Slion 1,201 Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 My Pro1 battery usually can last a day of average use. However, too often I find it overheating and thus wasting battery power for no obvious reason. I've had issues early on and tracked it down to Gmail, disabling auto-sync or using Fx Service to schedule auto-sync usage mostly fixed the issue. However lately I found it overheating more often even when auto-sync was disabled. My workaround this time involves turning on Battery Saver and leaving it on all the time. I'm just getting started with this solution but so far it looks very promising. Now my concern is that even when the phone was overheating I have never seen Battery Manager reporting any power consumption issue with an app. That probably means that the issues lie with built-in or trusted apps and components that are exempt from Battery Manager scrutiny somehow. That or Battery Manager is useless on that phone. Have you guys ever seen Battery Manager reporting any issues? Are you using third-party app the keep track of power consumption per application? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
_DW_ 628 Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 I've always wished they had options like windows for power management. High Performance, Balanced, Power Saver. So a user can pick the profile to suite there needs at the time. 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Slion 1,201 Posted July 8, 2020 Author Share Posted July 8, 2020 26 minutes ago, _DW_ said: I've always wished they had options like windows for power management. High Performance, Balanced, Power Saver. So a user can pick the profile to suite there needs at the time. Well they do have that Battery Saver mode. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FlyingAntero 871 Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 Lineage OS has an advanced battery saver menu where you are able to select different performance profiles. LineageOS Adding New Advanced Battery Saver Menu with Performance Profiles For stock firmware I would advise to use Greenify. Set Up Greenify Without Root & Save Battery Life on Any Android 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Slion 1,201 Posted July 8, 2020 Author Share Posted July 8, 2020 (edited) 54 minutes ago, FlyingAntero said: Greenify I looked into it quick but apparently it is closed source and is asking for the pants down permission. No thanks, I'll keep my pants 😁 Edited July 8, 2020 by Slion Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FlyingAntero 871 Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 56 minutes ago, Slion said: I looked into it quick but apparently it is closed source and is asking for the pants down permission. No thanks, I'll keep my pants 😁 Greenify is a reliable app as I am aware. It is nothing like Clean Master or other malicious cleaning/boosting apps. Clean Master part of ad scam? This is why you should not use anti-virus or phone cleaning apps on Android But if you are looking for open source you could check SuperFreezZ. SuperFreezZ is an open source alternative to Greenify that kills apps running in the background 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Slion 1,201 Posted July 8, 2020 Author Share Posted July 8, 2020 Battery Saver is just awesome: Is there any drawback for using it? I have not find any. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
netman 1,424 Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 1 hour ago, Slion said: Is there any drawback for using it? I have not find any. Services might get terminated more aggressively causing some apps to harass you less promptly with notifications I guess. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tdm 2,322 Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 24 minutes ago, netman said: Services might get terminated more aggressively causing some apps to harass you less promptly with notifications I guess. Google has this to say... Use battery saver on a Pixel phone ... scroll down to "What changes when battery saver is on". And ignore the part about squeezing the phone to bring up the assistant, as that's obviously a hardware feature. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FlyingAntero 871 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 Here is my typical battery usage on Pro1. The graph is in Finnish but horizontal axis (x) is Screen On Time (SOT) in minutes and vertical axis (y) is battery percentage left before charging. Green mark means 1-day usage and red mark means 2-day usage. This is on stock firmware without Battery Saver or other tweaks enabled (bluetooth and wifi on). Initially I made the graph for an review back on February. 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EskeRahn 5,460 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 I use no special tricks on the Pro1 over what I usually do (see various posts on that subject on eskerahn.dk ) Except one trick: In my environment it uses substantially more power idle when connectet to a 5 rather than a 2.4 WiFi on the same router. But the general advice is to avoid 'free' ad based apps, as fetching and displaying ads can be quite costly. Install Greenify, and I also use Android Assistant. Though not as a service, but just for easy kill. Use something like 3C batttery monitor and/or GSAM to help you find the culprits that need to be held down. Disable stuff you do not need (or need really seldom). And some apps you use might have leaner alernatives out there... 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Swond 120 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 1 hour ago, EskeRahn said: I use no special tricks on the Pro1 over what I usually do (see various posts on that subject on eskerahn.dk ) Except one trick: In my environment it uses substantially more power idle when connectet to a 5 rather than a 2.4 WiFi on the same router. But the general advice is to avoid 'free' ad based apps, as fetching and displaying ads can be quite costly. Install Greenify, and I also use Android Assistant. Though not as a service, but just for easy kill. Use something like 3C batttery monitor and/or GSAM to help you find the culprits that need to be held down. Disable stuff you do not need (or need really seldom). And some apps you use might have leaner alernatives out there... Wanted to advise you moving of your reccomendations into APPS toppic, but then I found you already made it 🙂 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Slion 1,201 Posted July 9, 2020 Author Share Posted July 9, 2020 I reckon you could probably go 30 hours with 6 hours of screen time using Battery Saver. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.