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Battery life

Has anyone seen awesome battery life with this thing or is it just me!? It's been off the charger for 4h20m and the battery is as 87%. wifi off, gps off, bluetooth off, sync ON. just text messaging all day, maybe 20 texts total (slow day today). little bit of facebook, little bit of email, thats about it, so i didn't really do much with the battery but even so with this kind of use my evo would probably be down to around 70%.
battery indicator pro says the display is responsible for 64% of the power drain and cell standby is only 12%, whereas my evo usually had around 50% cell standby and display was only like 8%. was the evo just really bad at holding a signal or what? my display is at middle brightness, if you use the power control widget.
can anyone else tell me how much % their display uses? and what their battery life is like?
after typing this post it's only dropped 1%. word.

Personally, I don't have much of a basis for comparison. I just got my Shift on an upgrade from an aging Samsung feature phone. I've heard all about the horrid battery life on the Evo. My brother has one and can't get a full day of use.
I was out with a real estate agent looking at houses for 6 hours yesterday. We used the GPS a little bit. I was checking NFL playoff scores every hour or so. I was also texting/emailing lightly. 4G was off. By the evening when I put it back on the charger it was still in the green. I didn't look at the power meter specifics... wish I did.
And today I'm just about to leave the office right now. I'm at 8 hrs, 59 min since unplugged with 6/10 green battery bars. (Hey... how do I get the exact percentage? Thanks!)
Display is 62% of my usage (It's set to Auto-brightness). Android system is next at 20%... Light email/texting use all day long at work. Played games for 30 minutes during lunch. Downloaded some new apps (using 4G). Wi-Fi and GPS off all day.
Overall it's a little better than I expected. But I know I haven't really had a heavy day of use yet.

Battery Indicator Pro is a great app that runs in your menubar and displays the percentage for you.
glad we're on the same page with the display, though

I almostmreturned the phone. My cycles were:
1st 8+ hours
2nd 4 hours
3rd 2 hours
Did a factory reset on the phone and it has started to turn around.
4th 9:40 min and at 30% when on the charger
5th 10:46 and still going. Battery is at 30%

I've recharged twice since I got it on Saturday. This seems great, coming from the sprint hero

Exactly. My hero sucked. I used my phone lightly and had it without a charge for over 24 hours. Did some playing around setting it up and then some light texting, emailing, and 4g usage. Then turned off 4g. Amazing.

vrundmc said:
Exactly. My hero sucked. I used my phone lightly and had it without a charge for over 24 hours. Did some playing around setting it up and then some light texting, emailing, and 4g usage. Then turned off 4g. Amazing.
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This isn't your dream phone, it's the one after that. You gotta take it out and play with it more!

I've had to charge it twice a day since the sixth, battery life has been terrible.
I have all the stuff disabled, it just seems to drain even when nothing is running.
I did have an issue with terrible signal on the first day, once I did ##DATA# it fixed it, but my battery life is sucking it up badly.
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Just got my wife a shift earlier today and ran it down from the half life that came with the battery in about...6 hours. That was with near constant use, the screen on max, wifi, and sync. Plus GPS on for awhile too. Compared to my epic which with similar use can go...maybe 6 hours from full? It depends. I'll be comparing her battery usage to mine over time and I'll post after she gets some use from a full charge. Under normal usage I can get up to 28 hours from my Epic so people reporting horrible battery life must be doing something wrong or have a defective battery. I fully expect her to get a couple days life out of each of her charges though she'll probably throw it on the charger every night.

anyone have an explanation of why the screen is the largest amount of usage under battery stats? yesterday was an average day for me and the display was something like 50%. on my Evo cell standby was always the highest and the display was down around 8 or 10%
edit: this morning the phone has been unplugged for an hour and a half and cell standby is 50% and the display is 11%... *scratches head*

I just switched to Sprint a couple days ago and got an EVO 4G; I am really unhappy with the battery life and though I got them to give me an extended battery for free it still seems like it's dying very quickly. I am a heavy data user and it's driving me crazy; does anyone have any experience going from the EVO 4G to the Shift and, if so, what are your thoughts, particularly in regards to battery life? Is it worth the loss of size and cameras?

i went from the evo to the shift (30 day swap deal) and i haven't even looked back. the battery life is STELLAR as far as i'm concerned. the evo sucked down power like nobody's business. i'm sure if you got an extended battery for the shift it would last you 2 days at least.

All I gotta say is my extended battery experience is amazing. I get about 36 hours out of my evo. Yea it looks a little fugly now but fck it I can abuse it as much as I want too with battery to spare.
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I just got the extended battery and haven't charged it overnight yet, but so fast I am very concerned that it is not living up to expectations. However I won't make any quick judgments until I've seen how it does over a couple days.

My Hero got better battery life.
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Typical use for me is pulling the phone off the charger at 5am, light to moderate use throughout the day (texting, facebook/twitter, apps updating ~2-4 hours, etc) and then putting back on the charger at 9pm.
I upgraded from the Hero. The Hero was rooted and running AOSP w/ modified kernel and collin's battery tweak. Battery life was impressive, but performance was an issue. I could routinely get 30+ hours battery life with the type of use listed above (battery was usually 50% or more when I'd put it back on the charger).
With the Shift, battery life is surprisingly good. For some reason I lose ~10% within the first hour, but after that, it seems to settle down and by the end of the day I'm still at ~30% (with the type of use listed above).
Based on what was possible with the custom ROM's and kernel tweaks for the Hero, I'm excited to see what the community can do with the Shift once we get root.

That first 10% drop seems normal for the new HTC phones. I know the Evo does the same thing. Just the way they're charging the batteries
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bcellis said:
With the Shift, battery life is surprisingly good. For some reason I lose ~10% within the first hour, but after that, it seems to settle down and by the end of the day I'm still at ~30% (with the type of use listed above).
Based on what was possible with the custom ROM's and kernel tweaks for the Hero, I'm excited to see what the community can do with the Shift once we get root.
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edgemaster191 said:
That first 10% drop seems normal for the new HTC phones. I know the Evo does the same thing. Just the way they're charging the batteries
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I found this article helpful in understanding the ~10% dropoff when first off the charger.

At what setting do you all have your screen brightness set? Do you use the auto-brightness option. I find consistently that the overwhelming majority of battery use (according to that screen in the settings) is from the display.

dylansylvester said:
At what setting do you all have your screen brightness set? Do you use the auto-brightness option. I find consistently that the overwhelming majority of battery use (according to that screen in the settings) is from the display.
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I have mine set at 20% and it still looks bright to me.

General battery usage

hey pretty new on mt4g so i wanted to gauge battery life and see what other people are seeing. I'll start and lay a rubric for everything I'm seeing
Mytouch4g
Rom cynogenmod 6.1.2RC2
Grankin 2.6.32.27 oc'd to 1.8ghz. Kernel
Have set CPU set for 245mhz on screen off/On demand. And normal is 245 to 1.8ghz on demand ad well. ( Not sure what's good profiling and stuff
Have Facebook and ebuddy and everything is off cept for data. No email only push Gmail
Hitting about 1% every 20 min and when i do browsing for like 20-30 min i lose like 10-15%
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Nice..
Mine can only hold for about 15 hours, lite web browsing, barely phone calls and texts..

I got about 16 hours yesterday. Using CM7. Brightness all the way up. Everything on except wifi. Browsing about 2 hours. About 5 phone calls, 15 mins or more. Used google maps. Did about 20 text msgs. I think that's all I did. Loving the battery life on CM7.

I get like 2 days use out of my phone without charging it. I've always tried to figure out why my battery life is always so much better than my gfs and I think I might have figured it out....I'm always on wifi.
The two places I am the majority of the day (work and home) I am constantly connected to wifi so it keeps my radio from scanning for a bettery data signal so my battery lasts a lot longer.

I have:
Iced Glacier v.1.1.6
Gorilla OC 1.6ghz beta v05 (but runs at 1.7ghz?)
SetCPU set at 1.7ghz ondemand and 245mhz screen off powersave
I get around 16 hours from a full charge, but Im always on the phone and playing with it but I have noticed that my battery does last longer on wifi

after tinkering around with it its working out better.
using
CM7nightlies#9
CM kernel
no setcpu
i get around 20 to almost 24 hours of usage. but most of the time i'm charging or partial charge cause i stream music like a mad man ahha.

stock i can get almost 24 hrs on a full charge im also using screen filter app(awesome app to use) im on pocket empires a lot too

Is it just me or does 100% last longer when fully charged? Has anyone also observed this? ATM I have 93% at 20hour mCPU scaled at 768mhz and around 15-16H moderate use with scale at 1.6GHz on max load.

I bought the Mytouch 4g on black Friday and found problems with the battery life in the first week. 5 Hours maximum without even using it. The camera worked randomly. I exchanged the phone for another one and all my problems were solved. I use the phone for gaming mostly and that drains the battery obviously .
I purchsed the powerskin case from the T-mobile store and I couldn't be more satisfied. I can use my phone for 6-7 hours straight playing games and browsing the web and it still has a full battery with a bar left on the power skin. It may be a little bulky but it brings be back to the good ol days when phones were bricks and adds that extra padding that I feel is necessary for protection. The price tag on the powerskin was $70 at the store but when it was scanned it came up as $40.00.
I highly suggest this product for those with fear of their phone dying unexpectedly.

Mac33 said:
I got about 16 hours yesterday. Using CM7. Brightness all the way up. Everything on except wifi. Browsing about 2 hours. About 5 phone calls, 15 mins or more. Used google maps. Did about 20 text msgs. I think that's all I did. Loving the battery life on CM7.
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Just because of root your battery is that great? My brightness is off all day and my Data is off and my battery MIGHT last me till like 10:00 PM..

This is probably a silly question, and after quite a while searching I haven't found any real answer, but here goes:
Going from original out-of-the-box to rooted RoyalGinger 2.1, the battery use by my Display has gone WAY down. Like from always being #1 to usually being well below Cell Standy, Phone Idle, Wi-Fi, etc. And it's definitely not that I'm using the Display less.
Has anyone else seen this? Does it have something to do with how RoyalGinger, Gingerbread, etc. calculate battery usage? Is it normal?

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This is probably a silly question, and after quite a while searching I haven't found any real answer, but here goes:
Going from original out-of-the-box to rooted RoyalGinger 2.1, the battery use by my Display has gone WAY down. Like from always being #1 to usually being well below Cell Standy, Phone Idle, Wi-Fi, etc. And it's definitely not that I'm using the Display less.
Has anyone else seen this? Does it have something to do with how RoyalGinger, Gingerbread, etc. calculate battery usage? Is it normal?
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yes its normal. you came from stock MySense UI(stock Glacier), and Sense builds are known to be battery whores because they look awesome, have loads of interactive widgets, and lots of bloatware as well. going to an AOSP build(CM7, RG) the ROM is very lightweight and contains little to no bloatware and still as fast, maybe even faster. just look at the size of the files...Sense=300+MB, AOSP=80-110MB. plain and simple, all of the bloat consumes more power on your display

clarknick27 said:
yes its normal. you came from stock MySense UI(stock Glacier), and Sense builds are known to be battery whores because they look awesome, have loads of interactive widgets, and lots of bloatware as well. going to an AOSP build(CM7, RG) the ROM is very lightweight and contains little to no bloatware and still as fast, maybe even faster. just look at the size of the files...Sense=300+MB, AOSP=80-110MB. plain and simple, all of the bloat consumes more power on your display
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Thanks for the prompt reply. I guess I didn't expect the Sense bloat to be reflected in the display usage. Does "Display" include the touch interface as well? If so, I guess I can see why Sense would show up as display.

Display counts more than just the power used by the LED backlighting.
I plugged my phone in yesterday at 14 hours of uptime with 45% battery remaining, after a day of fairly heavy use. Close to three hours of music listening, two hours of screen-on time and 3G/wifi web browsing, forty minutes of voice calls and a few SMS.
Using CM7 nightly #143 and insanity v3 kernel, 122/1017 clocks with smartass governor. I'm sure if I switched from smartass to conservative my battery life would increase a bit, but I like the smoothness that smartass gives me, and even on a day of brutally heavy use, I'll still come home with at least a quarter charge left.

Here's mine. Don't post attention to the time, I rebooted a couple times, it's probably been about five hours on battery. I don't do too many games per se, but I do browse xda and facebook a lot
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here's mine (i'm too new to post links):
15h 12m 37s on battery
Android System 44%
Cell standby 22%
Phone idle 18%
Voice calls 8%
Wi-Fi 6%
Display 5%
as you can see (er, read), the display is really low. not sure what's up with system (maybe scanning the sdcard?), usually it's just standby and idle at the top. this is on RG2.1 with the display on auto brightness with defaults.
so this really is normal?

ericjwaugh said:
here's mine (i'm too new to post links):
15h 12m 37s on battery
Android System 44%
Cell standby 22%
Phone idle 18%
Voice calls 8%
Wi-Fi 6%
Display 5%
as you can see (er, read), the display is really low. not sure what's up with system (maybe scanning the sdcard?), usually it's just standby and idle at the top. this is on RG2.1 with the display on auto brightness with defaults.
so this really is normal?
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yep, that looks about normal for AOSP builds

Well I won't complain. Like I mentioned, I was really surprised at the low battery consumption of the display. Didn't expect that much difference just by changing ROMs. Wish I would've rooted a long time ago.
Thanks again for humoring me and my silly questions.
clarknick27 said:
yep, that looks about normal for AOSP builds
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I went all day without charging running the new trigger rom.

Just wanted to recommend the trigger rom to everybody with bad battery problems. I was running Bionix before and getting 8 hrs at most, but now with trigger Im going all day without even touching a charger. I dont have any widgets that connect to my internet on the homescreen and Im not running any apps that hog power. Yesterday was a pretty heavy day for the phone though ant it worked flawlessly. I guess the only thing I really did was underclock it to 800mhz.
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Nice, I'm using the semi-accurate battery metamorph... which is that?
Also, GPRS, yikes

s15274n said:
Nice, I'm using the semi-accurate battery metamorph... which is that?
Also, GPRS, yikes
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Minimal matte
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I am running the Bionix 1.3.1 with the Dragon overclock kernel. I get 15-17hours a day on one charge, I am overclocked to 1.28ghz (I do have profiles in setcpu that underclocks me to 800mhz when the screen is off or when I am charging its down to 1ghz).
So I am not bashing your rom, but the reason you were having such terrible battery life really doesn't have much to do with Bionix. When I was running Bionix by itself I was averaging 22hours on a single charge
Currently I am at 30% battery life having gone 9.5hours on one charge today. This was a particularly harder day on the phone than normal, I have made several calls (to the tune of about 2 hours total), I have been playing "word with friends", constantly chatting on google talk, updated several apps over the course of the day, did some google searches on Dolphin HD browser, some you-tubing, and constantly checking and reading/replying to emails from my three accounts that are synced on it.
(I was home all day today lol)

kponti said:
I am running the Bionix 1.3.1 with the Dragon overclock kernel. I get 15-17hours a day on one charge, I am overclocked to 1.28ghz (I do have profiles in setcpu that underclocks me to 800mhz when the screen is off or when I am charging its down to 1ghz).
So I am not bashing your rom, but the reason you were having such terrible battery life really doesn't have much to do with Bionix. When I was running Bionix by itself I was averaging 22hours on a single charge
Currently I am at 30% battery life having gone 9.5hours on one charge today. This was a particularly harder day on the phone than normal, I have made several calls (to the tune of about 2 hours total), I have been playing "word with friends", constantly chatting on google talk, updated several apps over the course of the day, did some google searches on Dolphin HD browser, some you-tubing, and constantly checking and reading/replying to emails from my three accounts that are synced on it.
(I was home all day today lol)
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Lol there must be something wrong with my battery
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Impossible to really put much into it. Everyone uses their phone differently, even those people on different days. Flash what you love.

I get two days worth of battery life with heavy texting and moderate wifi. This Rom is a keeper for me I'm at 1 day and 3 hours and got 45% battery remaining.

I get from the Trigger Rom 20 hrs +/- with average use , 30 calls 20 texts, 20-40 emails, music other misc.
it is a Solid Rom and it battery performance is excellent.

Sig enough said
Trigger + Tigersblood = Winning

nothing new...
Overstock+any rom with disabled 3g and setcpu @800 MHz - about 48 hours (with music, ebook, calls). The proof is somewhere in the Trigger topic

I just went 29 hours off one charge on mine. Trigger is a keeper for me as well.

Get the same battery life with bionix 1.3.1 and overstock 1.5
3 exch accounts
Facebook and twitter syncing every 2 hours
3g+wifi
Two hours of bluetooth and music
Few texts and phone calls
Gps for traffic in the morning and in the afternoon
Brightness at 50 %
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And here I thought I was finally doing good with Trigger and you all come in and blow my happiness out of the water.
I pull mine off at 8am sharp, it sets with wifi and wifi calling on at work all day. maybe 1 10min phone call 2-4 txt and 4-8 emails and I get home at 6pm with 20% remaining. before on stock I would have to charge at 1-2 just to make it home and I thought that trigger and overstock was kicking butt till you all stepped in here with your usage and times and now I'm depressed again....
I even installed system monitor and it shows wifi calling only using 2-4% all day and the cpu usually hangs around 200-400. Guess my phone just hates batteries. might try setcpu.

trigger is awesome. i was messing around with some of the 2.2.1 roms... but i eventually went back to trigger. so smooth, so clean.

Wifi calling is a huge battery drain. You'll do much better without it.

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Wifi calling is a huge battery drain. You'll do much better without it.
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The only issue is no signal at all at work, so wifi calling was a blessing when it came out so giving it up is kinda a bad thing, nothing like paying for service I don't have 9 hours out of the day. but like I said wifi calling was only consuming 2-4% so I don't see how that is killing my battery. But for a test I'll run one day with the app frozen and see how my battery goes.

I don't think the 2-4% is completely accurate, as that's probably due to cpu and not the increase in radio/standby usage. Try it without when you're not working. Even so you're getting great battery life for being on wifi calling.

Im not bashing the Bionix rom at all. I ran it for about 3 months straight and it was amazing. I had it overclocked to 1.4mhz and it was a beast, but I never used all that speed anyway. I was constantly disabling data and I basically took all the smart out of the smartphone. I was having to do everything manually to keep my battery lasting about 8 hrs.
I just never had battery life before like I have with this trigger rom. I just wanted to recommend it to other people that have serious battery issues. Flash whatever you want. The people on these forums have ceated some amazing roms and they all have their pros and cons. For me, trigger is the best so far. Just wanted to put that out there

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And here I thought I was finally doing good with Trigger and you all come in and blow my happiness out of the water.
I pull mine off at 8am sharp, it sets with wifi and wifi calling on at work all day. maybe 1 10min phone call 2-4 txt and 4-8 emails and I get home at 6pm with 20% remaining. before on stock I would have to charge at 1-2 just to make it home and I thought that trigger and overstock was kicking butt till you all stepped in here with your usage and times and now I'm depressed again....
I even installed system monitor and it shows wifi calling only using 2-4% all day and the cpu usually hangs around 200-400. Guess my phone just hates batteries. might try setcpu.
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Do you have a desk job where you sit at a computer? If you do, why not just hook your phone up to your computer with the USB cable and let it charge and power off of that?
But as was stated before, Wifi calling along with really low or no signal will eat your battery.

Odin back to stock then flashing trigger again helped my battery big time also.

[Q] Anybody Else Getting Bad Battery Life? (Post your 'Display' usage)

Many reviewers of the xoom are getting 9+ hours of battery life with brightness at least 50% and running music in the background + some video.
I am not getting the 9 hours of battery life, but around 6 hours tops. Is anyone else?
Please post your battery life 'display usage' time. I feel like I have a bad xoom.
Again, if people can post their 'display' usage time, that'd be great. Meaning, the time the display was actually on one charge.
IF you cannot take screenshot, please type in your 'display' usage time as shown in the screenshot below.
TO FIND OUT DISPLAY USAGE TIME: go to SETTINGS -> ABOUT TABLET -> BATTERY USE -> TAP 'DISPLAY' -> SHOULD SHOW ACTUAL DISPLAY TIME ON. meaning, it shows how long your display has been on since being off the charger.
The screenshot shown below is with wifi on, bluetooth off, gps on, brightness settings at ~40%, starting from 100% battery life)
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nice screenshot..

nobody experiencing bad battery life? pretty close to returning the xoom..

Sorry, cant show a pic due to not having my XOOM on me. But im getting ruffly about 6-7hrs with decent use. But that's what I expected. The "approx" numbers they give you on mobile devices are always over shot in my opinion.

The worst battery life I've gotten so far, when using it constantly for a given period of time (Web browsing, some Flash video, email, Twitter, some gaming) is around 8%/hour drain. That would equate to around 12 hours total, which I can't verify because I haven't used it for nearly that many hours straight.
I supposed if I played games solid hours on end I might burn the battery in 6 hours or so. Conversely, in my typical use, which is on and off browsing, email, Twitter, newsgroups, Pulse, CNN, light gaming, some video, I take the Xoom off charge at around 7:30am and by midnight when I plug it in again I have about 50% remaining.

wynand32 said:
I supposed if I played games solid hours on end I might burn the battery in 6 hours or so. Conversely, in my typical use, which is on and off browsing, email, Twitter, newsgroups, Pulse, CNN, light gaming, some video, I take the Xoom off charge at around 7:30am and by midnight when I plug it in again I have about 50% remaining.
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wow, there is no way i'm getting that good of a battery life. i think i have to return my xoom and get a replacement...
so you're saying from 7:30 AM - midnight you're getting 17 hours of display time? that doesn't seem right..

I get 15 hours easy with moderate use and around 11 heavy heavy use.
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djunio said:
I get 15 hours easy with moderate use and around 11 heavy heavy use.
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did you even read the original post?
i mean DISPLAY TIME USAGE
go to data usage -> CLICK ON 'DISPLAY' -> SHOULD SHOW ACTUAL DISPLAY TIME ON. meaning, it shows how long your display has been on since being off the charger.
if you can take screenshot of your actual DISPLAY USAGE that'd be great. the screenshot you have is NOT the same...

aohus said:
did you even read the original post?
i mean DISPLAY TIME USAGE
go to data usage -> CLICK ON 'DISPLAY' -> SHOULD SHOW ACTUAL DISPLAY TIME ON. meaning, it shows how long your display has been on since being off the charger.
if you can take screenshot of your actual DISPLAY USAGE that'd be great. the screenshot you have is NOT the same...
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Sure didn't, I'll post my results tomorrow. Its currently at 97% with over 3 hrs of display usage. If your Xoom is only getting 5 I'd say your Xoom is defectve or something else other than the screen is draining your battery.
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I get great battery life, 65% remains

Maybe a better pic

I have good battery life when using the tablet continuously, but AWFUL battery life if its asleep.
I dont understand it - my drain while screen off / asleep is about 5% per 2 hours or even 5% per 1.5 hours...
and it usually shows android OS as taking up the usage while asleep.....
im at a loss of what to do.
I actually used it continuously for 9.7 hours of reading/wifi on time - so my battery seems fine.. but something is draining it while asleep...
I even tried to do a factory reset and wipe all my programs... and it still does it...
i dont know what to try now..
when i shut the tablet off - the battery does not drain - so it must be in the OS or something.
Any thoughts?

Flaunt77 said:
I have good battery life when using the tablet continuously, but AWFUL battery life if its asleep.
I dont understand it - my drain while screen off / asleep is about 5% per 2 hours or even 5% per 1.5 hours...
and it usually shows android OS as taking up the usage while asleep.....
im at a loss of what to do.
I actually used it continuously for 9.7 hours of reading/wifi on time - so my battery seems fine.. but something is draining it while asleep...
I even tried to do a factory reset and wipe all my programs... and it still does it...
i dont know what to try now..
when i shut the tablet off - the battery does not drain - so it must be in the OS or something.
Any thoughts?
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Hmm I don't know what's the problem but I do know a very possible solution.
Root + SetCpu

xlGmanlx said:
Maybe a better pic
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once again, i'm talking about actual 'display' usage
SETTINGS -> ABOUT TABLET -> BATTERY USE -> TAP 'DISPLAY'
as of yet, nobody has shown me their 'display usage' as of yet...

Display time on: 7h 23m 41s, and my battery is currently at 31%. I haven't charged it since Saturday. My guess is you have a lemon.
P.S. Sorry for the bad quality of the picture, I don't have my USB cable with me.

screen on time 7 hrs 02 minutes with 30% battery remaining

What else is using the battery? Just the display usage alone is useless. The display is only using 62 percent of the battery. Which is really not a high percentage. It looks like something else is using up a lot of juice in a shorter period of time.

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What else is using the battery? Just the display usage alone is useless. The display is only using 62 percent of the battery. Which is really not a high percentage. It looks like something else is using up a lot of juice in a shorter period of time.
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The only time I got less than spectacular battery life was when the "minimalistic text" widget ran way with 6% of my battery. Since uninstalling that app, I have had no issues.
Is your brightness jacked up? I use it on auto.

44 Hours of battery life!!!!

I'm running Toxic Crazy8, stock battery, Bali Kernel, undervolted an extra -25v across the board, reduced clock speed to 400mhz when screen's off. Light use gave me 44 hours of battery!
I probably could have pushed it even further. The first night it was updating 35 apps over wifi, and that sucked up almost 60%
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Got even better battery life? Post a screenshot =)

That's great an all but it comes slow. Try multitasking or play a simple game. It will lag like crazy. 44 hours is too much anyway, for me 12 hours would be the best.
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Airplane mode sure does help too
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It damn sure does...lol

I got 48hrs from the same rom, with wifi on constantly with skype. light to moderate use. Music at least 2+ hours twice in that span as well. Great rom. I chose not to UV or overclock so I have no SetCPU or anything installed, it's stock toxic with the 98 kickass script and v6. Really fast actually and no need for oc.

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I got 48hrs from the same rom, with wifi on constantly with skype. light to moderate use. Music at least 2+ hours twice in that span as well. Great rom. I chose not to UV or overclock so I have no SetCPU or anything installed, it's stock toxic with the 98 kickass script and v6. Really fast actually and no need for oc.
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thats impossible with "moderate" use.
its light, and i mean like.. VERY light not even to the scale of being the actual light... so techinically your not using light, but using little light to no light at all.
P.S. my sentence includes 6 words "light"
now that i'm done with that bull****.
Please people posting their batteries as 40+ hours, PLEASE start using your phone. or just get a feature phone, honestly.
I, too, keep my phone on standby more than actual use, but i DO use it when i can. theres atleast 8 hours of music daily, constant wifi use, 24/7, and i get near 20 hours of battery life because i consider my use minimal moderate. At the end of the day, my battery life is usually at 40%, then i charge it again.
I'm on MIUI as well so battery life isn't perfect and i can deal with that.

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thats impossible with "moderate" use.
its light, and i mean like.. VERY light not even to the scale of being the actual light... so techinically your not using light, but using little light to no light at all.
P.S. my sentence includes 6 words "light"
now that i'm done with that bull****.
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I SAID "light to moderate"... Also how can one judge what moderate is vs moderate with a guy who acts like a girl being on the phone all day texting and talking??? It's a ridiculous to even judge moderate or light vs someone else, because everyones concept of light to moderate are vastly different. So don't come at me like that bro.
Light to moderate (hence i didn't use strictly moderate) to me is at least 1 and a half hours on skype calls, at least an hour and a half on calls, a few texts on skype and sms, 10+ emails, a few show-offs lol, Wifi never turned off and skype always signed in, at least 4+ hours with music at the gym and a little after, a few random checks, a few market and web browses and maybe a short vid chat. That's light to moderate to me.
If you want to see less than light, like when I'm sleeping and checking my phone occasionally with wifi set to never turn off and skype signed in always I'll show you. It's been almost 12 hours since i was at full charge and unpluged and I am now at 94%. seems ridiculous I know and I thought so too but I ain't complaining. Stock battery as well. I'm no way saying this is light or what have you because it was idle for 90%+ Just an example of how deadly toxic 8 is with battery. And I do have apps. I dont usually play games though.

look at the attachment.That was after I downloaded 2 apps and tried them both lol and couldnt figure out how to screenshot. I'm done with this "bull****" now.

Once I see the cell standby is higher than the display I pretty much know how you use your phone.

No, you only know what you see. I am running Toxic8 also and am getting around 30+hours of real actual use, granted 8 of those are when I am sleeping, but still get strong use all day long.
Day in my battery.
Get up and go to work at 7am, listen to Iheartradio until 930-10
PowerAmp until 130 lunch with texts and email checks throughout.
130-2 XDA, random surfing
2-6 I listen to 2 different podcasts.
6-7 ride home on bus and listen to PowerAmp and check XDA again.
9-10 after kids in bed and I play a few games and check/clean some files in
Root Explorer.
Go to bed and then start over in the morning and finally plug in around 10 or 11 (lunchtime)
The cycle may shift a few hours here or there but it almost always the same. Oh and not sure if it is this ROM or not,but if I go into settings>about phone>status>batteryuse the picture shows that my display is at 75%, stand-by is 15% and phone idle is at 10% all +/- and that is clearly not the case. So you think that you see what my use is like but really you aren't.
I also use Juice Defender Plus which kills the radio/data traffic for an app-to-app basis and I have it set to kill radio/data while I am asleep.
I can post a screen shot if you like of the battery use (seeing isn't believing) or a shot of BetterBattery Stats (seeing is believing) if you like, but I am using my phone all day AND getting 30.

my vibrant hates toxic 8 for some reason. ultimate rom on the other hand has been very fast, responsive, and long lasting.

I prefer to actually use my phone for what I paid for it to do.....if I just want a phone ill go buy one out of a gumball machine or pick it out of a box of cracker jacks

iwillkillyou said:
That's great an all but it comes slow. Try multitasking or play a simple game. It will lag like crazy. 44 hours is too much anyway, for me 12 hours would be the best.
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I was at 19 hours and 31 minutes using the Stock ROM with 41% battery left.
That's 33 hours if I had let it go all the way down with the same usage, and I definitely used it more than the OP does if that screen shot is any indication.
Didn't use airplane mode or anything.
I just uninstalled all apps I don't use and use a Black Background with only 3 home screens and a 30 second screen time-out.
WiFi used whenever I could, and I keep GPS on all the time now. Automatic screen brightness, too

The people who are being negative, what do YOU consider good use? I'm on trigger 3.2 final with bali 1.8.8 kernel, and my phone can get 24 hours with occasional use and still be at 50% battery, easily 24 hours with REAL use.
Real use includes calling for 1-2 hours, playing at least an hour of games, and just syncing off for apps I don't use constantly.. I don't have the phone underclocked when screen is off or undervolted any more than the kernel is set for.
How do I get that battery life? When the screen is off, it is in deep sleep. I get less than 1% battery drop per hour when it is in deep sleep. So basically unless I'm ACTUALLY using my phone, it isn't draining.
The part that impresses me is that I get easily 20+ hours of heavy use on the ORIGINAL battery(over a year and a half old). I know that battery must have lost some of its ability to charge.. I got my phone replaced by warranty, and the battery they included WILL NOT give as much battery life.. it makes me think that the problem with some people is a combination of a crap stock battery, and wake lock issues..

Wow this is some crazy stuff! I've been on GB for a long time now. I was just thinking the other day to flash back to 2.2 just for the lulz. But then along came the ICS port.
It seems I should try this out.
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THIS is what really light use looks like.. maybe an hour of calling, a few dozen texts, reading some news..
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2.2 toxic is a great rom. i think it doesn't get enough love because of the GB and ICS options.
either way even 12hrs of battery life is pretty nice congrats

What I don't understand is:
1. How come it's on flight mode?
2. How come Display < Stand By?

Running on stock 2.2 with 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS turned off, barely any apps installed so nothing started up in the background, and not recieving any calls all day my battery went from 100% to 93% in 13.5 hours. I estimate just shy of 60 hours of potential battery life.
But that was with a phone that wasn't being used at all; i.e. a paperweight. I could just turn the phone off and claim I had a bajillion hours of battery life.
FYI when I took the sim card out of my daughter's iPhone 3G, turned off wifi, and shut the screen off it lost about 1% PER DAY. That works out to a 3-month battery life (give or take) but again it's just a paper weight at that point.
In other words, if you're using your phone as an MP3 player for 2 hours a day, why shouldn't it get 44 hours of battery life?

Ok so i read all this hype about crazy8 so im trying it out now...
Damnit im very impressed....
I watched 2 movies complete played angry birds, on my phone for most the night and this morning when i got off work 9 1/2 hrs later i still had 35% battery life.
That is awsome to me,though i did not get 44 hrs due to i actually use my phone i will say im impressed,,,,i now no longer need to carry my 3 batteries and the external charger with me everywhere i go lol
I normaly go thru 2 battery changes a night.
Tonight i will run with all the script tweeks and so on...im excited to see the results then lol...although i will not run plane mode and undervolt it and all those lame tricks, actually may oc clock it a bit.
No more miui and cm7 for me lol bad ass battery life with everything working and snappy as hell....im at home with crazy 8