Crazy standby time, over 63 hours...

[flyingkytez]

I haven't charged my phone in 3 days. I lightly used it in the last few days, occasionally browsing the web and checking email, turning off data/wifi when not in use and WOW! Ever since I used ADB to disable bloatware, my standby time had been insanely good. (See screenshots). Wow this is amazing! Let's see how much longer it'll last.

What's your record standby time?

 

[Almeuit]

Yeah if you shut the wifi/data radios off a lot of phones go a long time .

 

[flyingkytez]

Yeah if you shut the wifi/data radios off a lot of phones go a long time .

What's your record? Some phone are poorly optimized and standby time is bad either way.

 

[Bosgarage57]

What's your screen on time?

 

[flyingkytez]

What's your screen on time?

Right now about 4 hours. It's a little crazy I didn't charge the phone in 3 days, didn't expect this to happen.

 

[Almeuit]

What's your record? Some phone are poorly optimized and standby time is bad either way.

I don't really have one. I refuse to shut off my wifi/mobile data radios since I like getting notifications when they come in. Battery isn't a thing since charging is easy.

 

[Mike Dee]

I haven't charged my phone in 3 days. I lightly used it in the last few days, occasionally browsing the web and checking email, turning off data/wifi when not in use and WOW! Ever since I used ADB to disable bloatware, my standby time had been insanely good. (See screenshots). Wow this is amazing! Let's see how much longer it'll last.

What's your record standby time?

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If you turn off data/wifi I'm not sure that qualifies as standby time to make a valid comparison. Why not just turn your phone off then?

 

[krazyatom]

I never tried this with Android but my iPad mini 1st gen that I am using it for alarm clock lasts like 2-3 weeks without charging!

 

[donebrasko]

The radios are the culprit. My note 7 lasts for over a week because it stays in airplane mode.

It would be nice if they would figure out a way to make the radios perform better

 

[tickerguy]

Radios are, well, radios.

Receive is pretty cheap power-wise. Transmit, not-so-much. And the cell tower controls the transmit power requested from the mobile on the cell side. What's worse is that if the cell connection is marginal the carrier system may request a reselect, which is quite power-intensive since it involves control channel traffic to however many towers you can "see" so the network can pick one and assign you to it. In certain pathological conditions this can happen repeatedly, which is murderously bad on battery life.

One particularly sad thing is that LG doesn't allow you to shut off the cell radio selectively and easily. Most other manufacturers do. If you're on a carrier with WiFi calling and in a place where it works doing this can save you quite a material amount of power. There is a workaround on at least some firmware revs for the V20 in that you can put the phone in Airplane mode and then selectively turn WiFi back on. That doesn't re-enable the cell radio.....