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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
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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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Hi,
I have CyanogenmodMod 10. I don't if it's normal but my battery is discharging faster than my Galaxy Ace. In my settings I saw that the screen is taking 78% of the battery. I don't know if that's normal.
How can I check if everything's normal ?
Thanks.
Use BetterBatteryStats - you can find it in the forum. Feel free to ask further questions regarding it.
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What and where am I looking for exactly in this app ?
I suggest that you lower your screen brightness or set it to automatic so that the screen dims itself in night, you may also try out apps like Juice Defender, they also increase the battery backup by turning off the data when it's not in use !
Hope it helps !
And if I helped just press the Thanks button !
There is the link where I have upload a few screens of my battery usage : https://www.dropbox.com/sh/uoadq1vy8zzbbk9/B6mgZMMrCZ
Ichigo-Roku said:
There is the link where I have upload a few screens of my battery usage : https://www.dropbox.com/sh/uoadq1vy8zzbbk9/B6mgZMMrCZ
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Hey I suggest that you try to lower your screen brightness as I said before, also try to change your CPU frequency settings a bit. :good:
Yes I'll try that but I also want to know if there's something weird on my battery usage.
Thanks for your help.
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Yes I'll try that but I also want to know if there's something weird on my battery usage.
Thanks for your help.
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There is nothing weird with your mobile, but the hard fact is that in terms of battery backup Android is a looser
And to thank me just press the thank you button !!!
Maybe it's the 3G (data).
I had an Galaxy Ace and the battery was much longer but I wasn't using 3G with my Galaxy Ace. I didn't expect that the 3G was so solicited by the battery.
Ichigo-Roku said:
Hi,
I have CyanogenmodMod 10. I don't if it's normal but my battery is discharging faster than my Galaxy Ace. In my settings I saw that the screen is taking 78% of the battery. I don't know if that's normal.
How can I check if everything's normal ?
Thanks.
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as far as I know, cm10 drains a lot of battery, try to use lower brightness and try using a Battery saving program. I use Juice Defender on CM9 and it works great.
educk said:
as far as I know, cm10 drains a lot of battery, try to use lower brightness and try using a Battery saving program. I use Juice Defender on CM9 and it works great.
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is it worth to buy the Juice Defender?i hear from a lot of people that its a great programm if you want to save battery.
Grigoris0r20r said:
is it worth to buy the Juice Defender?i hear from a lot of people that its a great programm if you want to save battery.
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downloaded the juice defender today, still running the free version, suggest the same to you. if you will feel that it's not enough than buy the full version
mdshooter said:
downloaded the juice defender today, still running the free version, suggest the same to you. if you will feel that it's not enough than buy the full version
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Have you seen any difference to battery life?
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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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Well, this is weird, I bought recently a i9000b guys, my old Galaxy Ace rusts in peace now... well, flashed it (took some long hours) and now i'm using CyanogenMod 10, but here's the probelm
It has been charging the entire night, then this morning I took it and went to take a breakfast, I've been chatting and stuff but it got laggy, so I decided to restart it (apparently with 72% of battery aprox), when i checked it again after the restart I saw 4% of battery. What? Is that possible? I must say that I haven't calibrated the battery, I tried to check if charging it with the phone off and had a very low battery level. What could it be? Battery Calibration? Rom? Kernel?
ROM: [ROM][LINARO][JDQ39E][22/05] **C-RoM Mix v22 *&* C-RoM v3** [ Stable & Fast... ] [
Kernel: Semaphore 2.9.0 (for i9000b)
Thanks
PS: I turned on again the phone and there was a 80%~ of battery
Do one thing might solve:
Switch off your phone
Rwmove battery
Press power button for 15-30 sec
Insert battery back and reboot
Let me know if it solves your issue
erpurohit said:
Do one thing might solve:
Switch off your phone
Rwmove battery
Press power button for 15-30 sec
Insert battery back and reboot
Let me know if it solves your issue
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Done, let's see if doesn't happen again. Anyway, should I wipe the battery stats? I haven't yet...
I will be doing tests because it happened to me yesterday, I got a random shutdown and the battery was empty, so I'll be looking for that.
Any another solution is welcome, thanks anyway :good:
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Done, let's see if doesn't happen again. Anyway, should I wipe the battery stats? I haven't yet...
I will be doing tests because it happened to me yesterday, I got a random shutdown and the battery was empty, so I'll be looking for that.
Any another solution is welcome, thanks anyway :good:
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That doesn't require...just charge your phone a full cycle in a go
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That doesn't require...just charge your phone a full cycle in a go
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Going out tonight, should I waste the entire battery, recharge and see if works right?
Oliver94 said:
Going out tonight, should I waste the entire battery, recharge and see if works right?
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Yes...and I always avoid to charge phone for whole night
erpurohit said:
Yes...and I always avoid to charge phone for whole night
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That's a problem, S1 is my only alarm at the mornings :silly:
erpurohit said:
Yes...and I always avoid to charge phone for whole night
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Happened again after 3h 25min of usage, battery fell from 46% to 0%
Can't it be the kernel?
(CM10.1)
Oliver94 said:
Happened again after 3h 25min of usage, battery fell from 46% to 0%
Can't it be the kernel?
(CM10.1)
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Battery drain problems are usually kernel related, yeah. When I tried CM10.1 I noticed a hell of a lot of battery drain as well (then again, 3 year old 1500mAh battery, 3 year old SGS, can't expect miracles).
Try using any of the 4.2 kernels in the forums (Semaphore, Mackay, Devil, CyanCore). I've tried most of them (usually Semaphore) and they're all pretty good for getting that extra bit out.
Aonther option would be to switch rom. Some devs have made roms with pretty good battery life considering the extra ram consumption on JB.
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Yes...and I always avoid to charge phone for whole night
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Soryuu said:
Battery drain problems are usually kernel related, yeah. When I tried CM10.1 I noticed a hell of a lot of battery drain as well (then again, 3 year old 1500mAh battery, 3 year old SGS, can't expect miracles).
Try using any of the 4.2 kernels in the forums (Semaphore, Mackay, Devil, CyanCore). I've tried most of them (usually Semaphore) and they're all pretty good for getting that extra bit out.
Aonther option would be to switch rom. Some devs have made roms with pretty good battery life considering the extra ram consumption on JB.
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Thanks, i'm on it, will change my rom to Mackay rom and kernel, sadly this kernels aren't usually updated, because I have a i9000b and there are not much kernels for this model. I'm going to install a Mackay kernel compiled for i9000b
Hi guys ...i need help i have big problem with my battery,i am now on CM.10.2 but this happen with all roms ...when is battery on 28-25% then my phone go off then when i on my phone battery is 5% and again off ...have somebody this? sorry for bad english,thanks
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drakes992 said:
Hi guys ...i need help i have big problem with my battery,i am now on CM.10.2 but this happen with all roms ...when is battery on 28-25% then my phone go off then when i on my phone battery is 5% and again off ...have somebody this? sorry for bad english,thanks
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You changed ROM recently? Charge-discharge it couple times.
Hi friend shut down ....yes i changed ROM recently ...my previously rom was liquid,slimrom and carbon rom ...but everytime when i change rom i have clean instal first STOCK and then custom rom ....charge-discharge it couple times.You know what is problem?or what is wrong?
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Hi friend shut down ....yes i changed ROM recently ...my previously rom was liquid,slimrom and carbon rom ...but everytime when i change rom i have clean instal first STOCK and then custom rom ....charge-discharge it couple times.You know what is problem?or what is wrong?
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Probably it discalibrate. Charge-discarge couple times.
What can I do? need new battery?
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What can I do? need new battery?
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No. Just wait some time, I think that battery needs to calibrate itself with charging. I tried CM11, in first it was awfull, after 2-3 charges it is becoming usable. But still CM10.2 and CM11 based ROMs are battery eaters. Try CM10.1.
Thanks very much for y quick answers ...i hope that it can to remedy the battery okey but i try too cm 10.1 ...thanks again :good:
Next time when you flash rom or even update to official firmware make sure your battery is always 100%, not 80, not 90 but 100%... I had problem with discalibrated battery cause i update from Ginger Bread to official Samsung Jelly Bean firmware and my battery gone crazy... Try charge-discharge couple of times as shut-down says... This problem could be a swollen battery too cause you say that your phone turns off when you are at 25-28%... To be sure that your battery isn't swollen, turn your phone off and make this steps:
step 1: Take the battery out of the phone.
step 2: Put it on a level (flat) surface.
step 3: Try spining the battery, if it spins freely than it's swollen, if it doesn't spin it's good and try this on the bouth sides of the battery.
drakes992 said:
Hi guys ...i need help i have big problem with my battery,i am now on CM.10.2 but this happen with all roms ...when is battery on 28-25% then my phone go off then when i on my phone battery is 5% and again off ...have somebody this? sorry for bad english,thanks
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Battery caliberation problem. caliberate using battery caliberation app or delete batterystats file
Discharge to 0%, full charge to 100%. And leave it some time (don't plug off your charger), maybe hour and more.
Type this in Terminal editor: cat /sys/kernel/abb-chargalg/eoc_status
And wait untill it says the real EOC reached.
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if I help you, simpe just hit the thanks button.
i was having the same issue with Carbon 4.4.2 build 3, i did this:
*Uncharged the phone until 12-15%
*Rebooted phone 7% battery (every time i rebooted i losted 5% no matter what)
*Charged phone good 4 hours and then ran Battery Calibration APK (battery Calibration was showing 4120mha)
*Rebooted left phone alone 15 minutes ran Battery Calibration APK again (battery now was showing 4245mha)
*Ran greenify, hibernated almost all apps except whatsapp (bug with that was launching Player pro instead)
*Disconnected phone went to settings/performance changed:
Cpu Governor to :Abyssplug
Minimum CPU freq: 200mhz, Max: 800, set on boot.
I/O Scheduler: Deadline,set on boot.
Memory Managment: Zram to 10%, Allow purging of assets and KSM, also 16bit transparency.
i had 100% battery from 1am to 5am (whatsapp, fast for facebook,player pro, traffic racer, heavy wifi, screen never went off) at 4:35-40 i had 57% battery, to 5am i was having 55%, slept til 11am from that on i haven't used my cellphone too much but i have 35% current battery...for me its okay since i alway have a backup battery.
Pdt: i owe you the picture im in my office and don't have an usb cable with me.
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Next time when you flash rom or even update to official firmware make sure your battery is always 100%, not 80, not 90 but 100%... I had problem with discalibrated battery cause i update from Ginger Bread to official Samsung Jelly Bean firmware and my battery gone crazy... Try charge-discharge couple of times as shut-down says... This problem could be a swollen battery too cause you say that your phone turns off when you are at 25-28%... To be sure that your battery isn't swollen, turn your phone off and make this steps:
step 1: Take the battery out of the phone.
step 2: Put it on a level (flat) surface.
step 3: Try spining the battery, if it spins freely than it's swollen, if it doesn't spin it's good and try this on the bouth sides of the battery.
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Got 2 swollen battery's here..
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Mario bog you have truth,my battery is swollen ...thanks very much for help
Thvmh said:
Got 2 swollen battery's here..
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How do you mean you got 2 swollen battery's here ??
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Mario bog you have truth,my battery is swollen ...thanks very much for help
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You are welcome, ill do anything to help everyone...
Mario_Bog said:
How do you mean you got 2 swollen battery's here ??
You are welcome, ill do anything to help everyone...
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2 battery's original samsung are swollen by me.
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Thvmh said:
2 battery's original samsung are swollen by me.
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Oh, lol man you are battery killer... How do you succeed that, that's is usually from overheat, it happend to my uncle on galaxy s4 cause of bad software and the phone overheat easily...
Mario_Bog said:
Oh, lol man you are battery killer... How do you succeed that, that's is usually from overheat, it happend to my uncle on galaxy s4 cause of bad software and the phone overheat easily...
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It started on wintersport :') with the hybrid rom installed. But maybe it is because of the water damage in my phone. All the sensors are broken expect the sensors on the front of the phone.
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It started on wintersport :') with the hybrid rom installed. But maybe it is because of the water damage in my phone. All the sensors are broken expect the sensors on the front of the phone.
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Yea it must be that, cause of the water and the electricity make short circuit( more electric curreny than proper) and the battery gets damaged easily...
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Yea it must be that, cause of the water and the electricity make short circuit( more electric curreny than proper) and the battery gets damaged easily...
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But my battery broke about 6 months after the water damage
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