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Help Awful Battery Life?

droidfan1

droidfan1

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I'm getting 8hours.

This is with:

Wi-fi, NFC, 4G, always off.

GPS/Bluetooth always off.

Screen dim as possible.

I'm doing moderate use - no video games, lot of texting / music playing.

I'm also using the 2100 mhz battery. Why is it dying so fast? Can anyone explain?
 
are you in a good 3G coverage area?

also how are you playing music? Streaming it through google Music?
 
Did you just get the phone? Give it some a few charge ups. So you don't use any data of any kind at all? Or just 3G? Your cell signal is important how strong/weak is it?
 
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trophynuts said:
are you in a good 3G coverage area?

also how are you playing music? Streaming it through google Music?
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Yes, and not streaming it.

jbdan said:
Did you just get the phone? Give it some a few charge ups. So you don't use any data of any kind at all? Or just 3G? Your cell signal is important how strong/weak is it?
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I have, at least 5 100% to 0% and back, at least 5 times.. I use 3G, and my signal is constantly 3-4 bars.

sperho said:
Please post your exact screen on time.
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Think I did ^
 
Awake a lot. If you tap your screen (which says 38%) how many hours/minutes was it on in that period?

You say moderate use, but we all have different meanings of "moderate use" :p

From the graph, if those awake times correspond to you using the phone, than I'd consider that heavy use. A lot of "ifs" there though

My signal (at home) is yellow across the board. Wished I had your signal (green) at my home :)
 
jbdan said:
Awake a lot. If you tap your screen (which says 38%) how many hours/minutes was it on in that period?

You say moderate use, but we all have different meanings of "moderate use" :p

From the graph, if those awake times correspond to you using the phone, than I'd consider that heavy use. A lot of "ifs" there though

My signal (at home) is yellow across the board. Wished I had your signal (green) at my home :)
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Not sure, didn't take a screenshot of it and I just fully charged it. I text people a ton, probably a ton. I basically turn it on, text, and turn it off. Continue to do that + change songs, etc. That's heavy use?
 
I have nothing to contribute beyond, don't we go thru this with every new phone release? I've always noticed after 1-3 months of using any Android phone that battery life gets better.
 
droidfan1 said:
Android OS is now > Screen. What is so heavy from the OS?
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From my usage patterns, background syncs for messaging of nearly any sort induce awake time. Also, media streaming - i.e. podcast players, music, etc. Others are working on determining how 3G/4G/wifi signal hunting affect OS time...
 
Turned off background sync for facebook/google account (contacts, etc)

Hopefully I see a big increase in battery life. As I have said, no wifi gps bluetooth 4g nfc, anything! I'm using Axiom 2.1
 
droidfan1 said:
Similar. It was never great, I'll say that. Do you think it's my kernel / axiom?
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Possibly. You really need to give it some time it's difficult to say anything until you've given the rom/kernel combo a chance. How long have you been on axiom is it the latest version?
 
jbdan said:
Possibly. You really need to give it some time it's difficult to say anything until you've given the rom/kernel combo a chance. How long have you been on axiom is it the latest version?
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Been on 2.1 since it released, pretty much as soon as. Since then, I've charged / discharged many times, I do it fully. Maybe the kernel sucks?
 
droidfan1 said:
Been on 2.1 since it released, pretty much as soon as. Since then, I've charged / discharged many times, I do it fully. Maybe the kernel sucks?
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Its imoseyon kernel they don't suck at all they are excellent in my experience. At this point I'd start over with a wipe and a fresh flash so you can track it and narrow it down as to what is causing abnormal battery drain.
 
On cpu overclock, 1200 mhz, 350mhz.

Should I use hotplug, interactive, or ondemand? And imoseyon tweaks owned on my bionic/x can't remember which, but it greatly improved battery life.
 
After turning off facebook sync, and gmail sync etc, + changing interactive to hotplug, I noticed so far the battery life is improving somewhat. This is 5 minutes of testing. I'll keep testing.
 
droidfan1 said:
On cpu overclock, 1200 mhz, 350mhz.

Should I use hotplug, interactive, or ondemand? And imoseyon tweaks owned on my bionic/x can't remember which, but it greatly improved battery life.
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On demand worked best for my Droid.

droidfan1 said:
If it continues to suck, maybe I should try gummy? [ROM][AOSP][4.0.3][CDMA] GummyNex 0.3.1 - 12/28/11 - xda-developers
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Get a good baseline one something. Then, and only then, change, if you are trying to optimize battery life... It would take several days of normal usage for me to make a judgement call on what a particular mod was doing to my phone...

droidfan1 said:
After turning off facebook sync, and gmail sync etc, + changing interactive to hotplug, I noticed so far the battery life is improving somewhat. This is 5 minutes of testing. I'll keep testing.
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5 minutes?! (see above comment) My battery takes that long to bump back up in voltage after heavy use in that amount of time... Yes, keep testing.
 
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