I was wondering is there an app which allows you to limit the programs that run during stand-by? I know there are already apps like Advance Task Killer, but what I'm referring to is an app that could say let you set only certain programs such as phone, messaging, email, etc. to run on stand-by so your battery isn't being killed by unused apps.
Battery saving apps tend to use more battery than they save. Remember that they have to be constantly running to monitor the rest of the phone.
Freeze the apps u use once-in-a-blue-moon using TiBu.
Avoid using task killers and battery savers.
Take a look at Juice Defender, it handles turning off the various antenna's depending upon usage.
I think the greatest problem with the sgm is batterylife. My wife and I have both the sgm. She've got stock rom and I custom rom md-utility. My battery life is a little better, but not so much. Her apps are fb whatsapp and mine fb twitter tapatalk. Tried to deinstall fb, but still it sucks. Is the batterlife better with mini2?
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battery life is always an issue for android and iOS smartphones
For good battery I guess Nokia still leads. Even with Windows Phone.
coolsandie said:
For good battery I guess Nokia still leads. Even with Windows Phone.
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With great features comes short battery life but there are various ways in which you can extend the battery life uptill a certain extent .
Try these methods :
Use Android’s Built-in Battery Usage Screen
There’s a screen built into Android that most casual users probably don’t even know about, and it can tell you exactly what is killing your battery. Head into Settings –> About Phone –> Battery use to see what has been killing your battery life.
From this screen, you can usually see what apps are the worst offenders, and you will probably notice that the biggest problem—at least, the biggest one that we can fix—is actually the backlight on the phone. Personally I’d prefer to talk less to other humans, but that isn’t always an option!
Note: on my phone, I’ve already configured the backlight to not be very bright—normally that number would be a lot higher.
Adjust the Backlight to be Less Bright
Since we’ve already determined that the backlight is usually the biggest problem, you should probably adjust the settings. Head into Settings –> Display –> Brightness, where you can choose to automatically adjust, which usually works fairly well, or you can just turn the brightness down to the lowest acceptable level.
You should make sure that the screen timeout value is set to turn off quickly as well.
Disable Your Wi-Fi When You Don’t Need It
Wi-Fi can really speed up accessing data on your phone, but it can also be a big drain on the battery if you don’t need it enabled, especially when you are out and about… The phone will try and scan for a wireless network even though you may not want it to.
To enable Airplane mode, you can head into Settings –> Wireless & networks–> Airplane mode.
You can easily toggle the Wi-Fi on or off with a widget or shortcut—there’s a built-in widget included in Android phones, or you can use the AnyCut or BetterCut utilities to create your own shortcuts to directly turn them on or off without requiring a widget.
Disable Bluetooth if You Don’t Use It
If you aren’t using a wireless headset, there’s no reason to have Bluetooth running all the time, and you should probably cut it off to save the battery life. If you never use it at all, head into Settings –> Wireless & networks–> Bluetooth
You can also enable or disable the Bluetooth when you do need it, using the power widget.
Use the Power Widget to Easily Toggle GPS, Bluetooth, Wireless, and Screen Brightness
Android includes a built-in Power Widget that can easily toggle these settings on or off—just long press on the background of one of your screens, choose Widget –> Power Control to add it to the screen. You’ll notice in this example screenshot that I’ve got my GPS enabled but I’m not using Wi-Fi or Bluetooth at the moment—the icon all the way on the right lets you easily toggle the screen brightness settings.
This is probably the simplest and easiest thing that you can do to save your battery without having to dig into the settings all the time.
Disable Apps that Sync Constantly
The built-in Email application (not the Gmail one, which uses Push technology) can suck the battery badly, because it syncs on a too-regular basis, especially when you have lots of accounts—each one of them is set to sync every 15 minutes. You’d be better off setting it up to sync manually, but if you want it to sync automatically, you should set it to sync less frequently.
Open up the Email application, head to your account, and choose Account settings –> Email check frequency from the menu. Change this to something more like an hour… or never. You can always hit refresh manually when you want to read your email.
The same thing holds true for other accounts, like Twitter clients, which are even less important to update all the time. For Seesmic, you can head into Settings –> Background Updates from the main screen. For the official Twitter app, the settings are similar.
The Facebook application polls automatically in the background, and you can customize the refresh interval for that as well—if you don’t need Facebook updating all the time, you should set this value as high as possible.
From the main Facebook screen—the one with the icons—head into Settings –> Refresh interval from the menu.
Disable the GPS Location Features
One of the biggest battery sucking features on my droid is the GPS… When I have navigation going, the battery dies far too fast, so I end up having to keep it plugged in the whole time I am driving. This makes sense… but what you might not know is that a lot of other applications use the GPS as well.
You can also change the GPS to use wireless networks, and uncheck the option for Use GPS satellites—this will make the GPS a little less accurate, but it will save your battery. Note that you probably want the real GPS enabled if you’re using Google Maps Navigation.
Additionally, you should turn off the geolocation features in your Twitter client, weather application, or whatever other apps that you really don’t need them in. If you want to keep it enabled, that’s great, just realize that it does drain the battery, so uncheck this option to help.
Use a Task Manager to See What is Always Running
It is a wise decision to have a copy of Advanced Task Cleaner or a similar application installed on your phone to help you kill applications that don’t need to be running, but more so that you can see what exactly is launching itself repeatedly in the background. You can setup an auto-kill list for applications you don’t use that often—make them cut off when you shut off the screen, or after an interval.
Note: If you’ve configured your application settings to not pull down lots of data or do checking in the background, it’s not quite as important to keep tasks killed all the time—that’s really what kills your battery, not having them sitting idle.
You can also configure advanced task manager to show you CPU usage for each app, which is a more useful meter than memory usage when it comes to battery life.
Disable or Remove Applications That You Aren’t Using
Once you have identified the application that you don’t want running all the time, check in the settings to see if it can be removed from running in the background. Some applications will give you an option for notifications that can be turned off if you don’t need them, making the application not check in the background so often.
It should go without saying, but we’ll say it anyway—you should remove the apps that you don’t need anymore, especially the ones that are draining your battery as determined from the android battery panel or task manager. Head into Settings –> Applications –> Manage Applications and then you can click the Uninstall button for an app.
Disable Home Screen Widgets You Don’t Need
If you’ve got loads of widgets that are pulling data from the web, that means they are likely pulling down data in the background all the time. You should try not to go overboard with these, or remove the ones you don’t actually need.
Disable Animated Wallpaper
Yeah, that sweet animated wallpaper doesn’t help your battery any. Get rid of it for a small extra battery savings.
Keep the Battery from Getting Too Hot
One of the quickest ways to kill a battery is to leave it out in the sun—try and keep your phone somewhere that isn’t too hot whenever possible. You’ll end up needing to replace the battery a lot quicker if you don’t.
And my personal recommendation is to close your phone in the night which will save your battery . You can also use call forwarding if you get important calls in the night .
Hope this helps
All the credits of these tips goes to http://www.howtogeek.com
After rooting Battey really drains fast....
Shank73 said:
After rooting Battey really drains fast....
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Rooting is only to gain superuser access right ?!
I'm just thinking, where's the relation between gaining superuser access on the system and battery drain ?
For example with laptop,
If we logon with superuser user account, does it make the battery run out faster than logon if we logon with guest account ?
.:Sorry for bad English:.
Battery life is one of the biggest problems with android though it has got better with time
and will continuse to do so, you just have to wait
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arcootje said:
I think the greatest problem with the sgm is batterylife. My wife and I have both the sgm. She've got stock rom and I custom rom md-utility. My battery life is a little better, but not so much. Her apps are fb whatsapp and mine fb twitter tapatalk. Tried to deinstall fb, but still it sucks. Is the batterlife better with mini2?
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Maybe you can adjust the CPU frequency when screen-off around 122MHz-245 MHz, it helps, even not significantly affect the battery life.
I had a galaxy mini and i can say the battery life is really short for what it packs. I will give you some tips that helped me get more juice out of it.
Use flight mode at night. This really helps if you do end up with some battery left at the end of the day.
Disable network data when you are not using it.
Under wireless and network, mobile networks, change the network mode to gsm only. If your phone is on auto, it will constantly search for a better signal and will change fron 3g to gsm and back many times. This really drains the battery so having it set on one option will help, also gsm netork uses less battery by itself so you can get more talk time.
Go to play store and download an app like titanium backup. Uninstall all the apps that you don't use. Really, all the apps that you never enter.
Optional, get advanced task killer and kill processes from time to time.
After doing all that, your battery life should get considerably better, everything else is common sense.
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Battery life?
I only unmarked the 2 Google Services Locations on Settings + GPS.
Now I had battery at 51% during 25 hours and deep sleep 99%.
Only phone. No wifi nor 3G.
battery life is very weak on mini.
even with everything off and I mean everything (removed many system apps) battery lasts 2 days and maybe a half.
just by standing idle ( no background apps, services or internet running) it saps all of the battery
Hello. I'm new here. I would like to know what is the most appropriate android version and rom on Z1? I came from Xperia T2 Ultra still have it. Usually I get around 8-9-10hrs Screen on time. At 10+% I think. Thats mixed with some texting, brwosing web, youtube, album pictures, some.camera, wifi always on with facebook on and little gaming. with Stamina Mode plus.Queue checked. Well when I got the Z1 battery life was terrible. Usually I got 6hrs on screen. @720p resolution. with wifi.only.browsing and texting. Battery test app by Sony has Pass remarks on all testimg what could.be.the.problem here? Thank you. Well I repaired it with companion to see if it improves tomorrow or the next day. Please help me.on.my Z1 currently on .216 firmware. Help please.
That's the price you have to pay the awesome performance and features . Besides 6hrs SOT is pretty great on z1(I usually only get 5-5.5hrs).
Yup 6 hours of SOT is pretty good on this device
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Yup 6 hours of SOT is pretty good on this device
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Thanks for the reply but is it the only.possible way????? Anyway to improve that? Currently disappointed about the battery life...
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That's the price you have to pay the awesome performance and features . Besides 6hrs SOT is pretty great on z1(I usually only get 5-5.5hrs).
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Thanks for reply but is there anyway to get more? I DID NIT.EVEN.Used Data connection on this screen.time disappointing.....
Anyway without sacrificing GHz or Gpu speed?
DIsable unused apps, disable location tracking for your google account, sync only relevant things, use Adguard to stop ads for browser and apps aswell as it does have a firewall so block apps that dont need to phone home or have internet access. Ditch drainers like Facebook app, Snapchat and avoid so called "Perfomance tuners/optimizers" as they kill apps that are restarted within minutes or seconds draining the perfomance and battery. Set your wifi to not scan for open networks, disable "Allow apps to scan even if wifi is off". In Settings - Security - Apps with usage access, allow Google Play and Google Play Services to have access if you experience wakelocks. Check the rest of your apps settings and disable unecessary notification systems, push notifications and so on. Some tips.
Lower the brightness,turn off vibration,uninstall or greenify battery hogging apps , keep stamina mode on 24/7 .try to use something lighter than chrome, for browsin cuz chrome really likes drinking battery juice. Those are stuff that will help.But underclocking will also help.
But i dont think that ur going to anywhere near the battery life of that T2U.
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DIsable unused apps, disable location tracking for your google account, sync only relevant things, use Adguard to stop ads for browser and apps aswell as it does have a firewall so block apps that dont need to phone home or have internet access. Ditch drainers like Facebook app, Snapchat and avoid so called "Perfomance tuners/optimizers" as they kill apps that are restarted within minutes or seconds draining the perfomance and battery. Set your wifi to not scan for open networks, disable "Allow apps to scan even if wifi is off". In Settings - Security - Apps with usage access, allow Google Play and Google Play Services to have access if you experience wakelocks. Check the rest of your apps settings and disable unecessary notification systems, push notifications and so on. Some tips.
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Well I.have 1hr.and.33minutes screen on time. I DID NOT.EVEN USE DATA Connection, either WIFI at those times. Just Camera and Album ALL Hogging battery eater apps are off. I think this isnt normal for Z1. I think there is wrong on my Z1??? I read people that used data with snycing apps plus camera and browse they got 5 hrs screen on.time but my usage was not even close to that and it already drained the battery??? What can I do more??? this is already 2 hrs old my auntie gave it.to.me.
(Settings that consume battery more)
What are the settings related to battery you have found to enhance the usage like screen resolution, power saving, AOD etc.
I want to use my phone like a flagship not like a crippled one and get better battery life. But I seem to get less battery somehow due to my settings? Not sure. Please let me know.
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Check out my screenshots. My battery usage from last night. I use samsungs launcher. Bluetooth I manually turn it on when I need it. Also, turned off Bixby home.
I average about 5-6 screen on time, and lasts me all day. I don't use power saving mode at all, in fact I keep the entertainment mode on the whole time. Same for my data/sync. I have outlook, Gmail (2 accounts), typical social media apps (hangout, Instagram, snapchat, Facebook).
Main usage: xda, Instagram, snapchat, groupme, hangouts, YouTube, crunchyroll, Google's assistant feed, emails.
Would be nice if somebody told us what settings consumes battery most. And which doesn't have any impact at all.
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Would be nice if somebody told us what settings consumes battery most. And which doesn't have any impact at all.
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You're right. Edited OP.
As much as I love chrome with all it's features, it's a big battery hog for me.
Does anyone have a browser to recommend that doesn't suck a lot of juice?
One feature I 100% need is to be able to import my current favorites passwords etc and sync them from my pc to my Mi8.
Edge and Firefox can do that, but I haven't used them so I don't know how much battery they drain.
Thanks for any suggestions!