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suggest best settings to get excellent battery backup Jan 30, 2015

noobtubed1875 , Jan 30, 2015 :

Mine usually takes 2 hours for a full charge, I use greenify and battery du.

 

JJ69YT , Jan 30, 2015 :

It takes 80 mins for me to fully charge
Using and aftermarket charger though

 

JBowes , Jan 30, 2015 :

charge it in cycles, as it is a lithium ion battery- e.g charge from 10% or less to 100%, and keep it consistent (try not to stop charging before it has hit 100%, and try and start the charge at the same % each time, say every time it hits around about 10%).

Also you can add the option in your quick options to change it from normal, performace and power saver - power saver limits the amount of power the cpu can use, so may make high performance games lag, but normal use should be fine

Switch to aeroplane mode in low signal areas

Turn off apps you aren't using

Turn off gps etc when not using, as well as bluetooth

Turn down brightness when possible

And possibly download an app such as the snapdragon batter guru, or greenify.

I use no apps, but manage to get about two days of use out of the phone, that is playing emulated games (pokemon), listening to music and browsing

Edit: Use the official charger, and also it charges from 1% to 50% faster than 50% to 100%, so bear that in mind, but still only takes me about 2 hours

 

tim_1989 , Jan 30, 2015 :

You may want to try rooting and putting a custom ROM/kernel on. Slimkat or slimlp is good. On slim lp I was getting 2 days + quite easily. Once rooted download greenify. You can set it up to hibernate apps, stopping them using the battery.

If you want to get really technical, use a ROM/kernel that allows CPU control. You can lower the processor speed slightly, amongst other settings. You can balance it so you still get good performance but also get excellent battery life! Try looking in the development section for tips and guides on rooting

 

Erik-S , Jan 30, 2015 :

Mine takes less than 2 hours to charge from <5% to 100%. I use the standard One Plus Charger.
If your on screen time is also 8 hours, I would be very happy with battery life.

 

manjake , Jan 30, 2015 :

WOAH! why do people misinformation. You couldn't be more wrong! Deep discharge cycles are DREADFUL for lithiu-ion batteries. Ideally plug in before 40% and try to take it off charge when full

 

JBowes , Feb 1, 2015 :

100% wrong ahaha,the phone has a lithium-ion battery, not a nickel cadmium.
Due to the charge cycle being regulated by an on-board circuit, a full discharge doesn't even affect the battery, so charge it up from 0% each time if you want, the thing is just to be consistent with when you start to charge.
Also if you charge from 40%, that means you will lose a day of battery use that you could have pulled out of it before charging.

So manjake, don't tell someone they are wrong when all you quote is some dad-science that you have not checked up on

 

Vadomata , Feb 1, 2015 :

It's not very healthy for the battery to drive it to 0%, infact it can kill the battery.

 

JBowes , Feb 1, 2015 :

Again you're talking about nickel-cadmium or lead based batteries.
If you store the battery for months at 0%, it may break it and make it unable to charge again, but if you don't store it, there is no issue
I don't recommend waiting for 0%, but no harm is done.

People please check up on you battery information please

Edit: Noticed the double please, keeping it in because seriously batteries have changed a lot since the days of if it hits 0% that's it dead

 

skmonu , Feb 1, 2015 :

just off the location services and turn on auto brightness this will give u a squeezing but not draining the liquid of phone that is battery

 

K.T.O , Feb 1, 2015 :

They are releasing a 10, 000 milliamp battery pack.

 

manjake , Feb 1, 2015 :

You are the one who is taking about nicad batteries. Full discharges are bad for lithium-ion

 

manjake , Feb 1, 2015 :

manjake , Feb 1, 2015 :

http://www.howtogeek.com/169669/debunking-battery-life-myths-for-mobile-phones-tablets-and-laptops/

 

Vadomata , Feb 1, 2015 :

Not talking about Nickel cadium/lead batteries.

 

kpaton , Feb 1, 2015 :

If you pull down and you get the quick notifications, you can add one tile called performance profile and it allows you to chose performance, balanced, or battery and it really helps. Also I installed clean master and battery doctor and it helps a ton

 

urbancoqui , Feb 1, 2015 :

Well this shut everyone up! Thank you for the link good read!

 

JBowes , Feb 2, 2015 :

Hmm, maybe I was mistaken then, but I just thought Wikipedia etc would be more legitimate than this how to geek article, but w/e

Well I don't mean to be rude but maybe brush up on your knowledge

Essentially lithium ions were designed, as far as I know, so that deep discharge cycles were not an issue, and anyone who has a nickel-cadmium battery (especially within a car) would understand the struggle - that if their battery hit 0% they had to get a new one.

But what do I know, dad-science is real-science

 

hpz364 , Feb 2, 2015 :

Have you tried snapdragon battery guru?