nvm

[It's Not Lupus]

nvm

 

[openwheel]

8 hours of screen on time for me as well.

With some care, you may be able to push to 10-11.

 

[It's Not Lupus]

i was 'careful'. low brightness and no auto-sync.

 

[openwheel]

screen brightness is only part of the equation. If you can sip even less battery on cpu, wifi and background sync then you may get longer screen on time. Types of video and encoding/decoding process will determine how much cpu is being taxed.

 

[sweenish]

And never put facebook on it.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

And never put facebook on it.

Maybe it's me, Android 4.4, BBS misreporting, or the latest FB betas, but Facebook doesn't wake the phone at all anymore if you turn off notifications. I depend on email notifications anyway.

This was a huge issue a few months back though and even with Greenify, I could see it peeking out with wakelocks.

 

[sweenish]

Maybe it's me, Android 4.4, BBS misreporting, or the latest FB betas, but Facebook doesn't wake the phone at all anymore if you turn off notifications. I depend on email notifications anyway.

This was a huge issue a few months back though and even with Greenify, I could see it peeking out with wakelocks.

It just stays greenified for me. I don't care for facebook notifications in the least, but the app is easier to navigate on my phone than the website. And the app wants to use the GPS way too much, even if you don't ever check in.

Their app has not ever been on my tablet, and I intend to keep it that way.

They are far too large a tech company to be taking this long for their Android app to approach decent, let alone good. Like the verge and so many others, they just don't care.

4.4 is supposed to help reduce wakelocks though by forcing apps that wake the phone to do it en masse instead of whenever they please. I'm sure that's helping quite a bit.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Woah, random free iPad Batman.


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Edit: Sorry , here is an actual contribution:

So far I have been impressed with my N7's life.

 

[openwheel]

what? Facebook may not be a battery killer anymore? I haven't installed Facebook app in ages, but I dread going there. Facebook is so 2010 anyway...

 

[RagingBITCH]

I'll need to look when I get home. With regards to 11-12 hours, that's looping the same video over and over. It doesn't mimic real life usage. (If you are referring to: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7231/the-nexus-7-2013-review/2)

It does look like it was also 720p, local. Did you turn off Wifi, Bluetooth, keep screen brightness down, sound at a moderate level? (or use headphones)

 

[lopri]

Maybe:

1. Factory reset
2. No Google account registered
3. Airplane mode
4. All default syncs/reportings and unrelated background processes manually terminated
5. Set fixed display brightness
6. Volume set to bare minimum (or 0?)

Might get you a similar playback hours? I am purely guessing here. I have no Nexus 7 in my possession.

 

[vshah]

Maybe it's me, Android 4.4, BBS misreporting, or the latest FB betas, but Facebook doesn't wake the phone at all anymore if you turn off notifications. I depend on email notifications anyway.

This was a huge issue a few months back though and even with Greenify, I could see it peeking out with wakelocks.

4.4 restricts apps like bbs from viewing wakelock info. so nothing they show is accurate anymore, until the devs find a workaround.

 

[It's Not Lupus]

8 hours of screen on time for me as well.

With some care, you may be able to push to 10-11.

thanks, the only response i'm actually interested in.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

4.4 restricts apps like bbs from viewing wakelock info. so nothing they show is accurate anymore, until the devs find a workaround.

The developer has already addressed this and has revealed wakelocks. You can see wakelocks in the 1.15 version. He hasn't pushed it out to the play store, but Facebook barely wakelocks now. 30 wakelocks for 19 seconds is not concerning to me when Google+ is right behind at 18 seconds, and my calendar wakelocks for 2 minutes

 

[soccerballtux]

what? Facebook may not be a battery killer anymore? I haven't installed Facebook app in ages, but I dread going there. Facebook is so 2010 anyway...

I use app quarantine for all that junk I don't want running anyway. Open when you want, locked when not using.
Mainly that, dropbox, google voice, and drive.

 

[MrSquished]

still waiting for the update to roll out to my 2013 nexus 7. come on google!

 

[vshah]

The developer has already addressed this and has revealed wakelocks. You can see wakelocks in the 1.15 version. He hasn't pushed it out to the play store, but Facebook barely wakelocks now. 30 wakelocks for 19 seconds is not concerning to me when Google+ is right behind at 18 seconds, and my calendar wakelocks for 2 minutes

Good to know!