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Hey guys, just got my O2x a week ago and its great. It was flashed with 2.3 and at some point I tested updating using LG Suite and I went to 2.2.2
Anyway, just asking if how long do your batteries (stock) last? Tested mine about 3 days ago and within a day it got drained. Just using browser and played some music and that's it, no Youtube or heavy games or whatsoever. Already rooted my phone and removed everything that LG has there except for the keyboard, Suite, Mobile Support, and Home Launcher. Still, same results. Please help!!
I have been using the free version of juice defender and that has help my battery a little so I now cab get a good couple of days out of it. The free version only really stops data when the phone is locked but it seems to work quite well. I also installed juice plotter to see when my battery gets eaten.
Thanks will do that. So basically battery drains more if mobile data is on? Haven't really experience that on my old phone (which is not Android OS).
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Thanks will do that. So basically battery drains more if mobile data is on? Haven't really experience that on my old phone (which is not Android OS).
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I had to charge mine every night and sometimes 2 times a day.
Now, on a GB ROM, and with mobile data OFF, it last for at least a day (24h). This is with WiFi on (when awake of course).
Install a widget to quickly turn on/off mobile data, and only use it when you need. Then your battery will not drain that quickly.
Sorry for my bad english
My battery "record" is over 2 days Well, actually allmost 4 days, but then I didn't have WiFi on neither..
Mobile data is the killer only for badly done apps. Things like fb and twitter that sync every hour etc. Make sure when you install every app you check its sync status. Make them as infrequent as possible
Also try see how low you can get the brightness. Mine stays at 30% until out in the sun (have a widget to up it).
Remember even if not using your phone at home etc to switch tho wifi on as its much better
On good days can get 30/40 hours between charges when low use
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Worth to mention is that to get the less battery drain from turning on the wifi you have to turn of the data. Some people forget that and leave both on making it a double drain.
My only tip that I have that I know works is use it as little as possible. Turn off every thing that's not needed in the matter of syncing.
I'm no expert but is that right? All of the data goes through the wifi when on and connected so data connection is irrelevant surely?
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Thanks for the input and somehow, I can feel the effects now. Also put LBE Security and turned off most mobile data permission on my apps and even if my Wifi is on, not much of a battery drain but at least it has less loss.
i think that 1day is the real time of this battery with 1charge...intense use...
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I'm no expert but is that right? All of the data goes through the wifi when on and connected so data connection is irrelevant surely?
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Yes when wifi is on data is automatically off.... You cannot have both on...
Wifi is no very power consuming when it's connected idle to a network, but think to turn it off if no hotspot is there because network scan drains a lot.
O2X withTopogigi ROM 1.3/NeoBlaze kernel
Want to make it last long? Dont use it!!!
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Want to make it last long? Dont use it!!!
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LOL.. anyways, i use juice defender. It does help somehow.
I have a same problem. Using my Optimus with MIUI ROM (Gingerbread 2.3.5) i only have 7 hours.
In my opinion,turning off all data connection to improving battery life, it's not a good idea when we choose Android phone.
So?
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Try to install djdroid 0.9.1 !!!! With 3g data always on, 2 email with push, some phone and sms, and whatsapp always on i'm on 24h!!!!!!
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arifbsantoso said:
I have a same problem. Using my Optimus with MIUI ROM (Gingerbread 2.3.5) i only have 7 hours.
In my opinion,turning off all data connection to improving battery life, it's not a good idea when we choose Android phone.
So?
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O_O My phone came with v20c 2.2.2 and had no issues, ran 3days per charge. Wish I had backups of original ril and BB for they were 100% on any I've tried since going through a bunch of custom roms.
I get 10 hours of *idle* time with 3g enabled. With Juicedefender things are okay, I almost always make it through the day and sometimes even 2 days when I'm not doing anything, but the battery just goes nuts if you use it. Sometimes I browse the web for a minute and bam 5% is gone, and I'm thinking to myself "what the hell just happened?".
You have to be very careful with apps that do not close properly. I discovered that Spotify was draining my phone like crazy and causing it to become very hot (draining it even faster, heat = dead battery in no-time) with no way to prevent this other than uninstalling the app. Then I installed a beta version of Spotify from their website and all is well. AccuWeather also goes nuts sometimes but that's resolved by deleting the widget on my home screen.
I run the latest nightly of CM7. Battery life seems to be about the same as the stock ROM for me. What's interesting is that active 3g data use drains the battery more than playing a game. I can play emulated PSX games for about 5 hours straight on a full battery with data controlled by JD.
Everyone should try the latest rom v20e (or the derivated version topogigi's rom). For me, it improves battery a lot! I don't even use Juice defender (and some people said it worsens battery).
v20e
yes Im on V20e and my battery is preety good !
Almost 2 days and I write almost 100 messanger/day and always wifi on checking emails,fb and more !
Hey guys, haven't posted since testing for about week, I guess...
Anyway, battery seems to be ok now. Juice Defender and Plotter works great, plus now on sleep, it just drain 1% per 2-3hrs or sometimes nothing at all, and its not SOD thats for sure.
Also tried Battery Calibration, it worked somehow also so with lots of messaging, wifi, FB, Tap Sonic, plus downloading torrents, lasted 24hrs in full charge with constant use.
2g + Wi-Fi drains the battery much faster than 3G + Wi-Fi for me. Both have a good signal strength.
Anyone know why this is?
Hi everyone,
I brought this wonderful phone (or atleast i thought wonderful) couple of weeks ago ( delivered on release date)
Now i expected the battery to be good as its 2300 mah but it the phone doesnt seem to last no way near as long as other claim i had an s3 before this htc one, 9 times outta 10 i only had to charge it once a day and never activated power saver mode,
On the htc one i constantly have power saver turn on and it just doesnt seem to be doing anything , i havnt changed my usage of my phone, if anything ive used it less,
For example the s3 lasted my full 8 hour shift with nothing running expcept the tunein radio app, the htc one only seems to last 4-5 hours with everything closed except the tune in radio app. Ive not changed networks so low signal shouldnt be causing the drain as there isnt a difference in signal levels,
So is there anything else i can do to stop bettery draining. Bluetooth, wifi, nfc, etc all turned off, screen on auto brightness ,
Sent from my htc one with just 26% battery left and i havnt even rrached 4 hours of my shift yet, left house at 9:45 with 100%
You probably have an app preventing the phone from sleeping. There are loads of tutorials on how to check for partial wake locks to fix this.
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You probably have an app preventing the phone from sleeping. There are loads of tutorials on how to check for partial wake locks to fix this.
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Whenever im finished with the phone i always double clicked the home button a remove all apps, is this different ? If so could you tell me how i find if an app is preventing the phone from sleeping ?
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Whenever im finished with the phone i always double clicked the home button a remove all apps, is this different ? If so could you tell me how i find if an app is preventing the phone from sleeping ?
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Try this or this to detect the wakelocks. For more info on wakelock, read this thread
Definitely sounds like you have an app which is preventing the phone from sleeping and you should be getting a pretty easy 1 day out the battery at the very least in moderate use.
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Whenever im finished with the phone i always double clicked the home button a remove all apps, is this different ? If so could you tell me how i find if an app is preventing the phone from sleeping ?
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How have you TuneIn setup.
As general when you press pause rather than stop, itt continues to record that station and is always active. Iif you go into the app settings and turn off 'autostop recording' which should be defaulted to 8 hours - turn this to never and try again to see if it improves. I've seen TuneIn eat battery life on other devices where ths happens (people thinkits stopped when its just paused and recording away in the background...
That's possible ^^^^, however if he was just to hit exit on the app it should stop the services. That and really want to be sure, swype it away in the multitasking section.
Can try Betterbatterystats in the play store as a lot of people rave about that.
Also make sure Google Now is disabled. It sucks battery life like no other. Awesome tool, however to much drain on the battery.
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Would be great if you posted a picture of the battery use. You must have a wake lock.
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Guaranteed that you have horrible wakelock issues. Rogue apps, bad settings, and anything in between could be the cause.
I can go to bed with the phone fully charged and, 8 hours later, wake it up to see it's still at 100% (mobile data, GPS, WiFi left active.)
Once I'm bored of constantly picking it up and playing with it (i.e. get back to standard usage patterns) I get the feeling it will likely run to 3 or more days between charges. Won't be this month though
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I can go to bed with the phone fully charged and, 8 hours later, wake it up to see it's still at 100% (mobile data, GPS, WiFi left active.)
Once I'm bored of constantly picking it up and playing with it (i.e. get back to standard usage patterns) I get the feeling it will likely run to 3 or more days between charges. Won't be this month though
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The Same happens with my phone.
The battery is really good. It feels like it is the battery time of my Onex x3
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Well there are various reasons for this..Maybe an app that drains much battery not leaving cpu to sleep.You can download better battery stats and see the wakelocks and the cpu states that your cpu runs on.. You may also need a battery calibration.It will not increase the battery capacity of course but it will eliminate the faulty battery stats bin that tells the system the battery percentage.You may have for example 25% battery left and your device may show 2% or even close.
I assume that you do not have wifi always on, screen on for hours or using mobile data..The consumption of battery is huge.
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I can go to bed with the phone fully charged and, 8 hours later, wake it up to see it's still at 100% (mobile data, GPS, WiFi left active.)
Once I'm bored of constantly picking it up and playing with it (i.e. get back to standard usage patterns) I get the feeling it will likely run to 3 or more days between charges. Won't be this month though
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how ? when u first got the phone ? did you turn it on or did you charge it?
Worth dialling *#*#3424#*#* and doing the battery test, although as everyone else has said it's more than likely an app.
I had a sgs2 over 2 years,rooted and optimized in battery usage, i was already happy. Now with the htc one it's a completely new experience....already now after a few days,with root but still no tweaks i get 60% left at 11pm!before the sgs2 was empty...can't wait
For fiture developement!!
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Download Better Battery Stats, leave it for a day and then upload a screenshot of your wakelocks. My battery is easily lasting the day (ended at 11pm at 76% yesterday)
Same-ish problem.
Hey i'm having a similar problem,
I bought the HTC One (silver, 32Gb) A couple of days ago and the battery isn't even lasting a day with what I'd say as Medium/light usage. I do leave Mobile data on so i can get Skype/Facebook/line calls ect instantly, but i assumed that's normal.
I just left my phone alone for an hour with the screen off and it lost 4%, could this be a battery defect?
Are you telling me to get over a days usage, i have to leave mobile data turned off and only turn it on when i want to use Skype ect?
I saw a post above that one guys gets 3 days of usage with Mobile date, Wifi, etc all turned on. Is this the norm, or does he have a super hero battery?
I see the general consensus is to download "Better Battery Stats" and send pics of wakelocks, but Is there comparable app for free that will do the trick, as i don't have money currently on my English account.
Thanks to all those taking time out of their own lives to help others.
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You probably have an app preventing the phone from sleeping. There are loads of tutorials on how to check for partial wake locks to fix this.
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Uh.. Tune in radio playing is a wake lock.
You XDA'ers automatic response system.
Hello guys, sorry for my bad english, but I'm not American. Well, my question is:
I bought from a guy a Galaxy S I900b, Brazilian model with digital TV. Came with stock 2.3. As I had already read enough before, upgraded to JWB Saurom with semaphore kernel, which I think is the default for this rom. Well, the phone had very poor battery life, evn on idle. Then upgraded to 10.2 CM. I saw that had some wakelocks, and with BBS and the help here, I used the Scan Media Root and my problems are gone in iddle. So, my phone goes into deep sleep and today during my sleep, only lost 3% battery, 3% battery drain on idle during about 5-6 hours it very good to me. But during use, it ends up very fast, and with GSAM and standard monitor of the android, I saw that after the screen, the Android system was what had higher %% battery. So what could it be ? The battery life is ok, checked on info, and its condition is 'good'. I use to Greenify, and close almost every game\app, so running is just grenify and ram manager pro.
So the prob just could be a app or the 'android system' ? Or even hardware ?
I dont have much time now, so any info or screenshot you want, I can provide later
Thanks
What about your connections? Do you have 3G/wifi enabled at all times?
calibrate....maybe useless, but u can try....but somehow, try bigger mAh battery, maybe.....n maybe .... it will help.
juz charge it with screen turn on till it full, n waste it to 0% till it shut down, turn it on n charge it with screen on till it full again, u ll be fine
if problem occur again, keep an eye for sneaky app that run at background (email...exchange etc) n juz delete some sys app that u dont use using titanium.
if it still occur again, wait for arc reactor battery....
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What about your connections? Do you have 3G/wifi enabled at all times?
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So buddy I've disabled 3G, just 2G, I barely make a call, just wifi. But dont matter what, if is just passing by the menus or using opera mini, using it drain battery a lot,
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calibrate....maybe useless, but u can try....but somehow, try bigger mAh battery, maybe.....n maybe .... it will help.
juz charge it with screen turn on till it full, n waste it to 0% till it shut down, turn it on n charge it with screen on till it full again, u ll be fine
if problem occur again, keep an eye for sneaky app that run at background (email...exchange etc) n juz delete some sys app that u dont use using titanium.
if it still occur again, wait for arc reactor battery....
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I've deleted the batterystats.bin and used until 0%, so charged while off, but nothing :C
It's true that the battery needs to 'learn' ? Like, a few charges and discharges and could estabilize ?
I'll take a few screenshots right now
Callibration of you battery eg: Wipe battery stats is onluy helpfull when you get weird battery stats.
If you are on any CyanogenMod ROM you have to get used to the higher ammount of battery use by the phone. The application Greenify can help a lot by hibernating the huge battery suckers like facebook and google maps.
Some tips:
- use 2G instead of 3G
- Turn WIFI off when you're outside the house or leaving for some time
- Turn GPS/Bluetooth on only when you're about to use it
- Dont use taskkillers (they are used to free up ram but killing apps makes android restarts them and this consumes extra juice)
- Put brightness on Auto
- Use a dark theme and background/lockscreenwallpaper
- Dont recharge your phone when below 5% this can damage the battery
- A new battery needs to "Get used to" the life of being a battery xD After a few recharging cycles it will work like normal
Here some screenshots, if need more, just ask
Note: Was with 14%batt, rebooted and drops to 11-10%
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Callibration of you battery eg: Wipe battery stats is onluy helpfull when you get weird battery stats.
If you are on any CyanogenMod ROM you have to get used to the higher ammount of battery use by the phone. The application Greenify can help a lot by hibernating the huge battery suckers like facebook and google maps.
Some tips:
- use 2G instead of 3G
- Turn WIFI off when you're outside the house or leaving for some time
- Turn GPS/Bluetooth on only when you're about to use it
- Dont use taskkillers (they are used to free up ram but killing apps makes android restarts them and this consumes extra juice)
- Put brightness on Auto
- Use a dark theme and background/lockscreenwallpaper
- Dont recharge your phone when below 5% this can damage the battery
- A new battery needs to "Get used to" the life of being a battery xD After a few recharging cycles it will work like normal
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i am using greenify on almost everything.
used to use ram manager, but now i've disable it.
brightness is on low
I really dunno what 2 do ... almost 1 week with it and this insane drain, everyone says that plays or browser on wifi and get almost 10 hours... my dream this happen to me lol
Remember that this is just on use, on idle it use virtually nothing, like I said, almost 3% on sleep, but is just I start use with app or browser and its gone
Screens are from a too short period of useage. Use it from fully charged, and make some new screenies This can help futher
Well i got problems with my battery too so im planning to buy a new one because this one cant even handle 3-4 hours when im doing something like playing games,or listening music...Just buy new battery with more mAh and dont get bother with this :laugh:
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Screens are from a too short period of useage. Use it from fully charged, and make some new screenies This can help futher
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ok buddy, will charge and use a little
LyQQ said:
Well i got problems with my battery too so im planning to buy a new one because this one cant even handle 3-4 hours when im doing something like playing games,or listening music...Just buy new battery with more mAh and dont get bother with this :laugh:
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but in aps, show good battery state :/
think that I cant trust in it ... and will have to buy a new one
if calibrate doesnt work, hardware faulty, change ur battery mate.
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About 2 hours later that I fully charged, here are some ss
Just used whatsapp and opera in this time
I was thinking in change my kernel, currently I'm using semaphore 3.0 with CM10.2, is Latrop or Mackay better in battery life ?
I think its my last shot ... I'll provide a new battery next week, but i've heard some people with batt probs that even with new batt the problem persists :crying:
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About 2 hours later that I fully charged, here are some ss
Just used whatsapp and opera in this time
I was thinking in change my kernel, currently I'm using semaphore 3.0 with CM10.2, is Latrop or Mackay better in battery life ?
I think its my last shot ... I'll provide a new battery next week, but i've heard some people with batt probs that even with new batt the problem persists :crying:
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It looks like wifi and 3G have been kept on for most/all of the time. Turning those off while you're not using them may significantly increase battery life.
Also, related to kernels, personally I've found Mackay to be a bit better in terms of battery.
Also it looks like your screen's pretty bright if 61% of the battery usage is because of it. So if you don't need it so bright turning the brightness down may help.
Start by doing those, and see how your battery life fares first- if not much changes, then it may help getting a bettery battery/changing rom even.
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Soryuu said:
It looks like wifi and 3G have been kept on for most/all of the time. Turning those off while you're not using them may significantly increase battery life.
Also, related to kernels, personally I've found Mackay to be a bit better in terms of battery.
Also it looks like your screen's pretty bright if 61% of the battery usage is because of it. So if you don't need it so bright turning the brightness down may help.
Start by doing those, and see how your battery life fares first- if not much changes, then it may help getting a bettery battery/changing rom even.
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So, like i said, in this 2 hours after charge, i've used opera mini with wifi, I dont use 3g. Right now the battery is less than 10%... it's strange since have people telling that can use almost 5 hours wifi and the battery is > 50%
And the brightness is at lowest bright :\
The problem could be some corrupted file ? I have the options:
- format EVERYTHING, and dont use titanium backup, since somthing can be corrupted.
- change my kernel to Mackay
- change my room back to SAUROM 2.3.6 adn semaphore kernel
I'm very sad cuz I have a very old Nokia E5 that can be on with wifi almost or more than 10hours ... and this phone can barely hold 5hour
What u suggest me to do ?
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So, like i said, in this 2 hours after charge, i've used opera mini with wifi, I dont use 3g. Right now the battery is less than 10%... it's strange since have people telling that can use almost 5 hours wifi and the battery is > 50%
And the brightness is at lowest bright :\
The problem could be some corrupted file ? I have the options:
- format EVERYTHING, and dont use titanium backup, since somthing can be corrupted.
- change my kernel to Mackay
- change my room back to SAUROM 2.3.6 adn semaphore kernel
I'm very sad cuz I have a very old Nokia E5 that can be on with wifi almost or more than 10hours ... and this phone can barely hold 5hour
What u suggest me to do ?
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How long have you been using the rom? Roms take time to calibrate the battery and this is through charge/discharge cycles.
Alternatively, go into Performance settings and change the profile to powersave/conservative (it differs from rom to rom). Lock the min CPU frequency to 200mHz- apparently this helps.
Again, this would change depending on your kernel.
And if you have a three year old battery like mine, best not to expect miracles...
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Soryuu said:
How long have you been using the rom? Roms take time to calibrate the battery and this is through charge/discharge cycles.
Alternatively, go into Performance settings and change the profile to powersave/conservative (it differs from rom to rom). Lock the min CPU frequency to 200mHz- apparently this helps.
Again, this would change depending on your kernel.
And if you have a three year old battery like mine, best not to expect miracles...
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Using bout 2 days ... but i didnt knew about ' calibrate '. Good to know that
Now i've formated everything and will put a stock 2.3 and see in a couple of days the perfomance ... if gets better, I put the saurom 2.3.6 and be with it, cuz 2.3.6 on brazilian model allow to use digital tv, and 2.3 everyone says is economic.
I'll get this updated if my situation changes, if not, will buy a new battery
Thanks for all your help
Note: How long your batt last ? With high\low usage
Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone is experiencing significantly worse battery life since the update. Today I kept my phone in battery saver mode all day, barely used it, stayed mostly in my apartment, and it's down to 15% after 12 hours. I'm pretty disappointed, as I had read that battery life was supposed to actually be marginally improved with 4.3.
Looking at my battery usage, the Android System percentage seems way up from what it used to be, though I might be making this up. Also, some of the apps I used a bit (Facebook, Instagram, whatever) aren't showing up in the usage stats.
I recall that my battery life wasn't so great for the first couple days after I initially got the phone, so I've been hoping that it just needs to re-adjust to my usage, but that hasn't happened yet. Otherwise, any ideas what I might try to fix this?
I've attached some screenshots of my usage. Any input would be appreciated. Thanks!
Its not just you, I also noticed worse battery life on 4.3.
Your not alone, use a program to monitor battery use ie gsam monitor.I noticed Google services is waking my phone like 220 times in 12 hours. My battery use is up and I'm getting like 9 hours less time because of it.
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Me too! I thought battery life was supposed to be better with this. My phone is getting super hot now and dying fast,
I had similar issues, especially where I work. That place is on a fringe location where it switches 4g and 3g depending on how deep in the store you are. Where I work, I would always have 3g and the phone would get super hot and I'd burn through 50, 60 or more percent battery in 5 hours or so. It was rediculous. This afternoon, I said screw it and did a factory reset (I'm bone stock btw). Tonight, I worked a 7 hour shift and had 4g most of the time (never happened before) and the phone stayed cool to the touch. I lost about 20% battery. Just something you guys might wanna try. I know its a pain in the butt to do, but, at least for me, it seems to have been worth it.
Im running on stock rom, and my battery is much better than before. Maybe it has something to do with the rom?
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Im running on stock rom, and my battery is much better than before. Maybe it has something to do with the rom?
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I'm stock as well. I can try a factory reset, but I'd like to try anything else possible first.
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I'm stock as well. I can try a factory reset, but I'd like to try anything else possible first.
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Do you have an app that would probably keep waking up the phone?
Has anyone tried flashing the older radio over the new firmware? I think the signal is weaker with the new radio. Maybe it's switching back and forth between 2g/3g/4g causing high system usage stats. Can anyone try and report back?
Sent from my rooted, s-off'd HTC One running Stock 4.3
pmacevad said:
Has anyone tried flashing the older radio over the new firmware? I think the signal is weaker with the new radio. Maybe it's switching back and forth between 2g/3g/4g causing high system usage stats. Can anyone try and report back?
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I was at home on WiFi for almost the whole day, so I doubt that's the problem, though it's not impossible. I just installed WakeLock Detector a few minutes ago although it's only been running for a sec, so far looks like the Sprint Visual Voicemail app is using CPU wakelock a LOT. Could this be the culprit?
pmacevad said:
Has anyone tried flashing the older radio over the new firmware? I think the signal is weaker with the new radio. Maybe it's switching back and forth between 2g/3g/4g causing high system usage stats. Can anyone try and report back?
Sent from my rooted, s-off'd HTC One running Stock 4.3
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I'd buy that, though idk that it explains everything. I generally got good battery life, but I'm lucky enough to get fairly solid 4g at school and home. Work is the only place where it was iffy, and that is also where I had the worst battery life. The signal is not (in my experience) weaker. The bars just reflect data, not voice now, making it seem weaker. The only other weird thing is that the stability of my wifi connections is better than it was before the reset, and that I get 4g at all at work when previously I had to be at the end of the parking lot to get it.
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I was at home on WiFi for almost the whole day, so I doubt that's the problem, though it's not impossible. I just installed WakeLock Detector a few minutes ago although it's only been running for a sec, so far looks like the Sprint Visual Voicemail app is using CPU wakelock a LOT. Could this be the culprit?
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Maybe. Ive also heard that theres a bug in chrome that also wakes your phone. Keep the app running to find out anyways. Ive disabled my visual voicemail since I don't use it myself.
Ever since update my battery is draining crazy. I just woke up and looked at my phone that was plugged in all night. And it's only 44 % charged. WTF!!
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I was at home on WiFi for almost the whole day, so I doubt that's the problem, though it's not impossible. I just installed WakeLock Detector a few minutes ago although it's only been running for a sec, so far looks like the Sprint Visual Voicemail app is using CPU wakelock a LOT. Could this be the culprit?
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I take VVM off my phone, so its not that, at least in my case. I ran system panel yesterday and the top battery consumer is a process called binder_2. Its always that.
To me, turning off 4g made an absurd difference in battery life. There's a bug with 4g for sure. It never reconnects back to 4g for me once it switches to 3g and the drain is just horrible. I literally get 5 times better battery life out of the phone on CDMA only and truly, LTE is not 5 times better. I prefer consistency and better battery life over speed. So I just turned it off.
I read that up there claiming a factory reset eliminated the battery drain. I'll look into it. I just don't want to do a factory reset cause it's too much work.
Mine better! Signal bars lower both wifi & gsm, but... The true result better, I don't know why? Even no wifi signal bars, Internet still works,
neswii said:
To me, turning off 4g made an absurd difference in battery life. There's a bug with 4g for sure. It never reconnects back to 4g for me once it switches to 3g and the drain is just horrible. I literally get 5 times better battery life out of the phone on CDMA only and truly, LTE is not 5 times better. I prefer consistency and better battery life over speed. So I just turned it off.
I read that up there claiming a factory reset eliminated the battery drain. I'll look into it. I just don't want to do a factory reset cause it's too much work.
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That's very similar to what I had going on. I also had some issues where the phone would tell me x amount of internal storagespace remaining after installing certain apps and the reset (seems to have) fixed that too. If you use an app like Helium backup (no root needed) the reset might be a lot less painful, and I'm almost sure it will help you.
Yeah, I don't think it was actually VVM. I tried to let the WakeLock Detector app run for a while, but it kept causing my phone to restart randomly and I'd lose all the data it had collected, so I just uninstalled it. Looking like a hard reset's in my future. Balls.
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Back on ecliptic 4.2.2, superb battery life is back. I'll get back on the 4.3 bandwagon again when we start getting custom kernels to fix what HTC broke.
Is it just for me? After a full charge the screen on time is about 2 hours.. Tried cm11 and other custom roms without luck.. When i bought the phone and wasnt on KitKat the screen could pass 4hours. Huge different!
In battery info the only program that drain the battery is the system it self . any tips?
check your rom and kernel, any overclock setting is active.
check battery usage to find what drain your battery.
Mine have 4h30 - 6h screen on (just wifi, without mobile data)
hxq88 said:
check your rom and kernel, any overclock setting is active.
check battery usage to find what drain your battery.
Mine have 4h30 - 6h screen on (just wifi, without mobile data)
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No overclock set.. Just the system thats drains battery..
@colors Battery life isn't as good as I think it could have been but at completely stock and with nothing on the phone the phones battery is pretty phenomenal, an idle Z1 will stay on for over a week, infact i've seen some phones with 19 days before now quoted within stamina mode.
Just took a pic of one in my workplace and it's saying just over 19 days, that's not too bad for a phone which is always on and capable of receiving apps via wifi (see picture attached)
I know that 19 days is excessive and no one here is ever going to get anywhere near that or even a week, unless you don't use the phone, the problem most of us face is the apps that we use and their footprint on our phones, affecting battery life and performance.
Take a good look at your apps and what you use and see what you could do without or what could be affecting battery.
A clean install will usually give you great battery if theres nothing on the phone to slow it down, eliminating apps one by one might seem mundane but it's key to great battery life, after a while you'll learn whats bad and whats acceptable.
Using the likes of CM11 could cause even greater battery drain as it's all custom stuff, not to mention that some things within the system aren't working as good as they could be, there is still a lot of work before things are perfect, double tap to wake for example is a feature which could cause massive drain.
Always perform a full wipe and don't restore anything via recovery, leave it as a bare rom until you can verify the ROM you are using is without issue.
Hope this helps