My wife and I both have S4s. Mine was got on launch date and has the older firmware, while hers was just got 2 weeks ago and has the OTA update. Both are rooted, but hers is stock for now. Her biggest complaint (until a few days ago ws the crappy battery life. So I rooted it and installed Rom ToolBox (I have the pro good stuff).
To get her decent battery life /she's a pretty heavy user, stays at home and practically always on the phone / I killed some 'un-neccessary' apps.
Note:
This is what I personally do not use/want. YMMV.
AllShare Control Center
AllShare FileShare Service
Enterprise Sim Pin Service
Enterprise VPN Services
Exchange Services
Factory Test
File Manager
Keep
NFL (I forget the exact title, it's not on mine it was deleted)
NFC Service
NFC Test
Phase Beam
Samsung Account
Samsung Link
Samsung WatchOn
Sensor Service
Terminal Emulator
Voice Recorder
VPN Client
VPN Dialogs
Verizon Backup Services (again, I forget the exact name, it was laready deleted). I will update this list when I get my hands on the wife's phone
I am using Eclipse (see my sig), and as I said my wife's phone is stock rooted. Hope that helps. I may have also deleted (uninstalled some apps). Plus I installed some TW apps that I ripped from Clean ROM like the TW Clock and Calc...
There are other apps that are safe to install as well
So far I find the battery life to be meh, at best. I have 2 corp accounts pulling email every hour instead of push, and gmail and in 5 hours of use its sucked down 15% battery life. Of course tonight I will be rooting and adding ROM Toolbox Pro to kill off a few things so your updated list will be interesting to see what else you killed to get more battery life.
Look for Greenify at Play Store.
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Tada10 said:
Look for Greenify at Play Store.
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nice
nice infos
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I heard mixed reviews about Greenify, but I did download and install the Snapdragon battery guru and a co-worker of mine has found it useful on his GS3 so I was testing it in my HTC One DE and now on the GS4 32GB I will report back. Since Google Now requires location aware status it does suck the battery.
So far battery life for me has been stellar....
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So far battery life for me has been stellar....
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White battery icon.how. stock rooted me7
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I hope this greenify solves some of my battery issues thats the only reason I rooted this phone and wanted to add clean room.
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I hope this greenify solves some of my battery issues thats the only reason I rooted this phone and wanted to add clean room.
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If you don't like Greenify try Snapdragon Battery Guru, it takes 3 days to learn your use and is a Qualcomm app so its not too bad.
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If you don't like Greenify try Snapdragon Battery Guru, it takes 3 days to learn your use and is a Qualcomm app so its not too bad.
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Does it stop processes like uTorrent or Play Music running in the background/screen off? I'd hate for it to close them but would like something like Chrome/Browser u know.
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Does it stop processes like uTorrent or Play Music running in the background/screen off? I'd hate for it to close them but would like something like Chrome/Browser u know.
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It has per app settings.
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It has per app settings.
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Im trying the Snapdragon guru. The per app option dont list alot of TW apps. Does it only show google apps.
Well with my ZeroLemon 7500 mAh battery I threw 5 days
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My wife and I both have S4s. Mine was got on launch date and has the older firmware, while hers was just got 2 weeks ago and has the OTA update. Both are rooted, but hers is stock for now. Her biggest complaint (until a few days ago ws the crappy battery life. So I rooted it and installed Rom ToolBox (I have the pro good stuff).
To get her decent battery life /she's a pretty heavy user, stays at home and practically always on the phone / I killed some 'un-neccessary' apps.
Note:
This is what I personally do not use/want. YMMV.
AllShare Control Center
AllShare FileShare Service
Enterprise Sim Pin Service
Enterprise VPN Services
Exchange Services
Factory Test
File Manager
Keep
NFL (I forget the exact title, it's not on mine it was deleted)
NFC Service
NFC Test
Phase Beam
Samsung Account
Samsung Link
Samsung WatchOn
Sensor Service
Terminal Emulator
Voice Recorder
VPN Client
VPN Dialogs
Verizon Backup Services (again, I forget the exact name, it was laready deleted). I will update this list when I get my hands on the wife's phone
I am using Eclipse (see my sig), and as I said my wife's phone is stock rooted. Hope that helps. I may have also deleted (uninstalled some apps). Plus I installed some TW apps that I ripped from Clean ROM like the TW Clock and Calc...
There are other apps that are safe to install as well
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I wouldn't freeze/uninstall the AllShare apps. If you do, your Wi-Fi Direct connection will not work. If you don't use that or want the capability to use it, go right ahead.
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I wouldn't freeze/uninstall the AllShare apps. If you do, your Wi-Fi Direct connection will not work. If you don't use that or want the capability to use it, go right ahead.
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Thanks / Neither my wife or I use all share or wifi direct / I was aware of the dependency.
I made some more changes to mine as well, but for the most part, mostly cosmetic (internally) [Eclipse came out with several updates.]
clapper66 said:
Well with my ZeroLemon 7500 mAh battery I threw 5 days
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7500 - Jeez/ How thick is the phone?
Personally I have no problem charging the phone every night. I use Dock Clock (from the play store) and a cheap business card holder (staples) as a phone stand [Hey it works, and for $3, I challenge you to find something better that works and doesn't look too cheap.]
The phone then acts as a gitial clock within reach and it serves as my alarm clock to drag my a$$ out of bed at 4:15 every morning.
That being said, 5 days is insane battery life, even my work phone (HTC One) gets about 32 hours on a single charge with moderate-heavy use. 5 days would be awesome if a charger was not an option (like on a business trip/vacation. You could proably watch 5 movies on an international flight and still have 2 days left
justreboot said:
7500 - Jeez/ How thick is the phone?
Personally I have no problem charging the phone every night. I use Dock Clock (from the play store) and a cheap business card holder (staples) as a phone stand [Hey it works, and for $3, I challenge you to find something better that works and doesn't look too cheap.]
The phone then acts as a gitial clock within reach and it serves as my alarm clock to drag my a$$ out of bed at 4:15 every morning.
That being said, 5 days is insane battery life, even my work phone (HTC One) gets about 32 hours on a single charge with moderate-heavy use. 5 days would be awesome if a charger was not an option (like on a business trip/vacation. You could proably watch 5 movies on an international flight and still have 2 days left
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Actually its no thicker than a 5200 mAh battery. This is what it looks like when its in the phone.
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Actually its no thicker than a 5200 mAh battery. This is what it looks like when its in the phone.
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That is crazy big!! Does the case have wheels and a handle on it. LoL.
Pics with back cover on?
leroybrute said:
That is crazy big!! Does the case have wheels and a handle on it. LoL.
Pics with back cover on?
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The speaker is completely covered...
Ew
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I've had this phone for a few days now and have to say that I'm not impressed with the battery.
I'm losing about 10% battery every hour when not in use. The main reason I can see from the battery stats is mediaserver.
I have made sure that there are no running apps and I have signed out of lattitude. The only account I have running is google.
Any advice? Is this normal for this phone at the moment?
Thank you
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Read all the other identical posts .
Read the battery drain posts on SGS 1 forum .
jje
Probably you could try to read this thread first and see what you can do to improve battery life.
However seems like every person having quite a different experience. I saw one guy got only around 8 hours, mostly around 14-17 hours, some other could even get from 1 to 2 days.
If media server is at the top of your list, that means something such as music, Google listen, or any audio function is being used draining your battery.
Does this match your usage?
Is that something u can freeze in titanium backup?
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After my second full charge i'm now on 15hr mark (never charge overnight) and now left with 28%. Hmm..
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Is that something u can freeze in titanium backup?
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I guess you could freeze media server, but I don't know why you'd want to as no audio would work for the music player, podcasts, etc.
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I guess you could freeze media server, but I don't know why you'd want to as no audio would work for the music player, podcasts, etc.
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Ah I though it was a media hub deal..
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I have this S2 for about a month now and up 'til about 2 days ago I was getting quite frustrated with the battery life. From 8am to about noon I'd be down to sometimes 50% and by 3pm I'd be getting ready to put it on the charger at about 20-30%.
So a couple days ago I decided to uninstall Advanced Task Killer Pro (with advice from some members on XDA) and installed Watchdog and blacklisted at 1% threshold a whole bunch of stuff. ie. Wifi Sharing, Social Hubs, etc.
Now it's almost 4pm, same usage as before and I'm at 73%! Compared to before it's a major breakthrough. This is battery life that is expected. So maybe some of you guys should try the same and see how it works for you. Cheers.
what are all the apps you blacklisted?
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what are all the apps you blacklisted?
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Here's some screens of apps I whitelisted and blacklisted.
More.....................
You just need to know what processes are running on background, for that install Better Battery Stats, search in XDA, and see under 'Partial Wakelocks'.
And stop using ATK, its advised, don't know why!
Regards.
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I thought task managers/killers were a big "no-no" for gingerbread..
You have root, right?
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You have root, right?
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Here's the best part... NO ROOT!
I just downloaded Watchdog pro, you did not make it did you , I don't want to root as i paid a lot for my simfree S2 and i have only had it a couple of days.
I see you are using "Battery Monitor Widget Pro" , I have been using it for months with a few android phones, I wish Samsung had realtime mah/current usage like HTC.
I have my S2 on charge at the moment with an 650mah Sony Ericsson charger, and "Battery Monitor Widget Pro" is saying it`s charging my S2 at 989mah
Check out my post history and you'll see where I discovered Watchdog. I have nothing to do with that app.
5:30pm and I'm at 61%. This is outrageous. Normally the battery would be completely dead at this time and already on the charger. Screens attached.
Blacklist is only in pro version?
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how long was the display on, as that uses most power,
EDIT : not a lot by the second picture in post 11
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5:30pm and I'm at 61%. This is outrageous. Normally the battery would be completely dead at this time and already on the charger. Screens attached.
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how long was the display on, as that uses most power,
EDIT : not a lot by the second picture in post 11
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Regardless though, this is the exact same usage for me except right now I'm at double the battery life as compared to before.
What % did you do the cpu threshold?
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What % did you do the cpu threshold?
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I set the threshold at 1%.
Mine is very odd. Overnight, everything on (no special settings), I typically lose 10-15%. Nothing changed. During the day, I lose 40% with maybe 10 minutes of use. Display is always listed as high, but with 10 minutes of use, that seems really weird.
This whole battery thing is also temprature related. Yesterday was kinda warm here. Had to charge my phone twice. While normaly on a lot of use I can get 12+15hours.
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If I download "watchdog" I get a game.
There is no "watchdog pro".
So, please share the EXACT app name.
Thanks,
David
David Roosendaal said:
If I download "watchdog" I get a game.
There is no "watchdog pro".
So, please share the EXACT app name.
Thanks,
David
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It's called 'Watchdog Task Manager Lite' or 'Watchdog Task Manager Pro'
The Pro version has the blacklist feature, the lite version works more like a task manager, monitoring CPU and killing apps when they reach a certain threshold use of your CPU. In the UK the Pro version costs £2.14 (exVAT).
Hello everyone
I'm experiencing some problems with my battery being drained rather fast. I'm running one of the latest CM nightlies but my phone is empty after only 11 hours.
I've attached graphs made with Better Battery Stat to this post. My usage to was: The phone didn't leave my house and i didn't use the audio. I used it from time to time to play a game (BounceBall) read a bit on the internet (Chrome) or Reddit (Reddit News).
Despite never moving my phone Google Maps/NetworkLocations seem to be run pretty frequent. How can i disable this? And is there anything else that mgiht be wrong with my phone causing a battery drain?
Thanks in advance
Note maps qnd location services. Disable them and you'll be fine.
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Note maps qnd location services. Disable them and you'll be fine.
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How do i disable them? Maps is already set to not automatically refresh my loction.
It's in settings somewhere, don't remember, hold on...
Setting/Location services untick away.
Open maps and untick the location options.
Disable all google now options if you don't use it.
Just realized you're on CM, check the ROM thread.
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Turn off google now thats doing it not google maps.
Yes, google now as well.
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i'd strongly recommend also to use Juice Defender in agressive mode on. With that, your data connection will be enabled every 30min instead of being always on in the background... this saves me a lot of battery as well.
I have upgraded from ICS stock to JB stock and now my battery lasts much less than before. I am considering donwgrading to ICS 4.0.3
Hope it helps.
I'd strongly recommend you don't use Juice Defender. At all. Ever. That app (and similar apps) was designed to hoover money from n00bs who don't know better.
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I'd strongly recommend you don't use Juice Defender. At all. Ever. That app (and similar apps) was designed to hoover money from n00bs who don't know better.
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.....causing more draining than before as a result of the ap itself.
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it's a free app, and I've tested with and without, and for me it makes a huge difference. if you never tried before, you should before saying it doesn't work... it's only 3mb and runs only 1 service on the background (around 6mb).
I did try it back when I was using a black wallpaper so I would get better battery life, on GB!
Trust us, you wont save any juice with any of those apps.
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gastonw said:
I did try it back when I was using a black wallpaper so I would get better battery life, on GB!
Trust us, you wont save any juice with any of those apps.
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I was using this with my good and old ZTE Blade and it worked really well. I will try to use my SGS2 without it...
Ok, and please don't install any antiviruses.
This is linux based, not windows
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gastonw said:
Ok, and please don't install any antiviruses.
This is linux based, not windows
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Thanks this I know. I was using Linux instead of Windows in my PC for some years.
But I have Prey anti-theft installed... hope this is OK. Do you guys have any anti-theft installed?
I don't, should set something like cerebrus up now that you mention it.
Got samsung dive anyway.
I'm also willing to chop the hand of anyone that would try to take the little guy away from me.
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JuiceDefender does nothing you can't do yourself, and you'll pay a drain penalty for the (false) 'convenience'.
Prey is as good as it gets so far as those apps are concerned.
Lol, when you start looking into a device you're thinking about getting, when you're new to all of this, you only get the "battery life" part, hence you become obsessed with it.
The crazy thing is that you don't even know how your device behaves until you actually use it without all these apps, but you don't know that, so the first thing you get from play store, it's a juice saver app.
I should know, been there done that.
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Unless you read the advice of people who know from experience that these things use more juice than they save before you get your phone (Which is what I did for over a month before I got mine).
I didn't read any of that until I had already bought green power and weren't even using it.
Cool leaf logo tho.
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Use greenify (it's a free app) to freeze apps which usually run in your background, like your maps for example. Check out for a better description of the app in play store
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I left my phone on to charge overnight so it's 100% when I woke up. I turned it on to check the weather for the day and before I turned it off, it's down to 99%. When I got to work, I turned it back on and I'm at around 90%. I got home today and I'm at around 30-40% with just some light web browsing and video watching at work. I flashed my T-Mo HTC One with a custom rom that was supposed to help increase battery life.
I'm not blaming the phone yet though. I'm leaning on it being T-Mobile's fault. The data connection seems to be very unreliable, jumping from < 1MB to 10MB download while still supposedly being 4G (icon shows 4G). I read that this can be a constant strain on the battery? I plan to turn off the data and manually turn it on when I want to use it tomorrow to test out this theory.
How was your battery life on the stock rom?
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How was your battery life on the stock rom?
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To be honest, I have no idea. I flashed the custom ROM pretty early to get rid of all the bloat.
Welcome to android Where your dreams must be tapered.
mine beasts its way thru days... I still charge it while I sleep but I have a hard time burning through more than 60-70% all day. then again I don't use my phone during work hours.
I'd recommend you get the advanced task killer and use it whenever you're done fiddling around for the time being.
thcOne said:
mine beasts its way thru days... I still charge it while I sleep but I have a hard time burning through more than 60-70% all day. then again I don't use my phone during work hours.
I'd recommend you get the advanced task killer and use it whenever you're done fiddling around for the time being.
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Absolutely the wrong advice. Task killers NEVER need to be used for anything.
If your battery life is poor, it's one of a couple things:
1) an app is keeping your device from going into deep sleep. I'm going to bet it might be maps. Go into the settings on the maps app and make sure it's not updating your location for latitude.
Failing that, search for betterbatterystats on XDA, install that program, and look for wakelocks. Read the main thread on XDA to learn about what wakelock is what. Maps is a big one, so is facebook.
2) if your signal borderlines on 0 signal and 2g/edge. If your signal is low, then fire up wifi to get it to connect to wifi calling. It'll disable the 2g/3g radios and rely on wifi only, which will be a huge save in terms of battery.
NEVER EVER use task killers. It's a myth that's been debunked years ago by the android engineers.
thcOne said:
mine beasts its way thru days... I still charge it while I sleep but I have a hard time burning through more than 60-70% all day. then again I don't use my phone during work hours.
I'd recommend you get the advanced task killer and use it whenever you're done fiddling around for the time being.
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I dont recommend task killers, I think they do more damage than good....just my opinion.
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Find Better Battery Stats. It's paid on the market (which I recommend) but he has it free in the apps section on here. Also find GSam battery. Use those two apps to find your wakelock. Use the partial wakelock setting in BBS to find what it is exactly.
Between those two apps you can find any leaks. I would say that it is either the location reporting being on in Maps or a nasty wakelock caused by the ipservice app which is a backbone of WiFi calling.
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I recommand Greenify app. Rather than killing app it hibernate until you manualy open any app and give info about wakelock by individual apps.
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I recommand Greenify app. Rather than killing app it hibernate until you manualy open any app and give info about wakelock by individual apps.
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+1million to that. Greennify has worked miracles on my phone.
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Find Better Battery Stats. It's paid on the market (which I recommend) but he has it free in the apps section on here. Also find GSam battery. Use those two apps to find your wakelock. Use the partial wakelock setting in BBS to find what it is exactly.
Between those two apps you can find any leaks. I would say that it is either the location reporting being on in Maps or a nasty wakelock caused by the ipservice app which is a backbone of WiFi calling.
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Now that you mention Maps, I do remember a feature where I set my home location and the phone would update directions on how to get home. I also had automatic locations on. I went and turned it all off. I hope this is it.
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I recommand Greenify app. Rather than killing app it hibernate until you manualy open any app and give info about wakelock by individual apps.
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Thanks. I will give it a try. So does Greenify work much in the same way as iOS multitasking? I came from iOS, and when you switch apps, the app that is in the background gets put into a stasis until you switch back to it.
I've been doing it the old fashioned way as of recently and it's helped tremendously. I have different little widgets (the HTC ones) to turn off certain functions, like GPS (Google Now and other geo-location apps still work, they just don't pinpoint you EXACTLY to a coordinate), WiFi, Bluetooth, brightness, sync, etc.
Additionally, I also have power saver turned on to lower the screen brightness a bit and keep the clock speed of the device lower. Lol it sounds like I'm limiting the hell out of the device, when in reality there's no difference other than the upkeep of having to turn certain things on when you want to use them.
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I've been doing it the old fashioned way as of recently and it's helped tremendously. I have different little widgets (the HTC ones) to turn off certain functions, like GPS (Google Now and other geo-location apps still work, they just don't pinpoint you EXACTLY to a coordinate), WiFi, Bluetooth, brightness, sync, etc.
Additionally, I also have power saver turned on to lower the screen brightness a bit and keep the clock speed of the device lower. Lol it sounds like I'm limiting the hell out of the device, when in reality there's no difference other than the upkeep of having to turn certain things on when you want to use them.
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Yeah power saver is pretty awesome, haven't actually noticed any performance changes with it on.
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Yeah power saver is pretty awesome, haven't actually noticed any performance changes with it on.
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I thought about doing all of that too, but when you think about it, it seems pretty silly to go through all that just to be able to get some usage out of your device.
I've turned off a lot of things that were hogging my battery and am using Greenify. Battery life is a lot better at the moment, but it's still nowhere as efficient as my iPhone 5.
The G2 has a fantastic battery already, why not make it even better?
I like to see how far I can push this phone's battery. In no way does that mean that you need too as well, but for those of you that do want a few more hours or another day, I'm happy to share what I've learned.
After I've spent time learning the quirks of this phone, and most of its respective ROMs, I've come up with quite a few tricks for improving battery life, some specific to this phone, some just in android general. I now get average 3-4 days battery life, when I use the phone quite often during the day all day long.
It is your personal preference on how much of android's background services that you use compared to apps. This is only suggestions for the users that want to improve battery life.
Heres some of the simplest questions you can ask yourself when you go through the settings center:
Do I really need this feature enabled? Do I use it often? Even if I do occasionaly use it, is it that much of a pain to just turn on when I need it?
Do I really need GPS on 24/7? How often do I really use GPS?
How many apps do I need running in the background?
Do I need to keep autobright on, or keep the screen super bright?
That being said, here are some of the simple things that Ive done.
I keep everything off unless I use it every day.
I keep GPS off 24/7, I never use it.
Out of habit, I always close all apps.
I keep autobright off and keep the screen on 14 brightness. Unless Im right outside in the sun its easy to see, and if I am I can just turn it up with the quick setting.
Some of the more advanced stuff I do, that completely varies on your ROM:
Go through all the system apps and freeze anything you dont use. Example being the Picasa uploader (for me at least).
Leave as little system services running as you need. You wouldent believe how many unneeded services android runs. On the stock roms there are TWO location daemons running.
Currently Im using CleanROM, I switch between it and Cyanogen about once a week, just cant make up my mind on stability v. features, but on CleanROM, some of the stuff I have currently froze
Nearly anything involving Verizon, the carrier APKs are massive bloatware.
I disabled a lot of google services, some people may rely on these, personally I dont, the biggest two google apps I use are chrome and Gmail.
If your on a stock based ROM, disable the LG services you dont use. Textlink wastes a huge amount of power, as does QSlide.
(This applies alot more to carrier based roms than it does Cyanogen/AOSP, but even they do have a few unneccesary servcices.) Be careful when you are touching system services, if you dont know what one does, a google on its function is helpful.
Use a different launcher. Excluding the stock google launcher, most factory launchers are very inefficient, LG Home is no exception. Personally, I use SmartLauncher, a very light and very nice looking launcher with a fantastic layout. Nova I know is very light on resources aswell.
The more widgets you have cluttering your screen, the more power they will waste.
I can personally confirm myself that Kitkat based roms have incredible battery life after they settle in for a few days, the kernel level improvements brought with KitKat are very noticable. Currently Gummy Rom and three CM11 builds exist for KitKat, why not give them a try?
If you have unusually high battery usage, check your wakelocks, and see what exactly is using all the power, and you can disable/turn it off and remove that battery drain.
On a final note, comeon guys turn your phones off at night. I have yet to hear a good reason to leave it running over night, all it does is waste power and most commonly let the notification light run for 8 hours. If you use your phone as a alarm, you could turn on airplain mode overnight.
These are just some of the things that I do, if you have any more suggestions, feel free to post them or message me, I'll be glad to add them to the list.
I do not own this device but whats the point of turning all the feature of your phone off just to get a couple more hours out of it just use it like you should and stop worrying too much...
My 2 cents.
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shahkam said:
I do not own this device but whats the point of turning all the feature of your phone off just to get a couple more hours out of it just use it like you should and stop worrying too much...
My 2 cents.
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What I do is abit extreme, but I enjoy seeing how far I can push it. A few people complained of low battery and wondered what I did. The guide is simply suggestions for improving. Most of a phones 'features' are rarely used.
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polaric said:
What I do is abit extreme, but I enjoy seeing how far I can push it. A few people complained of low battery and wondered what I did. The guide is simply suggestions for improving. Most of a phones 'features' are rarely used.
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U buy a smartphone to see how long it last? man you got too much money...
I use everything from 4G to syncing...
G1_enthusiast said:
U buy a smartphone to see how long it last? man you got too much money...
I use everything from 4G to syncing...
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I only buy a new phone when Verizon let's me, I just enjoy seeing how far I can push each phone's battery. Some people go crazy on theming, I go crazy on battery life. A few people wondered what I did, so I just made this.
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I think u shouldn't use smartphone. With my G2 I turn on everything from 3g, WiFi, GPS, push and sync everything from mail, Facebook, viber,...
Plz use smartphone, don't let smartphone use u.
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quachhanthanh said:
I think u shouldn't use smartphone. With my G2 I turn on everything from 3g, WiFi, GPS, push and sync everything from mail, Facebook, viber,...
Plz use smartphone, don't let smartphone use u.
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I'll say this again, not everyone is aware of some of the lower level services that android runs that are completely pointless and cause a lot of wakelocks. This drills some's battery life down to 8hrs or less, which they then complain about. You would be surprised at the amount of stuff I have enabled.
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polaric said:
I'll say this again, not everyone is aware of some of the lower level services that android runs that are completely pointless and cause a lot of wakelocks. This drills some's battery life down to 8hrs or less, which they then complain about. You would be surprised at the amount of stuff I have enabled.
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So u should make a thread to bring out list junk apps of android. That is more helpful.
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polaric said:
I'll say this again, not everyone is aware of some of the lower level services that android runs that are completely pointless and cause a lot of wakelocks. This drills some's battery life down to 8hrs or less, which they then complain about. You would be surprised at the amount of stuff I have enabled.
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GPS is not pointless, it uses for Facebook, navigation, weather update, yelp and a lot of apps.. what you deem is pointless is different than everyone...your reason to own a smartphone is seriously wrong in so many ways...just saying man but its your money.
Honestly people should just enjoy the phone rather than trying to make it last longer. If your phone can make it through the day then consider that a successful phone.
I assumed everyone used their phone as an alarm. I never turn my phone off subsequently.
Some nice hints for someone needing more battery; however, I disagree with your assertion that closing applications saves power. Assuming you need to open the application again it would make sense to leave the application running (idle) in cached ram.
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Great write up. Thanks for sharing ??
I have just clocked it to 1,5 and frezeed a few LG stuff. I'm always from 5 hour screentime and up. If I just reading a weekend between 8 and 9 [one time ]
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How do u freez the apps?
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Instead of turning it OFF for the night, turn ON Aeroplane mode. That consumes less energy, than a turn off and on. This also solves the alarm problem, and no email or whatsoever shall wake you up at while you sleep
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3thman said:
How do u freez the apps?
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titanium back up
Thanks for the tips!
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Thanks. I found this thread very useful
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I assumed everyone used their phone as an alarm. I never turn my phone off subsequently.
Some nice hints for someone needing more battery; however, I disagree with your assertion that closing applications saves power. Assuming you need to open the application again it would make sense to leave the application running (idle) in cached ram.
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It completely depends on how often said application is opened, and what it does while idle. I know out of hand while I'm at work I see several people with 3-4 games left open on their phone, this is more what I was reffering too.
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polaric said:
Go through all the system apps and freeze anything you dont use. Example being the Picasa uploader (for me at least).
Leave as little system services running as you need. You wouldent believe how many unneeded services android runs. On the stock roms there are TWO location daemons running.
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Could you list all the stuff you freeze? I'd appreciate more specific examples, thanks
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jesssiii said:
Could you list all the stuff you freeze? I'd appreciate more specific examples, thanks
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I wrote this late last night, so I didnt have time to look through the list of everything I froze, but I'll add it to the OP in the next few minutes since I have a few free moments.