[How-To] Increase battery life on the Mlais MX69T Pro / Hero H9008 / Star H9008

[gersonl]

Since our H9008 is shipped with a fake capacity battery, only 1600mAh instead of 3000mAh, we need other ways to get the day trough, until the day arrives that there will be a manufacturer who stands up and says: "I will make a real 3000mAh H9008 battery for you"...

Disable automatic updates
The automatic update process eats much battery. Disabling this will increase battery life.
1. Open the Play Store app
2. Press on the Play Store icon in the top left corner
3. Press SETTINGS
4. Toggle "Auto update apps" to "Do not auto-update apps".
5. Also switch off notifications.
6. Periodically check for updates yourself

Disable WiFi in sleep mode
Since your phone is connected to 3G all the time, it's not neccesary to have the WiFi enabled when it's in sleep mode.
A 3G or even 2G connection is enough to receive messages or e-mails. They don't eat much data either.
So disabling WiFi in standby mode / sleep mode will increase the standby battery time.
1. Open the Settings app
2. Tap on the text "WiFi" (not the toggle button, but the text)
3. Press the capacitive Menu button of the phone (the one left to the home button)
4. Press "Advanced"
5. Press "Keep WiFi on during sleep"
6. Select Never
7. Check if "WiFi optimization" is enabled

Disable GPS and BlueTooth
Both modules consume battery power, and most of the time you don't need them.
1. Disable Bluetooth. This can be done with the Settings app -> BlueTooth
2. Disable GPS. Open Settings app, go to "Location access" and disable "GPS satellites".

Lower the brightness of your screen
The screen is big so it takes much power to lit it up.
1. Open the settings app
2. Go to Display
3. Go to Brightness
4. Enable "Automatic Brightness" (this will adjust the brightness to the environment light), or just put the slider more to the left to lower the brightness.

Additional tips are welcome!

[angeloroncalli]

You can use this very helpful app. I have used it in all my last phones and is highly recommended. It's 360 battery saver:
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[sky walker]

I have flashed this rom "Nori v2" in my h9008, and my first impression is excellent!! Screen change to 1,30h of active screen to 3,10 hour...

[Only registered and activated users can see links Click here to register]

[cktocc]

That's a good news !!
I saw this custom rom this week end but i didn't try. So I really want to try now !

Do you know on which stock rom is this rom based ?

[gersonl]

Also recommended from the play store: DS Battery Saver
It seems to fix the random shut downs in sleep-modes too!

[WuddaWaste]

@gersonl When I was fighting for battery life on a previous phone, I used DS Battery Saver for the deep-sleep stuff and Lux to manage my screen brightness. Lux is basically Auto Brightness on steroids.

BTW, thanks for doing this write-up. The organization and presentation is straight-up publishable quality. I bet you've helped a ton of people already!

[leonardodatesco]

I will receive my new Tianhe H9008 next week and I would like to know if you recommend to me to change my rom to nori's rom .
Of course I will do all the tricks that you said in this post to get the most of the battery.
Following topic Anybody have found a good battery for that phone?
Any Advice about that phone would be wellcome!!!

Thanks in advance for all your work! Great Forum!

[loony]

For me the battery is horrible with 'screen'. If I use the phone for hotspot it gives me almost 8 hours usage. But the moment, I start to watch a movie or read something it drops like 1 point every minute.

[leonardodatesco]

@Loony, Which veision do you have? Mlais? Tianhe? Star?... which rom, Have you add something to the deviceÇ?, I mean do you use any application or something additional... Do it shut down without reason?
thanks!