Hello,
I have Sony Z3 Compact on Marshmallow, I want to be able to use battery saver mode (as the new Doze is rubbish compared to the previous Stamina mode) but also have the ability to increase screen brightness as much as I like. Currently battery saver mode sets screen brightness at one (dull) level.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Though if you know how to do this you should talk to Sony for a job in their development team!
Cheers,
Stellan.
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Auto brightness is a battery killer for me. I usually have it 20% all the time. Seems to be the sweet spot for me. Great battery life.
I don't use autobrightness. It wastes power constantly polling for lux values. I just use "display brightness" to put an invisible slider up the right side of my screen.
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I just leave Lux on Auto Brightness and Dynamically, and let it do its thing. I don't mess with the levels or anything. It's far superior to the stock auto brightness right away
I use stock auto brightness :/, anyone use full brightness?
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Auto brightness on N5 is buggy
I had a N4 for a year and auto brightness worked fine but on my N5 I find that auto brightness bounces the brightness around frequently and seemingly for no reason. It surely must be a software bug?
Using stock AutoBrightness and get 4hrs SOT with 2-3hrs voice calls so that's good enough for me. My Nexus 5 last longer than my Nexus 4 for sure with the same checking/usage during the work week, I can go 1 day 16hrs with this before it's fully dead.
Right now i'm 22hrs 23min 56s on battery and have 31% remaining. Being today is weekend I have 2hrs 15mins 12s screen time but 3hrs, 41min 18s voice calls. Obviously bunch of SMS and Hangouts today as well.
Use lux auto brightness... Its bettr than the stock one...and doesnt battery too if the settings are proper!!
Dont frget to press the THANK button!!!
I keep switching from and to auto brightness because I don't want to flash a modded kernel to avoid losing official updates, but I really hope Google will fix it soon
Luckily there's an app called Profile Scheduler which I set to automatically lower brightness when I'm home (connected to WiFi or recharging) and at night
I don't use auto unless I'm out in the sun...
After using Flux on my desktop and laptop, I have grown accustom to the features the night mode brings and needed to bring it to the mobile phone as well. Using lux as my auto brightness go-to app and has served me well with it's profile editor and being able to go (negative) in brightness which helps my battery life.
Nexus 5 4.4.2
I simple automate my brightness to change by time of day. Using 30% during the day, 20% at night and 5% before bed as set in Llama.
The times will need to be adjusted as the daylight hours change.
So far so good
Its so much better than my Hercules was
Nope, I never use auto brightness. Just crank it down to the minimum while I'm inside, use screen filter in a dark room, and crank it up until I am satisfied with the visibility when I'm outside. (Depends on how sunny it is out.) I've always liked changing it myself because I don't find myself changing areas of lighting all that very much. When I'm inside, I'll probably be inside for awhile. When I'm outside, I'll probably be outside for awhile, and so forth.
I tried out auto brightness again and it would seem 4.4.2 has tweaked it for the better. Its actually useable now for me and gets the brightness even lower then I had it indoors. Not sure how much battery the sensor uses but having lower brightness all together might make up for it.
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I'm actually using it stock, it's quite good really
never used autobrightness..usually i keep phone's brightness set about at 20%..i see autobrightness consumes a lot of battery
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bblzd said:
I tried out auto brightness again and it would seem 4.4.2 has tweaked it for the better. Its actually useable now for me and gets the brightness even lower then I had it indoors. Not sure how much battery the sensor uses but having lower brightness all together might make up for it.
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The sensor itself uses negligible power and makes no difference to battery life.
I've tweaked the framework-res.apk file to use more brightness steps and to be dimmer in darker conditions. Saves installing an app when the phone has it built in. If anyone is interested I can post it, needs flashing with TWRP or other recovery.
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Phil
Just installed the gravity box and try to improve the battery life with adjusting auto-brightness levels.
Any recommended settings?
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yghrv said:
Just installed the gravity box and try to improve the battery life with adjusting auto-brightness levels.
Any recommended settings?
Thank you!
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Not sure about gravity box. But try Lux from app store. Once you learn how it works...it can do a lot.
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I'd like to know what the levels in Gravitybox mean and what are ways to set it so its not so bright. But the Google is not returning much useful...like this thread . The levels seems to be undocumented.
jb0ne said:
I'd like to know what the levels in Gravitybox mean and what are ways to set it so its not so bright. But the Google is not returning much useful...like this thread . The levels seems to be undocumented.
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After fiddling around with the Gravitybox auto-brighness settings, I want to return to default. Can anyone post these?
If you're concerned about battery life, then you shouldn't use auto-brightness. It will drain the battery faster than a static screen brightness as it will constantly poll the light sensor and adjust the brightness. I'd suggest the pull-down slide brightness change method, which I use and it works quite well, at least to increase screen brightness. Turning it back down is usually more difficult, but still doable.
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If you're concerned about battery life, then you shouldn't use auto-brightness. It will drain the battery faster than a static screen brightness as it will constantly poll the light sensor and adjust the brightness. I'd suggest the pull-down slide brightness change method, which I use and it works quite well, at least to increase screen brightness. Turning it back down is usually more difficult, but still doable.
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Gravitybox has a setting that lets you adjust brightness by sliding your finger along the statusbar at the top.
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I noticed in a topic about maximizing battery that the z2 has separate options to turn on extended usage and extended standby. When i tried to find them on my z1, i found out that these are no settings to turn on and off with stamina mode. Like they are always turned on when i use stamina mode. So is this a special feature of the z2? Or is there a way to change these settings separately?
Thanks for answering!
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Can you feel the difference?
If not, then keep it on.
I keep it always on with the condition that *activate* it only after battery level goes below 20%.
Otherwise what's the point of owning a smart phone that can do all these wonderful things if you keep stamina mode on (which basically curtails all those features and background tasks).
So, is that the main purpose of Stamina mode? To keep background tasks at bay and stop them from using CPU, data and battery life?
If so, then I'll keep Stamina mode on all of the time since there are plenty of people out there looking for apps that do exactly this.
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So, is that the main purpose of Stamina mode? To keep background tasks at bay and stop them from using CPU, data and battery life?
If so, then I'll keep Stamina mode on all of the time since there are plenty of people out there looking for apps that do exactly this.
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The stamina mode stops most of the background services,turns data and Wi-Fi and sync services off and also reduces the Max CPU Frequency to save battery
But it can be activated only after your battery reaches 20%-15%
As your device is quad core it will put two or more CPU's offline and this may reduce performance
But it's obvious that if one turns stamina mode on it means he needs battery to last so one will not play games or do such heavy activity and that's the reason it can be activated only after 20%
If you want to stop background services then use GREENIFY
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But it can be activated only after your battery reaches 20%-15%
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Hi Prasad
What makes you say this?
I appear to be able to turn on "stamina mode" at any point in time. There is no activation threshold that I can see. Simply on/off toggle. Estimated battery time immediately increases with activation too (implying that's it's active straight away).
I'm using UK stock build 23.0.A.2.105
There's a separate "low-battery mode", which is triggered "...when the battery is below a preset level"
The options I have under settings / power management are:
"stamina mode"
"ultra stamina mode"
"low-battery mode"
"location-based Wi-Fi"
Queue background data"
"App power consumption"
"battery usage"
Sorry btw if I'm missing something obvious here. Your signature would imply that you know your business!
Regards,
Gary
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Hi Prasad
What makes you say this?
I appear to be able to turn on "stamina mode" at any point in time. There is no activation threshold that I can see. Simply on/off toggle. Estimated battery time immediately increases with activation too (implying that's it's active straight away).
I'm using UK stock build 23.0.A.2.105
There's a separate "low-battery mode", which is triggered "...when the battery is below a preset level"
The options I have under settings / power management are:
"stamina mode"
"ultra stamina mode"
"low-battery mode"
"location-based Wi-Fi"
Queue background data"
"App power consumption"
"battery usage"
Sorry btw if I'm missing something obvious here. Your signature would imply that you know your business!
Regards,
Gary
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I own a 2012 XPERIA J as well as XPERIA SP !
There's nothin like ultra stamina mode
Sorry !
Prasad98 said:
I own a 2012 XPERIA J as well as XPERIA SP !
There's nothin like ultra stamina mode
Sorry !
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np dude.
Sounds like they've expanded the stamina options on the latest handsets, as compared to the can and piece of string you use
Cheers,
Gaz
I have seen battery drain on our device after the lollipop(5.0.2) update,
My question is, has anybody tried porting the stamina mode from Sony devices?, is that even possible?
Anything similar out there ?
Be it the black and white power saver in Samsung/HTC or the Stamina mode in Sony devices, these things really help to make the phone last long when its really necessary, is anything on par available?
My request to who ever can take this on, port the Battery savers from these manufacturers
Search forma powernap its an xposed module supposedly stamina functionality.
Some thing that works for me is to disable Google location reporting, disable WiFi scanning allways available.
Check your wakelocks