I am now releasing my app battery calibrator here on XDA because it is no longer available on the Android Market.
Devs feel free to include this in all of your roms. It does the same thing as going into recovery mode. I also added more features to it.. letting you see more battery stuff.
Quickly wipe/delete your battery stats after flashing new roms, instead of having to go in recovery mode clicking a bunch of buttons!
Reserved for changelog!
Why doe this Battery Calibrator app need to read the Network communications and the p
Why doe this Battery Calibrator app need to read the Network communications and the phone calls or needs to modify storage of the SD Contents?
I will Wait for a reply from some developer with only Posts: 23 times to drop an app here for us to test out or add to roms, just cautious from the Carrier IQ fiasco that is currently under way...
Network communications used for admob.
Read phone state to gather battery stats to show current voltage and charge of the phone.
Modify storage permission will be removed in next release.
If you don't feel comfortable installing the app that's fine. There are other apps on the market that do similar stuff to this app.
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Looking for a battery app to benchmark roms, i cant seem to find any good ones...
Just my 2 cents, it would be nice if we had a ranking app for battery life statistics for roms on the phone.
It won't ping online every hour, instead it will record the battery usage passively, and will give user opportunity to upload statistics when you open it.
It can record statistics like
battery profile voice call: 40 minutes standby: 12 hours
" rom name" "phone" "app name" "minutes used" etc.
and user can select certain apps to be privacy blocked names
so for blocked it will just show
"unknown app"
it might be something like quadrant, maybe some programmers would be interested in such app.
one that i find useful is battery graph which is free on the market. all i do is fully charge the phone after flashing a new rom and then do the battery stats wipe then use the phone like i normally would and then compare it to other roms that ive used
try using Battery monitor widget pro !! and system tuner pro app both are gud system tuner helps u find out which process using most battery .. and battery tuner helps to find battery life and all the stuff!!
For those people out there who have battery related issues, this might be the final place you will be searching for..
As I was one of the zillion users who was facing the problem of the battery drain on my HTC one after the update to 4.4.2, I found out that for some of you who have ARHD 53 rom and stock kernel, The battery drain will be because of the sensors remaining active through out.
I have been facing this problem form quiet some time and searching here and there for the solution..But I couldnt find one after a lot of searching. I thought I will start my own research what exactly is the app or service that is keeping the sensors on all the time..
Here are the apps you will need for the process..
1. Wakelock Detector :- This is one of the most widely used app of all the time that help with situation like this..
2. Greenify(Pro Version) :- Another Awesome app that hibernates the application when the screen is off.. Make sure you have the pro version of the app because the free version wont allow you to hibernate the system apps.
3. Battery Monitor Widget :- This is a battery monitoring app. There are many out there but this is one of m favorite and who actually helped me to solve the problem.
You device should be rooted for this process..
Steps:-
1. First see if any app is waking up now and then when the screen is off using wakelock detector.
2. Greenify that app and see the changes.
3. If you find some its good or else try freezing that app(NON SYSTEM) through Titanium backup or any other app. See if that improves battery life.
4. Now for the system apps. There may be some apps which may be taking the juice out of your battery. Do this very carefully because you dont wanna delete any important app form the system either by greenify or by freezing it.
5. Simultaneously monitor the usage of the battery through battery monitor widget and See if there is anything that is using a lot of it..
6. Follow the above steps till you dont see any considerable app usage in the battery monitor widget app..
I am attaching a file showing the the sensor which is still eating up my battery..I had once all the sensors on no matter is the screen is on or off..
Share your ideas as well..
The last week or so since I got my HTC One Max, I have been slowly configuring it and setting it up to my tastes. On my previous phone, an HTC Rezound, I used an app called Clean Master to manage the phones ram, and Battery Doctor to extend its battery life. I tried an application called Battery Guru on my Max, but it actually drained the battery faster while the phone was not doing anything. After uninstalling it, my battery life seems to have shot upwards. I have not re-installed Battery Doctor. I have read the following things about these battery saver apps over the last few days:
1. Some say the applications are not needed and you should not use them, especially if they include a task manager. The logic was that Android was designed to have multiple apps in memory all the time, and closing them, then opening them again from scratch, uses up the battery.
2.Others have said just the opposite. They claim the applications greatly increase battery life. If you read the reviews on the Android Market about these two applications, that seems to be the case.
Both of these applications I have used get rave reviews from the many folks that have used them. Is the benefit they are seeing just imagined? Do the applications actually work? Is it also possible that they work for some and not others, since there are a lot of models of Android devices out there?
Most things that are ram "cleaners" are just giving you a slight point in time speed boost. Your ram will fill up again (as it should). Most so called battery doctors cripple your phone to extend battery life (think extreme power saver on the Max). What you want is something that blocks the applications that you do have running from performing activities in the background that you dont need at that moment ( think facebook looking for your location even when not using it just so it will know it faster when you open the app).
I use a combo of firewall to block most apps from using the internet (radio takes a lot of battery) and greenify which hibernates the app while keeping it in ram so it brings me into the app where I was before.
mikekoz said:
The last week or so since I got my HTC One Max, I have been slowly configuring it and setting it up to my tastes. On my previous phone, an HTC Rezound, I used an app called Clean Master to manage the phones ram, and Battery Doctor to extend its battery life. I tried an application called Battery Guru on my Max, but it actually drained the battery faster while the phone was not doing anything. After uninstalling it, my battery life seems to have shot upwards. I have not re-installed Battery Doctor. I have read the following things about these battery saver apps over the last few days:
1. Some say the applications are not needed and you should not use them, especially if they include a task manager. The logic was that Android was designed to have multiple apps in memory all the time, and closing them, then opening them again from scratch, uses up the battery.
2.Others have said just the opposite. They claim the applications greatly increase battery life. If you read the reviews on the Android Market about these two applications, that seems to be the case.
Both of these applications I have used get rave reviews from the many folks that have used them. Is the benefit they are seeing just imagined? Do the applications actually work? Is it also possible that they work for some and not others, since there are a lot of models of Android devices out there?
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Try greenify
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Free ram is idle ram. Having a lot of ram usage isnt a bad thing... Don't know how many people think the opposite. Now if it gets too high then yea its an issue when opening new apps but this issue died with gingerbread in all reality. Some would argue task managers even died with froyo.
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Thanks everybody! I have installed Greenify, and removed Battery Doctor and Clean Sweep, and my phone is running great! I like it so much, I have put Greenify on my other Android tablets. No more battery saving apps or task managers for me!!
The trick is to properly manage the apps that you use.
The problem with task killers is that some apps that you kill will simply "respawn" themselves automatically in the background. Killing apps that do this just means your phone is constantly closing/opening the app again and again which is worse than not killing it in the first place. You will just have to experiment and check which apps respawn after killing them and avoid having the task killer auto-kill those apps, or uninstall those apps.
You also have battery saver apps that try to manage turning certain features on/off like WiFi, GPS and Blutooth. The most efficient way of managing this is to manually disable those features when you don't need them. Having an app do this for you means that app now has to be running all the time to manage those other features, which itself will ironically increase battery usage.
Avoiding as many apps as possible that need to constantly run in the background to perform it's function. These mostly include instant messenger apps or other apps that regularly check the internet for updates in the background. Either avoid them or if possible increase the delay between how often the app checks for updates/info. The Greenify app will allow you to "suspend/pause/freeze" specific apps when they are not currently on your screen. This keeps them from performing any activity in the background, and will help save battery if used on apps that would normally be doing tasks in the background. The downside is that if that app is suppose to be doing something while in the background, it won't be doing that anymore...like checking for updates, chat messages etc...
Keep screen brightness on automatic, so you don't waste power on a bright screen when in a darker environment.
These should be more than enough tips to help you better manage your battery.
Tl;dr: Skip down to the bolded parts of paragraphs 4 and 5.
I had this very question, and have seen other people post inside numerous threads asking about the same thing. If you're unfamiliar, the Device Care is baked right into your phone with a near identical feature-set to the root-only app Greenify.
Device Care learns your app usage patterns, what apps you use, how often. Which apps you don't use, or which apps are at risk for draining your battery. From there, it will automatically sleep or disable these apps. They can still be used, but you may not receive push notifications; you weren't using them anyways, so most people appreciate this feature, and are not bothered by it.
However, I have many apps that are plugins, things I sporadically use, or apps that I want to ensure are never impeded by battery saving features. In Nougat and Oreo, the Device Care app had a section that said "Unmonitored Apps." You could add apps for this section that you did not want to ever be closed or out to sleep to save power.
In Pie, this section was removed, but the whitelist still exists. Here's what happened, Decide Care battery saving features somewhat overlap Dose. Rather than maintain two different "never optimize these apps for battery usage," they instead pull from the Doze's Optimize Battery Use whitelist. Find this number going to Settings->Search->Optimize battery->Tap, tap again. Adding an app here, prevents you from adding that same app to the "Always Sleeping" section of Device Care, thus demonstrating that this list is the new home for the "Unmonitored Apps" section.
A new whitelist was also created, focused on background apps. Device Care now offers by default to Auto Care everyday, this cleans up temp files and closes background apps. Apps aren't actually force closed though, instead their UI activity is closed, and the service (if one exists) stays running. A whitelist was created for this Auto Care feature. Found in Device Care->Memory->Menu->Apps that aren't checked.
Cheers!
What is Device Care? Is it only for pie? I have 8.0.0 still btw.
I never would have found that
Thanks for this!
I'm confused. There seems to be 2 separate lists. Device care/unmonitored apps and special access/optimize battery usage.
Device Care->Memory->Menu->Apps that aren't checked seems to only apply to apps that are using too much memory.
Settings->Apps->Menu->Special Access->Optimize battery usage (or search for Optimize battery). Then change the dropdown menu from Apps not optimized to All apps to turn off battery optimization for certain apps. This section seems to apply to apps that use mobile networks or sync data (I think this is the one that used to be called doze).
When I set my VPN app to not be checked under the device care/unmonitored apps list, I was still getting notifications to shut it down for "background data usage". Then I went to the to special access/optimize battery usage list and disabled it there as well.
But here is the problem. I have also installed my VPN app in the secure folder. The device care/unmonitored apps list included the secure folder apps but the special access/optimize battery usage does not include app in the secure folder. So I don't see any way to disable battery optimization for my VPN app in the secure folder.
So confusing!
Hello, it is really nice info, although doesn't seem to work for me... The app in my case is EyeDTV, which is for watching TV from EyeTV from my Mac, and it goes to sleep anyway... It doesn't work at all at least in my s10+
What can I use to check to see what's causing my phone to not go into deep sleep mode at night or during the day. My batter all of the sudden is draining way too fast and almost dies at night.
Inside your settings there should be app called battery/ device health/ digital well being
It keeps track of app usage and battery drainage (this works if you dont have custom mods)
next it could be that your device is running in performance mode the whole time
flairepathos.info said:
Inside your settings there should be app called battery/ device health/ digital well being
It keeps track of app usage and battery drainage (this works if you dont have custom mods)
next it could be that your device is running in performance mode the whole time
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I have power-saving mode turned off. I'm not sure about the app listed above. I don't see anything in settings. I just installed Better Battery Stats which I used to use a long time ago to see if that can tell me anything.
steelersmb said:
I have power-saving mode turned off. I'm not sure about the app listed above. I don't see anything in settings. I just installed Better Battery Stats which I used to use a long time ago to see if that can tell me anything.
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But better battery stats will use more of your battery since its logging everything, all the time. And has your phone always been draining fast or is this something new?
flairepathos.info said:
But better battery stats will use more of your battery since its logging everything, all the time. And has your phone always been draining fast or is this something new?
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I know it will but I can at least see what's going on for the short term. No, this just seemed to start about a week ago so I'm trying to figure out what new apps I may have installed.
steelersmb said:
I have power-saving mode turned off. I'm not sure about the app listed above. I don't see anything in settings. I just installed Better Battery Stats which I used to use a long time ago to see if that can tell me anything.
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Leave power management disabled; ID and deal with each battery hog on a case by case basis.
Galaxy Labs Battery Tracker can be useful.
Karma Firewall. Package Disabler (not on Playwhore).
For starters:
Google backup Transport, Framework and Google Firebase... prime suspects.
Playstore, wretched apk it is.
Google play Services is another one to watch, try disabling it. A lot of apps are dependencies of it.
Any cloud apps.
All carrier, Google, Samsung and app feedback
WhatsApp, FB, etc, take out the trash.
Carrier update app, kill it if you don't want OTA updates jammed down your throat.
blackhawk said:
Leave power management disabled; ID and deal with each battery hog on a case by case basis.
Galaxy Labs Battery Tracker can be useful.
Karma Firewall. Package Disabler (not on Playwhore).
For starters:
Google backup Transport, Framework and Google Firebase... prime suspects.
Playstore, wretched apk it is.
Google play Services is another one to watch, try disabling it. A lot of apps are dependencies of it.
Any cloud apps.
All carrier, Google, Samsung and app feedback
WhatsApp, FB, etc, take out the trash.
Carrier update app, kill it if you don't want OTA updates jammed down your throat.
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Would it be possible to explain to me why have an S21 if not to deactivate everything and make it a Nokia 3310. Stop using a smartphone, I have the solution ........... .
And if you have twrp and copy your system and vendore partition files to your pc you can also look in the priv-app section and their xmls to include apps to not run always