Hey guys,
I just compared my battery drainage with a friend and found out, that my display is using 3x more energy on lowest setting than his display on automatic brightness settings. I made a calculator to find out how many minutes the display can be turned on to suck 1% out of the battery and would like to know your results.
Everything you need is to type in your current battery level, the percentage of the different battery-consumers and their hours and minutes of total usage.
Please also post your screen brightness settings and system data.
My scores (minutes per %)
Display: 2,8
Cell standby: 195,7
Voice calls: 3,4
Phone idle: 391,7
System: Darkys Raw Steel Edition v3.0, Froyo JPM, Voodoo 5 pre6
Hi, i want to share my own settings about battery life, i got amazing battery life (0,2% per hour at idle)
Tuto
- flashing roms with flashtool is the cleanest way to start a fresh install, dont forget to wipe data
there are many flashtool tuto, if you want some help, ask me
i highly prefer the first fw, 23.0.A.2.93 (4.4.4)
the latest fw sounds having poor battery life, its random though, some people don't meet any battery life issue, some others do
- sync off, only sync manually, default settings for most of them (e.g brightness is always set to 50%), i only enable tape 2 wake
- disable save and backup
- localisation, BT, NFC, off
- go to Google paramaters in menu, disable as much as possible
- hard one, disable apps that have sync or sending anonymous datas options (.eg file commander)
- disable notifications manually (only disable these ones which you dont need)
- install BetterBatteryStats (free on XDA)
- install Greenify and freeze intrusive apps in background
- Llama, great app which allows you a ton of different profiles, e.g you can disable wifi, connection, mobile data when screen is off, when screen is on, enabling wifi/mobile data
Its my biggest improvement when i m using Llama, this app is truly helpful to hold battery life longer
Advanced settings
Remove Bloatwares
- http://forum.xda-developers.com/z3-...emove-whats-navring-small-apps-t2902419/page6
ADB tuto
- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2588979
- Debloater
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software/debloater-remove-carrier-bloat-t2998294?nocache=1
Magic software which allows you to disable many bloatwares without executing any command
Be aware to disable only those ones which you know what it is
(e.g FastDormancy, Sonyericsson.wakeup are safe to be disabled)
QA
Battery myths
Please dont listen idiots keep having these outdated statements about battery
Modern battery have no longer similarity with elder battery gen
It doesnt have memory effect
You can use your battery as you wish,
Draining battery off? not needed anymore
Actually the best advice i would give:
- Use and recharge battery anytime
Some experienced would take care of battery and attempt to recharge before battery drains completely off, actually there is no real damage (still a few percentages of battery juice running on)
How to analyze battery life?
Above my thread, there is a thread related about battery life which alot of users posting their battery life stats
Pointless, keep in mind battery life depends highly from your use, from where you lives whether you get great signal reception
Screen on time is as accurate as inaccurate, don't judge battery life by an high SOT score, i can overpass 10 hours of sot if i keep watching movies
BBS stats are more useful even though we don't have access on partial wakelocks anymore which is quite frustating
Let BBS running during night when phone goes into sleep mode, on the morning, get the results and post them here
Also let's some charge cycles before using it, at the first charge, keep in mind, system might be little fuzzy
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This example show you some important figures, the amount of awake should be correlated with deepsleep, the least of awake's amount you get, better will be your battery life
The most of deepsleep's amount you get, better will be your battery life, comprendé?
On this example, its marked: 15h 10 min 17s bat: -34% 2,2%/h
15 hours since latest reboot
2,2%/h, that your loss causing by wakelock per hour at idle
Stamina Mode
Keep in mind also, Stamina mode will be only effective if phone goes into sleep mode during a certain period (from 30 minutes to 1 hour), if you check your phone every 5 minutes, apps and services will wake up earlier, thus, in extension, battery life will decrease
Any comments/opinions would be appreciated
Ask questions on thread, i would be glad to answer it
Sorry for my poor english
Great post! I would also add to the app list the Lux Auto Brightness which with proper settings can save a lot of battery life.
Katsigaros said:
Great post! I would also add to the app list the Lux Auto Brightness which with proper settings can save a lot of battery life.
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Mind sharing what kind of settings? Thanks
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Another good tips:
Do not install battery life apps such as doctor battery etc...
Instead of improving battery life, its counter-productive while always running in background
Then causing some persistent wakelocks that prevent phone being periodically awake.
BBS might be the cause aswell
mab71 said:
Mind sharing what kind of settings? Thanks
Sent from my D5833 using XDA Free mobile app
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First disable in phone"s built-in "Brightness settings", the "adapt to lighting conditions".
After you install the Lux Auto Brightness set:
Adjust: Dynamic
Using Profile: Auto
Then go to Setting > Profile Editor
Select "Day" then "Lux".
Apply these settings by pressing "add":
0 lux = 10% brightness
1 lux = 57% brightness
5 lux = 59% brightness
10 lux = 61% brightness
15 lux = 63% brightness
20 lux = 65% brightness
40 lux = 67% brightness
1000 lux = 90% brightness
10000 lux = 100% brightness
Then Press "Night" then "Lux".
Reapply the above settings.
Then press "Backup" to backup to SD.
Don't forget also:
On "Night mode" to tick the "Night Mode" and the "Enable Automatic Night Mode".
On "Sunset Location" to Set it in "Auto".
Katsigaros said:
First disable in phone"s built-in "Brightness settings", the "adapt to lighting conditions".
After you install the Lux Auto Brightness set:
Adjust: Dynamic
Using Profile: Auto
Then go to Setting > Profile Editor
Select "Day" then "Lux".
Apply these settings by pressing "add":
0 lux = 10% brightness
1 lux = 57% brightness
5 lux = 59% brightness
10 lux = 61% brightness
15 lux = 63% brightness
20 lux = 65% brightness
40 lux = 67% brightness
1000 lux = 90% brightness
10000 lux = 100% brightness
Then Press "Night" then "Lux".
Reapply the above settings.
Then press "Backup" to backup to SD.
Don't forget also:
On "Night mode" to tick the "Night Mode" and the "Enable Automatic Night Mode".
On "Sunset Location" to Set it in "Auto".
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Thanks for the settings. Its always nice to benefit from other's footwork:good: Will give them a shot.
Katsigaros said:
First disable in phone"s built-in "Brightness settings", the "adapt to lighting conditions".
After you install the Lux Auto Brightness set:
Adjust: Dynamic
Using Profile: Auto
Then go to Setting > Profile Editor
Select "Day" then "Lux".
Apply these settings by pressing "add":
0 lux = 10% brightness
1 lux = 57% brightness
5 lux = 59% brightness
10 lux = 61% brightness
15 lux = 63% brightness
20 lux = 65% brightness
40 lux = 67% brightness
1000 lux = 90% brightness
10000 lux = 100% brightness
Then Press "Night" then "Lux".
Reapply the above settings.
Then press "Backup" to backup to SD.
Don't forget also:
On "Night mode" to tick the "Night Mode" and the "Enable Automatic Night Mode".
On "Sunset Location" to Set it in "Auto".
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Nice catch, did you feel any improvement?
brightness set at an half + no auto brightness
Norup58 said:
Thanks for the settings. Its always nice to benefit from other's footwork:good: Will give them a shot.
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My pleasure
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monsieur_debile said:
Nice catch, did you feel any improvement?
brightness set at an half + no auto brightness
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Yes i saw improvement because i don't have to change the brightness manually all the time. Since i started to use this program i had always set the brightness stucked at 75% whether i was indoors or outdoors but but now it adjusts the brightness automatically to the environment and that's why it saves a lot of battery.
I think it is too bright settings at your example
tRippinthehead said:
I think it is too bright settings at your example
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I'd agree. Also why are you saying you had to change the brightness manually all the time. Is that not what the built-in auto-brightness does? It works quite well for me anyway
Another big battery improvement and it did eliminating most of my persistent wakelocks
Llama:
Set these following events:
- Screen On: Mobile data On, 3G /4G On
- Screen Off: Mobile data Off, 2G only
Of course, you can add more events/actions/conditions (wifi...)
It actually works better than Stamina since mobile data has been disabled for good (even with Stamina on, some apps/services might attempt to communicate with data mobile)
tRippinthehead said:
I think it is too bright settings at your example
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Yes they were my personal settings but you still can reduce the lux settings by 5%, 10%, 20% e.t.c. according to your needs.
Just leave the same these settings:
0 lux = 10% brightness
1000 lux = 90% brightness
10000 lux = 100% brightness
Then Change all the other values for:
1 lux
5 lux
10 lux
15 lux
20 lux
40 lux
For example instead of:
1 lux = 57% brightness
you can put:
1 lux = 47% brightness
or
1 lux = 37% brightness
And so on...
As I understand the app (please correct me if wrong), when entering various lux values + dynamic enabled this means if you set 10 lux =50% and 50 lux =60% the app will adjust the 10% brightness within the 40 lux spectra you have set.
Going on this assumption I have following settings for Day/Night:
0 lux = 25% 0 lux =20%
1 lux = 35% 1 lux =30%
40 lux = 50% 50 lux =50%
500 lux =70% 500 lux =60%
20k lux =100% 10k lux =100%
Just for info, found follow on the net to give an idea of how fast the lux value increases:
0 lux = Moonless clear night sky
1 lux = Full moon on a clear night
50 lux = Family living room lights
80 lux = Office building hallways/ toilets
250 lux = Easy office lighting/ class rooms
500 lux = Study libraries/ Groceries
750 lux = Supermarkets/ Office landscapes
1000 lux = Overcast day
10k lux = Full daylight (not direct sunlight which is => 32k lux)
Hi, currently I'm having some battery issue, as you can see in the attachments, it's only been 1 day since discharge, and the battery's almost drained out. I'm using SO-02G model, with D5803 model rom. Could u please help me analyze what's happened and what should I do to increase the battery life ? should I use the debloater software to disable some feature ?
Stamina mode was enable, overnight (11 p.m to 5.30 am) battery lost 6%
First, install BetterBatteryStats
Do you play often? (Clash of Titan, 9%, gaming is the best way to drain battery life quicker)
Disable NFC,
Do not use any battery life optmizer or anti virus apps, its counter productive and waste battery life more
Install Greenify, freeze Facebook (one of the worst app on Play Store, very energyc-consuming )
Follow the rest of my tuto and it would be all be fine
You guys could benefit from reading the mega battery saving guide here on xda.... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2601318
Additionaly check if your carrier has fast dormancy enabled and fix your conf or disable FD support in build.prop:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2382680