battery draining very bad please help!!!!

[kingwhite90]

i have a fascinate and am having many problems with the phone battery life . i went through two batteries today starting with an unplug at 630 am this morning.im at 19 % life left as of now . i keep checking it and it seems to almost drop 1 % per minute. someone please help im new to these phones

 

[NickA]

The standard question to ask first is do you have any task killers installed? If so, get rid of it immediately. Next is, what are the last few apps you installed? Do you have something that keeps having to go out and sync or something similar? And by the way, if you do have a task killer, did you install it or Verizon?

Also, what is your signal strength? If you live in an area that your phone has to keep searching for a signal, it will drain the battery.

Someone just posted a similar thread a few hours ago. Scroll down the list of topics and you should find it.

 

[kingwhite90]

thanks for replying. i cant for the life of me find out what the hell is draining the battery.i dont have task killer anymore cause i read that it will cause problems so i uninstalled it yesterday.this phone is draining very fast. i had an iphone for the last couple of years and just gave it up and i love this phone but its unreal how bad its draining. i tried searching everwhere for info.i have all my syncs set to off,brightness down all the way,no vibrate on anything,no,live wallpapers,no widgets,screen timeout to 1 minute. i dont what else to do.if i leave it for 5 minutes sitting there it drains at least 5 %

 

[kingwhite90]

im at 10 % battery life now since my first post

 

[kingwhite90]

is there anything that i can do to find out what is using my battery the most?it looks like in my processes app in the phone there are like 12-15 things running no matter how many times i stop them.Also i rooted the phone just for the tethering and screenshots really,so im wondering if the root is causing the phone to do this but i dont know how to take it off safely and reset the phone back to stock and completely start over

 

[dwc5000]

if you rooted did you move or rename the .apk file apps that continuously run on your phone. Once I did this my battery life increased 50%. My wife has stock phone and gets about 2 days for regular usage and I can get about 4 days. (keep in mind gaming drains batt so I am not including that)
I also turned off Wifi, auto sync, bluetooth etc. and turn it on when needed.

 

[kingwhite90]

http://forum.androidcentral.com/fascinate-roms-hacks/34188-rooting-using-mac-video-tutorial.html. this is the method i used

 

[Menno]

Menu->Settings->about phone->battery usage

That should tell you what the issue is. You could just have a bad device.

Smartphones should be able to get you through the day on moderate usage.

 

[voghan]

Might want to install watch dog and see what it says. I also suggest not using auto brightness but instead lower it to an acceptable level.

 

[kingwhite90]

ok i installed it and also renamed some of the apk. so hopefully ill know tommorrow when i go to work and see how it does throughout the day. it seems a little better and so far no alerts from watch dog.im wondering if yahoo mail is doing it there doesent seem to be a setting to adjust when the mail gets checked

 

[voghan]

It probably is some app pooling data that is killing your battery. The Verizon apps are bad. I'm also not a fan of the account sync on android.

Sent from my SCH-I500 using Tapatalk

 

[ocgreenmachine]

which .apk files?

Which .apk files should I rename, and what should i rename them to?

 

[NickA]

Which .apk files should I rename, and what should i rename them to?

Check out this thread: http://forum.androidcentral.com/fascinate-roms-hacks/34208-apps-safe-remove-once-rooted.html

Should give you the info you need...

 

[KB3MMX]

The phone will also need several days to learn proper memory management after removing a Task Killer app, they screw up the OS majorly and it takes it a while to recover.

 

[TripSixes]

I'm also not a fan of the account sync on android.

I found a nice tip somewhere to use the Tasker application to only perform periodic Syncs to your Google accounts. It's hard to quantify how much it helped, but I feel it's better for me.

This Tasker profile will turn on Sync ever 30 minutes for 25 seconds, then turn auto-sync back off.

Add a Time Context, set the From/To times to whatever period of time of day that you want the periodic sync to take place (8:00am to 10:00pm for me). Choose to Repeat every 30 minutes. This will perform the Task once per 30 minutes.
For the Task, Step 1 should be to turn Auto-Sync "ON" (auto-sync is under the Net category).
Step 2 should be a Tasker:Wait for 25 seconds (or longer if you find that sync is not occuring within that time period)
Step 3 should be a Net:Auto-Sync to "OFF".


This has been very reliable for me.

A few caveats:
- Of course, any mail received will not immediately be delivered to phone.
- I've also noticed that when "Sending" mail, it will not send the mail out til the next Sync (I wish there was an "auto sync on Send" setting).

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Beyond just Google Account sync.. I'm also using Tasker to manage all my Wireless states..
- I leave Bluetooth on all the time.. it's what I use to trigger the below.
- When Bluetooth connects to my "UConnect" in-vehicle.. it turns off WifI, and turns on GPS.
- When I drive to within 1 mile of my house, is the only time that WifI is enabled by default.


If I were to purchase a Car-Dock, then I could have Bluetooth be disabled all the time, and only enable once connected to car-dock... this would save from it having to "search" for bluetooth all the time.

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In general, check out all the stuff mentioned by others.. the if you're just looking to squeeze more out.. check out Tasker (pay-for in market) to see what it can do "for" you, so that you don't have to remember to enable/disable items at different times.