I just found this thread. I'm going to try just disabling data. I noticed g+ uses a lot more data in the background.... hmmm.
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Battery Life Fix!
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Well, you all saw what my stats were this time yesterday (3:30 battery, 2:29 awake -- and that was roughly an hour after disabling G+).
Today, with roughly the same usage all morning, I'm at 3:36 battery, 1:06 OS awake. I didn't make any changes other than disabling G+.
The phone is still waking more than the screen is on -- I'm going to try restricting Facebook background data and see if that makes a difference. I figure a 50GB cap is a good starting point, right?
(I love unlimited data!)
Today, with roughly the same usage all morning, I'm at 3:36 battery, 1:06 OS awake. I didn't make any changes other than disabling G+.
The phone is still waking more than the screen is on -- I'm going to try restricting Facebook background data and see if that makes a difference. I figure a 50GB cap is a good starting point, right?
(I love unlimited data!)
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Although I will also note that my biggest "background data" offender is Google services. :-/ ("Network location," "Google Services," "Google Contacts," "Google Bookmarks," "Google Account") Dare I restrict their background data to wifi only? If anything has deep integration with the OS, its these...
I can confirm that you do not need to disable it. Just limit background data. So....you can still use it without any differences. Not sure what background data will limit actually.
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the biggest background data offenders on my phone were facebook,google plus, and pandora. If i disable background data and limit it to wifi only, how does that affect these apps? Are they still gonna run correctly? and more importantly , what are these apps doing in the background, just syncing?
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Yes, just syncing. If you use the Facebook widget, disabling background data will mean that it only syncs when you're on wifi, so no new status updates in the widget. And oh yeah, all it means is that they can only shuffle data in the background when you are on wifi.
The only thing I have changed was disabling NFC and my battery life is significantly better! Normally, after 5 hours my battery would be around 75% with very little use. Right now my sitting at 91%. Very happy.
My phone has been running on the extended battery for 22 hours and 15 minutes. Battery is down to 2%.
Yesterday afternoon, I disabled data synchronization for everything I don't use (books, G+, photos, etc) and left the phone on 3G. The phone spent the night on WiFi while I slept. Steamed Pandora w/Bluetooth on my way home from work yesterday and then again this morning on my way to work. Spent some time on the phone last night. Other wise a fairly light day of data use. Mainly just a few emails, IMs, a little web browsing (maybe 20 minutes), no GPS (it's also been off).
I just disabled NFC and Android Beam. Didn't think of it yesterday (thanks SuperChargedJ).
Yesterday afternoon, I disabled data synchronization for everything I don't use (books, G+, photos, etc) and left the phone on 3G. The phone spent the night on WiFi while I slept. Steamed Pandora w/Bluetooth on my way home from work yesterday and then again this morning on my way to work. Spent some time on the phone last night. Other wise a fairly light day of data use. Mainly just a few emails, IMs, a little web browsing (maybe 20 minutes), no GPS (it's also been off).
I just disabled NFC and Android Beam. Didn't think of it yesterday (thanks SuperChargedJ).
Do you go into each individual app (books, photos, etc.) do disable data synchronization? Also, are you guys disabling the location sevices?
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6:02 bat / 1:02 OS awake. Definite improvement. 59% battery left -- a nice steady decline on the graph.
agpetz: Go to Settings > Data Usage and click on the app you want to restrict. At the bottom is a checkbox to restrict background data.
agpetz: Go to Settings > Data Usage and click on the app you want to restrict. At the bottom is a checkbox to restrict background data.
I never added Google+ it asked me to use my Gmail account and I backed out off the app. So in my case I would assume I don't have it installed?? Is that correct. Or... do I still need to unistall it some where?
I disable the synchronization buy going to settings->Accounts & sync. I have not limited any background data yet or location services yet. I just make sure GPS isn't running when I'm not using maps or navigation. Also, I have noticed that as soon as I used the phone for anything intensive, it rips through the battery. If I used this phone hard with 4G, I bet I could smoke the extended battery in 6-7 hours.
Yes, myself and several others have done this and it has had the same positive effect as far as I can tell. No need to disable G+ completely. I also blocked background data on FB.
To be clear, when you choose to block background data for a specific app, it doesn't totally block the app, it just blocks network data usage in the background. This is my understanding of it anyways based on the description of the setting. From what I gather the app will still use wifi if available and I find that this tends to prevent the wifi from sleeping as much as it would otherwise when the screen is off... A bit of give and take so to speak.
Regardless my battery life seems to have improved after I turned of background data setting for G+ and FB. I was pondering do this for some other apps as well, but I'm not sure if I should.
I don't think that disabling G+ is a solution myself, I want G+ to pick up some momentum, especially with the latest hangout improvements and what not.
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I just disable Data synchronization, 3G/4G data when I don't need it on and NFC is always completely turned off. I don't disable any data toward a specific app either. So far battery has been great!
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I have my tablet and phone set up almost the same, on the phone I disabled G+ and uninstalled facebook and the phone has been on for 14 hours and is at 56% left and the os used 41% to the screens 21%on for 53 mins most of that time checking a few emails a little web browsing and a couple texts
My tablet on the other hand has only been off the charger for an hour and 45 and the screen is at 47% and the os 9% and this screen was on almost 50 mins of that time with a lot of web browsing and a few emails
So even with G+ and Facebook the tablet os seems to be using less
My tablet on the other hand has only been off the charger for an hour and 45 and the screen is at 47% and the os 9% and this screen was on almost 50 mins of that time with a lot of web browsing and a few emails
So even with G+ and Facebook the tablet os seems to be using less
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Trying everything I have heard and battery is amazing. Thanks guys!
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Is your tablet running on 3/4G? If not you need to put the Galaxy Nexus in Airplane mode before you can even begin to compare them.
Is your tablet running on 3/4G? If not you need to put the Galaxy Nexus in Airplane mode before you can even begin to compare them.
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