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Help How the hell are y'all getting 12 plus hours on battery?

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montenell

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I live cut my screen under 10%, cut wifi off when not in range disable 4 g, flashed rom calibrated battery maintain at least 3 bars signal and still in only getting 4 to 5 hours battle life. What else can I do? Account sync is off too
 
montenell said:
I live cut my screen under 10%, cut wifi off when not in range disable 4 g, flashed rom calibrated battery maintain at least 3 bars signal and still in only getting 4 to 5 hours battle life. What else can I do? Account sync is off too
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Do you have a custom rom on?
 
I've got 21 hours 6 min 58 seconds w/ 42% remaining right now, 100% stock, every thing on but gps..........sounds like you have a problem.
 
One day I had to wait around in a hospital all morning, and with constant music playing and constant internet browsing I was able to kill the full battery in about 4 hours. Are you using it very heavily? Short of that type of heavy activity, it should last at least 16 hours. I charge it every night but on days that I hardly use it at all, I don't actually need to. I use juice defender. Try another battery, yours sounds screwed up.
 
OP that is how my battery used to be when I got the phone. It lasted like that for the first week then it seemed to hold more of a charge then more and more. When did you purchase the device?
 
Running midnight 1.3.4 I've had it about a week. After it charges etc ill try to post a graph. Shows screen usage 50% is 20%
 
floridarick said:
I've got 21 hours 6 min 58 seconds w/ 42% remaining right now, 100% stock, every thing on but gps..........sounds like you have a problem.
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Are you using juice defender? I only had mine for a few days, and I've been charging it when I'm at work mostly, so I haven't been able to really see what my battery is like yet. But, the first day I didn't charge it until it ran out, and it was under ten hours. I text a lot, and do surf the web a bit.
 
The installed applications can have a huge impact. What might you have installed around the time it started to drain too fast?

I have found Battery Mix to be very accurate and easy way to track what is using the juice.
 
Widgets will DESTROY a battery.
Facebook (social media) and news widgets in particular.

You want as few apps running doing updates as possible.
 
You can set your intervals though for network updates and widgets only seem to update the screen when its on and flipped to it, no?
 
Here's mine.
-rooted.
-No live wallpaper.
-Only have the clock, control, sms and calender widget on home screen.
-Has set cpu on it. Set it to lowest cpu as possible when screen is off.
-Juice defender, set data turn on every 15 mins to check updates. Night set to airplane mode.
-Use wifi in campus.
-Mostly light use with texting, may be about 30~1 hour of browsing on the internet per day.
Use stock battery, still have around 40%~50% of battery after a day. (7am~11pm day mode, 11pm~8am night mode with JD)
 
No juice defender or any other power saving app....
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Had I not seen that, I would not have believed it!!!!!

Mine seems like crap. Screen brightness is all the way down all the time, no wifi, no 4g, no gps, only widget i have is the clock, and the weather does NOT update itself, all notifications for apps are off (twitter, facebook, scramble, etc).

I have 28 mins on battery and I'm already down to 93% Used only to send about 20 texts.

I have the super box app and when I use the little killer thing it says like 20 apps killed ...however when I go in to see what's running it only shows a few, so I have no idea what is running.
 
52 minutes on battery...downloaded that battery mix and sent about 5 more texts...down to 85 lol. this is not cool. I'm jealous.
 
i get lousy battery life on my evo v and will order be ordering the laza battery.now my exhibit 4g is another story.it lets you change what % you can turn on the power saving app something i was hoping to find when i got around to unlocking the power saving settings for the evo.right now the exhibit is at 23 hours and its around 80% but i am out of minutes so i just do some light surfing and downloads from the market.i want to see if i can get 50+ hours on it with light use.
 
turn off 3G.

My phone ran for 2 and a half days having 3G off. I didn't use it much, texted people, turned on wifi for some apps a few times, but it lasted.

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Turn off all the radios when you don't need them (except for the actual phone radio).
 
What radios are you talking about exactly? I don't know much about the workings of the phone. Also i'm guessing this is a dumb question but without 3g i'll still have data, just the 1x thing, right?
 
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