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[One (M7) General] Tinderbox (UK):
As far as i know.

A hard-reset is when you phone is not responding/frozen and you cannot shut it down, you can hold the power button down for 20 seconds and then the phone will simulate a battery pull and then restart.

A factory-restore wipes the phone and restores it to as new condition.

John.
[One (M7) General] UCFour:
Cool

thanks!
[One (M7) General] Nage1993:
I do all that always, recommended :)
[One (M7) General] clifh:
Help....

Ok, hoping one of you "techie" guys can help me. I'll try and make this short. After reading a few posts on how to conserve battery life, I took the steps that were mentioned. One being "turning off" locations and the other was dimming the screen. I'm at about 40% screen brightness. I'm not a "tech" person, so not looking to reroot the phone (whatever that means) or do any other crazy type things. Just basic stuff in the settings to help conserve.

So....after taking these steps I charged my phone Wed night. At about 11:00pm I was at a full charge. Woke up the next morning, and as I thought it should be, was still on a full charge. Not sure of the percentage but the battery indicator was fully green. At work during the day, and used it very sparingly. Checked the phone a few times and battery was still holding a great charge, but again, I was using it sparingly, other than a 15min phone call which was later in the day.. After the call, I thought the battery would have been much lower, it wasn't. Leave work at about 6:00pm and I'm at 76%! Thought that was awesome! Viola, turning "locations" off and dimming the screen did the trick, I thought. From 11:00pm the night before, to 6:00pm the next night and still at 76%. not bad. Phone started to drain (not sure why) rather rapidly through the night. By 11:00pm I was at 14%, so I charged it. Went to bed, woke up at 3:00am and unplugged the phone. Went back to bed, woke up at 7:00am, and here's the issue......I was at 63%!!! WHY OH WHY??? So, from 3am at a full charge to 7am it drained to 63%..How and why??? Didn't touch the phone, I was asleep. It just sat there. Went to "Battery and usage" to see what was up. "Phone idle" accounted for 46% of the battery usage. So, by it just sitting there the battery drained that much.

Can someone help and explain why this occurred? and if anything can be done to prevent this?
[One (M7) General] racingmatt1:
can anyone confirm if auto brightness will use more battery than setting it manually only enough so I can see it clearly (when outdoors on a sunny day)? Also what do you people recommend for a manual brightness setting on such day (enough so I can see but not too high to where the battery will drain fast). I am also using a anti-glare screen protector
[One (M7) General] sauprankul:
GSam monitor. Only then we can help you.

Auto outdoors. Minimum indoors.

Use the power saver. You can customize what you want to change.
[One (M7) General] Magpir:
It could be yr gps. Leave it on.. Some rogue apps may request for gps like google maps when connected to wifi. This may cause a request loop . this explains why at home u have the drain
[One (M7) General] mpanju:
The carrier effect!

This is proof of carriers affecting battery life! If you browse through my previous posts, you will notice my bad battery drain when on standby and my postulating that my carrier choice (Airtel in Tanzania) and the constant switching between E,3G & H and generally mediocre signal quality (not signal strength) was the reason my battery life was not more than 13/14 hours with 3 - 3.5 hours screen on time. Generally, even in standby it would drain annoyingly as you can see from the first three attached pics.

Well today I switched carriers to Vodacom (A subsidiary of Vodafone) and well, you can see the difference from the attached screen shots! The battery drain is significantly reduced and when I actually left the phone alone for long periods of time, it would drain only 1% per hour! I am quite pleased as you can imagine and I think I shouldn't have any trouble with the phone now lasting 15/16 hours with the same amount of screen time as before!
[One (M7) General] wonaldng:
Just upgraded to 4.2.2 via OTA last night. Left the battery to drain completely this morning and then charged it back to 100% / LED turns green.

Unplugged it 2h 35m ago and it's still on 100% with power saver & wi-fi on.
[One (M7) General] clifh:
Thanks for the tip!
[One (M7) General] sauprankul:
Stock unrooted

I usually get around 12 hours a day, with about 2.5 hours of screen time. I am stock unrooted with the latest 4.1.2 on Sprint.

Auto sync is off. Gps is off. Nfc is off. Screen is on auto brightness. Data and Wi-Fi are on or off depending on where I am. I get crappy 3G most of the time. But I keep LTE enabled.

I use the Gmail app, but there is no auto sync so it shouldn't matter. Same with the Facebook app. Maps is not disabled because I use it frequently.

I do not want to root because there are too many random bricks going on. How can I get decent battery life out if this phone? My usage includes Pandora, Xda, Chrome, YouTube, maps, 2D gaming and a little 3D gaming.

Power saver is always enabled.
[One (M7) General] Magpir:
Bricks are rare if u do it right . unless certain phone u have got like sprint HTC one maybe an exception
[One (M7) General] ipmanwck:
This is my best so far. Oddly I found better battery life with battery saving mode turned on and all location services also ON ????

I also found BBS and GSam was a drain !

Turned ON turn data off when long periods of inactivity.

Also changed dropbox to only upload over WiFi.

Using greenify with everything apart from mail, calendar and important things.

One last thing I think made a big difference is to change from gmail to the stock HTC email app. Kinda like it also )
[One (M7) General] ipmanwck:
Forgot this.
[One (M7) General] AdrianE46:
Like a baws!

Totally stock phone on 4.2.2 using power saver (with only screen dimming and cpu throttling) and snapdragon batteryguru and location reporting and GPS off.
[One (M7) General] Friedtofux:
How do you reduce audioout_4 wake lock.
[One (M7) General] ipmanwck:
Turn anything with vibrate to off.
[One (M7) General] hatlesssandman:
My battery life on Android 4.3, power saver was off until last 15% (turned on automatically), auto sync, auto brightness, fully greenified, data off (only used WiFi), I find this to be amazing battery life. Rom is SD 4.1 running teamseven kernel which is included within the Rom
[One (M7) General] TornadoF6:
Ive had to turn my location back on,battery wouldnt last 10 hrs as an app must of been in a location loop,now im getting 16hrs minimum

Sent from my Aussie style HTC One
[One (M7) General] mpanju:
Thanks for the info, has your standby always been this good? Has it changed significantly from the pre 4.3 update?

Also, if you would be so kind, please share with us your screen shots for Kernel Wakelocks and Time Held Awake from GSam Battery Monitor so that we try to replicate your outstanding battery life, thanks!
[One (M7) General] hatlesssandman:
Alright I will try to do that the only reason I let mybattery run this low was because I had no access to a charger which let me drain by battery to this point, otherwise I'm well above 35% every night when I put my phone on charge.

Secondly I forgot to mention that I don't have Google maps installed however my location services are on (except the new feature in 4.3 where it collects location even if WiFi is off ). Also I have uninstalled Google now because I find I don't use it a lot which also helps with standby battery. I have noticed much better standby times in 4.3 because I have the option of unticking notifications from certain apps especially Facebook, which prevents facebook from continuously opening itself even if it's greenified which I think may be a major reason for the battery life I'm seeing on 4.3.

I will attach a screen shot of my 4.2.2 battery life which is decent but definitely not as good. This battery life was on elegencia 10.0 with elemental kernel.

Also I think I started having better battery life when I flashed this radio with 4.3 http://db.tt/61bpBBVW, haven't tried this radio on 4.2.2 however, maybe I will get similar battery life.
[One (M7) General] Philmize:
imperiously gstedian

Hey thanks for the tip on Wifi-Matic! It's been helping me a lot!
[One (M7) General] Magpir:
I think sense TV and the it sensor may also cause battery drain.
[One (M7) General] Magpir:
This is what u get with other sense ROMs from 4.3
[One (M7) General] spukos:
i dont think the TV sense drains much battery
[One (M7) General] DBCoop:
I usually only need strong battery life when traveling. I turn off Bluetooth and GPS when not needed and even turn off background sync if I want great life.
[One (M7) General] PoZa1:
Thanks

Thanks man :)
[One (M7) General] PoZa1:
Thanks.Good tips :)
[One (M7) General] Magpir:
Those using Google backup to backup I found out that when contacts is ticked under sync settings it goes on forever . Maybe this is causing drain
[One (M7) General] bendalson:
There are many ways of adjusting the settings
[One (M7) General] edw1nyang:
How to do that hard reset thing? It will reset your phone to factory state, won't it?
[One (M7) General] dahmmy:
the

good news is android 4.3 makes significant battery savings..
[One (M7) General] dorezen:
Source?
[One (M7) General] Magpir:
Well it does improve battery life because of the new opengl drivers
[One (M7) General] dahmmy:
It was from one of the reputable tech sites.....but i guess we will be the "source" soon
[One (M7) General] rocketpaul:
I sure this has been said before, but i get great battery life when using juice defender on aggressive setting.
[One (M7) General] dahmmy:
http://www.androidhighlights.com/po...TC-One-Android-4.3-(Jelly-Bean)-update-review

"We are getting significantly better battery life after updating to Android 4.3. We have played with HTC One for couple of hours including one hour web browsing over Wi-Fi, listening to music for 2 hours and regular e-mail checking etc."

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http://www.androidhighlights.com/pos...-update-review

"We are getting significantly better battery life after updating to Android 4.3. We have played with HTC One for couple of hours including one hour web browsing over Wi-Fi, listening to music for 2 hours and regular e-mail checking etc."

I did not read it on this site - so even better.
[One (M7) General] Shan89:
I can confirm battery is outstanding on 4.3 , tho I'm rooted.
[One (M7) General] criszz:
this is saving ...
[One (M7) General] Magpir:
those who using a case take it off. it seems that the case seems to drain battery probably by diminishing signal reception causing the radio to work harder?

I am still testing this now
[One (M7) General] ashouhdy:
Sleep Mode ON Power Saver Mode ON Wi-Fi always on when Plugged in
[One (M7) General] yvibes:
What rom & kernel is this? Thanks
[One (M7) General] Osama Zabin:
Would you mind sharing your settings?

Using any custom kernel?

Any specific ROM?
[One (M7) General] mahabub alam:
How know I updated kingroot and Android 4.4.2
[One (M7) General] ritik jaiswal:
For battery saving
[One (M7) General] Evolancer13:
Thanks for the tip, and I plan on it, just trying to get used to the os lol.
[One (M7) General] chiefroberts:
Points 2 & 3 are completely contrasting! First you say to use an app that turns off WiFi when you're not using it and straight after that you say to leave it on all the time. Am I missing something?
[One (M7) General] andrawer:
never mind.....
[One (M7) General] Magpir:
just disable google maps in settings apps manage
[One (M7) General] Magpir:
firstly its not contrasting. the y5 battery saver completely turns off your wifi when u are not in a known network area for eg. outside your home

when u back home it turns on the wifi and keeps it on all the time connected to the access point
[One (M7) General] ataft:
But what is it that it does? Is it better for the battery? Does it charge fuller? Extend battery life?

And you say charge from 40% with the phone off, but turn the phone on before it reaches 100%... is it better to get closer to 100 rather than further away? how do you know when it is close to being 100%? do you time your charge cycles?

See what I mean? Asking for the explanation behind this, because I haven't read about this before.
[One (M7) General] ECEXCURSION:
In all honesty there are probably only 2 or 3 members of this forum who know how the specific batteries in the One function. Everything else you read is hear-say and repeated garbage learned about other battery technologies. Charge the phone however you want; HTC doesn't let you fast charge to save the lifespan of the non-replaceable battery anyway. You're fine, don't worry about it.

Sent from my HTC One
[One (M7) General] ataft:
Ya, agreed, thanks. It always seems there's some new way that you need to charge your phone if you want the battery to last, but usually the person saying it just heard it from someone else, who heard it from someone else, and so on... until you find out it was something wrongly said years ago.
[One (M7) General] mettleh3d:
Leave your phone at home. Just leave it.

Ridiculous battery endurance rundown apps just burn through the limited charge cycles of a sealed battery anyway ffs.

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You can also manually disable the screen brightness with an 8lb brick. Drop from a height of 8" or more for best results. Report back please!
[One (M7) General] SPARKY892:
For me using wifi as much as possible seems to save a lot of battery.
[One (M7) General] dlc1369:
I just stumbled upon the app Greenify recently. Very awesome app and it is FREE.

It stops apps you choose from battery sacking background operations.
[One (M7) General] Magpir:
problem is u need root to make this app work
[One (M7) General] Magpir:
thread updated with important tip
[One (M7) General] kennynguyen20:
my only advice is update the radio.
[One (M7) General] gsusx:
how do we update the radio ?
[One (M7) General] Neo-ST:
I'm getting wonderful battery life (60% remaining at the end of the day) BUT with Power saver ON (all options ON), however it takes away the possibility to receive notifications, emails, etc....anything related to Internet :(

In other words, it cripples the phone significantly.

If I turn Power saver OFF then I barely get 20% remaining.

Is there a way to somehow keep a good battery life but keep the possibility to receive Whatsapp, facebook, gmail, etc. notifications?
[One (M7) General] Galactus:
My battery life is good. Facebook just drains man, I've left it running for now to see how big the impact is over a day. But it's just constantly scanning, even if you set it to refresh once every 4 hours. It's almost as if it can only push notifications to you if its constantly scanning. I've used Whatsapp on every phone I've had and it doesn't drain battery like the facebook app does. Might have to try out that SLK notifications app and rely on the mobile site.
[One (M7) General] Neo-ST:
There are also alternatives to Facebook app, like Friendcaster, etc.

What's that SLK app ?
[One (M7) General] mwatson:
If you have the sky news app installed I'd recommend uninstalling it. After running a data counter I realised it used 6MB in one day doing nothing 6MB! That's more than an 128kbps MP3 and I hadn't even opened the app or have a widget running for it. What is it doing to have to communicate like that in one day? It must waste a lot of battery.
[One (M7) General] Galactus:
SLK Notifications

When you get a facebook notification this app then pushes it to you. No constant polling like the original facebook app. This way if you prefer to use the facebook app, greenify it (so it's never in memory) and when you get a notification you can specify if you want to open it with the mobile webpage or the facebook app. works really well too
[One (M7) General] Magpir:
Updated op with more settings
[One (M7) General] Fidelcastrol:
Hi,

Can you explain more how to enable gpu rendering for all the apps ? Thanks
[One (M7) General] Superpiper1972:
Recommend to not install apps which are re-formated web pages if you don't use them.

Facebook and eBay are examples of apps which cause wakelocks no matter what settings you have. If you rarely use them, just set up a shortcut to the mobile web page and remove app.

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Also, don't kill apps unless they are misbehaving
[One (M7) General] Magpir:
Settings - developer- advanced - gpu rendering
[One (M7) General] Fidelcastrol:
Thanks a lot. I activated it.

Does it impact battery a lot ? How about performances ?
[One (M7) General] Magpir:
I know it helps save battery life on quad core devices
[One (M7) General] Magpir:
thread OP updated again.........
[One (M7) General] Rossi200:
Thanks for the Facebook tip ... it really helped!
[One (M7) General] Magpir:
The tip if installing lux auto brightness. That's a major one too .. try and report it
[One (M7) General] ataft:
Doesn't it actually use more battery? I've read that it was used to improve phone performance, at the tradeoff of battery life. It is something you would use if you didn't have a powerful cpu.
[One (M7) General] Fidelcastrol:
Seems to eat up battery % a bit faster when enabled. Though that might be only me, so if someone could try it out...

Yes, but it's paid app, will the lite version be enough ?
[One (M7) General] Magpir:
strangely enabling gpu rendering makes my battery drain slower on the HTC One

i guess its behaves differently on different SOCs especially quad cores

The GPU is the Graphics Processing Unit. It’s very much like the CPU, but instead of crunching numbers and taking care of tasks for the operating system and hardware, the GPU renders graphical information and puts it on the screen for you.

The CPU can process graphical instructions just fine, but doing so takes time away from doing “other” computations, and can lead to “lag” while graphical instructions are processed. Not only that, the CPU is quite inefficient at processing graphical data as compared to other more “computational” instructions. The GPU solves both these problems, first by offloading graphics processing from the CPU (freeing it up for more important threads), and second by more efficiently handling and processing graphical data.
[One (M7) General] Magpir:
i never tried the lite version, mine is paid though
[One (M7) General] tickbuster:
Hi, first thanks a lot for sharing the battery tips. I just started configuring Lux, could you expand on why you have two Lux same values at 10240? Also for the link at 0 value, how did you manage to get exactly 1%? As on my phone, the slider jumps from 4% to -1%.
[One (M7) General] Magpir:
the 1% was already there when i started the app , the other 2 values are i specified myself

i m using the paid version , i am not sure though how it is on yours...maybe the free version does not allow u to do 1% increments?

basically lux does a better job of controlling auto brightness compared to the inbuilt one because u can actually specify min , max values and the brightness will change within these values

the in built auto brightness sometimes brightens the screen too much. it also does contribute to heat
[One (M7) General] Fidelcastrol:
It really does. Right now it's on auto, and it's burning my eyes, so I keep it at 30% manually but I'm gonna check your app.

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I guess that between 1% and 4% there's not a lot of difference anyway.

I also enabled again the GPU rendering and I'm gonna test it out.
[One (M7) General] Magpir:
the in built auto brightness cant differentiate differences between direct sunlight ( outdoor daylight glare ) and in a brightly lit room ( indoors)

we know that the in a Brightly lit room , a high brightness isnt exactly required because we dont have glare that comes from outdoor sunlight.

this is where lux comes in. u can specify these values and differentiate according to the type of light detected in a brightly lit room and that of outdoor sunlight
[One (M7) General] Magpir:
Right now after using lux the brightness does not jump to full in a brightly lit room . It's at 48% currently which compared to previously it will be around 65- 75%

If I turn off the lights totally it drops to 12% .
[One (M7) General] Fidelcastrol:
Interesting. Will take a look into your app.

As of the GPU/CPU render, I did the following test :

Enable GPU, set brightness at 30% no power saver, browsing XDA, using the app, over Wifi :

3 minutes screen time per %

Disable GPU, set brightness at 30% no power saver, browsing XDA, using the app, over Wifi :

4 minutes screen time per % :good:

I can stretch that to 5 mins per % with power saver on (so that's 12% an hour...but we all know in real life scenarios it won't stay on that much). On 3G it's more around 3 mins per % again.

Anyway, I think that some of the tips you posted are mandatory to try...they do make a real difference and I thank you for them !
[One (M7) General] Neo-ST:
A while ago I exchanged a few emails with the developer of lux, he told me to decrease sample collection number to off-load the cpu and increase battery life, so you should try that. I've put it to slowest, worked like a charm. Basically, it's the interval of taking samples to check brightness.
[One (M7) General] Magpir:
I see the setting but please post a screenshot on how u set it up thanks
[One (M7) General] Fidelcastrol:
You mean "Light sensor poll rate" ? I've set it to "lowest" we'll see how it performs then.
[One (M7) General] Magpir:
Hmm like I said it depends on a variety of factors and how u use the phone.
[One (M7) General] Magpir:
I guess that's the one . It pops up a message
[One (M7) General] md.abidahmed:
Try "atrium for Facebook".. you have an option to disable it to run in background..

-A
[One (M7) General] ataft:
I believe GPU Rendering is used automatically, since the ICS update, throughout the system. There are apps that are incompatible, or haven't been updated to officially support it, where you can force the use of GPU rendering.

So I guess you will not see a difference unless you are using it with an unsupported app (and xda is one of them.) I guess in those circumstances, it may either help or hurt your experience.
[One (M7) General] Magpir:
The non original facebook apps don't work with blinkfeed
[One (M7) General] Neo-ST:
Yes, poll rate, sorry. I no longer use it but I might in the future.
[One (M7) General] Magpir:
I changed the settings to slowest .
[One (M7) General] Fidelcastrol:
So there I am, 61% & 2h1mins of screen time :D

Happy !
[One (M7) General] Magpir:
yr setup please?