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Battery Life / Recharge Time?

I recharged my phone in an hour when it had just powered off by itself for being too low... I used it for like 5 minutes and it was already down to 80%... Bad battery?

fldash said:
I recharged my phone in an hour when it had just powered off by itself for being too low... I used it for like 5 minutes and it was already down to 80%... Bad battery?
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Sure sounds like a bad battery.
Just to make sure...
1) make sure you don't have some app that is running GPS
2) If not needed, try turning off BlueTooth
Those two items will drain battery faster than usual.

I sometimes find the battery is really inaccurate, depends on if the phone's running hot or whatnot...
Also you might want to get a task manager and periodically close all the apps (some apps have a one-click kill all widget), and turn off syncing, gps, and bluetooth

Battery indicator hasn't always been accurate or me - even with a brand new battery

There are several apps/widgets that are poorly coded which cause high battery drain as well.
Try only using stock widgets as well, I find that helps alot.

mssmison said:
There are several apps/widgets that are poorly coded which cause high battery drain as well.
Try only using stock widgets as well, I find that helps alot.
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Yea, the only Widget I run thats not stock is Beautiful Widgets Home Small, set to update every 2 hours.
I have bluetooth and GPS off always unless I'm actively using them. I just seemed strange it was so fast to recharge mainly.
I've noticed the battery capacity jumps up and down depending on what you are doing. For example if I disable 3G, it jumps up, if I enable it, it might jump down 10% briefly then go back to where it was...
Very strange.

Also, I find the app Juice Defender (free version) is a life saver. My battery life has gone from around 12 hours to > 2 days since using it.
What it does is disable your 3G AP and only enables it every X minutes for Y minutes.. I think the default is 15/2. The result is you still get your notifications (a few mins behind), but your battery lasts WAAAYYYY longer.

brunes said:
Also, I find the app Juice Defender (free version) is a life saver. My battery life has gone from around 12 hours to > 2 days since using it.
What it does is disable your 3G AP and only enables it every X minutes for Y minutes.. I think the default is 15/2. The result is you still get your notifications (a few mins behind), but your battery lasts WAAAYYYY longer.
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Thanks for the tip!
Now going hunting for "Juice Defender".

yeah, juice defender is great. The free version has limited options but the default options really save battery life on my vogue.
I read a while ago that there was a problem with the stock text messaging app. Is that resolved? I use Handcent SMS, but i don't know if it is good or bad for battery life comparatively.

JuiceDefender is fantastic, it works. Except you can't be listening to anything and have it running (music, podcasts, etc...) because when it kills the 3G connection the audio stops. I've talked with dzo and looked at the code myself and I don't see a way to keep it from happening unless there's a way to kill the 3G connection without issuing an 'ATH' to the modem or somehow ignoring the 'No Carrier' message that follows it...

this happens no matter what music player you are using? I was hoping it was just Cube, but had not gotten a chance to try with other media players. Is there a way to create an ap that autodiables jucedefender when you play music?

Gersonian said:
this happens no matter what music player you are using? I was hoping it was just Cube, but had not gotten a chance to try with other media players. Is there a way to create an ap that autodiables jucedefender when you play music?
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Not that I'm away of... I just manually disable juicedefender before I start playing my music... and HOPE that I remember to turn it back on...

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Personally I just don't want the extended battery cover sticking out of my phone...

anyone have bad battery life?

i see that a lot of people are posting amazing battery life results.. but no matter how hard I try, mine simply doesn't last 3 days with 8 hours screen on time etcetc
things ive tried:
factory reset then just install the essentials i.e. facebook, whatsapp, zite, mxplayer, pocket, myphoneexplorer.
battery calibration i.e. drain till dead/cant switch on, charge from 0 to 100 with phone off
adjust wifi, gps, autosync settings
and yet, see my attached battery stats. and that's with relatively light use (sat on my office desk) @ 2hr screen on time. no gaming, the most taxing activity was probably watching a movie with mxplayer for 20-30mins or so. the phone died completely 3 hours later.
my firmware is 81.5.39001.xt890.Retail.en.GB
it would SEEM that the battery goes down real fast with any usage.
i want to love the phone but it's not letting me.
thoughts?
firmware versions and screenshots of bad battery life please? lol

Well, mine does not last as well as advertised by others but likely better than this. It can get up to 5h of screen on time in web/video usage and maybe 3 days with less than 1h of screen on time. It also dies very quickly after 10%, 7%-4%-0% shutdown. Germany EU Retail stock firmware. Not the best battery i guess

Well my battery usually last between 1d 3 hours and 1d 20hours with usually display time between 1h 50m - 2h 30m and talk time 45m - 1h 20m talk time, with data or wi-fi always on , autobrightness always on and auto synch always on.
Facebook app and Whatsapp are mainly the guilty apps for the power consumption and data usage .... Without Facebook and Whatsapp installed and with ONLY wi-fi data i had superb power consumption .... 2d 10h and 4h 55m display time with 1h 30m talk time.
PS 2 more things that comsume power in Razr I are 1) music player and 2) FM radio

kourkoubas said:
Well my battery usually last between 1d 3 hours and 1d 20hours with usually display time between 1h 50m - 2h 30m and talk time 45m - 1h 20m talk time, with data or wi-fi always on , autobrightness always on and auto synch always on.
Facebook app and Whatsapp are mainly the guilty apps for the power consumption and data usage .... Without Facebook and Whatsapp installed and with ONLY wi-fi data i had superb power consumption .... 2d 10h and 4h 55m display time with 1h 30m talk time.
PS 2 more things that comsume power in Razr I are 1) music player and 2) FM radio
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Simplestas said:
Well, mine does not last as well as advertised by others but likely better than this. It can get up to 5h of screen on time in web/video usage and maybe 3 days with less than 1h of screen on time. It also dies very quickly after 10%, 7%-4%-0% shutdown. Germany EU Retail stock firmware. Not the best battery i guess
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thank you for the input guys
@kourkoubas, i think ours is similar then
but i've yet to try turning off facebook autorefresh. sadly whatsapp must stay
i use Music/Pocketcasts everyday but then it's no more than 1 hour combined.
i think ill have to do more testing. that other battery stats thread got my hopes up too high i guess lol
@Simplestas does your screen brightness flash wildly just before it shuts down?

I was a bit disappointed with my battery, too. I read about those 8hrs screen on time and was just stunned. It depends a bit, how i use it .. Usually i have WiFi activated almost all day in university and at home / girlfriend. With 2.5hrs screen on time i always have ~50-60% battery left. Thats a common value for me as i sometimes need my phone for .pdf viewing. I normally have the brightness reduced to ~15%.
For me, it was a huge improvement over my old Desire HD, but it still could be better. Anyway i don't want to forget the fact that i used JuiceDefender with my DHD and used every option i have to improve battery life while i just don't have to at my razr i, it just doesn't die one evening or in the middle of the day like my DHD used to.

@Simplestas does your screen brightness flash wildly just before it shuts down?
I don't think so.
Try testing if taking pictures with flash works with battery < 50%. If it causes immediate shutdown your battery is likely faulty.

The Battery life was on the beginning really good but now its getting worser
Sent from my XT890 using xda premium

Simplestas said:
@Simplestas does your screen brightness flash wildly just before it shuts down?
I don't think so.
Try testing if taking pictures with flash works with battery < 50%. If it causes immediate shutdown your battery is likely faulty.
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well the battery % seems to be correct.. have attempted to calibrate it quite a number of times now.
it's just that the screen backlight becomes er.. like a flashlight running out of battery- dimming and returning to normal brightness a few times just before it shutsdown at around 2% battery level. just wondered if this is a common behaviour with xt890s/medfield cpus.
because ive never seen this in other moto phones nor any other smartphones for that matter.

CentaXx said:
I was a bit disappointed with my battery, too. I read about those 8hrs screen on time and was just stunned. It depends a bit, how i use it .. Usually i have WiFi activated almost all day in university and at home / girlfriend. With 2.5hrs screen on time i always have ~50-60% battery left. Thats a common value for me as i sometimes need my phone for .pdf viewing. I normally have the brightness reduced to ~15%.
For me, it was a huge improvement over my old Desire HD, but it still could be better. Anyway i don't want to forget the fact that i used JuiceDefender with my DHD and used every option i have to improve battery life while i just don't have to at my razr i, it just doesn't die one evening or in the middle of the day like my DHD used to.
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well i believe that somebody out there is having really good battery life... just not everyone, sadly.
other than the outrageous 8hr screen on times etc, there are quite a few review sites praising its battery life so we must be missing something and i want to see if it's possible to find out what.
i agree though juicedefender work wonders.
used to rely on it a lot. now I just occasionally use "autosync free". it's more than good enough.
but i don't want to rely on these methods yet..

keskincene said:
The Battery life was on the beginning really good but now its getting worser
Sent from my XT890 using xda premium
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define good
let's see some stats
and what firmware are you running?
"worse" could just be the new apps you're adding to the phone?
cheers.

6h of screen time already IS GOOD, very good.
4h is what what sgs3 usually gets, 3h is what the n4 gets so 2more hours aint good? Everything gets +-2h with different usage e.g. google now and being on the move, mobile data...
It all depends on your usage but its about 25-50%better then the other quick phones around so please stop *****ing because u saw some very good screen and now cry because all your widgets, push email, chatting, mp3 destroy the screen on time you get
@yellowchilli: sry i cant see your attached screenshot, forum doesnt let me but if you usually get 2h of screen time you should call the support and get a new phone because thats not right.
edit:now i can see it. What did u do with the phone except watching a movie ? Nearly 3h aint critical i cant tell if thats normal or not it could be that you listened mp3 ... if you bought at a store go to them and get a new one anyway the store i bought in wouldnt mind changing it so i hope yours does the same

yellowchilli said:
define good
let's see some stats
and what firmware are you running?
"worse" could just be the new apps you're adding to the phone?
cheers.
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This was in the beginning.... Now im Happy if i get 3h screen on time
Sent from my XT890 using xda premium

purplet said:
6h of screen time already IS GOOD, very good.
4h is what what sgs3 usually gets, 3h is what the n4 gets so 2more hours aint good? Everything gets +-2h with different usage e.g. google now and being on the move, mobile data...
It all depends on your usage but its about 25-50%better then the other quick phones around so please stop *****ing because u saw some very good screen and now cry because all your widgets, push email, chatting, mp3 destroy the screen on time you get
@yellowchilli: sry i cant see your attached screenshot, forum doesnt let me but if you usually get 2h of screen time you should call the support and get a new phone because thats not right.
edit:now i can see it. What did u do with the phone except watching a movie ? Nearly 3h aint critical i cant tell if thats normal or not it could be that you listened mp3 ... if you bought at a store go to them and get a new one anyway the store i bought in wouldnt mind changing it so i hope yours does the same
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sadly i had this imported so i guess warranty is going to be difficult. it doesn't even idle very well with very minimal number of apps installed so yer something is wrong

keskincene said:
This was in the beginning.... Now im Happy if i get 3h screen on time
Sent from my XT890 using xda premium
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wow..
in the beginning- would that mean before the firmware update? i.e. with the laggy homescreen

yellowchilli said:
wow..
in the beginning- would that mean before the firmware update? i.e. with the laggy homescreen
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Good Question dont know if its the firmware update...
But it sucks now the Hardware is really good i mean the build quality
Hope the Battery comes back to life with the jb update
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I get about 2-3 days with minimum usage (auto brightness, WhatsApp, Twitter, occasionally a phone call or web search or camera shot). I have the latest GB retail firmware, no root or whatsoever. Completely stock ROM.

Mine also never got past the 3h30 screen-on time, even if I didn't use it for much else... should I take it to the nearest customer support site?
Also, the phone gets real hot when the screen is on for some time...

This is what I get usually and I love my battery...
Running stock rom 39001.retail.en.GB
Non rooted
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This is clearly a heavy use and I am proud of this much battery life
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Vistaus said:
I get about 2-3 days with minimum usage (auto brightness, WhatsApp, Twitter, occasionally a phone call or web search or camera shot). I have the latest GB retail firmware, no root or whatsoever. Completely stock ROM.
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thanks. so mine's very similar to yours then. everything is stock and my usage is not particularly heavy. and yet there's no way mine would last 2-3 days lol

[Q] HTC One Battery Drain(mA)

Hey Guys!
I really like this forum and I saw you always get help here when u have problems.
So here I have a simple question and I hope a few people have a little time and ambitions to help me with it.
I always felt my battery drains quite fast since I installed Android Revolution HD, now I'm still on Android Revolution 9.3 and its not better since then. So I installed Battery Monitor Widget, because it seems it's the only widget which actually shows the battery drain of the HTC ONE(M79
in mA.
So my values are often between 200-600mA(mostly 299), even when I'm on Homescreen and it should be idle except the background processes.
It would be nice if someone could post me his values so I have something to compare.
I'm running on Android Revolution 9.3 with ROMCleaner NO-Sense.
Thx for help.

Marsters said:
Hey Guys!
I really like this forum and I saw you always get help here when u have problems.
So here I have a simple question and I hope a few people have a little time and ambitions to help me with it.
I always felt my battery drains quite fast since I installed Android Revolution HD, now I'm still on Android Revolution 9.3 and its not better since then. So I installed Battery Monitor Widget, because it seems it's the only widget which actually shows the battery drain of the HTC ONE(M79
in mA.
So my values are often between 200-600mA(mostly 299), even when I'm on Homescreen and it should be idle except the background processes.
It would be nice if someone could post me his values so I have something to compare.
I'm running on Android Revolution 9.3 with ROMCleaner NO-Sense.
Thx for help.
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Those values are normal for screen on and idle Deep sleep after about 10 minutes of screen off should be around 10-15mAh

Okay this i can unterstand, but can u confirm that your phone drains about 1A(1000mA) while gaming and gets really warm oO

Warm up during gaming is normal for quadcore phones
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yeah the warming up, but the 1A drain ? and even in deep sleep my phone drains 350mA, if i can believe the log of battery monitor widget.

I had a battery drain faster issue after I installed two mods. One is the sound volume one and the other one is I think the one with the volume wake up. Afterwards, I found the battery drained super fast - 10% per hour even idle!
I redid the ROM(ARHD 12.0 at the time), then changed to another ROM but didn't fix it.
Eventually I have to reinstall the firmware! Don't know which part, I suspect the sound volume one modified the firmware somehow triggers something very bad.
Hope this helps.

4.1.1 Default Music App Preventing Deep Sleep While Running

Hi everyone,
i wanted to ask if there's an app or a way to make my S3 Mini enter deep sleep mode even when I'm listening to music in the background (music app not open), 'cause now it stays 50% awake and 50% sleeping and drains my battery extremelly fast - about 30 mins of music listening drained about 15% of my battery without me doing anything else and having the screen off all the time through that period.I read a similar thread on some forum, but there wasn't a way to do this described there {don't remember which forum that was on}.
I'll even settle for another music app (not the default one, if it can't be done with it) which has playlist widget support and decent controls [and of course one which makes the phone go to deep sleep mode while it's on in the background]
I'm running on a pre-rooted android 4.1.1
THANKS IN ADVANCE TO ANYONE WHO HELPS ME OUT AS THIS HAS BEEN AN ISSUE FOR QUITE SOME TIME NOW

Mind if I ask why you use 4.1.1 and not 4.1.2 or CM10/11? I've never had this issue on any stock rom with the default player so a firmware upgrade should take care of it.

koragg97 said:
Hi everyone,
i wanted to ask if there's an app or a way to make my S3 Mini enter deep sleep mode even when I'm listening to music in the background (music app not open), 'cause now it stays 50% awake and 50% sleeping and drains my battery extremelly fast - about 30 mins of music listening drained about 15% of my battery without me doing anything else and having the screen off all the time through that period.I read a similar thread on some forum, but there wasn't a way to do this described there {don't remember which forum that was on}.
I'll even settle for another music app (not the default one, if it can't be done with it) which has playlist widget support and decent controls [and of course one which makes the phone go to deep sleep mode while it's on in the background]
I'm running on a pre-rooted android 4.1.1
THANKS IN ADVANCE TO ANYONE WHO HELPS ME OUT AS THIS HAS BEEN AN ISSUE FOR QUITE SOME TIME NOW
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if CPU enters deep sleep, how would the phone be able to play music?

4everAnoob said:
Mind if I ask why you use 4.1.1 and not 4.1.2 or CM10/11? I've never had this issue on any stock rom with the default player so a firmware upgrade should take care of it.
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I was on 4.1.2 for more than half a year, but 2 days ago switched back to 4.1.1 'cause the ripple effect on the lock screen is gone in android 4.1.2 and later And I kinda have some apps installed so I dont really wanna flash a new rom

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if CPU enters deep sleep, how would the phone be able to play music?
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Well yeah, but then again why does the FM Radio app drain battery extremely slow when using it almost the same amount of time as the music player (perhaps even longer) ? I don't know maybe I haven't adapted to android as this is my first android phone ever and i have had it for almost a year now (never had battery problems with my other phones - all were Nokia )

koragg97 said:
I was on 4.1.2 for more than half a year, but 2 days ago switched back to 4.1.1 'cause the ripple effect on the lock screen is gone in android 4.1.2 and later And I kinda have some apps installed so I dont really wanna flash a new rom
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try dmod v6 its awesome

battery break
I think the problem isn't with your music player, the problem it's wth your battery, because i use stock music player and 3g for 1 hour, and my battery only drain 10%

Well, just to say that I use playerpro with maclaw's cm 10.2, for a long time & never had battery draining

equilibriojh said:
I think the problem isn't with your music player, the problem it's wth your battery, because i use stock music player and 3g for 1 hour, and my battery only drain 10%
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Maybe. Because when i listen to music my screen is off all the time and i have 3g manager installed, which means that my 3g is also disabled when screen is locked. Let's hope it's the battery - seems like the easiest way to fix the problem

[Q] Mediaserver problem?

Hi guys i have just bought this phone and in battery use i see that mediaserver drain about 30% of battery is this a known issue and how can i resolve?
Inviato da Sony Xperia SP

Not an issue if you use it a lot to hear music or watch videos or photos. I should be back to normal on the next full charge. Everytime the battery is fully charged android creats a new stats file.

cachanilla86 said:
Not an issue if you use it a lot to hear music or watch videos or photos. I should be back to normal on the next full charge. Everytime the battery is fully charged android creats a new stats file.
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The problem is that I took only 5-6 photos only for try the camera, I listened to music for about 40 minutes and I didn't do anything else. With this use I think that 20-25% of mediaserver is a very high battery drain.. Anyone has this problem?

I have the same problem, sometimes it gets 25-30%, and its brand new phone, no music, video, just couple of photos to test camera. Have too high Keep awake time on it, sometimes 2,3h. Here is the picture...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mw16ke7w2tdabnz/Screenshot_2014-01-01-03-55-37.png

NestorC said:
I have the same problem, sometimes it gets 25-30%, and its brand new phone, no music, video, just couple of photos to test camera. Have too high Keep awake time on it, sometimes 2,3h. Here is the picture...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mw16ke7w2tdabnz/Screenshot_2014-01-01-03-55-37.png
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We have the same problem. I've a brand phone too. I read that someone has resolved the problem with titanium backup and he has block the media process. I will wait until 4.3 has been released then if the problem doesn't solve I will root and try to resolve by me.