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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.

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Disclaimer: I'm a noob.
I don't know what that is heh
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sounds like you have an app that is chewing through your battery.

Pirateghost said:
sounds like you have an app that is chewing through your battery.
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Yeah, with gingerbread roms I've heard it's fairly common for you to have high usage from android system. Check that?

Pirateghost said:
sounds like you have an app that is chewing through your battery.
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Well, battery usage shows just about nothing... I was using 6.4 but after it did nothing for my battery life, I went back to 7. Now the android system thing is back but I'm getting the same battery life.
Here's what it shows under battery usage for today:
Display 29%
Android System 25%
Android OS 10%
Google Services 7%
Cell Standby 6%
Fancy Widget 4%
Handcent SMS 3%
Battery Graph 2%
Phone Idle 2%
JuiceDefender 2%
Dialer 1%
and that's it.

if you start seeing android system and android os that high, shut down, yank battery and let it sit for a few minutes. then replace and start up. should help with that and improve battery life.

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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My Favorite configuration for O/C

So....long time lurker here....I've tried every rom for the revo, every config setting, every tweak, every update, and so far for speed, battery life etc when running Blitz....the best I can come up with is this:
wipe data/ factory reset in CWM
fresh install:
Gingervolt 1.3
Blitz 2.1
Rom Toolbox Pro.
Toolbox CPU settings: max=1900 min=245 governor=SMOOTHASS
Thats it.
If I go and install scripts....other tweaks....different configurations...they ALL drain the battery faster than that simple setup.
I have the extended battery and I am getting a nice slow drain with decent usage. Blazing fast speed too.
Sometimes LESS IS MORE....and with this phone...after 50 wipes and re-flashes....In my opinion, you will get the best battery life from that config.
I will update this thread with drain % over time...right now I will charge the phone 100% and take it from there.

So...after charging the phone to100%....waited until 3:55pm..then rebooted while plugged in phone untouched until 4:00 pm. I then unplugged the phone and checked battery life exactly at 5:00 ....6:00....and7:00. With ZERO phone use.....the phone....screen off in 4g mode will use exactly 3% every hour on the hour. This is with the settings in the first post.

Thank you very much. Really appreciate it. This works for me too. The Revo has now become very stable, fast, descent battery life. I did it by keeping stock, applying your changes and using Zeam Launcher. Not on Gingervolt.

I have been using the scripts for a week now, and I think I agree. I am sure it's my phone being argumentative. I am thinking of downgrading the supercharger back to the gingervolt, because I think that was the most optimal for my phone, and apparently Mike's too.
Thanks for your post.

next test was to fully charge the phone to 100% ...disable 4g....reboot....wait until 9:00pm andunplug. Again with zero phone usage I waited until 10:00pm. The phone only drained the battery 1%. It went from 100% to 99% in one hour in 3g mode with wifi disabled.
so the next test will be 3g mode with wifi enabled and no use.
after that I will try the phone with wifi enabled in 4g mode
i hope we can zero in on maximizing battery life once and for all.

so one thing i must say regardless of the standby tests.....is that i fully expect garbage battery life after overclocking this phone while i am actually using it. overclocking creates heat......and heat is wasted electricity. so its give and take....sure overclocking is great and the phone isblazin fast...but the battery pays the price.
so theres one thing that is a fact of this phone.....it is 100% impossible to overclock the revolution and get better battery life than what we had before overclocking. its never gonna happen. BUT what we can do is figure out the best way to maximize battery life when the screenis off....and hopefully this thread can start us in the right directiono

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so one thing i must say regardless of the standby tests.....is that i fully expect garbage battery life after overclocking this phone while i am actually using it. overclocking creates heat......and heat is wasted electricity. so its give and take....sure overclocking is great and the phone isblazin fast...but the battery pays the price.
so theres one thing that is a fact of this phone.....it is 100% impossible to overclock the revolution and get better battery life than what we had before overclocking. its never gonna happen. BUT what we can do is figure out the best way to maximize battery life when the screenis off....and hopefully this thread can start us in the right directiono
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You should not see significant battery drain while using the phone. The idea of over clocking is so that multiple apps can run together without there being any jumping or lag. Your processor should not be running at 1900 when in the phone state. We all know 4g is a battery killer. I don't use 4g. This is a great thread you started.
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I used my phone as a navigation last night. Plugged into my car charger on the 20 minutes or so ride I lost 2% lol. Oc to 1.9
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Haro912 said:
I used my phone as a navigation last night. Plugged into my car charger on the 20 minutes or so ride I lost 2% lol. Oc to 1.9
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Mine actually charges. I started nav the other day at 81 percent, and ended my drive on 83. I think I was in the car for 30 minutes, maybe 40.
Let's see what duder gets, I am very interested.

Running blitz 2.1 @ 1.9/245 with the OEM extended battery my temps never exceed 90f, monitored by battery ETA. That includes full HD streaming. So, not so concerned about overheating.

[Q] battery life of CM7, Bumblebee and mokee

can anybody who used all three of the roms comment on the battery life of these ROMS? how do they compare against each other?

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can anybody who used all three of the roms comment on the battery life of these ROMS? how do they compare against each other?
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im not one to say I have used all 3, ive only used CM7. it was good. actually even MIUI is good but u gotta know how to find your wakelocks with betterbatterystats. that way you can optimize battery life regardless of whatever rom you're on.
I could go 1-2 days on my MIUI currently FR rom, moderate usage, all my syncs are off, i manually refresh for notifications.

cheezzzz said:
im not one to say I have used all 3, ive only used CM7. it was good. actually even MIUI is good but u gotta know how to find your wakelocks with betterbatterystats. that way you can optimize battery life regardless of whatever rom you're on.
I could go 1-2 days on my MIUI currently FR rom, moderate usage, all my syncs are off, i manually refresh for notifications.
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What do you mean "but u gotta know how to find your wakelocks with better batterystats" ? I usually dont have anything running in the background...

I have used CM 7, all MIUI, Lewa, and Mokee, and Ice BlacK too
In my view
1. CM7 have better battery life (but as I use to play 3 D games I won't prefer)
2. Second is Galnet MIUI, built by elol, decent battery life with good performance.
3. Third is Mokee, It is the best ROM for gamer and for others too who don't use to play game. It almost serve me for whole day with games, music and all mail, FB, Linkedin sync on for 24 hrs.

For me best choice is "Bumblebee" it's really a stable ROM and give's really great battery life, Best in which i have used.
In term's of Gaming this ROM is really great, it give's games extra smoothness to Game's by increasing FPS with help of it's new GPU derive.
This all make this ROM as my daily use ROM.

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What do you mean "but u gotta know how to find your wakelocks with better batterystats" ? I usually dont have anything running in the background...
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google xda betterbatterystats. download the app and follow the thread, those are uber battery sensitive people in the community.
so you manually sync all your apps as well? even calendar? and leave gtalk signed out?
wakelocks are what keeps the phone away from entering deep sleep. from the betterbatterystats app, if u see ur device entering 96% and above Deep Sleep after a night's full charge and allowed to idle, then good job, no matter what rom ur running u should be doing it right.
wakelocks are what cause a battery drain even when your phone is off idle while u sleep. it isnt only about background apps.

Yes,,I was use betterbatterystats,,I have managed all wakelocks and partial too,,it's give me battery life more time
But battery use info from setting doesn't change,,still give me "Android System" for highest % deal,,
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Arya_3RDNumber said:
Yes,,I was use betterbatterystats,,I have managed all wakelocks and partial too,,it's give me battery life more time
But battery use info from setting doesn't change,,still give me "Android System" for highest % deal,,
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flash stock rom and see if the problem persists. If it does return your phone and get a new one. You've got no other go!!!

Arya_3RDNumber said:
Yes,,I was use betterbatterystats,,I have managed all wakelocks and partial too,,it's give me battery life more time
But battery use info from setting doesn't change,,still give me "Android System" for highest % deal,,
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post your dump here. and also at the BBS thread where u got the app.
so unless you are getting 96% and above deep sleep, id say you have not completely managed your wakelocks yet. also what are your governor and i/o scheduler settings? OC'ed at? do you have a screen off profile to lower clock speed when screen off?
battery use info may show that, but most important is u charge your phone to full, let it discharge while u sleep and wake up next day, OBTAIN 96% DEEP SLEEP OR HIGHER. figure out what are the wakelocks in BBS. if BBS is managed correctly, even if your android system is using highest %, no big deal, more importantly your battery isn't draining like mad.

whyzee said:
can anybody who used all three of the roms comment on the battery life of these ROMS? how do they compare against each other?
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I still don't have raw stats. Can anyone who has used all phones comment?
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Battery Life stinks and phone gets hot

My battery life is pretty terrible. Running stock, power saver, and Snapdragon battery guru. I have to charge the phone 2-3 times a day. I use in moderately to light through the day. At night, it will drain almost completely while I'm asleep. I had a Nexus 4 before and battery life was way better than this, same location, same apps, etc. I don't feel like I should need to turn data and wi-fi off to get more than 6 hours of virtually idle phone life from this device. Is this typical?
I find the phone is hot a lot too, when I am not even using it.

Please try to find out what causes this drain with the following app and post results after 1 unloading cycle
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gsamlabs.bbm&hl=de

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Please try to find out what causes this drain with the following app and post results after 1 unloading cycle
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gsamlabs.bbm&hl=de
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does this come in English?

Bradlees said:
does this come in English?
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Tt does, the link included my country code. I'm sorry
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gsamlabs.bbm

baedaa said:
Tt does, the link included my country code. I'm sorry
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gsamlabs.bbm
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I downloaded it. Shut phone off and letting it charge, then going to see how fast it drains. To boot, its been on the charger for 2 hours and it has gone from 9% to 62%. Something must be wrong.

With stock my phone battery life sucked as well.that's why I rooted it and running a sense 5 Rom.. and it's so smooth I have my kernel UC to less than one gig speed and it still move fast without the overheat
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Definitely not typical...
I'm fully stock and not rooted. If I dont touch my phone it can last over 24 hours with data on (noticed this one weekend when I was too busy to play with the phone).
I use the Battery Widget Reborn app and it says a "Fully charged battery usually lasts: 18 hours 8 minutes" for me.
Sounds like theres definitely some kind of app in the background thats draining your battery and making your phone hot.

This is pretty typical battery life for me with data always switched on on a rooted stock 4.2.2 rom and was also pretty much identical on an unrooted stock 4.1.2 rom.
The main thing that saves me a ton of battery life is disabling apps that I don't use. By far and away the Facebook app is a massive culprit for killing battery life.
I'm very interested to see the gsam results when you post them.
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This is pretty typical battery life for me with data always switched on on a rooted stock 4.2.2 rom and was also pretty much identical on an unrooted stock 4.1.2 rom.
The main thing that saves me a ton of battery life is disabling apps that I don't use. By far and away the Facebook app is a massive culprit for killing battery life.
I'm very interested to see the gsam results when you post them.
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I did this procedure that HTC instructed me to do to reset the battery/charging system. I think it may have worked. No excessive heat and a drastic improvement in battery life. I've attached a screen shot of the gsam though. Just curious what you thought of the results

Bradlees said:
I did this procedure that HTC instructed me to do to reset the battery/charging system. I think it may have worked. No excessive heat and a drastic improvement in battery life. I've attached a screen shot of the gsam though. Just curious what you thought of the results
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You are getting decent battery life. What most here would call bad. That looks like my phone, though. So, you're average.

Bradlees said:
I did this procedure that HTC instructed me to do to reset the battery/charging system. I think it may have worked. No excessive heat and a drastic improvement in battery life. I've attached a screen shot of the gsam though. Just curious what you thought of the results
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I'd look into your apps check what is using what but other then that you're getting good batt life.
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Bradlees said:
I did this procedure that HTC instructed me to do to reset the battery/charging system. I think it may have worked. No excessive heat and a drastic improvement in battery life. I've attached a screen shot of the gsam though. Just curious what you thought of the results
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Well it's a definite improvement over the sort of battery life you were describing before. There are always ways of improving battery life but as has been said many times before it's all a case of where and how you use your phone that will be the main factor.

[Q] Overheat killing Battery?

Just a quick post while i was at work, i see it happens on other phones but mine has been randomly deciding to get extremely hot when i use any media player while at work, and when it starts doing this the battery drops like a rock, went from 70-80% down to 12% in under half an hour, Running REVOLT Rom, which ever the newest is the phones dead so i cant check, i just know there is no updates left. This is of because a lot of the time i cant get it to do it, but when ever I'm at work It Does it. never used to Any ideas? Thanks Guys ! Rom Maybe? Anyone got any suggestions?

Hello,
I would recommend You to install 2 apps.
1. CPU spy
2. Wakelock detector
After You get some statistics while the phone is discharging please post screenshots here
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