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Help What has been using your battery??

Amy3006

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Apr 30, 2011
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Here's mine:

Display: 47%
Dialer: 22%
Call Standby: 10%
Wi-Fi: 9%
Phone idle: 8%
Android OS: 2%
akmd: 2%

Is that normal? I have a new Desire S (got it 3 days ago) It seems odd to have the display taking up so much battery compared to other people on this forum and for the OS to be using so little? - The percentage display has actually gone down since I got it with originally around 60-70% display!

I'm confused if this is a good or a bad thing? :/ As it's all relative... Another bit which confused me was how much my dialer was using. I haven't made any phone calls in almost 48 hours and before then I have only ever made 3 calls, each lasting less than 5 minutes. So what is going on there?

I'm new to all this.... So what sort of statistics have other people been getting?? Anything similar?
 
When I first got my Desire S the display would've taken up to 50-70% of the battery but after putting on Auto Brightness, it goes down to maybe 30-50%.
I never knew that display actually takes up so much battery until the Desire S.

As far as I know, the dialer also counts as Mobile Network, which I leave on all the time so that's usually higher than other processes.

Dialer - 36%
Display - 32%
Cell Standby - 16%
Phone Idle - 14%
Voice Calls - 2%
Android OS - 2%

19 hours on battery and still 70% of battery left.
 
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Dialer 36%
Display 32%
Cell Standby 16%
Phone idle 14%
Wifi 3%

22 hours on standby and 86% drain so far which in my opinion is pretty good.

If your concerned about the battery try some of the following:
-Stop Email/Feed/Twitter Syncing? Does it need to automatically fetch your email? Mine is manual, perhaps set up a schedule to only sync at certain times of the day? Im at my desk for most of the day anyway so i dont need my phone fetching email.
-Lower Display brightness? I keep mine pretty low which is fine for me, but also have a widget to raise the brightness quickly.
-Deactivate 3G/Data? Was on holiday last week so I turned off my data to stop me getting charged ridiculous prices. I have decided to leave it off as a trial this week so see how much I save. 3G constantly is searching for signal which is a massive drain. Again I have a widget to activate if quickly.
-Dont activate screen. There is a little led indicator to tell you that you have a text/whatever, so i make sure to look for that and not to activate screen just to see if i have text.

I guess it all depends on how much and what you are doing with your phone. I wouldnt expect great battery life if i was hammering downloads/music/videos.


EDIT:
Dialer 39%
Display 26%
Cell Standby 17%
Phone idle 15%
Voice calls 2%
Wifi 2%

1day 20h stand by, battery left 71%
 
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