yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II General] samed1983:
Again I mentioned that the phone has issues, these are obvious.

The whole point of this thread is not to compare battery life and experiences. It was to say to stop moaning about the issue.

The phone performs quite well. I'm sure samsung are working on ways to fix the issue. Just be patient and either they will solve it, or someone on these forums (more likely) will find a work around.

All new tech has it's issues, fortunately the SGS II is an annoying one not a game-changer.
[Galaxy S II General] JJEgan:
Again I mentioned that the phone has issues, these are obvious.

What i am asking is does having 2% drain on twelve hour standby mean you don't have issues .

I don't moan about battery life but am looking for a benchmark here as many claim battery and or OS issue on every phone just like the yellow tint on every phone that you must have or have not looked hard enough .

TheGhost1233 made a statement and i would like his views on the points i made for reference not to have a moan about .

jje
[Galaxy S II General] TheGhost1233:
I don't know what "good" standby drain on the galaxy S II is. My definition of good standby drain is the one where android-os has disappeared from the list and doesn't use battery for no apparent reason. (Or the current one if I get a valid reason why the galaxy S II has android-os in the list and other phones don't.)

With the Desire running: "official" Sense, Sense HD ports or aosp rom, I've never seen android-os in the list. Also I haven't head from the issue on other correctly working phones. This makes me believe that it should not be in the list.

I believe you do have the android-os bug even at 2%, but the phone must have been barley standby during that time. If you fully charged it, unplugged it and leave it for a hour and then get 2% android-os you don't have the bug.
[Galaxy S II General] erazer007:
At first my battery life was less than a day. But now its very good.
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
Your packet data is off, and there is barely any activity on the phone. Were you testing standby time?
[Galaxy S II General] ithehappy:
Post the 'Screen On' time. It's not about 2,3,4 days...
[Galaxy S II General] angelomaldito:
That's probably a world record!
[Galaxy S II General] Vaxbox:
i went from 1d to 3d by freezing apps, flashing litening ROM and disabling fast dormancy. this is with 3G, wifi/bt/grps off and normal daily use. happy with it. hope it will increase with 2.3.4 and CM7.
[Galaxy S II General] godutch:
Samsung seems to be aware of the batte drain, according to their official dutch twitter account

SamsungMobileNL SamsungMobileNL

@Arvid Hi Arvid, we hebben helaas nog geen geruststellend

antwoord voor je. Het lijkt een softwarematige fout. We komen er op terug.

24 Jun

http://twitter.com/#!/samsungmobilenl
[Galaxy S II General] croftyboy8:
....slightly off topic, but does anyone else have similar randomness with signal strength?

see the difference in reception bars within two minutes on both screenshots - no bars to almost full -

I get the exact same and its driving me mad, one minute full reception, the next none. im not moving the phone and cannot work out why

HELP!!
[Galaxy S II General] ph00ny:
1. Let's not use the % figure to determine the usage since it's a comparative value

2. I was getting at least 14+ hours/day with around 3 hours of music listening, gmail, yahoo mail sync, twitter, facebook, and a handful of widgets

3. With Cognition 1.07, it looks like i'm getting significantly better battery life. This may be simply due to setcpu running conservative

Things to watch out for

1. Wifi sharing - It seems to restart everytime wifi is turned on

2. Even if you run a secondary launcher, it looks like widgets from TW is started

3. Google Music app drains more than twice the stock app

4. Supposedly bad reception = more power usage

5. Widgets such as AP news tend to use more battery than other widgets that i've used

6. LP facebook/twitter widgets update independent of the Facebook/Twitter sync
[Galaxy S II General] ph00ny:
Reception bar is wonky only when i go in and out of subway stations. Other than that, my reception on my phone is rock solid.
[Galaxy S II General] 3mar84:
What do u think of this?
[Galaxy S II General] ph00ny:
We can't tell you anything since it doesn't give us much detail as to what was running for how long
[Galaxy S II General] samed1983:
Not a great deal really. Wi-fi on constantly, phone being used 70% of the time, guessing that short charge was a connection to a pc?

Out of interest are you using a task manager? Advanced apps killer or stock? And if so do you regurlarly use? I will save the rest of my answer for the response.
[Galaxy S II General] erazer007:
Packet data is off because I dont need it.

My usage is as follows.

Music 1 - 1:30 hours through loudspeaker

Wi-Fi 1- 1:30 hours

Talktime 30 mins - 1 hour

Messaging 10 mins

Applications used over Wi-Fi Google Talk, GMail, Internet Browser, Twitter, Facebook, Market
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
That little bit of the chart seen up top - it tells me your Wifi is off too when the phone screen is off. So basically in between your screen-on activities, there is NOTHING going on , both packet data and wifi are off, the sync is off, etc. Your phone is in pure barebones standby for 95% of that time, and is only doing anything of significance for those 2-4 hours you listened to music and browsed sites.

If I put my phone in that barebones standby you are using, I lose 1% of battery every 2.5 hours, IF I EVER managed to stay in that mode I could last 250 hours or over 10 days. Unfortunately I never managed to misuse my smartphone like that ;), so...

Now compare that to people who actually USE their phones, by having sync on, receiving/sending hundreds of emails a day on multiple accounts, playing games, browsing 3G data, using maps, watching videos, etc. We get through 13-15 hours and we are ok with that. :)

P.S. the day I find myself having used my smartphone for 2-4 hours over the past 2.5 days, I sell my smartphone and downgrade to plain much cheaper "feature phone"
[Galaxy S II General] erazer007:
Well yes I agree, Im not using much now. Normally I do have packet data enabled and also apps running in the background but Im on vacation now and the data services here are very costly. Thus another reason for using less of the battery. I just wanted to show how the phone can survive if you use it less. WIth heavy usage it lasts for 17-18 hours for me.
[Galaxy S II General] RogerPodacter:
Why are there still battery threads popping up where people are not posting screen on time?

Display on time is the only, ONLY, thing that matters. Post that screen shot.
[Galaxy S II General] N-C:
3mar84

You probably have wifi sharing going crazy. Try closing it down. Juidedefender should help to turn wifi off as well.
[Galaxy S II General] aydc:
I agree completely. I'm sick of people bragging about standby time. Did you pay all that money for this phone to have it lying on the table or sitting comfortably in your pocket? You bought it to use it. So let's talk about how long you can actually USE IT.

I can't use this phone with moderate use longer than 4 hours (display on time) and that's atrocious, but that's how it is. If I were to keep it in my pocket and not use at all, I could get maybe 3 days out of it and post the screenshot here, but it just wouldn't mean anything.
[Galaxy S II General] codeworkx:
those threads are "lol"

my phone is normally down after 8 hours because i'm using it hard. Day for Day.

Am i whining? NO.

If you use it like a nokia 3210, it lasts for some days. So why you're complaining?
[Galaxy S II General] ph00ny:
you mean using it to stream music through pandora or listening to music doesn't burn through battery? good to know?

Display on time + brightness/power settings is just as important as volume level in music players since it uses different amounts of power
[Galaxy S II General] samed1983:
Ah a specific example of the reason I started this thread. They are called smart PHONES. Your not meant to have your screen on for 5 hours constantly. BUY A SMEGGING TABLET.

Quite a few posts saying screen on time is all that matters. NO, it's not.

General usage as a phone/gamer/networker are what it's about.

If you have the time to sit for hours on end with the screen on, plug the bugger in, or use a computer.

Buy the equipment that suits your usage not the other way around.
[Galaxy S II General] SkulleD_PT:
Mine lasts 7 hours of use. Here is a screenshot that I just snapped. Its at 11%...
[Galaxy S II General] phonex1:
So basically why buy a 4.3 inch device when you have to use it as you used to use a 2 inch one?

Screen on time MATTERS. If not why is it the motorola atrix and my old iPhone 4 keep working for a full 25-30 hours with a 8-9 hrs screen on time?

If I need to buy a smegging tablet, why buy a smegging monster phone that can hardly fit in my hand or pocket?

Posts like this tend to stifle innovation.
[Galaxy S II General] samed1983:
Hardly stifling innovation, but I do apologise for my last post. Had been to the Indian and a few drinks followed. Think I misunderstood the point of a screen on test while in that state!

Back to the topic.....
[Galaxy S II General] samed1983:
An interesting graph. As soon as the wi-fi is off the slope slows to 50% of the drop rate.

Also all graphs I've seen so far in this thread have weak signal. This is the first i've seen with full green.

Any other thoughts?
[Galaxy S II General] 3mar84:
no sharing, only my device connected to the wireless..

if WiFi is off, Data is off, all apps in the background are killed, screen is off for about 5 hours (while sleeping) it dropped 10% without any usage!!
[Galaxy S II General] aydc:
Oh come on dude... Did they put a double core CPU with bleeding edge gaming power in this phone so that people keep the screen turned off? Do you really believe that smartphones are supposed to be used in standby mostly? Really?

If you need a device to keep on standby all the time, buy a Nokia 3310. You'll love it. Buy the right equipment for your needs. For the rest of us, it's the actual usage that matters and this phone can't be used in a way it was made for for longer than 5 hours. I get %15 warning usually in less than 4 hours of screen time.
[Galaxy S II General] samed1983:
Please see my post after this.
[Galaxy S II General] daleski75:
If I take my phone off charge at 7am and then hammer the hell out of it with feeds, videos, browsing and then put it back on charge before I go bed then I am more than happy with it as that to me is GOOD battery life.

You all have a phone with a 4.3" screen dual core 1.2ghz cpu's and 1gb ram which only a few years ago would be an equivalent PC spec (bar the screen of course) so to expect days and days of battery life is foolish to say the least.

I admit there are bugs with wifi which affect battery life and so on but these will be ironed out as time goes on.

So to summarize quit whining people and enjoy your phone.
[Galaxy S II General] samed1983:
Merci! Finally someone that has some sense.
[Galaxy S II General] jay_993:
that's good battery life. I mean you had the screen on for most of the time.
[Galaxy S II General] dcavni:
I got 2 days and 22 hours of moderate usage on Litening rom 1.5. Wi fi off. That is quite enough for me.
[Galaxy S II General] jr866gooner:
me too,absolutely love it, hope that Samsung iron out a couple of issues with noise reduction on the microphone when using a case! top notch phone though!
[Galaxy S II General] samed1983:
Could everyone answer me a question that interests me atm.

Post whether you use an apps killer, whether it be the stock or an apps. Also how often do you use the kill button?
[Galaxy S II General] N-C:
Would you be saying that if you only got 6 hours out of your phone?

I'm on phone number 2 as my first one had a few issues including poor battery. It would drain in standby in half a day with juicedefender installed and everything I could think of disabled. My 2nd one is a lot better with lots more running.

Having had a good and a bad handset I can understand why people want to complain.

The battery drain issue is not always about usage. There is something going on with some of the handsets.
[Galaxy S II General] harrists:
I'm using the AccuWeather Widget, and I found that disabling the "Enable current location" on AccuWeather setting causing the high power consumption service "Wifi Sharing Service" disappear from Battery Status list, it used to take 30-40% of my GS2 battery.
[Galaxy S II General] ithehappy:
I installed Yahoo Messenger and Yahoo Mail last night and found today morning that my battery drain has gone up to 6% in 8 hours from 2-3%. It's a battery hogger definitely. Even if you turn off background data it keeps popping up on Status bar. Useless appls. Uninstalling.
[Galaxy S II General] zkyevolved:
These are my results. Screen time was only 1 hour. I had a huge party the night before, so my phone was in standby while I was getting my head together yesterday. I woke up today, 65% battery life left after 24 hours, 1 hour of screen time (and 3 min), and 3G and Wifi always on. Screen on auto brightness.

I'm getting better battery life since KE5. And so far no overheating.
[Galaxy S II General] maverick1103:
Battery life improved!

I have had my device for 3 weeks now and to start off with I was gettting about 8hrs or less battery life, mainly because I was on it all the time!!

I did also have the dreaded WIFI sharing process running all the time!

I have tried a few apps to help but none worked, so I finally gave in and rooted my device, it was simple to do :)

I downloaded titanium backup and froze those annoying apps and bloatware, I monitored it for a couple of days, didn't see any improvements :(

I then tried battery calibration app did it twice and on 3rd day noticed that battery increased, as in I took it off charge at 8am and I had still 20% left at 11pm and still had been using it alot, maybe not so much as when first had it!

I will note tho I have power saving running to come on at 30%, it kills everything bar WIFI as I use it alot, I have Green Power Premium running too, this I noticed over the last week has helped quite alot!

I have Day Mode and Night Mode set, Day Mode is set for WIFI/Mobile networks to come on for 2 mins and off for 15 mins, Night for everything off at night (12am - 8am).

So I honestly don't know if it is simple me not using the phone as much as I did previously or if its these apps that have helped or rooting the device!

All I will say is that as long as I can get a full day from my phone without compromising my usage throughout the day then I'm happy :D
[Galaxy S II General] Xanzaki:
After buying my mrs the HTC Incredible S and seeing the battery life, I was pretty worried about getting my new S2... I'm glad to say it's much better! No complaints here.
[Galaxy S II General] samed1983:
Please could everyone just leave some information regarding my previous post.

Ta.
[Galaxy S II General] samed1983:
Ok so as an update. I rooted my phone last night, slightly daunted but was good after much reading up. Anyway, been trying it out today and fiddling this evening.

Now using Villain ROM 1.4, with adw ex launcher. Below are the posts of battery usage. Slightly erratic but i'm sure you can agree the battery life is better. Especially in non-use (first half of the graph), battery is barely draining, compared to my pre-root posts.

Thought it was of interest to all those that have posted.
[Galaxy S II General] David Horn:
Stock KE7, three email accounts set to "push", and Facebook/Twitter auto-updating. Screen brightness on Automatic, and general use (phone calls, music, web etc).

The vast dive in battery life at the end of day two is caused by me streaming music from Google while downloading Skype 2.0 while sat outside on a sunny day. D'oh!

Charging now, but I reckon if you manually checked for new email and had the screen set to minimal brightness, you could easily squeeze three days out of it. Out of curiosity, which is meant to be the best ROM for battery life?
[Galaxy S II General] Pume:
They all claim to be the best :)

For me, and I've used VR1.4, Cognition 1.07 and now Touch X-treme, the last seems to be the best. I haven't noticed any differences in the performance either so I don't know what the dexs have done to improve the battery life. One major impact could be the radio / modem, which on Touch extreme is recommended to be KE4.

I've been reading the Nitroz Extreme ROM thread and some are saying that it is the best one for them regarding battery life. I haven't yet flashed it due to some bugs the ROM has at the moment.
[Galaxy S II General] f1ux:
ive just removed my class 10 16b sdcard and my battery life is vastly better now!

How nany others with bad battery have got an SD card?
[Galaxy S II General] pukemon:
orly? :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] i8000usr:
No issues here with battery life. As others in this topic, I think that the biggest battery drain is on the mirror side of this phone, given the occasional rogue apps here and there. It's not a woman this phone. Your woman will light up if you give her constant attention, if you do that with this phone (any phone), it will just die quicker. Lose the love, save your battery.

Name me any modern smartphone that lasts for 12-18 hours with constant usage, screen on, connectivity, push mail, gps etc etc.

Most people seem to be in denial about their usage for some reason, or just like the placebo of a custom flash.

This annoying signature is brought to you by my i9100
[Galaxy S II General] pukemon:
nokia e71. i didn't have to manage battery. got two days easy with terrible reception. sometimes 3 days if i had good reception and battery wasn't draining looking for signal. btw, the e71 got a lot of 3 days usage off the charger because it had excellent reception. and i'm aware the e71 had 1/3 the screen area. but i used it instead of worrying about battery life. touchscreen phone era seems to be the master of the user these days.
[Galaxy S II General] Pierrejiskandar:
Just got my SGS2 last week, and so far so good, battery drains quickly only cause I abused it xD But I'll be trying normal usage today and seeing how long it will hold up!
[Galaxy S II General] pb_2003:
This is interesting I haven't thought about it.

I have 2 SG II to compare (mine and my wife), she can have it for more than 2 day, while mine last only 1 day.

link

And I do indeed have an 4 Gb memory from my old Xperia-1 in mine and my wife has not added any.

That will be my next experiment.

PS. both phones are still not rooted.
[Galaxy S II General] puremind:
Android OS consumed 39% because he didn't use a lot of anything else!

This value is relative to the total used, therefore it is impacted by the use of other components, such as WiFi, screen, etc...

The more you use your phone actively, the smaller Android OS %age becomes.
[Xperia Play General] Willis111:
Will sim unlocking my rogers xplay give me access to fastboot/bootloader unlocking? Anyone know for sure? TIA
[Xperia Play General] AndroHero:
No
[Xperia Play General] turbo789:
I was wondering the same thing.

@AndroHero: Have you tried it?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kinzkarazy:
which kernel u guys think is better neo9 or glitch v10?
[Verizon Droid Charge] Slacker101:
Is there any way to disable 4g completely? Or toggle it on and off? I couldn't find anything on this and if there is a topic I apologize.
[Verizon Droid Charge] moondrius:
Under wireless settings. Select cdma then auto.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] duce102:
The deed is done :D thanks man

VVVVVVVV
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jkrough0728:
Which phone had it?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jkrough0728:
We are working on it for you!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nismax:
I like to have one for desire hd
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] duce102:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1053593

Sorry I'm on the xda app lol
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] duce102:
Nevermind ill just copy the pngs to a epic boot animation....

I don't think I can post the finished product due to xda violations....
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] || Acer ||:
Holy crap that's sick!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jkrough0728:
Why can't I post it? I have it done basically?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nikolaschr:
Because they will call it kanging. It will be fine... just credit the original creatore. Like name it Xda boot animation by ______
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jkrough0728:
Ok we will post here shortly with the sound!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] duce102:
I tried its a no go..... you can post I just don't wanna be slandered like someone (whom we shall not speak but will miss) for kang.... but yeah if you got it done post that bad boy :D
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nikolaschr:
Oh marcusant...
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] duce102:
Yeah :(

10 char
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jkrough0728:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=15057018#post15057018

Done! Preview coming soon!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] duce102:
thank you!!!!

:)
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] _Burst_:
This theme is for Kingdom REVOlution b1.4.

Also known as

VirusRom Kingdom Nightly 6/23

Steps to install:

Enter Recovery.

Flash zip.

Reboot.

No need to do anything else. ;)

Includes:

Modded HTC_IME w/ Trace

Modded HtcClock3dWidget

Modded HtcCalendarWidgets3d

Modded HtcDialer

Modded Rosie

Modded PCSCII

Modded SystemUI

*Transparent Notification Bar/Shade

*Inverted Text

Modded Fusion

Modded Framework

*100% Battery Icons

*Stalebread flip animations

Modded com.htc.resources

Modded IdleScreen_Base

Modded IdleScreen_Weather

Modded MMS

New Font

Black Wallpaper Included in HTC Wallpapers

Known Issues:

-Notification Items text is white. Yay. However, when it is a persistent item, say USB plugged in, it will revert to black when pressed. It will stay that way until it is cleared and the new notification will be white again. Also, time is black.

-White line around 3/4 of contact picture of lock screen incoming call.

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[Burst] Leo

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Click here for the full theme.

Note: Theme not done 100% but it does work as flawless as the rom, if not better. Enjoy.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mmarks9156:
Hey Burst getting touch input fcs on Kingdom b1.4 any ideas?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] _Burst_:
can you repeat the process?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mmarks9156:
Wiped cache and dalvik cache and flashed theme. That's it
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] _Burst_:
Hmmm... Well the script takes care of that in flashing. Only thing i can tell you is that the script is solid. I need to get with the other themers because my original script was not writing to the correct places and this script even fixes symlinks and permissions in flash. so, that means that there is leftover htc_ime somewhere in your phone. that could be the only explination.... i think :D
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mmarks9156:
Any idea how to get rid of it?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] MiSfit211:
hey Burst did you remember to throw in the lib for the HTC_IME that might be the problem. I love your themes bro look good
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mmarks9156:
Edit: I'm running Kingdom Nightly 062111 does that make a difference?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] _Burst_:
lib is in there.

It shouldnt matter because this is updated apks but it does because where V places system apps changed from 21 to 22/23. So it does matter. majorly.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mmarks9156:
So what build works best with this? I don't see 22 or 23 for d/l.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] _Burst_:
http://twitter.com/#!/InfectedROM/status/84054532102946816

this should do ya in nicely
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mmarks9156:
Downloaded Kingdom Nightly from above link flashed theme still get touch input FCs
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] _Burst_:
You are gonna have to wipe everything.

So before you flash, be sure to wipe data and system and possibly sdext.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Prodigyofwealth:
Been waiting for this, thanks burst..