Consolidated Battery Saving Techniques Thread

[jkhonea]

Thinking about it, we're getting a lot of really good power saving tips spread across the forum. Let's see about centralizing a listing here so we can have good access to all of the tips so far. I think if we can keep all of these tips together, we might just come up with a "perfect" battery profile for the phone. Just seeing everything coming down so far, a lot of research is being done by our members and is working perfectly.

Even if you posted another thread regarding power saving techniques, please repost here so we can have one, central location to manage all of these.

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[prerunnerseth]

My battery was dying so fast it was insane. Then I started to do some research. The default refresh time for the built in email app is 5 minutes. I have 4 email accounts setup. I changed the email refresh times to a more conservative 1 hour since most my emails are not time critical. Since then my battery is holding out much much better.

Go into the email app

press the menu button

press more

press settings

press on send & receive

press on set download frequency

change this to something more reasonable.

you will need to repeat this step from each of your email accounts

go to the main mail list in each account and follow the steps.

I'm sure there are similar settings for most the widgets/apps that update regularly.

[jkhonea]

Per terracnosaur's post, this is a method I'm evaluating now. If possible, please everyone post up your experience with each technique to see how they work then we can get a general profile baseline established.

in the settings area ;
menu->settings->wireless networks->mobile networks

I see some options which have impacts that are not totally obvious
those are :
enable always on mobile data [ yes, no]
system select [home, automatic ]

any idea what those do?
they are not preventing me from using Google Talk, Gmail, Twitter or any other application which uses push services.

[olta777]

I just posted mine in another thread, but here they are:

1. Turn down screen brightness
2. Disable location, if not using maps, etc. I manually entered my city/state for weather.
3. From home, go to menu, settings, wireless networks, mobile network settings and uncheck "Enable always on mobile data" -- this one is a big battery hog. This will not disable your data....it will disable the data network when not in use...then when you have something coming, your data will be fine.
4. Use WiFi vs 3g whenever possible.
5. Many places say not to condition battery, but I still do. Can't hurt. To condition, let the battery fully drain until the phone turns off, then fully recharge. Repeat this process at least 3 times.
6. Set your email pull frequency to longer times vs short if you don't depend on emails.

[olta777]

Oh and I do not use any battery widgets or savers.

[droid_inc]

ok so today was the 1st full day test after dimming screen and setting email download time from every 15 min to 1 hr....I hardly picked up my phone at all today so its hard to be incredibly pleased with these results but I did manage to get 12 1/2 hrs before i had to plug it back in...i turned background data back on so it doesn't look like background data being on really affects the phone all that much from what I can tell anyway...i think the email download was a big bat eater...still will eventually purchase the htc extended battery.

[rweckhoff]

If you have enabled syncing with a Flickr account, remove it. The account held a wake lock in my calendar app and prevented the Incredible from sleeping. Removed the account and now I have no issues.

[IncredibleGuy]

great idea!!!! i was just copying and pasting these threads lol

[davidleex84]

Is it a problem if my phone is running 87% Android System and the rest are 4%/4%/3%/2%

I tried the above battery saving techniques and its not enough. So far it was FULLY charged today and was running for about 3 hours (up time) and 2:24hrs (awake time) and i have 35-40% battery life. Please help for suggestions. i dont have twitter/facebook. only gmail and its set to refresh every 4 hours... screen is VERY dim/dark. thank you.

[jkhonea]

Keep in mind, when it says 87%, its just talking about that's the portion out of the entire processes that's running. I know others say otherwise, but I honestly believe the battery wears in and does better as it gets some age on it. My usage has definitely gone up.