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Help Battery Draining Quickly
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IF you are willing to use an app to extend your battery life, I suggest that you investigate MacroDroid.
I have it configured to turn off Data, WiFi, Sync when the screen is locked.
Likewise, it is configured to turn on all of those when the screen is unlocked.
Today, as I type this, the battery is still at 57% on the 3rd day since being charged.
That includes several phone calls, some video use, some news searches, and a lot of texting.
I have my screen display set to 10 minutes. If the phone is unlocked, the display stays awake so that I can easily read the newspapers.
I touch the power button and it goes to sleep, totally asleep.
Text messages and phone calls still come through, but the internet is denied access to my phone.
That is how you control excessive battery use.
I have no use for any app that continually keeps trying to sync up with the outside world. Ain't gonna happen on my shift. (or phone)
Blue Mail takes all of 3 seconds to get updated when I want to see my emails, so I don't feel left out at all.... big plus is the battery lasts forever.
I have it configured to turn off Data, WiFi, Sync when the screen is locked.
Likewise, it is configured to turn on all of those when the screen is unlocked.
Today, as I type this, the battery is still at 57% on the 3rd day since being charged.
That includes several phone calls, some video use, some news searches, and a lot of texting.
I have my screen display set to 10 minutes. If the phone is unlocked, the display stays awake so that I can easily read the newspapers.
I touch the power button and it goes to sleep, totally asleep.
Text messages and phone calls still come through, but the internet is denied access to my phone.
That is how you control excessive battery use.
I have no use for any app that continually keeps trying to sync up with the outside world. Ain't gonna happen on my shift. (or phone)
Blue Mail takes all of 3 seconds to get updated when I want to see my emails, so I don't feel left out at all.... big plus is the battery lasts forever.
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Nothing. A bum battery is a bum battery. With the millions of batteries that are produced every day, there is bound to be a few duds.
Buy a new battery, maybe a second as well for a backup and call it day.
You're way overthinking this issue.
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Calibration happens when you use the battery for the 1st time, so no point now. You charge it to 100% and drain it completely to zero. Some people suggest you do this a few times. Thereafter when it gets to 40-50% charge it back up again. So try not to let it run down to 10% to zero anymore.
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If you don't use Google+ app, sign out of it. You can still access it through browser. Also set location mode to battery saving and turn off location report/history. this will help a lot to reduce battery drain.
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turning off data and wifi will just about stop battery drain.
I use MacroDroid to turn it off when the screen locks,
and then turn them ON when the screen is unlocked.
my phone right now is showing 88% and has been off charger for 18 hours.
Moderate use, forums, telco, lots of messages, emails, reading the newspapers.... but when i put it down, everything goes off.
I use MacroDroid to turn it off when the screen locks,
and then turn them ON when the screen is unlocked.
my phone right now is showing 88% and has been off charger for 18 hours.
Moderate use, forums, telco, lots of messages, emails, reading the newspapers.... but when i put it down, everything goes off.
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Also turn off sync if you haven't that will save you some bat I never have it turned on for anything
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There are definitely duff batteries out there. I bought a "new" one recently, i calibrated it properly, but it won't charge over 93% and it won't hold charge even when using ultra power saving mode; it lost 15% charge overnight! Also general charge is hopeless only lasting about 9 hours. Anyway getting another one free in return.
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So I have tried almost everything listed on this page, I factory reset my phone 3 days ago and I have battery doctor and gsam running yet after taking my phone off charge at 6 this morning and leaving it in my bag with Bluetooth, mobile data and location services turned off as well as all apps closed down when I went to check it at 10am, 4 hours later, it had lost 50% of the charge. I have no idea what to do, I got the phone the day it came out and I don't think it has lasted more than 12 hours since I got it. Are there any other things I could possibly do??
Also I have noticed that it is getting very hot, as in uncomfortable to have in my jeans pocket hot and the battery drains very quickly as in 20-25% PER HOUR when it does this.
Also I have noticed that it is getting very hot, as in uncomfortable to have in my jeans pocket hot and the battery drains very quickly as in 20-25% PER HOUR when it does this.
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Hey thanks for this app. I set it all up last night, gonna see if it works today. Did you pay for the premium or just use the free 5 macros
Mountain Fisher
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AZgl1500
turning off data and wifi will just about stop battery drain.
I use MacroDroid to turn it off when the screen locks,
and then turn them ON when the screen is unlocked.
my phone right now is showing 88% and has been off charger for 18 hours.
Moderate use, forums, telco, lots of messages, emails, reading the newspapers.... but when i put it down, everything goes off.
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Hey thanks for this app. I set it all up last night, gonna see if it works today. Did you pay for the premium or just use the free 5 macros
Mountain Fisher
I went ahead and bought the Paid Version because that will allow you to have more than one (1) action or constraint effective for any given trigger event. If you only have the Free Version, you are restricted to 1 action per event. You can create multiple macros sensing the same event and then select different actions and do the same thing as I did below. In fact, that is what I did when I first got it. I created 6 macros to do what I wanted. It worked so well, I applauded the creator of this app by paying for the full version and am thrilled with how well this app works.
ie, for Internet Off a macro was created that:
Trigger > Screen Locked
Action > WiFi disabled
Action > Data OFF
ie, for Internet ON a macro was created that:
Trigger > Screen Unlocked
Action > WiFi enabled
Action > Data ON
Those two simple macros resulted in a battery lifetime of Days, not hours, but many days IF the phone is idle and not being used.
The result of those two simple macros is that no matter when I want to use my phone, the battery will always have lots of juice available for me to surf and view videos, news casts on live TV, etc....
I have one macro created that senses Screen Locked, then it kills off every app that I "might have" been using when I hit the Power Button.
I no longer bother to "back out of" or "close an app". I just open as many as I want while using the phone confident that when I touch that Power Button, everything is shut down and closed out.
End result? Lots of battery every time I need the phone. I live in a Very Rural Area and some times there just is not a good signal available.
Before I started the Turn It OFF habit, the battery would die quickly because the Radio Transmitter was working at full power all the time searching for a signal.
Now, with the internet turned off, the phone sips battery power at about 5 percent per day when idle.
Originally Posted by AZgl1500
turning off data and wifi will just about stop battery drain.
I use MacroDroid to turn it off when the screen locks,
and then turn them ON when the screen is unlocked.
my phone right now is showing 88% and has been off charger for 18 hours.
Moderate use, forums, telco, lots of messages, emails, reading the newspapers.... but when i put it down, everything goes off.
===========================================================
Hey thanks for this app. I set it all up last night, gonna see if it works today. Did you pay for the premium or just use the free 5 macros
Mountain Fisher
I went ahead and bought the Paid Version because that will allow you to have more than one (1) action or constraint effective for any given trigger event. If you only have the Free Version, you are restricted to 1 action per event. You can create multiple macros sensing the same event and then select different actions and do the same thing as I did below. In fact, that is what I did when I first got it. I created 6 macros to do what I wanted. It worked so well, I applauded the creator of this app by paying for the full version and am thrilled with how well this app works.
ie, for Internet Off a macro was created that:
Trigger > Screen Locked
Action > WiFi disabled
Action > Data OFF
ie, for Internet ON a macro was created that:
Trigger > Screen Unlocked
Action > WiFi enabled
Action > Data ON
Those two simple macros resulted in a battery lifetime of Days, not hours, but many days IF the phone is idle and not being used.
The result of those two simple macros is that no matter when I want to use my phone, the battery will always have lots of juice available for me to surf and view videos, news casts on live TV, etc....
I have one macro created that senses Screen Locked, then it kills off every app that I "might have" been using when I hit the Power Button.
I no longer bother to "back out of" or "close an app". I just open as many as I want while using the phone confident that when I touch that Power Button, everything is shut down and closed out.
End result? Lots of battery every time I need the phone. I live in a Very Rural Area and some times there just is not a good signal available.
Before I started the Turn It OFF habit, the battery would die quickly because the Radio Transmitter was working at full power all the time searching for a signal.
Now, with the internet turned off, the phone sips battery power at about 5 percent per day when idle.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AZgl1500
turning off data and wifi will just about stop battery drain.
I use MacroDroid to turn it off when the screen locks,
and then turn them ON when the screen is unlocked.
my phone right now is showing 88% and has been off charger for 18 hours.
Moderate use, forums, telco, lots of messages, emails, reading the newspapers.... but when i put it down, everything goes off.
===========================================================
Hey thanks for this app. I set it all up last night, gonna see if it works today. Did you pay for the premium or just use the free 5 macros
Mountain Fisher
I went ahead and bought the Paid Version because that will allow you to have more than one (1) action or constraint effective for any given trigger event. If you only have the Free Version, you are restricted to 1 action per event. You can create multiple macros sensing the same event and then select different actions and do the same thing as I did below. In fact, that is what I did when I first got it. I created 6 macros to do what I wanted. It worked so well, I applauded the creator of this app by paying for the full version and am thrilled with how well this app works.
ie, for Internet Off a macro was created that:
Trigger > Screen Locked
Action > WiFi disabled
Action > Data OFF
ie, for Internet ON a macro was created that:
Trigger > Screen Unlocked
Action > WiFi enabled
Action > Data ON
Those two simple macros resulted in a battery lifetime of Days, not hours, but many days IF the phone is idle and not being used.
The result of those two simple macros is that no matter when I want to use my phone, the battery will always have lots of juice available for me to surf and view videos, news casts on live TV, etc....
I have one macro created that senses Screen Locked, then it kills off every app that I "might have" been using when I hit the Power Button.
I no longer bother to "back out of" or "close an app". I just open as many as I want while using the phone confident that when I touch that Power Button, everything is shut down and closed out.
End result? Lots of battery every time I need the phone. I live in a Very Rural Area and some times there just is not a good signal available.
Before I started the Turn It OFF habit, the battery would die quickly because the Radio Transmitter was working at full power all the time searching for a signal.
Now, with the internet turned off, the phone sips battery power at about 5 percent per day when idle.
Turning off wifi and data makes a negligible difference to battery life. In fact it can have the opposite effect if you keep turning it off and on when you turn the screen off or on. The Radio transmitter searching for a signal can drain battery but only if you have poor reception.
The main reason you get good battery life is because you don't use any social media apps like G+, facebook and a like which suck the battery dry just by being installed. As most people use social media apps, using macrodroid or any other so called battery saving application isn't going to make much difference, if anything at all, period.
I proved this fact over the weekend. I deliberately didn't run batt doc, green power, GSAM, whatever or even use power saving mode, i left wifi and data on the whole time, the only thing i did was keep my screen brightness low. Overall it only made a 20min difference in uptime. But i do run alot of social media apps, well pretty much all of them and i have the screen on for a minimum of 3 hours per day.
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bIOforger
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Think what you like, but I have years of proof that turning off the internet just about stops battery drain. I have been doing this on my previous smart phone, the Galaxy S.
I used to have some social apps installed, Facebook was the worst of the lot. But, even with them installed, IF they cannot access the internet, then they are done.
The Galaxy S phone used to require being charged about 3 times a day, then I happened across Battery Doctor (tried others) and manually turned off the internet when I'm done with the phone.
That Galaxy S phone magically went from needing a charge 3 times a day to two days of use on a charge.
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Think what you like, but I have years of proof that turning off the internet just about stops battery drain. I have been doing this on my previous smart phone, the Galaxy S.
I used to have some social apps installed, Facebook was the worst of the lot. But, even with them installed, IF they cannot access the internet, then they are done.
The Galaxy S phone used to require being charged about 3 times a day, then I happened across Battery Doctor (tried others) and manually turned off the internet when I'm done with the phone.
That Galaxy S phone magically went from needing a charge 3 times a day to two days of use on a charge.
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