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stragabenz
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New RAZR owner here! I've learned alot from these threads, thanks for all the tips. I am having one issues though with SA, my Wifi is shutting itself off after a certain period of time which is fine but it does not re-enable when I turn my display back on. Here is my SA setup
1. Home
Trigger: Wifi Connection
Action: Cellular Data Disable
2. Battery Extender
Trigger: Display Off/Not Charging
Action: Cellular Data Off/ Wifi Off
3. All Day
Trigger: Timeframe(all day)
Action: Cellular Data Enabled
I do not use GPS off or Background sync off because I dont see a point of turning GPS off because it is not being used so how can it consume power, atleast that is how it worked on my D2. Any ideas or tips?
1. Home
Trigger: Wifi Connection
Action: Cellular Data Disable
2. Battery Extender
Trigger: Display Off/Not Charging
Action: Cellular Data Off/ Wifi Off
3. All Day
Trigger: Timeframe(all day)
Action: Cellular Data Enabled
I do not use GPS off or Background sync off because I dont see a point of turning GPS off because it is not being used so how can it consume power, atleast that is how it worked on my D2. Any ideas or tips?
New RAZR owner here! I've learned alot from these threads, thanks for all the tips. I am having one issues though with SA, my Wifi is shutting itself off after a certain period of time which is fine but it does not re-enable when I turn my display back on. Here is my SA setup
1. Home
Trigger: Wifi Connection
Action: Cellular Data Disable
2. Battery Extender
Trigger: Display Off/Not Charging
Action: Cellular Data Off/ Wifi Off
3. All Day
Trigger: Timeframe(all day)
Action: Cellular Data Enabled
I do not use GPS off or Background sync off because I dont see a point of turning GPS off because it is not being used so how can it consume power, atleast that is how it worked on my D2. Any ideas or tips?
my understanding is that the sa works off the wifi somehow...i had a trigger to turn off my wifi and it never came back on....just like yours...leave wifi on all the time but you can go into your wifi settings and make it not search for a wifi conxn and not notify you when a conxn is nearby...mine still automatically connects to any wifi it has already been paired with....
stragabenz
Member
my understanding is that the sa works off the wifi somehow...i had a trigger to turn off my wifi and it never came back on....just like yours...leave wifi on all the time but you can go into your wifi settings and make it not search for a wifi conxn and not notify you when a conxn is nearby...mine still automatically connects to any wifi it has already been paired with....
I'm alittle confused so you want me to remove turning off Wifi in my battery extender setting??
I'm alittle confused so you want me to remove turning off Wifi in my battery extender setting??
i think you are gonna have to..i had to do the same thing...the wifi needs to always be active...i think...anyone else got any info on this one..??
thehowells
New Member
Someone in this forum mentioned having set juice defender to sync once an hour. Thank you! Making the change from syncing every 5 minutes to once an hour pretty much doubled my battery time. Thirteen hours and still at 50%. I'm happy, happy happy!
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stragabenz
Member
i think you are gonna have to..i had to do the same thing...the wifi needs to always be active...i think...anyone else got any info on this one..??
Ok I will try this, maybe the RAZR turns off wifi automatically once the phone goes into sleep mode then that would make sense.
EDIT: Found it in another thread, need to make sure Wi-Fi sleep policy is set to turn off when the display turns off.
Home screen > Settings > Wireless & Networks > Wifi > Menu Button > Advanced > Wif Sleep Policy > When Screen Turns off > Menu Button > Save
stragabenz
Member
Wow...I never would have found that wifi sleep policy setting...thanks...
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Yeah it took me awhile to find it and Im experimenting with it right now but not having much luck. When I turn my display on I can still see the WiFi icon present, so it does not seem to be turning off. This sleep policy is mainly to switch from Wi-Fi to mobile data when you shut off your display. I wonder since I have my cell data to be turned off with display off it is conflicting somehow?? Im not really sure what is going, can someone else try using the sleep policy or using SA.
Getting down there in battery life, I am at 30% left and I am 1d 11h 50m 44s on battery. It has been pretty minimal use for me I suppose, three phone calls about 10 minutes total, maybe 150 text messages, give or take 20 emails, good amount of web browsing checking FB, Yahoo, FML, and this site, using the TweetDeck app but just logging in and out every time it isn't polling automatically, shooting some pictures and a three minute video, WIFI has been on the whole time, GPS and Bluetooth off, and then just that one smart action turning off my cellular data and background sync when my screen is off.
So I would say that is pretty good picture of what this phone can do on minimal use, so next charge I will try and put it through the ringer some more and see what it can do. Also that is on 3G the whole time I never had LTE enabled. So next time around I will turn that on a few times and check out how that affects the battery. All and all I would say for just using that one smart action that has helped my battery quite a bit. Have looked through the ones they have available and the ones I can create and don't see any more that fit my needs. So for now I will just use that one and stick with my normal use otherwise.
So I would say that is pretty good picture of what this phone can do on minimal use, so next charge I will try and put it through the ringer some more and see what it can do. Also that is on 3G the whole time I never had LTE enabled. So next time around I will turn that on a few times and check out how that affects the battery. All and all I would say for just using that one smart action that has helped my battery quite a bit. Have looked through the ones they have available and the ones I can create and don't see any more that fit my needs. So for now I will just use that one and stick with my normal use otherwise.
Yeah it took me awhile to find it and Im experimenting with it right now but not having much luck. When I turn my display on I can still see the WiFi icon present, so it does not seem to be turning off. This sleep policy is mainly to switch from Wi-Fi to mobile data when you shut off your display. I wonder since I have my cell data to be turned off with display off it is conflicting somehow?? Im not really sure what is going, can someone else try using the sleep policy or using SA.
It doesn't turn off immediately. So if you are turning the screen on/off every few minutes, this may make no difference. For longer periods of time it will help a lot on battery life, at least it does on mine. This is the only way I've found to get good battery life with the Wifi connected. What I've found is my phone does not go to sleep mode properly with Wifi connected all the time (unless you set the Wifi to go to sleep mode also).
They have better screen technology and are using the waaaay slower, much less battery-intensive HSPA+.
The screen on this thing is really sucking up some energy, it's like 30x worse than on my Droid X.. I heard somewhere that SAMOLEDs and whites don't mix so I tried using Screen Filter, but I still only managed to get 6 hours yesterday, and I used maybe 50 MB of data?
Granted, it's only my third day, so battstats.bin probably doesn't know what's going on yet, but still, I have JuiceDefender Ultimate (with AOSP Helper), a bunch of Smart Actions, brightness all of the way down, all sync options off, AutoKiller Memory Optimizer on Optimum (Strict w/ screen off), Screen Filter, no Live Wallpaper, In-Pocket Detection off*
... That's awful.
* IF YOU HAVE IN-POCKET DETECTION ON, TURN IT OFF ASAP. It PLOWS through your battery and reports it as Android OS because it needs the proximity sensor on constantly (this is probably the reason why some of you have 80% from Android OS -- I have 24% with it off, but yesterday when I was testing, it was at 92%[!!!!] which is just downright unacceptable.)
The screen on this thing is really sucking up some energy, it's like 30x worse than on my Droid X.. I heard somewhere that SAMOLEDs and whites don't mix so I tried using Screen Filter, but I still only managed to get 6 hours yesterday, and I used maybe 50 MB of data?
Granted, it's only my third day, so battstats.bin probably doesn't know what's going on yet, but still, I have JuiceDefender Ultimate (with AOSP Helper), a bunch of Smart Actions, brightness all of the way down, all sync options off, AutoKiller Memory Optimizer on Optimum (Strict w/ screen off), Screen Filter, no Live Wallpaper, In-Pocket Detection off*
... That's awful.
* IF YOU HAVE IN-POCKET DETECTION ON, TURN IT OFF ASAP. It PLOWS through your battery and reports it as Android OS because it needs the proximity sensor on constantly (this is probably the reason why some of you have 80% from Android OS -- I have 24% with it off, but yesterday when I was testing, it was at 92%[!!!!] which is just downright unacceptable.)
droid2drummer
Silver Member
I really don't get all the battery issues...Mine lasts all day with moderate use and screen set to auto and nothing off...I don't use smart actions either. Idk ..but I certainly don't keep it in my hands all day like the D2...yet...
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