Battery Life Fix!

[pdub73]

I don't use google plus "yet" I'm gonna try this and see how mine acts...I have the extended Battery and I haven't had a chance to compare battery life to the standard battery yet but hopefully I can squeeze a little more juice out of my Battery life...

 

[burwil]

Disable Google Plus! I have had it like this for a day now,and my battery life has increased 4-5 hours! Believe me or not I honestly don't care. Setting-Apps-All-Google Plus-Disable-???-PROFIT!
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I think I tried this procedure on day one and when I rebooted it became enabled again. I'm trying the data limit method this time.

 

[superbleester]

Also guys go into settings then location and unchecked everything. If you need to use maps or something check the stan alone GPS satellite check box.

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[ulnek]

Disable Google Plus! I have had it like this for a day now,and my battery life has increased 4-5 hours! Believe me or not I honestly don't care. Setting-Apps-All-Google Plus-Disable-???-PROFIT!
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there is no "disable" option under that settings menu. all i see is force stop, uninstall updates and clear data.

 

[iastonish]

there is no "disable" option under that settings menu. all i see is force stop, uninstall updates and clear data.

Are you running stock? I'm rooted running Revolution 2.1.2 and was able to disable.

 

[Centro85#AC]

You have to uninstall updates, then back out into the app list, click "All" instead of "downloaded" then find google+ again and you will have the option to disable. I have a google+ but no one really uses it yet. I'm going to try it today and see what happens. I'm usually about to get about 9-10 hours out of the battery with 50-25% left depending on how many work calls/text/emails I get on the cell. Then it usually runs till about 15 hours before it wants a charge. I'll see what happens with Google+ disabled and post tonight.

Edit: I'd be ecstatic with the battery life if I was able to leave 4G on and get the same life I am now. That's not going to happen though.

 

[Terrigno]

Sounds like a good tip but Im trying to convert completely to Google+ and get off FaceBook. So Im using it a lot more these days.

 

[trigun123478]

Sounds like a good tip but Im trying to convert completely to Google+ and get off FaceBook. So Im using it a lot more these days.

How are you getting your friends to switch to google plus because none of mine will. There all to comfortable with facebook.

 

[burwil]

Also guys go into settings then location and unchecked everything. If you need to use maps or something check the stan alone GPS satellite check box.

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I found the helped ALOT.

 

[oxymoron]

How are you getting your friends to switch to google plus because none of mine will. There all to comfortable with facebook.

You know, for me... most of the people in my circles, I don't actually know in real life. About 15 or 20 probably. The rest are people with common interests, or who I just think are interesting. I have circles for family, friends, coworkers, jeeps, photography, android, football, automation, music, and general technology.

I think Google+ is the best combination of all the different social media applications, blended into one superior application.

/endsoapbox

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[jeffruby]

So as many know, percent of what draining your battery really irrelevant, as if you only had a 1% loss of battery and of that 1% screen was 80% - doesn't mean that screen usage is bad...as 80% of 1% is tiny.

The issue is the no sleep on android os.

I had 2 hr 15 mins of battery time, and android os was awake for 2/15!

I since disabled Google plus, and now I am seeing it sleep. 2/39 on battery... awake os is no 2/18...so dropping.

Only caveat which could have screwed these stats, us during the initial check there was a 3 g outage. Hmnnn

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[CynicX]

You guys may want to download cpucpy from the market if you haven't already. The nexus wasn't going into deep sleep. For example I turned my xoom on this morning, went to work and just brought it out of sleep and cpuspy reports the CPU has been asleep for 2 hours 15 minutes 94% of the time its been on.

It also reports the time and percent the CPU was at certain increments like 230mhz 1000mhz etc.

Batteryspy is another good app that tell batt temp, %/hr drain etc etc...

Anyway I think both these apps will help with diagnosing whether its the os not going into deep sleep or and app keeping the CPU awake etc etc..

 

[burwil]

I had been using cpy spy the past few days. My 'deep sleep' time is 76%. Yesterday I disabled background updates from Google+ and prior to that time I recall the deep sleep time to be roughly the same but I can't remember the precise number.

 

[TabGuy]

I'm assuming that if you dont have a G+ account then there would be nothing for it to sync to. So disabling it would make no difference. Unless G+ app has a software issue and its leaking mem/ram causing a battery drain, but i doubt that.

Since you have a gmail account you have a G+ account. It's all one.

 

[Revolutionary]

You guys may want to download cpucpy from the market if you haven't already. The nexus wasn't going into deep sleep. For example I turned my xoom on this morning, went to work and just brought it out of sleep and cpuspy reports the CPU has been asleep for 2 hours 15 minutes 94% of the time its been on.

It also reports the time and percent the CPU was at certain increments like 230mhz 1000mhz etc.

Batteryspy is another good app that tell batt temp, %/hr drain etc etc...

Anyway I think both these apps will help with diagnosing whether its the os not going into deep sleep or and app keeping the CPU awake etc etc..

The OS itself tells you that it is the culprit -- but with the deep integration of apps like Google+, its hard to say if the flaw is in the app or the OS. Nevertheless, when you go to Battery, click Android OS, and see the Keep Awake number -- that is the amount of time that the particular app (here, the OS) was responsible for keeping the phone awake.

I'm overall at 2:28 on battery, and Android OS reports 1:55 for keep awake! Let's see if that goes down now that I've diabled G+ (none of my friends use it anyway).

 

[majiklantrn]

I disabled google+ and went to bed on a full charge at 1am. I woke up at 7:30am and was down 10%.

 

[metsnfins]

i will try

 

[metsnfins]

i have force stop and uninstall updates, not disable app?

 

[Holsum]

i have force stop and uninstall updates, not disable app?

no go into apps g+ will still be there. long press it and drag it to the top where it says app info (like you were going to place it on the homescreen but drag it to the app info) there the disable button will be there.

I ran into the same thing

 

[burwil]

The OS itself tells you that it is the culprit -- but with the deep integration of apps like Google+, its hard to say if the flaw is in the app or the OS. Nevertheless, when you go to Battery, click Android OS, and see the Keep Awake number -- that is the amount of time that the particular app (here, the OS) was responsible for keeping the phone awake.

I'm overall at 2:28 on battery, and Android OS reports 1:55 for keep awake! Let's see if that goes down now that I've diabled G+ (none of my friends use it anyway).

Will the Android OS number be affected by being in a bad signal area (and losing signal on a semi frequent basis) and the phone trying to ping the towers? Won't that too drive up Android OS numbers????