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[Q] Batterylife issue, can't find any threads that help

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.

iamtheculprit2 said:
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.

studacris said:
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

keitaroguy said:
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

keitaroguy said:
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

Pirateghost said:
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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[H]Gx v 20 problem!

The problem is the excessive consumption of battery, with all the tricks posted on the forum I have to charge the battery twice giorno.Con version 21 is being combined, or something I go back to version 18 which was better?

I use the v21 and bug in had spent a lot of brightness and battery after installing the ALFS v5 the bug brightness decreases 70% and the battery is much better
It's perfect for me
Sorry for my english, I'm from Brazil

Install all past releases of gingerdx.

ExtreamXperiaProject said:
Install all past releases of gingerdx.
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For what? Wasting bandwidth and time.
If you're connected to mobile data all day long, I used to charge twice a day also (especially on 3G network) on heavy usage. BUT if you're not, I'd suggest you to full wipe and start over. Recently I got 2-3 days of battery without data connected, some light game, several hour of music, calls and texts
edit: oh, also check if there's any application that make phone keeps awake although screen off. look in battery use in settings

hmm.. what does Android OS do? it seems eat my battery about 25%?

belacker said:
hmm.. what does Android OS do? it seems eat my battery about 25%?
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Its the complete phone software!
Your phone can't run without it
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IrishStuff09 said:
Its the complete phone software!
Your phone can't run without it
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but.. from my previous rom, Android Os does'nt eat my battery that much..

belacker said:
but.. from my previous rom, Android Os does'nt eat my battery that much..
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It also includes the UI, so if its higher obviously its gonnavuse more juice
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Help with battery drainage (stock ROM)

Hello.
I was a PA 1.6 and PA 2.X user since last week, when I decided to install stock ROM to check if battery life would improve.
I've been trying different ROMs and realized that battery performance was worst,so I decided to check stock ROM to see if I could get any improvents in battery life.
Yesterday I installed SGN_XX_OXA_KJ1_FACTORYFS stock ROM, but during the night I lost 50% of the battery (I didn't turn Flight Mode on) and now it's draining at 3.5%-5% battery per hour.
I reinstalled the RADIO, but I cannot understand how stock ROM + RADIO can have this much of battery drainage.
Any ideas on what can be happening and how can I solve this?
The only thing left is to format all SD partitions and pray. :laugh:

try slim bean with sync off and just 3g
and check ur battery
if it presists then try flashing xxlrk or xxlr1 modem
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go read the sticky on wakelocks

Have you checked the battery section of settings to see what are the apps drawing the battery? install betterbatterystats and head over to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1878828 to understand whats going on

nokiamodeln91 said:
Have you checked the battery section of settings to see what are the apps drawing the battery? install betterbatterystats and head over to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1878828 to understand whats going on
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Yes, I already bought better battery stats but haven't find any wakelock issue... it looks as if it got normalized and now I'm getting 1.5 % per hour, which seems pretty decent...

ptolomeo said:
Yes, I already bought better battery stats but haven't find any wakelock issue... it looks as if it got normalized and now I'm getting 1.5 % per hour, which seems pretty decent...
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good one! hope it lasts all Christmas, Hanukkah or other holiday celebrations!

ptolomeo said:
Yes, I already bought better battery stats but haven't find any wakelock issue... it looks as if it got normalized and now I'm getting 1.5 % per hour, which seems pretty decent...
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Ok.. great..
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High battery drain

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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Thread moved. Please post all your questions/requests for help here in Q&A in future.
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AvRS

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.

puffingman said:
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.

Darkmind82 said:
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!
Darkmind82 said:
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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medoro said:
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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Cyanogen 10.1 Battery Drain

Hey fellow xda-ers!
I have a little big problem here.
After installing CyanogenMod 10.1 20130626 on my Samsung Galaxy S3 (Vodafone. I used the international version of CM) my battery goes 1% down nearly every minute...
What causes this problem? (I dont use internet nor wifi nor bluetooth nor nfc, etc)
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wipe your battery stats and fully charge the phone with no interuptions.. plus cm is batttery hungry most of the time anyway
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How do I wipe my battery stats? :s
Im a bit new to the custom rom thingy..
Thanks in advance for helping me!
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https://www.google.com.sg/search?q=...mobile&sourceid=chrome-mobile&espv=1&ie=UTF-8
You're welcomed
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RootSU said battery stats wipe is useless

Blackwolf10 said:
RootSU said battery stats wipe is useless
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As did Dianne Hackborn of Google last year see multiple posts on the subject .
Recalibrate battery by using phone and charging over at least one week .
Run Better Battery Stats to look for wakelocks .
jje

Same problem here
Hello guys I installes also CYanoGenM 10.1 night mode on my i9305 and faced the same problem with the battery drain , I tryed several tutorials to wipe batt stats to refresh etc etc .... faced the same problem even with seep mode on actived like 7-9 hours in night mode , the next day my phone got off and did not started unless it was conected on my charger

I am tired of AOSP/AOKP ROMS including CM.. everyone of them is Battery HUNGRY! AOSP/AOKP ROMS are capable of draining my zerolemon battery (7k mah) in max to max 7 hours screen on time in 2 days!

pisicutumic said:
Hello guys I installes also CYanoGenM 10.1 night mode on my i9305 and faced the same problem with the battery drain , I tryed several tutorials to wipe batt stats to refresh etc etc .... faced the same problem even with seep mode on actived like 7-9 hours in night mode , the next day my phone got off and did not started unless it was conected on my charger
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REPEAT.
Wipe Battery Stats will do nothing .
see multiple posts on the subject .
Recalibrate battery by using phone and charging over at least one week .
Run Better Battery Stats to look for wakelocks .