topic Re: Battery Life drains a lot when idle in Other/General

Battery Life drains a lot when idle

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 01:05:42 GMT

I left my phone to sleep. i remember it was 49%. when i woke up, i checked the battery. It had depleted to about 41% ! I only left it sleep for about 7hours and it depleted about 7%. is it normal ?

i already turn off all the things like WiFi, Bluetooth, Internet, and force stop the needless application running,

when i checked the what has consumed the battery it says :

Display 60% for 2h 46m 53s

Cell Standby 17% for 1day 1h 18m 47s

Phone Idle 15% for 22h 32m 0s

Android System 2%

com.sonyericsson.home 3%

there !

thanks for your opinion

Re: Battery Life drains a lot when idle

uliwooly-wooly — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 01:15:01 GMT

this is your first smartphone isn't? yes it is normal, in fact only 7% is really good, battery on a smartphone last between 8-12hrs a day

you can improve battery life by

turn off wifi, bluetooth, gps and lower brightness

if you don't use 3G/Internet you can turn off your data

all that will improve your battery life

Re: Battery Life drains a lot when idle

uliwooly-wooly — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 01:16:27 GMT

you can use Quick Settings app

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bwx.bequick&feature=search_result

this great widget

Power Control

https://market.android.com/details?id=at.abraxas.powerwidget.free&feature=search_result

Re: Battery Life drains a lot when idle

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 01:21:16 GMT

uhm yes , this is my very first smartphone, and I amazed of how the battery works!

what do you mean by 7 % ?

what i want to ask is : is it normal for the phone idle? it consumes about 1% for about 1hour idle.

is it okay for me to left my phone charged while i was sleeping?

thanks b4

Re: Battery Life drains a lot when idle

uliwooly-wooly — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 01:38:48 GMT

you lost 7% charge over night, so that's not bad. that's what I meant

you can leave your phone charging overnight, once your phone reaches 100% it will stop charging your phone, once it reach 95% or so it will recharge your phone

Re: Battery Life drains a lot when idle

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 03:57:28 GMT

so that is what u meant. 7% for standby of 7hours even WITHOUT TURNING THE BLUETOOTH/WIFI/MOBILE DATA ON ? just want to be sure that 1 idle hours without doing anything needs 1% of battery

Re: Battery Life drains a lot when idle

slimshaddy — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 04:02:48 GMT

as uliwooly said..it is normal..even my arc 's battery's the same..

i know its odd but we cant do anything.

Re: Battery Life drains a lot when idle

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 08:01:48 GMT

is that so? im a liitle bit unhappy coz everytime i checked the battery, it has depleted by 1 or 2%

Re: Battery Life drains a lot when idle

slimshaddy — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:34:29 GMT

well yes...

u can install this..

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.latedroid.juiceplotter&feature=search_result

and it'll give better view on ur battery;s performance..

just check it out..

if i find any thing abnormal i refer to this app and it tells at what time the battery depleted the most

Re: Battery Life drains a lot when idle

uliwooly-wooly — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:56:12 GMT

you can also check this video (it's for the X10 but the same is true to most if not all smartphones android/ios)