How I Maximized My Battery Life

[Face_Plant]

I skimmed through this thread and I don't think this was mentioned, so here's my contribution for squeezing out a little bit more from your battery: turn off automatic time/date and time zone. I usually turn them off after getting a new phone, doing a factory reset, or flashing a ROM and the time/date is always accurate, even after rebooting my phone

 

[GalaxyNotesTx]

Root, Greenify, TB ..all bloat removed Better Battery Stats, wave lock detector. No live wallpapers. I have gone 5 days with light use ..This cycle was with lots of texting , net with WiFi and phone calls. Im on stock Rom as well.

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[altrikdout21]

Updated OP with my latest discharge. 3 days of use! Thanks all for the tips, will add them to OP soon.

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[hipporun]

Is this unusually high?

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[derek.urben]

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Root, Greenify, TB ..all bloat removed Better Battery Stats, wave lock detector. No live wallpapers. I have gone 5 days with light use ..This cycle was with lots of texting , net with WiFi and phone calls. Im on stock Rom as well.

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Holy ****...

Is that just following the OP?

 

[jf907079]

I'm also amazed with the battery life of this phone using the stock ROM

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[altrikdout21]

I'm also amazed with the battery life of this phone using the stock ROM

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Yup, I'm about top hit 2 days on stock with 59% left. I've been switching around.

Holy ****...

Is that just following the OP?

Think he probably added his own things as well, but very possible. I need to update the OP with all the tips everyone has added! Thanks all for the great info

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[naxnfishernj]

Use battery guru.

 

[aaisish]

i followed your instructions but my battery life is still bad. Im getting around 4 hr of screen time! how are you getting 8hr!! do you use Social media apps like instagram twitter etc?

 

[Face_Plant]

i followed your instructions but my battery life is still bad. Im getting around 4 hr of screen time! how are you getting 8hr!! do you use Social media apps like instagram twitter etc?

Are you still using the awful stock ROM or are you running a custom ROM like FireKat, DynamicKat, Tweaked, the S5 port, etc?

Download WLD (wake lock detector) from the Play Store and see what's keeping your phone awake.

 

[aaisish]

Are you still using the awful stock ROM or are you running a custom ROM like FireKat, DynamicKat, Tweaked, the S5 port, etc?

Download WLD (wake lock detector) from the Play Store and see what's keeping your phone awake.

Im Using FireNote is that a good rom for battery? What are you getting right now with your rom? yes i have download it and it says the phone total awake for 6hr and 53 mins and the screen on time is 3hr and 47 min and its been awake for 2hr and 48 mins.

 

[Face_Plant]

Im Using FireNote is that a good rom for battery? What are you getting right now with your rom? yes i have download it and it says the phone total awake for 6hr and 53 mins and the screen on time is 3hr and 47 min and its been awake for 2hr and 48 mins.

Fire Note should be awesome for battery. Did you do a clean install? Right now I'm jumping back and forth between FireKat V5 and DynamicKat Xtreme 2.0. I regularly get 1.5ish days on battery with an average of 6-7 hours of screen on time.

Have you disabled Carrier IQ? What does WLD say is keeping your phone awake? It sounds like a rogue app is preventing your phone from going into deep sleep.

 

[kcour2006]

Just wanted to give you my experience.
I had a 5 hour battery life tried all the tips/tricks and nothing really helped.

I had to completely reset the phone and wiped twice using safestrap.
Then let the phone load normally.

Kill the indexing service and bloat apps with titanium and that's it. Now I'm at 24 hour battery life, 4 hour + on screen time.

Hope this helps

KC
NOTE 3 - ROOTED FUN!

 

[Grimcreaper]

A co-worker of mine had been talking about the Power Saving mode and how, if you didnt do a factory reset after upgrading from 4.3, that it failed to really do anything at all.

So, testing it (failed to save my screenshots cause im a moron) using Quadrant to track the cpu specificly, Power Saving mode did not affect the CPU frequency at all. It always showed the current CPU clock rate at 2265.6 with it on or off.

After the factory reset, with power saving mode on, the CPU clock rate sits at 1497.6, and 2265.6 with it off. Battery usage has dramaticly been reduced, i dont have any solid numbers, but im working on getting a screen shot for it.

 

[aaisish]

If doing a clean install means, wiping data system cache and davlik cache then yes i did. If thats wrong can you tell me whats a clean Install? I heard somewhere that once you install a rom then you should factory reset it from the settings is that tue? When looking at WLD it says that calendar storage opened my phone like 30 times so i greenifyed that. i also greenfied Unified Daemon, Viper4android, Google Play store, Spen Kepper,Textra (texting app i use), Filter Installer and also any app that had a gcm on it.
Wait whats Carrier IQ? Wakelock detector just reseted so when it find data again i post it.
Thanks again for helping me!

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Fire Note should be awesome for battery. Did you do a clean install? Right now I'm jumping back and forth between FireKat V5 and DynamicKat Xtreme 2.0. I regularly get 1.5ish days on battery with an average of 6-7 hours of screen on time.

Have you disabled Carrier IQ? What does WLD say is keeping your phone awake? It sounds like a rogue app is preventing your phone from going into deep sleep.

Sorry i didnt know if you got the other post so i posted this again.

If doing a clean install means, wiping data system cache and davlik cache then yes i did. If thats wrong can you tell me whats a clean Install? I heard somewhere that once you install a rom then you should factory reset it from the settings is that tue? When looking at WLD it says that calendar storage opened my phone like 30 times so i greenifyed that. i also greenfied Unified Daemon, Viper4android, Google Play store, Spen Kepper,Textra (texting app i use), Filter Installer and also any app that had a gcm on it.
Wait whats Carrier IQ? Wakelock detector just reseted so when it find data again i post it.
Thanks again for helping me!

Update: I disabled Carrier IQ from using your guide. thanks it was really helpful i also subed.

 

[Face_Plant]

If doing a clean install means, wiping data system cache and davlik cache then yes i did. If thats wrong can you tell me whats a clean Install? I heard somewhere that once you install a rom then you should factory reset it from the settings is that tue? When looking at WLD it says that calendar storage opened my phone like 30 times so i greenifyed that. i also greenfied Unified Daemon, Viper4android, Google Play store, Spen Kepper,Textra (texting app i use), Filter Installer and also any app that had a gcm on it.
Wait whats Carrier IQ? Wakelock detector just reseted so when it find data again i post it.
Thanks again for helping me!

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Sorry i didnt know if you got the other post so i posted this again.

If doing a clean install means, wiping data system cache and davlik cache then yes i did. If thats wrong can you tell me whats a clean Install? I heard somewhere that once you install a rom then you should factory reset it from the settings is that tue? When looking at WLD it says that calendar storage opened my phone like 30 times so i greenifyed that. i also greenfied Unified Daemon, Viper4android, Google Play store, Spen Kepper,Textra (texting app i use), Filter Installer and also any app that had a gcm on it.
Wait whats Carrier IQ? Wakelock detector just reseted so when it find data again i post it.
Thanks again for helping me!

Update: I disabled Carrier IQ from using your guide. thanks it was really helpful i also subed.

If Greenifying things WLD says is keeping your phone awake and disabling Carrier IQ doesn't solve your problem then I'm afraid it may be time for a factory reset and starting over from scratch. There is also a possibility that your battery is going bad. The factory reset is free so I'd try that first before spending money on a new battery.

Which version of FireNote are you on?

 

[aaisish]

If Greenifying things WLD says is keeping your phone awake and disabling Carrier IQ doesn't solve your problem then I'm afraid it may be time for a factory reset and starting over from scratch. There is also a possibility that your battery is going bad. The factory reset is free so I'd try that first before spending money on a new battery.

Which version of FireNote are you on?

I actually just switched from firenote to firekat jellybean was getting annoying. I disabled carrier iq. Yeah Att said they were going to sent me a new battery for free so guess i just have to play the waiting game.

 

[killacam1989]

If Greenifying things WLD says is keeping your phone awake and disabling Carrier IQ doesn't solve your problem then I'm afraid it may be time for a factory reset and starting over from scratch. There is also a possibility that your battery is going bad. The factory reset is free so I'd try that first before spending money on a new battery.

Which version of FireNote are you on?

Try *#*#4636#*#* and check out the battery stats. It should tell you what's up with the battery

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[killacam1989]

There is an app called "agent" that is awesome. I run bettery battery stats, greenify, wakelock detector and agent and im on 13 hr 20 min with 81%

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[littlewierdo]

First thing, start by doing a factory reset, especially if you installed the 4.4.2 update without factory resetting.

If you installed a rom and did not do a factory reset, do a factory reset.

Before installing any apps, run through the stock apps and 'disable' the ones you dont use in settings->Applications (Google "Jellybean Disable Apps" for more info on how to do this). Some examples might be any of the stock apps that start with AT&T, Google Books, Trip Adviser (for those on stock), Amazon Kindle, etc. If you dont recognize it, dont touch it (ie. dont disable an app if you dont know what it is, chances are, its something critical you need for the phone to operate).

Now hit up the play store and one at a time reinstall the apps you use. Do NOT install apps you 'think' you might use once 6 months from now or apps that look promising that you want to keep an eye on (there are alternatives for this).

Disable any sort of push notifications in as many apps as you can. This is the biggest battery drain on todays phones (can anyone say Facebook?).

My last recommendation is an app called Android Tuner (by 3C). Its VERY expensive at around $10 but it will replace just about every root app you currently use. The learning curve is somewhat steep and you should be very careful with this tool as it can do things to your phone that are not good for it.

But, among its most useful features are scheduled maint. like backing up apps (plus their data), clearing ram, fixing permissions (not really necessary), clearing davlik cache, etc on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.

In addition, it has the ability to allow you to specify which apps have permission to start automatically and under what conditions. For example, some apps will start automatically when connected to wifi. If you dont an app to start automatically when connected to wifi, you can disable it!

The battery, processor, and ram usage statistics are more detailed than any other app I have seen (look at the screenshots). Once you know how to read the data, the power is in your hands to make changes to squeeze more power out of your phone.

These are just a few features, there are many more that are documented. But, I highly recommend taking a look at this app, for some reason, no one ever talks about it but I think its one of the best 'system level' root apps on Android imo.