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Hi.
I don't seem to last a day without recharging my battery (either by USB or Outlet).
I have some useful programs but I'm afraid to use them sometimes because my phone wont last the day.
On a regular day, without extreme program usage (WiFi, GPS, games etc), just regular phone calls (GSM not 3G), my battery power lasts maybe 18 hours.
If i used 1/4 of my installed programs moderetely, my battery power lasts for about 10-12 hours.
I would like your professional advise to better by battery life.
1. Would changing my ROM to a better modified one solve my issue?
2. Is there a backround process (that is not detected my my task manager) working that I should know about?
3. Are there any tweaks (non registry) that I can do to better the life?
4. Are there any registry fixes that can be done to better the life?
5. Do third party cabs (SPB etc.) drain the battery life even if they are idle?
6. Does letting my battery fully drain and then fully charging it over and over really help the overall battery life?
FYI: I have the OEM ROM, my phone had never been Hard reseted before
I have tried all sorts of things, but I cannot manage to get my phone to last more than a day.
I would really appreciate your advise.
Thanks.
P.S please dont tell me that you people go 2-3 days without charging (that would hurt my feelings )
my kaiser lasts about 10 hours if heavily used, I mean 3G internet always on, browsing with opera mini all while listening to MP3s..
With normal usage and 3G coverage (but classic talks, not video ones) it last al least 2 days..
that's strange
Hi,
i managed to have good power after alot of research and tweaks on this forum.
-disable 3g service
-make sure no application auto-enable wifi, make sure its off.
-make sure device is set lock all buttons
on normal days with just afew calls and very little surfing, i my battery life is the same as other non-pda phones!
boojingyou said:
-make sure device is set lock all buttons
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What do you mean with locking all the buttons?
Would updating my RADIO help?
bluemamba said:
Would updating my RADIO help?
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Default ROM sucks. The registry is setup completely ineffecient (like all M$ software) so eats capacity and battery.
Best thing to do is check the 'Kaiser upgrading' thread and compare the radio version you have with what's posted there and see if you could improver performance. I'm still on the original radio that it cam with, but trying multiple Rom's dramatically improved battery life. That and speed and performance. Their is much to gain, my friend.
I advise you read the articles about CID and SIM unlocking before attemting to flash anything.
Upgrade your radio to 1.27.12.17/32, turn off 3G and flash some clean ROM (like Q-Mobile - see in my signature )
My phone can survive now more than 3 days on normal usage. Before it could live 2-3 days max.
Maybe can you enable alimentation tweaks with KaiserTweak to begin ?
MickyMax said:
Maybe can you enable alimentation tweaks with KaiserTweak to begin ?
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I dont think and fixes of those kind will do anything
I think what Maarten_0031 and gabriel31337 say is the obly way. I will reseach what kinda ROM best fits my need and let u know
I'm using Schap's and very happy with it...
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I'm using Schap's and very happy with it...
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On average, how long does your bettery last?
2 / 3 days... Some phone calls, wifi and 3G
Much better than the HTC ROM !
MickyMax said:
2 / 3 days... Some phone calls, wifi and 3G
Much better than the HTC ROM !
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Very nice. I think i might try that.
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Battery Power Poor. Any advise?
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Spell correctly, charge it.
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[qoute=Topic Title;1839477] Battery Power Poor. Any advise?[/qoute]
Spell correctly, charge it.
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You spell correctly and keep to the topic
Just got my Kaiser yesterday. Left it to charge all night and removed it by 7:30 am. At 16:00, battery shows 14% left?!?!?!?
What the heck?
Did all the power tweaks from KaiserTweak.
Lets see how it goes without 3G and with the tweaks I did today.
ROM: 1.81.415.4 WWE
Radio 1.27.15.32
Protocol: 22.51.88.13H
it can't be stated enough how quickly your battery will die if you have your mailboxes checking for new mail 'as they come in' or 'every 5 minutes', etc. if you have important emails your expecting then turn it to those settings, but if you don't care if you get your mail only every hour then go that route - it makes a big difference in the battery life.. also make sure you have the disconnect option in kaiser tweak set on - i have mine set at disconnect after 2 minutes.. and finally, if you can get away with using edge then have your phone always set to edge and only set to 3g for web surfing - pulling down your text based email in edge and not 3g is usually a pretty negligible difference.
on a side note, i bought a 3000mAH battery for about $70.. it improves the battery life a decent amount, but the reality is is that if you use the GPS for 2-3 hours without having it plugged in while using the GPS then you can always expect the battery to be dead by the end of the day (or sooner).. if your going to use it as a GPS then have it plugged in..
its all about wifi...turn it off if not needed.
This has been discussed in many previous threads.
All the above are applicable and also get rid of any fancy today plugins that show data state (WiFi-phone) and battery condition as they are constantly running and polling the relevant devices.
You will see a VAST difference when you do that.
i am not seeing what everyones problem with theire battery is? i havent charged my phone in days. last on the weekend, sunday to be exact. i've been browsing the web, specifically posting on these very forums, downloading programs, texting and talking on the phone as i have no house phone, and just getting to know my phone. using the action screen, ultimatelaunch, etc.
now i do notice i go from 100% to 70% in an instant but once i get under 70%, the phone is a champ. im just not seeing the issue. im getting 2 days easy. no car charger. only time i charge is at home, when im headed for bed. maybe its just me
Specs:
HTC rom (2/15/08)
stock radio
Quick menu
home plugin
action screen
home customizer
google maps
pocketcm
Interesting!
Can you provide more details on the ROM version you are using?
Go to Start/Settings/System/Device Information to get that info.
Or if you can post a screenshot of such screen, the better....
However, you failed to mention if you have used the internal GPS at all.... That's when we start seeing poor battery performance... Just after some GPS use and sometimes not even then, but at random GPS uses.
Cheers!
RayanMX
a screen shot of it would be nice
havent used the internal GPS yet.
ROM: 1.62.502.0
ROM date: 1/17/08
radio: 1.27.14.09
protocol: 22.45.88.07h
i get nearly 50hrs with my tilt.. no gps but push is active and bout 200 txts a day maybe 2h of phone calling now.. i drained it down to 0% twice b4 doing full recharges now battery seems to be good. also my screen brightness is set to the 3rd notch.. 30%.
i think the old battery (the one that had plastic on its back) had better life than the new one (the one with a solid aluminium plate) this is my second tilt, and i liked my frist one a lot more..
on my old tilt my GPS worked indoors, and the batterylife was a lot like yours due to the battery.. i get down to about 60% now at the end of the day instead of the previous 70%
the newer tilt just improved the USB plug, the battery (now it doenst get hot), and the keyboard.
I really am starting to wonder about this. I have a TyTN2 and I installed the new Google Search bar for the home screen. I saw a huge difference in how quickly the battery would die. I'm convinced this GOogle search bar was the culprit.
Now I'm wondering if I disable the really awesome HTC interface if the battery will go up accordingly. Worth a shot.
htc home is a battery sucker.. try PDC project digital clock its very easy on batt
well mine does drain a bit, mainly w/ gps.
I wonder what your doing with it? just leaving the phone on? ive got 2 days without using it. Usually mine is streaming stereo music at least and logged into irc all day, ive just been bringing my plug everywhere with me.
Do the new 6.1 roms do anything to fix this?
Also working in the cellular world, (im sure you guys know this already) if your phone is searching for signal where you are most of the day your battery will drain really fast also. When i get somewhere w/ no signal for the phone i shut that part off.
What makes a big difference is the setting of backlight. Just to see the difference, try navigating with TomTom with brightness level 0, and test it with the maximum amount. Same goes for browsing the web. The backlight consumes a lot of power. A lot of people aren't mentioning the backlight setting, so it's really hard to compare these devices with each other. So closet410, what backlight setting do you use? And maybe you should be more specific about the phone call durations, time you browse with it, etc. Some people are calling 2 hours a day or more with it, and some not even 10min in 2 days. So it's a big difference.
u guys r forgetting the most important factor, are u in a 3G area? i have tmobile usa, and only have edge, and easily get 2 days with moderate/heavy use. ive put my wifes atnt sim into my tilt, and honestly was not impressed with the increased surfing speeds. tethering is night and day difference, but not worth the insane battery drain if ur not gonna be tethering..
omar
try using WIFI on full performance... that shu kill it in about 4 hrs...
this is all basic stuff people if you dont use 3G, wifi, GPS it will last for ever! As soon as you use any of those or all at the same time your screwed. also phone calls are the worst second is wifi then GPS and the 3G
i dont use wifi/gps or 3g
I think worse is 3g.
I can listen streaming radio thru WiFi and wireless bluetooth headset for 10 hours
and just 3 hours over 3g connection
3g connection would kill the batt fast but then again if you think about it. if you are going to pay for it everymonth you might as well use it. or else the money is just going to waste. sometimes i am hesitant when turning off my 3g becuase when i start surfing again i always forget to turn it back on
no phone calls since i made the thread. just playing around with the cube for about an hour and a half. backlight setting at 15 seconds. still no internal GPS usage. had a few probelms with the cube last night so i played with it a lot. got it right now. did not charge it last night. today no texts sent and no calls. just checked the time every now and then. sitting at 25%. still havent charged it since sunday. obviously its now thursday. and others are reporting even if they dont use the phone the battery gets drained alot. did i luck up and just get a great phone? i'll keep a running log of what i do starting now. granted it wont be a scientific test but i will just keep track of what i do with th phone.
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3g connection would kill the batt fast but then again if you think about it. if you are going to pay for it everymonth you might as well use it. or else the money is just going to waste. sometimes i am hesitant when turning off my 3g becuase when i start surfing again i always forget to turn it back on
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used kaiser tweaks to set it at HSDPA
closet410 said:
used kaiser tweaks to set it at HSDPA
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HSDPA is amazing, get around 500-750 Kbps connection !
It's "3G" plus some.
I got an ATT Tilt a couple weeks ago and I installed Kaiser Tweaks. I noticed that my battery drains extremely fast (rarely lasts an entire work day) and I wanted some advice on what settings I would want to adjust to help with this. I also downloaded Slick for my instant messenging and I also want to know if any of these power management features will disconnect me from my Slick im. I notice that often times when I leave my phone idle for a long time (ie when it is on the charger and I'm asleep) my Slick im (or other IM's I've used too) will be disconnected. It seems like I never had that problem until I installed Kaiser Tweaks. So basically I'm wondering how I can conserve power but ensure that my IM service never disconnects me since I rely on AIM messages for a lot of things I do. Any help is appreciated. Also feel free to message me on AIM if it would be easier - JPAY2002 is my screen name.
Thanks in advance.
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I got an ATT Tilt a couple weeks ago and I installed Kaiser Tweaks. I noticed that my battery drains extremely fast (rarely lasts an entire work day) and I wanted some advice on what settings I would want to adjust to help with this. I also downloaded Slick for my instant messenging and I also want to know if any of these power management features will disconnect me from my Slick im. I notice that often times when I leave my phone idle for a long time (ie when it is on the charger and I'm asleep) my Slick im (or other IM's I've used too) will be disconnected. So basically I'm wondering how I can conserve power but ensure that my IM service never disconnects me since I rely on AIM messages for a lot of things I do. Any help is appreciated. Also feel free to message me on AIM if it would be easier - JPAY2002 is my screen name.
Thanks in advance.
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FOR ME kaiser tweak has always improved battery life and secondly this belongs under the kaiser tweak sticky and not as a new thread and thirdly running any program continuously will drain battery. Buy a back up battery
If you're using slick 24x7 then you're using data 24x7 = battery drain. If you have data turn off after a certain time, then you will get better battery life.
I can agree with all of the above. I had pocketweather updating every 5 minutes and I had the same issue of not being able to make it through 1 work day. I switched it to update every 75 minutes and the batter life is MUCH better.
Now I have blackberry connect that also stays on all the time...not much I can do about that...but it's interesting that Blackberry Connect does not seem to drain the battery in the same way that Media Connect does
Hi, has tried some of the rooms here, but is wondering if anyone can recomend a room whit good batterylife?
I have one energy room now, and like the work all the room bulders have done, but really need more battery.
Thanks
stclem said:
Hi, has tried some of the rooms here, but is wondering if anyone can recomend a room whit good batterylife?
I have one energy room now, and like the work all the room bulders have done, but really need more battery.
Thanks
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Really depends on what radio you use also..
but I found Topix to be good on battery.
Turning off 3G will save you alot of battery, and putting your back light onto auto or turning it right down.
How much battery do you get currently?
I think that auto backlight use a lot of power because the light captor is always on. So, i recommend you to set the backlight to about 25 percent and to disable 3G when you don't use it. There are a lot of tip you can find yourself by exploring your Blackstone a little more
hm, i have to charge the phone every night, and almost every day it runs out of power.
The wifi is almost always off. Backlight is manualyset to lov on batt.
The 3g is in use, and have push mail on.
If this is the reason for battery is lov, i really cant have this phone. Im getting bored of running out of battery if im out on the town, or if i want to lisen to music.
Push mail can be problematic.
So, every HTC user who really enjoys his phone has to charge it every night.
MJ was right, "You are not alone"
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hm, i have to charge the phone every night, and almost every day it runs out of power.
The wifi is almost always off. Backlight is manualyset to lov on batt.
The 3g is in use, and have push mail on.
If this is the reason for battery is lov, i really cant have this phone. Im getting bored of running out of battery if im out on the town, or if i want to lisen to music.
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I leave 3G turned off, have emails sync every 2hours, backlight set to auto, wifi off, text quite alot through the day and a few phone calls.
My battery can last 2 - 3 days easy
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I leave 3G turned off, have emails sync every 2hours, backlight set to auto, wifi off, text quite alot through the day and a few phone calls.
My battery can last 2 - 3 days easy
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Tha same. And battary is sooo good
going to try having 3g off, even if i dont want to.
Thinking about trying this rom
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=616294
Thinking about updating radio also, but what is ril?
I have some problems to understand the radio wiki.
If someone have a radio and ril to recomend, please do so.
stclem said:
going to try having 3g off, even if i dont want to.
Thinking about trying this rom
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=616294
Thinking about updating radio also, but what is ril?
I have some problems to understand the radio wiki.
If someone have a radio and ril to recomend, please do so.
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Rilphone is the .dll file which communicates between your phone and the radio.
I recommend radio 1.17.25.09 and Rilphone 1.14.25.24
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Rilphone is the .dll file which communicates between your phone and the radio.
I recommend radio 1.17.25.09 and Rilphone 1.14.25.24
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Have you tried ril 1.15?
I'm also using Rill 1.15 and battery life is better than with rill 1.14
Try for a few days like 4 or 5, than you will observe that battery usage is good. Usage is always higher with WM 6.5 than stock.
I was also having battery consumption problems; i have been doing some test and there are some things to take into cosideration:
- If you've been tying Android you must hard reset because it can mess up battery usage.
- Radio 17....... is giving some people (me for example) high battery usage so i've downgraded to 15...
- With radio 15 and Energy Rom (wm6.5 + sense 2.1) with no mail running or any apps istalled, batt is excellent; good for 2 or 3 days no prob.
- I added my gmail account with sync every 5mins and battery usage stills seems to be more than reasonable.
- I have now added my hotmail account using push and i'll report back to see what the results have been.
- It is also a good idea to recalibrate the battery; let your phone run it all the way down until it switches off, then put it on charge for a whole night (without turning it on), this should recalibrate the battery drivers.
Good luck!!!!
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I'm also using Rill 1.15 and battery life is better than with rill 1.14
Try for a few days like 4 or 5, than you will observe that battery usage is good. Usage is always higher with WM 6.5 than stock.
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I am going to try rilphone 1.15 now with radio 1.17 as you are using
stclem said:
hm, i have to charge the phone every night, and almost every day it runs out of power.
The wifi is almost always off. Backlight is manualyset to lov on batt.
The 3g is in use, and have push mail on.
If this is the reason for battery is lov, i really cant have this phone. Im getting bored of running out of battery if im out on the town, or if i want to lisen to music.
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Thats my routine too... but only because i use my phone as a music player... A LOT!!!...
during normal "light" use (couple brief calls, some SMS, emails and Twitter updates through 3G, Wi-fi off, bluetooth headset On) my battery can last 2 days with 15 or 10% left at the end of the second day...
the two things i saw that "corrode" battery energy are:
-Wi-Fi
-Music/Video Player (Manilla, WMP or whatever)
Data connection through 3G or Edge are also consuming... but if using few and brief times during the day the impact on battery duration is low...
Sorry to sound extremely sad...but I tried all the ROMS etc for batt life.
Love the Energy ROMS...my fav all time! But just found batt life drained too fast (plus memory slowly creeps up too high)!
So, I went back to the ROM that just gives me the best performance and batt life...Dutty's 6.5 R15...yes I know, the same one Moses used, but just too stable and functional not to have!!
I can go 4 days with normal daily use!
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I leave 3G turned off, have emails sync every 2hours, backlight set to auto, wifi off, text quite alot through the day and a few phone calls.
My battery can last 2 - 3 days easy
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Hi first_damned, Is your phone HSPL or USPL?
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Hi first_damned, Is your phone HSPL or USPL?
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Hiya Dragonpluto,
my phone is HSPL 1.56
thanks first_damned for answering my question. I was wondering if the HSPL better than USPL ... Mine is al also HSPL using the same Radio 1.17 + Ril 1.15. however, my phone battery life is not as good as yours. Do you have any more tips for improving my phone battery usage?
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I'm also using Rill 1.15 and battery life is better than with rill 1.14
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me too ))
please, post the rill here
we want to try it too!!
Hello fellow Galaxy owners,
I have been installing various custom ROM´s for about 2 months now, so I guess you could still call me a beginner. Recently it has been difficult to keep up with all the latest and greatest advances in kernels and ROM´s. Being a father I don´t have as much time as I used to, to read through the mountain of information on the forums.
It is for this reason that I ask for some simple advice. I have found that Hamster, Instanity and DocRom ROM´s are all very fine pieces of work and they are blisteringly fast. The GPS is fast, the themes are epic but alas the battery life is pretty bad (well for me at least).
I must admit thought that I am obsessed with my phone and I use it constantly to read the news, check emails and stream internet radio while I am driving in my car on a daily basis.
I currently have DocRom slim V3 installed after having done a complete fresh installation. But despite being fast it seems to be very hungry on the power consumption.
Do I need to cycle it through some complete battery discharge cycles and fully charge it, then reset the battery stats in CWM recovery? Does it need some days to settle? Or should I flash different Kernels and see which one gives me the best life? If the latter then which kernel do you recommend for JPU?
Thanks in advance!
Same here
With 3g my I9000 die after 10 hours!
With 2g die after 14 hours!
With data network mode deactivated die after 30 hours!
I don't know if changing baseband or kernel will help or not!
BR
I'm having pretty good battery life without any network and LiveWallpapers turned off... just simple black screen it stayed ON for 4 days with some WiFi surfing, PDF reading and music listening player/online radio. So I guess network is draining the most.
DocRom V6.2
I just installed Doc´s ROM v6.2, and it has greatly increased my battery life.
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I just installed Doc´s ROM v6.2, and it has greatly increased my battery life.
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Great to hear this!
I don't know if this is your case, I used to have the beautiful widgets weather widget on my home screen, and after soem time I realized this app was constantly refreshing and consuming LOTS of battery.
If you have it, removing it will increase your battery life too.
I have same problem,i do have the beautiful weather widget installed and think it looks nice on home screen,maybe this is the batt killer??
What other programs does the same? I like the watch and weather widget to be shown..?