I have a power bank that can charge my phone 4 times over, and fits perfectly in my lower inside jacket pocket. I can run a cable to my front pants pocket or my upper inside jacket pocket, depending on where I am keeping my phone. It’s been a while since I dropped below 50%
its the size, the capacity is meh. I have a power bank with 20k mah and its about the same size as one of those. Even a 10 stack would still come out less at 17k mah.
I’m pretty sure the web browser battery drain has something to do with the number of tabs I have open. The little number at the top has been a smiley face for at least a year now.
@djslack Nah, the ones in the background are little more than glorified bookmarks. Notice how when you try to click on an old one it reloads the page? It took a picture of the page from the last time you were on it, and it uses that to make it feel like it’s holding it for you. But it’s not using any more resources than it takes to save a screen sized picture.
Yeah, the Music-to-Bluetooth (not Purpletooth) combo is a heavy regular load on my phone. So much so that it’s plugged in a lot of the time. Amazon and/or Google Music, both of 'em get used daily.
According to the settings, my phone’s top battery usage in the last eight hours was due to a couple really boring games called “Android OS” and “Cell standby”.
@f00l it’s a situational thing, a lot about my own peculiarities — I love big open-backed headphones, but their cords tend to drag my phone around, and say, off the kitchen counter, if I’m doing breakfasty things while listening.
I haven’t gotten into Bluetooth headphones because, trying to buy open-backed Bluetooth headphones that sound good land you in at least the lower tiers of “audiophile” territory. I’d hate to spend hundreds of dollars on a device that I’d find basically dissatisfying and inferior to the headphones I already have, except when listening to podcasts at home. (I dislike the sealing in-ear, closed over-the-ear, and on-ear headphones, so… all the obvious purchases are right out.)
Sometimes I’ll use the Apple earbuds, but sometimes I’ll either not want the feeling of anything in my ears, which is kind of a muffling sensation (even sitting loosely); or, say in the morning, I may elect not to put on pants for the express purpose of carrying my phone around.
All of my portable external speakers are of a quality… ah, approximately equivalent to the phone’s, usually boomier, which is unpleasant for spoken words. So why do the extra fiddling, in that case.
@InnocuousFarmer Line ate my battery up when it was in the background. I forget exactly why, had something to do with it looking for connection constantly. I had to uninstall it so I can’t talk to my game buddies.
@themutilator that’s interesting. Hadn’t heard of that one. Sounds like it’s kind of a non-Chinese Asia-centric thing that wants to be like WeChat?
I’ve got a handful of friends using Wire. It’s … mediocre. Hah. Supposedly it’s less privacy-hostile than the likes of WhatsApp or (certainly) Snapchat or whatever.
i have an iphone se and the battery is great for me. however the one thing that drains my battery really fast and also makes it run really hot is snapchat of all things. i only use it for the filters, i don’t actually post to snapchat or follow anyone on there, but literally just using the camera part for a few minutes leaves me with a blazing hot phone and a chunk of battery gone.
I have an old flip phone… Apps? lol.
When using it as just a phone, the battery lasts a good long time, but sending and receiving texts will drain it in no time flat.
Didn’t used to be a problem, but now that everyone else I know has a smart phone, I get inundated w/ texts on a regular basis.
The other thing that drains it fast, oddly enough, is turning it off and on…
My guess is that the boot-up process uses a lot of juice.
Discovered this when going camping, w/ no power available for charging.
I fully charged it before leaving for the weekend and then turned it off to save the power in case of emergency.
At the end of the weekend I turned it on and got the low battery alert.
It’ll last at least a week or more if it’s turned on but not being used.
Weird.
So now I leave it on and just hope I don’t get a flurry of text messages when I’m not near a power source.
@DennisG2014 I also have an old flip phone, and have found the same thing you have. If I want to save the battery over a weekend, I end up taking it out of the phone. IDK why, but it seems, for whatever reason, to have a resting draw rate that’s pretty high.
I was wondering where the options for “basic phone stuff like calls and texts were” then realized that phones aren’t phones anymore, they are pocket computers.
Reddit, It’s always Reddit
@webender I use Relay for reddit and find it’s pretty good for battery use
The screen.
Time…
And failure to put it (and its battery) in the fridge!
User self-indulgence, carelessness, and stupidity.
Twitter has been murdering my battery lately. No idea why, I’m not using it any more or less than usual!
@cpierce Constant spying takes a lot of juice!
Where is the “Spotify, Pandora, or some other music app” option?
Not only old, but the phone is running real slow. Maybe I should contact the maker.
@hchavers You can pray about this all you want, but really you probably just need a new phone.
@hchavers @shahnm Unless you have an easily replaceable battery cough LG G5
Waze
@Raptor_007 Does Waze use battery faster than Maps? My friend wants me to try it.
Maps. And photo intense shopping apps, like Rue LaLa. Running Speedtest is no picnic either.
I have a power bank that can charge my phone 4 times over, and fits perfectly in my lower inside jacket pocket. I can run a cable to my front pants pocket or my upper inside jacket pocket, depending on where I am keeping my phone. It’s been a while since I dropped below 50%
porn.
@mfladd
This is related to yoga?
@f00l @mfladd Potentially, but it really depends on the porn in question.
its the size, the capacity is meh. I have a power bank with 20k mah and its about the same size as one of those. Even a 10 stack would still come out less at 17k mah.
I’m pretty sure the web browser battery drain has something to do with the number of tabs I have open. The little number at the top has been a smiley face for at least a year now.
@djslack Nah, the ones in the background are little more than glorified bookmarks. Notice how when you try to click on an old one it reloads the page? It took a picture of the page from the last time you were on it, and it uses that to make it feel like it’s holding it for you. But it’s not using any more resources than it takes to save a screen sized picture.
@djslack @webender
Too many tabs “open” does slow things down tho. Even just for going between tabs used in the last few minutes.
Mobile browsers seem not to much like having more than 1k tabs open. Such wimps, they are.
Yeah, the Music-to-Bluetooth (not Purpletooth) combo is a heavy regular load on my phone. So much so that it’s plugged in a lot of the time. Amazon and/or Google Music, both of 'em get used daily.
My phone being turned on
My ex-wife.
Sorry. I thought you said wallet.
Both, then.
For most people, it’s bloatware and/or spyware (aka Facebook).
According to the settings, my phone’s top battery usage in the last eight hours was due to a couple really boring games called “Android OS” and “Cell standby”.
I’m one of those people who always keeps it plugged in whenever possible.
Maps, definitely Maps.
Google play services…
Battery gets eaten up fast when I go walking with my Pokemon Go buddy for candies.
WAZE! Definitely Waze. Only run it when my phone is on the charger.
What drains my phone battery the most? My phone. Duh.
Old people. Nothing frustrates a smartphone more.
Being in areas with limited service drains mine the most. Sometimes I’m in the middle of the building and it drains fast.
That stinking butterfly game that @galmaegi got me hooked on. Curse you Meh.
Usually it’s a chat app, because I guess it’s more interactive and the screen will be on, and animations may be playing.
A big minority of the time though, it’ll be Overcast. Running sped up podcasts and playing them through the phone speaker takes some juice.
@InnocuousFarmer
Why phone speaker? You no like headsets?
@f00l it’s a situational thing, a lot about my own peculiarities — I love big open-backed headphones, but their cords tend to drag my phone around, and say, off the kitchen counter, if I’m doing breakfasty things while listening.
I haven’t gotten into Bluetooth headphones because, trying to buy open-backed Bluetooth headphones that sound good land you in at least the lower tiers of “audiophile” territory. I’d hate to spend hundreds of dollars on a device that I’d find basically dissatisfying and inferior to the headphones I already have, except when listening to podcasts at home. (I dislike the sealing in-ear, closed over-the-ear, and on-ear headphones, so… all the obvious purchases are right out.)
Sometimes I’ll use the Apple earbuds, but sometimes I’ll either not want the feeling of anything in my ears, which is kind of a muffling sensation (even sitting loosely); or, say in the morning, I may elect not to put on pants for the express purpose of carrying my phone around.
All of my portable external speakers are of a quality… ah, approximately equivalent to the phone’s, usually boomier, which is unpleasant for spoken words. So why do the extra fiddling, in that case.
@InnocuousFarmer Line ate my battery up when it was in the background. I forget exactly why, had something to do with it looking for connection constantly. I had to uninstall it so I can’t talk to my game buddies.
@themutilator that’s interesting. Hadn’t heard of that one. Sounds like it’s kind of a non-Chinese Asia-centric thing that wants to be like WeChat?
I’ve got a handful of friends using Wire. It’s … mediocre. Hah. Supposedly it’s less privacy-hostile than the likes of WhatsApp or (certainly) Snapchat or whatever.
i have an iphone se and the battery is great for me. however the one thing that drains my battery really fast and also makes it run really hot is snapchat of all things. i only use it for the filters, i don’t actually post to snapchat or follow anyone on there, but literally just using the camera part for a few minutes leaves me with a blazing hot phone and a chunk of battery gone.
When I use my Gear VR, the battery drops like crazy.
PokemonGo in the daytime. Requires full screen brightness, and my iPhone battery is tired.
Not gonna stop though. Gotta reach level 40.
GPS!
Podcast player (Overcast) or Music. Both of which treat battery very well, I just listen A LOT.
I have an old flip phone… Apps? lol.
When using it as just a phone, the battery lasts a good long time, but sending and receiving texts will drain it in no time flat.
Didn’t used to be a problem, but now that everyone else I know has a smart phone, I get inundated w/ texts on a regular basis.
The other thing that drains it fast, oddly enough, is turning it off and on…
My guess is that the boot-up process uses a lot of juice.
Discovered this when going camping, w/ no power available for charging.
I fully charged it before leaving for the weekend and then turned it off to save the power in case of emergency.
At the end of the weekend I turned it on and got the low battery alert.
It’ll last at least a week or more if it’s turned on but not being used.
Weird.
So now I leave it on and just hope I don’t get a flurry of text messages when I’m not near a power source.
@DennisG2014 I also have an old flip phone, and have found the same thing you have. If I want to save the battery over a weekend, I end up taking it out of the phone. IDK why, but it seems, for whatever reason, to have a resting draw rate that’s pretty high.
I was wondering where the options for “basic phone stuff like calls and texts were” then realized that phones aren’t phones anymore, they are pocket computers.
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