HTC One Battery Life/Stats Discussion

[Kylazin]

So I took my phone off the charger this morning for about 15 seconds, and then put it back on, and sure enough the light went red again for another 10 minutes. I guess HTC still requires the device to be bump charged in order to get the full charge.

Anyone else experience this?

 

[badbrad17]

So I took my phone off the charger this morning for about 15 seconds, and then put it back on, and sure enough the light went red again for another 10 minutes. I guess HTC still requires the device to be bump charged in order to get the full charge.

Anyone else experience this?

A lot of phones do this to protect the battery from over charging.

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Android Central Forums

 

[PittsDriver]

Is there an app that shoes usage time similar to how the iPhone shows usage?

 

[badbrad17]

Is there an app that shoes usage time similar to how the iPhone shows usage?

Lots of them. There is a general one in the settings I believe. There is on my nexus. But you can also get battery apps like GSAM
https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...ps/details?id=com.gsamlabs.bbm&token=YfUgims6

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Android Central Forums

 

[TehuberOne]

This happened to me yesterday. Used it heavily to play music throughout the day via the headset.

 

[robertopod1968]

Is there an app that shoes usage time similar to how the iPhone shows usage?

The iPhone reports "usage time" as anytime the phone is doing anything, whether the screen is on or not. Including synching anything in the background (email, calendar etc). Android normally reports time off charge and screen on time. Screen on time and Apple's usage time are not the same. You can have hours of usage time on an iPhone and have never had the screen on. People coming from iPhone often talk about how they could get 10+ hours of usage time, but they only get 4 of 5 hours on their Android device. Seen it 100 times and it's in no way the same.

 

[Kylazin]

The iPhone reports "usage time" as anytime the phone is doing anything, whether the screen is on or not. Including synching anything in the background (email, calendar etc). Android normally reports time off charge and screen on time. Screen on time and Apple's usage time are not the same. You can have hours of usage time on an iPhone and have never had the screen on. People coming from iPhone often talk about how they could get 10+ hours of usage time, but they only get 4 of 5 hours on their Android device. Seen it 100 times and it's in no way the same.

Yeah, this is very true. I used to use my iPhone to stream music through headphones and could end up with 10+ hours of usage time but the screen on time may have only been about 2 hours when the battery died.

 

[mtmjr90]

I just wanted to throw in my two cents...namely that battery life has not been good for me. Usually, it's fine because I can plug in at work and in my car. But this past weekend, I was out with friends all day in the city (San Francisco) and I barely made it 14 hours with the following settings:

- Restricted to 2G-only in network settings, and on Airplane mode about 50% of the time when I didn't need to have data on.
- Brightness ranged from 0%-25% throughout the day, probably at 15% for the majority of the time
- Power Saver was turned on, which included underclocked CPU (or so HTC says)
- I purposely tried not using it as much as possible, so usage was light to moderate

I unplugged at 11am (100%) and was at 1% by 1am. This is absurd. I could understand if I were heavily using it with normal settings, LTE, etc., but with the battery saving measures I took, it's really inexcusable how bad it was. What really sucks is being afraid to go out for the day and use my phone for pictures, texting, calling, etc. There's no way I'd return the phone, I love it too much, but I sincerely hope HTC will be able to address battery life issues via software update soon!

 

[el bos]

I just wanted to throw in my two cents...namely that battery life has not been good for me. Usually, it's fine because I can plug in at work and in my car. But this past weekend, I was out with friends all day in the city (San Francisco) and I barely made it 14 hours with the following settings:

- Restricted to 2G-only in network settings, and on Airplane mode about 50% of the time when I didn't need to have data on.
- Brightness ranged from 0%-25% throughout the day, probably at 15% for the majority of the time
- Power Saver was turned on, which included underclocked CPU (or so HTC says)
- I purposely tried not using it as much as possible, so usage was light to moderate

I unplugged at 11am (100%) and was at 1% by 1am. This is absurd. I could understand if I were heavily using it with normal settings, LTE, etc., but with the battery saving measures I took, it's really inexcusable how bad it was. What really sucks is being afraid to go out for the day and use my phone for pictures, texting, calling, etc. There's no way I'd return the phone, I love it too much, but I sincerely hope HTC will be able to address battery life issues via software update soon!

That's a lot of drainage. You might have rouge apps that are draining your battery. I would suggest a hard reset. Back up your files...

 

[SCjRqrQCnBQ19QoYCtdl]

I just wanted to throw in my two cents...namely that battery life has not been good for me. Usually, it's fine because I can plug in at work and in my car. But this past weekend, I was out with friends all day in the city (San Francisco) and I barely made it 14 hours with the following settings:

- Restricted to 2G-only in network settings, and on Airplane mode about 50% of the time when I didn't need to have data on.
- Brightness ranged from 0%-25% throughout the day, probably at 15% for the majority of the time
- Power Saver was turned on, which included underclocked CPU (or so HTC says)
- I purposely tried not using it as much as possible, so usage was light to moderate

I unplugged at 11am (100%) and was at 1% by 1am. This is absurd. I could understand if I were heavily using it with normal settings, LTE, etc., but with the battery saving measures I took, it's really inexcusable how bad it was. What really sucks is being afraid to go out for the day and use my phone for pictures, texting, calling, etc. There's no way I'd return the phone, I love it too much, but I sincerely hope HTC will be able to address battery life issues via software update soon!

Sounds like you need to investigate what is sucking all that power. 14 hours should be easily achievable even using the phone and taking pictures and not being so dim and not being in airplane mode.

 

[mtmjr90]

That's a lot of drainage. You might have rouge apps that are draining your battery. I would suggest a hard reset. Back up your files...

Yeah...probably will have to It's just so much effort... I've got 2-step enabled for pretty much every service that offers it as well as having all passwords be unique strings of random characters so it's rather painful and time consuming to log back into everything =/ I guess it'll be a weekend task.

 

[LonestarROB]

This has probably been mentioned in this thread already but I haven't been able to keep up. :-\ What's the verdict on Brightness and it's effect on the battery? I've keep hearing 2 different opinions. Some say use Auto Brightness, others say setting it manually is better on the battery. Which should I use?

 

[badbrad17]

Yeah...probably will have to It's just so much effort... I've got 2-step enabled for pretty much every service that offers it as well as having all passwords be unique strings of random characters so it's rather painful and time consuming to log back into everything =/ I guess it'll be a weekend task.

It certainly sounds like you have a problem app. Try wake lock detector to see if anything is amiss. Also buy an Anker portable battery. You can get really small ones that can easily fit in a pocket and recharge your phone.

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Android Central Forums

 

[henryfool3]

So I'm wondering if some of you can look at the attached. It's a screen shot of what's keeping my phone awake. I'm getting decent battery life certainly, but based on usage I think I should be getting more. A couple of settings notes: I keep blue tooth on all day, as well as wifi, and screen is on auto. But if you look at the attached it shows Google + and maps keeping awake a lot and I've got location history and all that off, and Google + has notifications off and I only use it to upload pics up there when connected to wifi and charging. Screen time is under 2 hours. Phone is about 35-45 minutes. Just wondering if the keep awake thing is a bit high for those 2 apps specifically. Of course, not sure why the Kernel is so high, so any feedback there is appreciated as well, as well as the number for media. Why is that so high? What am I missing?

Thanks . . .

 

[el bos]

So I'm wondering if some of you can look at the attached. It's a screen shot of what's keeping my phone awake. I'm getting decent battery life certainly, but based on usage I think I should be getting more. A couple of settings notes: I keep blue tooth on all day, as well as wifi, and screen is on auto. But if you look at the attached it shows Google + and maps keeping awake a lot and I've got location history and all that off, and Google + has notifications off and I only use it to upload pics up there when connected to wifi and charging. Screen time is under 2 hours. Phone is about 35-45 minutes. Just wondering if the keep awake thing is a bit high for those 2 apps specifically. Of course, not sure why the Kernel is so high, so any feedback there is appreciated as well, as well as the number for media. Why is that so high? What am I missing?

Thanks . . .

For sure BT will drain your battery quicker. What are your Sync settings on your social media apps and email? I would disable Sync, locations, and refresh intervals on your social apps. Schedule your email to sync every hour as well...

 

[SCjRqrQCnBQ19QoYCtdl]

So I'm wondering if some of you can look at the attached. It's a screen shot of what's keeping my phone awake. I'm getting decent battery life certainly, but based on usage I think I should be getting more. A couple of settings notes: I keep blue tooth on all day, as well as wifi, and screen is on auto. But if you look at the attached it shows Google + and maps keeping awake a lot and I've got location history and all that off, and Google + has notifications off and I only use it to upload pics up there when connected to wifi and charging. Screen time is under 2 hours. Phone is about 35-45 minutes. Just wondering if the keep awake thing is a bit high for those 2 apps specifically. Of course, not sure why the Kernel is so high, so any feedback there is appreciated as well, as well as the number for media. Why is that so high? What am I missing?

Thanks . . .

Hit the arrows and get more info on the high ones, may give a better clue....

 

[vamp07]

I have seen g+ and maps use many cycles when both have all background activity disabled. It's a mystery but just because they use cpu cycles does not really correlated to much battery usage. I think all battery usage reports are misleading.



Sent from my HTCONE using Tapatalk 2

 

[badbrad17]

So I'm wondering if some of you can look at the attached. It's a screen shot of what's keeping my phone awake. I'm getting decent battery life certainly, but based on usage I think I should be getting more. A couple of settings notes: I keep blue tooth on all day, as well as wifi, and screen is on auto. But if you look at the attached it shows Google + and maps keeping awake a lot and I've got location history and all that off, and Google + has notifications off and I only use it to upload pics up there when connected to wifi and charging. Screen time is under 2 hours. Phone is about 35-45 minutes. Just wondering if the keep awake thing is a bit high for those 2 apps specifically. Of course, not sure why the Kernel is so high, so any feedback there is appreciated as well, as well as the number for media. Why is that so high? What am I missing?

Thanks . . .

It may not be worth the effort, but doing a factory reset can sometimes work wonders. I've started doing this on every new phone I get. It just seems to help. Same was true on my daughters iphone 5.

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Android Central Forums

 

[henryfool3]

well, the battery life i am getting is certainly acceptable. gets me through the day. i am only wondering if there is something using more power because i have seen that others are getting more time with similar settings, but they are using far more screen time, streaming, etc. so i figured i would dig a little. but not quite ready to factory reset

 

[badbrad17]

well, the battery life i am getting is certainly acceptable. gets me through the day. i am only wondering if there is something using more power because i have seen that others are getting more time with similar settings, but they are using far more screen time, streaming, etc. so i figured i would dig a little. but not quite ready to factory reset

I hear ya. One thing I always do is toggle my settings. Everything uses power so putting a small power toggle widget on your home screen (I use widgetsoid) will allow you to turn gps, wifi, data and bluetooth on and off quickly. I find when I turn these on only when needed my battery lasts much longer. Also Google Now uses a fair bit of battery. Great if you use it but if you look don't then just switch it off in the settings.

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Android Central Forums