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anything safe to flash yet regarding increase of battery life? Ill be working 8-5 one day throwing in some internet use and texting here and there. By the time i reach 9 or 10 oclock ill be near 30-25 % maybe less. Is that normal?
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Yeah that sounds about right. I haven't seen anything in regards to increased battery life, though.
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I haven't seen any increase with Monster ROM. I'm like you, i take my phone off the charger when I head for work and at night when I put it back on its around 30%
I have the extended battery and I'm running Monster Rom 1.1k
And just to test the battery life I unplugged it before I went to sleep when it was at 100%, after sleeping for 7 hours the battery had only dropped to 94%, and I've been using it fairly heavily for the past 6 hours and it's only at 71% now.
reallly? Thats interesting jerm. My buddy has been on the monster 1.1k and hes obsessed with it lol. Im personally a steel fan but thats just me. I think this is the fastest rom out yet. Its like lightning speed. But havent really noticed anything in regards to battery. Another buddy of mine has the droid 2 and his battery will last over 24 hours.. i dont kno what hes runnin with currently but why not us :/
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I got the extended battery from verizon when I bought the phone, I usually get almost 2 days (~40 hrs) with moderate use.
I'm 32 minutes from charge and down to 80%. Screen is on auto and I'm on wifi on xda and other sites. Too me the battery life I very bad.
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Im running steel and i have noticed a significant increase in both speed and battery life. Usualy have to charge halfway through a workday, now it will last all day and still be over 55%
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yeah for me steel seems to increase battery by a little, not by alot. People have been telling me monster increases by alot but i tried myself and i didnt notice anything significant
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I can typically get about 18-24hours out of mine,
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Im running steel droid v3. Remember too, darker or black themed things will help save your battery too. Blacks will straight up not illuminate the pixels. I've noticed though... ridiculous battery drops when I record video... like 7mins of recorded dropped me down from 35% to 14% battery... is that normal? Or is there a camera hack that would improve that kind of consumption?
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Seirÿu said:
I can typically get about 18-24hours out of mine,
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Im running steel droid v3. Remember too, darker or black themed things will help save your battery too. Blacks will straight up not illuminate the pixels. I've noticed though... ridiculous battery drops when I record video... like 7mins of recorded dropped me down from 35% to 14% battery... is that normal? Or is there a camera hack that would improve that kind of consumption?
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Hmm.. well seiryu. Thats not normal. My assumption for that dramatic decrease is the fact that your battery is allready low anyways and the video use is prolly killin it alot more because your phone wants to save battery when it is really low. For example. Have you ever noticed how your phone acttually takes longer to drop 10% if your actually at 10%? If you were at 70% lets say. It will drop faster from 70 to 60 than it will 10 to 0. I know if i watch youtube videos when i have like 30 or less it drops really fast. Try recording video on a somewhat fully charged phone and see if that helps. Give me feedback!
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Seirÿu said:
Im running steel droid v3. Remember too, darker or black themed things will help save your battery too.
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It's not an amoled display, the screen is illuminated no matter the colour of the theme, and usually the lcd displays are requiring more power to filter the light.
So on an LCD a luminous theme is more battery saver, than a dark one. Anyway the difference is probably very tiny.
If I charge the battery at night it is fine until next night. I guess it is enough for me but I am waiting eagerly to get an extended battery.
Try out Liberty 1.2. I am getting better battery life than Steel. On extended battery, it has been 23 hours off he charger and still has over 60% left with moderate usage. I am very happy with Liberty.
2 days for normally use,
Yeah.. liberty rom all the way for battery life. Iv'e been unplugged for 14 hours. Throwing in texting a fairly decent amount and also some app/internet use and im literally at 49%.. LIBERTY FTW
** also im not using extended battery
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How is your device set up to save battery life? Since the battery isn't the greatest in the Atrix HD I'd like to know what other people are doing to save battery using Smart Actions. Even though I'm planning on putting the EB40 battery into my Atrix I'd still like to save as much battery life as possible as I do a lot of heavy usage.
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Neroga said:
How is your device set up to save battery life?
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on the home screen, I have the ICS widget where you can disable wifi/bluetooth/gps/sync/screen
I do it manually but with the MAXX battery, the screen is now at it's highest setting.
by the way, I had a 3GS before and the battery wasn't better/worst than on the AHD
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on the home screen, I have the ICS widget where you can disable wifi/bluetooth/gps/sync/screen
I do it manually but with the MAXX battery, the screen is now at it's highest setting.
by the way, I had a 3GS before and the battery wasn't better/worst than on the AHD
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How is your battery life going with the EB40 battery? Would you say using Smart Actions diminishes the battery life? I'd think it'd cause a lot of wakelocks especially with screen off profiles.
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Neroga said:
How is your battery life going with the EB40 battery?
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to be fair, I would say that using the EB40 battery, I don't even think about it. I goes 3 days without recharge with my light-to-medium usage.
so super-optimizing the power consumption is a non-issue.
I enabled some smart actions to extend battery life. Under heavy usage phone is dead in 4 hours. Light usage can get me thru the day.
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I've got an interesting setup going that worked really well on ICS. A reverse battery extender profile that activated on screen off that changes timeout to 15 seconds and disables GPS and background sync and a light and dark profile that adjusts the brightness according to the time of day and raises the timeout to 10 minutes so I'm not worried about the screen shutting off when I'm doing something on the phone. The new background sync thing with jellybean only enables syncing when you're using an app that requires it. Saved me loads of battery life in the long run allowing me to use my phone heavily all day without worrying about it dying on me. I'm hardly ever home so going a full day without a charge is a must for me.
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I use my phone alot for work, and I really need to get more juice out of it. I've tried changing sync settings and using battery stats to check app useage but battery life is still a bit lousy. Anyone got a suggestion for another battery for it?
Thanks
nateboi81 said:
I use my phone alot for work, and I really need to get more juice out of it. I've tried changing sync settings and using battery stats to check app useage but battery life is still a bit lousy. Anyone got a suggestion for another battery for it?
Thanks
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If your phone is not always wifi on. You can try juice defender from google play.
nateboi81 said:
I use my phone alot for work, and I really need to get more juice out of it. I've tried changing sync settings and using battery stats to check app useage but battery life is still a bit lousy. Anyone got a suggestion for another battery for it?
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Samsung original 3000 mah battery with replacement cover. The only draw back the phone becomes a little heavy and 3 mm thick.
Btw I'm selling mine since I would like to have a lighter phone with less battery life. . pm if interested.
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Don't wanna advertise it, but i installed smabergs "X-Power" rom from dev-section one and a half week ago and experienced a much lower drain on battery since then. Maybe it is a try for you too?
nateboi81 said:
I use my phone alot for work, and I really need to get more juice out of it. I've tried changing sync settings and using battery stats to check app useage but battery life is still a bit lousy. Anyone got a suggestion for another battery for it?
Thanks
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How lousy? 5? 10? 15hrs? Sometimes people expectations are too high....
There's many ways to improve your battery life. Look around or get extra one.
Is somebody using JuiceDefender on this device?
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Yeah, been using it for a while, defiantly makes a difference in battery life.
Juice defender is not worth it on low end devices like that. What you get is placebo and the same amount of battery drain as usual. It takes battery just to do the tasks you give it, so its pretty much useless. Stick to greenify.
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Juice defender is not worth it on low end devices like that. What you get is placebo and the same amount of battery drain as usual. It takes battery just to do the tasks you give it, so its pretty much useless. Stick to greenify.
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Don't know if you've tried it but I got the Ultimate version and it does seem to preserve battery. No placebo at all since I'm getting more hours per charge.
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atomomega said:
Don't know if you've tried it but I got the Ultimate version and it does seem to preserve battery. No placebo at all since I'm getting more hours per charge.
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I had the ultimate version of the app as well. It didn't change it for me, even though I made it as battery conservative as I could. I'm just drawing conclusions on personal experience.
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I had the ultimate version of the app as well. It didn't change it for me, even though I made it as battery conservative as I could. I'm just drawing conclusions on personal experience.
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I see, I noticed it actually caused more battery drain on my tablet... weird
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So I've been pretty unimpressed by battery life so far. Barely getting 3.5 hours
Anyone else getting better?
brushrop03 said:
So I've been pretty unimpressed by battery life so far. Barely getting 3.5 hours
Anyone else getting better?
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Gonna need more info than that. You talking screen on time? or total? under what settings? full screen brightness?
Yeah screen on time with auto screen brightness. Pretty much on LTE all day. Only disabled bloat apps.
Full day with it, unplugged at 3am and at 8:38pm cst, I am still at 48%. Now I don't use facebook or Tweeter so that helps my battery life. Wifi at work weak and slow so I am on LTE most of the time.
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Same here. Only around 4 hrs with regular use. This device needs root.
Easily getting through a day with the phone. Most of the bloat disabled, moderate usage, Bluetooth/NFC/Wi-Fi always on, though mostly on LTE. I certainly don't expect this thing to last like my Note 4, but I'm pleased with the battery life. I get home with time to spare, and plug it in every night like any other phone, so its all good.
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Same here. Only around 4 hrs with regular use. This device needs root.
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Root doesn't mean better battery life. My nexus 5 had about the same battery and got about the same battery life as my s6. And that's rooted, stock, slimrom, and cataclysm. My G3 has about 500 more mAh than the s6 and I get about 5 hours of screen time. Stock battery was better than cyanogen battery.
It's not 2012 anymore. Root is almost obsolete. It's good for app removal, rooted app functionality, and customization. Even if underclocked and undervolted it doesn't change dramatically. If u want a better battery, buy a phone with a bigger battery. MOST people don't look at their phone for 25% of their awake hours (if avg sleep is 8 hrs.) The s6 will give u 3.5-4hrs of screen time on 14-15 hours of use. That is plenty for MOST users
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Easily getting through a day with the phone. Most of the bloat disabled, moderate usage, Bluetooth/NFC/Wi-Fi always on, though mostly on LTE. I certainly don't expect this thing to last like my Note 4, but I'm pleased with the battery life. I get home with time to spare, and plug it in every night like any other phone, so its all good.
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Same here!
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We badly need root. Rooting my phone has always improved the battery life and performance of your phone.
Battery life today was better I think. Screen-on time didn't even show up in the battery usage list, so i'm not sure how much it used. 20.5hrs since unplugging with 14% left.
This will definitely be a phone I'll have to get rid of after a year. With constant charging and a sealed battery, this device really doesn't have a long life. That's my main concern.
Someone in another thread turned off Enhanced LTE (Voice over LTE) under network settings and saw a much better battery life (or lack of drain).
I am experiencing insane WiFi battery drain. I am foregoing the use of WiFi in the mean time. Seems to help.
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I am experiencing insane WiFi battery drain. I am foregoing the use of WiFi in the mean time. Seems to help.
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Same. I tested mine and the drain is far less with WiFi off all together. No WiFi and I can get 6-7+ sot.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3yfqsTbo3GY
dont know how true this is. i updated mine and going to see if it does indeed improve battery life.
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Same. I tested mine and the drain is far less with WiFi off all together. No WiFi and I can get 6-7+ sot.
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freebee269 said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3yfqsTbo3GY
dont know how true this is. i updated mine and going to see if it does indeed improve battery life.
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I updated the Samsung push service and it seems to have improved battery life for me. I will also try turning off the HD Voice and see how it performs..
iceman4357 said:
I updated the Samsung push service and it seems to have improved battery life for me. I will also try turning off the HD Voice and see how it performs..
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I updated mine plus turned off Wi-Fi and the hotspots setting in advanced Wi-Fi and battery life has improved. I still see screen as being one of the lowest factors for battery consumption. Our gs6 must have a very battery efficient display. Android os is now my top battery drain. I'm hoping an update to android 5.1 improves the system battery usage. I know it did on my nexus 6.
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if you heavily use it well.. thats pretty normal.. mine can last a day if i don't use it for browsing just sms.. but for calling it would mean smaller life
brushrop03 said:
So I've been pretty unimpressed by battery life so far. Barely getting 3.5 hours
Anyone else getting better?
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I was getting horrible battery life like you because of cell standby but I disabled enhanced lte and did a cache delete in recovery and now I'm getting almost 5.5 hours of screen on time with brightness set at 25%-50% on WiFi/lte. If you want I have screenshot.
vontokkerths said:
I was getting horrible battery life like you because of cell standby but I disabled enhanced lte and did a cache delete in recovery and now I'm getting almost 5.5 hours of screen on time with brightness set at 25%-50% on WiFi/lte. If you want I have screenshot.
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I can vouch for this myself. I was getting pretty bad drain to the point where I was about to return the phone.
The cache wipe seemed to work wonders. Along with deleting and reinstalling google play services (I searched google play services in chrome, clicked the link and jninstalled reinstalled uodates , then did cache wipe)
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Battery life seems great to me.