topic Re: Xperia Mini Pro Power Off Alarm in Other/General

Xperia Mini Pro Power Off Alarm

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:20:03 GMT

I tried switching off the phone to save the battery since it drains up each night.

But I was shocked to find that my alarm did not work.

Am I missing something, Is there any setting where I could make it wake up to ring the alarm ?

I know that it has nothing to do with Android since I had an Android device that could auto sleep and wake up at specific times.

If it is a hardware level problem with this phone, It would be really disappointing

Re: Xperia Mini Pro Power Off Alarm

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:46:40 GMT

I think this was asked somewhere else on the forum.

Just wondering why you turn it off? I leave mine on over night and the amount of battery it uses is almost nonexistent. Does your percentage go down a lot?

Re: Xperia Mini Pro Power Off Alarm

uliwooly-wooly — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:58:34 GMT

I have livewallpaper, GPS on, Background data on, auto sync on, alarms set, few accounts synced, and I only waste 1% of battery per hour at night when I don't use the phone.

if you must disconnect from the world press the power button then select airplane mode at night

Re: Xperia Mini Pro Power Off Alarm

uliwooly-wooly — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:59:40 GMT

which Android was it ? because that feature it's not supported by Android only RIM and Java phones, not iOS nor Android

Re: Xperia Mini Pro Power Off Alarm

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:46:43 GMT

I've never had that habit when I was using my Nokia E55, It lasted 3 days with Apps open in the background.

This phone on the other hand barely lasts a full day. So in order to spent less than an hour in the morning to charge the battery, I try to save by switching on at night. If i leave the battery at 91% at night, in 8 hours it reduces to 48%.

It's a new phone I got a few days back. Could it be that the battery is faulty ?

The shop keeper told me to charge it for 6 hours for the first time.

But I charged it only till the green indicator came on at ~92% which took about an hour.

Is that the problem ?

Re: Xperia Mini Pro Power Off Alarm

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:52:52 GMT

Wow.. That is amazing... 1% is that with an active network or offline mode?

I don't like disconnecting from the network each night and reconnecting back in the morning.

But to save battery, I have started doing that.

Re: Xperia Mini Pro Power Off Alarm

uliwooly-wooly — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:56:25 GMT

I don't disconnect anything at all, I leave

GPS, brightness at 50%, background data on, auto sync on, synced with multiple accounts, and I'm on H (faux 4G), live wallpaper and multiple widgets

bluetooth and wifi are off but besides that everything it's on and only 1% per hour at night when I don't use the phone.

Re: Xperia Mini Pro Power Off Alarm

uliwooly-wooly — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:58:52 GMT

I think you have an app that its constantly syncing and draining your battery

charge your phone at night before you go to sleep to 100% first thing in the morning go to to

settings -> about phone -> battery use -> tap on each item on the list and write down the info that will let us know what is really going on

Re: Xperia Mini Pro Power Off Alarm

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:09:46 GMT

It was one of those iPhone Clones: Hero H2000.

It was pretty decent, the only problem was that it had few minor inconviences which weren't thought out. It had no proximity sensor which made me disconnect calls half way through when my cheek pressed the screen.

The configuration wasn't correct and it kept downloading Games in the wrong resolution from the Market (like angry bird was highly pixelated). Apart from that it was okay.

I had an option in settings ->"Schedule power on/off". It was really handy.

I thought the base OS is capable of that and I expected all Android phones to have that feature.

It was Android 2.2 for that matter.

Re: Xperia Mini Pro Power Off Alarm

uliwooly-wooly — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:23:55 GMT

that was probably an add on, just like videocalls over 3G (not data plan)

now I wonder if it was really Android or a look alike java base android

did you have FULL access to the market?

Re: Xperia Mini Pro Power Off Alarm

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:49:03 GMT

When I first got mine I did a charge over night (you can leave it on charge as it stops charging at a 100 and then starts again when it hits something like 98... also if you go into alarms and click on the clock at the bottom it has a cool clock mode which stays on... you can use it as a bedside clock while it charges!). Then I was testing the next day so I actually drained the battery until the phone shut down. I didn't do this intentionally but maybe this helped my battery!

What shows up in battery use as the main culprit?

Have you installed any apps? You may want to check them out because something is not right, I think I get 5% max drain, depending on what I have on.

Try a night in airplane mode as uliwooly-wooly suggested and see how much it decreases.

Re: Xperia Mini Pro Power Off Alarm

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:52:31 GMT

Whats up with the forum ?? I don't seem to see all the replies until I post something! Weird....

Re: Xperia Mini Pro Power Off Alarm

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:02:06 GMT

Yes it did have full accesst to the Android Market.

It was Android and I know to differentiate between knockoff Java ones.

This device made me switch from Symbian to Android.

Re: Xperia Mini Pro Power Off Alarm

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:07:56 GMT

Ok... Thanks for your help guys...

I'll do that tonight and tell you the results in about 20 hours.

Re: Xperia Mini Pro Power Off Alarm

uliwooly-wooly — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:16:25 GMT

no problem

Re: Xperia Mini Pro Power Off Alarm

uliwooly-wooly — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:13:28 GMT

SE keeps killing this forum by "attempting to update" the forum

Re: Xperia Mini Pro Power Off Alarm

uliwooly-wooly — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:14:58 GMT

that's a great add on for some users but I don't think the phone it's entirely off, it might be on some Idle mode

Re: Xperia Mini Pro Power Off Alarm

uliwooly-wooly — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:20:06 GMT

there are some apps that might do the trick

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.monocube.powerschedule&feature=related_apps#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwOSwiY29tLm1vbm9jdWJlLnBvd2Vyc2NoZWR1bGUiXQ..

Re: Xperia Mini Pro Power Off Alarm

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 04:00:28 GMT

This round I used Task Killer to close all Apps.

It still used up 12% overnight.

The breakup goes like

Wifi - 41%

Cell Standby - 23%

Idle - 22%

Display - 10%

Android OS - 2%

I don't know why Wifi is using that much power if, I'm not using it nor are any Apps that use wifi.

I've now set the Wifi Sleep Policy in Advance Wifi setting from 'Never' to "Wh. Screen Turns off". Should that help ?

Re: Xperia Mini Pro Power Off Alarm

uliwooly-wooly — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 04:13:43 GMT

ok so that's the culprit of your power drainage, wi-fi, even when you are not using it will drain your battery, you should turn it off when you dont use it, just add a widget

on the homescreen press MENU -> add -> widget -> on/off wifi or powercontrol

or download this app

https://market.android.com/details?id=at.abraxas.powerwidget.free&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImF0LmFicmF4YXMucG93ZXJ3aWRnZXQuZnJlZSJd