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I'm having an issue with my battery lasting barely 12 hours on just calls. I did the #*#*4636 etc.. and under "since last unplugged " it says 34 percent and when I click on it it says time spent without sleeping is 3 hours and 33 minutes. What other info do you guys need I will oblige. Thank you for the help much appreciated .. cm 6.1.0
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Anyone please? My phone died yesterday while I was stuck in the snow and needed help. (NYC)
And I was stranded for 3 hours so any solutions would be helpful. Thank u and happy new year
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I don't know what your problem is, probably something is draining your battery madly! I would suggest installing juiceplotter from the market, and then downloading super power v0.75 BETA. With juice plotter you can see what state your phone has been in (screen on, aon, wifi,...) and super power lets you very effectively control what your phone is doing. These are the two apps i use to substantially increase my battery life! Hope some of that makes sense and helps..
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Thank you I will definitely try it out. Will it tell me what's using the battery?
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You can easily see what is using your battery. Go to 'settings', then 'about phone', then 'battery use'. What does is say there?
I have seen a lot of people complaining about battery life when using CM. Not sure if that is a coincidence or not... Maybe do a Nandroid and try the stock ROM for a while to rule out a ROM issue?
It will show you if your screen/apn/wifi was on our not. Also if you charged your phone. You will have to play with it for a while till you understand which color indicates what but after that you can analyze what your phone is found doing on one sight! Complemented with super powers functionality it gives you a couple od great role tools to adage some good battery!
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Display 57 mins at %53
Voice calls 17 mins %26
Cell standby 6 hours %6
Phone idle at 5 hours 10 mins %5
Android systems 8 mins 19 seconds
I'm on 15 percent battery already
It's funny cuz it says 6 hours and 15 mins since last unplugged but its been 12 hours.
only a dozen texts and a few Facebook posts. And very light voice calls
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Anddd 4 mins after my last post I'm on ten percent battery ;(
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So it's lasted 12 hours, using the screen for an hour and 17 minutes worth of voice calls... I guess that doesn't really seem right to me, although maybe if the screen is 100% brightness... Maybe turn it down to 50% and screen time out to 30 seconds?
Have you always had this kinda battery life?
Can you try these things? :
type in *#*#4363#*#* in your dialer. Select battery information. Is battery health good?
type in *#*#4363#*#* in your dialer. Select battery history. first drop down select partial wake usage. Is anything look out of place (something much larger than the rest)?
Maybe download a program called traffic stats lite? This program will tell you which apps have been transmitting data and how much. Possibly a rogue app that is transmitting all the time?
Hi tech338. The battery health is good and I hardly ever have my screen on 100 percent bright. The battery was definitely better. On the partial wake lock the only thing with the highest bar is android system. The blue bar is half way up. And its at 1 hour and 17 mins
Thank you
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Is that normal 4 android systems?
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I seem to have better battery with 2g/3g turned totally off hmm
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It's a been a problem with almost all smartphones not just android. The only solution I've found and most reliable is to have a spare battery.
You can try my battery app linked in my sig. It pulls the info from inside your battery chip to re calibrate it.
I literally cannot take this phone off my hands but I tried to test out how long the battery could last with few gaming and browsing with light usage and this is what I got
I'm really impressed with standby times
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Used much WiFi for fb and surfing. A bit mobile data.. no games..
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I found there might be some defective on software or sth else,
some batteries drain so fast, some are not.
for example, mine never last over 24hr even i turn off everything, use only 2G, with no app installed.
and it's instable, sometimes it drains so fast, sometimes not. I don't know why.
Until we get a software update probably will be great battery like the update for one x
Made possible by my sexy LG Optimus 4X HD (P880)
my baterry :good:
Why is my android system using this much power? Anyone else have that broblem? My phone was recharged before I took the screenshot. Battery did run out on 12h with 3h 10min screen on.
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duukka said:
Why is my android system using this much power? Anyone else have that broblem? My phone was recharged before I took the screenshot. Battery did run out on 12h with 3h 10min screen on.
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Same here my android system is on top, even after deleting some stock apps and disabling fast demorcacy. I usually get screen time of around 3 hours 10 mins which is poor.
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What apps do you have installed and what settings have you changed?
How does one take a screen shot on stock rom?
AW: Post you battery life chart here!
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How does one take a screen shot on stock rom?
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Just press vol down and the power-button at the same time.
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Could u please always upload your screen on time? Battery chart doesn't make much sanse without it
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Why is my android system using this much power?
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I think that is why many of us expect a huge battery improvement after updating to JB ,perhaps the newer system wont be so power hungry.
these screenshots are fun and all but they are totaly irrelevant.
hoe much USE time are people gettng is whats interesting.
so screen on time.
as the goal is no drain with screen off and as long as possible screen on time (this is when you use apps and so on).
my phone can be on for 2 days and still hve 95% juice left but thats kinda irrelevant if i dont touch it.
when i use it non stop my use time averages on 4 hours and 15 minutes so far.
all the people having problems with battery drain must have either bad apps installed of verry poor wifi/3g connections.
as in a good serup with no bad apps and good signal wifi should not drain battery at all if your not using it.
i would so like all people with issue to lend me there phones for 3 days to see if in my stable envourement they have the same issues.
im fairly sure that all these problems are signal and user related and that it has nothing to do with the hardware.
My phone would only give me 2 hours max if the mobile data is on with sync off facebook sync set to 1 hour and hotmail sync set to 1 hours. But if wifi is on throughout the day i would get around 3 hours 15 min average with sync on hotmail set to push and facebook sync set to 1 hour. The battery is really poor as i only use it generally for txting whatsapp and just a bit browsing thats all nothing else. When i watch videos my phone consumes less battery, than normal usage which i do everyday. The highest screen time i have ever got was 4 hours 15 mins thatd because i watched a video for almost like 3 hours thats why. But the battery is still really poor
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My android system also consumes a lot of power, its always on top no matter what. I am running on V_10H I disabled some stock apps using titanium backup and used fast demorcacy but the only difference I could see was android wakeups had been much lower thats all and so less power consumption when phone on standby thats all.
hutjeflut said:
my phone can be on for 2 days and still hve 95% juice left but thats kinda irrelevant if i dont touch it.
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this is totally relevant information for regular users.
many people complain about battery drain and that a custom rom is the cause or custom kernel when its available, but what shows that it is not, is when you can place your handheld mobile or tablet alone with wifi set to instant off and you got 3g disabled and it lives for days without loss of battery, you know that it is stable.
when you suddenly lose battery in hours and previous tests showed it was lasting days, you can be sure you got battery infected apps trying to activate your cpu all the time.
i'd like to buy this phone but i'm a bit afaid of the battery drain. people who says it last 2 days with normal use other says that with gaming and browsing lasts 10-15h but a lot says that the battery lasts just 6 h with normal use... can someone who owns this phone and he use it with a middle-intense use (texting,browsing,gaming some time) tell me how much lasts the battery please??
Omar56 said:
i'd like to buy this phone but i'm a bit afaid of the battery drain. people who says it last 2 days with normal use other says that with gaming and browsing lasts 10-15h but a lot says that the battery lasts just 6 h with normal use... can someone who owns this phone and he use it with a middle-intense use (texting,browsing,gaming some time) tell me how much lasts the battery please??
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Read my previous post
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Read my previous post
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So there's no way. battery life is really bad....that's a pity since i like it a lot...
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So there's no way. battery life is really bad....that's a pity since i like it a lot...
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Yeh the batterys bad the camera isnt that good and the games that developers make are mostly laggy on this phone such as asphalt 7 real racing 3 as they dont seem to optimise the graphics for the tegra 3
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Omar56 said:
So there's no way. battery life is really bad....that's a pity since i like it a lot...
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Well, my usage pattern is kinda light, but still...
- took it off the charger at 7:15 am
- 3g data permanently on while I'm not at home (from 7:20 til 18:00 or 19:00)
- wifi on when I'm at home (during the night too, I never switch the phone off)
- sync always on (gmail, whatsapp)
- received a couple short phone calls, let's say 5-6 mins
- received a bunch of emails, say about 15 or something
- some messaging (on whatsapp and gtalk, I don't use sms)
- some facebook, let's say 15 minutes (through mobile website 'cause FB app sucks big time, always had and most probably always will)
- some net browsing looking for a few stuff, let's say 5-10 minutes
- checked a couple forums on tapatalk a couple times
- updated 3 or 4 apps on wifi
- downloaded a 50mb game on wifi and played it for like 10-15 minutes
- ebook reading on moon+ for 1 hour and 30 minutes (maybe even longer, didn't check the exact time)
I connected it to the charger when it reached 12% battery at about midnight THE NEXT DAY (yes, that is around 41 hours without recharging it)
Overall, I can say I'm satisfied, at least for my standard usage...
- Stock v10h firmware, no root (yet).
- Nova launcher since 5 minutes after buying it
- I usually keep brightness quite low unless I'm out in the open under the sun, good thing about this phone's screen is that it's usually very well visible even with only a 20% brightness. If I need to use it in full sunlight, I conveniently placed a full brightness widget on my homescreen, and then back to 20% with one click when I'm done. No autobrightness 'cause I don't like much how it's set to work on this phone (was kinda better on my old i9000, but oh well, 1 click widget and I'm good to go, no sweat)
- Disabled 3 or 4 stock apps (through app settings, no titanium or other stuff)
I noticed that battery usage was kinda higher before disabling those stock apps, I guess one of them was a powermonster of sorts (I suspect the meteo one, but I'm not sure)
- No facebook notifications of course, not for battery-related reasons but just 'cause I simply hate them... but I guess that's nice on the battery too
On my old Note, when looking at battery usage (and on my nexus 7), "Screen" was always the top listed user of battery life, and below that were apps that i'd been using.
This couldn't be farther from reality on my note 3, however!
Right now:
47% - not charging. 1d 12h 8m 15s on battery
Google Play Services - 59%
Android OS - 9%
Cell Standby 7%
Screen 7%
Granted, I am not using the phone very heavily (obviously), and I have no complaints about the battery usage (I've been skipping nights of charging because-I-can with this, which I could never do before). I just don't understand why it's showing so much battery usage as being due to Google Play Services...
Is this:
a) A problem with my phone that could be remedied (how?), resulting in even more ridiculously long battery life
b) The battery usage numbers are bull****, at least for low overall usage.
c) Normal - Samsung's engineers are miracle workers and managed to make a very efficient screen
d) Normal - Google Play Services is a huge battery hog in general.
If it's d), can anything be done to rein it in? The potential battery life without that drain is so tempting!
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DrAzzy said:
On my old Note, when looking at battery usage (and on my nexus 7), "Screen" was always the top listed user of battery life, and below that were apps that i'd been using.
This couldn't be farther from reality on my note 3, however!
Right now:
47% - not charging. 1d 12h 8m 15s on battery
Google Play Services - 59%
Android OS - 9%
Cell Standby 7%
Screen 7%
Granted, I am not using the phone very heavily (obviously), and I have no complaints about the battery usage (I've been skipping nights of charging because-I-can with this, which I could never do before). I just don't understand why it's showing so much battery usage as being due to Google Play Services...
Is this:
a) A problem with my phone that could be remedied (how?), resulting in even more ridiculously long battery life
b) The battery usage numbers are bull****, at least for low overall usage.
c) Normal - Samsung's engineers are miracle workers and managed to make a very efficient screen
d) Normal - Google Play Services is a huge battery hog in general.
If it's d), can anything be done to rein it in? The potential battery life without that drain is so tempting!
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A. go to settings, connections, location services, either turn it off or turn it off and on again but disagree with the google pop-up. Google is constantly waking your phone up to log your location to "better your experience/better ads"
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A. go to settings, connections, location services, either turn it off or turn it off and on again but disagree with the google pop-up. Google is constantly waking your phone up to log your location to "better your experience/better ads"
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So it's the "Use Wireless Networks" option under location services, then? That one can't be checked off without agreeing to the popup. Let's see if that improves anything.
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So it's the "Use Wireless Networks" option under location services, then? That one can't be checked off without agreeing to the popup. Let's see if that improves anything.
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yup, and so disagree and leave unchecked. Had the same problem myself (pic below), this did the trick.
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yup, and so disagree and leave unchecked. Had the same problem myself (pic below), this did the trick.
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Is that a Note 3?
I ask because, well, you've been on battery about the same length of time as I had, with no obvious offending apps shown in battery usage, yet had 28% battery left vs 47% on mine...
DrAzzy said:
Is that a Note 3?
I ask because, well, you've been on battery about the same length of time as I had, with no obvious offending apps shown in battery usage, yet had 28% battery left vs 47% on mine...
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ya haha, just used it slightly more than you- more awake time with screen on.
Okay, this has yielded improvements.
But now Swype+Dragon is listed as taking 53% of battery usage! How?!
Though I'm down to ~1% per hr drain, maybe I shouldn't complain.
DrAzzy said:
Okay, this has yielded improvements.
But now Swype+Dragon is listed as taking 53% of battery usage! How?!
Though I'm down to ~1% per hr drain, maybe I shouldn't complain.
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53% of how much time? 1 to 3 hours, no worries. Up to 6 or 7 hours up time probably an issue. More and definitely a problem. It is a matter of perspective. 50% of an hour is 30 minutes while 50% of 10 hours is 5 hours. It is hard to tell if there is a problem with these high percentages if they are based on short total time.
Sorry if that is long winded, but hope you get what I am trying to say.
1%/hour is not bad if there is some use time on it. If it was during down time, still not bad but shoot for .5 to .8.
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53% of how much time? 1 to 3 hours, no worries. Up to 6 or 7 hours up time probably an issue. More and definitely a problem. It is a matter of perspective. 50% of an hour is 30 minutes while 50% of 10 hours is 5 hours. It is hard to tell if there is a problem with these high percentages if they are based on short total time.
Sorry if that is long winded, but hope you get what I am trying to say.
1%/hour is not bad if there is some use time on it. If it was during down time, still not bad but shoot for .5 to .8.
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I get exactly what you saying.
1 day 10 hrs uptime, 53% on Swype + Dragon (well, 49 now, after doing some battery hungry stuff). Tapping that entry shows:
CPU total: 3h 3m 49s
Stay awake: 1d 4h 47m 28s
Data sent: 38.1 kb
Data received: 42.83 kb
1 day 10 hours is not bad but with only 3 hour and x minutes of screen time, I think you have an issue. I get between 1 day and 15 to 17 hours with 5.5 to 6.5 hours screen time. (edit:There are days I get worse and some days better. Depends on where I am at and what I am doing) Usually with 2 to 3 hours of music. Of course a lot of variables contribute to the difference between our results.
Try doing a battery pull and then keep track of a full charge cycle and see what happens.
Edit 2: just reread your post and saw that swype/dragon shows awake for 1 day 4 hours. Have you tried a different keyboard to see what happens? Is Dragon the speech to text program?
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Mad383Max said:
1 day 10 hours is not bad but with only 3 hour and x minutes of screen time, I think you have an issue. I get between 1 day and 15 to 17 hours with 5.5 to 6.5 hours screen time. (edit:There are days I get worse and some days better. Depends on where I am at and what I am doing) Usually with 2 to 3 hours of music. Of course a lot of variables contribute to the difference between our results.
Try doing a battery pull and then keep track of a full charge cycle and see what happens.
Edit 2: just reread your post and saw that swype/dragon shows awake for 1 day 4 hours. Have you tried a different keyboard to see what happens? Is Dragon the speech to text program?
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Yeah, for some reason swype now comes bundled with some speech recognition feature I never use.
The problem with a different keyboard is that I am practically paralyzed on my phone without swype I don't know how I used a phone without it. I'd have to set this up for a test when I'm not going to be using the phone much.
It's bad enough to be talking to my phone when i'm making a call, I don't want to be talking to myself when i'm not making a call. I think everyone looks crazy when they're on hands-free barking orders to their phone - where I live, you see a lot of people talking on hands free, but you also see a lot of crazy bums talking to themselves, and you can't tell them apart if they have a hat on, cause it hides the headset, except by judging how expensive their clothes are - and even then, hipster and homeless look pretty similar....
DrAzzy said:
On my old Note, when looking at battery usage (and on my nexus 7), "Screen" was always the top listed user of battery life, and below that were apps that i'd been using.
This couldn't be farther from reality on my note 3, however!
Right now:
47% - not charging. 1d 12h 8m 15s on battery
Google Play Services - 59%
Android OS - 9%
Cell Standby 7%
Screen 7%
Granted, I am not using the phone very heavily (obviously), and I have no complaints about the battery usage (I've been skipping nights of charging because-I-can with this, which I could never do before). I just don't understand why it's showing so much battery usage as being due to Google Play Services...
Is this:
a) A problem with my phone that could be remedied (how?), resulting in even more ridiculously long battery life
b) The battery usage numbers are bull****, at least for low overall usage.
c) Normal - Samsung's engineers are miracle workers and managed to make a very efficient screen
d) Normal - Google Play Services is a huge battery hog in general.
If it's d), can anything be done to rein it in? The potential battery life without that drain is so tempting!
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I'm sorry but rooting to me messes this phone up.
Rooted 1st day a method was available and have seen nothing to make me regret it. Same battery life. Same speed. No issues so far.
I think your first device was defective like you had stated in one of your posts. How is your new one holding up?
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Mad383Max said:
Rooted 1st day a method was available and have seen nothing to make me regret it. Same battery life. Same speed. No issues so far.
I think your first device was defective like you had stated in one of your posts. How is your new one holding up?
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Sorry, thought I had quoted lucky.
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I disabled some of the permissions (location, read contacts, post notification) from Swype in AppOps.
I don't know if this was what fixed the issue, or whether Swype wound up in a "wakelock" through some one-time event.
Now, I'm seeing the screen at the top of battery usage, like it's supposed to be. Can't yet quantify the improvement in battery life, as I was using the phone more heavily the past 2 days since I charged it.
This phone is psycho. I thought my battery drain was fixed..but nope. Android OS is again killing it. My phone won't sleep. Better battery stats and wakelock detector doesn't tell me why. .in 11 hours my phone has been awake like 6 hours..While being in my pocket.
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I read in another post to install GPS Status&Toolbox from playstore. I installed pressed menu button on phone ticked settings..then back arrow..ticked menue again then tools and it took care of the problem. Have no idea why but battery is back ontop
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Sorry meant screen use is back at top of list.
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LuckyColdJohnson said:
I'm sorry but rooting to me messes this phone up.
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Nonsense!
The person using the phone however can really screw it up.
Hey it worked im very serious
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Mad383Max said:
Rooted 1st day a method was available and have seen nothing to make me regret it. Same battery life. Same speed. No issues so far.
I think your first device was defective like you had stated in one of your posts. How is your new one holding up?
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Sorry, thought I had quoted lucky.
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Okay well I couldn't take it anymore and I rooted. New phone is still acting great. No problems so far. Battery life is the same if not a little better. I did go and unchecked the Google Locations crap because Google services was taking batt life up. Looks good so far today.
Sorry theorieoles33 thought that was for me...heres a:beer:
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Hello,
Droid 4, running CM 11-20141122 snapshot M12.
I have been using CM for a while now, and even after following many tutorials on XDA and cm forums, I can not get the battery to last more then a for hours.
On stock Verizon rom +root and greenify, i had a phone that was lasting 2 days with normal use, now I can watch the battery drain from 100 to 70 in about 30 minutes at worst case, at best it drains about 10% every 30 minutes..
Is there anything I can do to get better battery lide? should i use a "stable version"?
Currently using the PA gapps micro/nano as my google play package.
Thank you for any help!
It's down to a little under an hour = 10+%
My initial standby time was around 5 days, and estimated battery time would be 3 or 2+ days..... now its only 1 day 7 hours and and standby is about 2.5 days... would hard resetting it help?
Yes, because all the apps which draining your battery will be gone
I'd search for the apps which are eating the battry first and disable them.
Z3c_SK said:
My initial standby time was around 5 days, and estimated battery time would be 3 or 2+ days..... now its only 1 day 7 hours and and standby is about 2.5 days... would hard resetting it help?
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The times are calculated based on your usage. I even had 15 days once but then once i started using it properly it dropped. It's basically a good estimate of real life usage. Don't worry about it
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I do have good battery life though
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Z3c_SK said:
My initial standby time was around 5 days, and estimated battery time would be 3 or 2+ days..... now its only 1 day 7 hours and and standby is about 2.5 days... would hard resetting it help?
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Well... unless there is something wrong with your battery (due to a software bug or what ever). It really won't change. In the first few days your estimate will be high,
but like people above said, it's based on your usage. You really shouldn't look at the estimate at all. Like it says, it's an ESTIMATE.
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Yes, because all the apps which draining your battery will be gone
I'd search for the apps which are eating the battry first and disable them.
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Other than the battery usage tab in settings, is there any app i can download from the play-store to get more details on the battery extensive apps?
Z3c_SK said:
Other than the battery usage tab in settings, is there any app i can download from the play-store to get more details on the battery extensive apps?
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Use gsam battery monitor
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Other than the battery usage tab in settings, is there any app i can download from the play-store to get more details on the battery extensive apps?
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BetterBatteryStats, GSAM, or even 3C toolbox has a great battery monitor. I'm afraid that on 4.4 you need to have root to use BBS & 3C, not sure about GSAM.