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Why Does Screen And Phone Idle Consume So Much Battery Juice? by Netcontactsng1(m): 6:58pm On Sep 02, 2016
I don't know if this has been answered before,
But I'm just curious to know.

I might understand the screen stuff, though mine is always on 10%... Still weird
Then how about Phone Idle??

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Re: Why Does Screen And Phone Idle Consume So Much Battery Juice? by Dam5reey(m): 7:02pm On Sep 02, 2016
Tell us the phone model..

How may percent is the battery when idle and sceeen reads over 200%?

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Re: Why Does Screen And Phone Idle Consume So Much Battery Juice? by gentlegenius(m): 8:07pm On Sep 02, 2016
This is the same question I've been willing to ask here. Can someone come up with a reasonable explanation?
The screen consumption is understandable, But I assume phone idle is the time my phone spent doing nothing, and if my assumption is correct, then the battery stats we see in our android phones is an arrant misrepresentation of data. I'm saying this because I've never noticed my battery drop even 1% when my phone is idle(doing nothing). Even the app I use most of the time(UC mini), consumes just 1% battery according to the stats below.

Re: Why Does Screen And Phone Idle Consume So Much Battery Juice? by Nobody: 8:56pm On Sep 02, 2016
What phone is that? It is a plaque affecting lots of Android phones, something that barely happen on iOS devices. My galaxy s6 also had this same standby draining problem, battery life was so poor I had to sell the damn phone.

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Re: Why Does Screen And Phone Idle Consume So Much Battery Juice? by madgoat(m): 11:01pm On Sep 02, 2016
I noticed the same prob on my fone and have been meaning to ask too. My fone idle percentage is always so high.
Re: Why Does Screen And Phone Idle Consume So Much Battery Juice? by OlajumokeBread(f): 6:31am On Sep 03, 2016
Not on Iphones

You bought a cheap ass android phone, what do you expect ??

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Re: Why Does Screen And Phone Idle Consume So Much Battery Juice? by Turks: 6:32am On Sep 03, 2016
Cos a lot goes on on your screen..No screen, no phone. Plus you should expect this when you use mediatek phones...

It's optimized on the snapdragon phones tbh..

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Re: Why Does Screen And Phone Idle Consume So Much Battery Juice? by ralmix(m): 6:32am On Sep 03, 2016
hollup lermee ask ifa .......................................
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hmmmm eleyi gidi gan
duro nna whats d model of ya phone
cus seems thats where d iss is oooo
Re: Why Does Screen And Phone Idle Consume So Much Battery Juice? by NaLaugh: 6:34am On Sep 03, 2016
Your screen's backlight is the main culprit. Not really the display itself.
Having your screen brightness turned all the way down will save a lot of juice.

Also, if you have 'haptic feedback' turned on, disable it. It's not essential and drains your battery.
Haptic feedback is any vibration, sound etc the screen makes when you tap or type on it.

Idle processes are usually things running in the background. Like app auto-updates etc.
It also includes apps just being open in the background. They sit there, periodically checking for updates etc.

Open your task manager and 'close all' apps to take care of that.

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Re: Why Does Screen And Phone Idle Consume So Much Battery Juice? by adren(m): 6:36am On Sep 03, 2016
ask buhari..


dude knows
Re: Why Does Screen And Phone Idle Consume So Much Battery Juice? by passyhansome(m): 6:36am On Sep 03, 2016
When you chatting and you constantly typing, swiping on your screen it consumes battery, the second is when you are not surfing the Internet switch offf your data, cos ur phone could be idle and data will be draining ur battery. I might be wrong sha

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Re: Why Does Screen And Phone Idle Consume So Much Battery Juice? by joey150(m): 6:39am On Sep 03, 2016
149%?? What kind of phone are you using that dosent even understand what % means?

Anyway screens need more battery power to light up each pixels and even more power if the brightness is high. And when idle,your phone should use very minimal battery power. Check out your background activity op. I reccomend greenify for some rogue apps.

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Re: Why Does Screen And Phone Idle Consume So Much Battery Juice? by Toluwani111: 6:40am On Sep 03, 2016
Just Passing by

Re: Why Does Screen And Phone Idle Consume So Much Battery Juice? by IMASTEX: 6:42am On Sep 03, 2016
Reduce the brightness of the screen and see how it crashes like Naira

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Re: Why Does Screen And Phone Idle Consume So Much Battery Juice? by Ikigia: 6:46am On Sep 03, 2016
Its expected, your screen is always active, while you doing some stuffs on your phone, the idleness comes into play when the phone is at sleep/timeout. The longer the duration of the phone when it's ON, the higher the percentage of the battery consumed by screen+idleness.

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Re: Why Does Screen And Phone Idle Consume So Much Battery Juice? by AnusOdourInhaler: 6:51am On Sep 03, 2016
Heh
Re: Why Does Screen And Phone Idle Consume So Much Battery Juice? by martineinstein(m): 6:52am On Sep 03, 2016
android fones and malware/LIEwares are like bread and butter
Re: Why Does Screen And Phone Idle Consume So Much Battery Juice? by kayswag100(m): 6:55am On Sep 03, 2016
greenhulk:
What phone is that? It is a plaque affecting lots of Android phones, something that barely happen on iOS devices. My galaxy s6 also had this same standby draining problem, battery life was so poor I had to sell the damn phone.

this is for my Samsung Galaxy S6 edge.

best phone ever...of course after S7 edge.

Re: Why Does Screen And Phone Idle Consume So Much Battery Juice? by GenBloodykiIler: 6:58am On Sep 03, 2016
grin

that's why I love amoled and can't use anything without amoled

0% battery consumption of standby cheesy

if you wanna buy my phone and you're in East hala me

it's galaxy s4 i9505 4g LTE version with lollipop firmware optimized with some kernel tweaks that makes it battery saver also you can pre-order your extended battery of 6000 - 1000mah from me on any Samsung phone at affordable rate.
google what extended battery for Samsung phones or other phones if you don't know what it means.

Re: Why Does Screen And Phone Idle Consume So Much Battery Juice? by GenBloodykiIler: 6:59am On Sep 03, 2016
kayswag100:


this is for my Samsung Galaxy S6 edge.

best phone ever...of course after S7 edge.
not only s6 it's for all super amoled phone check out my s4.
Re: Why Does Screen And Phone Idle Consume So Much Battery Juice? by Ibidapson(m): 7:00am On Sep 03, 2016
How does this ⬇ ans the Q raised?
OlajumokeBread:
Not on Iphones

You bought a cheap ass android phone, what do you expect ??
Re: Why Does Screen And Phone Idle Consume So Much Battery Juice? by kayswag100(m): 7:03am On Sep 03, 2016
[quote author=GenBloodykiIler post=49028736]
not only s6 it's
Re: Why Does Screen And Phone Idle Consume So Much Battery Juice? by kayswag100(m): 7:03am On Sep 03, 2016
GenBloodykiIler:

not only s6 it's for all super amoled phone check out my s4.

cool. let me digress a bit...

why do you have Swiftkey installed on your phone when Samsung already has a repetitive text entry that works better than Swiftkey?

it's found under keyboard settings

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Re: Why Does Screen And Phone Idle Consume So Much Battery Juice? by chidi2pus(m): 7:04am On Sep 03, 2016
So let's look at it this way.
when you have a full meal and after digesting, try sitting in a position - you may even tap a nap or sleep out the whole day...
when you wake up, you still find yourself to be hungry even though you did no significant work...right?

so what uses the energy from the food digested?

your body's internal metabolic processes.

similar to a phone.

even though your phone's screen is turned off, there are ongoing processes.
your phones CPU is never 100% idle. it handles background services such as powering on the phones telephony service so you can make and receive calls, some system apps and services too.. e.g email, alarm clock, phone network e.t.c are still running in standby.

these are the culprit.

I hope you get the drift.

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Re: Why Does Screen And Phone Idle Consume So Much Battery Juice? by Tsongz(f): 7:05am On Sep 03, 2016
Ibidapson:
How does this ⬇ ans the Q raised?
grin no matter how expensive your iPhone is
It can't stand my gionee and hot note

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Re: Why Does Screen And Phone Idle Consume So Much Battery Juice? by GenBloodykiIler: 7:06am On Sep 03, 2016
kayswag100:


cool. let me digress a bit...

why do you have Swiftkey installed on your phone when Samsung already has a repetitive text entry that works better than Swiftkey?
bro i can't do without SwiftKey it makes life soo easy for me.
let's just say am an addict..

do you know that the choice of words i used far back 2014 are still stored in SwiftKey and each time i got another device I'll just synchronize grin
meehn try SwiftKey and you'll regret it no wonder Microsoft acquired it
do Samsung have cloud backup of choice of words?
if yes I'll give it a try shocked

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Re: Why Does Screen And Phone Idle Consume So Much Battery Juice? by rawpadgin(m): 7:08am On Sep 03, 2016
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Re: Why Does Screen And Phone Idle Consume So Much Battery Juice? by Nobody: 7:09am On Sep 03, 2016
kayswag100:


cool. let me digress a bit...

why do you have Swiftkey installed on your phone when Samsung already has a repetitive text entry that works better than Swiftkey?

it's found under keyboard settings

Samsung keyboard sucks.
Re: Why Does Screen And Phone Idle Consume So Much Battery Juice? by Fragilegirl(f): 7:12am On Sep 03, 2016
A typical issue wif many android devices. Could b malware maliciously processing in d background. This is one of d reasons I stick wif my iOS.

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Re: Why Does Screen And Phone Idle Consume So Much Battery Juice? by Fragilegirl(f): 7:16am On Sep 03, 2016
greenhulk:
What phone is that? It is a plaque affecting lots of Android phones, something that barely happen on iOS devices. My galaxy s6 also had this same standby draining problem, battery life was so poor I had to sell the damn phone.

That's y wen android says it's battery power is 4000mah, it's as good as 1500mah on iOS devices.

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