Hi!
As I do not have enough posts to add this to the roms thread, I have to post my problems here...
I am not very happy with this Rom.
Under Wifi conditions, the roms is excellent!! Very heavy usage, lots of wifi internet etc. but very less power consuming.
Today, the first time under normal business life, I have extreme battery drain.
I had to switch to 2g as 3G/HSDPA as it uses soooooo much power, I can watch the power dropping. Also the mobile gets very warm.
But also with 2g it is very battery hungry
The apps/widgets/settings are same under conditions.
O2 carrier Germany, CSC not changed roms default
Anyone with same result?
Thanks
URBANsUNITED
OK, got it!
It was Trillian which sucked my battery empty
What is the best alternative for Trillian?
Best regards
URBANsUNITED
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Yes, I have been using Trinity for years with EDGE connecition only, it's kind of a waste.
I have switched to 3.5G service recently, and just found a very big issue with the battery consumption.
It appears that when I am connected to Live Messenger and leave it on for several hours, it would drop for as much as 10% of battery every hour. This case I don't really use MSN much at all and just leave it on idle.
I had the exact condition when using EDGE/GPRS connection whereas the battery consumption is much lower, so I am wondering if it's my radio ROM or all 3G connections take more power?
One special issue I had is, even when MSN connected idle with 3G, the battery is fairly warm (notable even from the housing). It only happened when I use wi-fi for watching mobile YouTube for 10 minutes or more.
I am using some Taiwanese cooked ROM (build 20273.6.16) with radio 1.46.00.11. Do you think it would resolve the problem by flashing a new radio ROM?
Thanks guys...
Hey guys, i understand the concept of trying out all tbe roms but i wanted to know if anybody had any advice on the most battery efficient setup - rom radio and settings
I got an ipod touch for free and am using wifirouter to share gprs from my front camera kalser. The touch is perfect for everything internet organization, i just need phone for calls and sms.
Any advice is appreciated
anyone? it just seems as if the battery is draining to fast, the onlything running on the phoen is the wifirouter app, 3g, and wifi, screen is off and it drains fast
interested as well..
battery used to last much much longer on the older roms..
is it manila2d these days that's draining it so much more than when using HTC Today?
have tried quite a few and they all seem to be quite battery draining and I've only noticed the quick drain since using the M2D roms so wondering if that was the cause..
The answer is right there!
You have wifi and 3G net connected!! these are the two things that can drain battery in 2 hours. Changing ROM won't help much.
ahh but i dont use wifi at all.
and 3g for a couple hours before it's dead.
ah well
one the of quirks for such a nice phone the way i want it.
Hello fellow Galaxy owners,
I have been installing various custom ROM´s for about 2 months now, so I guess you could still call me a beginner. Recently it has been difficult to keep up with all the latest and greatest advances in kernels and ROM´s. Being a father I don´t have as much time as I used to, to read through the mountain of information on the forums.
It is for this reason that I ask for some simple advice. I have found that Hamster, Instanity and DocRom ROM´s are all very fine pieces of work and they are blisteringly fast. The GPS is fast, the themes are epic but alas the battery life is pretty bad (well for me at least).
I must admit thought that I am obsessed with my phone and I use it constantly to read the news, check emails and stream internet radio while I am driving in my car on a daily basis.
I currently have DocRom slim V3 installed after having done a complete fresh installation. But despite being fast it seems to be very hungry on the power consumption.
Do I need to cycle it through some complete battery discharge cycles and fully charge it, then reset the battery stats in CWM recovery? Does it need some days to settle? Or should I flash different Kernels and see which one gives me the best life? If the latter then which kernel do you recommend for JPU?
Thanks in advance!
Same here
With 3g my I9000 die after 10 hours!
With 2g die after 14 hours!
With data network mode deactivated die after 30 hours!
I don't know if changing baseband or kernel will help or not!
BR
I'm having pretty good battery life without any network and LiveWallpapers turned off... just simple black screen it stayed ON for 4 days with some WiFi surfing, PDF reading and music listening player/online radio. So I guess network is draining the most.
DocRom V6.2
I just installed Doc´s ROM v6.2, and it has greatly increased my battery life.
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I just installed Doc´s ROM v6.2, and it has greatly increased my battery life.
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Great to hear this!
I don't know if this is your case, I used to have the beautiful widgets weather widget on my home screen, and after soem time I realized this app was constantly refreshing and consuming LOTS of battery.
If you have it, removing it will increase your battery life too.
I have same problem,i do have the beautiful weather widget installed and think it looks nice on home screen,maybe this is the batt killer??
What other programs does the same? I like the watch and weather widget to be shown..?
EMulator like gameboid, FPSE or android games like zenonia, destinia and inotia
emulators i guess
3g network and DSP manager
3D games, I guess.
And Wi-Fi (especially connecting/disconnecting)
hi i am always here people moaning about battery but im on gdx v019 now since last night and in 24hours i have used 47% wifi,gps on all the time i play some games but not much and since gdx v016 i get 2-3days battery.
if you wont a hand held games console with good battery try a sony psp as when i last checked the x8 was a mobile phone
All of the said actually take most battery up. Your launcher takes up battery to.
Android system uses battery (duh)
But wifi and 3g are the hoggers. They take up most of the battery
sent from my rooted x8 using gingerdx
x8 [email protected] ONDEMAND
with wifi (Never sleep policy) and 3.5G on - max 18h battery uptime (even 12h if I'm on the go and phone is switching from one cell tower to another frequently)
without wifi - kinda 1.5 days
Without wifi and in 2G only mode - almost 3 days (2d20h)...
The rom/kernel influence in the life or the battery? What is the best rom to time saving battery?
I'm thinking for a work use: read and write documents (Isilo, Documents to Go, Swype), internet (Gmail, Opera Mini, Maps, Barnacle Wifi, read news, etc). For me clearly the biggest battery drain is the 3G internet (according to BMW reaches 600 mAh, while Documents to Go does not exceed 200 mAh)
I am using v22 Froyobread with smartass, and the battery lasts me 20 hours. (I have a low screen brightness, wifi, bluetooth, GPS off). My question is mainly about the different roms, have several more efficient than others in the use of the battery? Do rom based in Gingerbread spend more than those based on Froyo? The union of a custom kernel and custom rom can be more efficient in the use of the battery?
Thanks and excuse my English
APD500 said:
The rom/kernel influence in the life or the battery? What is the best rom to time saving battery?
I'm thinking for a work use: read and write documents (Isilo, Documents to Go, Swype), internet (Gmail, Opera Mini, Maps, Barnacle Wifi, read news, etc). For me clearly the biggest battery drain is the 3G internet (according to BMW reaches 600 mAh, while Documents to Go does not exceed 200 mAh)
I am using v22 Froyobread with smartass, and the battery lasts me 20 hours. (I have a low screen brightness, wifi, bluetooth, GPS off). My question is mainly about the different roms, have several more efficient than others in the use of the battery? Do rom based in Gingerbread spend more than those based on Froyo? The union of a custom kernel and custom rom can be more efficient in the use of the battery?
Thanks and excuse my English
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If you use 3G that's like talking with the phone continuosly. It can't be affected with anything.
In my case I think FroyoBread (or FroyoPRO for now) is the most battery friendly ROM with UV of course. With Wifi (never sleep) GPS on all the time it can last around 3 days. With GDX the maximum for me is around the same, but with GPS off and wifi off if phone is idle, and I think it is more smooth overall.
For the main question, the ROM can affect the battery life of the phone, bot so do the user. If you use live wallpaper, DSP manager, a lot of widgets, fancy launcher, it will eat your battery no matter what you do. The two is almost equal in my opinion, but I'm no developer to say that it's just my personal view.
Thanks for your answer. Only one question what is UV? Is it the Undervolt module?
APD500 said:
The rom/kernel influence in the life or the battery? What is the best rom to time saving battery?
I'm thinking for a work use: read and write documents (Isilo, Documents to Go, Swype), internet (Gmail, Opera Mini, Maps, Barnacle Wifi, read news, etc). For me clearly the biggest battery drain is the 3G internet (according to BMW reaches 600 mAh, while Documents to Go does not exceed 200 mAh)
I am using v22 Froyobread with smartass, and the battery lasts me 20 hours. (I have a low screen brightness, wifi, bluetooth, GPS off). My question is mainly about the different roms, have several more efficient than others in the use of the battery? Do rom based in Gingerbread spend more than those based on Froyo? The union of a custom kernel and custom rom can be more efficient in the use of the battery?
Thanks and excuse my English
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if your talking about does the rom affect the battery, yes, the rom can affect the battery life, depending how heavy the rom is like gingerbread, that seem to take up most battery whilst froyo, well lats a lightweight android so it would save up more battery for not having to run more stuff on it unlike gingerbread...
thanks youuu .. your supper
who?
alessiocerci said:
thanks youuu .. your supper
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who? all of us? were here to help
Battery life tested by me:
Both cases same use, no WiFi, no 3g, only calls and sms:
GingerDX = 2 days
Froyobread = 6 days
Note: similar results on other roms based on CM, the main diference is between CM6(2.2) and CM7(2.3).
Okay my old thread was closed because 'it was against the rules to comparing ROM's confused'
So here another thread without 'the comparing'
Which kernel and rom are you using and how is your battery life?:victory:
It's depends. If a rom includes a lot of functionality and runs in the background then will drain your battery for sure. Some rom has power saving mode and stop app using the internet when no needs etc
kachan64 said:
It's depends. If a rom includes a lot of functionality and runs in the background then will drain your battery for sure. Some rom has power saving mode and stop app using the internet when no needs etc
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Yes, i understand that but that wasn't the question lol
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Which kernel and rom are you using and how is your battery life?:victory:
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It obviously depends very much on how you use your phone
For me with light to average usage and Whatsapp, Threema and Calendar/email sync I usually get around 1%/hour with any of the AOSP ROMs I tried, always using Boeffla kernel with Zzzmove governor/battery extreme setting and a battery saver application switching off my mobile network when on WIFI.
With stock based ROMs it may be a slight tad lower, but for me it was too little to make a real difference....
Just my 2 cents
Axel
PS The 1% figure is calculated over 24-48 hours between charging, thus including the nights
s3axel said:
It obviously depends very much on how you use your phone
For me with light to average usage and Whatsapp, Threema and Calendar/email sync I usually get around 1%/hour with any of the AOSP ROMs I tried, always using Boeffla kernel with Zzzmove governor/battery extreme setting and a battery saver application switching off my mobile network when on WIFI.
With stock based ROMs it may be a slight tad lower, but for me it was too little to make a real difference....
Just my 2 cents
Axel
PS The 1% figure is calculated over 24-48 hours between charging, thus including the nights
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Thanks for the reply, but what i mean with this thread is which rom + kernel you used and which work the best for you, but i can't just post that because people are gonna nag about it.
well, As I wrote for me it's pretty independent from the actual ROM. I tried liquid smooth, cm, omni, slim, amcha and resurrection remix.
It depends on usage style... But I am curious if there is any BATTERY BENCH MARKING!! Post if any one finds any that can be shared on this topic.. Cheers
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Most important and often not taken into account is reception strength.
I measured that when Im on work and phone is iddle battery is eaten about 4% per hour.
At home its less than 2 %. In both cases I have no wifi connection, but wifi is scanning, gsm data is working, but locked at UMTS (3G, not HSxPA) and connected to 3 google accounts and 1 work email.
I saw strange behavior with waking up CPU when iddle.
When connected through usb to computer (linux station) I was watching changes when phone wasnt use at all
Code:
watch -n 5 --differences=permament adb shell cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats/time_in_state
And at home CPU was at lowest possible frequency, at work CPU is jumping, even to highest, but mostly stays bellow 600MHz
Differences are in localisation of antennas. At work I have weak signal, but also I am within range a few antennas, and software in galaxy sometimes is changing, when able to find better reception.
This means of course a lot of wakeup's and battery is eaten much faster.
Returning to the thread I see no point in comparison between different people cause even one device can survive twice longer depends on location.
The longest time in idle without any data connection enabled is 4 days on a yacht, so receptcion was weak, but device wasnt use at all (its about 1% battery per hour).