Nexus 7 battery life - Nexus 7 General

Hi I have recently purchased a 32gb nexus 7 and I have been having some issues with the battery since the 4.2.1 update, before this update I would get around a day on the battery no problem now I can't seem to get more than 16 hours at the most. My usage includes facebook at night for roughly 2 hours, moderate gaming during the day, and some web browsing in my spare time. All this was never a problem on 4.1 but in 4.2, the battery just seems redundant. I would like to hear your thoughts on your battery life on your nexus 7's thank you.
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How much gaming is moderate?
I noticed my governor was on interactive tonight, which was maxing the CPU even just by touching the screen, I thought my battery life seemed quite good though.
Anyway, I changed my governor to ondemand, and noticed that simply touching the screen only moves the CPU freq to 3-500mhz.. Which is fine for browsing etc... I have also played games, and I haven't noticed any lags... yet... But if there is a really hungry game that I do start to notice a lag in, I'll just put it back to interactive for that game, and meantime I should have better battery life.
Like I said, I only just changed this, so I'm yet to see how much better my battery does, but just from looking at CPU freqs I'd say there's gotta be a decent difference.
There's an idea for an app for some dev... Per app governer setting...
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I always had excellent battery life, no matter which android version.....

Do you use Google Currents? If not, stop the service and disable it completely.
Furthermore, please post a screenshot of your battery usage.
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dalanik said:
I always had excellent battery life, no matter which android version.....
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That's pretty damn impressive. How much screen on time is that?
On my second charge I got ~2.5d with about 4-5 hours of screen on (stock). More than satisfactory!

jasopan said:
That's pretty damn impressive. How much screen on time is that?
On my second charge I got ~2.5d with about 4-5 hours of screen on (stock). More than satisfactory!
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Looks like 0 screen on to me, device is sitting idle. Mine would last weeks from what I've seen in standby, but yeah, I use my Nexus 7...
knuckles1978 said:
How much gaming is moderate?
I noticed my governor was on interactive tonight, which was maxing the CPU even just by touching the screen, I thought my battery life seemed quite good though.
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Default governor is intended to max the CPU when you touch the screen, in fact it's an advertised feature for the Nexus 7. There could perhaps be a step up to a higher CPU then higher yet if needed, but the problem with that is you get jumpiness if you switch CPU speeds around when things are going on, like launcher swipes, games, etc.
Per-app governor is already easily done today in Tasker.

Aw man
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Do you use Google Currents? If not, stop the service and disable it completely.
Furthermore, please post a screenshot of your battery usage.
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Hell naw, just set it to only sink on charge
That means I update my articles in the morning and evening only, and whenever else I plug it in.

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Per-app governor is already easily done today in Tasker.
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Thanks for that, I'll check it out. There is no performance loss when web browsing or similar tasks with the on demand, so I'll just use interactive for intensive games, and extend my battery a bit in that case.
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No I do not use Google currents at all, I can't understand how people get so much battery from it whereas I get hardly anything
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khaytsus said:
Looks like 0 screen on to me, device is sitting idle. Mine would last weeks from what I've seen in standby, but yeah, I use my Nexus 7...
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I was like 2 hours usage total. I used it only to check my mail and write some replies, check news and such...

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Per-app governor is already easily done today in Tasker.
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Well, I'm now a happy guy.
Downloaded tasker. I now have my pad set on ondemand for browsing and light duties only with a 1ghz cap which I cannot tell any difference from stock clock,, and then when I launch any intensive games I have tasker automatically overclocking to 1.5Ghz, changing governor to interactive and closing some stuff letting my pad concentrate on the job in hand without me having to do a single thing. Then when I exit my game, tasker automatically clocks back down again and puts the governor back to ondemand.
I also have it automatically only use Sync if the battery is above 40%. I'm liking tasker, and these are only very simple uses for it, some of the example ones are really cool. @khaytsus Thanks again for telling me about it, wouldn't have known otherwise. Now I want to get more into it and seeing what it can really do using the variables etc, and the appmaker.
Another thing about battery. I got my n7 as a US import to the UK, and just noticed today that the charger they supplied me was 700mA instead of 2A,, so I went and bought a UK to US adaptor so I could use the ASUS OEM one, and its charging loads faster, should be nearly 3 times and so far it does seem it. If I was playing a game while charging, say Vice City, before I was able to actually make my N7 lose charge. Not now. So anyone with the slow charge problem please just double check your charger, just in case,, there's probably someone else out there like me that just didn't bother looking and is using a 700mA one.
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Timed from 0% with the 2A charger. 2 hours from empty tank. That's more like it
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Wow! That was fast! Mine is 3 hours on the stock 4.2 rom and kernel..
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This is my battery life running latest CM 10.1 nightly and latest Franco kernel.
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Nice. I'm assuming there wasn't much gaming in your 8hrs of screen time. Still great battery life though. As long as I can do anything I like in the space of a day and be sure that I'm not going to run out then I'm happy.
I am still thinking of investing in one of those 10 or 12,000mAh battery packs though, just for times where I have to leave the house and haven't had the time to give it a full charge.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/EasyAcc-12000mAh-Portable-External-Battery/dp/B008YRG5JQ/ref=pd_sim_sbs_ce_2
http://www.amazon.co.uk/RAVPower®-D...Smartphones/dp/B00974FC2G/ref=pd_sim_sbs_ce_5
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I do not do a lot of gaming. Mostly browsing the web and reading forums. I am very satisfied with life like that for my uses.
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Stock 4.2.1, m-kernel' cpu1.3; gpu526; LP666. 6 hours of screen on time minimum. Just daily use, with light gaming ( safari ski, etc).
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ajrich80 said:
I do not do a lot of gaming. Mostly browsing the web and reading forums. I am very satisfied with life like that for my uses.
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what's your Franco kernel setup?
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My n7 with franco kernel r38 I get around 10-11 hours screen on time if I can keep off gta3

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Galaxy Note Battery Life

Just got my note I was wondering if people could share their tips on how to get great battery life on the note!
any tips (even the most basic) will help all us first time Android users
So share your tips, apps, settings, etc!
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If you want to save max battery. Turn off 3G and only use 2G. Then lower brightness. Reduce frequency of app updates.
Those are the best tips. I keep brightness on auto. And I keep updates to once an hour for most things. It give me a solid day.
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Thanks!
I downloaded setCPU and have it so that the processor goes down to 800mhz when the screen is off.
I am not sure if that is helping or not though.. still struggling with battery life.
Get JuiceDefender Ultimate. It helps to automatically turn off your Data Network and your wifi whenever your not using your phone, it reopens them periodically to check for any updates on ur apps. Smart app and it has saved me x2.3 of my battery life.
thanks!
Do you think juice defender ultimate is better than setCPU?
Disable fast dormancy. *#9900# and the select disable fast dormancy and then save.
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Here are some tips for prelonging battery life:
1 - Don't use 100% screen brightness at all times - 50-60% is enough, only increase it when you need to then lower it again.
2 - If your planning to use the phone for long periods, 30 minutes or more constant use then once again use 25% or so brightness
3 - When browsing/surfing the net use the lowest possible brightness as this is the biggest battery killer. Unfortunately our AMOLED screens suck a lot of juice when displaying white...
4 - Try to keep most, if not all applications to manual updates only. Otherwise decrease the update frequency.
5 - Use an alternative launcher. I find for example using LauncherPro uses less resources/cpu/ram than the default touchwizz launcher. Therefore using less ram/cpu saves battery!
6 - If your gonna game for hours then I suggest 0% brightness!
7 - Last but least watch your apps. Some apps are poorly optimized/coded and can take up a lot of ram and cpu which then eats away at your battery!
In my case, disabling fast dormancy helps save some battery. Tough not to a big extent.
Use Screen Adjuster or Voodoo display filter to further lower screen brightness.
Install and use app that has a night mode. Eg, config opera mobile to use a user css to render white text on black background.
Hey,
Before you should know that android collects statistics on your battery in order to "learn" its behavior so within the first days of use you will see a constant improvement if you battery performance.
there are also a few apps that runs in background and has the annoying habit to drain your battery:
wifi sharing
wi-fi sharing manager
social hub
try to disable those apps using gemini app manager or titanium backup.
Thanks for the great tips. My battery lasted almost 19 hours ever since I did everything everyone has mentioned!
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uneek14 said:
Thanks!
I downloaded setCPU and have it so that the processor goes down to 800mhz when the screen is off.
I am not sure if that is helping or not though.. still struggling with battery life.
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Capping the max CPU speed does not help battery life.
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this will also help you understand battery life
http://batteryuniversity.com/
Gary13579 said:
Capping the max CPU speed does not help battery life.
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How so? I've heard some people on YouTube say they save battery this way..it was the only reason I downloaded setCPU...what are your thoughts?
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When screen is off, the cpu frequency is reduced anyway. Thats the advantage of sleep.
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bud.de said:
When screen is off, the cpu frequency is reduced anyway. Thats the advantage of sleep.
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How much is it reduced to?
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How much is it reduced to?
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Just enough to receive calls, sms, messages, etc. What was it, 200mhz?
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How so? I've heard some people on YouTube say they save battery this way..it was the only reason I downloaded setCPU...what are your thoughts?
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YouTube is in no way a reliable source of information when it comes to technology. Unfortunately, neither are these forums, as witnessed by the masses of people that consistently state underclocking saves battery. I've posted about this several times before, and it seems no one ever listens or trusts me, so I'll try to lay it out as simple as I can. This effect is very well known by old school Linux nerds that would push their notebooks to get longer battery lives. Intel calls this effect HUGI -- Hurry Up and Get Idle. It essentially states that the faster a CPU runs, the more energy it consumes, but it *also* finishes it's work faster. Finishing work faster is important as it means that the CPU can go back to it's "Idle" state faster. The idle (or sleep) state uses virtually zero energy. Let me see if I can pull up the voltage table for a phone... here, found this for the Sprint Nexus S 4G and it looks to be accurate based off my memory of the CPU.
1000mhz - 1.25v
800mhz - 1.20v
400mhz - 1.05v
200mhz - 0.95v
100mhz - 0.95v
Now, let's say we have a task that takes 10 seconds to complete at 1000 MHz. 10 seconds times 1.25v is 12.5v (I know, I know, voltage doesn't work this way -- but it's a good enough approximation to demonstrate this effect (and it's to scale!) and I'm too tired to explain volt vs amp vs watt, it's 5am here). At 100 MHz, though, the *same exact task* would take 100 seconds! 100 seconds times 0.95v is, wow, 95v! By capping your CPU to 100 MHz (10% of max), you are effectively using (95/12.5=) 660% more energy to do the same task.
Now, there are scenarios where underclocking can help you, such as when your phones CPU is running at 100% 24/7 because of ****ty applications or leaked wakelocks. Although underclocking does appear to somewhat fix this, it's a complete ****ing hack and won't give you anywhere near the amount of battery life that you'd get by uninstalling the ****ty app and letting your phone go to sleep.
Make sense?
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Wow! Thanks! yeah it does make sense! I guess I should uninstall setCPU...I'm not sure what else its used for
thanks again
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Just enough to receive calls, sms, messages, etc. What was it, 200mhz?
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That's great, a very efficient way to save battery...
So it's basically like a modern pc running a core i5/i7 that runs at 2.5GHz when idle or when no power is needed. However when power is needed the intel Turbo boost kicks in & increases clock speed to 4.2GHz or even higher depending on what the user set it to.
In my case my PC cpu idles at 3.4GHz & when gaming or video editing it boosts to 4.7GHZ which I've manually set it to.

Awesome battery life :-)

Over 3 days of standby, 9+ hours of screen time (auto brightness) and still12% left!
Happy camper, I am.
Was your brightness and sound on low?
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Ive noticed great battery life also. seems like this thing never wants to die out. the Wifi signal is great yet it barely drains battery.
Tegra 3 in this thing rules. Smooth as butter and great battery.
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I think its because theres no data connection. low data signal is a battery killer. where as we dont have this problem on the nexus 7..........well you guys dont. i dont have mine yet.
I was thinking the same thing...battery life is awesome
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Can you please tell us what did you do for that 9 hours?
Web browsing mostly?
Music for how long?
Video as well?
And how about other settings like nfc, bluetooth, gps, are they on?
What about auto sync account and email?
Weather sync?
Widget?
Please tell us, that is certainly awesome
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gogol said:
Can you please tell us what did you do for that 9 hours?
Web browsing mostly?
Music for how long?
Video as well?
And how about other settings like nfc, bluetooth, gps, are they on?
What about auto sync account and email?
Weather sync?
Widget?
Please tell us, that is certainly awesome
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9 hours screen on was mostly Kindle app, bit of browsing, facebook, some youtube.
Bluetooth off, gps on when required (used Maps a couple of times)
Gmail push notifications
Android Pro Widgets (calendar, twitter, facebook) sync'ing every hour.
Contact Sync (for facebook contact sync'ing) every few hours.
I have to agree - battery life on this thing is phenominal. I use it all day at work for note taking and project management (whoa, using it for productivity, who would've thought?! haha) and keep it on auto brightness with bluetooth tethering to my phone. By the time I get home (well, the past two days at least) I've been above 55% battery life still. The only thing I've been able to do to absolutely kill the battery life is play 3D games, but even those can go on for many hours without a problem.
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9 hours screen on was mostly Kindle app, bit of browsing, facebook, some youtube.
Bluetooth off, gps on when required (used Maps a couple of times)
Gmail push notifications
Android Pro Widgets (calendar, twitter, facebook) sync'ing every hour.
Contact Sync (for facebook contact sync'ing) every few hours.
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Ah. I have killed mine in like 5 hours but I played dead trigger, shadowgun, gta3 all while listening to my music in the cloud. I did underclock to 1.0ghz to keep the heat under control (don't blame the nexus the room I was in was 80+ degrees).
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This thing is amazinq. I cant seem to drain it. I'm not getting crazy life like you because I'm still on my first charge haha.
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So far my battery life is so so. It was fully charged last night and I used it seldomly at work and I'm now at 44%. I try to kill all the apps whenever I remember.
Major_Sarcasm said:
Over 3 days of standby, 9+ hours of screen time (auto brightness) and still12% left!
Happy camper, I am.
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Shove that up ipads ass!!!
On another note I just recently bought an Alienware desktop and haven't even looked at it since I got my nexus 7 on mon, before then I was on constantly.
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flathead031 said:
So far my battery life is so so. It was fully charged last night and I used it seldomly at work and I'm now at 44%. I try to kill all the apps whenever I remember.
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RULE NUMBER 1 OF ANDROID: DONT USE TASK KILLERS!
But seriously they do more harm then good...
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Po1soNNN said:
This thing is amazinq. I cant seem to drain it. I'm not getting crazy life like you because I'm still on my first charge haha.
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The times I pictured in the 1st post were the 1st charge too, lol ;-)
Po1soNNN said:
RULE NUMBER 1 OF ANDROID: DONT USE TASK KILLERS!
But seriously they do more harm then good...
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I don't use task killers but thanks for the tip. I kill them in multitask and settings > apps > running.
Interesting... I'm not finding standby life on mine to be all that great. I'm running at about 1.5-2.0%/hour on standby (with wifi on), compared to the .5%/hour or so I got with my Transformer Prime. And, just sitting there playing music I was burning somewhere between 5-10%/hour.
Not sure what's going on, but I wouldn't characterize battery life on mine as "awesome" so far...
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I don't use task killers but thanks for the tip. I kill them in multitask and settings > apps > running.
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Killing them in multitask is like a task killer but the second one is the way to go and if rooted use rom toolbox or auto starts manager to stop processes from running in the background.
sway40 said:
Shove that up ipads ass!!!
On another note I just recently bought an Alienware desktop and haven't even looked at it since I got my nexus 7 on mon, before then I was on constantly.
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The iPad can last that long too...
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Yes, its great
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[Q] Battery life

Hello everyone,
I wonder how much battery life you have on i9000 with stock battery (1500mHa) on cm 10.1 with semaphore kernel?
Asking, just because I can only get max. 12h of battery life with cm 10.1 20130218 rom and semaphore 2.9.10, smartassv2 and row. Wondering is this normal or my battery needs to be changed. Any suggestions to max battery life on i9000 would be appreciated too
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The battery can last between 3hours and a week, depending on how you use your phone, so that's not a good question to ask.
If you feel that the battery is running out too quickly then download betterbatterystats and look for any apps using unusually high partial wakelocks or alarms and get rid of them. It only takes 1 rogue app to screw up your battery life.
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I think he knows that.
12 hours uptime is not uncommon, especially when on 3g a lot. On wifi you should be able to get at least 20 h in my experience. If the battery is as old as your phone I suppose its capacity is not what it used to be, and you might consider replacing it with a sgs+ one f.i. - they come cheap nowaways!
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I think he knows that. On wifi you should be able to get at least 20 h in my experience.
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That's in your experience, the way you use your phone.
Try playing NFS MW or something. You'll get about 2 hours on a gti9000. It varies far too much to try and tell people how many hours battery life they should be getting. Totally depends.
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I use my phone for 3h wifi browsing, 30 min. music and 30 min gaming, but nothing intense. And with this usage I get 12h battery life. Flashed 2.3.5 stock rom. Still getting 18h max. So I think this comes to conclusion that my battery is old enough. That's why I asked for the battery life you get, because I didnt knew this is usual or not
My last for 2 days more or less depending on usage.
AW: [Q] Battery life
Guys i think its wrong to measure the battery life with how long your phone is working. i personally look at the screen on time it says more than just how long our device is working. I get always stats around 3h its unimportant if my Phone works 6h or 18h.
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Rokostar said:
Guys i think its wrong to measure the battery life with how long your phone is working.
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Not just wrong, its completely impossible for someone else to be telling you what you should or shouldn't be getting...
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knuckles1978 said:
Not just wrong, its completely impossible for someone else to be telling you what you should or shouldn't be getting...
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As i say it screen on time can be a good reference.
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REALLY bad battery life, is this normal?

Heya,
I've used my One for a few hours now, I'd say moderately heavy use (checked facebook/twitter, downloaded some apps, watched a few youtube video's, played Dungeon Hunter 4 for 30 minutes or so, checked flipboard).
I'm amazed by the poor battery life, especially since all the reviews were so positive. Will it get better? Could I have a faulty battery? This is nowhere near the 14 hours people have been talking about...
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Zepid said:
Heya,
I've used my One for a few hours now, I'd say moderately heavy use (checked facebook/twitter, downloaded some apps, watched a few youtube video's, played Dungeon Hunter 4 for 30 minutes or so, checked flipboard).
I'm amazed by the poor battery life, especially since all the reviews were so positive. Will it get better? Could I have a faulty battery? This is nowhere near the 14 hours people have been talking about...
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With what you are doing i lose like maybe 5-10%. Your battery is faulty for sure!
igi0n said:
With what you are doing i lose like maybe 5-10%. Your battery is faulty for sure!
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you can't tell yet. @Zepid, look for better battery stats xda edition and install it and post the screenshot for kernel and partial wakelocks, other and process.
It's hard to really tell with the default battery monitor, try BetterBatteryStats or GSAM from a full charge and go from there.
Also turn Power Saver on. It limits the CPU to 1.1GHz, and won't even affect gaming performance, or anything else for the matter except benchmarks. Click on the Power Saver option to customize what gets turned on/off.
You should check out the thread that talks about battery saving tips. It helps a lot and make sure you install a custom Rom such as trickdroid.
It's very battery efficient.
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Don't forget that if you install a custom ROM, you'll need to root your One. That also means loosing your warranty
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DH4 is a beast on battery in my experience. It is hard to play that game and not burn a ton of battery.
Anyway, when I don't play DH4 I still get 5 hours screen time. That's without power saver, auto sync disabled, and Lux adjusting screen brightness. I'm sure if I used power saver I'd get much longer.
Seriously, give it a couple of days!
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Seriously, give it a couple of days!
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I have found my battery improved after about a week of having my phone.
Graphic intense games like Dungeon Hunter 4 EATS the battery.
Thanks guys, the Power saving feature definately seems to help, and it's not slowing down the phone at all. I'll give it some time and see if the battery life improves.
Zepid said:
Thanks guys, the Power saving feature definately seems to help, and it's not slowing down the phone at all. I'll give it some time and see if the battery life improves.
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before you start combating symptoms, you should first try to diagnose the disease, so you can combat the underlying disease, follow my first post
I have to agree, my battery life is pretty poor. I'm going to give it a week and hopefully it clears itself out.
macros14 said:
I have to agree, my battery life is pretty poor. I'm going to give it a week and hopefully it clears itself out.
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You should allow more time, at least 2 or 3 updates, to iron out the biggest bugs. All manufacturers need that time, apple en Samsung too.

[TUT] Extending Battery Life

So our phone has a lithium Ion battery right? Well heres some things most people do not know about this type of battery.
Sorry if this has been posted before!
Li-ion batteries begin to degrade as soon as they start to be used.
One cycle is based on a 100% depth of discharge (e.g. discharging from full to empty), the potential number of charges can be increased by not allowing the battery to become fully discharged before topping it up. For example, allowing a fully charged battery rated at 500 cycles to drop to 50% before recharging could potentially triple the number of charge/discharge cycles to 1500 before the battery capacity degrades, thus increasing the batteries overall lifespan. However, this also means the battery will need to be plugged in more regularly.​
This means that keeping the phone topped up, and not waiting for full discharges will potentially extend the battery life of the phone.
In no way am i saying this a definite thing, as i do not know, and this wont extend your screen on time if that's what your after, it will offer you the same amount of screen on time, for an extended period of time.
So to conclude, charging little and often can extend the life of your battery. In theory anyways. I read up on this from a few articles and websites, too many to reference, but this is the combined knowledge i found.
There are still a lot of people who thinks that you must discharge to empty.
This was required when NiCd batteries were in use. Li-Ion are different.
Thanks for posting that! :highfive:
I have read on Note 3 forums how people cry about their battery life.
Thwir new software upgrade lowered thwir screen ON time to "only" 4-5 hours from 6-7. Whereby I am more then happy if i get 2-3 hours of screen time.
It makes me question my battery and software...
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Zhus06 said:
I have read on Note 3 forums how people cry about their battery life.
Thwir new software upgrade lowered thwir screen ON time to "only" 4-5 hours from 6-7. Whereby I am more then happy if i get 2-3 hours of screen time.
It makes me question my battery and software...
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They have 3200 ma battery, we have 2150. They have super amoled screen, we have IPS LCD, they have S800 soc, we have tegra 3. Enough said.
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I normally get around 3-4 hours screen-on time.
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They have 3200 ma battery, we have 2150. They have super amoled screen, we have IPS LCD, they have S800 soc, we have tegra 3. Enough said.
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You could just the mention the difference of ma in each, that alone should be enough
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You could just the mention the difference of ma in each, that alone should be enough
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Guys you would be jealous of this. But see this screenshot. My phone is now 13 months old. I m on the CM 11 nightly. This is the Jan 15th build.
prem911 said:
Guys you would be jealous of this. But see this screenshot. My phone is now 13 months old. I m on the CM 11 nightly. This is the Jan 15th build.
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Please just don't Post it in each thread here
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sPEADy said:
Please just don't Post it in each thread here
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Friend, I wrote it looking at the topic of the thread. Hope this will help people who are looking to optimise their battery by tweaking some settings in CM 11.
At least helpful to those who have subscribed to this thread !
@sPEADy and @prem911 what ROM + kernel combos are you guys using ? :good:
@sprite048 I am using the nightly form 07th January.......and all defualt CM did'nt change anything
best battery saving strategy:
1) turn off wifi and 3g
2) put down your phone and pick up a book to read
3) dont touch you phone, use the landline to make call and laptop for messaging
right, speady?
Just kidding, WiFi and 3G are actually your battery killer. I'm currently using CM11 and can have 3 hours light gaming (Plague Inc.) with 700MHz CPU and 200MHz GPU settings. Another tip is dont use background process (such as news, email or even swiftkey; Google location accessing as well), they do wake your phone up regularly to sense if you have connection with the Internet Lord.
sPEADy said:
Please just don't Post it in each thread here
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But screen time?
Thanks
klbterminator said:
best battery saving strategy:
1) turn off wifi and 3g
2) put down your phone and pick up a book to read
3) dont touch you phone, use the landline to make call and laptop for messaging
right, speady?
Just kidding, WiFi and 3G are actually your battery killer. I'm currently using CM11 and can have 3 hours light gaming (Plague Inc.) with 700MHz CPU and 200MHz GPU settings. Another tip is dont use background process (such as news, email or even swiftkey; Google location accessing as well), they do wake your phone up regularly to sense if you have connection with the Internet Lord.
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Wrong I do use my phone a lot and have pretty bad signal at my supermarket where I work and always have 3g on at work and wifi at home.
tiflao said:
But screen time?
Thanks
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I do get 2 and half hours of screen time with 2 days usage. I did post in Carbon Rom 4.2.2 thread 4 hours of screen on time few months back so I do use my phone a lot when needed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43786162#post43786162

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