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[Verizon] Battery life help, If I may.

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John_Roger

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6 hours seems pretty piss poor to me, or am I wrong? I'm rooted and running JRN84D on a stock kernel. Any suggestions would be wonderful.

As always, thanks in advance.
 
your lack of cell signal is one major issue, your phone will constantly try to look for a signal, and if it acquires a 4g signal your battery will drain.

i am on the extended battery and my phone lasts all day, so i do not see what issues people have, these phones arent really meant to survive as long as you want them. the large screen, the service, the apps, constant internet connection. your battery life is always going to take a hit bud
 
VoidedSaint said:
your lack of cell signal is one major issue, your phone will constantly try to look for a signal, and if it acquires a 4g signal your battery will drain.

i am on the extended battery and my phone lasts all day, so i do not see what issues people have, these phones arent really meant to survive as long as you want them. the large screen, the service, the apps, constant internet connection. your battery life is always going to take a hit bud
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Thank you, I had a feeling that was the issue. I don't see too much else out of the ordinary.
 
From the looks of your first ss your phone is hating it's signal strength. That will increase battery drain for sure. But what I notice more is the fact that your "screen on" only shows for the first ~2 hours then stops after you pulled it off the charger (green line next to "charging"). Then look at your slope....it's steep, too steep w/o having your screen on. I'd put $ on you having a rogue app of some sort (could be maps, 3rd party app, anything etc..), something is keeping your phone awake and using the CPU and/or cell radio abnormally. Even with a bad signal (and mines yellow bad at home) the slope should NOT be that steep unless you had the screen on which you didn't. So I think it is a combination or poor signal and something wrong with your setup/apps. 60/40, 40 being your signal strength. Do you have 4G in your area? If not, have you forced 3G only under settings> more> mobile networks? If not can you try it?
 
jbdan said:
From the looks of your first ss your phone is hating it's signal strength. That will increase battery drain for sure. But what I notice more is the fact that your "screen on" only shows for the first ~2 hours then stops after you pulled it off the charger (green line next to "charging"). Then look at your slope....it's steep, too steep w/o having your screen on. I'd put $ on you having a rogue app of some sort (could be maps, 3rd party app, anything etc..), something is keeping your phone awake and using the CPU and/or cell radio abnormally. Even with a bad signal (and mines yellow bad at home) the slope should NOT be that steep unless you had the screen on which you didn't. So I think it is a combination or poor signal and something wrong with your setup/apps. 60/40, 40 being your signal strength. Do you have 4G in your area? If not, have you forced 3G only under settings> more> mobile networks? If not can you try it?
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I live in a good 4G area, I just have poor signal at home. Is there anyway to try and track down a rogue app? Its been switched to 3G.
 
VoidedSaint said:
your lack of cell signal is one major issue, your phone will constantly try to look for a signal, and if it acquires a 4g signal your battery will drain.

i am on the extended battery and my phone lasts all day, so i do not see what issues people have, these phones arent really meant to survive as long as you want them. the large screen, the service, the apps, constant internet connection. your battery life is always going to take a hit bud
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I understand they are battery hogs, but 6 hours seems to be a bit too much. I do appreciate your input, however.
 
John_Roger said:
I live in a good 4G area, I just have poor signal at home. Is there anyway to try and track down a rogue app? Its been switched to 3G.
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Yeah you can use BBs (better battery stats). A lot of folk like this app, I've never used it before though. Let me know how 3G only does I'm intrigued. Do you get a better signal like upstairs or in different places at your home? Or is it poor everywhere inside?
 
jbdan said:
Yeah you can use BBs (better battery stats). A lot of folk like this app, I've never used it before though. Let me know how 3G only does I'm intrigued. Do you get a better signal like upstairs or in different places at your home? Or is it poor everywhere inside?
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It's pretty bad all over my house, I had better signal with my Bionic. I'll try BB tonight. I'm going to flash 2.5 here in a minute.
 
John_Roger said:
It's pretty bad all over my house, I had better signal with my Bionic. I'll try BB tonight. I'm going to flash 2.5 here in a minute.
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I noticed you were on the latest radios also. I wonder if any of the older radios would be any better. Flashing radios is another topic and we can cross that bridge at a later date. Keep us posted on your results with 2.5 and 3G only or if it is any better.
 
jbdan said:
I noticed you were on the latest radios also. I wonder if any of the older radios would be any better. Flashing radios is another topic and we can cross that bridge at a later date. Keep us posted on your results with 2.5 and 3G only or if it is any better.
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Thank you for noticing,I don't want ask TOO many questions. I'm going to get it up to full charge and see how it does tonight, unplugged....But I was curious about the radio.
 
What's your screen-on time? The total time is less relevant than the screen-on time. If you have your phone on with the screen off, you can have it last for 16 hours. If you have the screen on for two hours straight, the battery will be almost completely dead (sometimes people manage to squeak out three hours of on-screen time if they're using wireless instead of 4G).
 
aysiu said:
What's your screen-on time? The total time is less relevant than the screen-on time. If you have your phone on with the screen off, you can have it last for 16 hours. If you have the screen on for two hours straight, the battery will be almost completely dead (sometimes people manage to squeak out three hours of on-screen time if they're using wireless instead of 4G).
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That very well could be. I'll report back in the morning to see how it does with 3G running 2.5
 
After trying about everything and nothing really working to help battery life, I finally just bought the Seidio 3800 battery. I had the VZW 2100 extended battery before that, about since day 1, and it wasn't any better than the stock battery. There really is nothing you can do that will improve your battery (that I have found) other than going with a monster battery. Sucks, I know. But after seeing someone else that had the monster battery on theirs it wasn't that big at all. So, I bought one and pretty happy with it.
 
darkcyber said:
After trying about everything and nothing really working to help battery life, I finally just bought the Seidio 3800 battery. I had the VZW 2100 extended battery before that, about since day 1, and it wasn't any better than the stock battery. There really is nothing you can do that will improve your battery (that I have found) other than going with a monster battery. Sucks, I know. But after seeing someone else that had the monster battery on theirs it wasn't that big at all. So, I bought one and pretty happy with it.
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Being that this is a secondary phone for me, I'm not looking to spend much money on it. I just though 6 hours was nuts. Im coming from a Bionic with the ext battery, which had good signal, so I was a bit shocked :-)
 
I don't think it makes sense to compare two battery rundown times unless you also post the on-screen time. If Screen is 41% of your battery (and at the top of the list), that's very different from Phone Idle being 50% of your battery (also at the top of the list).
 
aysiu said:
I don't think it makes sense to compare two battery rundown times unless you also post the on-screen time. If Screen is 41% of your battery (and at the top of the list), that's very different from Phone Idle being 50% of your battery (also at the top of the list).
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Both tests were leaving the phone untouched overnight, off the charger.

2.4 with LTE
2.5 with forced 3G
 
John_Roger said:
Both tests were leaving the phone untouched overnight, off the charger.

2.4 with LTE
2.5 with forced 3G
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Seems odd, since in the first post there's a screenshot of the Screen taking up 41% of the battery. If the phone was untouched, why would the screen be on that long?
 
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