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Battery life post ICS update?

I let mine drain completely for the first time the other day and it actually improved things a bit, not that I was complaining before. I'm at 20 hrs and 30 min with 64% battery left. I think I may get through the whole weekend on this charge.
 
First charge since factory reset....How low sound I let it get before charging and does it take s couple charging cycles to get max results?
 
Mine has been great since i have used this charging method. This is after the 2nd full charge.
 

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First charge after update. Not too bad so far
 

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Timeline of my phone use:

1. Woke up at 630 to go play golf
2. Drove to the course without using the phone
3. Arrived 800
4. Started Golf GPS and played for 4 hours
5. Done at 1230
6. Went to friends afterwords for a beer at 100
7 Glanced at phone apps Facebook, Sportstap
8. Left friends house at 230
9. Turned on GPS to get home
10 Drove 45 minutes
11. Arrived home before 3pm.

NO phone calls. No Texting. No music streaming. No videos. Battery down to 25%. At 814pm it was at 14% and damn hot. I looked up Badass Battery and it showed FB was using 90% so I disabled it.

Not sure what's going on

Yes, I've reset my phone after ICS.
 
Uhm how about the 4 hours of using the golf gps? And then the gps to get home. That's gonna kill your battery using it constantly like thag
 
Day two of MUCH improved battery life. The factory reset and cache clean didn't do anything but I think I know what did. I haven't had wifi on in two days. I've determined,with my usage, I can do without wifi here at the house and take advantage of 3G and a faster connection. I'm on the 2GB plan. Could wifi make that big of a difference? 10 hours, 34 mins with 50% discharge :) BUT, I was still getting better numbers WITH wifi and GB.
 
monicakm said:
Day two of MUCH improved battery life. The factory reset and cache clean didn't do anything but I think I know what did. I haven't had wifi on in two days. I've determined,with my usage, I can do without wifi here at the house and take advantage of 3G and a faster connection. I'm on the 2GB plan. Could wifi make that big of a difference? 10 hours, 34 mins with 50% discharge :) BUT, I was still getting better numbers WITH wifi and GB.
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That's weird, I actually save battery life by using wifi.
 
monicakm said:
Day two of MUCH improved battery life. The factory reset and cache clean didn't do anything but I think I know what did. I haven't had wifi on in two days. I've determined,with my usage, I can do without wifi here at the house and take advantage of 3G and a faster connection. I'm on the 2GB plan. Could wifi make that big of a difference? 10 hours, 34 mins with 50% discharge :) BUT, I was still getting better numbers WITH wifi and GB.
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I was finding that when I was using wifi at home or work it would often times not go to sleep. I used the app CPU Spy to determine this. I played around with all sorts of things. One thing I finally did was to turn off instant upload in the google+ app. That helped a good deal as it would now most times (not all) go into sleep mode when wifi was on. I eventually disabled google+ as I never use it. (Some googling I did pointed to google+ has causing this type of problem.) I haven't tested it enough to know if it will go into sleep mode everytime its on wifi. Time will tell. (During all my testing, I would simly toggle wifi off for a few minutes, let it sit, check with CpuSpy to see if sleep time had increased, and then toggle wifi on again. Repeat.)

Another idea I had at the same time was to check my configuration for my home wifi. The only thing I changed there was to enable SSID broadcast. I don't think that actually helped as SSID broadcast is already enabled at work and I had the same problem there. I'll find out this coming week. (I worked from home last week.)

Hope this helps.

Charlie
 
CharlieD said:
I was finding that when I was using wifi at home or work it would often times not go to sleep. I used the app CPU Spy to determine this. I played around with all sorts of things. One thing I finally did was to turn off instant upload in the google+ app. That helped a good deal as it would now most times (not all) go into sleep mode when wifi was on. I eventually disabled google+ as I never use it. (Some googling I did pointed to google+ has causing this type of problem.) I haven't tested it enough to know if it will go into sleep mode everytime its on wifi. Time will tell. (During all my testing, I would simly toggle wifi off for a few minutes, let it sit, check with CpuSpy to see if sleep time had increased, and then toggle wifi on again. Repeat.)

Another idea I had at the same time was to check my configuration for my home wifi. The only thing I changed there was to enable SSID broadcast. I don't think that actually helped as SSID broadcast is already enabled at work and I had the same problem there. I'll find out this coming week. (I worked from home last week.)

Hope this helps.

Charlie
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CharlieD - Not sure if you have done this, but if you click on "WiFi" as if you are looking to connect to a network. Click on "menu" and then click "advanced". There is a setting that says "keep wifi on during sleep" and ALWAYS is actually the default. There are a couple other setting you can choose, i believe mine is "only when charging".
Hope this helps if you were not already aware.
 
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CharlieD - Not sure if you have done this, but if you click on "WiFi" as if you are looking to connect to a network. Click on "menu" and then click "advanced". There is a setting that says "keep wifi on during sleep" and ALWAYS is actually the default. There are a couple other setting you can choose, i believe mine is "only when charging".
Hope this helps if you were not already aware.
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Thanks. I knew about that one. Mine is set to always. That setting should not prevent the phone from sleeping. Setting it to always should be ok.
 
CharlieD said:
Thanks. I knew about that one. Mine is set to always. That setting should not prevent the phone from sleeping. Setting it to always should be ok.
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If wifi is set to always on, then it wont sleep is what I get out of it. I have great battery life with the settings I have. I am not a heavy user, just an average. You can see my battery life in previous posts. ---I could be wrong.
 
werditsdrew said:
If wifi is set to always on, then it wont sleep is what I get out of it. I have great battery life with the settings I have. I am not a heavy user, just an average. You can see my battery life in previous posts. ---I could be wrong.
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I believe it's worded the other way. Once it goes to sleep, it will turn the wifi off. It has to go to sleep first.
 
So far on my MAXX with ICS,

With 19 hours running since unplugged, I'm down to 75% battery life remaining on my MAXX...

That does reflect a 55 minute phone call (which used 5% of battery life), a reboot, ~5 minutes playing Osmos, playing a song (with DSP functions enabled) three times in a row for no reason, and 5~10 minutes of web browsing...

Granted, I've Smart Actions and SetCPU qualifying phone, modem, and CPU use, and I've frozen some background garbageware (such as Facebook leeching cycles and using space, which makes no sense as I don't use their service), but those are my stats right now... I'll have some screengrabs after I plug in the phone next time to charge, but it might be a couple of days...
 
Second charge post ics..seems to be getting better..
 

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How does one change the syncing schedule of apps like Facebook, Twitter, etc.?
First full day/charge with ICS and I got about 15 hours until I got down to 10% with moderate use. Disclaimer: I am still in my first week with the phone so I am still draining the battery and fully charging it in order to condition it.
 
Slaskwroclaw18 said:
How does one change the syncing schedule of apps like Facebook, Twitter, etc.?
First full day/charge with ICS and I got about 15 hours until I got down to 10% with moderate use. Disclaimer: I am still in my first week with the phone so I am still draining the battery and fully charging it in order to condition it.
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Good luck with that draining of battery. After a week it will be at 50% of its capacity with this treatment.
 
Li-ion batteries don't need to be conditioned any more then you need to change your car's oil every 3000 miles.

We need to let go of what we were taught as we get new technology.
 
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