In the developer section of the settings there is this option, will reducing the amount of background processes help with anything
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tommason1968 said:
In the developer section of the settings there is this option, will reducing the amount of background processes help with anything
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Not really. Most "Background" tasks stay asleep.
It's only ones that actively and frequently use data that will reduce battery. So those are the ones to watch and if you manage them correctly (usually you can) your battery should be fine.
Or ones that frequently wake up and wake the phone to do something. But 99% the things they do is retrieve data.
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I have 3 main things killing my battery life...
Display, idle and cell standby...any settings adjustments recommended?
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Additionally, what do people feel is the best way to run Collins battery tweak
I am running cm 6 rc1
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Something else is killing your battery, that's just telling you the % of it while the phone is turned on. Download spare parts and see what it is.... as far as collins batt tweak I used 768mhz and get 90+ hours
I have spare parts...what kinds of things should I be looking for
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Vandelay007 said:
I have spare parts...what kinds of things should I be looking for
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partial wake usage, gps usage, network usage... see which apps are staying on the longest, TiKL was murdering my battery
Under network usage something with just a 0 in it is 99% blue....idk what that is
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Vandelay007 said:
Under network usage something with just a 0 in it is 99% blue....idk what that is
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Anything showing a high % under "partial wake usage?"
Also, I use "Dimmer" form the market to keep my screen brightness down. I set it all the way down (using quick settings shortcut) for when I am inside and when I go outside or into a bright room I have it set to increase to 25% when I toggle the dimmer shortcut on my home screen. I thought the auto-brightness was making it higher than it needs to be in most cases.
Everything seems low under partial wake usage...
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Vandelay007 said:
Everything seems low under partial wake usage...
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what about network usage? use shootme to take a pic of what you're seeing and post it on here
Hope this helps
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Here, check out this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=762139
Seems like many others are reporting bad battery loss from CM6 -- looks like it has something to do with the display...it might not be properly "sleeping" even if the screen is off. Don't know if there's a fix yet but that other thread at least has some useful information in it.
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What is the Most battery friendly rom?
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elinho said:
What is the Most battery friendly rom?
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That's pretty hard too say....I guess a rom that has no android os/system drain bugs.
It depends very much on the installed apps, if they spawn any background processes which constantly poll some things....
The govenor settings....if it scales to a higher cpu state very fast etc...
Personally i use SlimBean, but you can do some optimizations on any rom.
If you want good battery life I suggest to use greenify to hibernate apps with the unwanted background processes. Enable deepsleep and power done bluetooth in semaphore manager. Undervolt the 100mhz step. Force 2g networks. Use a black theme because the amoled display need less energy for dark themes. Use low autobrightness settings and enable data connection only on demand.
You can disable autopolling of emails etc...remove widgets from the homescreen...
You will probably get about two days with medium usage then.
My problem is i just bought this s3 mini and its awesome but i have noticed in my task killer that i have tons of apps working in the background and if i kill them they just restart and start working in the background again and when i was sleeping the battery drained from 50 to 46 ... can u help me plz
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What task killer did you use?
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Advanced task killer
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Just simply ignore them, they're kept in memory to allow quicker startup times, and shouldn't be causing too much battery drain. If you want to get rid of some of the apps which you think might be misbehaving, thus draining battery, simply root and hit them with the force of a thousand suns, or just flash a custom rom. And for the love of god, never use task killers, they're pure evil!
Some reading material:
http://www.howtogeek.com/127388/htg-explains-why-you-shouldnt-use-a-task-killer-on-android/
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sashmo said:
My problem is i just bought this s3 mini and its awesome but i have noticed in my task killer that i have tons of apps working in the background and if i kill them they just restart and start working in the background again and when i was sleeping the battery drained from 50 to 46 ... can u help me plz
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go to developer options and set "background process limit" to 4
samersh72 said:
go to developer options and set "background process limit" to 4
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That actualy solved the problem thanks
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Just also want to tell you that Android has its own task killer. When in low memory situations, Androids built in task killer starts killing applications. You can also modify the task killers values if want to take full control of it. I use romtoolbox to do this. It's really helpful for me.
:good:try Greenify, a must have:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oasisfeng.greenify&hl=it
Guys, do you keep your power saver ON the whole time? Cause I'm doing that. It seems to improve my battery life. My phones battery last more than a day, and while it's ON, I don't see any slow downs or lag which is good. I think it's better to leave it On the whole time. What do you think? Thanks!
I'm keeping Power Save ON always either. The options I've ticked there are the ones for CPU underclock and Data Management. For a week or so I've tried Power Saver combined with Snapdragon BatteryGuru but it didn't improved the battery life which I already was able to achieve so I've uninstalled it. Now I have installed Wi-Fi Matic and Smart Profiles (Free) with Power Save ON and I get the best battery autonomy.
Nope as long sleep mode im good
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So it's better to leave it ON right? Will the notifications be delayed or the screen will slow down? What do you guys think I should do, leave it ON, or just when the battery is getting low then i'll ON it?
toke420 said:
So it's better to leave it ON right? Will the notifications be delayed or the screen will slow down? What do you guys think I should do, leave it ON, or just when the battery is getting low then i'll ON it?
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Leave it on. The slow down is barely noticeable, and it'll get you some extra time before the phone needs to be charged.
Personally, I only tick the cpu box.
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ataft said:
Leave it on. The slow down is barely noticeable, and it'll get you some extra time before the phone needs to be charged.
Personally, I only tick the cpu box.
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There's no downside to leaving it on. 1.1GHz is plenty for most everything to run perfectly smoothly and it doesn't affect the GPU so gaming remains excellent. Personally I don't find it hugely useful (maybe an extra hour with my use) but it sure doesn't hurt anything
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There's no downside to leaving it on. 1.1GHz is plenty for most everything to run perfectly smoothly and it doesn't affect the GPU so gaming remains excellent. Personally I don't find it hugely useful (maybe an extra hour with my use) but it sure doesn't hurt anything
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what do you mean not useful? It is actually. hehe. I mean it gives me more battery life. Do you keep yours ON all the time too?
I've found another great app for battery saving, which switch on/off data connections smarter than Power Saver. I'm talking about GreenPower Free Battery Saver / GreenPower Premium. I hope this helps you. It helped me.
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what do you mean not useful? It is actually. hehe. I mean it gives me more battery life. Do you keep yours ON all the time too?
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Like I said, with my usage I only get about another hour, and yes that's with it on the whole time. I don't doubt that the way others use their phone could make it have a larger effect (I'm jealous of these people ) , but for me 1hr doesn't cross into the "useful" category.
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MoshuXXL said:
I've found another great app for battery saving, which switch on/off data connections smarter than Power Saver. I'm talking about GreenPower Free Battery Saver / GreenPower Premium. I hope this helps you. It helped me.
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Thanks, I'll try it out! Do you have any experiences with Greenify?
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On all the time. No slowdown.
On all the time.... So far so good .... No lag.
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On all the time.... So far so good .... No lag.
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Forcing the CPU to under clock won't affect your performance but potentially greatly improve battery life, so why not.
Do you use some kind of apps to kill running applications? Or you think that you don't need that and you have enough battery for a day?
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I don't bother, I've had no problems with battery life. I usually go 1.5d on a charge.
On healthy Android you should not use any Task Killer because is not needed and it's not a good solution but sometime I used Task Killer because my cooked Android didn't do well his job so I tried to help.
its usually a bad thing to use a task killer because android will have to restart alot of those services it kills which burns more battery than it saves.
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its usually a bad thing to use a task killer because android will have to restart alot of those services it kills which burns more battery than it saves.
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^ That ^
Moze666 said:
Do you use some kind of apps to kill running applications? Or you think that you don't need that and you have enough battery for a day?
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Each app has a set criteria and if you use an app killer then you are wasting your time because the app will simply restart when the app's criteria is met again.
Your best bet is to use apps like autostarts or greenify or both, as they will alter the set criteria and will actually save battery.
Been using autostarts for years, you'd be surprised to see what starts up and when.
Avoid active task killers like the plague they're all crap.
I was using autostarts on my X10, but I was rooted then and now I'm not rooted, so I will look up greenify
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I have been using Qualcomm Snapdragon BatteryGuru since I last flashed 290. It's a bit vague about what it does (other than give you charge reminders and control some background data for some apps), but I can easily stretch a charge into 2d if I want to. Obviously, heavy use still tops out around 18h, but it does seem to make some improvements. Wish I knew more about what it was doing, though.
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I have been using Qualcomm Snapdragon BatteryGuru since I last flashed 290. It's a bit vague about what it does (other than give you charge reminders and control some background data for some apps), but I can easily stretch a charge into 2d if I want to. Obviously, heavy use still tops out around 18h, but it does seem to make some improvements. Wish I knew more about what it was doing, though.
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Exact the same experiece here! :good: