I've been flashing custom ROMs like crazy, like at least two every week. I've noticed that the battery backup has reduced drastically. Even after going back to the stock ROM. Earlier, I used to see a 1-2% drop in battery percentage at night, but now its 24-30%. Is it because of the heat, that the battery experiences after flashing and initialization and setup of the ROM, that there is reduced battery life?
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I've been experiencing battery issues for awhile now. while i was previously losing less than 1% of battery per hour with the phone idle, I'm now losing more like 2-3%. on the whole, I'd say my battery is lasting half as long as it used to.
I've looked into all the usual things like the kernel, rom, modem, app & widget setup, but nothing seems to be helping. I've tried most of the major kernels available (xcal, suckerpunch, suckerpunch voodoo, hardcore's, & di11igaf's) as well as a handful of roms. I even thought it might be a modified framework file from a theme I had applied, but that doesn't seem to be it either.
I noticed something the other day- I had run my phone's battery all the way down to 0% until it turned off. then when I plugged it in and turned it on to check my email, the battery indicator read 53%. I always flash to stock, clear battery stats, & recalibrate the battery when I flash a rom, so this was pretty surprising.
It feels like a longshot, since I have done all the recalibration/battery stats clearing stuff, but is it possible that my phone has forgotten where 0% is and my phone is now doing an auto-shutdown at 53%? It would explain my drastic drop in battery life.
If this is the case, is there anything i can do to manually reset my battery, other than clearing the stats in CWM and recalibrating?
Any help/suggestions are appreciated. This is basically my last attempt before buying a new battery.
As what the title says.
SGS has a good performance, but uses really a lot battery in every ROM.
Which one uses the least?
Stock ROM.
there are millions of threads out there explaining battery life and which ROM has best battery life.
is there really any need for another pointless thread ??
battery will get worse if you leave stock ROM, it might change a lot or a little, so if battery life is important to you, stay on a stock ROM
Oh I am sorry.
I find lots of threads about battery life but I didn't find any about which ROM has the best battery life.
And I assumed that there will be some tweaks to have better battery life.
there are many tweaks, including finding the right kernel and undervolting it.
avoid using task killers- they do more harm than good.
stay away from CM7 - MIUI these have battery drain bugs
the list is endless, i would recommend making your own rom at www.romkitchen.org
only cook stuff into the rom that you will use, there are many roms out there packed full of **** we dont use, thus leading to battery drain.
just be wise when choosing
out of old experiences
best i tried was a combo of rom and kernal
insanity rom with a laststufo kernal
of course it isn't the latest version of either but i remember it gave me a big batt diff
usually lasted from 6am to 1pm afternoon before the batt ran out
but with that combo it lasted a full day 6am to 10pm and had about 40% left
also optimized with tasker to watch net usage with screen off and a net check every 10 mins for email notification
found out default email app was bugged so forwarded all my hotmail emails to gmail and that fixed that
now after getting me a lot o spare batteries hell i run thru 3-4 batts a day with everything on and i mean everything with OC as well , hell lot of msn, twitter, facebook, games, browsing im all fun now woohooo ^_^ TY Chinese wall battery chargers ^_^
I use Gemini App Manager to control which app that runs during startup and that helps tremendously to battery life. Juice Defender helps too if you have 3G on. This way you can use any ROM you like and not get too much battery life difference.
I also feel that Gingerbread in general seems to improve on battery life, but I was only on Froyo for 2 days since getting the phone so not a very wide assessment
I'll keep it short, Marshmallow update has battery draining rapidly. I removed a ton of apps and dogs a number of batter saving features I read here and other places. Battery still drains around 8%-10% an hour when idle. Saw battery starts last night and Bluetooth is the worst offender. This makes no sense, it wasn't connected to anything. Next Steps I should take? One picture is the batter graph the other is a village of stats from the top 2 drainers.
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I'll keep it short, Marshmallow update has battery draining rapidly. I removed a ton of apps and dogs a number of batter saving features I read here and other places. Battery still drains around 8%-10% an hour when idle. Saw battery starts last night and Bluetooth is the worst offender. This makes no sense, it wasn't connected to anything. Next Steps I should take? One picture is the batter graph the other is a village of stats from the top 2 drainers.
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Try to reset your phone,and if that doesn't work then re-flash the firmware,personally for me the battery life is much better than Lollipop,getting 4.5h of SoT,sometimes 5h
I have also found that MM is draining my battery heaps, I am currently backing up my phone ready to flash a 5.0 prerooted zip, since Lollipop had a much better battery life in my oppinion
Quick question for you guys. Does anyone else here lose a good portion of their battery after installing a rom? I lose like, 20% or so after flashing one. Like, I could be at 80%, and after wiping and flashing a new build I'm down to 60% or so. Is it to be expected or is my battery on it's way out?
Yes. I was on Nitrogen 4-15. I dirty flashed the latest and my battery would drop insanely. I was thinking I would have to get a new battery. I clean flashed 4-15 again and updated. It is fine now. Battery is lasting twice as long for me now.
Hi everyone. I have owned this smartphone for 7 months. In the beginning everything was fine. The battery lasts a very short time. I checked different roms, there is no difference, the battery status says it is healthy. Checked by several methods. What could be the cause? SOT is only 3-4 hours and it was much more. Not enough for an average used day. Please help.
Cisuwek said:
Hi everyone. I have owned this smartphone for 7 months. In the beginning everything was fine. The battery lasts a very short time. I checked different roms, there is no difference, the battery status says it is healthy. Checked by several methods. What could be the cause? SOT is only 3-4 hours and it was much more. Not enough for an average used day. Please help.
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You said you checked on different roms so there's a possibility that the battery isn't displaying the correct percentage of the phone. If you experience phone turning off even if not on 0% or having the battery percentage stuck for a long time and then starts draining fast then it means your battery is not calibrated and you need to calibrate it to give the correct reading. As far as I know, no matter how many roms you change, no rom can calibrate battery as it is untouch when roms are being overlayed in the system. If battery calibration doesn't work then try restricting apps and forcing doze on your phone. Last option is to start considering a new battery replacement if you want.
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You said you checked on different roms so there's a possibility that the battery isn't displaying the correct percentage of the phone. If you experience phone turning off even if not on 0% or having the battery percentage stuck for a long time and then starts draining fast then it means your battery is not calibrated and you need to calibrate it to give the correct reading. As far as I know, no matter how many roms you change, no rom can calibrate battery as it is untouch when roms are being overlayed in the system. If battery calibration doesn't work then try restricting apps and forcing doze on your phone. Last option is to start considering a new battery replacement if you want.
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Seems to be working normalny, but draining to fast. Try to calibrate and wipe stats
Cisuwek said:
Seems to be working normalny, but draining to fast. Try to calibrate and wipe stats
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Try out here
How to calibrate the battery on your Android phone or tablet | nextpit
Here is our guide for how to calibrate the battery of your Android phone. We also cover what battery calibration does and how to solve battery drain.
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One thing I found would drain the battery in a matter of hours is anything to do with the proximity sensors. Turning on pocket detection would literally cut my battery life in half. Lift to wake and always on display will also decrease battery life. While 120hz refresh is nice, it also shortens battery life. Dark themes on this phone will extend battery life. Amoled screens display black by not turning on the led pixels where black is supposed to be. Just my two pennies...
IrishJames said:
One thing I found would drain the battery in a matter of hours is anything to do with the proximity sensors. Turning on pocket detection would literally cut my battery life in half. Lift to wake and always on display will also decrease battery life. While 120hz refresh is nice, it also shortens battery life. Dark themes on this phone will extend battery life. Amoled screens display black by not turning on the led pixels where black is supposed to be. Just my two pennies...
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Yes especially double tap to wake and aod for me kills the battery super quickly. Im guessing it has to do with the miui firmware not properly turning off the sensors during deep sleep. Even a rom maintainer said that aod seems buggy too. Also another factor that drains battery is heat, and rn10pro is notorious for heating up quickly (literally few pics and went from 31C-38C). Frequent heating can cause permanent damage on battery and it'll surely decrease its capacity and lifespan.
Now it is good. Less 10%, sot is 1h. So I think 8h will be during the day. I noticed that the wake-ups had a continuous line now it is intermittent. I think everything is back to normal. Thank you all
Cisuwek said:
Now it is good. Less 10%, sot is 1h. So I think 8h will be during the day. I noticed that the wake-ups had a continuous line now it is intermittent. I think everything is back to normal. Thank you all
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Which of the recommendations made it better for you ?
HiQual said:
Which of the recommendations made it better for you ?
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Battery calibration pro 1.4 and wiping battery stats with lspeed
(Wiping battery stats is a myth as far as I know, it doesn't contain any persistent long-term data, it gets updated continuously.)
on a similar note, does anyone know why the "Battery usage-->Manage Battery usage" setting gets resetted to optimized from restricted all the time within a few days on A12? I'm witnessed this behaviour on all the A12 roms for sweet(currently on PixelOS) and have never found an answer nor a solution. Has it got anything to do with the automatic permission disable feature since A11? Anyone noticed this? Its frustrating to set that to restricted manually for every app every few days. Thanks!
Case_ said:
(Wiping battery stats is a myth as far as I know, it doesn't contain any persistent long-term data, it gets updated continuously.)
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But it helped with my problem, so it works. 50% battery and already 6h sot. There is a clear improvement
Cisuwek said:
But it helped with my problem, so it works. 50% battery and already 6h sot. There is a clear improvement
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But for sure not in case of deleting battery stats
Btw which ROM you're using?
Laptapper said:
But for sure not in case of deleting battery stats
Btw which ROM you're using?
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Xiaomi.eu 13.0.8 Now checking nusantara. A long time ago I read that flashing a new rom should end up wiping stats