared to all other graphs I see on other phones. LOL!

daorderdillon said:
This is my HTC butterfly x920d running sense 4+ meteor rom with updated hboot at 1.54
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Nice !
Can't wait to see what the devs would do with this one
tanjinjack said:
Can anybody here comment on its heat dissipating efficiency? I know this is a battery thread but less heat always gives better battery efficiency. I wonder whether the larger phone of Butterfly S will give heat better than the aluminium HTC One?
p/s: I really love how the graph drops less steeply when the screen is on compared to all other graphs I see on other phones. LOL!
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I really haven't noticed any heat .
Just one thing to note , i haven't watched long videos nor played HD games because that is what usually increase the heat of smart phones.

Amazing battery life

Abdullah87 said:
Amazing battery life
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Nice app !
i'm downloading it right now

The phone is awesome:good:
but why i only can use the phone in 2-3h screen on??
there are many people can use the phone about 3-4h screen on
Is there any problem of my phone??
My usage: all day 3g standby, whatsapp, Facebook, instagram and browsing

Dont think the battery is quite good..moderate user here by the way.
Battery saving mode on 3 hours ago for vibration and CPU usage, sync completely off for everything, brightness auto, 4g fully connected, watched videos on VLC for about 1 hour and whatsapp for about 1 hour in total too.
Expecting it to last about 1 and a half days, seems like it will last only a day.
Stock rom here by the way.

fanghan said:
Dont think the battery is quite good..moderate user here by the way.
Battery saving mode on 3 hours ago for vibration and CPU usage, sync completely off for everything, brightness auto, 4g fully connected, watched videos on VLC for about 1 hour and whatsapp for about 1 hour in total too.
Expecting it to last about 1 and a half days, seems like it will last only a day.
Stock rom here by the way.
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Yeah. He is right. At most, It can only last from 8 to 12 hours. That is me almost using the phone all the time - screen almost always on, wifi always connected, 1-2 hours of gaming, social with only twitter and wordpress only on push, autosync off and powersaver off(except when its on 15%).
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[Q] General Battery Life Questions - Looking for Other Input

Have new Sprint HTC One and when first using it out of the box, battery life seemed to be real good.
Mods I have made.. Unlocked and am running OMJ's custom ROM.
Here is what I am questioning now.. (my 14 days are almost up):
I leave it charge all night and first thing in the morning, I use it for 15-20 minutes catching up on mail, facebook and news. I am connected to wifi in the home. What I am experiencing is a 6% battery drain from this pretty consistently and display on auto brightness in a dark room in the morning. Last night I set power saver to including cpu, diaplay and data connection. I had the display set dimmer than normal/what the auto brightness would be. I experienced the same 6% drop this morning.
I am not sure what to think, its kind of disconcerting to think you wack 6% of battery before the first cup of coffee.
I have no data, but am wondering if anyone has see lesser batter just from unlocking?
OMJ's ROM is pretty stock, so I would not think that is causing any issues.
I am looking to see what others are experiencing from there initial 15-20 minute usage.
I am open to any input that could help me conclude that there is not an issue with the phone so I can stop worrying about meeting the 14 day return deadline.
Edit: Adding images and info to attempt to create a baseline for others to compare to. Images are from GSam Battery Monitor available in the market.
The images show 30 minutes of use after unplugging from a full charge, Power Saver off, Brightness set to Dim and using WiFi. Screen using 18% and Apps using 75%... you can also see the specific apps being used.
It would be great if others could mimic and provide their results. This would allow us all to have something to compare to.

it could just be the battery technology. i know with some laptops here at work they dont really "fully charge" the battery to increase the battery life span. so this could be a normal thing. For me personally im more concerned about the phone lasting atleast through the whole day before i have to charge it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery#Charging_procedure

Get battery calibration from the play store.
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Yea I mean I'm not sure how much you use your phone a day but I'm seeing consistently approx 4-4.5 hrs of screen on time a day. Unplug the phone at 7am and plug it in when I got to bed usually around 11pm. Some days if I'm watching a lot of video or playing games I'll have to plug it in around 8pm or so but that isn't too often
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Anyone want to do a small comparison test?
Set brightness to auto, charge to 100% and then use for 15 minutes checking mail, Facebook, web surfing, or whatever (simple activity, not gaming), in normal ambient room lighting, using WiFi, Power Saver off. Then report your battery level after the 15 min.

obperryo said:
Anyone want to do a small comparison test?
Set brightness to auto, charge to 100% and then use for 15 minutes checking mail, Facebook, web surfing, or whatever (simple activity, not gaming), in normal ambient room lighting, using WiFi, Power Saver off. Then report your battery level after the 15 min.
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I would lose around 10% from that. I think.

You should calibrate your battery any time you flash a new Rom, so why not try the app I suggested?
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Konfuzion said:
You should calibrate your battery any time you flash a new Rom, so why not try the app I suggested?
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Oh, I am all over that. Did the calibration yesterday. I have not noticed a significant difference, but I do agree this is a needed step. Especially when changing between significantly different ROMs. Thanks for pointing it out.
What I am really looking for from others are some comparison results. I have created some pictures this morning and will be adding them to my post, in an attempt to create a baseline that others can use to do the exact same and provide a result. This should allow others and myself to see if there is any significant difference between our devices.

I edited my post with baseline settings and images.
Would be great if others could mimic and post results.

obperryo said:
Oh, I am all over that. Did the calibration yesterday. I have not noticed a significant difference, but I do agree this is a needed step. Especially when changing between significantly different ROMs. Thanks for pointing it out.
What I am really looking for from others are some comparison results. I have created some pictures this morning and will be adding them to my post, in an attempt to create a baseline that others can use to do the exact same and provide a result. This should allow others and myself to see if there is any significant difference between our devices.
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Hehe Sorry when I read my post it seems kind of snappy and nothing about your reply led me to this conclusion. I understand your looking for a comparison and I think its safe to say I easily use 5-10% of my battery life first thing when I get up and check all of my stuff.

Konfuzion said:
Hehe Sorry when I read my post it seems kind of snappy and nothing about your reply led me to this conclusion. I understand your looking for a comparison and I think its safe to say I easily use 5-10% of my battery life first thing when I get up and check all of my stuff.
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No problem. I appreciate your input.

Here's my usage. 10 min of xda and around 30 min of listening to the music. Tranquil rom. Thicklizard's kernel.
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"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
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"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
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volk9029 said:
Here's my usage. 10 min of xda and around 30 min of listening to the music. Tranquil rom. Thicklizard's kernel. View attachment 2208801View attachment 2208803
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How do you have a extremely low awake time,and your kernel usage is only 0.9%? My unrooted stock kernel runs from 20%-35% at any given time.

racingmatt1 said:
How do you have a extremely low awake time,and your kernel usage is only 0.9%? My unrooted stock kernel runs from 20%-35% at any given time.
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I use autostarts from playstore to prevent certain apps from starting and running in the background, unless I need them to. Here's another screen shot of around 19 min reading xda and around 40 min listening to the music.
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volk9029 said:
I use autostarts from playstore to prevent certain apps from starting and running in the background, unless I need them to. Here's another screen shot of around 19 min reading xda and around 40 min listening to the music.
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Your link is not working.. Your previous post of performance is awesome! I tried that ROM and loved it but don't like the all black and blue. Maybe I should of spent more time with hit.. Is there a way to make it look like normal colors?

obperryo said:
Your link is not working.. Your previous post of performance is awesome! I tried that ROM and loved it but don't like the all black and blue. Maybe I should of spent more time with hit.. Is there a way to make it look like normal colors?
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Let's try one more time.
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Does anybody know if limiting background processes to zero will help battery life? My phone had 1hr 20min awake times with 12 mins screentime/usage after 8-9 hours.
This was with absolutely no power saving at all, whatsoever. Phone was around 75% after those 9 hrs I believe, with kernel taking 33%, and radio taking ~15. Fresh after factory reset. Only apps were Email, Doodlejump, GSAM, ES, Keep and Swiftkey.
Tomorrow I will turn off auto sync, limit background processes, and turn on power saver/sleep mode. Let's see how much that helps.

Here's what in doing most of the drain comes from having only 1 bar in my new dorm
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Help re battery drainage and synapse optimisation

So I'm fairly new to the Android's scene, I've come from a jailbroken iPhone straight to the nexus 6 after doing a load of research on which phone I should get.
The iPhone is so much easier to work with, in it's jailbroken and default state. I've had my nexus for about 3 months now and only now feel alright using the words ROMs, kernals and flashing.
I want to optimise my nexus for maximum battery life, I know I'll have to comprise with animations and processing power etc.
Here are a few sc of how my set up is currently
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"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
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"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
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"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
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"lightbox_share": "Share",
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I flashed my current ROM and kernal last night and did not charge over night so I could just see how much drainage there is when its on standby. This morning I charged it up to about 81% and used the phone normally and I've noticed my battery is actually depleting really quickly. Especially when you take into account I had my setting to power saver, and I was using pixel off battery saver and a kernal made for huge battery life.
I know the issue is with wakelock? But I can't find any help and what I can find is far too complicated to follow.
Also, synapse. That thing is a nightmare for a noob like me. If anyone could link me to a thread or website that explains each feature or somewhere where someone has shared their setting for getting the most battery life, I will be very grateful.
Thank you in advance
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@icameforthehax Thank you for posting the perfect example of how to ask a question! You've provided all of the proper information, in order for someone who can help, to do so. I'm sorry I can't answer your specific questions but I had to comment on the quality of your post. Well done and welcome to Android! :victory:
I'm sure someone with more expert advice than I can provide you on this topic, will help you shortly. :good:
I will suggest this though, look into a third party battery stats/wakelock detector app to more specifically isolate any wakelocks or battery drain. Also, greenify is an excellent option for root access.

well, your play store and android os is way to high on battery percent used! screen should be the #1 battery drainer(or close). other things shouldnt be that far above the percent for screen use.

Evolution_Freak said:
@icameforthehax Thank you for posting the perfect example of how to ask a question! You've provided all of the proper information, in order for someone who can help, to do so. I'm sorry I can't answer your specific questions but I had to comment on the quality of your post. Well done and welcome to Android! :victory:
I'm sure someone with more expert advice than I can provide you on this topic, will help you shortly. :good:
I will suggest this though, look into a third party battery stats/wakelock detector app to more specifically isolate any wakelocks or battery drain. Also, greenify is an excellent option for root access.
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Thank you for your kind words *tips fedora*
simms22 said:
well, your play store and android os is way to high on battery percent used! screen should be the #1 battery drainer(or close). other things shouldnt be that far above the percent for screen use.
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Yes, the fact that my screen wasn't the no.1 drainer is why I was concerned enough to start thus thread. Any recommendations as to which app(s) I should use?
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icameforthehax said:
Thank you for your kind words *tips fedora*
Yes, the fact that my screen wasn't the no.1 drainer is why I was concerned enough to start thus thread. Any recommendations as to which app(s) I should use?
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android os i wont be too concerned about, since that changes depending on how you use the phone, but the play store.. were you restpring a bunch of apps or something? anyways, recharge your phone fully, then use it like you normally would, then past the battery results here, after a full use of the battery, and ill look at it again. next time past not only the main battery page, but if you press on the chart itll give you more info, paste that as well so we can see your signal, wifi, and if the phone is sleeping.

icameforthehax said:
Thank you for your kind words *tips fedora*
Yes, the fact that my screen wasn't the no.1 drainer is why I was concerned enough to start thus thread. Any recommendations as to which app(s) I should use?
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Greenify:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oasisfeng.greenify
As for battery monitor, it will be more based on your personal preference but I have used this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gsamlabs.bbm

simms22 said:
android os i wont be too concerned about, since that changes depending on how you use the phone, but the play store.. were you restpring a bunch of apps or something? anyways, recharge your phone fully, then use it like you normally would, then past the battery results here, after a full use of the battery, and ill look at it again. next time past not only the main battery page, but if you press on the chart itll give you more info, paste that as well so we can see your signal, wifi, and if the phone is sleeping.
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I downloaded a load of apps because I did a clean flash of benzo. I'm currently charging my phone and will return with more screen captures as requested
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icameforthehax said:
I downloaded a load of apps because I did a clean flash of benzo. I'm currently charging my phone and will return with more screen captures as requested
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if you downloaded a bunch of apps, thay would explain why. anyways, the first 2 battery cycles after flashing a rom will be a little lower than normal. after, battery should be better.

simms22 said:
if you downloaded a bunch of apps, thay would explain why. anyways, the first 2 battery cycles after flashing a rom will be a little lower than normal. after, battery should be better.
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Here's screenshots from today, (I changed to Franco kernal)
I'm sure I had 4-5 sot on stock everything. Slightly disappointed
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icameforthehax said:
Here's screenshots from today, (I changed to Franco kernal)
I'm sure I had 4-5 sot on stock everything. Slightly disappointed
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again, you just flashed franco kernel, so youll have to give it a battery cycle or two to regulate, then you can start judging battery life. but your device is goung into deep sleep, so that's good. also, do you always keep wifi on? if you keep it on, but dont use it it'll drain battery. also, what do you have your brightness set to?

simms22 said:
again, you just flashed franco kernel, so youll have to give it a battery cycle or two to regulate, then you can start judging battery life. but your device is goung into deep sleep, so that's good. also, do you always keep wifi on? if you keep it on, but dont use it it'll drain battery. also, what do you have your brightness set to?
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OK, thank you. The issue is me changing kernals and ROMs etc. I'll cycle my battery 2 time as you've said before I start to judge battery life ty.
Yes I keep WiFi on and use wifi. My brightness is dragged right down with adaptive off, I then change it to 50-70 if I'm outside.
Thank you very much for your help though
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Synapse is confusing to anyone who doesn't know what they are messing with...try FauxClock or Trickster Mod...much simpler and you won't have to worry about changing things by accident by swiping to the next page as you would with Synapse.

simms22 said:
if you downloaded a bunch of apps, thay would explain why. anyways, the first 2 battery cycles after flashing a rom will be a little lower than normal. after, battery should be better.
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Simms is absolutely correct - after a rom or kernel flash you need to give the phone a few days to build up its cache etc...only after that can you properly judge battery life and performance.

icameforthehax said:
OK, thank you. The issue is me changing kernals and ROMs etc. I'll cycle my battery 2 time as you've said before I start to judge battery life ty.
Yes I keep WiFi on and use wifi. My brightness is dragged right down with adaptive off, I then change it to 50-70 if I'm outside.
Thank you very much for your help though
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screen brightness is a MAJOR influence in battery life. i generally keep my brightness down below 15%. if i raise my brightness to 30-40%, then ill see 1 hour less screen on time. normally, ill see anywhere from 5-6.5h sot. another major influence is the quality of your phone/data signal. some people, no matter what they do, will never have good/great battery life, just because their signal quality is lousy.

Somewhat off topic, but Better Battery Stats is a great app for getting a much more in depth idea of battery life. It'll also give you all the wakelocks, which can be handy if you looking to do more in depth troubleshooting.