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[Windows Mobile Themes] Gyokumen_Koushu:
Agree with you, Wez. EC gave em up. And this unified fusion theme is simply outstanding. As far as i can tell, bl4ckb1rd is the man, who came closest to the original work, while not being in the GTX team, so far OVER ALL other projects here in XDA. LOOKS VERY ORIGINAL (yet handsomely being improvised!).

In a peer-to-peer community where everyone is contributing towards an open source project, there would not be a clear distinctive guideline as to where the authenticity of the theme should be. Unless the developer team actually made an effort to apply copyright on it - can be done via CC (Creative Commons). And state clearly that should anyone wanted to contribute to the project, for least are required to use the templated provided. But sadly no one seem to have the time.

Moreover, the project only applies on WM theme, where as there are still so many opportunities of other projects (applications) are not being skinned. Thus, widen up the grey area where other 3rd party developer are chipping in to the GTX project, with NO definitive guideline, and claiming the FINAL skin as being "GTX". Some skins came out are good, others (mostly) are bad, handful are even better than original. But at the end of the day, people still knows kamill and el are founder dev team.

EC: If you want to draw rules, GO PUBLIC, GO CC. Start the trend in XDA.

bl4ckb1rd: You did your best trying to use all templates to good use. When there are no related materials, you came up with your own --> and it looks as good there ever can be. Props.
[Windows Mobile Themes] janneman22:
Contact the official GTX Team, and maybe this will be icluded with the official GTX :)

BTW, IMPRESSIVE work:D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] scott9824:
Hi,

My girlfriend has recently bought a Galaxy S. It has not been rooted or flashed. She's having a problem where the display is using 70% of the battery, even with the brightless set low, as shown under Settings -> About Phone -> Battery

Unplugged for 7h 15m 28s

Display - 70%

Cell standby - 10%

Phone idle - 5%

Android System - 5%

Android Core Apps - 3%

Android OS - 3%

Internet - 2%

Has anyone heard of this before?

What can we do to fix it?

Thanks

Scott
[Galaxy S I9000 General] accinfo:
Likewise, the display is draining the most battery comparatively to other things. (I'm using the lowest settings)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dupel:
Im not speaking from research (how other superphones behave), but wild guess - it is normal for all touch screens, especially bigger ones.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xan:
Touch or not - it doesn't matter.

Screen technology and size matters.

See 4" has around 4 times the area of 2" display.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Robin.B:
How long was the display active for ? This is normal if you have it turned on a lot at high brightness settings.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
i'm not surprised even if the 70% is true, because my HTC Athena is a power hog when i keep the screen on for a long time, the juice que sucked up in a couple of hours of use.

the SGS i9000 is having a better run for the power.

at least i can play 3D games (ASPHAL5) in it without worrying about running out of battery like with my old HTC Athena
[Galaxy S I9000 General] alovell83:
See, you are kind of reading this information wrong, IMO. Yes, the display usese 60+% of power, regardless of brightness settings, if you have the display on. Here's the simple math:

Standby time (no sync, no 3G, basically, literally just standing by, screen off doing nothing: 24-25 days

screen on time: 4-7 hours.

You can see that the screen sucks SOOOO much more power than just about everything else your gf had going on in her usage, there wasn't a high usage scenario other than the screen. However, if you use something like GPS the stats will "look better" but you'll have less battery because it'll go from screen to 40% and GPS to 30% but your battery would be nearly dead.

Also, if she just went to sleep then Cell standby and Cell idle jump by 1-5% each and then you have "better looking" statistics.

This essentially means, if you use the phone with the display a large percentage of the time that the phone is unplugged, expect these percentages. I unplug my phone at night, when I wake up my display percentage is 0% (not necessarily better than 70%, because it's usage dependent), then I go to work, so I might run unplugged for 20 hours, use 8% of my battery with my display reading at 20% of the power used. Then, I'll go home and play with it and it's upto 40%, the moral is that it's good to know how much your battery is used on various tasks, but anywhere from 20-70% is normal depending on how much you actually have the display on while it's unplugged.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kcharng:
70% sounded right. There was a youtube VDO that dissemble galaxy s awhile back that really give a good perspective.

The CPU, GPU, GPS, memories etc etc almost fit on your thumb. They are so miniturised and so small. The rest are chassis, batteries and screens taking up almost all the space.

So it is no surprise that the screen should be what guzzling down all the batteries.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] SiL3nTKiLL:
didnt know it uses that much...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bookwormat:
The easiest way to fix this is by installing & running multiple applications that consume a lot of battery power. This should lower the percentage of battery power that the display consumes significantly.

(Only posting this because you already got more helpful answers in this thread)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] scott9824:
Thanks, but that's the thing, I have a Desire and if used similarly (with brightness set highest) mine shows:

Android System 31%

Cell standby 21%

Wi-Fi 21%

Phone idle 16%

Display 11%

I thought the Galaxy S's screen is supposed to be more power efficient than the Desires so that's why it doesn't make sense to me. Again today her battery use shows:

Display 61%

Cell standby 17%

Phone idle 10%

Android OS 6%

Android System 3%

Internet 2%

So I think either my phone (Desire) is reporting the battery use wrong, her phone (Galaxy S) is reporting it wrong or the display is using more than it should? Now I had a similar battery % when I flashed a few 2.2 roms onto my phone, but people were saying that was because the drivers weren't correct. (I haven't flashed 2.2 recently)

Cheers

Scott
[Galaxy S I9000 General] chryssa33:
Hello,

Same happened to me, but I used live wallpaper. When I turned to the simple wallpaper the usage from 75% dropped to 50% -keeping all my other activities constant.

Chryssa
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Darkstriker:
I don't think that the info displayed by android is very accurate.

I get about 55% too though.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mstrandbo:
Just press on the display-bit, and you can see how many hours/minutes it's been on.

19 hours since unplugged:

Android OS: 36%

Cell Standby: 25%

Phone Idle: 18%

Display: 14%

Wi-fi: 3%

Android System: 2%

Those 14% is 31minutes continious use...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Robin.B:
31 minutes of Display time is nothing over 19 hours, hence the low percentage. Mine shows approx. 50% usage when it's been used say almost 2 hours and phone awake time 14 hours.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nicoloco:
For the OP, if you don't tell us how long the display has been switched on ... all the answer will be just guessing

As everybody says, the display is always the bigger battery consumer unless you use your phone as a mp3 player or just a phone to receive call.

If you go on the web, play games, read mails, use maps ... the display will always be the biggest ( maybe the gps can go higher ... )

On my side I have 65% of battery left after 7h unplugged

50% of display for 1h4mn

21% of android OS

13% of cell standby

8% of phone idle
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AXIS of Reality:
It's all down to the comparatively slow advancement of battery technology.

Screens are getting bigger, higher resolution and more power-hungry. Just the same as processors and GPUs need more juice, new wireless standards are introduced and multi-tasking becomes popular.

We've come from dumbphones (eg: the old Nokias) used almost solely used for calling and sms to phones that handle half the stuff in our lives, yet they're still using almost exactly the same battery technology to power it.

Simply put, the smarter the phone, the more power hungry it will usually be. And the Galaxy S is currently the smartest phone of the market.

Samsung compensated by fitting a larger battery, but they can't perform miracles with the aging battery tech.

Take a look at the x-ray scans and teardowns of the iPad; 80% of its internal volume is battery space to allow it to last for 10 hours! Sadly phones don't have the same space luxury without the rear getting chunky.

I'm hoping increased capacity batteries are released like the Hero had, as the Galaxy S is large but thin enough that some extra volume on the back wouldn't be much of a problem.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] karunadheera:
That is just fine! It's just the percentage guys.

Think about it this way.

Compared to the energy consumption of the display other things uses much less energy.

However on my Galaxy S, I played 6 hours (almost 3, 720p Movies) continuously. Isn't it just awesome on a device having 800x480 Crisp Display that only weighs 118 grams?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] emmarbee:
With brightness set to auto-brightness or max or min?

@OP - this is very normal. I always get the same type of readings.

Except when I talk(voice call) for a very long time.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lucasjohny:
Mine also same display always use up more then 70% and the battery can't even stand for 8 hrs, with very minimum usage 1hrs wifi, 20 min call, 1/2 hrs 3g, 1 hrs navigation(with charging). Have got battery replacement from samsung but still the same I read a post some where for UK set, the guy get 1 to 1 replacement, battery can last for 2 days for it new set, just wonder is it the flaw set we having that cause our battery drain? My friends told me that for his set from morning till after work (9 to 8 pm almost 11 hrs) battery only drop 10%. I really hope someone can help us to prove is samsung selling flaw set so we can claim 1 to 1 exchanges.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] exstarosta:
I've got exactly same concern. ATM I'm waiting for replacement battery from Samsung and I'll see if it makes difference.my present battery life is so poor I don't use any multimedia just to survive the working hours without charging. My screen uses over 70% of the battery while its on for approx 40 mins out of 14hrs. Brightness is on min, black background and generally I'm saving in all possible ways.but then what is the point to have smartphone when you cannot use the SMART part of it. I'll wait and see if the replacement batt will help, if not I'll try to request a phone exchange.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lucasjohny:
I already with replacement battery from Samsung services center and yet no improvement. According to SSC this battery drain is normal. But for my last omnia 2 which only with amoled the battery can last 2~3 days with data connected all the time. Now I really confuse. I really hope someone can help us.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] alovell83:
What do you leave running in the background (e.g. advanced task killer, 3G monitor, sync, music, gps, etc)? Do you leave sync on? How many apps use sync (e.g. just email? email + exchange + twitter + myspace + rss + others)? How many apps do you have installed? How much do you use the display in a day?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lucasjohny:
none of it in my system, only gmail sync. Display always more then 70% others all less then 5%.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] sturmeh:
I am VERY sure this statistic is wrong.

I can have the screen on for hours, sitting on my table, and then pick it up and play Gensoid for 5 minutes and it will have used more power in the last 5 minutes than the hours it was sitting there.

If I go look at the stats then, the display is at 99% and gensoid 1%.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bilboa1:
agreed. same here
[Galaxy S I9000 General] deputynl:
I had the same issue when I has the notification led app installed, which seems to use more power than you would expect for just lighting a few pixels... Do you have that running?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Lynchy30:
No led uses the whole screen so i believe, it is just the red pixels or whichever colour you choose on a black background
[Galaxy S I9000 General] alovell83:
The Galaxy S can last 24-26 days on standby. It can last maybe 6 hours if gaming, 8 if reading. Seeing as how you get more than 100x the life on standby, I'd say the reading, is indeed, mostly accurate. Please note, you are also getting rounding effects from these small samples where most of the energy consumed during a 5 hour idle will be tallied to the game since that's what triggers that push to the next lower percent.

The whole screen is powered with that process, this has been discussed in the Galaxy S forums.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ConceptVBS:
The reason is because the screen is still "on" even when you think it is "off".

The electrical circuitry in the background of the screen would still be "on" even when the OLED pixels themselves are turned off. With the black screen, it would still drain battery life.

By shining an LED light on the screen itself, you can see that it really was "on".

I would get a replacement with a newer build. As it seems to be hardware related. The newer batches don't seem to have this issue. I guess its the price you pay for being an early adopter.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lucasjohny:
Any prove for this statement, hope you can provide, if samsung really seilling me an defective unit or problematic unit I think I'll log a report to CASE.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ruedurepos:
In setting use auto control display
[Galaxy S I9000 General] madmack:
did you receive the replacement ? any improvements ?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] richardbroder:
Ok, I got the same problem, battery drain is just plain ridiculous, my battery won't last for 8 hours with the the phone IDLE. If I check the stats, it will say >70% even without having used the screen. Its as if the screen drained 70% battery with the phone in IDLE. If I actually USE the acreen, task manager will report screen use as >95%. Have turned off animations, widgets, gps, wifi, brightness, hell, I turned off EVERYTHING. Nothing really helps. If I fully charge my phone and leave ot in top of a desk without using it, it wont survive for 10h.

Somethings I noticed;

-While using this phone, it gets HOT. So you know it really drains power. Plug in the charger and it gets even hotter!

-If you are using the phone with the charger connected, it takes ALOT of time to recharge the battery, something like 30mins to recharge 10%, its almost as if this phone could drain as much power as the charger is able to supply.

-If I turn the phone OFF and recharge it, it will actually recharge VERY FAST. So yeah, this phone is a drainer.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] madmack:
I was having the same problem as others describe here. usually 90% battery usage for "Display" alone and battery draining like crazy.

I flashed another ROM recently to see if its a hardware or a software problem and the problem seems to have gone away.

The battery was indeed draining like crazy only in the Froyo builds (JP3, JPC), as soon as I reverted back to a stable Eclair build (JM2), everything seems to be back to normal. The phone can now at least stay at 90%+ battery power for a whole hour even if I used the screen for 20 mins in this hour.

I think our problem might be a software bug, and nothing to do with the actual usage by the display or a faulty battery.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] richardbroder:
That's interesting. I am also using froyo. Why arent other froyo users complaining?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] madmack:
That's beyond me... seems everyone is so happy with all the new features that they're willing to sacrifice battery life.

It was honestly hard for me to go back to JM2 after getting used to these little nice new features in Froyo.

I really hope Samsung gets this thing sorted out before the official Froyo release.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Knedjo:
I've got brand new Galaxy S i9000 on Monday and since first full recharg two days ago I'm experiencing extremely battery usage by display - 95+!!!

After ~12 hours I'm down to 4% with only ~3 hours of screen on and ~9hr of idle (scr off)!! Both - radio and wifi are with in 5% of battery usage!

Also I'm unlucky bastard that got one of blue tinted screens - double whammy! :((
[Galaxy S I9000 General] msolus:
Haha smartass
[Galaxy S I9000 General] msolus:
I also had issues with the 70% display when I first got my phone. I found the battery life got a lot better after a week or two of use.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mammenj:
Here is a tip that has improved my battery usage, turn off the auto rotation as I always use my phone in portrait mode.

Sent from my GT-I9000
[Galaxy S I9000 General] krige:
LOL :D

I have one of those newer batches (bought it one week ago) and I have the same issue. Baseband version: I9000XXJPP, build number: FROYO.RSJP5

Battery use, display = 73%, time on 35min, 5h since unplugged. At the end of the day I always get more than 90%.

I was told it should have gotten better after 5 full charges but after 10 full charges I haven't seen any improvement. I hope it will get better after 2 weeks like you say. What makes me think is that a friend of mine said his Galaxy S lasts 2 days with heavy use, while mine sometimes doesn't survive the late afternoon.

To extend the battery life as much as possible I have installed an application called "JuiceDefender", I have set the screen timeout to 15 seconds and disabled all the tactile feedbacks. It would have been nice to be able to set an upper limit for the automatic brightness.

I wonder whether anyone has got any noticeable improvement in the battery life by installing a custom ROM.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] JJEgan:
Of the power used the display has used the most .

If you then run a navigation program that will use battery reading on display use will then not be so high .

I am on 35% battery display now i i use nothing on my phone bar the display in a few days the display will show 70% or so as nothing else using the battery .

jje
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nipuna:
This actually applies to any touch screen phone -- more so on amoLED... so go off buy a non touch basic BW -- screen will take very lil battery... ;)

New hardware taking less - im pretty sure ur talking of a LCD version -- new but not better...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] deogunsurya:
battery drain

hmm.. well I went through the whole thread and still I'm unable to judge what's wrong with my phone. I was getting a very very poor battery life, so I did a battery cycle and wiped the battery stats properly.. and now my phone is at 0% brightness and haptic feedback and everything else than can cause a battery drain is turned off. But still I'm facing problem.

I used my phone yesterday till it died and got turned off by itself. Then I charged my battery to 100% and switched on my phone again. After an hour of playing game I was left with only 30% of battery.So I checked the battery status and it said display - 98%. Then I put it on stand by mode and after 1 hour, my phone died.

How come the battery got so low after 1hour of play?

When I bought this phone i.e. last week, I used to play for atleast 2 hours on my phone and still my phone used to run for long 10 hours. :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] elkali:
Exactly the same problem here. Got my SGS bought in Shanghai just a couple of months after my gf's. Hers is running 2.1, mine 2.2. Both have exactly the same problem. This lead me to think it's a problem on the hardware as someone suggested before.

I am hoping that flashing to a custom fw would solve the issue, is super annoying having my old "dumb" Nokia E72 lasting for weeks under heavy usage, while the SGS can't handle 1 full day under normal usage.

Like many others I have disabled every stupid thing that might use the battery without my knowledge, to the extent of converting my fancy new phone back into a "dumb" one (I can't get my email synced automatically, instead I do connect every time I want to check it, and so on). Still can't make it through the day.

I even got myself a custom 2.800 mAh battery on taobao.com that required a special back cover for being twice as think as the original, "bricking" my phone (that is, converting it into a heavy stone I could use to kill someone). I managed to get 2 days as max with that one.

The whole thing is so annoying, even my old iPhone 2G would last 4 days without charging after a couple years of usage.

Now I am wondering if I got busted for buying it in China, or it's just a common problem in several places. So far everyone I've read online hails the device for its long battery life. In my case it sounds just a joke.

Any experience solving this problem would be highly appreciated. If I can't find anyone I would probably try upgrading to a newer custom fw.

Thanks for hear me crying
[Galaxy S I9000 General] deogunsurya:
well I first thought that it is some Kernel issue but I tried changing every fkn Kernel and rom here..but still the battery doesn't last 10 hours... I've seen people posting in threads that they are getting an awesome battery life..but I just don't get it how..

I'm going to cycle my battery 1 more time and if there is any improvement..I'll post.. if that didn't help, then I'll move to the official 2.1/2.2 fw and then see.. I hope something works this time..if it didn't then I won't be a Galaxy S user anymore.. because buying extra battery doesn't feel right when people here are getting good battery backup with the stock one.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nikiiv:
Switch Network Mode (in Wireless Settings) from GSM/WCDMA (auto) to GSM only) and you will see a huge improvement.

Any modem based on JPx is a huge battery drainer in WCDMA mode, and there is a bug which does not count properly the stats
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kage00:
I've been using darkys custom roms for a while now, and the battery life is simply amazing, I was getting 1 day maximum from my battery before, then I went to 3+ days battery.

I've just put darkys rom 10.1 on, but last time I looked when I was on darkys v10 rc5 final I got 3 days and 1 hour from my battery.

display 34%

cell standby 13%

phone idle 11%

wifi 10%

android system 8%

android os 6%

voice calls 3%

I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it myself.

For the moment I'm getting a bit less than that from darkys 10.1 but it can balance out after a few days of putting a new rom on.

Dont worry there is hope... just not with samsung's stock roms, maybe now with gingerbread its better, I'm not sure

If you decide to put on a darkys rom, just do a search, follow the instructions and its pretty straight forward.

Good luck :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] awojtas:
Totally agree, this dramatically increased my battery life. I only use it in landscape for typing sometimes when I've got both hands free.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Coheed:
Yeah, this is pretty much expected.
[Vibrant General] floepie:
Is there anyway to prevent all the contacts with whom I've ever contacted from showing up as contacts that are synced?
[Vibrant General] rsfaze:
hit the menu key and you should be able to pick the groups that are displayed.
[Vibrant General] floepie:
The menu key shows I have 3 display options - phone, SIM, and Google.

In Gmail, I have 'My Contacts' (160 contacts) and All Contacts has 1300 contacts. All 1300 are being synced. How can I limit to the My Contacts that show up just as they should online within Gmail??

I even have smaller subgroups such as family and co-workers, which also do not show up on the phone. ??

Thanks...
[Vibrant General] exoplasm:
Try the checkbox "Only display contacts with phones" :)

Otherwise the stock contacts app isn't very good at sorting.
[Vibrant General] floepie:
That DOES limit to those with only phones. However, the list still does not match up to the list of 'My Contacts' in Gmail.

Hell, even the iphone synced perfectly with Gmail's contacts. What in the world is going on here?? Surely others are experiencing this weirdness too? I just don't see the option to sync to subgroups the way others see this.