Amazing battery life on stock !!

[chareos12]

Hi ppl,

probably all of you already noticed this trick.
Just in case you didn't... here it is.

On 2nd charge, I could see battery charge graph going down with no stop, even with screen off !

So, I installed BetterBatteryStats (XDA).
Battery killer was HTC Weather.

Guess what ?
On a freshly, just bought HTC One X, Sense refreshes, hourly

• Your weather's location (so also GPS eating battery, but it's perhaps acceptable)
• Weather from the most important cities in your country (Italy = 15 more or less) !!!!

Once removed all those static defined cities, leaving just the "where I am" and 1 static, HTC Weater became tamed and sane.
And my battery graph on screen off is now FLAT. With Wifi and data on.


I'll not get more scientific here.
The issue is very subtle and unsuspicious; the trick is very easy; the benefits are TREMENDOUS.
I also made refresh interval up to 3 hours. It should help too.
Still, the terrific impact was given by removing those 15 static locations.
I also left enabled the "refresh when opening weather" flag.


Happy trying !

 

[RichmondoUK]

Hi ppl,

probably all of you already noticed this trick.
Just in case you didn't... here it is.

On 2nd charge, I could see battery charge graph going down with no stop, even with screen off !

So, I installed BetterBatteryStats (XDA).
Battery killer was HTC Weather.

Guess what ?
On a freshly, just bought HTC One X, Sense refreshes, hourly

• Your weather's location (so also GPS eating battery)
• Weather from the most important cities in your country (Italy = 15 more or less) !!!!

Once removed all those static defined cities, leaving just the "where I am" and 1 static, HTC Weater became tamed and sane.
And my battery graph on screen off is now FLAT. With Wifi and data on.


I'll not get more scientific here.
The issue is very subtle and unsuspicious; the trick is very easy; the benefits are TREMENDOUS.


Happy trying !

I did this on my Rom (charmander) just has your location and that's it. Always done this on my personal roms also but never thought of it so save battery lol.

Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium

 

[chareos12]

It has dramatic battery usage.

Then, I also made refresh interval up to 3 hours. It may help too.
Still, the terrific impact was given by removing those 15 static locations.

 

[EddyOS]

First thing I've done since my Desire is remove everything except 'My current location'...I don't need to know the weather anywhere else!

 

[RichmondoUK]

First thing I've done since my Desire is remove everything except 'My current location'...I don't need to know the weather anywhere else!

Couldnt agree more. Who cares about weather somewhere else!

Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium

 

[farnsbarns]

Who cares about inaccurate accuweather info anyway, it's terrible. The only thing it's good for is telling me what it's like now (I have known that to be wrong too). I've got these amazing glass panels in my walls so I can see what the weather is like now. I just don't use it so I turn weather sync off.

I only wish there was an option to change where the weather data comes from like in so many other apps/widgets. MeteoGroup, for example, seems much better.

 

[audioslim]

Same here and ive hit 3 days and 3.5 hours of.screen time.before now.



Sent from my HTC One X using XDA

 

[chareos12]

Actually I can understand that 1-2 static places could be handy, while planning a trip on a sudden.
But... 15 static places (can't imagine how many they were in bigger countries !!) is just a plain overkill, a complete suicide by HTC.

About accuracy... it seems precise enough here in Italy. Surely it's different as per country.

 

[Vandal4125]

Please could you take screenshots of your screen on time and battery usage page also what brightness your using. I have a One X resting in the box because it simply can't make it through a working day. My Nokia N8 with the same type of usage. GPS,Weather,whatsapp,calls,web. Is full to almost full by 5pm. Mind you this is with 3G turned off.

Now I'm not expecting the one X to be anywhere near that good but if this would mean the phone lasts me an entire day of normal smartphone usage then I might just dust it off xD.

 

[exCluSive1]

Please could you take screenshots of your screen on time and battery usage page also what brightness your using. I have a One X resting in the box because it simply can't make it through a working day. My Nokia N8 with the same type of usage. GPS,Weather,whatsapp,calls,web. Is full to almost full by 5pm. Mind you this is with 3G turned off.

Now I'm not expecting the one X to be anywhere near that good but if this would mean the phone lasts me an entire day of normal smartphone usage then I might just dust it off xD.

Check the battery stats thread.

Sent from my HTC One X using XDA

 

[Vandal4125]

Hmm, seems quite decent. You have some amazing on screen time. I could barely manage 3hrs with auto brightness. Did you notice this increase after removing the other city locations?

What were your stats before removing the extra weather app cities?

I would actually love to know the OP's stats. He says its "TREMENDOUS"

 

[colobos]

i have not even touched the settings to weather and mine (based in london dunno if makes difference) only shows my current location and refresh every 6 hours or upon open that was my default settings

 

[chareos12]

Please could you take screenshots of your screen on time and battery usage page also what brightness your using. I have a One X resting in the box because it simply can't make it through a working day. My Nokia N8 with the same type of usage. GPS,Weather,whatsapp,calls,web. Is full to almost full by 5pm. Mind you this is with 3G turned off.

Now I'm not expecting the one X to be anywhere near that good but if this would mean the phone lasts me an entire day of normal smartphone usage then I might just dust it off xD.

Yup, not really going to take screenshots today

I'd say to you that today I noticed
- phone unplugged at 9.45
- 18.30 (so nearly 9 hours later) I had 3hrs screen on time - intense usage due to SSLauncher setting up - and still 40% battery left.
3G on all the time, a couple of calls, many market downloads.

 

[chareos12]

Hmm, seems quite decent. You have some amazing on screen time. I could barely manage 3hrs with auto brightness. Did you notice this increase after removing the other city locations?

What were your stats before removing the extra weather app cities?

I would actually love to know the OP's stats. He says its "TREMENDOUS"

Before the Weather static positions cleanup: 2 hours screen on, battery empty.
After the cleanup: 3+ hours and still 25-30% battery to go.

As I stated in 1st post, I won't go much scientific, other threads are already there with much more data and insight...
yet, the improvement looks TREMENDOUS *thunder* *evil laugh* to me

 

[chareos12]

Back to my phone... 1% battery left

I see:
12h 7min unplugged
4h 49 screen on time
all time with 3G on, all sync (Facebook, Linkedin) on, intense usage due to device setting up (SSLauncher, maps regions pre-download, Flipboard sync and a lot more)

Won't go more scientific than this

 

[Vandal4125]

Awesome guys, just put the phone on charge, lets see how it goes tomorrow Maybe I'll finally fall in love with my One X

 

[Vandal4125]

So I took it of the charger @ 6am today. It is now 5pm and normally the battery would be dead by now. At the moment it is @ 43%.

My brightness is set to auto and the phone tells me my on screen time is only 53mins. You guys are talking about something like 4hrs on screen with this fix. So I don't think it has improved much.

However I'm sure that my battery stats are off because it tells me it's only been off the charger for 4hrs. So I can put up actual stats tomorrow, if it resets properly tonight.

 

[chareos12]

So I took it of the charger @ 6am today. It is now 5pm and normally the battery would be dead by now. At the moment it is @ 43%.

My brightness is set to auto and the phone tells me my on screen time is only 53mins. You guys are talking about something like 4hrs on screen with this fix. So I don't think it has improved much.

However I'm sure that my battery stats are off because it tells me it's only been off the charger for 4hrs. So I can put up actual stats tomorrow, if it resets properly tonight.

I noticed that if you reboot the phone, every counter (unplugged time, screen on time) resets, f*cking up measurements.
Could it possibly be your case ?
Damn, I'm going too scientific