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There's not a single thread out there that has helped me with my damn battery life that I've been able to find. I'm sick of hearing, "did you search first?" Yes, I searched first. I didn't find anything that helped, that's why I made a new thread.
Anyways, I've tried apps, widgets, calibrating, deleting batterystats.bin, flashing different roms, kernels, modems, and even a new battery. Not a single thing has made my phone last through the day, and it's getting to the point where I'm about to flash back to stock, and forget about it. I need to be able to use it when I need it, not put it back in my pocket because I'm afraid of draining the battery. Honestly I'm not sure if the battery issue is rom related, so If that doesn't work, I may just get a different phone. I need to not have to charge my phone every 6 hours. Does anyone have any idea how to improve battery life on this freakin' thing? 6-7 hours on light usage is not enough. To put it in to perspective, I get 10-15% battery drain in STANDBY per hour. Serendipity 6.4 was a little better than 7, but not much. still within that 6-7 hour range. Is there anything else I can try? Anything at all? I went from 7 back to 6.4 because I thought Android System was draining my battery, but it didn't really do anything. I'm open to everything at this point. Voodoo, cult magic, anything.
Edit: reading through my message, I wanted to clarify that I am very grateful for your help, I hope I didn't imply otherwise.
Serendipity 6.4
Baseband version I9000UGJK4
Kernel Version 2.6.32.9
[email protected]#32 Tue Apr 12 11:43:22 SGT 2011
Need more info? I'd be happy to oblige. Thank you for your help. I know it gets annoying reading posts about this stuff but I really couldn't find anything helpful.
are you using exchange push?
Pirateghost said:
are you using exchange push?
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Disclaimer: I'm a noob.
I don't know what that is heh
Have you tried Juicedefender? It's helped me immensely. Other than that, I could suggest getting an extended battery, if you're willing to cope with a lumpy cappy. I'm too noob to know how to fix this problem other than by using the brute force route, but it's worth a shot.
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Disclaimer: I'm a noob.
I don't know what that is heh
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sounds like you have an app that is chewing through your battery.
Pirateghost said:
sounds like you have an app that is chewing through your battery.
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Yeah, with gingerbread roms I've heard it's fairly common for you to have high usage from android system. Check that?
Pirateghost said:
sounds like you have an app that is chewing through your battery.
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Well, battery usage shows just about nothing... I was using 6.4 but after it did nothing for my battery life, I went back to 7. Now the android system thing is back but I'm getting the same battery life.
Here's what it shows under battery usage for today:
Display 29%
Android System 25%
Android OS 10%
Google Services 7%
Cell Standby 6%
Fancy Widget 4%
Handcent SMS 3%
Battery Graph 2%
Phone Idle 2%
JuiceDefender 2%
Dialer 1%
and that's it.
if you start seeing android system and android os that high, shut down, yank battery and let it sit for a few minutes. then replace and start up. should help with that and improve battery life.
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if you start seeing android system and android os that high, shut down, yank battery and let it sit for a few minutes. then replace and start up. should help with that and improve battery life.
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The problem is, I'd be doing that every 15 minutes. It boots up already taking up more than 10%. I just did exactly what you said, and it booted at 23% for system and 3% for os.
Get,cpuspy and check if it is going into deep sleep
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keitaroguy said:
Get,cpuspy and check if it is going into deep sleep
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wilco, will post results soon
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Get,cpuspy and check if it is going into deep sleep
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It's reporting roughly 38% deep sleep. 21% in 1000mhz, 3% for 800, 2% for 400, 2% for 200, and 32% for 100.
those seem pretty normal. let me try to pick my brain some more and see what i can think up ill get back to you
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those seem pretty normal. let me try to pick my brain some more and see what i can think up ill get back to you
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flashed cyanogenmod 7, and turned off mobile data and wifi and just left it on idle for like 2 hours after resetting the batterystats.bin and rebooting... i uninstalled juicedefender because it was actually USING batter... *shrug* and left it that way... well, I opened battery left and looked at it and saw that it would die at like 5am... well, i was disappointed... until I noticed it was 5am, 26 hours from now. That's notibly longer than any battery left stat I've seen since I started noting battery issues... So... Yeah. I think I'll stick with CM7 for a while hehe. After I get an idle benchmark, I'll start using it more. Thank you for your help.
do you live in a poor 3g area?
the problem could be that the phone is constantly looking for a good connection and cant find one, causing massive battery drain
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do you live in a poor 3g area?
the problem could be that the phone is constantly looking for a good connection and cant find one, causing massive battery drain
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I was just going to say the same thing. If your phone is constantly trying to establish a connection, is alway searching, it's using up lots of juice. Same if you've got gps enable or wifi on. If it's looking, it's active and battery's being used.
Another thing you can try which helped me is to call art and get another free battery if your phone is still under warranty. The new battery I have seems to last almost twice as long as my old one. Of course make sure that the android os isn't eating the battery and mine last a while. Just a suggestion.
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I was messing with my phone (rooting, testing out roms, etc.) and I decided I just wanted plain old stock. So I put it back to stock (official 2.3.5 gingerbread) and rooted it. Then I decided to calibrate the battery by using the Battery Calibration app in the Play Store.
Now my battery drains about 15% every hours in standby mode. Do I need to wait more time for the Battery calibration to take effect?
The calibration doesn't work on stock it only work on custom ROMs... kies calibrates the phone and reset the batterystats.bin so there should be something else killing your battery especially 3g...disable what ever you are not using rotation/data sync/bt/ ect.
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It's still draining that fast on airplane mode.
Nicamarcel1 said:
The calibration doesn't work on stock it only work on custom ROMs... kies calibrates the phone and reset the batterystats.bin so there should be something else killing your battery especially 3g...disable what ever you are not using rotation/data sync/bt/ ect.
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"Calibrating" the battery is huge myth. It does absolutely nothing.
batterystats.bin is used to display what has been using your battery in about phone/battery use. That's it. Has nothing to do with calculating the remaining battery, or does not improve or decrease battery life in any way.
Furthermore it is reset EVERY TIME YOU CHARGE TO 100%
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"Calibrating" the battery is huge myth. It does absolutely nothing.
batterystats.bin is used to display what has been using your battery in about phone/battery use. That's it. Has nothing to do with calculating the remaining battery, or does not improve or decrease battery life in any way.
Furthermore it is reset EVERY TIME YOU CHARGE TO 100%
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That's what I've read but it must do something, because since I ran that app and 'recalibrated' the battery, the battery dies in about 7 hours on stand-by. It would last me all day before I ran that app.
I did find one thing that was using battery on standby...my Beautiful Widgets Live Wallpaper. I set the wallpaper turned off the screen and after three hours I checked the battery use. I found that 'Display' was using the most at 50%. And during that time, it drained about 45%. I'll keep testing.
Oh yeah forgot live wall paper kill around 20% never use it so case close....
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It looks like that's the culprit. I must've put on the live wallpaper sometime after 'recalibrating' and didn't remember. I'll let you know if I have anymore problems.
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Hi guys i have a galaxy s phone and it's working really great, but now a days it shows me some weird battery problems...
ProblemNo:1.Some times my battery shows like 45% or like that and it goes up to 46 or 47% after a few minutes during discharge
2.Some times when i have about 55% then if i remove my battery and put it back and when i reboot it shows only 5%, this problem is very rare but it's occurred more than 2 times
3. when i am charging my phone it's reach up to 99% then it drop down to 98% then 99,100
These are my problems,i am using MIUI 2.4.20 ROM
what causing these problems is it my battery faulty or do i have a hardware problem
or is it the ROM
please any one help me.....
Have you tried wiping the battery stats in cwm?
Or, trying a battery calibration app from the play store? For example, Battery Calibration.
Problem number 1 occurred to me a few times it isn't a serious issue.
Problem 3 you need to wipe battery stats and calibrate your battery (play store has apps for that)
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My guess is that using multiple batteries is playing havoc with your battery stats, but what the solution is I have no idea to be honest
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Have you tried wiping the battery stats in cwm?
Or, trying a battery calibration app from the play store? For example, Battery Calibration.
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Yes i use battery calibration and every known app to wipe my battery stats file also i even wipe it from cwm but no luck
the problem still exist
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My guess is that using multiple batteries is playing havoc with your battery stats, but what the solution is I have no idea to be honest
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i am using only one battery not multiple batteries
i don't think that battery stats file has anything to do with this problem, it's something else...
my worst fear is that is it my phone's any hardware part is faulty.....!!
Or guys is this problem occur if my battery is faulty....?
help me to sort out the problem............
I have this issue also.. I checked and my battery is on good health, really annoying but nothing I can't live with
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I fond that if its at say 50% and I reboot and it drops to say 5% it takes ages to discharge that 5% so I guess it has the same charge just reading it wrong, if I leave it for a while without using it it will go back up
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I was thinking of a back up phone. I guess this is off the list.
i have 5 batteries haha i dont need to worry about my battery i dont care
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I've been lurking these forums looking for this but haven't found anything quite like this. The P880 prides itself on great standby battery life but mine is draining more than my previous Motorola RAZR (not the maxx). It never lasts more than about 14-15 hours and that is when i do almost nothing. One, two calls a few messages with no wifi and data off. I have factory reset the phone a few times and whiped the cache. I've tried not installing any software when done and fully charging but still it drains. I'm on v10f but this was a problem before I updated as well.
My only thought is that the battery is flawed, but I don't want to wait 2 weeks for it in repairs if it isn't (the service here is slow and customer support is weak when it comes to this, here in Iceland)
I took screenshots of the drainage. 90% of that is me not using the phone at all. Is this normal? Should I ask for a new battery? The phone is about 3 weeks old btw.
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Hi
I've benn lurking these forums looking for this but haven't found anything quite like this. The P880 prides itself on great standby battery life but mine is draining more than my previous Motorola RAZR (not the maxx). It never lasts more than about 14-15 hours and that is when i do almost nothing. One, two calls a few messages with no wifi and data off. I have factory reset the phone a few times and whiped the cache. I've tried not installinh any software when done and fully charging but still it drains. I'm on v10f but this was a problem before I updated as well.
My only thought is that the battery is flawed, but I don't want to wait 2 weeks for it in repairs if it isn't (the service here is slow and customer support is weak when it comes to this, here in Iceland)
I screenshots of the drainage. 90% of that is me not using the phone at all. Is this normal? Should I ask for a new battery? The phone is about 3 weeks old btw.
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What version are you on? 10f has seen lot of improvement in battery life. I dont have to use SetCPU anymore to get better battery and let it run on max 1.5ghz and still seeing very good battery life, despite heavy use.
Yeah I'm on 10f as well. I was wondering if maybe flashing the phone and try to reset it totally would help but I don't know if that'd be any different than just factory resetting?
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What's your screen on time?
Made possible by my sexy LG Optimus 4X HD (P880)
Look at background tasks like photo album sync.
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This was taken at the same time as in the orriginal post. I only talked for a few minutes though. I have sync disabled all the time as well.
I have seen other imgs of the battery graph and when it's on standby the line hardly tilts downwards. This can't be normal right?
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Here it is, image didn't upload for some reason.
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Try freezing cell broadcast, and disabling gallery update over 3g. Hope that helps.
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ksekhar said:
Try freezing cell broadcast, and disabling gallery update over 3g. Hope that helps.
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I'm going to charge him to 100% and leave him with nothing on all night and see how he handles it. What would normally happen? How much percent-drop would the battery have on an 7-8hour timespan?
Went to sleep with the phone at 94% and woke up with 69%. Everything was off. Sync, mobile data, wifi, backround data, location, gps, nfc, I even set it to 2g networks only. Now it says that the "phone" took 69% of that? I'm flabbergasted.
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Went to sleep with the phone at 94% and woke up with 69%. Everything was off. Sync, mobile data, wifi, backround data, location, gps, nfc, I even set it to 2g networks only. Now it says that the "phone" took 69% of that? I'm flabbergasted.
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Same here man but didn't diseabled auto sync and broadcoast cell yet so I'm curious if I go sleep and wake up how much juice it took from my 4xHD. Something is sucking out the juice out of our phones.
The only thing that update did change with me is the heath it didn't get as hot as before but my battery is still eating a lot even when is standby.
Hey, I don't no if your phone is rooted or not?
Try deleting superuser, it helped my battery life. And also you should charge your phone more than 100% , that helped too for me.
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Same here man but didn't diseabled auto sync and broadcoast cell yet so I'm curious if I go sleep and wake up how much juice it took from my 4xHD. Something is sucking out the juice out of our phones.
The only thing that update did change with me is the heath it didn't get as hot as before but my battery is still eating a lot even when is standby.
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Try to do a factory reset, the update didn't help me until I did a factory reset. Now my 4X HD only looses about 1-2% over night vid auto sync, before factory reset I lost about 30-40%.
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I use GO Power Master to auto switch to Alarm mode (only alarm, brightness 30%), and the phone eat less than 1% of battery for 6 hours. (firmware V10f)
I cannot see the attached images (don't know why) but I think you should check how long your phone is Awake, Screen On, Wifi and GPS On... then see which apps are cause the drainage.
Also, give the battery more recharge cycles. The battery life on first 2 cycles was catastrophic - for example it lost 4% just by rebooting, but after few days it stabilized to my ordinary each 2nd day charging cycle when turned off in the night. The biggest battery eater seems to be for me display brightness.
Batterylife with 10F is pretty good. Over night I dont lose any battery (data off) and during the day with autosync on only ~2 percent per hour. This is even better than the Samsung Galaxy S2 which I previously used. I did set CPU max speed to 1,1GHz with SetCPU.
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Hey, I don't no if your phone is rooted or not?
Try deleting superuser, it helped my battery life. And also you should charge your phone more than 100% , that helped too for me.
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Oh my! I think that worked! So the root was causing the drainage? I'd really like to have him rooted though. Is there any other way to avoid this?
I'm testing this out right now though. I will know if this was the problem in a few hours!
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Oh my! I think that worked! So the root was causing the drainage? I'd really like to have him rooted though. Is there any other way to avoid this?
I'm testing this out right now though. I will know if this was the problem in a few hours!
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You make full unroot or only disabled superuser?
Hey,
I just traded an Optimus 4X HD. I should get it within the next few days.
I'm wondering how battery life is now that LG has released a few update?
Thanks
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Oh my! I think that worked! So the root was causing the drainage? I'd really like to have him rooted though. Is there any other way to avoid this?
I'm testing this out right now though. I will know if this was the problem in a few hours!
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Try installing SuperSU rather than superuser from the market.
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I am using tha stock ics but the battery gets empty verry fast.
With 1 hour using Facebook With 3G the battery gets from 100 to 60 and less easily.
When I am not using it at night and With 2G it empties 10 easily.
Can anyone explain me where is the problem?
I am putting a pic with using viber and Facebook With 3G
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Did you wipe the cach and dalvik??? Worth trying this to see if this resolves the issue but backup your files first.
If not then, back everything up and try and full device restore.
Is that a full stock of LG ics? I think not much you can do about that. Other than trying one of the custom ROMs and getting battery efficient kernels.
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Is that a full stock of LG ics? I think not much you can do about that. Other than trying one of the custom ROMs and getting battery efficient kernels.
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Stock ICS has pretty decent battery life..I`ll suggest you to calibrate your battery once and see what the result is..
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Same here
Jishnu Sur said:
Stock ICS has pretty decent battery life..I`ll suggest you to calibrate your battery once and see what the result is..
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Also here I report high battery drain.
Stock ICS ROM, rooted at first, then tried a battery usage data reset with no result.
Factory restore, same.
Wiped caches and dalvik cache (with CW recovery), phone bricked.
Un-bricked and reinstalled ICS stock, with CivZ_StormTrooper_rev3 kernel mod. Now with No Frills CPU & Juicedefender free, less than 10 hours without using phone (just data / h3g mode on).
First item in consumption list, "Android OS".
Any ideas?
Thank you
First. you should think about using an custom ROM based on stock. carburano Rom is Good but also Jishnu Sur´s rom is Awesome.
If you afraid to Root you Phone, it´s as easy a 1 2 3 nowadays just use this awesome Tool http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2020737
Reason: Many of programms you don´t need are removed my first consumption is WIFI. So even if i have WIFI on all day, my phones is steady till the night.
Second. Reset Battery status in CWM
Third. You using a damn smartphone dont expect s**t that this will hold many days this is no Nokia 3210 BTW if you use it that means u use Battery Facebook BTW is one if the most active Programms i know. There´s "high drain" in Order.
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First. you should think about using an custom ROM based on stock. carburano Rom is Good but also Jishnu Sur´s rom is Awesome.
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I will try one of them, thank you for the advice.
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If you afraid to Root you Phone, it´s as easy a 1 2 3 nowadays just use this awesome Tool http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2020737
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Pretty cool (and I used it to unbrick phone ), I suggest to use it too!
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Reason: Many of programms you don´t need are removed my first consumption is WIFI. So even if i have WIFI on all day, my phones is steady till the night.
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Wifi was my second suspect (first was CPU clock).
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Second. Reset Battery status in CWM
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Is the clear cache option?
AW: High battery drain
No friend it's under advance options labeled wipe battery stats. But do this only when your battery is fully charged
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Installed Optithrust 1.1 V30A/B ROM, baseband 1035,21_20121130.
Pretty cool ROM and included apps, lot better than LG's stock BUT....
But my battery discharges at tremendous rate: 10 or 15% in 1 hour. Autosync, GPS, Wifi disabled, screen brightness at 20%.
Leaving phone without PIN (white keyboard with PIN request) drain 5% battery in 2 mins.
Battery usage lists
Cell Standby
Android OS
Screen
Android System
Phone idle
Detail on Cell Stanby
Time on: 27m 37s
Detail on Android OS says:
CPU Total 1m 13s
Keep awake 12m 36s
I'm not sure if before ICS upgrade the "keep awake" time was so high, but I remember it was more lower than Time On. Just now Android OS is passed to 1st place in consumption list
How can I discover if it's an Android or battery related problem?
R: High battery drain
No clues? I'm trying with a new battery but it takes some time to achieve full performance, but for now it's on 10 hours.
There are apps for choose apps and services running? Easy to use, possibly... Auto start manager is a pain... something like bum on linux
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No clues? I'm trying with a new battery but it takes some time to achieve full performance, but for now it's on 10 hours.
There are apps for choose apps and services running? Easy to use, possibly... Auto start manager is a pain... something like bum on linux
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i like the ES-task manager with root permissions it shows you what could be blocked autorunning and what you should let active
Without changing your system you could give "Juice Defender" a try, just look up in Appstore. I have no experience with this app, but it trys to defend your juice
I handled it by using some custom rom (recommending 4.1.2 and not 4.2.1 -> better battery life so far, look up some CM 10 ROM)
in dev forum pengus77 is working on some awesome kernel (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2097788) that also raises battery life enormous.
with all that stuff my 2X works very nice since a few days.
BUT: read instructions befor you do anything please!
R: High battery drain
About 20 hrs in stsndby. Really big improvement also with pimp my Rom app. Now I need a better music app, the stock one eats 20% battery per hour..
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medoro said:
Installed Optithrust 1.1 V30A/B ROM, baseband 1035,21_20121130.
Pretty cool ROM and included apps, lot better than LG's stock BUT....
But my battery discharges at tremendous rate: 10 or 15% in 1 hour. Autosync, GPS, Wifi disabled, screen brightness at 20%.
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this is me 100% of the time, on a good day, 10% 1 hour = 10 hours. =( sad. and its sill like if i have EVERYTHING on. its 6-8, its not much less.
I recommend to doing Battery Calibration.
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