Battery life on ics

[bradenfontaine]

Write that's quite the discrepancy!!

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Dude thats what im saying!

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[Eclipse2K]

Not seeing the drops like I was on gingerbread. Battery is good.

But I find the stock battery meter lies... Check it out..

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Am I missing something? I see the stock battery says 60% while the other application says something like 56%, right? If that's it, I've noticed that difference with my Battery Monitor Pro application and always laughed. I attributed it to the idea of rounding up, but still funny.

 

[BuMMeR-X]

My battery life has been pretty good, been playing around with the phone all day

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[bradenfontaine]

Just the fact the graph is dumbed down, it doesn't show the 20 minutes I used the car charger, but states it has been on discharge for only 6 hours?

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[rbess1965]

Not sure about ICS life but just in regular use I've been using the smart action Battery Extender to disable background data, cellular data, wireless and gps when the display is off & not charging. I'm not able to be on the phone a lot at my weekend job and on Saturday the meter didn't move off 100% for 4 hrs. It remained above 90% for over 10hrs. Data reactivates automatically when you touch the screen and that's all you need. Works great.

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[Eclipse2K]

Just the fact the graph is dumbed down, it doesn't show the 20 minutes I used the car charger, but states it has been on discharge for only 6 hours?

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I've noticed that a lot of applications or whatever don't change it unless it charged a certain percentage. Dumb, I know.

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[Snowcrash45]

The razr reports in 10% increments. Always has.

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[bradenfontaine]

The razr reports in 10% increments. Always has.

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Oh i know, and that part is fine ;-) I just prefer Battery Monitor's graph as it is more detailed. Pair it with System Panel and I have an excellent overview of any and everything that uses a fraction of CPU/Battery.

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[Super Turtleman]

Oh i know, and that part is fine ;-) I just prefer Battery Monitor's graph as it is more detailed. Pair it with System Panel and I have an excellent overview of any and everything that uses a fraction of CPU/Battery.

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Which battery monitor are you using? Dev?

 

[amt0312]

I wonder what has happened to my phone then? I received the ICS update while I was out of the country (Russia) over Wi-Fi and I wonder if that was my problem. Immediately my battery life went from 24+ hours with light-medium usage to barely 2-3 hours and it takes more than 10 hours to charge my phone. While overseas, I had data disabled and all that jazz, and was only using it on wifi. When I noticed the battery life decrease, I saw that it was on "Global" and was possibly searching for a signal? I turned it off and made sure that it was in airplane mode. This didn't help. While sitting in the Amsterdam airport I had my phone charging for 6 hours and it went from 30%-40%

Anyways, I am now back in the states and nothing has changed. I use wi-fi at home, have the smart actions app in use as always. What the heck happened? Is a factory reset in order? Thanks for the help, guys.

Edit: I checked the battery usage app and the thing that it using most of my battery life is "Cell standby."

 

[Ewing33855]

Everyone download battery circle. You'll be glad you did. It gives increments of 1

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[djrakowski]

Everyone download battery circle. You'll be glad you did. It gives increments of 1

I agree - it's excellent. Very small, lightweight, doesn't seem to put any sort of drag on resources. For some reason, it only reports in 5% increments on my Galaxy Player, though.

 

[bradenfontaine]

Battery Monitor PRO. As for the cell usage I would do a reset. Sounds like a bad time to do an update to global phone capabilities, when you are overseas.

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[Tom in Bristol]

I just prefer Battery Monitor's graph as it is more detailed. Pair it with System Panel and I have an excellent overview of any and everything that uses a fraction of CPU/Battery.

Are those the names of the apps as they appear in the Play Store?

TIA

 

[Ewing33855]

Are those the names of the apps as they appear in the Play Store?

TIA

Battery circle?

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[kingmeow]

Bad Ass Battery Monitor (yes, that's the actual name) does similar monitoring. I have it on my Maxx.

 

[Tom in Bristol]

Battery circle?

No, I already use that. I was asking Braden about the two he mentioned.

Thanx, tho.

 

[hansgroter]

It has gotyen slot better

 

[anthony2558]

Anyone know of a better way to switch to 3G only. Im in a not so strong 4G area. I get 4G but its like only one or two bars. 3G is solid, so Id like to stay on that. I have found LTE OnOff from the market but when I use that app my 3G never turns blue????

 

[apquijano]

Anyone know of a better way to switch to 3G only. Im in a not so strong 4G area. I get 4G but its like only one or two bars. 3G is solid, so Id like to stay on that. I have found LTE OnOff from the market but when I use that app my 3G never turns blue????

There's also the option to dial *#*#4636#*#* and go to Phone Information, but it essentially brings you to the same place as the app.

What setting are you using? Mine is set to CDMA auto (PRL) and has been working fine for me.

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