Hi, I see there are more and more mods and tweaks designed to help boost battery life. Any efforts like this are really helpful and I'm glad of them.
The biggest use of my battery however is the screen, how about your phone? We have all tried turning down brightness, leaving automatic brightness on etc. but I really think any significant progress that we could make is through changes to how the screen works. Ultimately, I think perhaps the screen resolution and the Sony tweaks like Bravia are too powerful for the size of this battery to cope. Does anyone think something else may be the problem?
I haven't noticed any difference when turning Bravia off. What else could we do?
I use root dim
Always keep bravia engine off ( I dun find any difference to b true)
And I have a brightness bar in notification drawer to adjust brightness quickly
I didn't know about that app, I'll give it a try now. I notice that when you turn down the brightness to around 30% or less that the backlight completely turns off? I bet that is the real killer of the battery.
SharpnShiny said:
I didn't know about that app, I'll give it a try now. I notice that when you turn down the brightness to around 30% or less that the backlight completely turns off? I bet that is the real killer of the battery.
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I use root dim
Below 10% I cant sew anything
It saves battery coz it decreases brightness
What night mode is that it adds a grey shade
Night mode has no effect on brightness
And dim brightness means battery saved
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for a while now my screen on the x10 goes brighter and darker while browsing , not by a lot but its noticable and kind of annoying . Im curious if anyone else has this on their phone , i got nothing installed to control brightness its just stock 2.1 os. And its not because of battery since it does it when plugged in.
It's cos of the auto brightness adjustment function. =D
If you need to access it/ turn it off you have to do it through the 'Power Control' Widget
Thanx for the replies ill check out the power control widget. Im just wondering if the random change from dim to bright waste more battery ?
xperia_x10 said:
Thanx for the replies ill check out the power control widget. Im just wondering if the random change from dim to bright waste more battery ?
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There is a light sensor on the front of the phone that turns the brightness up if there is a lot of light in the room, if there isn't a lot of light in the room the brightness decreases. As mentioned above you can control this auto-brightness function from the Power Control widget.
I wouldn't say it has any noticeable effect on your battery life, unless you always are in very bright environments that would make the sensor turn the display brightness all the way up.
When my battery level reaches 10% the screen brightness is reduced to virtually nothing, I can barely see the screen in sunlight. Playing around in the display or power options doesn't change the brightness level. How to I disable this function so that I can manage the brightness myself? Thanks!
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Increase the brightness in battery saving mode. Your battery saving mode is set to start at 10 % battery and probably reduces your brightness close to 0. Either increase the brightness or just shut down battery saving mode completely and use the brightness settings you want.
Thanks, but the thing is that power saving mode was not enabled (never used it) before I reached <10% battery. I enabled it then thinking it was the cause of the low screen brightness, but even with it and setting the power saving brightness to 30% the screen still stayed very dark.
Any idea what else it could be. I've only once had it at <10% but if it happens again I'd like to be able to use the phone according to my settings.
Hey guys,
Wat's te ideal brightness setting for the battery? Mines on about 20-30% but in battery usage it says 58% usage and the phone hardl last a day ...
Any thoughts?
Stats in Battery usage graph and your Brightness level is completely two different things.
I always use Auto.
I think I will try that. I also wonder if noled app is having an effect but I set the brightness on that to 1%.
Ever since 2.3.4 I've had mine on full brightness. The battery on 2.3.4 roms has always been good for me.
Is that stock or custom ROM?
Also anyone find that once the battery saver option kicks in that when it recharges that the settings don't switch back to what they were previously? A bit annoying as I don't want to have to manually change my screen timeout etc everytime.
Also what's the option for adjust screen brightness tickbox about just below the general brightness setting? Don't quite understand that.
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Is that stock or custom ROM?
Also anyone find that once the battery saver option kicks in that when it recharges that the settings don't switch back to what they were previously? A bit annoying as I don't want to have to manually change my screen timeout etc everytime.
Also what's the option for adjust screen brightness tickbox about just below the general brightness setting? Don't quite understand that.
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You mean background effect?
- Dynamic: bright, vivid colors
- Standard: standard colors.
- Movie: contrast higher, warmer image.
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You mean background effect?
- Dynamic: bright, vivid colors
- Standard: standard colors.
- Movie: contrast higher, warmer image.
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I think the option is: "Auto adjust power" int he Display settings menu. Something about analyzing images or something.
Anyone able to expand upon this please?
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since its upgrading to samoled+ even we set the brighness to 0 it is still bright but then again depending your eyes and needs of battery consumption (bc) theres also a"custom rom"way like hollow to follow or if you prefered moderate usage without flashing i think on 20-30% bright it contribute to bc
My browser is set is have the brightness at 0 which is fine, I think there's a service in the background using more CPU than it needs. Likelihood it is a Glu game ~.~.
I noticed this from the day I bought it but it was only happening while playing games so I just figured it was a quirk in the game. But last night it started happening while web browsing and going through menus. The screen's brightness will increase/decrease at seeming random.
Auto-brightness is off, I had the screen on the lowest setting with IPS+ off and set to performance mode. Is there something in the menus I may have checked that would cause this or is it a bug?
no it's not a bug. I think its called dynamic display quality. some sort of method they use to save battery even more so. its never a drastic change. it does this gradually. I always leave auto brightness off and brightness never more than 20%. I don't even notice mines doing it as much any more. try a reboot just to clear things out. a reboot every now and then is good for the device.
Is there any way to turn it off? Seems strange for it to still happen while plugged in. Only reason I want to turn it off is because I was browsing the web with the lights off and it kept going brighter to where it was hurting my eyes.
This "feature" is really starting to drive me crazy. I can't find anything in the options to disable it. I'm not sure if it's dynamic contrast or some power saving thing but it behaves exactly like DC on a TV. On brighter pages, it increases the backlight and on darker pages it lowers it.
Turning auto-brightness on/off has no effect on it, same story for different power modes and brightness levels. So is there any way at all to turn this off? If there are any ROMs that have it disabled I will gladly root for the sole purpose of getting rid of that.
+1
(I thought it was just me that was experiencing the same..Annoying indeed. Especially since it effects battery life).