Just wondering ....
I have an app that tracks the battery ... GSam Battery Monitor...
... It says my average battery life is 16h 32m ... is this normal?
The battery on this beast is HUUUUGEE so im a little bemused why the drain is so big ....
... I do use go launcher, with 9 screens and most of them do have widgets and custom icons and im using 3dui and live wallpaper ....
... but under battery monitoring only seems google services takes so much of the juice .... under settings I only have google mail and contacts as syncs ... it takes 40% + battery .....
Anyone experiencing a simlar thing? Any tips? I dont want to take off the launcher, widgets, live wallpapers .... anything else I can do?
I already have screen timeout at 30 seconds.
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FIXED!!
Ok so i fully charged the phone at 11pm last night. Played some games, fpse emulator, a snooker game, watched loads of youtube videos and did a bit of browsing. By about 4.30am i had 50% battery still left. I left it running. The apps were still running in the background (youtube, a few games, email etc)
by 12 noon next day i was at 30% ... used the phone to check emails a couple of times.
by 3 im at 22% So seemed to have worked
By doing this I seem to have gotten an extra couple of hours of battery! Currently at 81% battery used (16 hours and 15 minutes usage) when my average usage was 16h 32m and all my battery was gone! and in gsam battery monitor google services no longer appears. kernel android os is the higest at 17.5% usage. Google used to take 40%. It also says i have 4 hours and 32 minutes of battery life left! So i should be able to get about 20 hours worth of battery.
Here is what i did.
- First thing to do is check what you have syncing to google? Do you really need them all?
To do this go to settings>accounts and click google. Now you should see your email address(es).
- Click on the email
Untick any that you don't need. I had gmail and contacts sycned on mine. I unticked sync contacts (you can always tick it again if you want)
- Now under settings > accounts > google
Click on the privacy options one by one (Maps& Latitude, Search, Location, google. & Ads) & untick them (you can always tick them again when required - the phone prompts you)
Now also I use the gmail app to get my email
So in gmail app go to settings ... you shuold see general settings and then your email account(s)
- click on your email accounts and under Data Usage there is an option called 'Days of mail to sync'. I believe the default is 30 days. I put mine down to 14 days.
Anyway, this worked for me. It may also work for you .... Probaly a good idea to take screenshots before you untick anything. that way you can always go back to your original settings.
If you found this helpful let me know
I have an app that tracks the battery ... GSam Battery Monitor...
... It says my average battery life is 16h 32m ... is this normal?
The battery on this beast is HUUUUGEE so im a little bemused why the drain is so big ....
... I do use go launcher, with 9 screens and most of them do have widgets and custom icons and im using 3dui and live wallpaper ....
... but under battery monitoring only seems google services takes so much of the juice .... under settings I only have google mail and contacts as syncs ... it takes 40% + battery .....
Anyone experiencing a simlar thing? Any tips? I dont want to take off the launcher, widgets, live wallpapers .... anything else I can do?
I already have screen timeout at 30 seconds.
[img=http://img224.imagevenue.com/loc738/th_611318567_a_122_738lo.JPG] [img=http://img298.imagevenue.com/loc126/th_611319718_b_122_126lo.JPG] [img=http://img153.imagevenue.com/loc499/th_661132158_c_122_499lo.JPG]
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FIXED!!
Ok so i fully charged the phone at 11pm last night. Played some games, fpse emulator, a snooker game, watched loads of youtube videos and did a bit of browsing. By about 4.30am i had 50% battery still left. I left it running. The apps were still running in the background (youtube, a few games, email etc)
by 12 noon next day i was at 30% ... used the phone to check emails a couple of times.
by 3 im at 22% So seemed to have worked
By doing this I seem to have gotten an extra couple of hours of battery! Currently at 81% battery used (16 hours and 15 minutes usage) when my average usage was 16h 32m and all my battery was gone! and in gsam battery monitor google services no longer appears. kernel android os is the higest at 17.5% usage. Google used to take 40%. It also says i have 4 hours and 32 minutes of battery life left! So i should be able to get about 20 hours worth of battery.
Here is what i did.
- First thing to do is check what you have syncing to google? Do you really need them all?
To do this go to settings>accounts and click google. Now you should see your email address(es).
- Click on the email
Untick any that you don't need. I had gmail and contacts sycned on mine. I unticked sync contacts (you can always tick it again if you want)
- Now under settings > accounts > google
Click on the privacy options one by one (Maps& Latitude, Search, Location, google. & Ads) & untick them (you can always tick them again when required - the phone prompts you)
Now also I use the gmail app to get my email
So in gmail app go to settings ... you shuold see general settings and then your email account(s)
- click on your email accounts and under Data Usage there is an option called 'Days of mail to sync'. I believe the default is 30 days. I put mine down to 14 days.
Anyway, this worked for me. It may also work for you .... Probaly a good idea to take screenshots before you untick anything. that way you can always go back to your original settings.
If you found this helpful let me know