mistermojorizi
Android Enthusiast
that one 50 minute calls was responsible for 34% of your battery life drain. this is normal.
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that one 50 minute calls was responsible for 34% of your battery life drain. this is normal.
50 seconds.
mechjuice713
Lurker
A guy on another forum said it was a bug with google talk that activated the camera, and that the camera was causing the OS not to sleep... he said he rebooted his phone and force closed the camera and it let his phone sleep...i tried this.. desperate to see if it would work for me.. before i tried, the battery indicator said android OS at 40 something percent then i tried it and it dropped the android OS down to 15% and now im getting decent batery life..at 8 hours i have 62 percent...i hope this helps someone
jester6x
Well-Known Member
Has anyone else given this a try?
bjanow
Android Expert
I heard about that in the TB days and I had just deleted the app back then. For now I froze it in TiB and I'll monitor. Thanks for the suggestion.
Just got off a 6 hour flight with my phone on airplane mode the entire time. Used 30% power and I was listening to music for a good 4 hours.
Landed, phone set to 3G, switched location service on. Slept for 3 hours and my battery was nearly gone. I've done a few test and each time, location seemed to be the worse offender. Don't know if that means its location service alone or i have an app running that is overly aggressive.
Landed, phone set to 3G, switched location service on. Slept for 3 hours and my battery was nearly gone. I've done a few test and each time, location seemed to be the worse offender. Don't know if that means its location service alone or i have an app running that is overly aggressive.
apologetickid
Newbie
Same. I don't live in a 4G area, so I haven't been able to use 4G at all, and my battery life is still less than awesome. It's definitely not 4G, IMO.
apologetickid
Newbie
Total noob question, but, how do you "disable" G+? Thanks.
Drfeetseconds
Newbie
Trying to understand my life as well-- it seems really crappy.
I used a phone a bit yesterday, then let it discharge all night. It did this. There are some awake times, but nothing super high. Android OS was at like 75% of the usage.
Ignore the 1x, that's not normal.
Battery life seems super crappy. It's the 2nd or 3rd day on the extended though, so I thought the calibration period should be done and not affecting things.
I used a phone a bit yesterday, then let it discharge all night. It did this. There are some awake times, but nothing super high. Android OS was at like 75% of the usage.
Ignore the 1x, that's not normal.
Battery life seems super crappy. It's the 2nd or 3rd day on the extended though, so I thought the calibration period should be done and not affecting things.
BubbaNexus
Android Enthusiast
I uninstalled it. I dont facetweet or any of that social networking crap.
BubbaNexus
Android Enthusiast
The 4.0.3 update will prob fix this. Not worried, its not a motorola phone.
Another thing to try since we are ultimately looking at battery life is this:
Settings/Accounts and Sync/Gmail
and see all the stuff that Gmail is syncing up....what a list! If you have a hotmail account there is also a list of stuff. I don't use most of those things and I suspect most don't. I unchecked a number of items last nite and don't know how much of an impact it will have but it can't hurt. While you're at it, check your other accounts and what they are syncing up.
Settings/Accounts and Sync/Gmail
and see all the stuff that Gmail is syncing up....what a list! If you have a hotmail account there is also a list of stuff. I don't use most of those things and I suspect most don't. I unchecked a number of items last nite and don't know how much of an impact it will have but it can't hurt. While you're at it, check your other accounts and what they are syncing up.
I did, not sure of results. AndroidOS definitely isn't my highest battery offender now.
Oddly enough, MediaServer is my highest user after doing that. Going to restart this b...
You know I updated my Xoom (wifi) to an ICS 4.0.3 rom (EOS) and I checked the battery stats this morning. Android OS was second behind screen time, which was 2.5 hours. Wake lock on Android OS was 4.5 hours while the device was off the charge for 15+ hours.
Obviously I was only on wifi and most of my battery drain was from the screen (I was at 68%), but that is a very high time on wake lock. I checked my Droid X with CM7 on it which was off the charger for 9 hours the day before and I had no wake lock with only a 20+ minutes of cpu usage.
The kernel on the Xoom rom is only 2.6 something.
I don't have a Nexus yet (next week hopefully!), but it seems like there is something going on in ICS at the system level that isn't device specific.
Btw, ICS on the Xoom is devine. It is 85% fully useful now. The browser is amazing and is nearly a desktop version of chrome. The only remaining problems is the Tegra2's crappy codec support which Dice Player halfway fixes.
Obviously I was only on wifi and most of my battery drain was from the screen (I was at 68%), but that is a very high time on wake lock. I checked my Droid X with CM7 on it which was off the charger for 9 hours the day before and I had no wake lock with only a 20+ minutes of cpu usage.
The kernel on the Xoom rom is only 2.6 something.
I don't have a Nexus yet (next week hopefully!), but it seems like there is something going on in ICS at the system level that isn't device specific.
Btw, ICS on the Xoom is devine. It is 85% fully useful now. The browser is amazing and is nearly a desktop version of chrome. The only remaining problems is the Tegra2's crappy codec support which Dice Player halfway fixes.