So I've been noticing lately that my RAM has been running relatively low in the running apps section. Currently i'm at 1.4GB used and 333MB free. Looking at the list they do not total near the 1.3GB it's showing. This is causing a few hiccups while using the device and i'm trying to avoid having to reboot it every few days.
Process stats shows Pandora at 100%, facebook at 100%, google keyboard at 99%, messenger at 100% active display at 100%, 3 seperate play services at 100%, contacts at 100%, and then a few more google services below 100% but above 80%.
Not sure whats going on here since I"m rooted and have facebook/messenger greenified. Just greenified pandora and the keyobard. I seem to be running low on RAM with relatively low usage. For instance, I'm at about 1 day uptime, 70% batt life, and 40 min screen on time.
Also, looks like systemUI is using 830MB of ram... How can I reduce this?
Linux is meant to load as much into RAM as possible so it can load apps quickly, you don't want to have free RAM in Linux.
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left with 20% from full battery
8h 50m since unplugged
display 60%
cell standby 10%
media server 6%
android os 6%
phone idle 5%
android system 5%
advance task killer 2%
android core apps 2%
i on-ed the wifi the whole day running on facebook aps and e-buddy
played games for a while on music for a while
forgot to mention about 200 messages too
so is my battery good? i just been through the recharge cycle for about 4 times should i go through this cycle more or should i just stop?
I would suggest installing JuiceDefender, ups my battery to about 25 hours of high usage.
You can try calibrating your battery:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=755903
You didn't mention your display runtime, this is imperative to evaluating your battery. Also, do not let advanced task killer run in the background. Its process requires much more than 2% of the battery, the reason for it is
it raises your:
standby time
phone idle
increases:
processor runtime
partial wake use
android os
It will kill processes, then Android says 'hey, there is spare memory, let me start up a new process to quickload next time it's opened." This cycle repeats itself when ATK rekills a process.
It's ok to keep ATK, and if you need to run it, use it manually. Don't leave it running in the background, especially when you are not using your phone!
I've had Incubus26Jc's Super FroYo 2.2.1 RLS16 on my Vogue for a while, and there's been times when my phone battery died out quickly when I really needed to use it the most. My phone seems to use up a lot of battery while it's sleeping too, so I don't know what the problem is. I barely have any widgets installed, but I do leave my phone in my pocket a lot. Are there any methods I can try out that will boost battery life even just a little bit?
turn off background data, auto-sync and GPS.
This way my touch's battery seems similar to WM 6.5.
GPS especially. Also, if you are using a task killer, uninstall it. I also uninstalled the battery meter that came with superfroyo, it is to inexact. The default android one seems more accurate.
Getting rid of a task manager? Don't they free up memory and kill unneeded processes?
Spalla said:
Getting rid of a task manager? Don't they free up memory and kill unneeded processes?
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No. They spend resources shutting things down that Android then re-opens. Read more here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6426198
Android is not WinMo. And from personal experience, uninstalling Advanced Task Killer was the single best thing I ever did for increasing battery life and making Froyo run faster. Just try it for a week and you'll see.
The best way to boost battery life, imho, is to not use the phone to charge your battery.
I've recently gotten my hands on HTC ELF0160 battery charger and used it to charge my battery. After using this particular charger my STANDARD (stock) battery is now reading ...
78% after 8 hours and 16 minutes on battery
57% on Display
28% on Standby
15% on Phone Idle
2% on Voice Calls
As you can see its been pretty idle. All I've been running is Google Talk 1.3 and Facebook, and the random admiration of the new found battery life.
Note I'm using scoots latest rom, without any modifications other than installing a couple of apps.
So if you could get an external charger I'd suspect you'd get much better battery life. Prior to this I'd be lucky to get 8 hours of battery. I suspect that the phone isn't fully charging the battery for whatever reason.
Regards,
EDIT...
After 21 hours my readings are
47% display
33% standby
18% idle
4% voice calls
Again my usage I'd categorize as very low. Currently my battery level is reading 27%. note this is the same battery as above, the standard 1100 mah one.
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I've recently gotten my hands on HTC ELF0160 battery charger and used it to charge my battery.
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The vogue battery works with an Elf charger? Thought they weren't compatible.
That's what the charger is called. I have a couple at work that I'm using. My batteries have yet to explode.
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We in the field in the army have no place to recharge the battery, so i have a second spare. After the first battery out, second battery i should calibrate or simply change it? Milestone generally maded to hot replace the battery? Second question: The battery is terribly wasted when data using. when browsing in the internet in dolphin 6.1. Even if 2g on and i in im+ messenger. A couple of sites get away even 1%-2%. An hour in nonstop browsing can drain 60%. YouTube has to look at all when the phone charging for viewing video over a length of 5 minutes, eats about 6% of charge. And i bought a new battery yesterday. And with the same old time of discharge. New battery calibrated. And tried to change the firmware on froyomod same. Right now sitting on the cyan 7 and the same flow rate. Last DSIfix 2..34.
PS. When data off - phone not using too much 2-3% when talking half hour. In the night can drain 3%.
You better calibrate the new battery after the new one charged to 100%
It calibrated already. Same ****.
I got same problem with my MS. Maybe it's high time to change to a new phone
Dieabolo,
What settings do you use for your display, your current frequencies with vsel, are you using this phone in areas with great reception, do you have programs that ate always updating running (Facebook, twitter, weather apps, Widgets, news /sports apps) ?
Also I do like dolphin HD but try the opera mobile browser it'll help by compressing data so therefore less data transferred which ends up with less power being consumed.
~PsyCl0ne
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We in the field in the army have no place to recharge the battery, so i have a second spare. After the first battery out, second battery i should calibrate or simply change it? Milestone generally maded to hot replace the battery? Second question: The battery is terribly wasted when data using. when browsing in the internet in dolphin 6.1. Even if 2g on and i in im+ messenger. A couple of sites get away even 1%-2%. An hour in nonstop browsing can drain 60%. YouTube has to look at all when the phone charging for viewing video over a length of 5 minutes, eats about 6% of charge. And i bought a new battery yesterday. And with the same old time of discharge. New battery calibrated. And tried to change the firmware on froyomod same. Right now sitting on the cyan 7 and the same flow rate. Last DSIfix 2..34.
PS. When data off - phone not using too much 2-3% when talking half hour. In the night can drain 3%.
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i know for a fact, because ive tested it, that i can pull 11+ hours out of my droid. what you need to do is port MIUI to it, then get a lowvoltage overclocking kernal on it. i have a kernal that is 18 slot, and it can run stable at 220 mhz/1.26 ghz on userspace. run it at 220 mhz/900 mhz. if you clock it lower, then the battery life will decrease because it has to deal with a larger load, therefore, giving you battery heat damage, which means no more battery for you! i found that if i run the hight at 900 mhz, then it will have a chance to deal with all of the load. if you put it at 1.0 ghz, then it will ahve the same effect, but if your going to game with the droid, then i would put it at 1.06 ghz. my phone specs: OG droid, OC to 220 mhz/1.0 ghz, running MIUI 108050 on android 2.3.4. have fun!
Two things I would recommend would be to perhaps try a low voltage kernel, and to make sure you don't have any battery-intensive apps running in the background (Ebay, Lookout, etc.). You can check this by going to Settings > Applications > Running Services and seeing which programs are running.
Also if you set profiles withing SetCPU or another similar app, you can have the kernel drop to a lower speed when your screen is off or when the battery drops below a certain percentage. Doing these things should help you save some juice.
EDIT: I just read on another thread that the milestone has a locked bootloader, meaning you can't change the kernel. If this is indeed true, that sucks.
I calibrate my battery with this method:
1. Plug the charger in the phone, and charge at 100%
2. Delete /data/system/batterystats.bin using Terminal emulator or whatever tool
3. Restart the phone, and when it start to boot, and before the soft keys shine take off the battery.
4. The phone will run without battery, after a few minutes (2-5) put the battery in.
5. Left the phone charge for another 30 minutes...
But with CM7 for Mileston RC13 my radio don't work, and I have to restart it again to have phonee signal.
I'm currently on 5.0.2 and after doing a full refresh and giving the phone a few days post-upgrade to settle down I'm getting absurd battery usage stats. Battery life itself is fine (after taming the runaway Google services), but at 50% battery the stats suggest my screen time is responsible for 3% (despite 4+ hours of SOT), Android system 30% and K9 email for almost 30% (K9 kept the phone awake for less than 2 minutes, and Android System kept it awake for about 35 minutes). Those % figures are absurd and I now use GSam to see what's really happening. Needless to say, it gives far more believable stats.
I have no rogue wake locks, I use Greenify to kill errant apps when not using them, wif-fi turns off when screen is off, and my wireless signal is green 90% of the time. Anyone experiencing the same, or know what's going on? I do have stamina mode enabled, so could that perhaps be interfering in some way?
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I'm currently on 5.0.2 and after doing a full refresh and giving the phone a few days post-upgrade to settle down I'm getting absurd battery usage stats. Battery life itself is fine (after taming the runaway Google services), but at 50% battery the stats suggest my screen time is responsible for 3% (despite 4+ hours of SOT), Android system 30% and K9 email for almost 30% (K9 kept the phone awake for less than 2 minutes, and Android System kept it awake for about 35 minutes). Those % figures are absurd and I now use GSam to see what's really happening. Needless to say, it gives far more believable stats.
I have no rogue wake locks, I use Greenify to kill errant apps when not using them, wif-fi turns off when screen is off, and my wireless signal is green 90% of the time. Anyone experiencing the same, or know what's going on? I do have stamina mode enabled, so could that perhaps be interfering in some way?
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Try this forum: http://forum.xda-developers.com/z3-compact/general/post-lp-battery-usage-t3056775 (about batteries and related such)
Usually my phone will drain around .5% an hour, but sometimes it'll drain massive amounts of battery over a short period. I have a 16hr idle log where it was awake for approx 1hr and it drained almost twice the normal at 1%
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Usually my phone will drain around .5% an hour, but sometimes it'll drain massive amounts of battery over a short period. I have a 16hr idle log where it was awake for approx 1hr and it drained almost twice the normal at 1%
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Happens. Certainly not "excessive" given your largish app portfolio and sync activity.
I have the same device also running stock. Typically idles around 0.6%/hr avg with full push mail and several other disruptive services enabled. On occasion that will dribble up towards 0.8%/hr. Meh.
Use Greenifyto selectively target Google apps that start in the background, at boot, spontaneously or on some other trigger. Maps, Photos and YouTube come to mind. Check box that says "ignore background free". Should see a modest improvement. Don't go nuts; only target apps that have no need to start/run while device is sleeping. Use aggressive doze at your peril (I don't). Stock nougat handles timers just fine if you don't go OCD over a few tenths.
Good luck.
Thanks for taking a look, this was on the milder side of the drain I've seen so I'll keep an eye out and try to get a log for the more aggressive ones. Still kinda unhappy that the e4 idle performance is worse then the g4 play which is essentially the same phone.
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Thanks for taking a look, this was on the milder side of the drain I've seen so I'll keep an eye out and try to get a log for the more aggressive ones. Still kinda unhappy that the e4 idle performance is worse then the g4 play which is essentially the same phone.
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Also own a pair of G4 Plays. Idle performance with E4 has been similar/better than G4 with similar stock 7.1 ROMs. Be sure to keep the finger print scanner clean on the E4. No indication that was a problem but can trigger drain if dirty. Rest boils down to firmware nuances which can vary between installs on the same device type.