Hi power consumption with clean rom - XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello i recently bought an older xperia x1. The problem is that the battery is emty in really shor time (10 hours), so i bought a new one. But the problem is the same.
I tried Kovsky unoff rom, also official rom.
Also tried clean rom with nothing installed and no settings changed, also some power management apps for win mobile.
Everything is turned off, wifi, data connection...
abcPowermeter shows 150mA power consumption, also when display is off.
taskmanager shows only 5-10% CPU usage for gwes.exe, i think thats normal when rendering results from taskmanager and all other CPU is for idle process.
I dunno what to try to solve this problem. Any ideas ?

My guess is you are running an always active program (like an IM program) that is sucking juice.
You may want to do a clean install and run it for a couple of days. See if the problem is your hardware or if it is that some software is the cause.
My battery life has improved from about 11-12 hours to about 48 hours after removing Palringo from my startup folder.
Also you mentioned you tried a clean ROM with no installed programs. If you didn't install any and you consistently have short battery time you have a hardware issue. Do the hard-reset, flash, hard-reset to ensure a clean install. Use a good ROM and do not install any apps. If after 4 days you still have short battery life then either your battery is dying (or generic and bad quality) or you have a hardware fault.

i tried hard-reset, flash, hard-reset. No changes

150ma idle is quite high IMHO. I run a test before because someone question my roms' battery usage and it should be around 80ma idle. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4784976&highlight=battery#post4784976
1. load the same radio.
2. Install Homescreen ++
3. Follow the conditions I tested over that post and see what you got.
Make sure you are in an area with good GSM signal too. Bad signal could lead your phone use a lot more power.
BTW, I found FDC task manager may not report real CPU usage especially if problem with services.exe. Try Memmaid to read CPU usage.

That acbpowermeter is a cool app. I never realized the panel I was using used so much power, and I didn't think having wifi on would consume as much as it did. Right now I'm using the WM6.1 that came with my phone and using the SonyEricsson panel with wifi off, and I'm getting an average of 70-80mA with the display on. Is this a good number?
I was looking into flashing to a 6.5 rom. Would I be getting better or similar battery consumption than the 6.1? If not, I think I'd rather just stay on 6.1 and customize my today screen with some eye candy, etc.

@jackleung
tried your radio with your rom, power consumption is even bigger, than in stock rom

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is this the correct way to recover from battery drain?

I recently upgraded my wizard from a wm6 rom to another and started to notice the battery indicator dropping much faster if I'm on EDGE networks (but maybe also with GPRS, I'm not sure). Since I didn't flash to the official rom before, I thought I had the common battery drain, so I did this: full backup using spb backup, remove hardspl, flash to original qtek rom, hard reset, flash updated radio rom, softspl, flash to wm6 rom, hard reset, restore previous full backup.
The problem is that I'm still noticing the battery going down faster than before. I'm not sure about it, because with this new rom I have a more reliable way to measure the battery, but before flashing all over again and reinstalling every single program (lots of time) I wanted to ask if my method of flashing does solve the battery drain problem (and therefore this is normal for this rom) or if this method does not solve the problem and I have to do everything without the full backup.
- check if processor speed is always high. Latest BatteryStatus allows variable speeds according to the needs of the OS - calls it CPU scaler;
- check if bluetooth or infra-red are turned ON as they drain some energy;
- check the backlight. Mine is always at the minimum and works fine in almost all occasions (except under bright sun light)
- disable Today timeout
- check power drain with a new battery (if you can get one)
that's all i can think of. maybe others can think of other reasons.
good luck
maybe I didn't explain all... I know what can cause greater battery usage, and I try to avoid it, but comparing the previous rom with the new one it seems the new one uses more battery. I also know this can be a "feature" of the new rom and I don't mind about it, because it's really much better. What I want to make sure is that the battery drain is not caused by improper flashing, because that's just wasting battery for nothing.
ah, right.
I don't think there's such a thing as 'improper flashing' when the new ROM works ok. Except for not performing a hard-reset afterwards i guess nothing can cause that kind of power draining, although some have mentioned corrupted extended-rom but i can't vouch for that
Currently I DO think there is something like 'improper flashing'.
I've read about it in another topic as well.
Since I upgraded to WM5SE rev4 I suffer from a severe battery drain.
For some time I suspected my dual sim adapter (did change to that one about the same time as upgrade), but even without adapter the drains stays wel above 100ma!
Until now i have eliminated all other possibilities.
The best way to upgrade to any custom rom appears to be:
- Flash to an official ROM
- Flash the custom ROM.
I seems to have something to do with the ExtROM that sometimes get 'a bit' corupted causing tha battery drain. Flashing an official ROM makes sure youre device is all fresh before getting the custom things on.
ok, but I already did that. The problem is that I'm still seeing some battery drain, especially if I'm on an EDGE network. I just wanted to know if restoring from a full backup using spbbackup after flashing properly could be the reason or if I must find another cause.
Sometimes can be a Today plugin that is performing some task all the time and that might cause battery drain.
there used to be old topics on that matter so i guess you must dig and raise some dust to get it clear
now that you mention it... there is a new plugin in this rom, I'll disable and test. But I still find strange that when I'm on gprs the battery drain is almost inexistent, but on edge is really big
paulo_andre said:
now that you mention it... there is a new plugin in this rom, I'll disable and test. But I still find strange that when I'm on gprs the battery drain is almost inexistent, but on edge is really big
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Did you solve your problem?
I can't!
I have experience some issues
When I started trying PDA VIET Roms i feel like I got a new device cause it has superior speed but its caused by An app called OmapClock PLUS that enables an overclock, thats why the speed but it has too many batt drain... so i leave the PDA Viet Roms... I always first downgrade to an original ROM Wm5 then upgrade to a Custom and then hardreset... of course sometimes with a batt at 55% (enough to flash) but Mr SVI on his first release BrightRom has too much Batt monitor... it causes too a batt drain cause the reload constantly by itself to show batt drain... disable all. and no more problems jeje even on his Hornet v1.1 it has drain for me.
Somebody tolds me that I need to reflash my device with a batt at 100% but i didn't prof that solution so if you like to check that. tell us how is it going.
Hope it was usefull.

My diamond doesnt survive a day w/o charging..

Hello all,
I have a big problem with my Diamond, it cant survive one complete day without charging, the battery drains so so so fast,even without calls or data connections!!, there should be something wrong. Iam using the stock ROM of the O2 UK.
Is there a way to tell which application or driver consumes the battery power?
You can use a task manager for that. I recommend FdcSoft Task Manager.
Also, be warned that Diamond's default settings are not optimized for battery saving. Install a program called Advanced Configuration Tool and enable everything with "power management" in its name. Also be sure to disable "GPRS auto attach" in Data Connections.
This should prolong your battery life.
Did you install any 3rd party software like s2u2? Some of 3rd party software doesn't let your device to suspend properly, thus resulting in baterry drain problem.
Well, I had the same problem: battery life was less than 20 hours.
I had the diamond repaired. It took 2 weeks, but since then it behaves like a normal mobile phone and is charged every 2 to 4 days.
programatix said:
Did you install any 3rd party software like s2u2? Some of 3rd party software doesn't let your device to suspend properly, thus resulting in baterry drain problem.
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how should i know if my device is not suspending properly?
I have a CDMA Diamond, so it may be a bit different, but I was unplugging my Sprint Diamond at 7am and if I didn't put it on a charger during the day, it would be dead by 4pm. I finally bit the bullet and started installing custom ROMs. I'm using grooveROM right now (again this is a Sprint-specific CDMA ROM, so don't try it yourself), and I've seen a dramatic difference. I haven't gone down the list to see everything that was tweaked, but it seems that settings can definitely make the difference. I unplugged yesterday at 8 am, and didn't charge it at all during the day or overnight. I woke up at 9 am (over 24 hours later) and the battery was at 50%. Try a custom GSM ROM and see if that helps.
Hello.
If you have too short battery life without any reason (e.g. when in Airplabe mode), it is highly possible you have a short circuit somewhere.
I faced the same problem (not immediately after I bought the diamond but after some weeks). More specifically the camera was damaged and caused the battery to last only for a few hours (although I did not use the battery).
Take it to service. They should run a thorough test and find out what's wrong.

Any solution to battery drain?!

Hey everyone. I recently purchased a 8925, and am experiencing the battery drain issue that some others have mentioned. I used to own a 8125 and its battery life was much longer (easily 3 days of my usage). I installed batterystatus on the tilt and it seems at idle with all apps closed its pulling 60-60 mA, where my 8125 used 10-15mA. Has anyone come up with a solution for this? I currently have 3.29 hardspl with the stock wm6.1 installed.. any help is much appreciated
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Hey everyone. I recently purchased a 8925, and am experiencing the battery drain issue that some others have mentioned. I used to own a 8125 and its battery life was much longer (easily 3 days of my usage). I installed batterystatus on the tilt and it seems at idle with all apps closed its pulling 60-60 mA, where my 8125 used 10-15mA. Has anyone come up with a solution for this? I currently have 3.29 hardspl with the stock wm6.1 installed.. any help is much appreciated
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turn the lcd brightness down, get kaiser tweak...set your mobile internet connection to go off after a period of a minute or two of non usage (thats a big one)
I have done these above listed, brightness down all the way, i disabled the internet connections with nodata, and i did a couple things with kaisertweak (sd power management). This seems to have no effect on the drain
Less is better when it comes to longer battery life....
Quintman said:
I have done these above listed, brightness down all the way, i disabled the internet connections with nodata, and i did a couple things with kaisertweak (sd power management). This seems to have no effect on the drain
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Maybe all the extra bits of software and utilities that have been installed are gobbling up those CPU cycles (and consequently the battery charge). I have a very basic setup on my TyTN II and reducing the screen brightness right down as well as changing to GSM (rather than 3 G) makes a huge difference in battery life. Even disabling HSDPA and resorting to just 3G makes a difference. It's time to simplify things I think and rather than installing apps to stop a data connection starting up for example, delete any data connection settings on the phone and simply don't do anything that may require a data connection.
How long are you getting out of a charge, doing what sorts of things how often? I'm sure if you hard reset back to the basic ROM and test again with just these few changes, you'll notice a big difference
If I simply flash the stock ATT rom on the phone, and install batterystatus to view my drainage, it is still at 47mA. It seems turning off all the data stuff saves maybe 10mA... i understand that a bad battery would drain faster but would that make the 47mA on standby? i thought that measured how much the phone was using? maybe the battery is bad. just yesterday i left at 7:30am with a full charge. I litterally sent maybe 4 text messeges and maybe a 3 minute phone call, the rest of the day it was on standby, and at 7:30pm it was down to about 34%! this is unacceptable!
Does anyone know what batterystatus reads? either the rate that the battery is losing power or the rate the phone is using it. is it possible that the battery is bad and would cause it to drain at a higher amperage? i know a bad battery drains faster but dont know about this.
I feel your problem. My tilt is so bad that it still drains while charged in the car. Maybe a bad battery but this is crazy.
ok I talked on the phone today more than usual (maybe an hour max!) and it shows that the battery drains super fast when making a call, which to me says the battery is just toast because a call uses more power. I was hoping to find a solution but i think I will just purchase a new battery.
how about buying a slim extended battery on ebay, the 1600mah one. You will definitely notice a difference
Quintman said:
If I simply flash the stock ATT rom on the phone, and install batterystatus to view my drainage, it is still at 47mA.
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Well from what I hear the ATT ROMs have lots more 'stuff' than the native HTC ROMs but whether that means more CPU cycles are used when those programs aren't started I doubt. It's really background utilities that'll be of concern. Rather than installing software (which itself will use battery charge) to see why your battery charge is going down so quickly, what's wrong with going about your normal usage without non-essential utilities and keeping an old fashioned log of how long a full charge lasts and what activities for how long you used your device for? If you try some of the suggestions already given and keep a careful log, you will notice a marked improvement - I did. Whether you wan't to keep those changes though is important. I found the screen was just to difficult to see at low brightness settings when out in the sunshine so I've set it back to a high level and carry 2 spare batteries with me when I'll likely be out and about using the device for a full day - I've yet to get through all three batteries in a day and they're compact enough to easily carry around. With my cradle that has a battery recharge bay, I can also recharge all my batteries overnight.
Sold phone, MODS PLEASE DELETE

R2AA008 huge battery drain?

Anyone else experiencing huge battery drain in R2AA008 (Generic_UK)?
Updated few days ago and now X1 drains the batery in 6 hours.
- Same location (networks etc)
- Same config (ie. all power-savingoptions enabledin Advanced Config)
- Same Microsoft Push settings, same servers etc
Any ideas?
Maybe SE changed some hidden power management settings. They did fix the BT shutting off on its own automatically. Id bet that was some badly implemented power saving strategy.
I use my BT very rarely so it's turned off like 99% of time so that's not the issue. Just can't figure this one out. If all else fails I have to flash R1 back, situation now is just not working, can't use phone for a full workday :/
just set the backlight to 20~30%, then you'll have more battery life I always use this method.
You're comparing the R2AA008 with which firmware?
foxcheng said:
just set the backlight to 20~30%, then you'll have more battery life I always use this method.
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I'm sure I read somewhere that disabling auto-backlight actually throttles back the CPU for some reason.
It's strange I know but I read it somewhere on XDA-Devs
I'm comparing to R1 generic UK, will try R2AA0010 and see what happens. Will also try auto backlight. (Strange, always had it on auto)
Does anybody encounter the following situation?
I have my X1 fully charged and put to sleep. After 8 hours and switch on X1 again, there were only 30% battery left.
I've updated my X1 ROM to R2AA008 too. But I got my phone stanby for four days and the battery still last about 20%-30%.
I think the only reason is your battery is not original or it's not OEM battery.
No problem here. My battery work for whole 2 days.
BT - 4-5 hours connected with my Jabra BT Car Speaker + 2 hours at home with laptop
WiFi - 2-3 hours
Voice - 1-2 hours
Still having fun with my X1 so I turn it on very often to check, change settings etc.
At the end of the 2nd day it has 10-20%
ROM R2AA008 UK
Backlight auto, nothing special
Power drain
I had a smilar problem. It was due to a third party case which had a small bump pressing on the screen. They seemed to draw power. Out of the case, it lasts a lot longer.
Been testin R2AA0010 for a few days, same thing. Looks like I have to confirm this by moving back to R1. Annoying at least, X1 doesn't survive for one day as it is.
I use up the entire battery with just 4 hours of web browsing through wifi/3g on the R2A10 rom.
The same behaviour for me as well with the new ROM.
I am using exactly the same settings, apps, tweaks as before the upgrade, and now I have to charge the battery every day. With the R1 ROM it was 2 days!
It seems the 3G is eating the battery power so much in the new R2 ROM.
I just disabled it, because I don't use the video call, and the ordinary email checking doesn't need HSDPA, a simple EDGE is enough.
So, I got back the 2 days uptime
Consumption of power is bigger i R2A10 imho comparing to R2A08 genUK.
1.5 day it's all I can survive
Have you thought about why the new R2 rom is much snappier? Perhaps the CPU core isn't being throttled anymore/as effectively as before. I'll trade the increased response for battery life though, just need a standby battery ready. Now, if only SE would release a decent charger for that...
Me personally, i haven't noticed any huge difference in power consumption. I believe most X1's come with batteries from China, the outlet I dealt with in Taipei (remember HTC is based here and makes phones here) reports some issues with the new batteries.

Battery performance of official ROM is the best!

I have tried a lot of roms,including touch it v4.5,Jack's 3.0,offocial rom R2AA010 and some chinese roms etc .
The battery performance of R2AA010 is the best,much much better the others.
I don't know why,someone says the official rom lower the CPU frequency,but it still runs quite smoothly and fast.
I hope someone would find out the real reason and this power issue can be resolved in new roms.
The batt life for the cooked roms seems abt the same to me...
well, doing my personal testing, I just tested official (R1 and R2) and Jack's 4.0, 4.5 and now 5.0 (waiting till fix'd version to do a batt test) and I just find all version with the same autonomy.
the main thing I see, Is that I don't configure HSDPA connection autodisconnect in advanced settings (so the connnection is keep alive) battery drains much faster (in all roms).
why my battery drained so fast besides the official rom,maybe somewhere default settings are different between the various Roms.
tf3d just needs more cpu power and memory than the usual today screen of the stock roms. this, of course, drains the battery faster.
Battery consume depends only on cpu and memory (flash too) use (and on the radio, but you can't change that), so it is independent from the roms. Of course heavy loaded roms and today plugins use more power, so you decide what is important for you.
chalid said:
tf3d just needs more cpu power and memory than the usual today screen of the stock roms. this, of course, drains the battery faster.
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I also use TF3D
Yes
I agreed. But my big disapointment is the official have a lot of anoying application that I think I can't live with it.
The official ROM cooking might be the good chance.
it's quite surprising me that x1 battery (1500 mAh) performance is not better than TP (1340mAh).
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vibranze said:
it's quite surprising me that x1 battery (1500 mAh) performance is not better than TP (1340mAh).
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TP has only VGA screen while the X1 has WVGA and the higher resolution screen consumes more power. So it's not so surprising
imo, battery life for wm6.5 by itje is the best
official rom lasted me around 2 days or less back then
my battery was only lasting about a day until i changed to Touch-IT by itje and the battery is now 3-4 days depending on use.
my battery life is completely pony
This is something that is a big pain for me - my battery doesn't even last a day using itje's roms (haven't tested others yet)
I think HSDPA/3G has a lot to do with battery drain. The stock rom seems to disconnect it when it's not in use, but checking my phone now, it's been connected 11hours (since I last reset it). I could be wrong with this comment tho as I've not run the stock rom in months.
Have had a poke round the registry and can't find anything that might be a timeout...anyone more knowledgeable about this than me care to chime in?
djs10 said:
This is something that is a big pain for me - my battery doesn't even last a day using itje's roms (haven't tested others yet)
I think HSDPA/3G has a lot to do with battery drain. The stock rom seems to disconnect it when it's not in use, but checking my phone now, it's been connected 11hours (since I last reset it). I could be wrong with this comment tho as I've not run the stock rom in months.
Have had a poke round the registry and can't find anything that might be a timeout...anyone more knowledgeable about this than me care to chime in?
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you can setup a timeout with the "advanced config" application and yes, leaving data connection enabled draws more battery than just letting it connect when needed.

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