Battery Life - Awake Time / Up Time

[*king*]

whats the differance between cell standby and phone idle ?

[Journeyjeans]

Originally Posted by perfeng702

i just checked my data usage on the sprint site. my plan reset on the 6th.

4,751,398KB/ Unlimited

4 gigs of data in 7 days... That's more than twice what I used with my Hero in a month. Something is constantly downloading data and killing my battery life. Updates later in the evening...

Welcome to Android. *creepy*

[perfeng702]

I turned mobile data back on but kept syncing off. Phone has been up for 7.5 hours with 80% left. Moderate texting and a few calls. I'll start syncing apps one by one to find the culprit.

[perfeng702]

Originally Posted by *king*

whats the differance between cell standby and phone idle ?

not sure... my best guess would be cell standby is power required for the radio, and phone idle is power for android when an application is not actively running such as browsing apps or switching through home screens.

[lipidfats]

i would hard reset. that should fix it and then you can install app by app and see if you notice anything strange.

[perfeng702]

Originally Posted by lipidfats

i would hard reset. that should fix it and then you can install app by app and see if you notice anything strange.

it's definitely one of the sync accounts. i've had them turned off and everything is working great. phone has been up for nearly 16 hours with 60% left.

[tako attack]

I was also having battery woes that i noticed about a week after having the phone, but not at first. It being my first android phone i went a little app happy and i thinkk that may have been my issue.

I had all syncing turned off except for gmail, weather (2hrs) and facebook (4hours). I had the unrEVOked root, overclock set to throttle cpu down to 200-300MHz when the screen was off, and had ATK even though i only used it to close sprint apps that kept popping up (not sure this did anything.) i also had about a dozen games and all the cool demo apps: skymaps, goggles, layer, shazam, lastfm, pandora. I also had the gmail application, and the hanset SMS app, so i had two mail applications and two sms applications running at the same time, because i couldn't figure out how to disable mail and messages.

My awake time and mu up time were not 1:1, but with little use durring the work day i was draining about 10% an hour, and my awake:up time was about 5:1.

I did a few selective rounds of purging apps i didnt need, and seeing if my sleep ratio got better when the screen was off, but after about 4 rounds of this and it not getting better i gave up and did a hard reset (clear storage, start over from stock image) This seemed to help dramatically. I only installed a few apps that i really needed: cVolume lite, pandora. I'm now really hesitant to install anything that i don't trust or don't understand what its doing, like unrEVOked.

If your having battery issues, i recomend you do the hard reset method:
phone off
hold vol down and tap the power button
select clear storage
then confirm

You'll need to re-sync your contacts, reinstall your apps, re-orginize your home screen, and re-enter any bookmarks, but it will be worth it.