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So a few weeks ago i installed fresh 1.1 and loved it. then the kernel came out and i installed that over fresh and couldn't believe how fast my phone was. unfortunately after having the kernel and setcpu my battery life was suffering too much so i got rid of the kernel and setcpu. I didnt have a nandroid backup so i just reflashed fresh over. Now i only have fresh 1.1 and the 2.1 icons and my battery is suffering tremendously still. I have the mugen 1800 battery and i lose 20% of batter life in 2 hours with only minor texting. I figured maybe i just needed to reflash fresh to fix this but the problem still exists. after reflahsing 4 times. What should i do? should i wipe the phone and reflash or what. Also what is the process to do this if it is the recommended solution?
well first I would go in and check your awake time vs up time menu>settinmgs>about phone>status. if your awake time is the same or close to the same as the up time then you have something keeping the phone awake, either an application or something else. if your awake time is high go into spare parts and choose battery history and then choose the "partial wake useage" and since last boot option and see what program is keeping the phone awake.
if your awake time is normal then I would try booting to recovery and wiping data and delvik and then reflash fresh1.1
another leasson learned about making a backup before you change anyhting.
do i sitll need to do the OTA update to fix the sms issues or is that included in fresh?
jokerpt50 said:
do i sitll need to do the OTA update to fix the sms issues or is that included in fresh?
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It is included.
jokerpt50 said:
So a few weeks ago i installed fresh 1.1 and loved it. then the kernel came out and i installed that over fresh and couldn't believe how fast my phone was. unfortunately after having the kernel and setcpu my battery life was suffering too much so i got rid of the kernel and setcpu. I didnt have a nandroid backup so i just reflashed fresh over. Now i only have fresh 1.1 and the 2.1 icons and my battery is suffering tremendously still. I have the mugen 1800 battery and i lose 20% of batter life in 2 hours with only minor texting. I figured maybe i just needed to reflash fresh to fix this but the problem still exists. after reflahsing 4 times. What should i do? should i wipe the phone and reflash or what. Also what is the process to do this if it is the recommended solution?
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Also remember that setCPU (fixed in the later versions) was initially resetting it to "performance" mode each time you restart. The newer versions fix this, but it's still worth a shot.
Are you running lots of widgets? Sometimes those can suck battery. for instance, the weather channel widgets are terrible at keeping your phone awake at all times. Weatherbug is better.
So I flashed the new Fresh ROM and it is taking FOREVER to charge. I finally got it up to 100% and less than 7 hours, it was completely dead.
Any ideas?
Me too! Killed my battery in 7 hours while charging overnight!
Have you looked at what's using the battery?
I know in some of the other 2.1 roms, facebook is constantly syncing which kills the battery.
You can use logcat in sdk to see what the phone is doing while it's idle.
Also, service can also change the drain on your battery. I know at work (inside a 3 story brick building) I get horrible service and my phone is dead by noon if it's not plugged in. At home, it can go all day and then some.
Same issues here. Takes forever to charge and dies quickly. I haven't flashed the new radio yet....could this be this issue?
I've been using it since he released it and battery life is more than excellent. I can go a whole day then some
Go under settings, about phone, battery. What is your uptime and awake time?
Then tap on battery use. What has the highest percentage of use time on your battery?
Also check out 'cell standby'. Tap it.. Time Without Signal should be very low, or missing.
up time 8:57
awake time : 2:42
highest use is close between cell stanby48% and phone idle 47%
time without signal : 0%
BTW my battery was at 38% with little use(a few text msgs and fb mobile a couple of times)
TWS is fine then. Do you have the sync icon constantly running?
And what is your PRL/PRI (sorry if you posted that already).
PRI - flipz_01
PRL - 60663
What about the sync icon?
sorry....no sync icon
Weird. Any mods/themes/etc?
What I would do at this point is wipe everything (including ext), and reflash, then see if you still have the problems. I haven't had those issues, so I can't give you anything else to look at.
Perhaps someone else can, but that's all I can think of.
You could try the new radio. Some have said they get much better battery life with it (which is likely caused by the radio not having to search for signal as often...but since your TWS is 0% I'd be surprised if that's it). Try that, then nuke and pave would be my suggestion.
Last night was the first night that I had my alarm set. Could this have anything to do with the drain?
I had a weird issue with the battery. I don't know what exactly caused it and I could not pinpoint it with "Battery Use" nor "Spare Parts." My phone was staying constantly awake though, no matter what.
I eventually just partitioned the SD card, with no ext partitions (no apps2sd), flashed fresh again, and now it's all working great. I am installing my apps very slowly and monitoring them to see which one may have been causing the problem. So far no problems though.
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sorry....no sync icon
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I was getting decent battery life when I flashed 2.0d originally so this might not help you but after I flashed the newest radio my battery life got way better. I can listen to slacker radio for 4 hours while studying and use the phone intermittently throughout the day and get about 12 hours out of the battery life.
anybody who has crappy battery life check if your phone is on GSM auto PRL?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=651848&highlight=battery
I'm running Fresh Rom and my battery is great. I haven't charged my phone since 6:30am this morning(it's 8:30pm here now) and it's at 60%. I'm using the new radio too.
scratch what I said yesterday, lol... my phone randomly rebooted overnight and now I can't get it to stop being 100% awake...
EDIT: Tried rebooting, tried "power cycling" phone, did the CDMA (Auto PRL) fix just in case, didn't install any new apps, battery use shows TWS at 0%, Cell Standby Time on = My total uptime.
Spare Parts Battery History shows my phone as 100% running, no sleep time.
Spare parts partial wake usage just shows Android System..
Battery is draining like crazy..
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anybody who has crappy battery life check if your phone is on GSM auto PRL?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=651848&highlight=battery
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That shouldnt be an issue any more. Flipz fixed it in 2.0d.
Change your screen brightness to auto. When I first flashed it was at the highest setting and killing my battery. A lot better now...
Yesterday I upgraded from official Froyo 2.2 to official Froyo 2.2.1. I made factory reset and restored data and applications WITHOUT system settings. So, everything is the same like in version 2.2. During night (cca. 7 hours) my battery dropped for cca. 50% which never happened on Froyo 2.2. What can be wrong? Is there some additional setting on 2.2.1 turned on which was not existed on 2.2 or something else?
Please, advise. Thanks.
Stile35 said:
Yesterday I upgraded from official Froyo 2.2 to official Froyo 2.2.1. I made factory reset and restored data and applications WITHOUT system settings. So, everything is the same like in version 2.2. During night (cca. 7 hours) my battery dropped for cca. 50% which never happened on Froyo 2.2. What can be wrong? Is there some additional setting on 2.2.1 turned on which was not existed on 2.2 or something else?
Please, advise. Thanks.
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easy solution is to install CWM mode and flash any modem.. i use JPE modem which gives me 37-40 hrs battery life with moderate use
hope this helps
Perhaps you have to go through some charging-cycles. I haven't this on my phone. Certanly on my phone runs CyanogenMod 7 without problems.
bye
Battery drain is not standard on upgrade to stock 2.2 .
jje
deadey3 said:
easy solution is to install CWM mode and flash any modem.. i use JPE modem which gives me 37-40 hrs battery life with moderate use
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Flashing new modem file will not erase my data and settigns in the phone? Please confirm.
JJEgan said:
Battery drain is not standard on upgrade to stock 2.2
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I didn't understand you...
EDIT: It also seems that battery is faster charged on 2.2.1 than on 2.2. Strange...
I didn't understand you.
Slowly then Upgrading the firmware from 2.1 to 2.2 does not of itself generate large extra battery drain ..
Read the battery Faq posts and battery drain thread .
jje
Stile35 said:
Flashing new modem file will not erase my data and settigns in the phone? Please confirm.
No flashing a modem will not factory reset ur fone.. That only happens when u install a new rom
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My phone running stock 2.2.1 JPY drained like 9% of the battery during a 14 hour "sleep" period, of which like 60% of it was cell standby, and ~20% of was the screen (even though the total screen time was like 4 minutes... stupid power hungry samoled), 12% idle power and 8% wifi. Wifi sleep was set to 'with screen off'. I'm pretty sure the battery indicator was somehow draining power during idle too LOL. So contrary to the '300 hours of standby', I would only be getting around 140 hours. Not much I can do since it's mostly the cell just connecting to towers draining the battery.
With a normal days use I can probably get 2 full days out of it (28 hours 'use' + 8 hours sleep), but I never take the risk and always charge. Of course it depends what I do with it... If I leave the screen on for 5-6 hours of course it's going to drain the battery to 0%, but so far, for the 90% of the time I leave it on sleep mode in my pocket, battery drain is about the same as the stock 2.2 my phone came with.
I managed to flash official Froyo 2.2.1 with I9000ZSJPE modem which have the least battery drain but over night I have same battery drain than before: cca. 60% drop for 7 hours. This never happened on official Froyo 2.2. ...
Maybe the battery needs to be calibrated again.
I am having trouble with the OG Droid draining battery while it is off. I power if off, just like usual, with 100 percent battery life. Turn it on in the morning and it is at 50 percent. I remember this happened a LONG time ago, on Froyo when VZW dropped the first Froyo release. I can't remember what I did to fix it.
Currently Running:
Liquid GB 2.3 (soon to be 2.4)
Wiped batterystats, still to no avail. Is there a particular way or method I should use to re-calibrate the battery?
Recently cleared the Davlik-Cache, which seems to have resolved a slew of other issues, but it is when this battery crap started.
Titanium backing up everything here now, nandroid backup, then wipe and reload to the latest version to see if that fixes any issues. I didn't know if anyone had any insight into what maybe causing this? I think I read it is when a process gets stuck and never fully shutsdown.
Dear fellow enthusiasts,
since a couple of days, I'm experiencing sudden device crashes when I'm using it for network related activities, mostly over the 3G network (for example, I'm typing out a message on the Facebook app, and the phone goes into boot loop or simply "shuts down"). I had only recently upgraded to the 4th beta build for the Cyanogenmod 9, hosted here on XDA , so I suspected it would be related to this. However, upon reinstalling both the previous version and the new mod from absolute scratch, the issues remained the same.
I had noticed that after each crash, the battery charge displayed as very low (2-6%), whereas I'm certain the charge should be much higher. So I thought it might be some sort of corrupt battery-cache issue or something.
However, and here's my actual question, I just now noticed that my I9001 battery is slightly bulged, on both ends. This bulge starts just above the white printed SAMSUNG lettering, and it ends just bellow the QR code. I can't for the life of me remember if or not this is normal, so could someone please confirm this for me?
And while we're at it, could a faulty battery affect my performance as such (making my phone crash etc)?
Thank you very much in advance for any help or information anyone could give me.
I confirm, battery is slightly bulged in those places but it looks like a production "thing" to me (I hope I understood what you mean), no need to worry, I guess. Looks like corrupted battery stats, try to wipe it via recovery (phone fully charged, plugged in - then wipe battery stats). After that, i recommend one or two full battery discharge - charge cycles. I've noticed hovever, that after each full factory reset I have for about 20% better battery drain, than after flashing many ROMs, kernels and updates (cache and dalvik cache wipe only), my battery drain is getting pretty annoying. Try a full factory reset, if wiping battery stats didn't work.
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I confirm, battery is slightly bulged in those places but it looks like a production "thing" to me (I hope I understood what you mean), no need to worry, I guess. Looks like corrupted battery stats, try to wipe it via recovery (phone fully charged, plugged in - then wipe battery stats). After that, i recommend one or two full battery discharge - charge cycles. I've noticed hovever, that after each full factory reset I have for about 20% better battery drain, than after flashing many ROMs, kernels and updates (cache and dalvik cache wipe only), my battery drain is getting pretty annoying. Try a full factory reset, if wiping battery stats didn't work.
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Thanks a lot for the confirmation Jacol !
Anyone else who can confirm a bulging of the 1650mAh battery for the I9001? I'd like a large enough sample group if possible.
also happened to me
solved this problem by buying another battery...
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also happened to me
solved this problem by buying another battery...
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Thanks Blumdum, do you mean you also had your phone crash on you?
yes
i charged the battery
after some time my phone turned off
i restarted it and i had only 2% battery left
then i took a look on the battery stats and there was a huge drop from like 95% to 2%
Blumdum said:
yes
i charged the battery
after some time my phone turned off
i restarted it and i had only 2% battery left
then i took a look on the battery stats and there was a huge drop from like 95% to 2%
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Thanks Blumdum, I've ordered a new battery, it should arrive within a couple of days, I'll confirm if this fixes the issue.
Same thing happened to me,i will order momax 1700mah
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Hey people,
I received my new battery last night, I went for an Akku Powercell of 1800mAh. Charged overnight, been using it all day, no problems whatsoever to be found.
Thanks again for the assistance!
Swollen battery = defective!
I'm sorry but I've encountered this as well in the past. Normally working phone with sudden shut downs and huge drops in battery charge. It took me a long time to convince me that the battery was defective. So maybe this would save you guys some time in finding this out!
Verstuurd van mijn GT-I9001
Hey, try to use cm10 for a few days, if the problem gone then your battery is alright, and please stop using beta roms, regret are so buggy and slow: )
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In general healthy batteries DO NOT swell. Buy a new one before it explodes or starts leaking...
Hey all, just because people keep on posting, the battery was indeed defective, the roms were absolutely fine and the new battery is performing marvellously!
Thanks again for all the input !
Jacol82 said:
I confirm, battery is slightly bulged in those places but it looks like a production "thing" to me (I hope I understood what you mean), no need to worry, I guess. Looks like corrupted battery stats, try to wipe it via recovery (phone fully charged, plugged in - then wipe battery stats). After that, i recommend one or two full battery discharge - charge cycles. I've noticed hovever, that after each full factory reset I have for about 20% better battery drain, than after flashing many ROMs, kernels and updates (cache and dalvik cache wipe only), my battery drain is getting pretty annoying. Try a full factory reset, if wiping battery stats didn't work.
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I have the exact same problem with my sgs i9000-gt.
My phone turn off itself ( no restarts, its a complete shutdown ).
First, I thought i might be a problem of GB 2.3.6 rom i was using, so i updated to latest cm10 but the problem persists.
If you restart the phone after the shutdown than i shuts down within a minute again.
Also the battery drain is pretty fast. I notice the same bulges on the battery as reported in this post.
I did the battery calibration thing as some people suggested, but that does not solves the problem. However, it got rid of the fast changes in battery status which was happening before. Like when you restart after shutdown at 80% battery status, it will show like 2% battery left and after few minutes of charging it would boost back to 80-90%.
But still the battery drain is pretty fast. It discharges from 98% (i cannot get to 100% charge, 98% is highest) to 50 % within an hour, just idling.
And when i am around 40% or so and if i recieve some message and try to open a app it shuts down again.
I have ordered a new battery just in case. Will update here if that improves things for me. But i will still like advice on which is a more economical kernel and rom for i9000-gt? Some people suggested slim bean + semaphore on some forums but i would like to have some more concrete advice before i change more things without knowing the source of the problem. I would be grateful if someone can suggest what is best to use with some details( version, etc). Thanks for that in advance.
I thank you all (users + developers) for all the useful information provided on this forum, i learnt a lot although i still am not able to fix my problem . And I hope someone might come up with a concrete solution for this problem. If there is a solution which I might have missed, I thank you in advance again and hope you will be kind enough to point me in the right direction.
cheers
update: the phone stays alright if u dont do anything on it, but the moment you being doing something on it other than playing with system settings, like run some app, especially something that uses network / wifi, it shuts down. none of this happens though while its plugged in. it happens only when its on battery.
problems fixed so far after replacing the battery
maxffm said:
I have the exact same problem with my sgs i9000-gt.
My phone turn off itself ( no restarts, its a complete shutdown ).
First, I thought i might be a problem of GB 2.3.6 rom i was using, so i updated to latest cm10 but the problem persists.
If you restart the phone after the shutdown than i shuts down within a minute again.
Also the battery drain is pretty fast. I notice the same bulges on the battery as reported in this post.
I did the battery calibration thing as some people suggested, but that does not solves the problem. However, it got rid of the fast changes in battery status which was happening before. Like when you restart after shutdown at 80% battery status, it will show like 2% battery left and after few minutes of charging it would boost back to 80-90%.
But still the battery drain is pretty fast. It discharges from 98% (i cannot get to 100% charge, 98% is highest) to 50 % within an hour, just idling.
And when i am around 40% or so and if i recieve some message and try to open a app it shuts down again.
I have ordered a new battery just in case. Will update here if that improves things for me. But i will still like advice on which is a more economical kernel and rom for i9000-gt? Some people suggested slim bean + semaphore on some forums but i would like to have some more concrete advice before i change more things without knowing the source of the problem. I would be grateful if someone can suggest what is best to use with some details( version, etc). Thanks for that in advance.
I thank you all (users + developers) for all the useful information provided on this forum, i learnt a lot although i still am not able to fix my problem . And I hope someone might come up with a concrete solution for this problem. If there is a solution which I might have missed, I thank you in advance again and hope you will be kind enough to point me in the right direction.
cheers
update: the phone stays alright if u dont do anything on it, but the moment you being doing something on it other than playing with system settings, like run some app, especially something that uses network / wifi, it shuts down. none of this happens though while its plugged in. it happens only when its on battery.
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I flashed back to stock samsung rom ( from the value pack) and the problem persisted.
today my new battery arrived and all the forementioned problem seems to be gone with the new battery, my phone seems to be working fine for last 5 hrs without any restarts or crazy battery drain. will test the same with custom roms again. As of now it only seems that problem was the battery.
Cheers.
thanks to the forum and developers