Losing battery life while phone is idle

4Gallovermyface · Jul 28, 2011

I have as strong of a signal as you can get and my battery usage is still 50% cell standby. battery lasts about 5 hours.

I tried custom roms but then my phone has random reboots 5-10 times a day. even while underclocked.

Sent from my anus.

mbrown3460 · Jul 28, 2011

Thanks for the advice everybody. Rooting is not an option for me. I don't have the time to read up on that. I have a very hetic work schedule. How is juice defender? I thought Juice defender just disables your data when the screen is off?

POQbum · Jul 28, 2011

mbrown3460 said:
Thanks for the advice everybody. Rooting is not an option for me. I don't have the time to read up on that. I have a very hetic work schedule. How is juice defender? I thought Juice defender just disables your data when the screen is off?

Yep juice defender basically lets you pick what services to turn off during certain periods of time or certain applications/actions.

Honestly I find it to be a huge pain and never used it.. rooting with a custom Kernel/ROM is substantially better, but after rooting this phone I can say it's definitely a little frustrating and took me some time to get it done so I can see why you may not want to.

Another option is to try out a program called "tasker" which is much more specific. It pretty much has any combination you can think you (like once you open up a certain app, it will turn your data on, or GPS, vibrate mode, higher brightness, a specific music volume-- and once that app is closed it will turn it back off if you choose, or it will change the value to a different volume. OR if you turn the screen off it will turn off all data, GPS, etc- I think you get the point.
But this too would take some time to configure it to how you like it.

sonami · Jul 28, 2011

crazed_z06 said:
Losing 5%/hour is normal for my phone when it's sitting doing nothing. The battery is a joke. I have Juice Defender Ultimate and that brings it down to maybe 2-3%/hour.

Nooooo it is not! I can go 10 hours and only loose 2% and that's from missed call/SMS/vm's
If your looosing anything in standby something is eating your battery. Try turning off assisted dialing, tell HTC and phone finder. Those are usually pretty big culprits in eating battery while in standby

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mbrown3460 · Jul 28, 2011

POQbum said:
Yep juice defender basically lets you pick what services to turn off during certain periods of time or certain applications/actions.

Honestly I find it to be a huge pain and never used it.. rooting with a custom Kernel/ROM is substantially better, but after rooting this phone I can say it's definitely a little frustrating and took me some time to get it done so I can see why you may not want to.

Another option is to try out a program called "tasker" which is much more specific. It pretty much has any combination you can think you (like once you open up a certain app, it will turn your data on, or GPS, vibrate mode, higher brightness, a specific music volume-- and once that app is closed it will turn it back off if you choose, or it will change the value to a different volume. OR if you turn the screen off it will turn off all data, GPS, etc- I think you get the point.
But this too would take some time to configure it to how you like it.

thanks will look into it!

mbrown3460 · Jul 28, 2011

sonami said:
Nooooo it is not! I can go 10 hours and only loose 2% and that's from missed call/SMS/vm's
If your looosing anything in standby something is eating your battery. Try turning off assisted dialing, tell HTC and phone finder. Those are usually pretty big culprits in eating battery while in standby

Sent from my TBolt using my f***king thumbs...

how do I turn off assisted dialing, tell htc and phone finder? Would that mess up any settings?

sonami · Jul 28, 2011

mbrown3460 said:
how do I turn off assisted dialing, tell htc and phone finder? Would that mess up any settings?

No it won't mess anything up, assisted dialing is in the phone settings, and phone finder is in locations I believe, I don't remember where tell HTC is, somewhere in the settings, just look for it. I just never turn it on during the initial setup when it asks

*edit

Ahh, I uninstalled tell HTC with titanium backup, that's why i couldn't find it in settings, lol. I uninstalled everything I don't use with TB

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jappetta99 · Jul 28, 2011

I was having similar issues to some where I would lose 2% within a half hour of unplugging my Tbolt, and then be down to 10% about 12 hours later with light use!

I am rooted, so I don't know if there is a way to do this stock, but I recently did this which has drastically improved battery life to where I am down to only 82% after 6 hours of moderate use (calls, Angry Birds, YouTube).

Fully charge your phone
While still on the charger, I rebooted into recovery and reset/wiped my battery stats
Used the phone heavily to get it almost dead
When the phone auto shuts off near death, I booted into recovery
Leave phone alone to fully die as recovery leaves the screen on and doesn't turn off
After phone dies, fully charge again before use

After doing this, my battery life was greatly improved. Nothing else changed.

sonami · Jul 28, 2011

jappetta99 said:
I was having similar issues to some where I would lose 2% within a half hour of unplugging my Tbolt, and then be down to 10% about 12 hours later with light use!

I am rooted, so I don't know if there is a way to do this stock, but I recently did this which has drastically improved battery life to where I am down to only 82% after 6 hours of moderate use (calls, Angry Birds, YouTube).

Fully charge your phone

While still on the charger, I rebooted into recovery and reset/wiped my battery stats

Used the phone heavily to get it almost dead

When the phone auto shuts off near death, I booted into recovery

Leave phone alone to fully die as recovery leaves the screen on and doesn't turn off

After phone dies, fully charge again before use

After doing this, my battery life was greatly improved. Nothing else changed.

So bassically all this did was wipe your batt stats, which is what you should do anytime you flash a rom/kernel/radio/backup. The best way I've found to go about it is to charge till the phone is full, green light. Unplug, turn phone off and plug back in, wait till green light again, the longer this takes, the more ****ed up your batt stats are btw. Once it turns green, hold down low vol button and press power button, hold low vol till recovery boots. Wipe batt stats, reboot. Keep plugged in till phone boots and syncs and light turns green. Unplug and use till batt is. >5%, turn off batt saver to do this. Charge till full and that's it.

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jappetta99 · Jul 28, 2011

Sounds essentially like the same idea, yeah. I do wipe everytime I flash, but I never did it while fully charged and plugged in so it probably didn't help. I was getting down to 5% after a very light day before where now I am at 50% after Angry Birds, YouTube, phone calls, texting, surfing, etc by the end of the day.

Another way to extend your battery is toggle off 4G if you are not using it. Staying on 3G most of the day is a huge help if your battery life is that bad.

sonami · Jul 28, 2011

Yea, I only use 4g if I don't have wifi available and I need to dl something big, otherwise 3g works just fine

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crazed_z06 · Jul 29, 2011

sonami said:
Nooooo it is not! I can go 10 hours and only loose 2% and that's from missed call/SMS/vm's
If your looosing anything in standby something is eating your battery. Try turning off assisted dialing, tell HTC and phone finder. Those are usually pretty big culprits in eating battery while in standby

Sent from my TBolt using my f***king thumbs...

You only loose 2% in 10 hours? Sorry, but I dont believe this.

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