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[Nexus One General] alithenake:
Well, I thought I have problems with battery, it was discharging itself in standby very fast.

Against my belief that LiIon needed this, I've let the phone completely discharge, so much that until you pressed the power button it could not complete a boot-up.

Then, with the phone powered off, I've charged the battery over USB (slow charge process) and after the led went green, I still let it charge more for an hour or so (I saw that the let comes green when the phone passes 90% charge, so this is why the extra hour).

Now, my phone won't discharge by himself on standby, and these are my stats:

Battery level - 38%

1d 4h 52m since unplugged

Display - 38% (time on 1h 29 m 49s)

Voice calls - 23% (time on 22m 18s)

Phone idle - 16% (time on 1d 3h 23m)

Cell standby - 16% (time on 1d 4h 52m)

Android system - 4%

Android OS 2%

3G was always on, Gmail Syncs (lots of mails in). No live wallpaper (its fun but distracting). No wifi usage since last charge and no gps.

I'm getting to like it more and more and more :)
[Nexus One General] dazzawright:
Come On You Irons!!!!

On a mroe related subject, i get about 4 hours battery life out of mine and I too didn't charge it fully before first use. I am currently draining the battery to recondition it. I'll let you know how it goes.
[Nexus One General] :
yeah my battery life aint so good, where and i live and go to school i struggle to even get signal at all... bounce all day between 3G, EDGE and No Signal... so i don t get that good battery life which sux
[Nexus One General] Lemim0uth:
Does it take long to charge with your iPhone charger ? I tried but it took more than 4 hours (like charging through USB) instead of 1.5 hour with the supplied wall charger...
[Nexus One General] SANTilt:
Settings are as follows (pretty much the same as I posted a few pages before):

-GPS off unless I need it, which turns out to be rarely.

-WiFi off unless I need it (Have good 3G at home)

-Live wallpapers OFF - noticed a large improvement from that. I use static wallpaper now.

-Screen on auto bright

-Gmail on auto sync

-Twidroid updates every hour

-News&Weather widget updates every 3 hours

-Facebook app/widget is set to update every hour, but doesn't send notifications STILL. Only for invites, and messages, nothing else.

-Gtalk is usually running, unless I'm at my computer (double notifications).

-No Bluetooth unless it's needed (rarely, once again)

Charging:

When it gets close to death every night (around 5% battery remaining) I put it on the wall charger overnight. The next morning, after checking news/email on it, I reboot it, and once fully booted, unplug it. Then it's on its own till the end of the day when it's about to die again.

I hope that helps you. Let me know if you have any more questions.
[Nexus One General] :
75% of battery still going after 8hrs from being plugged in.

Active:

•2g only

•G chat

•G voice

•Screen brightness to zero, and full brightness when outside.

•Gmail sync for three accounts (3 mails, 1 contact sync)

•five email accounts set to sync every hour

•no live wall paper, just a black background

•music player or pandora while I run errands (about 1 hour per day)

I turn on wifi at my shop if I need to download something(horrible reception inside =( ), or when out of the office I'll manually turn 3g on.

I notice the biggest jump in battery by switching to 2g only.
[Nexus One General] huzz:
I am @ 43% after 13 Hours and 27 Minutes,

Live Wallpapers = On (eye candy baby!)

3 Gmail accounts = Auto Sync on

Wifi = Switched on most of the time unless i step out i don't think i have switched it off at all

GPS = On

3G = on

Screen Brightness = Nominal (set manually)

Facebook updates = 1 Hour

I am loving it to be honest. I have also been talking on the phone and surfing news on and off with a few text messages. Its doing wonders compared to the stupid iPhone 3Gs.
[Nexus One General] huzz:
Hey guys I do not see "Awake Time" I only see "Uptime" :-s i've been searching on the forums and i don't understand this :(

***

Seriously no body ?
[Nexus One General] huzz:
*bump* come'on someone, anyone.
[Nexus One General] ledridge:
canyou provide any links to these, they sound better than Verizons Network Extender at $250.
[Nexus One General] uansari1:
I agree completely with everything 5to1 said... this has been my experience with numerous devices that use a Li-ion battery. I can't stress enough that deep cycling the battery (i.e. often allowing it to discharge lower than, say, 30% or so, will reduce battery life much earlier than it would otherwise. Topping off the battery frequently is good for Li-ion batteries. My habit it is to plug in the charger even if it's in the 80's.
[Nexus One General] SANTilt:
Nice write up, 5to1.

It's what I've always done to recalibrate my batteries, I even stated that early on in this thread. Some people don't like it though, they think it kills the battery.

For the record, I always wait till my battery is low before I charge it, around 10-5%, and I've never had a battery "die early" because of it(5 phones over four years). The only time I've had Li-Ion's die is when they weren't used regularly.
[Nexus One General] BrooklynAvi:
I've calibrated my battery (as I always do) and the battery life on this phone is terrible. Well, that's a bad word to use considering what the phone is actually doing; GPS, texting, video, music, email, navigation, screen size, etc. I had someone actually tell me they were getting 20 hours of heavy use out of their battery. I find that to be absolutely impossible. Either that person doesn't know what the term "heavy use" means in relation to the N1 or was simply making it up. I have mine in my hand for 18 hours a day and fall asleep reading on it and listening to music (it's plugged in by then). I understand that battery power is only going to be so good with this type of phone. It's the price people pay for looks. I will be getting the biggest, fattest battery I can get for this thing regardless of how ugly it looks. Function before form, I always say. I had the extended 2300mAh with my G1 and it would keep me going all day and night.
[Nexus One General] pjcforpres:
I don't think this will work on Verizon, but we are all GSM anyways:

http://www.quantum-wireless.com/store/index.php/cell-ranger-port-usb-powered-cell-booster.html

That is very similar to what I used a few years back with great success! If you look around on that site a bit, you will find some more expensive ones that will work even better and support many more bands.

Prices have gone up a bit since I last looked on the entry level good ones, but they have come way down on the top end ones. If you look around on that site, or google it(look for 3G cell phone repeater), you will see some nice ones for about $200, those used to be more like $800 just a few years ago!

Also, if you know what you are doing, you can build one fairly cheaply with parts from Radio Shack... wait, the Shack doesn't carry stuff anymore... with stuff off the interwebs for about half as much. Don't ask me which items and how, I have not researched it and couldn't tell you beyond what a google search would net me.
[Nexus One General] SANTilt:
Right now I'm at 13 hours 15 minutes and at 57% battery. This is a bit of a record for me, but admittedly, I have hardly used my phone today.

I find 20 busy hours to be a large, LARGE stretch of the imagination. This phone is simply capable of too many things at once to make it that long. Or, like you said, that person just doesn't know the meaning of "heavy use".

I think it's admirable for what it's capable of. But if you're going to "use" it any more than periodically during a day, a charger is mandatory.

Update: 1 day 40 minutes and the battery is at 22%. I've listed everything that's on a few posts back.

In conclusion to my little study on battery life with the Nexus One, I have to say it's more than capable, it's just highly dependent on the user's needs, and their understanding of what apps/features drain the battery the most. If you need to make it last over a day, it's not hard. But if you need to use the phone a lot in during that time, you NEED a charger.
[Nexus One General] timothydonohue:
battery life on this phone is actually fantastic, if you turn off background syncing and background data. i ran a day and a half, still had half my battery, after 2 hours of using the music player, several sms, and a couple phone calls. to keep current, i would turn on sync, let the phone sync, then turned it immediately back off.

constantly syncing is going to run the juice out. so, unless you have to be gotten ahold of by email at the drop of a hat, i'd say turn it off.
[Nexus One General] brentonwx:
I turned one background sync and data sycn.....only lasted me 8 to 9 hours..with constant surfing.....is that normal?
[Nexus One General] timothydonohue:
with constant surfing? i'm surprised you got that out of it, especially running background and data sync. try turning some of that stuff off
[Nexus One General] obadvw:
i loose around 15 ~ 20 % of the battery on idle when i am sleeping

phone was 84% before sleep

i slept 7 and half hours and checked battery in the morning it was 68%

auto sync is off,background sync is off,no live wallpapers just ordinary wall paper

no widget except weather and refresh once each 6 hours

i tried calibration method but i charged the phone while it was off, should i turn it on while charging to recalibrate the battery meter?

is the lost battery during sleep normal?

i am coming from htc touch HD and actually the battery life was much better

please advise cause i hear alot of people saying battery life is great which i found that it's not true
[Nexus One General] SANTilt:
How often to you reboot? I've found that the N1 needs to be rebooted daily. Otherwise it just hoses a fresh battery in a hurry.
[Nexus One General] obadvw:
i booted it once from 100% full battery and i lost 16% on 7 hours while i was sleeping
[Nexus One General] SANTilt:
That's only 2.3%/hour. I'd say that's fine.
[Nexus One General] obadvw:
i did the method of reconditioning my battery and i found the following

the yellow red turn to green while the phone still reads 90% of the charge

however it keep increasing slowly up to 100%

so what does that mean?

thanks
[Nexus One General] obadvw:
Any help guys !!!

i conditioned my battery and it seem worse than before now

now i loose 5% of battery in one hour instead of 2.5%

what is that !!!
[Nexus One General] greigster:
5to1

Very informative post and I have just one question, do I need to have phone turned on or off whilst charging?

Regards

Greigster
[Nexus One General] xOrphenochx:
I started rebooting it before I leave in the morning, I got a HUGE increase in battery life, almost close to what it was on my MT3G.
[Nexus One General] frandavid100:
Does having GPS on even use GPS? I always understood it only lets apps launch the GPS, but not actually uses it or burns any additional battery unless the GPS icon appears on the notification area.
[Nexus One General] cypher21:
I'm having quite some issues with the battery life.

Last night before going to bed at 0.00 it was at 45% I've put the phone in airplane mode all apps closed only better keyboard was running.

Good thing i needed to take a piss at 4 am because i found out that the phone was turned off. Otherwise my alarm wouldn't have gone off.

Phone was standby in airplane mode and 45% gone in 4 hours. Wtf

During the day my battery lasts 4-6 hours with not that heavy use. Some text, some email and some internet and maybe 20 mind of phonecalls.

Wifi GPS BT and sync is off all the time.

Any suggestions? I've got no apps running on the background. Tried to recalibrate the battery but no change.

I think I'm going to do a complete restore and see how that turns out.
[Nexus One General] obadvw:
Finally !!!!!!!!

i got a HUGE improvement in battery life when i manually disconnected the APN.

around 1% of the battery each 1 and half hour

i tried to leave it on with backgroud data sync and auto sync to be off but it still consumes double that battery in the same period

i think if there is a way to initiate the APN Data connection only on demand and disconnect it on idle i think that will solve the battery problem for the Nexus one
[Nexus One General] :
This battery is all over the place. lol

Yesterday my battery ate up 50% of itself in aboout three hours from being unplugged doing nothing.

Today, it's been 8 hours after being disconnected, and I still have 75% of it left.

WCDMA only on both days.
[Nexus One General] obadvw:
Thats very strange.....why is that?!!
[Nexus One General] tamarian:
I think I may have fixed my battery drain problem.

I've had too many "failed to suspend" errors in my logs, and battery history stats (from spare parts app) showed "partial wake usage" of "android system" at several hours, more than 50% of the time since it was unplugged. On my hero, partial wake was in minutes, not hours.

So my N1 simply couldn't sleep/suspend properly when on standby. I've removed some apps and widgets, and the partial wake usage went back to normal (10 minutes or so in 3 hours). My main suspect was the BBC news widget, which refused to get auto-killed by the task panel app.

Once the partial wake usage improved, I no longer see those "failed to suspend" errors, and battery drains reasonably slow on standby, that N1 finally can last the whole day for my usage. Not sure if the error and partial wake are related, but it made sense to me. Hope this helps others.
[Nexus One General] cypher21:
I suspect it's an app here too,

Only thing is i haven't rooted yet so can't verify it properly
[Nexus One General] DaveANH:
I have had mine for about a week. Running stock rom with only a handful of apps installed right now.

Battery life is good, very good for a smartphone, but I'm not seeing the crazy long battery life some of you are getting. I may tweak it at some point to try and get some more life out of it but I'm happy with what I'm getting. One thing it for certain, it's 10x better than the G1 battery life.
[Nexus One General] flak0:
You can get extra juice by following these steps (ill setup a script later)

Only do this when battery falls below 50%, Following this if ur above 50% or 75% will yield ZERO results (root needed)

1.Plug in your wall-connected usb charger

2.wait until phone led turns green and reaches 100%

3.Open up terminal emulator / or ADB in if u want

4.

5.after you complete this power off with charger intact and watch as the led turns back to orange indicating battery isint at 100%. Continue to leave charger intact until led turns green, then reboot.

I have used this method about 2x week and I am getting at least 8 hours on heavy to moderate usage to reach 50%. I can go a full 18+ hours until I reach 0%. Hope this helps. When i make the script I will post a thread. Let me know if this works for u.
[Nexus One General] bouyark:
This works for me

Thanks for these steps to improve the battery life. My battery life was good to begin with but these steps have made it better. With moderate to heavy use (approximately an hour of phone calls, texting, emails, over two hours of listening and watching podcast and playing around with the device) my battery went from 12 hours a day to 17 hours, with 37% remaining. Based on my usage, I can easily get 24 hours out f this. Thanks again for the tip.
[Nexus One General] thesk8mafia:
everyone should see this!!

i found this video...he states the obvious but jump to about 3 minutes and 40 seconds and look at his battery life!!! now that is AMAZING!!!
[Nexus One General] thesk8mafia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Axzc5meL2I
[Nexus One General] joene92:
The manual says that the mains cable will give you a quicker charge (more mAmp) and, perhaps, juice it up some more? I'm not an electronics expert, but my best guess is that the mains cable will charge it better

EDIT: must sound horribly out of context. sorry, I didn't see that I was at page 1/13
[Nexus One General] alishankiti:
how to extend your battery life by 20%

I thought someone might benefit from this....

I have Cynogen latest ROM and I have push email plus Gmail running all day. My network supports HSPA at home and work, so I am constantly connected to HSPA at around -80 dbm. I tried an experiment for a few days which is turning WIFI on all day and allowing the phone to connect to WIFI at home and work. Surprisingly that extended my battery life by 20%. It seems that in my case, connecting to WIFI is less battery consuming than HSPA
[Nexus One General] e-dub:
i turned off google talk and battery life has been a good bit better for me.

eric b
[HD2 General] snerkler:
HI,

When I read some of my emails, either through hotmail or gmail if there's pictures from the internet they're always blocked. I can unblock them by clicking the internet pictures blocked, and the download internet pictures from the top of the message, but I have to do this everytime. Is there a setting that allows the downloading of internet pictures to be automatic so that I don't have to manually do it everytime?

Cheers
[HD2 General] 79mystique79:
yeah, thats what i want to know aswell.

It says it will load all images next time, but when i get a new e-mail it's blocked again :(
[HD2 General] Shasarak:
+1 to this.

On a desktop PC, Outlook maintains a list of "trusted senders", and if the sender of an email is in that list, it downloads pictures automatically (but doesn't if he isn't). There must surely be an equivalent in Windows Mobile...?
[Android Apps and Games] cyberniko:
Hi all,

I use this website for several years now, thank you all for sharing all your knowledges, roms, etc ... ;)

Today it's my turn to propote my app :)

I made a music player with file browsing, 10 months ago, and I updated it.

Did you ever have music files without tags ? (for example ripped from your CDs)

Did you ever add some music in a "new music" folder in your memory card, without knowing exactly all the artist / albums ?

Do you know the "unknown artist" who sings the "Track 01", even if your file name is correct ?

For all those cases, this application will save you ;)

I should work fine on your phone but many of you have custom roms so I would like to have feedbacks.

You can contact me at musicfolderplayer@gmail.com

It should work with any roms,

The UI can support from small screens (320x240) to the biggest one (480x840).

Thank you,

See you !

nico.
[Android Apps and Games] anthonws:
Congrats :)

It seems quite nice.

Gonna try!

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] wcdisciple:
I've downloaded and tried this app. It definitely works.

What I would like to see is a design that is more sleek. The music player for 2.1 is a good example of what I'm talking about.
[Android Apps and Games] cyberniko:
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[Android Apps and Games] Ace42:
Looks soo cool & better than stock app.
[Android Apps and Games] gigagrunt:
I like it....would be cool to see some album art and maybe a paid version with no ads :)
[Android Apps and Games] kendong2:
seems like a decent app. the interface is very straigtforward and simple, but integrates well with sense. very cool that it is controllable through the applet (as it seems to to use the stock player for actual playback).

i have one suggestion: the fonts are unneccessary big in the file list, can you make them smaller or user selectable?
[Android Apps and Games] Freedomcaller:
good to see more music players on the market, i wrote musicflow....
[Android Apps and Games] shadowch31:
Looking good so far.

+1 for the album art and the graphics.

I have adfree running so can't see the advertising anyway, something you may want to think about because a lot of people have this program.

If I wanted adware i'd have a windows os ;)
[Android Apps and Games] an0therus3r:
Any screens?
[Android Apps and Games] an0therus3r:
@cyberniko

Looks nice but after installation i started it and it gave me a FC on MCR 3.x ROM, didn't started any just launched app.
[Android Apps and Games] kendong2:
screenshot

nice as i am ;)
[Android Apps and Games] kendong2:
screenshot

...for convinience ;)
[Android Apps and Games] an0therus3r:
Can you describe debug proces , never done that before.

I can give you the output of it, maybe it helps.
[Android Apps and Games] grandmasterethel:
Tested on hero, works great. It's a really good idea - I'm surprised nobody else thought of it first.

Also, I know this is the wrong part of the forum, but I figured since the dev checks this anyway, and to save time for myself, I'd post here. Tried on N1, force closes when I try pressing buttons.
[Android Apps and Games] schlagg:
can't test it for now

but does this app works if i uninstalled the default HTC music player??
[Android Apps and Games] an0therus3r:
@cyberniko,

Don't know what happend but i'm unable to reproduce that FC that i had.

I'll keep you posted.
[Android Apps and Games] hiddengopher:
great job!
[Android Apps and Games] Sleeepy2:
Nice. I like this better than the stock
[Android Apps and Games] schlagg:
so i test it yesterday, and don't seems to work fo me (i recall that i uninstalled htcMusic.apk )

the app is running but saying that playlist is empty with no way to edit it (or i'm totally blind :) )
[Android Apps and Games] kendong2:
so i used it for some time, still a great tool.

two things:

- can you make it being able to deal with german umlaute? letters like ä, ö and ü aren't displayed correct, see screenshot.

- what about the black bar at the bottom, also screenshot? if you lower the buttons to the lower end of the screen you have one line more in the playlist, and then if you increase the fontsize by one or two you can easily have five or six lines on the screen...
[Android Apps and Games] Plattendoktor:
Lovely and fast musicplayer

Your nice app has now the first testrun on my Hero.

I have over 4000 m4a-files on my sdcard. Every program i've tested was that damned slow, that i was forced to spend my last months without hearing music.

YOUR APP IS REALY FAST IN BROWSING MY MUSICFLDERS!!!! (Except the startup) :eek:

GREAT THANKS FOR THIS LOVELY MUSICPLAYER!!

All thumbs up!! :D

How can i donate U?!?
[Android Apps and Games] kendong2:
right now i don't have internet access via 2g or 3g, i am afraid i need to wipe :eek::eek::eek:

but this problem hasn't been there since this morning, and i have not seen an ad in your player at all so far... if i had seen at least one i wouldn't have asked... ;) wifi internet works, still no ad.
[Android Apps and Games] kendong2:
i guess that was my droidwall problem that kicked in there. like i said i had no 3g internet access, and although wifi seemed to work that seemed to have blocked it (the app itself not being blacklisted of course). now everything is back to normal, i see the twitter app. btw there is a type in there, it reads follow, not folow ;)

as for the names: still the strange symbols, but they appear also in htc media player, and when i checked the filename with andexplorer, it also showed the symbols instead of umlaute. so i guess the problem is deeper, before the app gets the filenames handed from the system, as you suggested. pc still shows the letters correct.

nevermind, it is not that big of a deal, at least not for me. and probably not your fault, as andexplorer has the same problem.

btw, you should implement some sort of check if the sdcard is mounted via usb, for now the app just sits there saying "starting",, could be a bit irritating.
[Android Apps and Games] xweaponx:
Congratulations.

Dont worry of the feedback for now. Time will reveal all...

;)
[Android Apps and Games] SoCalSpecialist:
just dl'd from market place..will report back with any issues.
[Android Apps and Games] gu1dry:
I'm sorry if this hasn't been answered on the website, but which music file types does this app support?
[Android Apps and Games] SoCalSpecialist:
i have no clue..ive had it on my device for about 20mins and its not recognizing anything.
[Android Apps and Games] vito45:
great app, i can seed ad, works great on my Hero
[Android Apps and Games] Bram77:
Nice app! Maybe you could add FTP support? I mean... log in to FTP server and play media files streaming? That would be an awsome feature!