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[Q] GB and battery life

Have been on GB for awhile now and for the most part, I'm loving it. I just read a post where the op says that Darky's gb roms have great battery life. I've been on Contiuum 5.5 since it came out, and I love Cezar's roms, but the gb one's seem to have less than desirable batt life.
I guess my question is this: It's been awhile now since I was on froyo and so I can't recall how battery life was. I'm thinking about going back, just for that reason. BUT, don't want to go through the whole process if batt life was just minimally better than 2.3.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
Friday

My battery life is much better with these I9000 GB roms than it ever has been.
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I agree also, my battery life is the best it ever was. When I come home from school my battery life is around 80-75 percent. Versus on Froyo which would be around 45-40 percent.
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GB has given me great battery life. On days that I play with my phone for hours (games, music, news, txt) at the end of day I would have less than 10% battery life. Now (with exception of when I use Netflix on 3G) I can't get below 60%.

Is everyone uc??? Perhaps (most likely ) I haven't got voltage set, or tweaks tweaked correctly...

FridayJ said:
Is everyone uc??? Perhaps (most likely ) I haven't got voltage set, or tweaks tweaked correctly...
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No, I use xcal kernel because I felt like my phone had more problems when I tried playing with UC or OC. Where I found my control is managing what apps are installed on my phone. Anything that is a resource hog is gone and anything that needs to connect to data all the time is gone. I also froze (using TiBu) google maps and SNS. Those two items on gingerbread seem to drain my battery.

24 hour battery life with heavy usage is doable.
EDIT: Did you flash to a GB ROM without clearing battery stats/flashing without a fully charged battery?

nakedninja42 said:
No, I use xcal kernel because I felt like my phone had more problems when I tried playing with UC or OC. Where I found my control is managing what apps are installed on my phone. Anything that is a resource hog is gone and anything that needs to connect to data all the time is gone. I also froze (using TiBu) google maps and SNS. Those two items on gingerbread seem to drain my battery.
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I've been wondering what SNS is.

alexige said:
I've been wondering what SNS is.
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It allows you to sync your Facebook, Twitter and Myspace accounts with the phone. Since I use Tweetdeck the only other purpose I would have it is to sync Facebook pictures with my contacts. Since I flash so often, its one less thing I have to link.
I learned that if I freeze SNS and install the Facebook app, I still can't sync the contact pictures.

I am on hour 36 with moderate usage with over half a battery left using Contiuum 5.x It is awesome!

I've tried several GB kernals and ROMs and my battery life sucks!
I can't get 24 hours out of any of them even with minimal use.
And yes I did a charge bump and no I don't have any widgets running and yes I froze maps and no I'm not OC'd.
I'm lucky if I get 10-12 hours.
I love GB and the speed and smoothness but this battery thing is giving me pause.

FredOak3 said:
I've tried several GB kernals and ROMs and my battery life sucks!
I can't get 24 hours out of any of them even with minimal use.
And yes I did a charge bump and no I don't have any widgets running and yes I froze maps and no I'm not OC'd.
I'm lucky if I get 10-12 hours.
I love GB and the speed and smoothness but this battery thing is giving me pause.
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I get about 18 hours on a battery with heavy use. Have you updated maps? The new updates are killers on battery sense it always restarts. Do you leave wifi and by on? These will also cause your battery to drain

KTownGT said:
24 hour battery life with heavy usage is doable.
EDIT: Did you flash to a GB ROM without clearing battery stats/flashing without a fully charged battery?
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KT, I did flash with full batt, but didn't clear batt stats...

I'm with Fred! Lucky if I get 10-12 hrs without having to plug tele in!
FredOak3 said:
I've tried several GB kernals and ROMs and my battery life sucks!
I can't get 24 hours out of any of them even with minimal use.
And yes I did a charge bump and no I don't have any widgets running and yes I froze maps and no I'm not OC'd.
I'm lucky if I get 10-12 hours.
I love GB and the speed and smoothness but this battery thing is giving me pause.
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I can easily get 20 hours, and I work in a giant metal and brick cage that is impervious to all radio signals.
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KT, I did flash with full batt, but didn't clear batt stats...
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I would try clearing battery stats; what's the worst that can happen? You're battery life being bad?
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I would try clearing battery stats; what's the worst that can happen? You're battery life being bad?
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LOL @ KT!
Maybe I just need a new batt?

For those that haven't saw it yet:

Now that my battery stats are functioning after a few cycles, I'm getting phenomenal battery life.
The picture below documents it. It's probably light use for most of you - an handful of calls, checking my email every couple hours, an hour of music playing on a walk. I also shut off auto-rotate last night, hearing that it may solve the "charge drop" issue, and maybe that contributes to the following.

Today android os usage was about 5 hours and killed my battery. Could not get it to stop either even with reboots. Very annoying. Hasnt been happening much till today.
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App

Why I think battery life sucks so bad...

I usually have a multimeter on my counter for my ecig mods, and, since I change batteries pretty often now that I have spares for my thrill, I'be been randomly checking thier voltages. What I've found is that a "dead" battery is at ~3.7V. That's not dead. These phones should discharge to something like 3.2V. Anyone have any idea as to why they would read nominal voltage as dead?
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After few more charges, it discharges to about 3.43V, still high I think, so I'll keep an eye on it.
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lastdeadmouse said:
After few more charges, it discharges to about 3.43V, still high I think, so I'll keep an eye on it.
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What you're saying actually makes sense. The system has to calibrate itself to the battery. This is why battery life tends to improve over time as you discharge and charge the phone. There are ways to kick start the process but eventually it will do it on it's own. My battery life has tripled after a couple weeks.
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i am wondering why i have fully charged and discharged my phone numerous times and my battert is horrible. its gotten worse. i unplug it with 100% at 5:30 a.m. its now 9:40 a.m. and im at 62%! i have sent 2 text messages this morning and my app manager has no open apps. Why would my battery be so bad? i have had this phone since the day it came out and love it. im not real familiar with all the "rooting" or all this fancy stuff but i do know that the phone should have a better battery life than it does.
Does anyone know what i should be looking at to see what is killing the battery so fast. almost 40% in 4 hras and i havent even used it?
thanks.
"puzzld"

puzzl31 said:
i am wondering why i have fully charged and discharged my phone numerous times and my battert is horrible. its gotten worse. i unplug it with 100% at 5:30 a.m. its now 9:40 a.m. and im at 62%! i have sent 2 text messages this morning and my app manager has no open apps. Why would my battery be so bad? i have had this phone since the day it came out and love it. im not real familiar with all the "rooting" or all this fancy stuff but i do know that the phone should have a better battery life than it does.
Does anyone know what i should be looking at to see what is killing the battery so fast. almost 40% in 4 hras and i havent even used it?
thanks.
"puzzld"
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Try installing a ROM that removes some of the services that a stock rom has this way will save your battery time a lot

josuelopezv said:
Try installing a ROM that removes some of the services that a stock rom has this way will save your battery time a lot
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what do you suggest??

puzzl31 said:
what do you suggest??
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I have installed several ROMS i am new to the LG Thrill but with my previous HTC G2 y used cyanogen but as per this is a 3D phone cyanogen is not ready yet. But the best rom i have tried so far has been the thriller
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1261704
although is missing good things from the newer firmwares like the 3d app converter.
But i'm ussing the thriller Rom until LG releases the Gingerbread official update that comes with great new stuff

Here's what I've found out about the battery. It's apparently a known issue by google addressed in later updates.
Here's a great method to work with it for now.

puzzl31 said:
i am wondering why i have fully charged and discharged my phone numerous times and my battert is horrible. its gotten worse. i unplug it with 100% at 5:30 a.m. its now 9:40 a.m. and im at 62%! i have sent 2 text messages this morning and my app manager has no open apps. Why would my battery be so bad? i have had this phone since the day it came out and love it. im not real familiar with all the "rooting" or all this fancy stuff but i do know that the phone should have a better battery life than it does.
Does anyone know what i should be looking at to see what is killing the battery so fast. almost 40% in 4 hras and i havent even used it?
thanks.
"puzzld"
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This mine with 48% battery life left. I found out on mine if you play one of the 3d games and don't exit out of right it continued to run and eat the battery. I use wifi where ever it is available. Always leave it on unless I am on the road then I turn it off so it won't be hunting for a connection. Have gone 28 hours and have 30% battery left.
Had phone since September 4th and battery life has improved tremendously. Stock and unrooted.
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My phone is stock and unrooted as well. i charged it this morning from completly dead. started to charge at 6:30 am and took untill almost 11:00 before it was a 100%. now it is 1:30 pm i have sent 1 text message and thats it except meybe waking it up to see if i have missed calls or txt and my battery is down to 44%! 2 hrs really? i have not used it. Wifi is on but should not be sucking that much juice. i trashed the yahoo news app. my weather app is set to update manually. i dont have anything special done to my ohone like all these forums suggest the "rooting" or special rom's. it pretty stock.
I have used the battery calibrator app and it didnt seem to do anything for me. anybody else have other suggestions? i basically get about 3-4 hrs of battery life berfore having to charge unless i use the phone then i get about 2.
oh yeah and my wife has the same phone, some battery issues but i think her's is normal. so to see if it was the battery or my phone we swapped batteries. my original is in her phone working fine and i have her's and still crappy so i know it wasnt just a bad battery.
what do i do next??

You could install CPU spy from the market and see what it is showing you. See if it ever gets into deep sleep mode. I also use battery monitor widget from the market to see what all is using battery.
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[Q] What is normal battery drain?

What is your normal battery drain when your phone is idle? I have an hour and 15 minute drive to work each day and my phone sits idle the entire time when I get to work I notice that my battery has drained about 3%. Is this normal or is this high?
I'm running teamhacksung build 16 with glitch beta 3, of course this has been the case for every ROM I have installed. Btw I keep wifi and gps off at all times and I'm syncing only gmail.
The reason I ask is that I was given an iphone for work and I couldn't believe the battery life, of course I could never leave android for apple...I just can't customize it...
Thanks in advance.

3 % a hour, that's high, im on kk4 based rom & kernel and my cappy drained average 1% per hour

Austin Ag06 said:
What is your normal battery drain when your phone is idle? I have an hour and 15 minute drive to work each day and my phone sits idle the entire time when I get to work I notice that my battery has drained about 3%. Is this normal or is this high?
I'm running teamhacksung build 16 with glitch beta 3, of course this has been the case for every ROM I have installed. Btw I keep wifi and gps off at all times and I'm syncing only gmail.
The reason I ask is that I was given an iphone for work and I couldn't believe the battery life, of course I could never leave android for apple...I just can't customize it...
Thanks in advance.
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Perhaps during your drive you are going through some areas of weak signal where the phone needs to work harder to stay connected.
You can look at Settings to see what has been using your battery during that hour and a half.

That's similar to the battery life I'm getting. I think I can get better drain if I don't overclock
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^same. Its also the same if I'm running cm7. On THS ICS, at most I can get 2 and a half hours of screen time o.o
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Austin Ag06 said:
What is your normal battery drain when your phone is idle?
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I have seen my phone idle between .5% to 3% based on strength and stability of signal, no other factors involved. Since traveling at vehicle speeds = less stability. It's probably the reason for your loss, you can try different modems to see if one talks to the towers better so hand-offs go smoother.
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Here are a couple screen shots I took after my phone was sitting on the counter idle for a little over an hour.
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Yeah I'd say that 3% in 15 minutes is high - I probably drop 1% to 2% per hour or so when idle (but I keep wifi and mobile data disabled when not in use).
Even when I'm work though where my cell signal is weaker I don't think I've ever seen my battery drop 3% in 15 minutes.

Better battery? Use a GB rom. 2.3.6

Hi all!
I've been fighting with the baterry drain and low battery performance through many months.
This was everytime with the lastest rom... So I decided to try a GB rom after knowing a guy here in my workplace that lended me a minute his SGS.
He had 18 hours of use and 80% battery left.
So I installed "Mesorom" and discovered thar I can have the screen ON 3 hours, and im discovering now how much time could it manage in standby.
I hope this gives you some advice about battery drain, looks like ICS and JB consume less power when on dual core, and on a single core it just drains too much battery. That is my opinion.
Has anyone got to this conclusion?
Please report your battery stats to compare! i'll do it in a moment.

here they are:
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42 minutes of screen on time. gaming, web browsing, and instant messaging.

4 hours is still nothing. Post again if you accomplish those 18 hours and the battery is on just 2% left

rom failed to be stable, i'm trying to install official cm7 now.
BTW i managed to get screen on time of 2 hours, and 15% left of battery. 11-12h total use.
i will report when i know something else.

I use Mackay Rom (4.1.2) combined with a 1800 mAh battery and my phone lasts 2 days (airplane mode at night) with medium usage. Screen time between 3 to 4 hours.

i use CM10 and my battery life isn't too horrible, compared to a dell streak and iphone 3g like 8-10 hours standby time 4-5 hours use

Maybe I've got a little old battery, because on GB or ICS or JB my battery behave similarly. Average I have to charge my phone every second night if I use it normally. Recently I used it a little less and today's result below - 30 min of calls, about 20 min of 3G connection, 2h screen on. I use JB (SlimBean 3.1 with Semaphore 2.6).

Lol cm10 battery is better. Because ui using gpu instead of too much cpu.
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I actually bought an I9000 for my GF and loaded up the newest stock rom JW8.
Battery life wasn't too good, so I switched to CM10 stable. It's really good now.
3h screen time in 2 days, or 2h screen time in 3 days. That's enough for a small device like this. I don't think gb has better battery drain than cm10.
The case is a little different on my n7100, where I get around 7-8 hours screen time on stock 4.1.2 and only 5 hours on cm10.

Cm10 has great battery live
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Yeah battery on CM10 seems to be pretty good. I get about two days usage out of my battery with Ondemand + Smooth UI.

CM10 has a very good battery life, its only a little bit worse than a stock rom.:thumbup:
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I had my best battery live on gb. I've easily managed to charge every 2nd day. Now 1 day is a max. Especially data transfer in 3G mode is ducking battery as hell. Still prefer latest android to better battery and not coming back to gb.
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for battery and stability we have to stick to GB ROM.......

salomann said:
I had my best battery live on gb. I've easily managed to charge every 2nd day. Now 1 day is a max. Especially data transfer in 3G mode is ducking battery as hell. Still prefer latest android to better battery and not coming back to gb.
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Yeah! Same thing here!

salomann said:
I had my best battery live on gb. I've easily managed to charge every 2nd day. Now 1 day is a max. Especially data transfer in 3G mode is ducking battery as hell. Still prefer latest android to better battery and not coming back to gb.
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tighteti sentence
I tried several ICS roms, but their stability and functionality did not compare well gingerbread roms.

rudswa said:
for battery and stability we have to stick to GB ROM.......
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I totally agree..
I really love the MesoROM

I use jb 4.2 roms with laserdroid script. The battery life is 2 days with normal useage.
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NEW Thread, Battery Life (SOT) for Note 8 on Android Oreo!!!!!!

Post your most recent batter life number if you have a note 8 on the new android oreo update, lets compare and see how we can maximize use

Again, really? Just use it and recharge when required...

OnnoJ said:
Again, really? Just use it and recharge when required...
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I'm bot usually that guy, but I tend to agree with this guy. Do we really need to obsess over how long we can use the device before the battery dies?
I've found that just using the device without caring how long it lasts, I get way longer than expected battery life.

The problem with this is, everyone uses their phone differently. So unless people will tell us how bright the screen was, using wifi, 4g, gaming, Facebook and for how long, etc etc, it would be pointless IMO. If you want better battery life, reduce brightness, as this is the biggest drain on the battery, stop all syncing, remove apps like Facebook, reduce the resolution, turn on power saving and turn off animations or put them to .5.

Exactly & agree on all the above. SOT is so over rated & it's easily to manipulate the results. I mean I have posted my SOTs before but I use it only for comparison, ie rom & kernel testing based on my own phone usage. Comparing SOT with others' results doesn't really mean anything except to those looking for some kind of useless bragging rights.

I find the Oreo update sucks. I dont know if its just me. my phones gets heated for no reason, even if its not being used or charging. Battery Life sucks so downgraded the Noughat. Happy to have the 5-7hours SOT and less heated phone.

Whats with these guys and the excessive use of exclamation marks? AND not reading before posting? There are several threads about this topic

sorry, I know some of you are just enjoy the phone etc, Im trying to find out what other people are getting as I seem to be draining pretty bad, when I use better battery stats it shows wifi running 100% despite it being off

Battery life dropped a lot with the Oreo update for me, har resetting, cache resetting nothing is helping. I get tops 3 and a half hours.

Yeah Oreo sucks I got only 3.5 hours SOT now back on Nougat I'm getting again 5-7 hours SOT

Didnt want to open a new thread for another Battery consultation. I have the 950U1 model and after upgrading to Oreo ive had an average of 1 hour and 15 min of Screen time and it drained my battery %6. Is that within the norms of how it is? Just curious.

Alek7 said:
Yeah Oreo sucks I got only 3.5 hours SOT now back on Nougat I'm getting again 5-7 hours SOT
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Battery life dropped a lot with the Oreo update for me, har resetting, cache resetting nothing is helping. I get tops 3 and a half hours.
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You guys make me regret getting oreo,i think i should go back to nougat, are you getting 5-7 with what seeting im thinking I should roll back?

Alek7 said:
Yeah Oreo sucks I got only 3.5 hours SOT now back on Nougat I'm getting again 5-7 hours SOT
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Anyway, this is very strange as the majority is having possitive feedback on battery life, also the Oreo itself is having some battery (app) optimizations that should help... but no!

I started other thread asking for opinions about the OTA oreo, I mean only OTA, as some got their oreo in beta or cross flashing from other countries, or changing some parts, In my country we dont have OTA oreo yet, at least for officially distribuited devices which are ALL branded, (locked or unlocked), as samsung does not sell cellphones to consumers directly in Mexico, only through 3 carriers,but all these comments make doubt about updating from nougat, reading this thread has made my uncertainty bigger, in the meantime, I disabled OTA updates, just in case, maybe waiting for Oreo 8.1 would be better

nandroidint said:
You guys make me regret getting oreo,i think i should go back to nougat, are you getting 5-7 with what seeting im thinking I should roll back?
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I am using Performance mode with no Brightness increase and AOD is always on.

scoutingwraith said:
Didnt want to open a new thread for another Battery consultation. I have the 950U1 model and after upgrading to Oreo ive had an average of 1 hour and 15 min of Screen time and it drained my battery %6. Is that within the norms of how it is? Just curious.
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You can't accurately judge/assess battery life in increments. Go through a few full cycles and see what averages out.

A complete disaster. That Dip is 45 minutes paying music with the screen off.
I've had it for two weeks, cleared cache and dalvik all that. I need know how to downgrade.
Google has been iffy. I have the unlocked Samsung note 8, I use it on Verizon. Bought it directly from Sammy
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I have achieved 1800 hours Screen Off Time. Even better when the device is powered down totally. Quite amamzing.

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