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Hello,
I recently got my nexus, and rooted only two days after receiving it. I installed cyanogen's latest. I am getting low battery; in only 5 or so minutes, the percentage goes down by at least 2 percent (while using). I looked to see what may have been draining the battery, and found that the display alone was using 62% to 75% of my battery. I tried undervolting, but the display seemed to still be in the same draining range...
Is this a hardware related problem, or is this a common nexus thing?
ywindlass said:
Hello,
I recently got my nexus, and rooted only two days after receiving it. I installed cyanogen's latest. I am getting low battery; in only 5 or so minutes, the percentage goes down by at least 2 percent (while using). I looked to see what may have been draining the battery, and found that the display alone was using 62% to 75% of my battery. I tried undervolting, but the display seemed to still be in the same draining range...
Is this a hardware related problem, or is this a common nexus thing?
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same here, really starting to piss me off when i see people talking about 70% battery at the end of the day while my phone dies in 6 hours
Cyan?
Woah, I think this might actually be cyan's Rom.
I flash enomther's rom and i got display percentage at around 15-16% ...
I think cyan will look into this soon enough...
But for now... I guess I'm gonna wipe... :/ and stick to enom's or some other ROM...
ywindlass said:
Woah, I think this might actually be cyan's Rom.
I flash enomther's rom and i got display percentage at around 15-16% ...
I think cyan will look into this soon enough...
But for now... I guess I'm gonna wipe... :/ and stick to enom's or some other ROM...
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C´mon....see my signature!
More than 10h now, Wifi on all the time -> 70% battery
This is not that bad
rori1 said:
C´mon....see my signature!
More than 10h now, Wifi on all the time -> 70% battery
This is not that bad
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I think the problem is only with a few people, but I know others are experiencing this. This might be something with the "latest" nexi. But idk, it's a mutual issue, a fix should be coming
Probably you are right...
But, I would like to know, what settings peolple use: like updating wheater every hour, emails, widgets,..ham many apps are running and so on, ... perhaps connected to...sometimes people dont even know that
Edit: I got my Nex in january.
The change in the display usage percentage is just due to the way the powermanager works. Its not using more battery, its just displaying how much power it is using more accurately.
have the same problem.
100% airplane mode ON no WIFI, in 5 hours 72% battery remains . (PHONE IDLE took most of this - my G1 could go 1 month with this settings)
IN 12 hours in was 6% and with LOW use of my N1.
Yesterday I removed numbers in my battery and it was a litle better, not much but a little. (about 8% better)
I had 5.0.5.1, 2 and 3 and everyone had the same problem!
CM please take a look at this. What do you need any LOG info or something!
Have you tried wiping battery stats, then charging to 100% with it off, then booting into recovery and wiping battery stats again, then charging to 100%? The few times I've had battery issues that's taken care of it for me.
I flashed cyan again with a wipe (again), but got the same thing.
On enom's rom, I get beastly battery. I think we just have to wait for a fix for the people who are affected.
danguyf said:
Have you tried wiping battery stats, then charging to 100% with it off, then booting into recovery and wiping battery stats again, then charging to 100%? The few times I've had battery issues that's taken care of it for me.
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Do you need root to wipe battery stats? how do you do it?
Well I did the wipe battery about 3 times and in OS it was already green light 93% full.
I WIPED and put the power in on NON POWERED PHONE. It took 1 hour more to come to the green light . than I wiped again and went to boot up.
at 11PM i had 100% battery went into airplane mode wifi OFF.
And i did one other thing. Some of you had the battery drain issue with trackball wake. So I disable it.
7 hours of this and I got 97% - beautiful
before that I had 72% so there is a difference.
Now I have to see if the wakeup trackball is the cause of this or the wiping the battery stats.
Will eliminate one and other and keep you posted
I took my phone off the charger at 4:30am and the next day at 5:30 am i had 12% battery left. i used my phone a total of 3 times. most of the time it was on standby. i have setcpu with my phone UV and UC to try to save battery with profiles set up. in battery information 85% of the phones battery went to cell standby. Any suggestions on how to improve this?
Try wakeup trackball OFF in spare parts and battery % OFF in upper taskbar.
I have now from 100% to 59% in 7 hours. wifi ON all the time.
I have tried to wipe battery settings and charge fully with the phone off, but after the full procedure, I still get the same end result. I attached a picture of my battery usage.
Im pretty sure i saw a post online about the newer nexus's that were released having a better display. If this is true then wouldn't the phone's hardware alone be using more battery?
I can confirm I am having the same problem. I wasn't sure until I checked battery usage overnight. It used to be that with my phone on airplane mode I would use about 2% while I slept. Now, it's 9 or 10% with "Phone Idle" taking the lion's share of it.
I have tried deleting batterystats.bin after a full charge; powering off (while on charger); charging up to full again, but this has not solved the problem.
A few notes:
When the phone is idle (but not in airplane mode) it uses about 1.5% per hour (compared to about 1.1% in airplane mode)
I am using setcpu profiles to keep cpu usage right down when idle
Around the same time I upgraded to 5.0.5.3 I also started using the himem version of fastboot. And yes, if you suspect I don't know what I'm talking about here, you are quite right
For my next trick, I will try resetting battery statistics via recovery. What fun!
I've kept the cyan rom, and changed some settings to increase battery life. I turned off the battery percentage icon, and turned off the trackball to wake. I still got that the display was using a lot, but the battery still lasted pretty good. I guess there isn't too big of a problem on my side. It probably is the "newer displays" on the "newer" nexi. Maybe there really isnt a big problem
I changed now from CM to Enomther's TheOfficial Nexus1 1.8.1 and battery now works great.
I unplugged the charger at 12.00 am at midnight and with quite good use, not extremely havey but a good use I had 30% battery left at 20:00 (08:00PM) that day.
I lost only 2% from midnight to 7:00AM in my airplane mode and with Gmail check 10 min of phone calls wifi ON all the time checking web pages and showing off my live wallpapper at my work I had at noon (12.00PM) 70% battery left!
I LIKE IT!
now I'm thinking to push Kernel - .32 & .33 to see if there is any change with my battery
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=653598
After resetting battery stats in recovery, I still lost about 10% overnight while on airplane mode.
For my next trick, I'll use a task killer like "Process Manager"* to keep everything unnecessary switched off overnight. Maybe I'll be able to narrow it down to an application if it's not something integral to the actual ROM.
*Yes, I know it will use up the battery too
Hi guys, I love my SGS, but the battery life is killing me!!
I've tried 3 different ROMS, but all pretty much the same. I'm now on the 'official' JP6 / JPM. Phone is rooted, and One Click Lagfix running.
Display is set to minimum.
I sync an Exchange account using push. I've turned off gmail and facebook sync.
Using LauncherPro.
Basically, I unplug the phone from the charger at around 7am, and by 5pm it is dead!!
!!
Any suggestions!?
Over Clocker said:
Hi guys, I love my SGS, but the battery life is killing me!!
Display is set to minimum.
I sync an Exchange account using push. I've turned off gmail and facebook sync.
Any suggestions!?
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1: change your push-settings for exchange to 30 mins or an hour ( i did too , its better )
2: buy a extra battery
3: bring your charger to work
4: stop playing non-stop with your phone
to sum it up. we cant tell you what u are doing wrong with the small info u gave. you dont give % of battery usage ( liek 60 % display, 20 % standby etc )
all in all, i can say atm. stop push-mail
( i have same prob , i just leave my USB charger @ work lol)
root it again.
Also set phone to 2g mode rather then 3g and install juicedefender with nobars too.
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There is no proof that 2g eats less battery
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2g relly eats less that 3g. But i'm use both + wifi at home + look a flash video, get rss every hour and phone lives 36-48 hours on one standard battery. Maby your battery is dead. Replase it
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Do it this way:
Make the phone empty.
Charge it all night (8 hours + ).
While still charging, open applictaion: Terminal Emulator (it is available on the market for free)
Write:
su
rm /data/system/batterystats.bin
it looks like that nothing really happens, but it does.
Reboote the phone. Important!
You will see the difference. I get from 1 day before to 3 days now.
For doing this, your phone, of course, should be rooted.
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There is no proof that 2g eats less battery
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eh?
what would you like as a proof?
sure if you live under the antenna consumption may be the same, but 2g is much less processor intensive and has longer range.
so your phone works half as hard in 2g than 3g (both idle and on line)
with just 2g and only using phone features i can go 5-6 days
same usage with 3g goes down to 3 days
and that is with having mobile data off in both cases
2G eats muuuch much less battery. I didn't have 3G for a few weeks, huge difference in battery life.
I use Juicedefender just so that nothing goes on with my phone while the screen is off, only update rss/weather/sync when sync is on.
Cartier23 said:
Do it this way:
Make the phone empty.
Charge it all night (8 hours + ).
While still charging, open applictaion: Terminal Emulator (it is available on the market for free)
Write:
su
rm /data/system/batterystats.bin
it looks like that nothing really happens, but it does.
Reboote the phone. Important!
You will see the difference. I get from 1 day before to 3 days now.
For doing this, your phone, of course, should be rooted.
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Can anyone confirm if this method works?
(On a side note: I'm looking for someone who can help me flash Korean firmware onto European phone so I can get "record call" feature. Thanks)
I manage to get 3+ days of battery time... I have data connection inactive, no syncs, and using a black theme Battery life just improves over time, after like 5 or 6 cycles of charging.
I've had my phone for a little less than 2-3 weeks. While my battery has gotten better with a few full discharge/charges, I still haven't reached those insane battery life times that some have had the luck of having.
I've done the full discharge method a few times. I've also done the "charge (on), unplug, charge (off), turn on for a few minutes, turn off, charge (off), method twice.
I have juice defender to set to keep everything off and only connect for 1 m every 15 m. I have root, but I've removed lagfix.
Yesterday night, I slept for around 6-7 hours. My battery life dropped a full 40%!
Here are my battery usage stats:
Display 44%
Cell Standby 20%
Android OS 14%
Phone Idle 13%
Android System 5%
I'm wondering if my phone or battery is defective and I should ask for a replacement?
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I've had my phone for a little less than 2-3 weeks. While my battery has gotten better with a few full discharge/charges, I still haven't reached those insane battery life times that some have had the luck of having.
I've done the full discharge method a few times. I've also done the "charge (on), unplug, charge (off), turn on for a few minutes, turn off, charge (off), method twice.
I have juice defender to set to keep everything off and only connect for 1 m every 15 m. I have root, but I've removed lagfix.
Yesterday night, I slept for around 6-7 hours. My battery life dropped a full 40%!
Here are my battery usage stats:
Display 44%
Cell Standby 20%
Android OS 14%
Phone Idle 13%
Android System 5%
I'm wondering if my phone or battery is defective and I should ask for a replacement?
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Hey, try the 5min evey 2hours, that's what i have and i don't have any issues.
Obviously something is wrong. THis happened to me before, it was because of FB and google sync as well as the widgets constantly synchronizing and using mad data.
Welcome to the SGS.
Typical usuage for my SGS:
0800 - alarm used to wake me up.
0805 - disconnect from charger - full battery
Sync: K9 Mail - once an hour, headers only or messages less than 2Kb.
JuiceDefender: Data connects 5mins every 30 mins, otherwise 3g radio or wifi is deactivated.
Average time on 'phone calls: 10 mins.
Wireless use in work: 20mins max
3G/2G usage: 20 mins.
Brightness set to lowest setting.
Doing the above will empty a fully charged battery by about 1800, or usually sooner.
9 hours of use until empty, when the 'phone is predominately on stand-by.
The wireless and 2g/3g data radios are a real killer. With the data connection of, then I can watch the whole of the Avatar film on the device, and even have some power left over from some 'phone calls.
Solution: Don't use the SGS for data while not running from the mains power. It'll save the battery.
So, don't use the SGS for business. Its an expensive toy that pretends to be mobile, because really one it tethered to an electricity socket. Welcome to Android 'phones. Other than the lag that causes the 'phone to be unresponsive for a couple of mins, I like the device.
check your apps, I used to use widget locker and it'd drain about 30% a night. I dropped it even though I used to love it, I think they pushed out a bad update 2-3 months ago and never made it better.
Hrmmm, I don't have any out of the ordinary apps running. I've made an effort to check all apps and ensure they don't auto sync/auto - update or do so very rarely.
Apps I have:
Juice Defender
AutoKiller Memory Optimizer
Facebook
Whatsapp
Yelp
Uninstalled Tango
Uninstalled Samsung Apps
SMS Time Fix
The rest of my apps are either stock or don't use internet
At some point I shall do a factory reset and start again.
* In most phones when switching from 3g towards 2g will result in +1/3rd increment of batter-life
* Extra launchers(UI) will play a lot with your battery, best is to have only one running, not TW along with launcherpro
* Turn OFF the gps cos i noticed, by keeping it on, that it's a huge drain on the batterylife.
* check apps and be sure none will run in the background with adds (remove them with an add remover)
* flash to jpk and root with oclf, many complain about their roms, but after 130 apps and a month mine is still working splendidly, with maybe and just maybe the lagg once a week. (could be titaniumbackup at that moment)
downloaded a thing and send a few messages and it's at 85% atm, that's after +6 hours of use. (it was at 98% after 4 hours with a few uses)
Ok guys, Dark Steel JP6/JPM, hardly any apps, 1 Exchnge account.
I took the phone off charge at around 10am this morning, now at 6.30pm, down to only 16% left!!
Stats:
Display - 77%
Cell Standby - 17%
Phone Idle - 6%
I don't get this, the battery life is awful!! I've hardly used the phone today. Display brightness is set to absolutely minimum. 30 second timeout, and hardly used, so the screen has hardly been on!
Apps I have:
Flash 10.1
SetCPU
Remote Desktop
LauncherPro
Smart Keyboard Pro
ROM Manager
SGS Tools
Spare Parts
Plus the normal Maps, Navigation, Flash.
GPS Off. 1 Exchange account set to Push. Gmail sync turned off. Bluetooth used for around 30 minutes.
Please help me!!!! I've tried 3 different batteries by the way, so it's not that!
How many charge cycles does it need to sort itself out after deleting battery stats (deleted via clockworkmod recovery)?
Thanks!!!!
Your phone idle is only 6%, something is stopping the phone from sleeping. Give us the reported times for display, idle, e.t.c
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Ok guys, I am completely sick of the Galaxy S i9000 battery drain. I dont know if its due to the Rom im on, but the battery is ridiculous. I am begging if there is someone here to help me so I dont have to buy a new phone.
Currently, I am on a rooted Galaxy S, on DarkyROM JVQ v10.2.1. My Kernel is DarkCore v2.9.3, and baseband is JVQ. Im not sure if the ROM is the problem, but from what i've read its fine.
Regarding use, I charge the phone over night, wake up in the morning, take it of the charger, immediately it drops to around 90-95%. Up to lunch time, where I have only spoken on the phone for about maximum 10 minutes, sent around 20 texts, and absolutely nothing else, my battery drops to around 50-60%. By the way this is with background data disabled!!
Up to around 5-6 o-clock my battery is at 10%. As you guys can understand, I have to carry my charger or usb cable, everywhere!
I have one more new original battery in my disposal, as well as 2 other bigger capacity ones, of which one is 2430 mah, and the other one is 3500 mah.
I am prepared to change rom, recalibrate the battery or whatever. I will sacrifice speed for battery.
Thanks, Demetris
I would start looking at your applications and signal strength. A weak signal will force the phone to use more power. Any widgets or live wallpapers? Skype? What happens if you kill all running apps and just leave the phone on standby. Does it sleep? What does the battery history show?
I think your battery stats are messed. To fix them :
Firstly fully charge your phone ubtil it shows 100% ( assuming your battery stats are messed leave it on 100% and charging for 5-10 more minutes) then switch of your phone and let it charge for another 5 minutes.
Then through cwm ( recovery mode) delete your battery stats.( advanced---clear battery stats ). Then switch on your phone and let it drain and dont charge it until it switches off automatically. This will fix your battery stats perfectly .
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Try to install apps like system panel to monitor cpu usage by each app
Use a battery calibration
i've also had battery drains with darky's rom. not sure if it's my settings but since i moved to simplicity rom, i haven't had any more issues. if anything, i prefer this rom over darky's. give it a try.
Here is a complete guide to battery calibration.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1283316
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Hi All,
I'm a new registered user, so I can't put this in the developer forum yet.
I noticed a problem where I was losing battery power quickly, so I foudn a posting that said to do a "super" wipe. This was to one click recovery to stock, root, bootstrap, then boot into recovery to wipe cache, data, dalvik, format /system, wipe cache, data, install theory ROM 1.7. after clearing dalvik the second time, I threw in a "clear battery stats" for good measure.
What I noticed was this: prior to attempting any of this, the phone reported to be 96% to capacity and said it was "full" so it wouldn't charge any longer. After doing the sequence above, upon initial boot up, the battery was now reporting 88% and was charging again.
It would seem like the mechanism for reporting the battery usage is flawed in some way.
I am running a few days of testing but the calibration methods are to drain fully, and charge (while device is off) to 100%, unplug and before turning on, charge additional. Before my full charge read 95%, on 1.7. I did the above and now it read 100%.
From the beginning, here's how my battery life was:
Day one: full drain with performance mode, I received 8-9 hours. Used maybe 60 mins of voice, email sync w gmail and touchdown, sent about 100-150 texts. Watched 2 episodes of the community streaming from zumocast on 4g radio all day, used Pandora a few times.
Night one: night time saver mode, this is where I discovered my full charge was only 95. My night time mode activates at 10pm, my "full charge" completed at 7pm, used Pandora
On the ride to the gym, had minimal texts, email sync, twenty min phone call, 4g radio on. Went to bed at 10pm left phone idle, no charge. Woke up at 630am night time saver ends at 5am, device reported almost 12 hrs idle time, 40% battery left. Pandora to work, 4g only, synced mail, browsed YouTube, Facebook, no calls. phone full drained around 1140am. So almost 16-17 hrs on one charge, but the high light was 5 hrs from 40% battery... Last to note, I never turned off blue tooth.
Currently, after full charge 100%(not like previous 95) I'm at 1hr26 mins and at 85% bat...same usage, same battery mode
Ill get further results soon.
Update: now at 55%, 3:55hrs on track for about 8-9hrs ... Not using app killers to add or any battery apps. Problem seems sporadic but I'm going to try to run full battery to full drain on performance mode to optimize..in my past experience Droid 1 and Droid x, over time the battery adapts or the phone adapts to the battery usage ... Could be a myth or fantasy ...
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Thanks a bunch for the info. I am in the process of doing the full drain right now. Hopefully, it will show some results.
-Brian
Beefcake550 said:
Hi All,
I'm a new registered user, so I can't put this in the developer forum yet.
I noticed a problem where I was losing battery power quickly, so I foudn a posting that said to do a "super" wipe. This was to one click recovery to stock, root, bootstrap, then boot into recovery to wipe cache, data, dalvik, format /system, wipe cache, data, install theory ROM 1.7. after clearing dalvik the second time, I threw in a "clear battery stats" for good measure.
What I noticed was this: prior to attempting any of this, the phone reported to be 96% to capacity and said it was "full" so it wouldn't charge any longer. After doing the sequence above, upon initial boot up, the battery was now reporting 88% and was charging again.
It would seem like the mechanism for reporting the battery usage is flawed in some way.
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Our phones read fully-charged at 95 percent, but if you keep it plugged in it will get to 100 - it just takes a good while.
There's a trick to that. Yank the back back cover, pull the battery, and unplug the phone. Plug the phone back in and wait for the "missing battery" icon to show, then slide the battery back in. It will initially read 5%- wait for it to charge to full, which should take 10-15 min. Repeat this process until the status reads 100% charged within a few seconds of putting the battery back in. Reboot into CWM and wipe the battery stats (or use the battery calibration app that's on the marketplace, if you don't use CWM) and you should be seeing a batter that's not only noticably more accurate in its charge level, but also charges more completely, resulting in somewhat better longevity.
You want to drain it fully and let it charge back up fully at least once after this process for best results.
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There's a trick to that. Yank the back back cover, pull the battery, and unplug the phone. Plug the phone back in and wait for the "missing battery" icon to show, then slide the battery back in. It will initially read 5%- wait for it to charge to full, which should take 10-15 min. Repeat this process until the status reads 100% charged within a few seconds of putting the battery back in. Reboot into CWM and wipe the battery stats (or use the battery calibration app that's on the marketplace, if you don't use CWM) and you should be seeing a batter that's not only noticably more accurate in its charge level, but also charges more completely, resulting in somewhat better longevity.
You want to drain it fully and let it charge back up fully at least once after this process for best results.
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This is a good trick, one I was taught by juhde. I used it on my x2 to great results.
However, I can't get it to read on my bionic. I get the '?' but nothing after I reinsert the battery.
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I find it only works when I unplug it and plug it back in just before inserting the battery. It sometimes also helps to hold down the power button for a few seconds with both the battery and charger out in between 'bumps'.
my fix
I have flashed every update since the first post and had battery issues starting around 1.5. After reading through the dev thread a bunch it seemed as the when performing wipes, they did not come out "clean" after one wipe. So I started at one wipe of each (factory reset, system, cache and dalvik) and the problem persisted. I then did 2 wipes of each, then 3 and 4. after 4 wipes of each all my issues had been resolved. not sure if it will work for everyone but it was the turning point for my device and might be a good starting point for anyone who is as annoyed as i was. good luck!!!!
Update:
Was able to repeat 17 hrs with custom settings: data off @30 min peak/off peak. Blue tooth was on the entire time, cell idle and Bluetooth were 30% consumption each.
Right now I'm in full performance on track to do 9.5 hrs. I've been playing Pandora for an hour every other hour, and did not kill its process.
I think the most practical usage is to cut data when not used for 30 min, I couldn't imagine anyone on their phone doing multiple things for 8+ hrs STRAIGHT. I'm running unleashed 1.7, no radio problems and no slow downs.
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My brother has been getting twice the battery life that I am getting. The only difference is I have rom installed, and he just debloated. I have a switch out extended battery coming from Verizon and if that doesn't work I may just drop back to stock debloated.
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I'm at 10hrs 11 min running performance mode, Bluetooth had been on all day. Cell idle 32%, blue tooth 30%, phone idle 25%, display 7% consumption. No data sync interrupts.
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efingguy said:
I'm at 10hrs 11 min running performance mode, Bluetooth had been on all day. Cell idle 32%, blue tooth 30%, phone idle 25%, display 7% consumption. No data sync interrupts.
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And your battery is drained? Or at a certain percentage?
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I think I have a faulty battery, I can't last 5 hours on a battery anymore. I'm going to go to VZW and see if I can pickup a spare and test that one.
This rom has absolutely nothing going for it. v1.7 and $6 will get you a cup of coffee from Starbucks. I have never flashed to stock as quickly as I did with this rom, since my first smart phone. Is this guy/team the only Dev with a Bionic??
Downloading/flashing on the fly (streamlined) is great however, what are we going to flash folks? 1.8??
Yes I know theory is only playing the hand he was delt but its clearly time to fold.
This makes me nervous.
For the issue regarding battery life..flash back to stock. Wait for the next developer.
volcomguyaz said:
This rom has absolutely nothing going for it. v1.7 and $6 will get you a cup of coffee from Starbucks. I have never flashed to stock as quickly as I did with this rom, since my first smart phone. Is this guy/team the only Dev with a Bionic??
Downloading/flashing on the fly (streamlined) is great however, what are we going to flash folks? 1.8??
Yes I know theory is only playing the hand he was delt but its clearly time to fold.
This makes me nervous.
For the issue regarding battery life..flash back to stock. Wait for the next developer.
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Yeah? And what was the issue you had? ANY ROM you flash will nuke the battery stats and need to be recalibrated. Simple as that.
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kredlash said:
And your battery is drained? Or at a certain percentage?
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Sorry, yes it was at 5% when posted that, and that was right before my car ride with Pandora playing through Bluetooth.
The end time was 10hrs 35mins.
Since then, I have done a 4x complete wipe, cleared previous traces of unthrottle and flashed 1.7 again, disabled automatic restore apps while synching with google. I used the battery calibration app from the market this morning and have set custom battery management to turn data off every 15 mins of non use. This is practical since the power boost script shortens the time to speed up, so data on/off shouldn't affect performance. I'll update at the end of the work day. Currently at:
85%
1Hr 21mins
Maps 43% consumption (I'm adding GPS on all day in addition to blue tooth all day)
Cell idle 19%
Blue tooth 18%
Phone idle 14%
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I just want to add, I'm absolutely loving this ROM. I would advise to check your steps if you are experiencing problems, and as always, keep in mind that its an ongoing development.
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efingguy said:
I just want to add, I'm absolutely loving this ROM. I would advise to check your steps if you are experiencing problems, and as always, keep in mind that its an ongoing development.
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By your justification you are not getting normal/average battery life.
You are disabling data and your cellphone when not in use just to get close to average.
My battery drain has been pretty bad.
I have done all required steps (multiple times) but it still seems like the phone is just flushing the battery out of it.
The best life i have gotten is when (the other day) I was working from home and completely forgot about my phone.
I left it unplugged and after about 8 hours (of literally ZERO use no WIFI) the battery was at around 36%
Its like its pumping it out at full blast no matter what.
Note: I have all powerboost mods installed.
I just flashed back to stock, have the same apps and still getting the same battery life. I am actually getting more network disconnects for some reason, however common sense says that has nothing to do with stock rom or DT rom. Its a driver issue that will be getting resolved in Nov (hopefully) . Flashing back to my sexy DT rom tonight, with a full wipe.
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jblade said:
By your justification you are not getting normal/average battery life.
You are disabling data and your cellphone when not in use just to get close to average.
My battery drain has been pretty bad.
I have done all required steps (multiple times) but it still seems like the phone is just flushing the battery out of it.
The best life i have gotten is when (the other day) I was working from home and completely forgot about my phone.
I left it unplugged and after about 8 hours (of literally ZERO use no WIFI) the battery was at around 36%
Its like its pumping it out at full blast no matter what.
Note: I have all powerboost mods installed.
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I don't really understand what people are trying to solve.
Your problem is you left your phone on performance mode and it drained your battery. That's like leaving you car lights on and expecting it not to drain the battery. I'm exhibiting extreme heavy usage vs normal practical usage and how the ROM does *not* affect it negatively relative to your daily usage of the phone.
In my normal day, I would not have bluetooth running all day, which from my above data consistently drains 30% of the battery. Bluetooth is only used when I'm in my car which it connects to the car audio for phone and music. In my normal work day, I would not have GPS running all day, which from my recent post is draining 43% of the battery. In a normal week, I would only need to use GPS to find a unique restaurant that maybe I haven't been to or in an area I am not familiar. The main point for the contribution in this "battery investigation" is that I am not experiencing any radio loss, connection failure, or system lag by having Data shut off.
I really do not see the occassion that anyone would ever use their phone heavily for 20+ hours straight. Or even more than a movie's length straight. I could think of possible arguement points such as hiking and needing it to last for saftey/emergencies -- but why would you have it full blast on performance? Long car rides -- but if you are doing an 8+ hour drive, don't you plan on having a car charger? I just don't get what people's frustrations are. I do understand the problem that people's battery tick abnormally which is a fault of either the device, a defective battery, or lack of following directions when using the ROM. Again, the ROM is a development, and no one is forcing you to use it. It is actually quite nice to test, run into a problem, report it and have it fixed within days/weeks instead of months or never like the stock.
I guess I've rambled into a rant, but I'm merely providing my own experience in details so that people have a general feel of how the battery is and if my usage is similar to theirs.
I'm not claiming to have average/above average battery life, I'm justifying that this has not affected my daily use of the phone for everything that I use it for (being connected to work, being socially connected, and games/movies/music).
hi all ,
my phone is having some battery drain issues ...when i use GXP v22 the battery drain 1% everty minute in standby ..no battery in just 2 hours with GDX it last only 10hours
even when i full wiped , clear dalvik , wipe battery stats the battery still dies to quickly ...
so what would you do?
oh ya i got this rather odd problem the battery went standby for about 4hours ..the battery was 75% and still is ..but then when you use like 1 minute it drop another 1% ..why?
will the launcher be he culprit? i use launcher 360 ..
i off everthing , 3g ,0% brightness , no haptic , no wifi , no bluetooth use silent etc...
flash the other rom after flashing gdx without full wipe.. hope it works ...
tohno said:
hi all ,
my phone is having some battery drain issues ...when i use GXP v22 the battery drain 1% everty minute in standby ..no battery in just 2 hours with GDX it last only 10hours
even when i full wiped , clear dalvik , wipe battery stats the battery still dies to quickly ...
so what would you do?
oh ya i got this rather odd problem the battery went standby for about 4hours ..the battery was 75% and still is ..but then when you use like 1 minute it drop another 1% ..why?
will the launcher be he culprit? i use launcher 360 ..
i off everthing , 3g ,0% brightness , no haptic , no wifi , no bluetooth use silent etc...
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Try another "Rom" i guess it's not the launcher but the rom itself, try XGin 6.2 it has a great batt. life. been using it for over 2 weeks now and i'm pretty happy with the battery life.
wifi always on, calling, texting, media streaming, brightness set @ 70%, surfing and my batt last for about 1day 7hrs..
will it help if i give it some time ? maybe a week or 2 ?
I don´t think so.
But that battery drain IS NOT NORMAL, I normally get beetween 24h and 48h of without charging, sometimes even more, and less when I use Wi-Fi or play 3D games.
There´s a battery calibration app on the market:
You charge you phone, an when it´s at 100% you click a button and then the app wipes your battery stats.
You can also set an alarm that rings when the battery is on 100%.
GingerDX v022 on Stock Kernel, smartass governor (default scaling values of 122->600 MHz)
With WiFi and 3G turned OFF the battery drain is 1% in ~2.5-3 hours (phone idle).
With 3G turned on and WiFi turned off the battery drain (almost full reception) is 1% every 4.5 minutes!!! (~7 hours before the battery dies)
With WiFi turned on and 3G turned off the battery drain is 1% every 15-20 minutes (phone just sitting there causing the usual traffic of Gmail, Talk, Sync).
Try to set your phone to a comparable configuration (no idea if GXP has a CPU Governor setting - in GDX it's in CyanogenMod Settings) and try to replicate the test ...
From the "with GDX it last only 10hours" you wrote it sounds like your phone is constantly connected to WiFi or 3G (and maybe having download/upload traffic going on - therefore increasing the power consumption).
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Also note that overclocking (as I recall I spotted a overclock thread of yours) will chew the juice out of your battery at a way faster pace.
Keep in mind that the values may differ depending on the GSM/3G reception ... the weaker the signal, the more power the phone needs to apply to communicate with the tower. If you're in an area where the reception is poor you shouldn't wonder about the battery getting eaten.
As a last resort, keep an eye on what applications you have running in the background. The more crap you got running, the more bat drain you're going to have when processes are fighting over CPU time.
NONO i never on wifi / 3G / bluetooth / GPS ..cause of the poor battery i tried my best to save as much battery as possible ...but in no use =( i cosntantly use task killers and i use smartass governer i think i will try stormvix ..oh! and starting my phone eats about 20% each time i does it ..is this normal?
i tried the battery calibration app ..doesn't do jack =(
should i pcc my phone? and redo everything
tohno said:
NONO i never on wifi / 3G / bluetooth / GPS ..cause of the poor battery i tried my best to save as much battery as possible ...but in no use =( i cosntantly use task killers and i use smartass governer i think i will try stormvix ..oh! and starting my phone eats about 20% each time i does it ..is this normal?
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"starting my phone" translates into what ... ?
Turning it on (from being powered off) and letting it boot up results in 20% loss of battery charge?
That's NOT normal at all ... your charge should lose 1% at best if it was already close to going down by a percent.
Using the phone for a phone call makes it lose 20% battery charge?
Well, that entirely depends on the length of the call and the reception. Going down 20% would be about... hmmm... 1.5h talking time (estimated from the top of my head)?
At any rate ... a rapid loss of charge like your 10 hours while the phone just idles around twiddling thumbs and not being connected to WiFi or 2/3G is not normal no matter how you look at it. EDIT: Unless you overclock sky-high and running the performance governor which would keep the CPU fully clocked no matter what's currently going on.
starting in the sense like restarting eg entering cwm / xrec ...i flashed back to stock now ...gonna do it all again .. i knew this was too much drain i off everything even background data and i use smaratss 122 - 710 , even my brightness is 9% ...
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Unless you overclock sky-high [...]
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tohno said:
i use smaratss 122 - 710
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Just for testing purposes to see if the bat drain stays within a sane stretch I recommend you stay with 122-600MHz.
It would also help to install some app/widget that monitors the current clock of the CPU - just to see if there's something which keeps your CPU busy and therefore running at full throttle. I recently saw something like that, I just fail to remember where and what the name of the app was ...........
okay so i flashed to stock last night ..i on everything sync , wifi , bluetooth , data etc for 5 hours it drained only 10% surpisingly ...after 10seconds it restarted and dropped to 3% ..odd...and i fully charged my phone to 100% and left it there for about 1hour and it dropped from 100% - 86% ..any solution?
There are only two things left that I would consider ...
a) The circuitry monitoring the battery charge is bogus and pulling random values out of thin air (would indicate a hardware defect in the loading circuit on the motherboard).
b) Any change the guys who repaired your phone from the hard brick returned your device with a old, almost dead, battery instead of the shiny new one you had in your W8 that bricked (you know, shady retailers thinking to make a few extra bucks by selling off the battery of your dead phone as used-part replacement to earn a "little something extra")? This would closer match to the 10->3% / 100->86% jump symptoms - the battery being about dead and therefore unable to hold the charge and draining like wild.
I don't know which of these two options to favor, but I would give "b" a 51% chance over "a".
EDIT: Stay with the Stock ROM and complain with either the repair shop or SE as the drain problem can be reproduced any given time. This should actually be covered through warranty as the original phone wasn't that old, and the repair is somewhat unrelated. The battery should at least last for two years before you should observe major degrades.