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Which ROM is the best considering Battery live ?
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There is a real nice chart in the captivate general forum thread called battery showdown, still a work in progress, but a good place to start.
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My vote
So far Twingerbread has had great battery life. Plus it works really well.
I'm very happy with Andromeda 1.2.
see my signature ... i got more than 24+ hours for a single charge.
the best i can have is 3days with supernova and suckerpunch kernal OCed at 1200, but with light use (almost 2 hours of screen on and about an half hour of voice call)
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the best i can have is 3days with supernova and suckerpunch kernal OCed at 1200, but with light use (almost 2 hours of screen on and about an half hour of voice call)
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I don't believe that for a second. Captivate 2.1 Stock loses 15% battery just from cell activity over about 6 hours. And a half hour voice call would suck up about another 30%
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I don't believe that for a second. Captivate 2.1 Stock loses 15% battery just from cell activity over about 6 hours. And a half hour voice call would suck up about another 30%
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I lose about 15% for 30 min voice call, 1% for 1and half hours of standby, and 1% lose per 4 mins of time on (i mean screen on). however i have problem with sukerpunch in wifi connection I have to go to setting/wifi to open the wifi connection
I'm using phoenix ultimate and currently @ 33% 25 hours unplugged. Light to moderate use.
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46.5 hours with 29 percent left
with pheonix 7 with BLN activated light use but with google synch on the whole time
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46.5 hours with 29 percent left
with pheonix 7 with BLN activated light use but with google synch on the whole time
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New Captivates shipping with car batteries in them or something? Fking rediculous.
prayii said:
New Captivates shipping with car batteries in them or something? Fking rediculous.
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46.5 hours with 29 percent left
with pheonix 7 with BLN activated light use but with google synch on the whole time
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That is pretty insane. Are you UC/UVing the crap out of the ROM too? I'm running Precision 3.5 and I get at MOST 28-29 hours a single charge but I'm a moderate to heavy user. Maybe if I was a light user I may squeeze another 5-10 hours i suppose...but nothing like yours...
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That is pretty insane. Are you UC/UVing the crap out of the ROM too? I'm running Precision 3.5 and I get at MOST 28-29 hours a single charge but I'm a moderate to heavy user. Maybe if I was a light user I may squeeze another 5-10 hours i suppose...but nothing like yours...
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I am going to decond that, since I am a moderate to heavy user as well. However, i would like to put in a good word for DG's Cognition 4.1.1. Battery time is better than most that I have seen.........except in my case (having power issues with my suckerpunch kernel at the moment).
Coak5 said:
That is pretty insane. Are you UC/UVing the crap out of the ROM too? I'm running Precision 3.5 and I get at MOST 28-29 hours a single charge but I'm a moderate to heavy user. Maybe if I was a light user I may squeeze another 5-10 hours i suppose...but nothing like yours...
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I am going to decond that, since I am a moderate to heavy user as well. However, i would like to put in a good word for DG's Cognition 4.1.1. Battery time is better than most that I have seen.........except in my case (having power issues with my suckerpunch kernel at the moment).
I've been using Juiced 2.1 for a few days. Very happy with battery life and speed. I get about 27 hours in standby.
I have only used a few roms (various versions of cog, percep, androm, paragon and twinger) over the last couple of months and my best so far is twinger. I don't use custom kernals or modems or whatever, as it is uploaded is how I use it. I keep everything enabled and updating, have plenty of widgets and 100+ apps. Heavy/Moderate/Light, not only is it relative I don't waste time worrying about it. The most important thing for me is to use my phone as it was meant to be used without all the fussing over settings and make it through every day no matter the useage and no matter how early or late I get home and the only one to last longer than me has been twinger. I rarely use GPS because no matter what I have used, it sucks, even plum bobs fix, freakin samsuck!
Jerry
Using Dilligaf's 7.0.1
Stats in screenshots
35% left after over 1 day 7 hours
Still on the replacement battery I got in Sep '10.
Why do people dwell on battery usage? Use the phone lightly and there isn't much usage. Use it more and there's more usage. Have GPS, WiFi, updates, etc running non-stop and it drains even faster.
During the week with fairly low usage, I recharge every night with between 60 to 70% remaining. Then from Fri morning at 700 am until Sun evening at 1100 pm (64 hours) it'll be down around 20% remaining. BECAUSE I rarely use it on weekends, GPS off, auto-rotation off, WiFi off, no texting/email, maybe 1 or 2 phone calls.
Been roughly the same with all three ROMS I've been on (Andromeda, then Di11i's, now Darky's 9.3 Extreme)
Even though it is still beta, I seem to have the best battery life with CM7 and TheEscapist's kernel overclocked to 1.2ghz and UV'ed. Gingerbread should use less battery life than Froyo so maybe this shouldn't be a surprise.
60% after 17:25, moderate usage. Cognition 4.1.1 with Speedmod's K13c and KP1. Animated screen saver, gmail synching, a bit more than three hours of onscreen time, including surfing, music player and games.
This is so different from Cog 3.02 and earlier, when I was lucky to squeeze out 16 hours total, and the phone burned 10% of the charge in 5 hours when idle. Now it burns 1-2% when idle, and KP1 seems to burn a bit less battery when I'm actively using the phone than JK4 did. And, oh, yeah: everything works! I couldn't be more pleased.
Hey guys, I hope I can get a few recommendations regarding Gingerbread Roms with gooooood battery life.... Currently I am running on MIUI mcgv.3 or something and the battery drain is just pissing me off....
I looked through the Rom list too but none stated how the battery life was on them..
Also I would like to have the ROM as minimal as possible, just all the tweaks (dont really care about themes, roms or unlocking screens)
So guys, any help and recommendation is appreciated ))
thanks a lot!!!
Best battery on a Gingerbread ROM I found using Criseklo v56.
Newer versions didnt last that long. Search in google Criskelo v56. I can get easily 40+ hours on that.
im using darky's 10.1 and the max i managed was 1d 20hours with 3g on like 3 hours
alright, thanks guys, I will check em both out )
FuguMod + Insanity Rom. 2+ days easy
I've gone from simply honey to darkys 10.1 and I could get more use out of simply honey. Seemed to have less glitches too.
I think GingerCriskeloV66 is also good !!
try it >>
I'm using MIUI 5.31. Left my Phone on for the night with Data + wifi on.
It went from 100% (which is fake. It's actually 98%) to 92%. That's pretty cool for an almost 10 hours sleep. Especially for this ROM which used to be a battery hogger! But now I love it =)
I'm on stock JVO + CF-root. Flashed another modem and a wifi driver from Latest BCM4329 (WiFi) driver for Gingerbread. Getting about 4 days on light usage with wifi, GPS, data sync on all the time. I have 1% battery drain over 2-3h on standby.
Iám on Simply Honey 3.5 Revolution! 1day 20hour with 1500mAh Battery!
Desvbo said:
Hey guys, I hope I can get a few recommendations regarding Gingerbread Roms with gooooood battery life.... Currently I am running on MIUI mcgv.3 or something and the battery drain is just pissing me off....
I looked through the Rom list too but none stated how the battery life was on them..
Also I would like to have the ROM as minimal as possible, just all the tweaks (dont really care about themes, roms or unlocking screens)
So guys, any help and recommendation is appreciated ))
thanks a lot!!!
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I'm using GingerReal 5.0 with Darkcore 2.5 :
Phone (average 1h use) with datanetwork off and mostly on standby 3+ days
Phone (average 2-3h use) with datanetwork and 3G on it lasts 36 hours.
Phone (average 2-3h use) with datanetwork and 3G on and 3 exchange acounts it lasts 21 hours.
Brotuk's stockrom jv9 with damiens 2.1 kernel using it heavily I got an honest 28hrs.
Sent via ET and he phoned it in.
What is the advantage of 2.3 vs. 2.2 for our phone. I know everyone likes to have the latest and greatest, but is there any features that the captivates hardware takes advantage of. For example I understand that 2.3.4 adds video chat but the captivate does not have a front facing camera. I know that the update has to have security enhancements, but what are features to get excited for with 2.3?
The voice stuff. Much more full featured without third party apps. I can say things like "set alarm 15 minutes" and be alerted.
Other than that and the fact that most development has switched to 2.3, not much.
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Battery life is HUGELY extended. Gingerbread does some automatic juggling with data connections to keep usage to a minimum. Pre gingerbread I would get 6-8 hours of battery life without using a program like Juice Defender. Now I easily get 30 hours of battery life.
I thought there was a battery drain issue, was that only with cm7 or I9000 roms?
I too experience massive battery drain with Miui which is a 2.3 cm7 rom.
asrrin29, are you suggesting other 2.3 roms that aren't based on cm7 will have the extended battery life?
I get 30 plus hours with Andromeda3 with about 30% battery left , so , if battery life is one of the few reasons to flash GB I'll just stay where I'm at.
MIUI and CyanogenMod have horrible battery life. Thats their own little bug, remember they are AOSP's and they still haven't worked out the kinks on Nexus S rom to galaxy S. But Gingerbread roms have HUGE battery life increase over froyo. I can get anywhere from 12-36 hours (12 would be heavy use). Sadly Android 2.3.3 has a small little bug where android OS would start eating battery like no one's business, a reboot fixes that problem. Android 2.3.4 fixes that issue.
The battery drain on cm7 is nowhere bad as it was, I get around 18- 26 hours. and most issues have been fix as well.
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The battery drain on cm7 is nowhere bad as it was, I get around 18- 26 hours. and most issues have been fix as well.
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I get about 6-8 max on MIUI.
I'll try a non-cm7 rom.
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The battery drain on cm7 is nowhere bad as it was, I get around 18- 26 hours. and most issues have been fix as well.
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Well I am basing my info from what I've read. I also think the battery issues have to do with kernel-modem combination. But when people say they are getting horrible battery life on GB rom, odds are they are on cm7 or MIUI =/
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Well I am basing my info from what I've read. I also think the battery issues have to do with kernel-modem combination. But when people say they are getting horrible battery life on GB rom, odds are they are on cm7 or MIUI =/
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I agree with the kernel-modem combination
Cause i stay on the stock kernel, most other cm7 kernels tend get out date and break updates so i just stay way from them.
Miui seems to be the one with battery life issues, cm7 is getting pretty close to samsung rom battery levels.
Undervolting helps a lot with cm7/miui. I personally feel like gingerbread is smoother and the newer gb roms have some beautiful themes. Battery life is definitely better with the exception of cm7/miui.
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After using Samsung stock ROMs for over a year I finally switched to CM7.1(Stable) last week. But the battery life I'm getting now is not as good what I used to get with Samsung stock ROMs. With JVT I easily got 24hrs, but now I cant go beyond 15hrs with same usage patterns (3G during day and WiFi at night, few short calls and around 50 SMSs, with a bit of web browsing and some online audio streaming). Did anyone else notice a similar battery life drop going from a recent stock ROM to CM7.1 ?
I ran the CM7 nightlies until recently and came back to JVT because of battery life and the hello hello bug. I use my phone as a music player for most of the day and find that stock ROMs hardly deplete the battery at all, with CM7 I was getting the same sort of life as you.
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For me, CM 7.1 Stable drains battery a lot. I've changed to JVP modem and it seems to be a bit longer, maybe I'll try with Fugu kernel.
Looks like I'll be going back to JVT. Idling battery drain is way too much. For example I charged it around 8 last night and by 12 noon today, battery is down to 45% mostly just idling and few texts. This is as bad as original eclair release came with the phone.
I personaly dont find there to be a huge difference but i am on Bell which is HSPA only (3G all the time)
i find i always have to recharge by 4 pm (8 am wake up) but i am a heavy user. I am waiting for my extended battery so i can make it through a day.
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I personaly dont find there to be a huge difference but i am on Bell which is HSPA only (3G all the time)
i find i always have to recharge by 4 pm (8 am wake up) but i am a heavy user. I am waiting for my extended battery so i can make it through a day.
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What was the last stock ROM you used ? I used to get similar battery life with earlier ROMs, sometimes I had to charge it twice in a day depending on usage. But with recent ROMs (2.3.3 and up), I ever hardly charged it twice, despite very heavy use (more than an hour of calling , GSM/VOIP, about an hour of internet audio streaming etc..). IMO stock ROMs are really good at idle power consumption, I have managed to get 2 days with light use, a full day with moderate use and more than 10hrs with heavy use.
EDIT : CM7 is smoother and quicker; I also like the customizability. I’ll again give it a try when ICS comes out , but till then I'm back to Samsung Stock, because poor battery life simply kills the experience for me. Perhaps I can squeeze couple of hours more with some tweaks, but I doubt it'll be as good as JVT.
I myself have come back to 2.3.5 xxjvt cos coming from cm7.1 and darky 10.2 final..i should say stock rom can have a standby time of more than 24hours believe that..otherwise ics might have a lot more to over than gingerbread
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I hope when ics is released by cyogenmod battery life gets better this is why ive not updated to 7.1
Hello U all.
Can somebody give me a link to the CM7.1 stable for i9000?
Thank you.
Hey there,
In case you can't tell, I'm a newbie.
Anyways, I'm currently using a 6-yo HTC Dopod Pro and I've finally decided to get a new phone.
I really want to get a Galaxy Note but I hear that the Note has a relatively short battery life.
I also heard that ICS for the Note causes the battery to drain even quicker.
Have these issues been fixed yet?
Cheers.
What you have heard is misinformation. A bad installation of ICS, rogue apps and weird settings are the cause of people having battery issues with ICS.
The Note has one of the best battery lifes among all android phones.
Note has excellent battery life. I have the LQ2 ICS, and I have no weird battery drain, wakelocks or any other probs
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Just disable some draining apps on ICS.
Don't forget the huge power of note battery( 2500mAh)
I'm also on LQ2 ICS =]
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Belfia said:
What you have heard is misinformation. A bad installation of ICS, rogue apps and weird settings are the cause of people having battery issues with ICS.
The Note has one of the best battery lifes among all android phones.
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Really?
Cuz I hear lots of things about bad battery life on ICS, even on xda.
Some examples:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1676335
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1649041
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1685383
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1676018
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1697792
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=32277
http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-note/554408-battery-drainage-after-updating-ics.html
I heard the battery life was pretty good whilst on GB but as soon as people upgrade to ICS, the life was substantially lower.
The battery drain "problem" of the GNote is like troubles with your Windows computer (IMHO): The more you fumble, worse it gets. Use it as it was designed and you'll be a happy person.
I have a GNote for a few months, it was Full Stock under GB and now is Full Stock under ICS. I use it moderately (2nd phone) and could easily manage 36 hours.
I pick it of the charger ~5h30, 6h00 in the morning and find it at 60~70% when I get home about 12 hours later (30~45 minutes talk time, not much else). I than read my favorite blogs and news papers that runs it down to 30-40% (reading takes about 1,5 hours).
When I go to bed it's never lower than 27-30%
The only problem I have is that it sometimes doesn't go in Deep Sleep and that I solve through a systematical reboot in the morning (of the charger).
As always (even people) the GNote is as good as you treat it
Hey Little Vince
Welcome to XDA!
I have had Note for over 6 months (bought from UK to Brissy) Been on ICS only last eight days or so - and I can report that the battery life is slightly better than GB. Speed is better too - not as much lag.
I have used Blackberry/Axim/Palm before and always got into the habit of charging overnight so anything longer than 24 hours doesnt really matter.
Please don't let others put you off a wonderful phone. It is so versatile.
PS - it always takes a few battery cycles (e.g. three or four days) before you get accurate info. I have had quick battery drain for a few hours after updating Kernel but it always settles down.
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The only problem I have is that it sometimes doesn't go in Deep Sleep and that I solve through a systematical reboot in the morning (of the charger).
As always (even people) the GNote is as good as you treat it
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What is that systematical reboot you're talking about? Can you explain a little bit?
There are a few tricks suggested in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1649041
I found my battery life was quite poor at first but it has improved after a few charging cycles. Also, I had a lot of syncing processes running (some duplicating others). Killing some of those also helped.
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Never had an issue with batt drain, either on gb or ics... I think the latter is a bit better. I leave gps, wifi and 3g on all the time, and am a relatively heavy user... really haven't tweaked anything for batt life, other than removing some bloat.
OP, it would probably help if you told us what you would consider to be decent battery life. That way, people will be able to tell you if it is possible.
As for me, I'm on CM9 and have never tried stock ICS. I can confirm that battery life was better on GB, but CM9 still gets me through the day on fairly frequent use.
Usually fully charged when I get up in the morning (6am), and down to about 20-30% when I charge it at night before bed. This will normally include roughly 3-4 hours screen time from watching movies on the train and internet browsing throughout the day.
Same here no battery problem. I'm using DXLP9 firmware.
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Nah battery drain is a real issue with ICS. It's too documented to be denied. Doesn't matter what I think is good battery life, but relatively with GB, it was 20-30% for about 12 hours of use (wife doesn't use it much) and after ICS, it's -110%. Hmm.. I meant for the 12 hours, it needs a charge and then some. And that's crazy since my wife really doesn't use it much.
Anyhow, this completely fixed it for me. Looks like there's a few bugs that you can come across if you have battery drain with ICS. Check the full thread for more details...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25980444&postcount=2
UPDATE: ok no. Still no real solution for fixing this after trying many over lots of days. AFAIK, kernal problem that Samsung needs to fix. And please do fix!!
As I see it from the times from BBS the problem of the drain is at standby mode where the battery for the start of locking and outing on sleep it eats slot of battery till it reaches the 1% every 1 hour and 45 minutes like it was on lc1 stock, even I had on GB 2 hours 45min for 1%, it starts with 1% for 30 minutes then 45 min 1 hour and so on till it reaches the max of it.
The use with screen on is the same 25% for 1 hour and 20-30 min screen on time with low brightness, as it was with GB. On GB I had 5h30m screen on with 10-14% battery left.
So the issue for me at least, is the standby aka sleep mode.
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to the OP, yes battery drain is a documented issue on ICS, with the wake locks and rogue apps (for the unlucky few.. myself included)
i was on rooted stock GB and i used to have a good 72hrs of standby time for the note especially on the weekend when it is rarely used and maybe a good 48hrs on a weekday with average usage (about an hour's call, moderate surfing, facebook etc)
during days when i travel a lot i can be surfing and listening to music and doing calls for the better part of the day and the note still lasts a day with about 20% juice left by 7-8pm
however after I upgraded to ICS LP9, my battery couldn't even last me for a day without getting a few hours of charge from my laptop, i was on stock ICS for 2 weeks and did a lot of fine tuning just to optimize the battery life and ensure the phone goes into deep sleep and still not sufficient. the thing that blew it for me was when i noticed that my note started running at 1000mhz only and not any lower (even when charging - take note i was on unrooted ICS).. so decided that ICS with all its hype wasn't polished enough yet and was not worth it for me and went back to my stock rooted GB LC2
now i'm a happy camper.. note sleeps like a baby when it is supposed to and runs smoothly when called upon
so to answer your question (sorry about the long story) yes you can enjoy great battery life on note be it GB or ICS but you won't know until you get one for yourself.. and like what the other posters said the note is such a beast of a phone that you will not look into another phone again once you get one be it on GB or ICS
I absolutely would not recommend the G Note until there is another ICS update issued - unless you want to stick to GB (in which case I would definitely recommend).
Apart from the deep sleep problem, which for me anyway, cannot be resolved, I've had stability issues, overheating and it even pulls restarts without warning.
The only battery fixes that have kind of worked for me (and they still don't get me anywhere near the battery life I was getting with GB) involved me following a 5 step programme every time I charge my phone, which is frankly unacceptable.
FYI - I've had the note since December and it's running stock everything.
The Note is an amazing phone, but ICS has rendered mine not fit for purpose.
The sad thing is samsungs and android capabilities in finding the culprits. Fancy native battery charts which dont help much, if any in analyzing.
Only best case is to check deep sleep(cpuspy) , and if deep sleep is low check partial wakelocks in betterbatterystats.
Then you can find a lot of the culprits
Good thing the XDA community picks up where Samsung/google drop the ball.
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To the OP. My Note on gingerbread had wonderful battery life 16+ hrs. After the ICS LPY update my note dies after 5 hours. To all the naysayers saying there are no issues with battery life on ICS, give me a break. Just google how many note and galaxy SII users on ICS are having battery drain issues.
I get exactly the same battery life on ics that I did on gb, the battery drain people are having has nothing to do with ics. It will be apps causing the issues. Im running exactly the same apps as I was before and its exactly the same battery.
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I get exactly the same battery life on ics that I did on gb, the battery drain people are having has nothing to do with ics. It will be apps causing the issues. Im running exactly the same apps as I was before and its exactly the same battery.
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mmm.... No.... The same apps, even after a factory reset and reinstalling apps I STILL had the drain. You say it's apps that aren't optimized? That could be true... but then again, I guess it must be a VERY VERY common app that's causing this because most everyone says they've experienced a decrease in battery life.