Help Cell Standby, Battery Killer?

[bwoodhi1]

haha Agreed. Hard to believe people can't understand percentages. Maybe the Android should show mah (milliamps per hour) for each instance instead of percentage. Just kidding of course, that would be even more confusing for these average-IQ-wanna-be-nerd-with-a-smart-phone peeps.

BTW (by the way) y'all could try disabling (shutting off) background data, if y'all hav'n trouble with battery depletion rates (battery life):

Settings->Data Manager->Data Deliver->Background Data

Guys, please. It's not helpful when trying to find a solution for the same problem that others are apparently having to have you chime in about percentages. Let me be clear about the problem and maybe you'll understand it. It's NOT just about percentages. When I wake up and my phone has lost about a quarter of its juice overnight (with no interaction on my part), I check the battery use because this doesn't happen every night. THEN I see that Cell Standby and Phone Idle are the two culprits.

I'm sincerely happy for you that you're not plagued with this issue. But please stop making people read through your post when you think you're just being more clever than others. The post is long enough without you being unhelpful (I know, I'm now adding to the length but after reading enough posts about "just turn this off or that off" or "take math 101 and learn about percentages", I had to respond).

If you don't understand the issue because you're not having it, please move on to another post where you can be helpful. This thread is about battery drain and finding out that the culprit is something that doesn't seem to make sense. It's now September of 2011 and it seems that people (like me) are still having this issue. And no solution yet.

 

[barqers]

Okay guys, this is easy. The percentages are the percent of battery use each item has used. If you add them up they come out to 100%. Basically 36% cell standby means that your cellular radio in your phone used 36% of the battery life that's been used. If you aren't doing a lot on your phone then cellular radio will be the highest. It doesn't mean it's using too much though. It just means it's using more than anything else because you aren't doing anything else. Of course a "CELLULAR" phone is going to use CELL standby. That is your phone connecting to the network waiting for calls and texts and keeping your signal. Again, a high number isn't bad. Actually those with the higher cell standby are probably getting longer batter life. If Android System is using the most then you're using your phone a lot. That means the Android System has used a higher percentage of your batter then cell standby. I can't exactly explain this the way I want but there is no issue. Let me put it this way... cell standby isn't using a ton of your battery. If it's the highest percentage and used the most of your battery then you probably haven't actually used much of your battery. If you're at 90% battery charge and cell standby is 40 percent then that means that 4% of that 10% used was by cell standby. Hopefully that helped.

I find the opposite to be the case. I disabled 3G radio, and left my phone off in a good signal zone. Come back 1 hour later, and I've lost 15% battery life (80% of which is cell standby).

Now I play games on my phone for 30 minutes, battery drops another 15%, cell standby is STILL at 54%. Time without signal - 1%.

Now you crunch those numbers and tell me if that makes sense. Something is seriously up with this stupid cell standby and it's annoying.

 

[wereid]

I've got it worse my cell standby power usage is at 78% and I've even tried to use airplane mode to knock it down some no luck. If I have to root to take care of it I'll be ticked.