One of the main powerdrains for the Streak 7 is the 4G Radio. It's constantly seeking a connection, which burns through juice rather quickly.
An app that helps with this is SwitchPro Widget...it gives you different toggle switches you can place on desktop to control aspects of your device.
I have a reboot button, battery indicator, wifi toggle and Data toggle on screen currently.
The Data toggle will turn off 4G/3G connection until you want to use it. I haven't had it running long enough to give feedback numbers as of yet, but will post some info later on.
https://market.android.com/details?id=alei.switchpro
Try it out.
Update: Also Airplane Mode toggle switch seems to work better at turning off cell standby, which shows 75% usage on battery.
2.5 Hours Unplugged now, and using Airplane mode has dropped my Cell standby to 51% usage vs 75% previously. I'm at 92% battery with decent usage during that time.
Bandage said:
One of the main powerdrains for the Streak 7 is the 4G Radio. It's constantly seeking a connection, which burns through juice rather quickly.
An app that helps with this is SwitchPro Widget...it gives you different toggle switches you can place on desktop to control aspects of your device.
I have a reboot button, battery indicator, wifi toggle and Data toggle on screen currently.
The Data toggle will turn off 4G/3G connection until you want to use it. I haven't had it running long enough to give feedback numbers as of yet, but will post some info later on.
https://market.android.com/details?id=alei.switchpro
Try it out.
Update: Also Airplane Mode toggle switch seems to work better at turning off cell standby, which shows 75% usage on battery.
2.5 Hours Unplugged now, and using Airplane mode has dropped my Cell standby to 51% usage vs 75% previously. I'm at 92% battery with decent usage during that time.
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Yes, turning off airplane mode work like crazy, just sometimes turning on/off this mode takes a little time to reaction, therefore slightly affected the user experience because you need to wait for the data connection back from airplane mode.
I am using SuperPower, which is pretty good, but so far, I have not yet found a battery app that is compatible with Tegra dual core CPU, therefore the CPU control mechanism is not used by any.
JuiceDefender always causing data problem for me, not sure if you have similar issue.
Thanks for sharing! I do need a soft restart button at least!
Ok...8 hours unplugged now. Mostly on standby, as I worked 6 hours today. Battery is at 89%...left Airplane Mode on.
Considering all the complaints about battery life, this is more than acceptable. Going to do some gaming and Media stuff for next few hours, see how long it takes to drain it.
im not complaining about it. I can see about 3 hours of very heavy use.
Sent from my Dell Streak 7
One issue about the app linked. It may have issues with Gingerbread. Which you know we will prob have on Streak 7 soon and hopefully honeycomb sooner.
Superpower
I have been using Superpower also and it works for me. Has definitely increased battery life.
So do you just use ONE app (like super power) or you combinding them?
Hello I need some app that will turn on Airplane mode at night or atleast turn off Data connection. For specific time period. I found out that data are consuming too much of my battery at night.
After the recent update for battery issues the wifi is blocked out while on airplane mode. This prevents use of wifi if you turn on airplane mode because of poor cell tower reception. It also prevents use of services like Gogo while on a flight. In areas with poor reception the battery drains very quickly if airplane mode is not selected. Unfortunately it now kills wifi.
Hi, so when i go to my power settings and select Power Saving mode, turn it on and select the option "power save at 20%" (or whichever %) , i assume that this means that Power Saving mode will only be enabled when battery level reaches 20%.
One of the "features" of Power Saving is to turn off vibration on some things... ie the keyboard keystrokes. Yet my battery is at 70% and the vibration is disabled. (Turn battery saving mode off and vibration returns. But also the option for turning powersaving on at 20% is grayed out now so i assume that that will not work any longer!)
Am i understanding the power saving settings wrongly?
Running marshmallow on a 715.
I Have notice that battery of note 8 drains quickly when switches for both WiFi and Data are turned on.
I turn both on for the purpose that when I am out of range of WiFi, data will turn on seamlessly, and when WiFi is available, it will switch back to it.
With both switches on, even when only WiFi is in use, the battery seems to drain quickly.
Battery life is tremendously improved when only WiFi or data Switch is on.
Any ideas as to what is the problem?
Main element to drain battery after screen is Device Idle.
Attachment: idea as to what I am talking about.
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If you leave the WiFi enabled all the time. Your device will constantly scan for a network, which you are signed onto. That drains the battery. Unfortunately you need to disbaled WiFi connectivity when you are not gonna use it to preserve power.
You can disable mobile data connection while you are connected to WiFi. This is done throw developer options