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My friend sent me his G1 for free so that I could have something better than my HTC Titan. I really like it a lot, but the battery runs out too quickly.
The thing about this is that my friend was using it just fine literally a few days ago, before he sent it to me. He took the battery out before he sent it to me and it was maybe around half charged when I put it back in, if that helps.
I've tried letting it run out and having it shut itself off and recharging it until it said Full. Before that it wouldn't get past 99%, so I guess it's an improvement.
I'm recharging it right now, and I'm going to follow the instructions on the wiki for recalibrating the battery. That's the only thing I can think of as being wrong with it, because it couldn't have just broken over the three days it took to get here for no reason.
Okay, now it's stuck at 99% again. I don't know what to do right now, should I just go through with the calibration?
I got it to show that it's fully charged. I downloaded the ADB thing and I tried to run the command in the wiki for resetting the battery stats, but I always got an error saying it couldn't remove the file because it wasn't there. Sure enough I looked at the directory and nothing like that exists.
What do I do? I don't want to be stuck with a 1 hour battery for the next two years.
I am not going to give up on this one. Someone please help.
Some more info:
Running Cyanogen 5.0.8
Amon Ra's latest Recovery
In Spare Parts > Battery History:
Other Usage + Since Last Unplugged -
Running (25.2%) (Red bar)
Screen on (14.7%) (Red bar)
I heard the red bars have something to do with it. I really don't want to walk around with a dead phone all the time. It literally runs out while I'm sleeping on idle mode with the screen off.
I need your help.
Edit: By the way, I just recalibrated my battery (Charge to full and then wipe battery stats in recovery mode) and it's still running out too quickly on idle. Am I supposed to see the difference after it runs out and I recharge it or something? What's going on? Keep in mind that it was just working fine a few days ago and it would have continued if my friend hadn't sent it to me. I think it has something to do with the battery being taken out for a few days.
Alright so I've been running the cyan nightlies, I just updated to the latest one, installed the battery fix. Everythings working fine, put my phone down for and hour and the batt is at like %75, I go under battery use and it puts the screen at 79%, is this normal? I had my screen off most of the time and when it was on it wasnt bright and if this isn't normal how can I fix it?
Have you rebooted to see if it does this after every reboot? Try rebooting normally then see if its still doing it.
If so, then reboot into recovery, wipe dalvik, then reboot normally. Check your battery stats again after a couple hours and see if it's still doing it after the dalvik wipe.
(FYI, this belongs in Q&A section)
can you link to the battery fix plz?
I have had very high display usage on every version of CM6, and you will find it is a VERY common complaint on CDMA Hero's running CM6.
Everyone says it's because Froyo is more efficient, and uses less battery overall, so your display percentage is higher.
I call B.S. on that. I have had poor battery life with the more than 20 nightly versions I have run. I have had the Hero since the day before it came out, and I have never had worse battery life. I even bought a new battery thinking my battery was dying on me, and I still won't make it through a day (7 am - 11 pm) without plugging the phone in during the day.
My guess is there is something up with the display/lights/light sensor drivers that have been implemented in CM6 that don't allow something with the display to sleep properly. Either that, or the battery usage screen is simply completely inaccurate.
I could literally reboot my phone, leave it untouched with the screen off for four hours, then turn on the screen for one minute, and the display usage would shoot up to 50-75%. There is no way one minute of screen usage is using more battery than 4 hours of phone standby using the radio, checking email/twitter/facebook/gmail.
Anyway, that's just my opinion on the matter. Other than the battery life, the newest nightlies of CM6 are simply incredible, so I just deal with the poor battery life.
@ziggy682 -- Thanks for that info. I haven't yet tried CM6 (mainly cuz I'm so dependent on some Sense apps and widgets), and now that I'm reading about some battery issues I may hold off on trying it even longer.
@omair2005 -- if you haven't found it yet, here's the new thread on collin_ph's battery tweak specifically for CM/darch ROMs: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=762283
Before, I was running a stock 2.1 Eclair, with a Voodoo LagFix, and LauncherPro (using all 7 screens with widgets). My battery then, would last all day, easily, as long as I wasn't using GPS. I had all my email settings, and widget settings to update EVERY HOUR. For a smart phone, with many widgets running and lasting all day, it was wonderful.
Fast forwarding to now: I updated to the new Froyo 2.2, and re-installed all the apps I previously had, along with the Voodoo LagFix for 2.2, LauncherPro (still using all 7 screens with the SAME widgets) and set all of my applications (that do need updating) to update EVERY HOUR. Now, I literally sit back and watch the battery percentage just drop. Ex. My battery was at 97%, but after writing this, it's now at 93%. In about 2 minutes....what the hell?
Has anyone else noticed a change in your battery performance? I've downloaded the OS Monitor to see if anything new has been added, and that's draining the battery, but there is nothing showing that wasn't before. I'm wondering in there is something new that was added, which is running in the background. Ideas?
JDM9499 said:
Before, I was running a stock 2.1 Eclair, with a Voodoo LagFix, and LauncherPro (using all 7 screens with widgets). My battery then, would last all day, easily, as long as I wasn't using GPS. I had all my email settings, and widget settings to update EVERY HOUR. For a smart phone, with many widgets running and lasting all day, it was wonderful.
Fast forwarding to now: I updated to the new Froyo 2.2, and re-installed all the apps I previously had, along with the Voodoo LagFix for 2.2, LauncherPro (still using all 7 screens with the SAME widgets) and set all of my applications (that do need updating) to update EVERY HOUR. Now, I literally sit back and watch the battery percentage just drop. Ex. My battery was at 97%, but after writing this, it's now at 93%. In about 2 minutes....what the hell?
Has anyone else noticed a change in your battery performance? I've downloaded the OS Monitor to see if anything new has been added, and that's draining the battery, but there is nothing showing that wasn't before. I'm wondering in there is something new that was added, which is running in the background. Ideas?
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Yeah, because 2.2 charges differently. 2.1 will charge all the way up to 4.3V whereas 2.2 will only charge up to 4.0V (sometimes a little higher). So the initial drain seems faster, but once you get to about 80% it is the same.
Yeah, I agree with what @ryude posted. Mine went from 100% to 95% rather quickly yesterday but it stayed at about 95% for a while. I went to bed with around 48% and when I woke up (about 6-7 hrs), it was about 40%. So the battery life seems slightly better. BTW, I'm running stock with LauncherPro.
Thanks for the heads up. I'll keep an eye on it. I was just wondering if others have experienced any similarities and if it was just something normal (as mentioned above) or if there is some new function running in the background by default which is draining the battery. Cheers.
I'm actually noticing an improvement in battery performance, with everything on my phone being equivalent pre-update to post-update.
No lagfixes or anything like that installed, though.
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Screen on 0% brightness uses about 400 mW and on 100% brightness uses almost 1000mW. I've seen CPU usage spike over 400mW but usually stays around 100mW. Wifi uses about 50mW when on and 10mW in low power state (screen off).
So those are the big 3 power drainers right there.
If you did not put the update on at 100% you might have a problem with the battery stats a simple way to fix that on stock would be a complete drain on the battery
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Ok, here are a couple things I have found thus far.
One - After installing the Voodoo LagFix for 2.2, and rebooting into recovery mode, I was actually booted into ClockworkMod - Voodoo Lag - Recovery Mode. That's something new. Anyways, there is an option to "clear battery stats". After briefly reading about this on another thread here on xda, the individual said it's a must to do. I'm not sure if this is because of the Voodoo Lag Fix or what, but I did it and will report back at the end of the day.
Two - This is something new in Froyo 2.2, and it was never an option in 2.1. After going into Settings - Location and Security - and un-checking "Use wireless networks" and the re-checking it, it says "Location Consent - Allow Google's location service to collect anonymous location data. Collection will occur even when no applications are running." That right there could be the reason why the Maps app is constantly running? I turned it off, which I have never done and have always left on, but will see if this makes a difference as well.
I'll report back with results tonight.
I've had a similar issue. Updated from an unrooted, untouched stock eclair to the new stock froyo release, left it charging overnight and today not only was the battery dead in less than 6 hours, but the phone had used all of the data from my limited data plan. I have not installed anything and never had a launcher or any other thing of the sort. No lagfix, nothing.
Now I went with a factory reset, since that is clearly recommendable after any os installation (or before actually) and will see how it goes from here...
Also, the phone would not recognize my sim card at times, so I'd have to reboot to get it working, sometimes more than once... That, however, seems to have been solved with the factory reset...
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I had massive drop from around 45% to under 10% in an hour last night. I figured it was a glitch after the upgrade so I did a full charge with the phone on, then powered it off. "full" charge powered on turned out to be around 95%, the remaining 5% charged while it was off.
After doing that and then powering back on, I've found my battery life today (first full day after update) to be pretty good so far.
JDM9499 said:
Ok, here are a couple things I have found thus far.
One - After installing the Voodoo LagFix for 2.2, and rebooting into recovery mode, I was actually booted into ClockworkMod - Voodoo Lag - Recovery Mode. That's something new. Anyways, there is an option to "clear battery stats". After briefly reading about this on another thread here on xda, the individual said it's a must to do. I'm not sure if this is because of the Voodoo Lag Fix or what, but I did it and will report back at the end of the day.
Two - This is something new in Froyo 2.2, and it was never an option in 2.1. After going into Settings - Location and Security - and un-checking "Use wireless networks" and the re-checking it, it says "Location Consent - Allow Google's location service to collect anonymous location data. Collection will occur even when no applications are running." That right there could be the reason why the Maps app is constantly running? I turned it off, which I have never done and have always left on, but will see if this makes a difference as well.
I'll report back with results tonight.
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The location consent prompt has always been there since eclair and is part of how google collects data on locations and cell towers. Like you said, it pays to turn off unless you're using the maps or other location dependent app.
so yeah,,, i got a nexus one from a friend of mine (whos done alot of flashing and installing custom roms on this phone so i dont really know whats running) but it drains about 10-15% battery every hour or so.
ne suggestions on how i can figure out if its a bad rom or a bad battery??
thanks
Easiest way to know if it's the ROM is to flash a new one. I suggest cyanogen mod it is some what simple but works well and battery is just fine. There is plenty of documentation on the forum to show you how to flash but if you still can't get it just ask and I can walk you through it. You may also want to check settings -> about phone -> battery use to see what uses up the most of your battery.
you could try calibrating the battery
so ive ran some tests, basically fully charge one time without simcard and another time with, to see if the radio drains more battery. and both times its about the same.
i did order a few batteries off ebay, but probably will be like two weeks or so before they come in.
mmmm the md5 stuff kinda confuses me haha, dont know how that stuff works
You don't always need to check md5 you can if you want but most people don't just make a nandroid backup and that way if the file is corrupted you just flash it back and your good. But if you do want to check them just download ManD5 and check to see if the one on the file matches the one on the website.
Under >Settings >About Phone >Battery >Battery Use
What are the top 5 applications and what %?
Wifi should be set to never sleep. under >Settings >Wireless >Advanced >Wifi Sleep Policy
Find out which ROM and radio are being used. Cyanogenmod7.x or OxygenROM would be good for battery life.
You should also try charging the phone to 100% and then wiping battery stats.
Does your phone get warm when charging?
Having swapped ROMs back and forth, wiping everything, I get the same bad battery life (-10%/30 minutes). Wife's N1 runs fine, ours ran the same stock OTA versions until this. I needed to see if it was something related to the OS and tried some alternatives.
Replaced battery - no difference (wiped stats, etc)
Turned off data (wifi and non).
I can't tell when the radio was updated on mine - if it was related to an update that would correlate to the problem, but I have the latest radio that has been out a while.
Logcat looks just fine. It's not data related, nothing seems to be going on when charging...
My hands are cold, using the N1 as a hand warmer right now (it's plugged in)...
There's a bug with CM's kernels causing a LOT of battery drain when you set the wifi sleep policy to anything but "never sleep", check that and change it in case it's not. I know it sounds counter-intituive, but it really works.
I set mine to "never sleep" and easily last a full day on a charge. I also calibrated my battery using the battery calibration app, and using a plain black background helps somewhat if your N1 is AMOLED
I've seen threads with this issue or that issue, but no single thread yet dedicated to issues that have cropped up for HTC Vivid users since the ICS OTA update.
I run stock-- No root, no custom rom, just stock the way it came from AT&T.
The phone has been wonderful. Battery standby time was phenomenal (on a full charge, I could expect to take my phone to work around 6:30 am, and see a minimum 60% to 75% left when I got home around 5:30 pm). I never experienced random reboots, crashes, etc.
Then I updated OTA to the new ICS using standard AT&T procedure-- This would be the official release, downloaded and installed last week.
Now, if I reboot the phone, I have to wait while it installs updates it already had when I installed ICS. This is a minor incovenience, but annoying.
I also see noticeably less standby time. I'm lucky now to have 50% left when I get home from work.
Most alarming, though, is the nightly crash on the charger. My dad is in and out of the hospital with heart issues, so turning off my phone to charge it isn't really an option. Every night since I updated, my phone random reboots on the charger (last night it did it twice).
So now I'm seriously wondering:
(1) Is anyone else having these new issues since updating to the official ICS release?
(2) Is there some way I can "downgrade" to the more stable version my phone had before (the extra features and tweaks aren't worth the tradeoff for stability and standby time)?
Thanks to any and all who take the time to consider this post and reply accordingly.
Why not try downloading the official RUU since you are still locked,
http://www.htc.com/us/support/vivid-att/downloads/ and install it
sounds like something scewed up when you uploded the OTA update via phone.
A little more detail...
I think it's important to note that these random reboots I've been getting since upgrading to ICS are only partially random.
They only happen when the phone is on the charger and "on." I recall a "charge death" issue with my old Samsung Captivate that perhaps I'm experiencing now with the upgraded HTC Vivid?
I know the obvious workaround is to charge it before going to bed, take it off the charger, then top it off the following morning. Perhaps I'll try that before doing the upgrade over again using the RUU. It's perplexing due to when it happens-- I know the phone doesn't require a full 3.5 hours to charge from, say, 35%, so it's some sort of charger keep-alive that must be forcing the reboot.
I'm still curious, though, to learn if anyone else is having these exact same issues after upgrade.
Thanks, Pumpiron579, for your suggestion! I've just downloaded the RUU and have it ready when I decide to try the update again.
I've upgraded to the latest ICS from AT&T and am not experiencing any of the reboot issues that you're speaking of. I put my Vivid on a charging dock and it goes into doc mode and is that way when I wake up in the morning. I even have it trip an alarm at 7AM. If it's rebooting overnight, I'm not aware of it. In GB there was a screen that told you the up time and sleep time. I can't find it on ICS otherwise I could confirm whether or not it is rebooting overnight.
As for battery life, it doesn't appear to be any worse than GB for me and for today, It's been on the battery over 1.5 hrs and still at 100% battery.
mug318ca said:
I've upgraded to the latest ICS from AT&T and am not experiencing any of the reboot issues that you're speaking of. I put my Vivid on a charging dock and it goes into doc mode and is that way when I wake up in the morning. I even have it trip an alarm at 7AM. If it's rebooting overnight, I'm not aware of it. In GB there was a screen that told you the up time and sleep time. I can't find it on ICS otherwise I could confirm whether or not it is rebooting overnight.
As for battery life, it doesn't appear to be any worse than GB for me and for today, It's been on the battery over 1.5 hrs and still at 100% battery.
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Menu - Settings - Power - Battery Use
Select the Up time counter for more details
Thanks for that, homeslice, but I don't see overall up time. With GB, there was some counter that could show the hundreds of hours that it has been up since the last reboot.
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Thanks for that, homeslice, but I don't see overall up time. With GB, there was some counter that could show the hundreds of hours that it has been up since the last reboot.
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I've never paid too much attention to this...but when you go in and click on the battery time underneath the battery level, there's another uptime below the graph that i figured was total uptime?
I updated with the RUU and have had no problems with my phone what so ever, I have had no reboots when chargeing and the battery life is about the same for my phone.Also my phone is stock with bootloader locked.
My battery life seems to be about the same. However, I am getting a better LTE signal - 3 bars vs 1-2 bars before the upgrade.
The one thing that I've found to be an irritation is that before the upgrade, any photos attached to emails were automatically saved in a folder accessible by the Gallery. After the upgrade, they are saved in the Downloads; and that folder is not accessible from the Gallery. I have to use a file manager program like Astro to manually move the photo file to one of the Gallery accessible folders.
If there's a way to fix this, I would be all ears.
Battery life sucks after ICS upgrade
after I upgraded to ICS my batter life sucks, it used to come for a day, now its reaching 15% before evening.
Is this a known issue, is there a way to get a better battery life
Thanks
everything is fine fore me except the android is upgrading part every power on.
is that a problem?
houstonsveryown said:
everything is fine fore me except the android is upgrading part every power on.
is that a problem?
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It's not a problem but a feature for all ICS installations.
mug318ca said:
It's not a problem but a feature for all ICS installations.
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As far as I can tell you get the android is upgrading/optimizing every time dalvik cache is cleared..which from what I can tell happens on every reboot with a Rom that's not deodexed..like the stock Roms. Get on a Rom that's been deodexed and this won't happen. Otherwise enjoy the feature lol
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Sorry to hear about the random reboots, and I hope a solution comes around. I personally have found no reboot issues at all. There is a problem with using Bluetooth hands free though, you can't press the call button on the device to make a voice call because Android removed the voice dialer so now you just hear a beep.
In regards to your battery, install Advanced Task Killer from the market. In the settings, set up the recommended kill list, the aggressiveness, and activate auto kill. I've been using it for a while and i can go all day with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Pandora, and other apps. After 10+ hours at work i get home with 35-40% battery still. Hope this helps. It also has a widget you can out on a homescreen so you can simply click and it kills what you set up already.
I used to have some random reboots in GB, turned to be an app or a widget that caused the problem. I did then a wipe amd installed minimal apps that I needed and didn't have the problem anymore. Then I started to install other apps one by one monitoring which one might be the problem, but I couldn't replicate it nomore. It was in the same time I experienced multiple (if not all of them) launchers and widgets so I don't even remember what I really had on it. This also might be for battery life too. Now I only use sense and the stock widgets and adw ex once in a while, I have >180 apps installed and no reboots and also battery life is very good.
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Twice while streaming pandora over bluetooth I've had the phone just die. My music shuts off, screen is off, phones not responding, have to pull the battery. Also I've had issues with music skipping on bluetooth. Also third party apps won't show contact pictures that rely on Facebook. Worked fine before the
Update. Im considering wiping it and reinstalling everything.
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Total newbie...delete if necessary
Downloaded the update last night and haven't sleep trying to fix this (OCD )...
I cannot see any updates on FriendStream event though I have my FB account linked to it.
I removed my FB account from "Accounts & Sync" synced it again received a notification "Allow HTC sense to access your FB account" and before Im able to click it the program keeps running and adds my FB account. Go to FriendStream and nothings there...
Found my issue
I have uninstalled few apps, seems to be that drained my batteries all day, now it looks better
Same Issue
WirelessMike said:
I've seen threads with this issue or that issue, but no single thread yet dedicated to issues that have cropped up for HTC Vivid users since the ICS OTA update.
I run stock-- No root, no custom rom, just stock the way it came from AT&T.
The phone has been wonderful. Battery standby time was phenomenal (on a full charge, I could expect to take my phone to work around 6:30 am, and see a minimum 60% to 75% left when I got home around 5:30 pm). I never experienced random reboots, crashes, etc.
Then I updated OTA to the new ICS using standard AT&T procedure-- This would be the official release, downloaded and installed last week.
Now, if I reboot the phone, I have to wait while it installs updates it already had when I installed ICS. This is a minor incovenience, but annoying.
I also see noticeably less standby time. I'm lucky now to have 50% left when I get home from work.
Most alarming, though, is the nightly crash on the charger. My dad is in and out of the hospital with heart issues, so turning off my phone to charge it isn't really an option. Every night since I updated, my phone random reboots on the charger (last night it did it twice).
So now I'm seriously wondering:
(1) Is anyone else having these new issues since updating to the official ICS release?
(2) Is there some way I can "downgrade" to the more stable version my phone had before (the extra features and tweaks aren't worth the tradeoff for stability and standby time)?
Thanks to any and all who take the time to consider this post and reply accordingly.
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I am having the same issue. I am working with HTC on this issue. I have no idea what is causing this. You will find that it does it more frequently, not only when it is charging.
WirelessMike said:
So now I'm seriously wondering:
(1) Is anyone else having these new issues since updating to the official ICS release?
(2) Is there some way I can "downgrade" to the more stable version my phone had before (the extra features and tweaks aren't worth the tradeoff for stability and standby time)?
Thanks to any and all who take the time to consider this post and reply accordingly.
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So are we able to go back to the Original Stock/Shipped Rom if we don't like this update?
I saw some things I liked about it in the recent reviews, but others that I didn't.