My screen is using all the battery and I'm not totally sure if this is JB but I do think I got more juice on ICS. Whatever the case, my settings are:
1. Simple wallpaper, mostly black
2. Brightness at 50%, auto-dim on
3. Smartaction: using music turns brightness down to absolute minimum
Result? Phone lasts about one day, but it last longer on ICS. The battery says about 75-85% of the juice has been used by the screen alone. How can this be? Time on is about 2-2.5 hours per day.
Anyone else? Any tips, ideas?
The following tutorial/patch might help you
[MOD] Changing the brightness curve in the stock framework
SharpnShiny said:
My screen is using all the battery and I'm not totally sure if this is JB but I do think I got more juice on ICS. Whatever the case, my settings are:
1. Simple wallpaper, mostly black
2. Brightness at 50%, auto-dim on
3. Smartaction: using music turns brightness down to absolute minimum
Result? Phone lasts about one day, but it last longer on ICS. The battery says about 75-85% of the juice has been used by the screen alone. How can this be? Time on is about 2-2.5 hours per day.
Anyone else? Any tips, ideas?
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Can anyone else confirm if there is a battery life issue on JB? I have downloaded the udpate but not installed yet. The feedback I have been reading is very mixed from significantly shorter battery life to actual improvements after the update.
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pohlipit said:
Can anyone else confirm if there is a battery life issue on JB? I have downloaded the udpate but not installed yet. The feedback I have been reading is very mixed from significantly shorter battery life to actual improvements after the update.
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This thread might be of interest too: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1943058&page=5
So far I've noticed great battery stats on ICS but many people complaining after JB. Hopefully there's some tweaks we can do to resolve it.
SharpnShiny said:
This thread might be of interest too: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1943058&page=5
So far I've noticed great battery stats on ICS but many people complaining after JB. Hopefully there's some tweaks we can do to resolve it.
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Well I'm on JB and have awesome battery life.
About 2 days and a half with 6 hours screen on and 1 or 2 hours GPS.
I froze a lot of apps, including google search (google now) wich for some people seems to be a battery drain app.
You're lucky ^^ I will steal your phone and leave mine :good:
OK I chatted with Moto, they said the first thing to do is reset the phone. I doubt if that will do much, but I've done it anyway, I'm charging so will report on this probably tomorrow.
Another tip I've read is to reset cache in the recovery menu, I haven't been able to access it in JB for some reason.
OK I can say that after resetting the phone to factory settings after the Jelly Bean update has helped a lot. Now I'm very happy.
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OK I can say that after resetting the phone to factory settings after the Jelly Bean update has helped a lot. Now I'm very happy.
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Can you tell me which ROM you are using? I'm on the EU and experienced bad battery life after the JB update, I'm trying a factory reset now.
coldtech said:
Can you tell me which ROM you are using? I'm on the EU and experienced bad battery life after the JB update, I'm trying a factory reset now.
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My phone was bought in Germany and exported from there. So, EU ROM? The factory reset helped me a lot.
P.s. I notice that the testers at GSM arena achieve 7 hours internet use or 8 hours video use at 50% brightness. I want to achieve this! The best I've got is about 5 hours mixed screen use.
End of page - http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_razr_i_xt890-review-828p2.php
I did that too but after a few weeks it went back its old ways
I updated to JB eventually, reset the phone from scratch and can't notice any difference in battery life.
Just FYI....
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Beagan said:
I did that too but after a few weeks it went back its old ways
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This is what has happend to me...the first couple of weeks afterward, it helped, a few weeks later...the battery life isn't so impressive.
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Guys,
Can someone tell me what I can do to make my display act normal. it appears as though it is the killer of my battery. The phone screen hasn't been on as long as this says it has.
I am running Darch's 8/22 build of Froyo. Other than terrible batt life, it is a great ROM. Also, I have the newest colin batter tweak going. Need help!
Thanks for any ideas you can give me!
This is not a bad thing. You need to understand that you are seeing a percentage of usage so there is always going to be something that is using the majority of your battery. The nice thing is that you can visually see if your display is on and using battery power. If your phone has the screen off then most likely there is something wrong with the rom and you may want to wipe and reinstall.....or the information is being displayed improperly which again may be an issue with the rom install. Good luck
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This is not a bad thing. You need to understand that you are seeing a percentage of usage so there is always going to be something that is using the majority of your battery. The nice thing is that you can visually see if your display is on and using battery power. If your phone has the screen off then most likely there is something wrong with the rom and you may want to wipe and reinstall.....or the information is being displayed improperly which again may be an issue with the rom install. Good luck
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Thank you for the input. I am at a loss. My phone came off the charger at 7:00am central and here at 3:27pm central I am at 41%. It has been dropping fast since 12pm.
smolck said:
Thank you for the input. I am at a loss. My phone came off the charger at 7:00am central and here at 3:27pm central I am at 41%. It has been dropping fast since 12pm.
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I have the same problem. I got crazy battery life with one of the early beta versions, but now i have to charge atleast once a day, sometimes 2 or 3 times. I haven't tweaked anything, just flashed 8/17 build and GS and installed all my normal apps(launcher pro, beautiful widgets),
smolck said:
Thank you for the input. I am at a loss. My phone came off the charger at 7:00am central and here at 3:27pm central I am at 41%. It has been dropping fast since 12pm.
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9 hours later and at 41% is not bad at all.... unless you haven't used the phone
Thanks for the replies guys. Quick update, I flashed the 8/25 nightly (wow, this sucker is FASTER than all previous versions!) and was still getting high screen usage. So what I did was wipe the dalvik cache and let it reboot. I then turned on the automatic backlight tweaks under Cyanogen mod settings/user interface. I tested it last night and the battery life seems great. I have been off charger this morning since 6:55 and it is now 8:02am and I am still at 100%. I am NOT running the battery tweak either.
I will update this afternoon. Thanks!
I rooted my phone yesterday to try to get ubuntu on my webtop. Is there anyway that rooting has screwed up my battery at all? My phone is getting much hotter and the battery is draining much faster now.
Any help would be great.
I also had some battery issues after rooting. My phone got very hot and completely discharged the battery in three hours while sitting idle in my bag. I'm not sure what the culprit was, but a factory data reset seems to have fixed my issue.
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I will try that and report back.
how much battery life do you get after rooting?
Interesting. I am rooted and have not seen any loss of battery life. Did you remove or freeze any apps?
kwyrt said:
Interesting. I am rooted and have not seen any loss of battery life. Did you remove or freeze any apps?
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Yes I did freeze apps. I factory reset last night and didn't freeze and the phone is doing better so far.
Same here, rooting seems to be affecting battery. All I did was uninstall the bloatware. Gonna see today how it goes. It was fine for a couple days and then just bombed.
Have you guys tried deleting the battery statistics??
I could be that there's something off with the way the usage is occuring through operation that way.
It might help.
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Have you guys tried deleting the battery statistics??
I could be that there's something off with the way the usage is occuring through operation that way.
It might help.
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I can't find the link right now, but the myth that deleting the battery statistics file improves battery life has been thoroughly debunked.
I also had some battery issues after rooting.
Dave Lister said:
I can't find the link right now, but the myth that deleting the battery statistics file improves battery life has been thoroughly debunked.
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Send me the link, would love to see it.
The battery statistics, it worked on my RAZR by deleting them, so I would love to see where they 'de-bunked' it as personal experience for me says otherwise.
Got about a half hour more when I did this.
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Send me the link, would love to see it.
The battery statistics, it worked on my RAZR by deleting them, so I would love to see where they 'de-bunked' it as personal experience for me says otherwise.
Got about a half hour more when I did this.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1444234
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1444234
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I'll have to reply to that, as the battery stats do not reset upon full charge, but only upon reset of the phone.
I actually don't turn my phone off very often, and have seen stats compile for days on end.
Or at least that was what was happening to my RAZR....
Interesting, though.
Hi guys,
I have a strange issue with my Z1 (still on 1.534...). In just 1 hour and 30 minutes the battery goes from 100% to 85% with a very minimal use of the device. My phone is really "clean" (I mean a few and good apps). Then it goes very slowly and I can cover the whole day, but it's really annoying to see this kind of thing. I've done two recalibration of the battery but nothing changes. What can I do? Do you know if it's a known issue with my old firmware version? If yes, they fixed it with the latest release?
Thanks a lot and happy Christmas holidays!
88Mike said:
Hi guys,
I have a strange issue with my Z1 (still on 1.534...). In just 1 hour and 30 minutes the battery goes from 100% to 85% with a very minimal use of the device. My phone is really "clean" (I mean a few and good apps). Then it goes very slowly and I can cover the whole day, but it's really annoying to see this kind of thing. I've done two recalibration of the battery but nothing changes. What can I do? Do you know if it's a known issue with my old firmware version? If yes, they fixed it with the latest release?
Thanks a lot and happy Christmas holidays!
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Same here, no matter what version I use.
88Mike said:
Hi guys,
I have a strange issue with my Z1 (still on 1.534...). In just 1 hour and 30 minutes the battery goes from 100% to 85% with a very minimal use of the device. My phone is really "clean" (I mean a few and good apps). Then it goes very slowly and I can cover the whole day, but it's really annoying to see this kind of thing. I've done two recalibration of the battery but nothing changes. What can I do? Do you know if it's a known issue with my old firmware version? If yes, they fixed it with the latest release?
Thanks a lot and happy Christmas holidays!
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perhaps your phone is still new? my phone did the same in the first two weeks, down to around 80% really fast, and then lasted between 80-65 the rest of the day.
now after a while it's changed, i get almost a full hour of screen time before it reaches 90%.
Yes, it has 20 days. I hope it's due to this fact. Thanks for sharing your experiences. Any others?
I got Android 4.3 FTF .290 and my battery is just fine. I will recommend to update.
I hope it arrives fast on my device!
Have mine now for 3 months: in Stamina-mode when not used at all I find it sometimes with 98% after 8 hours since unplugging ..........
88Mike said:
I hope it arrives fast on my device!
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I suggest you update to 257 while waiting for 290 to get to you.
Since i switched to Maclaw's CM 11 about a month ago and i had no trouble with the phone untill i updated to version 3/8 and the versions after that..the battery gets drained fast even when the phone is always underclocked to 200 MHz which never made an issue for me in terms of being a bit slow.
It used to drop just 1% every 15 min with heavy data use..a lot of the time it even lasted more than that! Now drops 1% every 5 min or less with the same heavy data use!!!
What went wrong?
It's just CM 11. Remember, it's still under heavy development, so it's not 100% yet. Don't worry, they'll get it fixed.
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GXGOW said:
It's just CM 11. Remember, it's still under heavy development, so it's not 100% yet. Don't worry, they'll get it fixed.
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I do hope they do.
Does Carbon has that battery drain problem too or is more stable than CM?
liongame said:
I do hope they do.
Does Carbon has that battery drain problem too or is more stable than CM?
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My battery lasts the whole day with moderate use.
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I have the same problem, but haven't tracked down what it is that that drains the battery other than Android system.
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GXGOW said:
My battery lasts the whole day with moderate use.
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I think i'm gonna give Carbon a go if the problem continues .
larscn said:
I have the same problem, but haven't tracked down what it is that that drains the battery other than Android system.
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Yeah but something changed after that 3/25 version. I've updated to the latest version yesterday and will put it under test today; hopefully the problem will be gone.
liongame said:
I think i'm gonna give Carbon a go if the problem continues .
Yeah but something changed after that 3/25 version. I've updated to the latest version yesterday and will put it under test today; hopefully the problem will be gone.
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would be cool to hear if carbon made a chance then
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would be cool to hear if carbon made a chance then
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Got a lot better with Carbon without doing any more scientific research into what was eating my battery. If you still have CM installed, maybe a simple "top -m 10" in an adb shell will give a clue to what the power drain is. (I'm new to adb and forget how easy it is can be to have a linux shell on my phone. :silly
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Got a lot better with Carbon without doing any more scientific research into what was eating my battery. If you still have CM installed, maybe a simple "top -m 10" in an adb shell will give a clue to what the power drain is. (I'm new to adb and forget how easy it is can be to have a linux shell on my phone. :silly
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hey thank you so far, i just got CM 2 days and i'm not sure about the battery drain so far. but if you found out what it was at you, please tell me. ah and btw. i heard skype has an issue with it, do you have it installed?
also: whats the differencte of CARBON from CM?
/edit: I tried the parameter, and it says 94% sorta is "system server" is this normal?
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hey thank you so far, i just got CM 2 days and i'm not sure about the battery drain so far. but if you found out what it was at you, please tell me. ah and btw. i heard skype has an issue with it, do you have it installed?
also: whats the differencte of CARBON from CM?
/edit: I tried the parameter, and it says 94% sorta is "system server" is this normal?
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I got problem with battery also with cm11. Drain so fast. I installed carbin, its a bit better. But also I order new battery (2450mh) because i think my old one is gonna die
liongame said:
Since i switched to Maclaw's CM 11 about a month ago and i had no trouble with the phone untill i updated to version 3/8 and the versions after that..the battery gets drained fast even when the phone is always underclocked to 200 MHz which never made an issue for me in terms of being a bit slow.
It used to drop just 1% every 15 min with heavy data use..a lot of the time it even lasted more than that! Now drops 1% every 5 min or less with the same heavy data use!!!
What went wrong?
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Hey all looks like i found a way!
check this, i just made a solution thread about it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=51278758
Aronuser said:
Hey all looks like i found a way!
check this, i just made a solution thread about it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=51278758
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Please delete?
What happened to the thread bro?
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Please delete?
What happened to the thread bro?
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well i found out that my solution didn't really work. but i now have a new solution which seems to work, i got this from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2683451 by factorexh
1. tick "set on boot" at governor and i/o of cpu, then set governor to abbysplug and i/o to sio
I set it like this and it seems to work but not 100% sure since it's the first day
So i installed Carbon and left it for 2 days and the battery was better but then i flashed CM back and the problem was still there. So i flashed the Stock rom back, rooted the phone then installed CM...at first everything seems back to normal but later that day the battery little started draining faster!
I thought that maybe coz i disabled/froze some system and built in apps that it what caused the problem but now i made sure i didnt disable any app, only force stop some non system appsm j and found the battery still draining!m
I have only 4 things running in my "Running apps" section:
1- Settings
2- Greenify
3- Setcpu (underclocked to 200)
4- Smart keyboard trial
THAT'S ALL!!
liongame said:
So i installed Carbon and left it for 2 days and the battery was better but then i flashed CM back and the problem was still there. So i flashed the Stock rom back, rooted the phone then installed CM...at first everything seems back to normal but later that day the battery little started draining faster!
I thought that maybe coz i disabled/froze some system and built in apps that it what caused the problem but now i made sure i didnt disable any app, only force stop some non system appsm j and found the battery still draining!m
I have only 4 things running in my "Running apps" section:
1- Settings
2- Greenify
3- Setcpu (underclocked to 200)
4- Smart keyboard trial
THAT'S ALL!!
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i don't know about that maybe your batt is demaged but still
CM11 the 20th 3rd 14th version mentioned a change about battery life.. they update the zip very often just check if the zip has another date in the name then flash it...
and try to change what i said above.. about stock i don't know how to help but i have my battery now for longer than half a day on and it's on 64 with display on mid-high
How fast is the battery charging(with the original charger). If it charges from empty to full very fast, then it's probably a bad battery. Both mine and my wife's battery has died on us after just a year of use, so it seems like the sIII mini's batteries is not lasting much more than 400 cycles.
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Aronuser said:
i don't know about that maybe your batt is demaged but still
CM11 the 20th 3rd 14th version mentioned a change about battery life.. they update the zip very often just check if the zip has another date in the name then flash it...
and try to change what i said above.. about stock i don't know how to help but i have my battery now for longer than half a day on and it's on 64 with display on mid-high
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It's the original battery, i havent changed it yet. I've just started using this phone like 2 or 3 months ago!
I'll see that governor trick, it may help. I'll update to the latest CM and see if there's any difference and keep you posted.
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How fast is the battery charging(with the original charger). If it charges from empty to full very fast, then it's probably a bad battery. Both mine and my wife's battery has died on us after just a year of use, so it seems like the sIII mini's batteries is not lasting much more than 400 cycles.
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It charges from 20% to full in about 3 hours or a bit more. Is that bad? Original battery and charger.
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It's the original battery, i havent changed it yet. I've just started using this phone like 2 or 3 months ago!
I'll see that governor trick, it may help. I'll update to the latest CM and see if there's any difference and keep you posted.
It charges from 20% to full in about 3 hours or a bit more. Is that bad? Original battery and charger.
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it's now 17:50 and i woke up at 9:00 and the batt is on 41% with that settings and newest of CM11 maclaw (btw. they update it daily as far as it seems)
also i heard skype can cause problems, but i don't have it installed at the moment
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it's now 17:50 and i woke up at 9:00 and the batt is on 41% with that settings and newest of CM11 maclaw (btw. they update it daily as far as it seems)
also i heard skype can cause problems, but i don't have it installed at the moment
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Yeah, i've noticed. It's kinda a pain to keep downloading and flashing on a daily basis though.
Do you have Wifi/mobile data on during those hours?
I dont have Skype nor Viber, Whatsapp, Facebook messenger and all those messenger apps.
Mind if i asked you if you disabled any apps? System or downloaded?
And what's your current LCD density? Mine is 200, i tried to go for 180 but the phone started acting a bit weird.
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Yeah, i've noticed. It's kinda a pain to keep downloading and flashing on a daily basis though.
Do you have Wifi/mobile data on during those hours?
I dont have Skype nor Viber, Whatsapp, Facebook messenger and all those messenger apps.
Mind if i asked you if you disabled any apps? System or downloaded?
And what's your current LCD density? Mine is 200, i tried to go for 180 but the phone started acting a bit weird.
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i have standart lcd density of CM cause i don't see any use in alternate densities...
I have the "mini" gapps from maclaw and line messenger, xposed with multi timezone clock, moon calendar, status bar clock in lockscreen. and pimpmyrom and facebook and facebook-messenger...
thats all cause i just installed CM and didn't save the apps...
i had wifi and mobile both on most of the day yeah...
(no need to flash daily when you're happy with it )
hey guys i recently did the 4.4.2 update but notice that my battery from 100 to 96 on screen within 7mins of usage. i did a factory reset but still giving me the problem. i was wondering if anyone was able to fix their battery issue after the update.
One person claimed nova launcher caused that on kitkat
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dadiall discourse
its un rooted i followed one of the steps from the kitkat fix on the forums here.
Subzero24 said:
hey guys i recently did the 4.4.2 update but notice that my battery from 100 to 96 on screen within 7mins of usage. i did a factory reset but still giving me the problem. i was wondering if anyone was able to fix their battery issue after the update.
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That is a very common issue with Kitkat on the ATT Note 3. Custom roms have helped it, but not much. I use to get about 2 days out of my phone. I switch batteries everyday now. I have the spare battery charging system.
So we can only wait for ether the bootloader to be unlocked or for ATT to fix it.
Unrooted and can only get 18-23 hours of charge after the Kit Kat update. Before I could do 2-3 days, easily!
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Unrooted and can only get 18-23 hours of charge after the Kit Kat update. Before I could do 2-3 days, easily!
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damn thats what my batery life use to be. I heard something about knoxraid that helps with the battery life but it sucks that we have to wait for an update.
Subzero24 said:
damn thats what my batery life use to be. I heard something about knoxraid that helps with the battery life but it sucks that we have to wait for an update.
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A word to the wise, I wouldn't be mentioning KR around here. It is considered a taboo subject after what the creator did.
android core apps always used to show as the top battery culprit for me under 4.4.2 - the google search app with the cards ended up being the app i isolated for my issue and disabling it fixed my battery drain issue.
I have also read about a bug with the camera app - but I haven't consistently had that issue so I stopped restarting my phone after using the camera.
My battery life has also went down since the kitkat update. I am at 36% at 11hrs 39min and 3.5 hrs of screen time. That's not bad, but previously I would be around 50% around this time...
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Whenever you charge your phone to 100% (after it got to at least 15%) unplug it and reboot right a way. That fixed the problem for me.
from the tip of my fangers...!
This helped with my note, and managing "power hungry" apps also made a big impact.
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This helped with my note, and managing "power hungry" apps also made a big impact.
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What helped