I used this phone almost for one month and I found that the battery icon status on the top doesn't update. It always show full status even though the battery level is drop down to 85% shown in settings->about phont->battery level.
This problem just start occur from yesterday.
Install "battery indicator" to give you a better info.the icon formula vary for each firmware
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The problem is the icon can reflect battery usage in my last one month but now, starting from yesterday, the icon always in full.
There should be something wrong
5.24 hours of display with it on. 7.54 with it off. Explain? These were the only changes I made from yesterday to today. I calculated these times via percentages and battery used. If everything remains relatively constant, power saving mode is worse on the battery for me.
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Mark271 said:
5.24 hours of display with it on. 7.54 with it off. Explain? These were the only changes I made from yesterday to today. I calculated these times via percentages and battery used. If everything remains relatively constant, power saving mode is worse on the battery for me.
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battery saving mode - you mean in the display options? Yeah, I disabled mine. I would think that constantly checking images to determine brightness would use more battery imo.
how is this different from auto-adjusted brightness? i assume auto-adjusted brightness uses the sensor, whereas this battery saving mode will change the brightness by determining the content shown on the screen?
lolcopter said:
how is this different from auto-adjusted brightness? i assume auto-adjusted brightness uses the sensor, whereas this battery saving mode will change the brightness by determining the content shown on the screen?
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Ya so it needs power to keep the sensors awake. I always disable such functions together with auto sync. Just do it manually if you want to conserve battery.
MilkPudding said:
Ya so it needs power to keep the sensors awake. I always disable such functions together with auto sync. Just do it manually if you want to conserve battery.
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going further with that, what all does auto-sync entail? is gmail pushed, or auto-synced? i don't really use any widgets or apps that would require it (maybe google voice? i guess calendar and contacts...)
Either way, I wish I would have known about this considering it added two hours to my battery life.
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Either way, I wish I would have known about this considering it added two hours to my battery life.
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Ya it's good to know. I think a lot of people may get tricked by the descriptions. It probably only saves battery if the screen brightness is set to maximum all the time.
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going further with that, what all does auto-sync entail? is gmail pushed, or auto-synced? i don't really use any widgets or apps that would require it (maybe google voice? i guess calendar and contacts...)
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It's auto synced by default with or without the widget. (Things may be different in 2.2) If you want to sync them manually, you need to go to setting>accounts and sync and choose it yourself.
Thanks for the tip!
just curious - are you sure battery was totally drained?
that other post about the batteries having more life than indicated (and i'm not referring to the icon up in the notification bar) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=770207
i've been wondering how accurate the battery remaining indication is, the one in "settings > about phone > status" actually is
after the battery had settled in (used for 2 weeks) mine demos a 1-2% drain overnite consistently, except for the blue moon occasion it demos 11-12% - and the issue i have is, every nite when i take it off the charger, i check Flight mode, and kill any syncing as well as kill the GPS. I know an errant app could be trying to run, but i don't think so - i've got Startup Auditor, and all settings have remained the same - there's no reason i can see for the odd jump in battery drain
i know the radio's signals strength in the same settings > about phone > status is way off - even when showing 0 signal strength & 0 asus, i can still make calls with no issue. It's just got me wondering how off all those indicators are, whether battery, radio, radio signal strength, system useage numbers, etc
did you run movies etc after battery notification came up to see if battery was truly close to 0%?
larryccf said:
just curious - are you sure battery was totally drained?
that other post about the batteries having more life than indicated (and i'm not referring to the icon up in the notification bar) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=770207
i've been wondering how accurate the battery remaining indication is, the one in "settings > about phone > status" actually is
after the battery had settled in (used for 2 weeks) mine demos a 1-2% drain overnite consistently, except for the blue moon occasion it demos 11-12% - and the issue i have is, every nite when i take it off the charger, i check Flight mode, and kill any syncing as well as kill the GPS. I know an errant app could be trying to run, but i don't think so - i've got Startup Auditor, and all settings have remained the same - there's no reason i can see for the odd jump in battery drain
i know the radio's signals strength in the same settings > about phone > status is way off - even when showing 0 signal strength & 0 asus, i can still make calls with no issue. It's just got me wondering how off all those indicators are, whether battery, radio, radio signal strength, system useage numbers, etc
did you run movies etc after battery notification came up to see if battery was truly close to 0%?
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I'm using battery indicator. It has been dead accurate for three weeks. I'm getting two more hours of display which translate to considerable more overall battery life.
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the "power saving" mode is annoying, if only for the fact that i had already disabled auto-brightness, only to realize the brightness would change depending on what was being displayed on screen at the time. i left it on the absolute minimum brightness, because that is more than enough for me, and the fluctuations were making me scratch my head for awhile there (thinking, "hey, i thought i turned that off!")
makes sense now
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the "power saving" mode is annoying, if only for the fact that i had already disabled auto-brightness, only to realize the brightness would change depending on what was being displayed on screen at the time. i left it on the absolute minimum brightness, because that is more than enough for me, and the fluctuations were making me scratch my head for awhile there (thinking, "hey, i thought i turned that off!")
makes sense now
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I'm surprised I'm the first one to show and really point out the difference. But oh well hopefully this goes in the sticky.
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Thanks for this mate, i was searching a confirm!
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just curious - are you sure battery was totally drained?
that other post about the batteries having more life than indicated (and i'm not referring to the icon up in the notification bar) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=770207
i've been wondering how accurate the battery remaining indication is, the one in "settings > about phone > status" actually is
after the battery had settled in (used for 2 weeks) mine demos a 1-2% drain overnite consistently, except for the blue moon occasion it demos 11-12% - and the issue i have is, every nite when i take it off the charger, i check Flight mode, and kill any syncing as well as kill the GPS. I know an errant app could be trying to run, but i don't think so - i've got Startup Auditor, and all settings have remained the same - there's no reason i can see for the odd jump in battery drain
i know the radio's signals strength in the same settings > about phone > status is way off - even when showing 0 signal strength & 0 asus, i can still make calls with no issue. It's just got me wondering how off all those indicators are, whether battery, radio, radio signal strength, system useage numbers, etc
did you run movies etc after battery notification came up to see if battery was truly close to 0%?
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The battery indicator for me is pretty inaccurate, I've had Youtube playing with the speakers on, i.e. headphones unplugged a good 10-15 mins after the battery indicator was flashing at 0%. Another weird thing is I get more battery life out of Bionix 1.91 than Fusion 1.1, but Fusion 1.1 supposedly has the leaking battery while idle fixed. I dunno what's going on with the battery indicator but I can't believe it to be very accurate.
Not every time, but often when I turn on my screen the GPS/location icon blinks in the upper left. Seems to always happen when I unplug the device. Anybody know what is requesting my location?
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If anybody else is curious about this I answered my own question. GSam battery monitor reports which apps are using GPS, for me it happened to be the Weather Underground app.
I haven't seen anyone say anything about it so I thought I'd show everyone that you can change the battery icon in the status bar. You have to go to Settings>Battery then click on the battery icon next to the search button and three dot menu button. If this has already been show please have a moderator close this thread.
i found that there are charging animations for the first two battery icon modes (i.e. the battery & circle ones), but there is no charging animation for the battery text mode..
anyway i still chose the text mode as im used to reading battery in 1% granularity..
I use this app to have percentage in battery, it works flawlessly.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.kroegerama.android4batpercent
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works great thanks
just bought oneplus x ,dont know how to display battery percentage
thnqqqq so muchh...
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