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Rediscovering SuperPower v 0.80 BETA

So I was over in the Atrix forums the other night because there was someone over there who was wanting some help deciding if they should ditch their Atrix for the Thrill 4G. The overwhelming amount of posts about some of the hitches with the Thrill were in regards to the battery consumption and the RAM getting hammered with general usage.
Over here since a bunch of us are actively doing doing what we can to try and speed the development along having being trying new things and tweaking this or that in an attempt to make some progress toward real development.
Here is a link to what I said over there:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17448824#post17448824
So I was running back through all the apps. and such that I had used in the past on other phones and hidden in my lengthy list of apps. used to get every ounce of power out of whatever phone I was jacking with, was SuperPower. I had the paid version but it has subsequently been ditched and redone it seems and now takes the form of a BETA.
This BETA I dropped onto my Thrill and started to go through the options that are available on this version that were not there before. You can now manually go into SuperPower and tell the app. what program you want it to kill when the screen goes black, how you want wi-fi and/or radios to behave, etc. It is extremely customizable.
Until there is a custom ROM and all that for the Thrill I think we are going to have to do our best to manage the few minute undesirables this device has with things like SuperPower. So, my end result as it stands right now on battery and RAM usage, I am using a few different apps. and I will list the links below for your convenience; is after about 10 1/2 hours of fairly mid to heavy use I was sitting at about 71 % battery life. Understand I let the battery go down below 20 % then charged it back up to 100 % with no interruptions in the charging process. You should do this at least once a month just maintain good battery health and longevity anyway. Especially on powerhouse phones like the Thrill 4G.
Now when I say mid to heavy usage this is my interpretation of that; regular talk time throughout the day, 100+ text during the day, market and music downloads, 2D and 3D gaming. When it was time to charge again I was at 13 or so hours with 49 % battery still showing. Not to bad as it was blowing through battery like it was free before.
Here are the apps. I used with download links. If you have questions or anything let me know or PM me:
SuperPower BETA v 0.80(*Must be rooted by the way to use this*)
https://market.android.com/search?q=SuperPower
Chainsfire 3D(*must be rooted*)
https://market.android.com/search?q=Chainsfire&so=1&c=apps
*As a side note besides the other great benefits this app. offers what I use to help with battery usage is the Night Mode feature*
SPB Shell 3D (*This is a paid app. and worth every penny IMO. But if you are not down with dropping the change for it use LauncherPro or one of the other free Launchers out there*)
https://market.android.com/search?q=spb+shell+3d+&so=1&c=apps
Advanced Task Manager
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.arron.taskManagerFree&feature=search_result
Hotspot Guru
https://market.android.com/search?q=Hotspot+Guru&so=1&c=apps
Besides what I listed as benefits for SuperPower there are a ton more that I have not even touched on. This app is jam-packed full of modding goodness. get the app. and use at your own risk kind of thing and explore this bad boy because its a doozy. Lol! Hope this helps.

What are you doing specifically on the Superpower app to get such good battery life?

I think I am at the point that the best option....is to just return the thrill.
I tried using it as my dedicated device for a few days now and it just isnt working out. it freezes,locks up, bluetooth is not holding a connection ,just all around does not perform like I expected.
I really want to like it haha....i really like the overall physical feel of the phone. The 3d is great (after waiting a ridiculously long time for it to load) but it is just too sluggish and quirky for me to enjoy daily.
I am most likely going to start from scratch tonight and give it one more week....but without some major magical miracle (like fully working cwm, kernel development and the ability to flash O3D roms) i just dont see myself keeping the thrill.
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00mred00 said:
I think I am at the point that the best option....is to just return the thrill.
I tried using it as my dedicated device for a few days now and it just isnt working out. it freezes,locks up, bluetooth is not holding a connection ,just all around does not perform like I expected.
I really want to like it haha....i really like the overall physical feel of the phone. The 3d is great (after waiting a ridiculously long time for it to load) but it is just too sluggish and quirky for me to enjoy daily.
I am most likely going to start from scratch tonight and give it one more week....but without some major magical miracle (like fully working cwm, kernel development and the ability to flash O3D roms) i just dont see myself keeping the thrill.
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Really. Mine flies through screen's and apps with Zero Lag including 3D. As far as it sounds to me, sounds like your phone is either defective or loaded with a Ton of apps running in the background constantly. If it's apps running in the background all the time as far as I recall Froyo didn't do the greatest at managing what to shut down and when. Either way goodluck.

Thanks! As for apps...that isn't the issue for sure. There are a number of things the phone does quickly but there are a few it does not. The camera does concern me. When I open the three d can it just goes blank screen for a while and then finally comes up.
Hell even typing at times everything will occassionally just pause for a few.
I haven't given up yet. I am going to hard reset and give her one more go
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Really. Mine flies through screen's and apps with Zero Lag including 3D. As far as it sounds to me, sounds like your phone is either defective or loaded with a Ton of apps running in the background constantly. If it's apps running in the background all the time as far as I recall Froyo didn't do the greatest at managing what to shut down and when. Either way goodluck.
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Try using taskiller and set it up to kill apps when the screen is off. That seems to work well for me with app management.
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taytay209 said:
Try using taskiller and set it up to kill apps when the screen is off. That seems to work well for me with app management.
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Personally, I have been using "Autokiller Memory Optimizer," which is NOT a task killer, but allows you to set memory limits.
This may be overly aggressive, but this is the setup I have been using, and it has been treating me very well. From top to bottom, in MB (from "foreground app" to "empty app"): 18 / 24 / 32 /100 / 125 / 150
I may tweak it down a little, but in general this setup has allowed me to multitask between apps really quickly, while Android "kills" the apps I'm no longer using. Highly recommended for (rooted) Thrill users!
While I'm at it, another useful (paid, requires root) tool for the thrill is "Autostarts."

With what I have done so far with SuperPower and such my phone is flying right along and running consistently with between 186 and 202 mb of available memory. So with the processor and RAM hauling ass I am loving this phone. I am can't wait for some some stuff to come down the pipe for this phone. There is definitely a lot of BS stuff running hidden that can slow it down but with SuperPower and the task killer and all the stuff I talked about when I started the thread I am so far satisfied.

Running mine basically how it came straight out of the box, no custom rom, only fancy apps I'm using are appkiller and setcpu right now. Battery life before I got setcpu was... less than desired. But when I got it and configured it to only use as much processor speed as I'd need for my "on the go" usage, I get enough life out of it to last me the whole day, and get home at 20% battery. What I did? Set it so it uses minimal CPU speed (30%)with the screen off, and in calls, and during normal usage it only runs at 60% and that's more than enough to handle my regular usage of texting, emails, calls, browsing, a little bit of gaming, near constant syncing, as well as a good amout of music streaming and maybe only about 50% standby time. Love this phone, dual core with half gig of ram is pretty much complete overkill as far as any phone goes. I fly through Apps only using 60% of the cpu's stock capabilities.now for the times when I'm out longer than normal (over 14 hours a day) I have it set to use minimal CPU speed at 15% battery life and less, in case of emergencies.

I'm returning mine. I either put too many apps, get too many defective phones, or just need a phone with more memory. Never had running out of application room on the Captivate or Inspire.
Camera can take up to 8-10 seconds to finally come on. This is a pain when I want some quick shots of the kids at the moment.
Mine also freezes up while I'm using the keyboard whether it's the stock or swiftkey or better keyboard. This is the 2nd thrill I've had and same issues. So that leaves pretty much the GS2 that's coming out. And Samsung scares me.

Until we get a custom kernel.....i am not aware of anything that will allow us too throttle cpu speed. what are you using? sure the apps will allow you to make setting adjustments yes....but those settings are not sticking (not on the apps I have tried)
irishpunk said:
Running mine basically how it came straight out of the box, no custom rom, only fancy apps I'm using are appkiller and setcpu right now. Battery life before I got setcpu was... less than desired. But when I got it and configured it to only use as much processor speed as I'd need for my "on the go" usage, I get enough life out of it to last me the whole day, and get home at 20% battery. What I did? Set it so it uses minimal CPU speed (30%)with the screen off, and in calls, and during normal usage it only runs at 60% and that's more than enough to handle my regular usage of texting, emails, calls, browsing, a little bit of gaming, near constant syncing, as well as a good amout of music streaming and maybe only about 50% standby time. Love this phone, dual core with half gig of ram is pretty much complete overkill as far as any phone goes. I fly through Apps only using 60% of the cpu's stock capabilities.now for the times when I'm out longer than normal (over 14 hours a day) I have it set to use minimal CPU speed at 15% battery life and less, in case of emergencies.
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I'm using the xda app setCPU it's a free download for site members and only requires rooting your phone. Note that the app only controls the max and min speeds of the processor, this isn't overclocking. I don't really know that much about the app beyond what it's supposed to, and seemingly succeeding at doing. Everything that I've done with the app seems to be working fine. I tested it with min and max at only 30% CPU speed (the lowest it seems to allow for), and I definitely felt it in the way my phone responded, the entire time (atleast ten mins) up til I turned the settings back up
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Until we get a custom kernel.....i am not aware of anything that will allow us too throttle cpu speed. what are you using? sure the apps will allow you to make setting adjustments yes....but those settings are not sticking (not on the apps I have tried)
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I will play with it again but i recall it doing nothing. it looks like the settings have been changed but they do not stick. Running a few benchmarks showed processor still running at full speed
I did a factory reset...will play with it when i get everything loaded up again.
irishpunk said:
I'm using the xda app setCPU it's a free download for site members and only requires rooting your phone. Note that the app only controls the max and min speeds of the processor, this isn't overclocking. I don't really know that much about the app beyond what it's supposed to, and seemingly succeeding at doing. Everything that I've done with the app seems to be working fine. I tested it with min and max at only 30% CPU speed (the lowest it seems to allow for), and I definitely felt it in the way my phone responded, the entire time (atleast ten mins) up til I turned the settings back up
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Haven't done any benchmark tests, my conclusion just came based on the results of improved battery
life to be completely honest.
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SuperPower can throttle it up a bit. It is one of the settings to be checked off.
Open up SuperPower>scroll down to: CPU Scaling: Enable and check the box
Below that is a box you can check for CPU Scaling: ondemand
Like I said in my original post there are a fair amount of options that gives us the opportunity to have our devices running at their best. I appreciate everyone's postings about what they are trying and so forth. This is how it all begins to getting stuff done. Thanks guys.

Not a problem my good friend, I'm a huge fan of this device and the potentials it possess, I am glad to be a part of any improvements that can be made.
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I am a goon...underclock works perfectly fine
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I'm glad you got it working, how's it helping you're battery life?
yeah ironic I know, a die hard Android fan like myself, doing iPhone AppleCare phone support.

47r0n1n said:
SuperPower can throttle it up a bit. It is one of the settings to be checked off.
Open up SuperPower>scroll down to: CPU Scaling: Enable and check the box
Below that is a box you can check for CPU Scaling: ondemand
Like I said in my original post there are a fair amount of options that gives us the opportunity to have our devices running at their best. I appreciate everyone's postings about what they are trying and so forth. This is how it all begins to getting stuff done. Thanks guys.
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I can't find this settings under super power? Do I need to have a paid version of this app?
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irishpunk said:
I'm glad you got it working, how's it helping you're battery life?
yeah ironic I know, a die hard Android fan like myself, doing iPhone AppleCare phone support.
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Can you post your setcpu settings?

I'm running my CPU at 600000mHz max and 300000mHz min for normal use, and babe a profile that sets it to 300000mHz max and min with the screen off. Have all my profiles set for "on demand" so it only ramps up the CPU when it needs it
yeah ironic I know, a die hard Android fan like myself, doing iPhone AppleCare phone support.

Battery life drained?! o.o

So my revolution got the 2.1 blitzkrieg update and the http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1394056&highlight=adrenaline+shot . I have the extended battery, and when I went to the gym for an hour and 30 minutes, I had 10% gone?! What is this? I thought the blitzkrieg was supposed to increase battery life?
Note: SetCPU is always at max: 1.9ghz min: 0

iamjerry123 said:
So my revolution got the 2.1 blitzkrieg update and the http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1394056&highlight=adrenaline+shot . I have the extended battery, and when I went to the gym for an hour and 30 minutes, I had 10% gone?! What is this? I thought the blitzkrieg was supposed to increase battery life?
Note: SetCPU is always at max: 1.9ghz min: 0
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Reinstall SetCPU, your min is off... goofy, your phone can't run at 0, then it wouldn't run. I think min is 244mhz.
The first day I had my extended battery, it drained crazy fast. Then it took hours for it to charge. Yesterday I got 13 hours off of it with very heavy use, and today 14 hours and I was at 28% when I plugged it in to charge. Give it a day after you reinstall setcpu.

markapowell said:
Reinstall SetCPU, your min is off... goofy, your phone can't run at 0, then it wouldn't run. I think min is 244mhz.
The first day I had my extended battery, it drained crazy fast. Then it took hours for it to charge. Yesterday I got 13 hours off of it with very heavy use, and today 14 hours and I was at 28% when I plugged it in to charge. Give it a day after you reinstall setcpu.
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I can't reinstall SetCPU LOL... It doesn't let me uninstall it . And my bad, the min was 122880.

iamjerry123 said:
I can't reinstall SetCPU LOL... It doesn't let me uninstall it . And my bad, the min was 122880.
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Freeze it and download cputuner? Why can't you uninstall setcpu?
menu->applications->downloaded->setcpu->uninstall
or try Gemini its a ram cleaner, and you can uninstall from there. I have never run into an issue where I couldn't remove setcpu. If that is the case then indeed you may have an issue with the setcpu program.

battery life
I seem to loose battery life quite fast I have to charge my phone at least once more during the day just to make it through. what can I do to improve this other than getting the extende battery

rocknrolla818 said:
I seem to loose battery life quite fast I have to charge my phone at least once more during the day just to make it through. what can I do to improve this other than getting the extende battery
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I'm getting 10 to 12 hours with very heavy use which is pretty good for me. You can use an app like watchdog (available in Android market) it will tell you what apps are using up resources and allow you to control problem apps. JuiceDefender is highly recommended by some people. I'm not using anything like that at the moment.
My Profile
*Gingervolt 1.3
*Blitzkrieg 2.0 (Overclocked @ 1.9 most of the time)
*V6 Supercharger
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markapowell said:
Freeze it and download cputuner? Why can't you uninstall setcpu?
menu->applications->downloaded->setcpu->uninstall
or try Gemini its a ram cleaner, and you can uninstall from there. I have never run into an issue where I couldn't remove setcpu. If that is the case then indeed you may have an issue with the setcpu program.
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So basically, the SETPCU is the problem?

iamjerry123 said:
So basically, the SETPCU is the problem?
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It could be, if you are saying you can't remove it. I would try to work on that then go from there. Can you force stop it? Clear data? Next I would get titanium backup and freeze it. Once you do that you can use tb to remove it.
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I'm running blitz 2.1 as well and I ONLY have the governor set on smoothass and I lose 10% in one hour. I'm considering restoring to pre -blitz. I love the performance even when I did overclock but the battery cost is too much.
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For the longest time I didn't do gingervolt 1.3 because it caused issues with my phone. Finally when blitz came out,I did it, but I factoried every but of my phone to do it. I suspected I was running two roms at the same time, because there were often times the phone would give me stock options for doing tasks, and ones from the ROM. Also there were certain elements left behind that should have been removed, like bing. Just take blitz off and try again.
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I've done that before. I originally installed blitz over gingervolt 1.2 and had the same problems. So I restored back to just gv 1.2, upgraded to gv 1.3 and then put blitz on. I still have poor battery life and the occasional vibrate+freeze which results in a reboot.
I can't really give up my overclock lol it runs great but makes me more dependent on my charger. I'm sure it'll get better in future releases of blitz.
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Im on gv 1.3 / blitz 2.1 @ 768 / 1900 via set cpu with supercharger + 3g turbo and ics, adrenaline shot and no verify plus some other tweaks from the tweaks list. I haven't had any reboots in a few days (even when charging) and my oem battery lasts all day with lite to moderate use. The extended battery 12+ hours with heavy usage.
The three most helpful changes for my revolution have been using blitz 2.1 and setting minimum to 768 and removing KAK from the supercharger script. After doing those things it runs smoother and I've got better battery life (go figure) I don't know how or why but of course I could be missing something.
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As is being discussed over at the bk thread, set CPU might drain battery. Not conclusive, but possible. I'm trying CPU master now to see if there's a difference for me
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I'm using CPU Master made by Antutu also, and my battery still drains however I'm not supercharged. I really should look into getting supercharged though.
The batter drain almost makes me want to look into getting the extended battery...
Has anyone had problems at all with extended battery?
Does the phone still fit in the hip holster with ext. battery?

Okay so i uninstalled SetCPU and got CPU Tuner. could it be that I never removed blitzkrieg, but instead flashed 1.0 then 2.0 then 2.1?

What can I do to better improve my battery life I have gingervolt but I seem to have terrible battery life I literally charged my phone to 100 went to bed and when I woke up it was at 17 without touching it. What can I do who are my options

rocknrolla818 said:
What can I do to better improve my battery life I have gingervolt but I seem to have terrible battery life I literally charged my phone to 100 went to bed and when I woke up it was at 17 without touching it. What can I do who are my options
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Stop sleeping 14 hours a night. My battery lasted between 8 and 14 hours depending inn what I was doing. When I would flash a ROM, my battery was less for a couple days, but back after that. If its been a few days you can go back to stock and try again to dl and flash gingervolt. I got the extended battery when I heard they were 50 percent off. I have been off charger all day and I am at 44 percent.
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iamjerry123 said:
Okay so i uninstalled SetCPU and got CPU Tuner. could it be that I never removed blitzkrieg, but instead flashed 1.0 then 2.0 then 2.1?
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Shouldn't have been the issue. Now just give your phone a day or two.
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abarthle said:
I'm using CPU Master made by Antutu also, and my battery still drains however I'm not supercharged. I really should look into getting supercharged though.
The batter drain almost makes me want to look into getting the extended battery...
Has anyone had problems at all with extended battery?
Does the phone still fit in the hip holster with ext. battery?
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Love the extended. I pocket my phone so I have no clue if it fits in the holster.
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markapowell said:
Love the extended. I pocket my phone so I have no clue if it fits in the holster.
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Yeah I see they're only like $35 on Amazon.com so that may not be a bad idea in the near future since I am in the contract for at least 2 years lol it's probably worth it.

Best mods (Root) for best battery life and phone speed?

I have basically every script/ mod right now done to my Revo and I use Antutu Battery saver running at level 3 (best battery saver level). I still dont feel like I get good battery life, even when not using the phone too much. I have my cpu set on rom Toolbox running 1900/ 255 on smoothass governor, which constantly switches at random. Does it switch because of my battery saver im thinking? Either way, Im trying to figure out if I should wipe my Revo and restart with just Blitz and Rom toolbox for better battery, with still good speeds. Any suggestions if I wipe clean? Or any suggestions on what to do right now? Thanks!

I'm guessing ur using gingervolt... I've had this same issue on my revolution... I've researched it and everything... I've found nothing
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Yes using gingervolt. Sorta stuck on what to do
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Yes using gingervolt. Sorta stuck on what to do
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I could be wrong but I'm guessing that setting 1.9gHz on the Max is just that, the Max. Not necessarily the "constant" CPU speed.
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Now this might not be the answer you were looking for, but I had found that even with multiple power-saving measure my battery-life was still terribly short. The best thing is to get an extended battery, the one for the Revo is beast in size and battery life. Also, since you didn't mention it, changing from LTE to CDMA is also good if you're not really needing your 4G speeds.

jmaxin07 said:
I have basically every script/ mod right now done to my Revo and I use Antutu Battery saver running at level 3 (best battery saver level). I still dont feel like I get good battery life, even when not using the phone too much. I have my cpu set on rom Toolbox running 1900/ 255 on smoothass governor, which constantly switches at random. Does it switch because of my battery saver im thinking? Either way, Im trying to figure out if I should wipe my Revo and restart with just Blitz and Rom toolbox for better battery, with still good speeds. Any suggestions if I wipe clean? Or any suggestions on what to do right now? Thanks!
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Your battery life is probably not too good because of the 1900 mhz setting... I use set CPU and you can use different profiles (including screen off, charging, battery threshold below a certain percent, etc.). This helps, but I don't get great battery life without a program like JuiceDefender. The problem there is, though, that it slows my phone down to the point of it taking a minute to get working, and by that time I have already done what I need to do... sort of sucks.

Fallen224 said:
Now this might not be the answer you were looking for, but I had found that even with multiple power-saving measure my battery-life was still terribly short. The best thing is to get an extended battery, the one for the Revo is beast in size and battery life. Also, since you didn't mention it, changing from LTE to CDMA is also good if you're not really needing your 4G speeds.
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I got the extended battery too and it is a world of difference. I can run all day and night without killing my battery. Even with moderate to heavy use, I can run through a whole day with no charger (and be comfortable). I just got mine through verizon for 24.99 the other week. I may have overpaid, but I don't trust amazon or ebay too much with some things.

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Your battery life is probably not too good because of the 1900 mhz setting... I use set CPU and you can use different profiles (including screen off, charging, battery threshold below a certain percent, etc.). This helps, but I don't get great battery life without a program like JuiceDefender. The problem there is, though, that it slows my phone down to the point of it taking a minute to get working, and by that time I have already done what I need to do... sort of sucks.
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I have an extended battery and I stay overclocked at 1.9gHz all day long. I don't use apps like juice defender or anything and I'm seeing 15-18 hours with moderate/heavy use.
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I use 5 different battery programs to monitor my battery and save my battery, but for some reason my battery drains in an hour.
The thing I see on here the most: monitoring programs, 4g connections, flashing left and right. People need to go to YouTube, and watch the video on how Android phones work. They are constantly learning what apps you use or don't use, they are learning how best to operate for your needs. When you flash a ROM or tweaks, it has to relearn. Sure track your battery for a day or two, see what programs are doing what and when, but then get rid of the extra crap, your phones don't need it. If you want extra battery life, get the bigger battery, you all knew coming to a smart phone that battery life sucks. Stop using app killers, and monitoring programs, they run in the background. Turn off auto run programs so one program doesn't start another.
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Has anyone measured the battery current? I would think if you are trying all these different setups and use scenarios the actual current draw is what you need to know.

markapowell said:
I use 5 different battery programs to monitor my battery and save my battery, but for some reason my battery drains in an hour.
The thing I see on here the most: monitoring programs, 4g connections, flashing left and right. People need to go to YouTube, and watch the video on how Android phones work. They are constantly learning what apps you use or don't use, they are learning how best to operate for your needs. When you flash a ROM or tweaks, it has to relearn. Sure track your battery for a day or two, see what programs are doing what and when, but then get rid of the extra crap, your phones don't need it. If you want extra battery life, get the bigger battery, you all knew coming to a smart phone that battery life sucks. Stop using app killers, and monitoring programs, they run in the background. Turn off auto run programs so one program doesn't start another.
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the more programs running the more drain. Widgets are convenient but can be real power hogs. Simple and streamlined is the way to go for me. You can have an awesome looking / running phone by being selective with apps and avoiding redundancies. If i have an issue, i dl the program/s i want to troubleshoot with and when im done i uninstall. No need to use resources that could be used elsewhere. You can always dl the app again or save its apk to the external sd or a laptop or both (thats what i did). Ofc, it will have a new learning curve but settles in a couple days, for me anyway.
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Sucky battery life

I want to know if my phone is just reading the charge level wrong or if something is wrong. I am running Slim ICS newest version, I also have an extended 3500mAh battery. I am only getting about 8-10 hours of battery life. I am always on my phone and I am wondering if that's why its draining so much. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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What do you mean by always on your phone? If your screen on time is 8-10 hours, that would explain the drain lol. You may just want to test it with different ROM/kernel combinations
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korockinout13 said:
What do you mean by always on your phone? If your screen on time is 8-10 hours, that would explain the drain lol. You may just want to test it with different ROM/kernel combinations
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Well my screen isn't always on but I mean I use it a bunch like I text a crap load and stuff
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Take a look at what you have running on your phone - widgets that grab updates, live wallpapers, and any other thing that runs in the background will add to your battery drain. It's pretty much an even tradeoff - the more you ask the phone to do, the faster the battery will go down. Just take a look at what you have running and decide what needs to be running and what can be taken away.

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Take a look at what you have running on your phone - widgets that grab updates, live wallpapers, and any other thing that runs in the background will add to your battery drain. It's pretty much an even tradeoff - the more you ask the phone to do, the faster the battery will go down. Just take a look at what you have running and decide what needs to be running and what can be taken away.
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I have one widget and a program called quicker I constantly kill things with my task manager
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Do you do much gaming or web browsing on the phone? Both of those can be pretty heavy battery drains.
If not, and you're only getting 8-10 hours per charge with normal use (mostly calls, texts, some small amount of apps), then you may want to look at overclocking/undervolting to fine tune how your phone uses power.

jmtheiss said:
Do you do much gaming or web browsing on the phone? Both of those can be pretty heavy battery drains.
If not, and you're only getting 8-10 hours per charge with normal use (mostly calls, texts, some small amount of apps), then you may want to look at overclocking/undervolting to fine tune how your phone uses power.
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I do some web browsing but nothing that would drain my battery this much, if you could help Me configure overclocking and undervolting that would be great I am running glitch kernel v14 b6
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The OC/UV setup is something you'll just have to play around with, as each phone handles them differently.
My suggestion (and I can't say I'm even remotely an expert on this) would be to leave the UV alone at first and try pushing the OC setting up and see how high your phone will run and still be stable, then back off by 1 level (giving you a buffer). Your phone can handle the higher level, but a difference of 100 MHz isn't going to be a massive boost and it runs the chip a little easier.
Once you've done that, then take a single notch of voltage off of all levels. See if that's stable, then repeat and see which settings are ones your phone will handle.

patrick8996 said:
I have one widget and a program called quicker I constantly kill things with my task manager
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Hmm... Killing things isn't very good on battery life since it forces those services to restart again, eating up CPU and holding wake lock. Killing tasks is frowned upon in general and won't help battery life unless you are killing rogue CPU hogging apps.
You could try underclocking with glitch to the 800 MHz step, and setting live OC to something around 115%. It should perform well depending on the ROM, and yield better battery life than pure overclocking. You can also experiment with undervolting from there. Keep in mind that these things only affect battery life when the CPU is running, so basically when the screen is on. It won't save you power in deep sleep.
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Battery life

Hi
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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Bux87 said:
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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Bux87 said:
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.

muzamal said:
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!

Bux87 said:
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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Bux87 said:
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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