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Help 2.1 Battery drain

Hey all,

A few days ago I updated to 2.1 . And the phone works great. Now the thing is that yesterday I noticed the battery was draining a little bit faster than usual, I had been using the Particle Storm Live Wallpaper, so I thought that was the reason. What was my surprise when I changed to an static wallpaper and noticed the battery kept going down really fast. I checked the battery usage and it said that Wifi was draining 33%, Screen 20 something and the live wallpaper only 3 %...

Is it normal for Wifi to drain so much battery? Does it depend on the use or what? Shouldn't 3g drain more battery than Wifi?


Thanks in advance mates.
 
I have same problem battery drain is worst than before.
went only 6 hours today was about double that before. Re-installed same programs as before, only extra is live wallpaper. But don't think that can make that much of a difference. Display is at approx 30%
Last booted 3hrs 20Min ago had 74% on boot now down to 22%
Here is my batt usage statistics since last booted:
Voice calls 40% time on 34M 12S
Display 31% time on 25M 35S
Cell stand by 9% time on 3h 20m
Phone Idle 6% 24 54M
Android system 4% CPU total 7m
Bluetooth 2% time on 3H 20M
Android core apps 2%
Face recognition 2%
Any help appreciated.
Called rogers said cell standby seemed high so told me to change SIM card. I did this Morning no change.
 
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Wifi will drain the battery especially if it's searching for networks. Definitely only turn it on when you need it. I rarely use mine because I never approach my max bandwidth. Only time I have really used it is roaming in the states...dont' want to pay roaming data fees so i'd use wifi in hotels to get my updates. Other than that unless i'm downloading a bunch of apps from the market or something it's off.

Ever since I upgraded my OS and installed Juice Defender I get awesome batt usesage with my x10a. I can go a whole day with moderate useage and still be above 80%!! Heavy useage and i'm in the 70's. I dont' talk much on it...so I'm probably better off there but lots of checking of twitter, email, text and browser. Also look at a startup suppressor. I have apps like face recognition disabled, prevent some other not important ones from starting. Also use advanced task killer and only keep my viruscan, juice defender and the task killer active.

Good luck!
 
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Left my phone in standby for 10 hours, went from 100% charge to 68%, ie drained 32% of battery life.
Wifi off, data switched off, no live wallpaper, I have no idea what's happening :thinking:.

That does seem extreme. Have you tried a startup program? I use Startup Auditor free. I kill face recognition(start and prevent from loading any time), download manager(start only), google talk service(start only), mediascape plug-in manager(start only).

Then I run Juice Defender free...automatic setup..no extra config.

Advanced task killer excluding viruscan, JD and startup auditor.
 
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after getting 2.1 my battery life is OK. I full charged it for when I woke up saturday morning. used it sparingly.. checked it maybe once or twice an hour for a few things and made a few calls and when i got home around midnight it was at about 50 %. after waking up today on sunday around noon its now at 38%. so to me it seems its a shade better than it was before 2,1
 
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after getting 2.1 my battery life is OK. I full charged it for when I woke up saturday morning. used it sparingly.. checked it maybe once or twice an hour for a few things and made a few calls and when i got home around midnight it was at about 50 %. after waking up today on sunday around noon its now at 38%. so to me it seems its a shade better than it was before 2,1

Are you using anything to help with that? I'm seeing an incredible increase since 2.1, but I also added Juice Defender and Startup Auditor.
 
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