[Q] battery issue on cm9 - Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

hi everyone. i am using cm9 nightlies and i have been updating often. and some time ago i got a battery issue. first android system was using alot. i mean it was enabled for some hours and eating the battery. and now it looks like my battery is just being drained. android system is about 5 minutes but it has used my battery as seen below.

Having a similar issue :|
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You should probably flash a different modem.
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first i had this problem that android system was awake for some hour!! and now its up to some minutes. but still using a lot battery. i mean its the battery itself i guess. i don't know how to fix it

Install GO power master from Google Play, set screen brightness to auto and
Set CPU max MHz to 800 MHz that helped for me
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And ofcourse like Summer Wizard said you could try different modems

i will try installing another modem. but i also think there is a problem with battery charging as i red in the internet. i mean it looks like when installing a new rom when your battery is not full, the new rom recognizes the battery levels not correctly so it cant be charged fully and it is always half the capacity. and now i realize that even android system is not being used for a long time but its using a considerable amount of battery so i guess its the battery itself. and also even when battery is charged fully(100%) i see the indicator on battery icon showing plugged in. as i used to see only battery icon when fully charged. it looks its always hungry!!!

i have this problem too and android system & andriod os is couse of that because they have most usage even all apps are cloused

Cm9 for me can only charge up to %98
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What's you fav battery saving tricks/tips/tools....

For me I switch off all my WiFi and 3g and turn powersavemode app on works like a charm 15% battery drain over 7hours....
Any tips on how to save battery w/o having to switch off WiFi/3g?
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15% drain in 7hrs... doing what??
I mean, I loose 4% in 8hrs sleeping [doing nothing] and if I turn on airplane mode it varely loose 1% in 8hrs sleeping
i loose 3 to 4 % on 8 hrs too with wifi off
Bit of games, calls and texts....
Is it possible to actually damage your batt by over charging, I know it was possible before, but some ppl tell me nowadays batt don't do that anymore...
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Zaihanzainal said:
Bit of games, calls and texts....
Is it possible to actually damage your batt by over charging, I know it was possible before, but some ppl tell me nowadays batt don't do that anymore...
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I don't know man "a bit" is no accurate thing but I thing I have almost the same battery usage... I do a lots of txts...
now, for the overcharging... as far as I know all [or almost all] new electronic stuff that needs to recharge has a sensor for voltage and power, so when the batt is low or empty it tell you is the same when is fully charge it tells you and "cuts" the power supply... if you have some time look at your phone when is charging, when at 100% it tells you and "cuts" power, a few mins later it will be at 99% and inmidiatly starts charging again
6 hours sleeping it only drain about 2% from 37-35 yesterday
No special app used in my black right now,cause i'm waiting for the new updates
But to answer the title, it's Juice defender
It saves me a lot when i forget to turn off the conn
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I don't know man "a bit" is no accurate thing
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Does "quite a bit" help haha
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I use JuiceBattery ultimate in order to save my battery, and still every night with no opened apps, about 12% drain. Is it normal?
Is it possible that Juicedefender does the opposite - draining the battery?
ohadz said:
I use JuiceBattery ultimate in order to save my battery, and still every night with no opened apps, about 12% drain. Is it normal?
Is it possible that Juicedefender does the opposite - draining the battery?
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AFAIK,JD only disconnect the conn when you idle but i does run in the background
So,yeah it's possible
CMIIW
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I've read that bad apps can cause battery drain too, is there a way to locate dem baddies?
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I honestly don't know how are you manage to get such low power consumption on your phones. Just today I unplugged my phone little more than 5 hours ago. I did absolutely nothing with it, it just lied on a table and I'm already down from 100 to 84%. Just to be clear, for those 5 hours wifi, gps and 3G was off all the time. I'm on stock Froyo 10e, some of the LG bloatware removed and replaced with so called energy efficient apps from the market (3g watchdog, battery monitor widget). The only two original LG widgets that I use are weather & clock (with manual updated weather) and contacts. I really don't know what I'm doing wrong but my phone with really minimal usage can't last more than 1 day .
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I honestly don't know how are you manage to get such low power consumption on your phones. Just today I unplugged my phone little more than 5 hours ago. I did absolutely nothing with it, it just lied on a table and I'm already down from 100 to 84%. Just to be clear, for those 5 hours wifi, gps and 3G was off all the time. I'm on stock Froyo 10e, some of the LG bloatware removed and replaced with so called energy efficient apps from the market (3g watchdog, battery monitor widget). The only two original LG widgets that I use are weather & clock (with manual updated weather) and contacts. I really don't know what I'm doing wrong but my phone with really minimal usage can't last more than 1 day .
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I had probs with battery monitor, it drain batt like crazy so I uninstalled it and prob is gone... some of those apps kill more than what they save
the only apps I have is juiceplotter to monitor battery, cpuspy and android booster which I found very usefull cause it turn off everything: wifi, 3g, bluetooth, apps not in use; all in 1 click and as far as I know it really doesn't drain any battery or it's so minimal that it's not displayed
Ok currently I'm trying the higher voltage charger (5v) trick and I can see a huge difference ald I don't know how it works but 0% drop in 6.5 hours WiFi, 3g off and 10 sms Woot!
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Zaihanzainal said:
Ok currently I'm trying the higher voltage charger (5v) trick and I can see a huge difference ald I don't know how it works but 0% drop in 6.5 hours WiFi, 3g off and 10 sms Woot!
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what trick is it?
Apparently cos our stock charger is only 4.8v and our batteries are 5v/1500mah so if we use a 5v charger somehow it helps with better charging and battery life, I'm using a bbm charger which is 5v
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well i root my phone then removed the system applications using -system app remover.
im getting a much better battery backup . at least 30-40 % better . as far as the stand by is concerned .
i play a lot of games and text a lot so phone does not last over 1.5 day now ,
earlier it was one day only.
so im relatively happy with this phone because the battery backup is better now.
hope a software update to gb will help even more
do you guys have a battery percent number of 99%?
my phone ALLWAYS skips the 99.. it goes from 100 to 98 in 10 min after doing nothing..
(it's in the nova rom, its with official stock and it's with cyano.. and batt stats are renewed enough..)
PS: not to mention how poor my phone is daily.. chargng in the night.. at the end of the day 20% (too little to have all day at school, too much to power it up at night.. )
Zaihanzainal said:
Apparently cos our stock charger is only 4.8v and our batteries are 5v/1500mah so if we use a 5v charger somehow it helps with better charging and battery life, I'm using a bbm charger which is 5v
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Ah ok! I use 5v charger since i bought the OB. I charged it only 2 or 3 times with original charger and the battery life was a little lower than 5v charging
I reboot mine every morning. It seems to make some sort of background task started by alarm or something.
A normal day at work leaves me with 80% left.
If i don't reboot it will eat up the juice in just 5 hours.
Also juice defender helps quite a bit.
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K this has been helping me with my battery alot
1) install a new rom
2) using 5v charger
3) installing a firewall and prevent unnecessary stuff from connecting to 3g
4) uninstalling task killers(takes alot to restart the apps you killed)
5) uninstall battery monitoring apps (surprisingly)
6) use stock included lock screen
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7) uninstall anti virus apps*if you dare* (cos from what I understand Android has a sandbox type thing which traps viruses sorta so unless you go to alot of dodgy sites often you wont need it, imo a firewall is enough)
8) Turn off automatic updating for apps in the market
9) Turn off un-needed snyc features but do not turn off the "Background data" sync and "Auto sync" under the General sync settings or you might face problems going to certain sites, instead turn them off individually via the "manage Accounts" menu (I turn off mail snyc, fb snyc, watsapp snyc, contacts snyc)
Personally this had helped me alot in terms of battery....
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[Q] DISPLAY high battery usage

Hi all... im new to this forum n sorry if this question had been asked before. Im on stock + deodexed + zipaligned + abyss kernel 3.5b + thunderbolt tweaked rom. Its a great experience for a newbie like me before moving on using custom rom. The only issue I have right now is the DISPLAY battery usage in setting -application-battry usage too high, 85%. Is this normal or theres something wrong? Driver or tweak perhaps? Right now,and usually, theres only 3 or 4 service running (in the battery usage)... display, android system and cell standbay but the battery wont even last a day. Other than that, this note rocks....
Sorry.... forgot to mention... its LA4 rom
satanhead2003 said:
Hi all... im new to this forum n sorry if this question had been asked before. Im on stock + deodexed + zipaligned + abyss kernel 3.5b + thunderbolt tweaked rom. Its a great experience for a newbie like me before moving on using custom rom. The only issue I have right now is the DISPLAY battery usage in setting -application-battry usage too high, 85%. Is this normal or theres something wrong? Driver or tweak perhaps? Right now,and usually, theres only 3 or 4 service running (in the battery usage)... display, android system and cell standbay but the battery wont even last a day. Other than that, this note rocks....
Sorry.... forgot to mention... its LA4 rom
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Your battery usage depends a lot from how much you use your phone, but how you use it is also very important. If you're on full brightness all the time it has a big impact on your battery, because of the area that has to be illuminated. Also the more white color on the screen, the more battery the screen uses (because it is Super AMOLED).
So my advice would be to lower your brightness setting. This should make a big impact if your brightness is now set to full blast. If you use less than 50% brightness most of the time (I find that mostly sufficient) then post here about how you use your phone.
For comparison, I can use up my battery in approx. 7 hours by watching movies on the Note on around 60% screen brightness.
Also, I prefer dark wallpapers just to save up drips of juice. Haven't tested the actual impact of doing so tho
If the screen is on. The battery it consumes will appear in the battery stats. Don't panic its normal. I doubt change in kernel is going to help you. Below are my suggestions for you.
a. Reduce brightness
b. Use black wallpaper
c. Stop being so anal about the battery life. ;-)
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If the screen is on. The battery it consumes will appear in the battery stats. Don't panic its normal. I doubt change in kernel is going to help you. Below are my suggestions for you.
a. Reduce brightness
b. Use black wallpaper
c. Stop being so anal about the battery life. ;-)
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Lol good advice I find even on the lowest brightness the screen is still very bright. In a well lite room I can still use the screen without much added glare only when I'm outside in direct sunlight do I find myself going 50-100% brightness. My display usage is typically 50-60% compared to everything else in terms of battery usage.
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I am faci.v the same pro lem.. Sometimes my battery usage sbows 85 per in display and some times 55 per... This mornin i was playing world of goo.. N in less than an hour my battery dropped to 67 percent from full.. I am on rocket rom v21.. Wifi sharing frozen...
Also when i am using internet the battery drops very fast. .. In half an hr there is approx drop of 10per... Brightness setting is on the lowest... even posting this message from my phone and the battery level dropped from 85 to 84. . i cant compare it with stock rom because when i was on stock rom there was no battery indication in percents...
thanks for the advice. my brightness is always at its lowest level and i dont use auto brightness. i tried auto brightness n random level brightness before, it doesnt seem to lower the DISPLAY battery usage. last nigt,i set my note to aeroplane mode, and really great,2% usage for 8 hours. installing betterbatterystats didnt show any wakelocks, either from kernel or rom. its just the DISPLAY consuming too much. any chance its a driver issue?
Hey,
Did you also turn off the image analyzer setting? It messes w/ ya brightness just like auto brightness does...
And set screen timeout to a longer duration so it dont cut off in the middle of usage. on/off/on/off repetition eats more battery.
Try key light set to light only in the dark. theres only one key per side so it being lit in the day serves no purpose other than being prettyyyyy
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Now even plugged on charger and using dolphin browser results in dropping nattery from 66 per it went to 65 in half an hour on a charger...the back of the phone is also a little hot... Should i be worried.. N what are thw image analyser settings
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Now 64 as soon as i postes the last message... I think there is some problem with my phone...i wS on rooted stock indian rom... Then i flshed to ro ket rom v20 after full wipe..n then to ver 21... The battery backup is messed up since then...
what is the "image analyzer?
Auto adjust power option at bottom of display options.
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kanwal.diku said:
Now even plugged on charger and using dolphin browser results in dropping nattery from 66 per it went to 65 in half an hour on a charger...the back of the phone is also a little hot... Should i be worried.. N what are thw image analyser settings
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Now 64 as soon as i postes the last message... I think there is some problem with my phone...i wS on rooted stock indian rom... Then i flshed to ro ket rom v20 after full wipe..n then to ver 21... The battery backup is messed up since then...
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Galaxy phones dont charge as fast as others..
Its probably your usage is > than charger output
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ngocdao said:
Galaxy phones dont charge as fast as others..
Its probably your usage is > than charger output
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I dont know if i am being over paranoid about this wbole thing... Maybe i am just over addicted to this battery indicator... Will try and stay on this same rom until ICS comes...again just 15 min of wi fi and a drop of 6 percnt battery whereas tbere was almost nil battry drop when it was kept idle for almost 4 hrs...
What battery widget are you using?
So that 6% is not from display anymore?
Be more detailed..
Are you on wifi and idled? Or downloading? Watching a movie?
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ngocdao said:
What battery widget are you using?
So that 6% is not from display anymore?
Be more detailed..
Are you on wifi and idled? Or downloading? Watching a movie?
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i am not using any battery widget.. i am on rocket rom v21.. it shows the battery percent in the sstatus bar up on the top... i am sure you must be aware of it..
a detailed version of my above post.. this morning i took my note with me on a 76 per charge... used it to make some calls and a little messageing.. without any surfing on 3g or wifi... after about 4 hrs when i checked my battery stats it was 74 percent... and then i started using wifi in about no time ( abt 15 min ) the battery dropped by 6percent.. was just looking at another thread ( kernel comparsion )
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=1473733 ..... and i think wifi and surfing really takes a toll on abyss kernel 3.5 c.. will try updating to kernel 3.6..
its been off all the time... i mean the image analyzer.hmmm.... maybe its the display driver ...
Personally, I use 10% brightness and it's good enough for me, even under sunlight. It lasts about 9 to 12 hours on daily usage with 3G (I don't switch it off), mp3 and two or three 25 minutes videos, phone calls, twitter, sms, G+...well you get the picture. Full charge when I go out in the morning and about 10 to 30% battery left when I reach home in the evening without any random recharging in between.
I'm using stock rom by the way and my display uses 25% of battery whenever I check what's eating up the energy.

again .. galaxy note battery

This is my first post here. Am kinda new to the forum
Well, i know this issue have been said over and over. But i didn't get anything out of other threads
I have my new gnote on stock ICS for 6 weeks now. It's battery drain rate was about 1 % every 5 minutes on browsing. Then one day i installed game "angry gran 2" from 1mobile market, because it said on playstore not available for ur country. And since that moment the battery went crazy. Drain 1 % every 2 or 3 minutes. I uninstalled it a day later and the problem is still there. This was about 10 days ago
I checked running apps nothing is different than normal
I dunt use face book app
I uninstalled samsung push service
GPS and location services are always off
The mobile goes into deep sleep very well no problem with that acc to CPU spy. The processor which usually works is 200 mhz then sometomes 1200 mhz
All settings since the day i bought it are set to save energy "lowest brightness, sync is off .... Etc."
Now the battery does not work notmally unless every charge i remove the battery for few minutes and put it back' i did this today before i turn off my phone battery was 92 % remived battery put it back and it's 87% ! :S
Yester day about twice after going to sleep i find batter increased 1%
Can you help me please to spot where the problem is ?
I have better battery stats but i dunt understand it
And one more question please, does having large number of apps even if not running in the background cause battery drain ?
Thanks all will greatly appreciate any help
+1 on that. My note's battery runs really fast and I'm not even using it for hardcore gaming. The battery gets really hot at times too.
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update: screen shot from better battery stats
Check these screenshots from better battery stats is this rate normal ?
Hi! Once I had a similar battery issue, but in my case it was after flashing a custom rom. Battery started draining much faster than usual. And sometimes battery percentage jumped up too. Have you tried to remove/insert battery, then fully charge your phone and when fully charged run "Battery Calibration" app from Play Store? Have a feeling it's not the solution for your battery issue, maybe a long shot, but still maybe worth a try if you haven't done that already?
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Hi! Once I had a similar battery issue, but in my case it was after flashing a custom rom. Battery started draining much faster than usual. And sometimes battery percentage jumped up too. Have you tried to remove/insert battery, then fully charge your phone and when fully charged run "Battery Calibration" app from Play Store? Have a feeling it's not the solution for your battery issue, maybe a long shot, but still maybe worth a try if you haven't done that already?
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Well i haven't tried battery calibration yet. Will try it what to lose !
I searched for it it needs rooted device. Do you know some app does not need root ?
someone26 said:
Well i haven't tried battery calibration yet. Will try it what to lose !
I searched for it it needs rooted device. Do you know some app does not need root ?
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There's no such thing as battery calibration apps, it's a con, you just put them through a few cycles and they're fully charged, modifying the battery stats does nothing for the use of the physical battery.
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There's no such thing as battery calibration apps, it's a con, you just put them through a few cycles and they're fully charged, modifying the battery stats does nothing for the use of the physical battery.
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That is correct. The name of the app might be misleading. It does not do anything to the battery's physical condition at all.
The problem I had was that my "battery" suddenly started to drain very fast according to the battery icon in status bar. It dropped about 1%/min during screen off, and even faster with screen on. I charged my phone to 100% about 6 or 7 times. But as soon as I unplugged the cable I had that very quick drain. I guess the battery itself had much more capacity left than shown, it is in good condition... but that didn't help me because my note turned off when the battery icon showed it was low on % and I had to start charging again. Then I ran this app, which only thing it does is to simply delete batterystats.bin file if I understand it correctly. I don't know much about these stuff, but after that the usage time of my phone is back to normal again
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Well i haven't tried battery calibration yet. Will try it what to lose !
I searched for it it needs rooted device. Do you know some app does not need root ?
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I just had a look at Play Store and all the apps I saw that does remove batterystats seem to need root. Probably it is a system file you can't touch without root access then Also, the battery issue you have might be caused by something else.
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Well i wish it can be solved this way ... Coz other option am.gonna take is downgrading to GB then factory reset as i understood this won't brick my phone if I got it carrectly
May be it's calibration thing ... Check the attatched photo the batteru since 3 a.m. To 9 a.m. Is almost at same level or increasing .. Maybe it's some kinda of system calibratoon of battery indicator against battery fast drain while working .. I dunt know
In system settings > battery: what is reported there?
Have you tried boot in "safe mode" to see if it still drain the same way? It will exclude most of user installed stuff as your downloaded apps and such from running.
But remember you might loose some user settings on your phone when booting normal again after safe mode.
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Hmm iam have somethings like ur Problem
My Battery is Very Good
Not Drain anymore But Have something when iam go to sleep my battery 65% when iam wake up i found battery 66%
I dont know what is the problem but someone said to me some advanced to this Problem Read this Topic
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1874642
But Did you have this problem ( Battery sometimes Incrase 1% wih itself )
Portgas-D-Asce said:
Hmm iam have somethings like ur Problem
My Battery is Very Good
Not Drain anymore But Have something when iam go to sleep my battery 65% when iam wake up i found battery 66%
I dont know what is the problem but someone said to me some advanced to this Problem Read this Topic
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1874642
But Did you have this problem ( Battery sometimes Incrase 1% wih itself )
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Can u give me ur battery plz
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SpyderTracks said:
There's no such thing as battery calibration apps, it's a con, you just put them through a few cycles and they're fully charged, modifying the battery stats does nothing for the use of the physical battery.
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Portgas-D-Asce said:
Hmm iam have somethings like ur Problem
My Battery is Very Good
Not Drain anymore But Have something when iam go to sleep my battery 65% when iam wake up i found battery 66%
I dont know what is the problem but someone said to me some advanced to this Problem Read this Topic
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1874642
But Did you have this problem ( Battery sometimes Incrase 1% wih itself )
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although battery calibration app does nothing to do the battery hardware, but it does calibrate on how the battery percentage is being read by your phone. It wiped your battery status, allowing 100% charged to be read as 100% charged. sometimes, due to various reason (ie. flashing without fully charging), your battery status will be inaccurately read by your phone. For example, you charge your phone upto 2000, havent completely charged to the max capacity (2500) but the phone already read 2000 as 100%. and because of this, it will look like your battery drain really fast or the percentage jumping up and down. i guess.
wiping battery status requires you to have root access. thus, this app will only work when you have rooted your phone.
it is true that after a few cycles (not sure how many times) of charging the battery status may go back normal but hey, if we can make sure to do this calibration with only one cycle, why we have to do more?
hahuhe said:
although battery calibration app does nothing to do the battery hardware, but it does calibrate on how the battery percentage is being read by your phone. It wiped your battery status, allowing 100% charged to be read as 100% charged. sometimes, due to various reason (ie. flashing without fully charging), your battery status will be inaccurately read by your phone. For example, you charge your phone upto 2000, havent completely charged to the max capacity (2500) but the phone already read 2000 as 100%. and because of this, it will look like your battery drain really fast or the percentage jumping up and down. i guess.
wiping battery status requires you to have root access. thus, this app will only work when you have rooted your phone.
it is true that after a few cycles (not sure how many times) of charging the battery status may go back normal but hey, if we can make sure to do this calibration with only one cycle, why we have to do more?
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Huh
Now iam understand my problem is solved m maybe because iam didnt charge phone when iam changed my rom
And when iam charged it for first time on this custom rom i see problem( battery incrase with itself) solved Thanks God.
Portgas-D-Asce said:
Hmm iam have somethings like ur Problem
My Battery is Very Good
Not Drain anymore But Have something when iam go to sleep my battery 65% when iam wake up i found battery 66%
I dont know what is the problem but someone said to me some advanced to this Problem Read this Topic
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1874642
But Did you have this problem ( Battery sometimes Incrase 1% wih itself )
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My battery is crazy. Yep in deep sleep some times it increase 1 % .... On the other hand while working with the phone it drains very rabidly at a rate 3-3.5 % per minute .... Either on wifi or not ... It's normal rate used to be 5 % per minute till the day iinstalled that game and the problem persists even after i removed it
As for the explanation in the thread ptovided it does not make sense to me .. Because every time the battery jumps up the battery drain becomes soooooo rapid afterwards
offdrment son,
opiujn said:
In system settings > battery: what is reported there?
Have you tried boot in "safe mode" to see if it still drain the same way? It will exclude most of user installed stuff as your downloaded apps and such from running.
But remember you might loose some user settings on your phone when booting normal again after safe mode.
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In battery settings there's nothing other than usual at all
I will try safe mood and see what i get ... But should i work with it till the battery ends or i can use it for a couple of hours and notice the batt. Drain rate ?
hahuhe said:
although battery calibration app does nothing to do the battery hardware, but it does calibrate on how the battery percentage is being read by your phone. It wiped your battery status, allowing 100% charged to be read as 100% charged. sometimes, due to various reason (ie. flashing without fully charging), your battery status will be inaccurately read by your phone. For example, you charge your phone upto 2000, havent completely charged to the max capacity (2500) but the phone already read 2000 as 100%. and because of this, it will look like your battery drain really fast or the percentage jumping up and down. i guess.
wiping battery status requires you to have root access. thus, this app will only work when you have rooted your phone.
it is true that after a few cycles (not sure how many times) of charging the battery status may go back normal but hey, if we can make sure to do this calibration with only one cycle, why we have to do more?
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I was trying to find a way to root my phone but i can't find any data on the web ! For some reason that way of rooting tgat was on xda deleted ...
But I have a question ... I always wait rill my phone completely empty and charge it till completely full ... I leave it in the plug about an hour till the complete sign shows in notification bar
Does this mean that way that my battery is already calibrated and i shouldn't try to bother to root the phone and get the app ?
someone26 said:
I was trying to find a way to root my phone but i can't find any data on the web ! For some reason that way of rooting tgat was on xda deleted ...
But I have a question ... I always wait rill my phone completely empty and charge it till completely full ... I leave it in the plug about an hour till the complete sign shows in notification bar
Does this mean that way that my battery is already calibrated and i shouldn't try to bother to root the phone and get the app ?
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There's Dr ketans thread on rooting in the stickies of development section, it's very simple.
After 1 or two full charge cycles, the battery will recalibrate itself, no need for any app, they don't do anything anyway.
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opiujn said:
In system settings > battery: what is reported there?
Have you tried boot in "safe mode" to see if it still drain the same way? It will exclude most of user installed stuff as your downloaded apps and such from running.
But remember you might loose some user settings on your phone when booting normal again after safe mode.
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I tried safe mode .. And yeah performance is a little better though still not like before .. it bought me an extra minute per 1% drain .. So i dunt know what that says ? I checked running processes the only difference that facebook and avast antivirus dunt run in safe mode .. Which were probably always there since i got the phone nothing new..
Hello everyone, need some advice. I am unable to know if my battery is functioning normal or should i get it replaced. Please see the atached picture. You will see that my battery draining off within 4hrs with 2G data on. It has been happening from past 2 weeks. Just want to know if it is normal on 2G. Or should i get my battery replaced with a new one. I have read somewhere that with 2G battery of Galaxy Note lasts for about 6 to 7 hrs. Mine goes for just 4 hrs max.
Few details about my usage:
1. Data sync is not on all the time. But for every half an hour i keep data sync on for 30 for 40 seconds max to retrive mails.
2. I dont not watch any videos, online or on mobile.
3. I dont play games at all though i have around 20 games bcoz of this poor battery life.
4. I do not do video calling.
5. With the above usage and little bit of online videos using wifi, I get around 3 to 4 hrs of battery life.
P. M. Vinay Kumar,
HTC P3400i (sold),
Samsung Galaxy S, rooted(sold),
Samsung Galaxy Note (using now),
Stock ICS, Rooted
By the time i posted my prob on XDA, battery dropped from 32% to 18% !!!
P. M. Vinay Kumar,
HTC P3400i (sold),
Samsung Galaxy S, rooted(sold),
Samsung Galaxy Note (using now),
Stock ICS, Rooted

[Q] How can I tell what's eating my battery?

About a week ago, I started noticing that my phone battery gets very hot and the battery drains quickly when the phone is NOT in use (Screen off, sitting on my desk). Full charge to 0% in 4 four hours or so, without being stressed.
When I try to charge it from the supplied wall charger, it doesn't get past 87% charged before the battery temp creeps into the 40s and it starts draining (while still plugged in).
I assume it's a faulty battery, only because I haven't downloaded anything new. The only change I made was updating Viber. I removed that app from my phone but it's still dropping like a fly.
I've done a factory reset twice, no change.
Rebooted the phone many times, no change.
Tried different cables and different chargers (PC, Old X10), no change.
Now, since I can't replace the battery in this phone, I'm hoping there's a software method to see what might be eating the battery.
Note : My LT30a .195 can't be rooted, and the bootloader can't be unlocked. Also, I don't know how to take screenshots.
Anyone have an suggestions ??
In Settings-Battery you should be able to see what processes are using it.
If you want to monitor cpu load in real time, then you'll need some app, like OS Monitor to see load per process, or PowerTutor for logging cumulative consumption.
I bought this phone several days before. Yesterday got root, installed cwm recovery and installed jb 4.1.2 deoxed stock Rom. I noticed that my phone can't sleep. Totally! Take a look on screenshots. I thought that may be bcoz of some apps so I wiped everything (int and ext sdcard too), but it makes no sense
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Turning off your auto sync when not needed should do the trick.
Something's wrong there. I've got too much battery consumption by Android System too, but that is ridiculous.
¿Have you tried BetterBatteryStats to see what's keeping it on?.
Arcano said:
Something's wrong there. I've got too much battery consumption by Android System too, but that is ridiculous.
¿Have you tried BetterBatteryStats to see what's keeping it on?.
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not yet. right now im thinking about downgrading to ics
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LitoNi said:
Turning off your auto sync when not needed should do the trick.
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you should be kidding me? there's no profit from phone w/out autosynchronize
download batterystats from the market and see what is keeping your phone awake in partial wakelock column...this will give you exact process name of the culprit
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download batterystats from the market and see what is keeping your phone awake in partial wakelock column...this will give you exact process name of the culprit
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Thank u. Downloaded it, ill take a look tomorrow through the day
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Its almost 7 hours in use. Take a look at screenshot. What can u say and advice me?
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SandySemenov said:
Its almost 7 hours in use. Take a look at screenshot. What can u say and advice me?
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AudioOut_2 is related to any games or apps related to sound or which "produce" sound..are you on stock rom and stock kernel?
try to exit any music player app after listening or exit the game properly after playing..sometimes keystrock sound causes it..
do one thing...reboot it and keep it idle for an hr or so..and while rebooting make sure your phone is not in silent or vibrate mode..and after an ar check the batterystats and let us know!
And do check all the columns including partial wakelocks and try to find which process used more time or percentage...
arpith.fbi said:
AudioOut_2 is related to any games or apps related to sound or which "produce" sound..are you on stock rom and stock kernel?
try to exit any music player app after listening or exit the game properly after playing..sometimes keystrock sound causes it..
do one thing...reboot it and keep it idle for an hr or so..and while rebooting make sure your phone is not in silent or vibrate mode..and after an ar check the batterystats and let us know!
And do check all the columns including partial wakelocks and try to find which process used more time or percentage...
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Today I was listening to fm radio, that's all
I'm using rooted and deoxed jb and cwm recovery. Bootloader is locked.
OK, ill try to check bbs stats after reboot. Thanks a lot!
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I charged battery fully, made a reboot and left device for a night. Wifi was on. I lost 10% per 9 hrs.
Phone haven't slept at all
Is that all bcoz of gtalk?
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Dude your phone is just fine...10% down in 9 hrs with wifi on is too good...everything looks normal..gtalk seems to be waking up the phone to update the online offline lists.in general syncing...thats all..if it was 10% down in 1 hr then it wouldve been a problem...the data looks just fine..and trust me your phone is entering sleep mode..or else it wouldve showed different result..to confirm that install cpuspy..it will say what all frequency are being used and how much phone is sleeping and all...
so just chill..
BTW I logged out from gtalk yesterday evening so I can't understand why it's trying to connect
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Does anyone have problems with "wifistatemachine"
I never used to but BBS is showing this as a major reason for my phone not sleeping well. (poor baby)...
icstm said:
Does anyone have problems with "wifistatemachine"
I never used to but BBS is showing this as a major reason for my phone not sleeping well. (poor baby)...
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i know this is old but i've found out that i have this problem too..
wifistatemachine is keeping my XT awake all the time.
i have 3 times wifistatemachine wakelock, one from google maps, on from android system and one from google services.

[Q] Help with huge battery drain on usage [TRIED EVERYTHING]

Hello guys, sorry for my bad english, but I'm not American. Well, my question is:
I bought from a guy a Galaxy S I900b, Brazilian model with digital TV. Came with stock 2.3. As I had already read enough before, upgraded to JWB Saurom with semaphore kernel, which I think is the default for this rom. Well, the phone had very poor battery life, evn on idle. Then upgraded to 10.2 CM. I saw that had some wakelocks, and with BBS and the help here, I used the Scan Media Root and my problems are gone in iddle. So, my phone goes into deep sleep and today during my sleep, only lost 3% battery, 3% battery drain on idle during about 5-6 hours it very good to me. But during use, it ends up very fast, and with GSAM and standard monitor of the android, I saw that after the screen, the Android system was what had higher %% battery. So what could it be ? The battery life is ok, checked on info, and its condition is 'good'. I use to Greenify, and close almost every game\app, so running is just grenify and ram manager pro.
So the prob just could be a app or the 'android system' ? Or even hardware ?
I dont have much time now, so any info or screenshot you want, I can provide later
Thanks
What about your connections? Do you have 3G/wifi enabled at all times?
calibrate....maybe useless, but u can try....but somehow, try bigger mAh battery, maybe.....n maybe .... it will help.
juz charge it with screen turn on till it full, n waste it to 0% till it shut down, turn it on n charge it with screen on till it full again, u ll be fine
if problem occur again, keep an eye for sneaky app that run at background (email...exchange etc) n juz delete some sys app that u dont use using titanium.
if it still occur again, wait for arc reactor battery....
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What about your connections? Do you have 3G/wifi enabled at all times?
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So buddy I've disabled 3G, just 2G, I barely make a call, just wifi. But dont matter what, if is just passing by the menus or using opera mini, using it drain battery a lot,
compacity said:
calibrate....maybe useless, but u can try....but somehow, try bigger mAh battery, maybe.....n maybe .... it will help.
juz charge it with screen turn on till it full, n waste it to 0% till it shut down, turn it on n charge it with screen on till it full again, u ll be fine
if problem occur again, keep an eye for sneaky app that run at background (email...exchange etc) n juz delete some sys app that u dont use using titanium.
if it still occur again, wait for arc reactor battery....
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I've deleted the batterystats.bin and used until 0%, so charged while off, but nothing :C
It's true that the battery needs to 'learn' ? Like, a few charges and discharges and could estabilize ?
I'll take a few screenshots right now
Callibration of you battery eg: Wipe battery stats is onluy helpfull when you get weird battery stats.
If you are on any CyanogenMod ROM you have to get used to the higher ammount of battery use by the phone. The application Greenify can help a lot by hibernating the huge battery suckers like facebook and google maps.
Some tips:
- use 2G instead of 3G
- Turn WIFI off when you're outside the house or leaving for some time
- Turn GPS/Bluetooth on only when you're about to use it
- Dont use taskkillers (they are used to free up ram but killing apps makes android restarts them and this consumes extra juice)
- Put brightness on Auto
- Use a dark theme and background/lockscreenwallpaper
- Dont recharge your phone when below 5% this can damage the battery
- A new battery needs to "Get used to" the life of being a battery xD After a few recharging cycles it will work like normal
Here some screenshots, if need more, just ask
Note: Was with 14%batt, rebooted and drops to 11-10%
mrjraider said:
Callibration of you battery eg: Wipe battery stats is onluy helpfull when you get weird battery stats.
If you are on any CyanogenMod ROM you have to get used to the higher ammount of battery use by the phone. The application Greenify can help a lot by hibernating the huge battery suckers like facebook and google maps.
Some tips:
- use 2G instead of 3G
- Turn WIFI off when you're outside the house or leaving for some time
- Turn GPS/Bluetooth on only when you're about to use it
- Dont use taskkillers (they are used to free up ram but killing apps makes android restarts them and this consumes extra juice)
- Put brightness on Auto
- Use a dark theme and background/lockscreenwallpaper
- Dont recharge your phone when below 5% this can damage the battery
- A new battery needs to "Get used to" the life of being a battery xD After a few recharging cycles it will work like normal
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i am using greenify on almost everything.
used to use ram manager, but now i've disable it.
brightness is on low
I really dunno what 2 do ... almost 1 week with it and this insane drain, everyone says that plays or browser on wifi and get almost 10 hours... my dream this happen to me lol
Remember that this is just on use, on idle it use virtually nothing, like I said, almost 3% on sleep, but is just I start use with app or browser and its gone
Screens are from a too short period of useage. Use it from fully charged, and make some new screenies This can help futher
Well i got problems with my battery too so im planning to buy a new one because this one cant even handle 3-4 hours when im doing something like playing games,or listening music...Just buy new battery with more mAh and dont get bother with this :laugh:
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Screens are from a too short period of useage. Use it from fully charged, and make some new screenies This can help futher
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ok buddy, will charge and use a little
LyQQ said:
Well i got problems with my battery too so im planning to buy a new one because this one cant even handle 3-4 hours when im doing something like playing games,or listening music...Just buy new battery with more mAh and dont get bother with this :laugh:
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but in aps, show good battery state :/
think that I cant trust in it ... and will have to buy a new one
if calibrate doesnt work, hardware faulty, change ur battery mate.
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About 2 hours later that I fully charged, here are some ss
Just used whatsapp and opera in this time
I was thinking in change my kernel, currently I'm using semaphore 3.0 with CM10.2, is Latrop or Mackay better in battery life ?
I think its my last shot ... I'll provide a new battery next week, but i've heard some people with batt probs that even with new batt the problem persists :crying:
solidedgard said:
About 2 hours later that I fully charged, here are some ss
Just used whatsapp and opera in this time
I was thinking in change my kernel, currently I'm using semaphore 3.0 with CM10.2, is Latrop or Mackay better in battery life ?
I think its my last shot ... I'll provide a new battery next week, but i've heard some people with batt probs that even with new batt the problem persists :crying:
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It looks like wifi and 3G have been kept on for most/all of the time. Turning those off while you're not using them may significantly increase battery life.
Also, related to kernels, personally I've found Mackay to be a bit better in terms of battery.
Also it looks like your screen's pretty bright if 61% of the battery usage is because of it. So if you don't need it so bright turning the brightness down may help.
Start by doing those, and see how your battery life fares first- if not much changes, then it may help getting a bettery battery/changing rom even.
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Soryuu said:
It looks like wifi and 3G have been kept on for most/all of the time. Turning those off while you're not using them may significantly increase battery life.
Also, related to kernels, personally I've found Mackay to be a bit better in terms of battery.
Also it looks like your screen's pretty bright if 61% of the battery usage is because of it. So if you don't need it so bright turning the brightness down may help.
Start by doing those, and see how your battery life fares first- if not much changes, then it may help getting a bettery battery/changing rom even.
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So, like i said, in this 2 hours after charge, i've used opera mini with wifi, I dont use 3g. Right now the battery is less than 10%... it's strange since have people telling that can use almost 5 hours wifi and the battery is > 50%
And the brightness is at lowest bright :\
The problem could be some corrupted file ? I have the options:
- format EVERYTHING, and dont use titanium backup, since somthing can be corrupted.
- change my kernel to Mackay
- change my room back to SAUROM 2.3.6 adn semaphore kernel
I'm very sad cuz I have a very old Nokia E5 that can be on with wifi almost or more than 10hours ... and this phone can barely hold 5hour
What u suggest me to do ?
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So, like i said, in this 2 hours after charge, i've used opera mini with wifi, I dont use 3g. Right now the battery is less than 10%... it's strange since have people telling that can use almost 5 hours wifi and the battery is > 50%
And the brightness is at lowest bright :\
The problem could be some corrupted file ? I have the options:
- format EVERYTHING, and dont use titanium backup, since somthing can be corrupted.
- change my kernel to Mackay
- change my room back to SAUROM 2.3.6 adn semaphore kernel
I'm very sad cuz I have a very old Nokia E5 that can be on with wifi almost or more than 10hours ... and this phone can barely hold 5hour
What u suggest me to do ?
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How long have you been using the rom? Roms take time to calibrate the battery and this is through charge/discharge cycles.
Alternatively, go into Performance settings and change the profile to powersave/conservative (it differs from rom to rom). Lock the min CPU frequency to 200mHz- apparently this helps.
Again, this would change depending on your kernel.
And if you have a three year old battery like mine, best not to expect miracles...
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Soryuu said:
How long have you been using the rom? Roms take time to calibrate the battery and this is through charge/discharge cycles.
Alternatively, go into Performance settings and change the profile to powersave/conservative (it differs from rom to rom). Lock the min CPU frequency to 200mHz- apparently this helps.
Again, this would change depending on your kernel.
And if you have a three year old battery like mine, best not to expect miracles...
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Using bout 2 days ... but i didnt knew about ' calibrate '. Good to know that
Now i've formated everything and will put a stock 2.3 and see in a couple of days the perfomance ... if gets better, I put the saurom 2.3.6 and be with it, cuz 2.3.6 on brazilian model allow to use digital tv, and 2.3 everyone says is economic.
I'll get this updated if my situation changes, if not, will buy a new battery
Thanks for all your help
Note: How long your batt last ? With high\low usage

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