UPDATE - So i discovered what provoques the baterry drainage in my prophet! And guess what, it's not the ROM fault... Check this post.
Hi!
For me one of the most important "features" of a cooked ROM is the battery consumption. What good is for me a rom that does a lot but i have to charge the phone every day?
So i have done some tests and these are the results i got but i also would like to ask that all you users of cooked ROMs post your results to get a environmental friendly ROM
With the WM6.1 ROMS (all of them, clean or not, Cloudyfa, hma4 and korands) i got 4% per hour of battery drain.
With the WM6 ROM (Crystal V5.1) i get 2.5% per hour of drainage.
The fact is that Crystal is not a clean ROM, so the drainage does not seem to be related to that.
After some reading i checked a conversation between Cloudyfa and hma4 and they were mentioning a difference in using "DLLs"(Cloudyfa ROMs) or "modules"(hma4 ROMs) and also images weight(hma4 ROMs).
So, is the battery drainage related to the WM battery drivers or to these "modules" and light images that hma4 uses?
I really love all these new WM6.1 ROMs, and i love because i tried them all, not just talking about the post thumbnails, but the battery drainage is high. I offer to be a beta tester of a less hungry ROM!
Hope i made my self clear as i'm not english
Thanks.
eucurto said:
Hi!
For me one of the most important "features" of a cooked ROM is the battery consumption. What good is for me a rom that does a lot but i have to charge the phone every day?
So i have done some tests and these are the results i got but i also would like to ask that all you users of cooked ROMs post your results to get a environmental friendly ROM
With the WM6.1 ROMS (all of them, clean or not, Cloudyfa, hma4 and korands) i got 4% per hour of battery drain.
With the WM6 ROM (Crystal V5.1) i get 2.5% per hour of drainage.
The fact is that Crystal is not a clean ROM, so the drainage does not seem to be related to that.
After some reading i checked a conversation between Cloudyfa and hma4 and they were mentioning a difference in using "DLLs"(Cloudyfa ROMs) or "modules"(hma4 ROMs) and also images weight(hma4 ROMs).
So, is the battery drainage related to the WM battery drivers or to these "modules" and light images that hma4 uses?
I really love all these new WM6.1 ROMs, and i love because i tried them all, not just talking about the post thumbnails, but the battery drainage is high. I offer to be a beta tester of a less hungry ROM!
Hope i made my self clear as i'm not english
Thanks.
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I have tried almost WM6 Released and also WM6.1. But for me, the battery drain seems not too different, the Prophet last around 2 days for normal using with WM6 or WM6.1
So from my opinion the battery drain is not big issue in WM6 and WM6.1.
Correct me if i am wrong.
Cheers
tb146 said:
the Prophet last around 2 days for normal using with WM6 or WM6.1
Cheers
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With all the WM6.1 i had a 4% per hour consumption in Standby! So about 24h of autonomy in standby.. I forgot to mention this in the original post. I think its not the battery running old because i get better results with Crystal5.1..
yes it's true, I also noticed that battery drains faster when I switch from Korand 2.6 to 3 or shadow 2.0 ce.
there must be something that drains the battery faster, a driver...smthn.
hope our great cooks will sort this one out too.
thanks for cookin' and keep it up!
just to let you guys know, I'm having the same 'problem'.
Battery drainage is way higher since i'm using WM 6.1 even though I just bought a brand new battery. Like in the opening post with me it also almost doubled.
Battery consumption it's ok on my JAMin with Korand 3.1 ...
Sam Trevi said:
Battery consumption it's ok on my JAMin with Korand 3.1 ...
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Could you please be more specific?
With Korand 2.5 (on stand by)I have 1% per hour like with Korand 3.1
The best Battery consumption I have ever had was with Crystal 5 (0,5%/h but it was too unstable for using it seriously)
Different OEMDrivers hava differnet battery consumption.
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With Korand 2.5 (on stand by)I have 1% per hour like with Korand 3.1
The best Battery consumption I have ever had was with Crystal 5 (0,5%/h but it was too unstable for using it seriously)
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1%??? That's very low... I don't have that even with Crystal5.1. One thing i remember is that WM5 battery autonomy was very high.
This leads me to:
AikonCN Different OEMDrivers hava differnet battery consumption.
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Is it possible to use WM5 drivers on these new ROMs to get better autonomy? (i'm a programming ZERO )
I get the same problem with battery drainage using WM6.1. My Prophet (Xda Neo) got ~2% per hour using WM6.1 (ShadoW 2 CE/TE, Korand 3) but got less than 1% per hour (around 2% per 3 hours) using ShadoW 1 CE.
I was wondering why it does this way, too.
P/s: I forgot a little thing: the number I've posted is the one I got when my Prophet in Standby mode
Possibility source problem for battery drain
All,
Actually i still don't get the main problem since all of you only talking about WM6.1 drain problem.
To understand that WM 6.1 has bigger battery drain, can you inform which WM6.1 cause the battery drain issue at your prophet, is it for all wm6.1 ?
From my opinion, wm6.1 Clear Edition will have less battery drain since it is not load many application during standby such as HTC Home and other applications running in the background.
Can you inform the WM6.1 Version and the battery drain, so we can have better solution for which caused the battery problem.
Cheers
tb146 said:
All,
can you inform which WM6.1 cause the battery drain issue at your prophet, is it for all wm6.1 ?
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In my case i spent a whole day flashing and taking notes.
Method: Flashed the ROM, Hard Reset and then tested battery for 1 hour in Standby mode.
I had these drainage results:
STANDBY:
[WM6.1]
ShadoW 2.0 CE and TE: 4% / hour
Korand 3.1: 4% / hour
[WM6]
Crystal 5.1: 2.5% / hour
I tested other ROMs but based on ShadoW ones and the results were similar to the "original" ShadoW.
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From my opinion, wm6.1 Clear Edition will have less battery drain since it is not load many application during standby such as HTC Home and other applications running in the background.
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I don't know if this applies as Crystal 5.1 has HTC Home by default.
eucurto said:
In my case i spent a whole day flashing and taking notes.
Method: Flashed the ROM, Hard Reset and then tested battery for 1 hour in Standby mode.
I had these drainage results:
STANDBY:
[WM6.1]
ShadoW 2.0 CE and TE: 4% / hour
Korand 3.1: 4% / hour
[WM6]
Crystal 5.1: 2.5% / hour
I tested other ROMs but based on ShadoW ones and the results were similar to the "original" ShadoW.
I don't know if this applies as Crystal 5.1 has HTC Home by default.
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Now i try to test by myself using Korand 3.1 to My Prophet....
I will compare WM6 and Wm6.1 Battery drain, My Prophet with Korand 2.6 last around 2 days with standard using without HTC home, and when i use HTC home the prophet only stand 1.5 days...
Now I am trying Korand 3.1 hope 2-3 days ahead can have the result for battery drain....
Cheers
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Can you inform the WM6.1 Version and the battery drain, so we can have better solution for which caused the battery problem.
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Did my post not show clearly my point as you expected?
HeroHP said:
I get the same problem with battery drainage using WM6.1. My Prophet (Xda Neo) got ~2% per hour using WM6.1 (ShadoW 2 CE/TE, Korand 3) but got less than 1% per hour (around 2% per 3 hours) using ShadoW 1 CE.
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Last night in less than 9 hours my battery went from 90% to 0%!!!! I was using Shadow_TE_My_Edition. Now I am back to my old wm6 version. Also BT was not working.
eddyve said:
Last night in less than 9 hours my battery went from 90% to 0%!!!! I was using Shadow_TE_My_Edition. Now I am back to my old wm6 version. Also BT was not working.
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Please try to be the most comparative as possible. Because we can only have faithful results by comparing with other ROMs.
HTC Prophet is an "old" device so the battery after 3/4 years will start to "die".
First of all my battery is not old (less than 1 year) and I have never had this experience with my other wm6 (with touch or without) roms. My current rom is better in battery consumption, that's why I reverted back. In this rom (see signature if you want a comparison) everything works fine.
i will wait until a next version.
eddyve said:
Last night in less than 9 hours my battery went from 90% to 0%!!!! I was using Shadow_TE_My_Edition. Now I am back to my old wm6 version. Also BT was not working.
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are you sure?
I use battery for two days.(with many calls), sometimes for 3 days. If there are a lot of programs that running on the background.. It will take more battery drain.. So make sure that you close the program.
And which RADIO ROM do you use?
okay..you use 2.47 as your radio rom.. it takes more battery drain.
I use 2.19 --> good for battery life.
Where can i download different radio versions?
From what you said i presume that radio roms are independent from flashing OS ROMS?
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Please POST your battery life in each ROM you installed? lets monitor in each pagepool and each AKU. *Note-i hope in each ROM, you install the same program that you have*
WM6 6mbpagepool AKU 0.7= my batt life is only 1 day
WM6 BETAversion AKU0.7= my batt life is 2 days
WM5 AKU3.3.3 = my batt life is 1-2 days
normal calls a day 20 calls 2min/percall
Telstra JAJAM LIfe
Hi. JASJAM Telstra Australia was:
WM5 - Radio 1.38.00.10 -- Battery generally flat by end of work day about 4hrs calls per day & activesync to Exchange server every 1/2 hour
WM6 Black satin, Radio 1,51.00.10 - Battery flat by/before lunchtime.. Cant get to end of day , even if charging when in the car with usb charger /lead.
I think I need to fix my proper imate car charger (lead broke) as it appears to charge faster when some of the extra pins in the miniusb connector are shorted to (ground?) & this is not done when using generic USB charger & a lead.
I dont know whether its a "feature" of WM6, but when the device syncs now, I see an extra 3G or H icon appear (tiny) next to signal strength indicator & it stays there unless you press & hold "hang up" If data acess remains on, that would make the battery life suck obviously... I wonder if it can be made to cut off after x minutes? I realise this is unrelated, but I have also been experienceing a failure of the windows "Start" icon & key on today screen after using the phone a couple of times & making notes in a call.
I will downgrade to Radio 1.50.00.00 I think & try it. But there were some posts about only versions ending in .10 working in some places ??
8Meg Pool WM5 AKU 3.3F - 4-5% lost overnight (8hours)
4Meg Pool WM6 AKU 6.0 - 25% lost overnight (8hours)
The only software I install is PA for both device. I going to revert back to WM5 as I had monitor WM6 AKU 6.0 for 2 days and I had been getting 25% lost each night.
well now using 4mb page pool... also having 25% lost overnight.... only install HTC home n iLauncher....
good that ur posting here the important thing like this. pls guys, keep on posting..
maybe i will go back also to the beta version of WM6 which give me 2 days on my batt.
Running 6MB -
W/ O2 plus 2.3 - 14 hrs usage 80%
w/o O2 plus 2.3 - 12 hrs usage ard 80%
W/o O2 plus 2.3 days 2 - 3 hrs usage ard 30%
dun seem to be alot of changes seems aft. i upgraded it to 0.7
previous wm6 0.3 ard 20 hrs to left 20%
previous wm5 3.3 can last over 1 day w/o additional charge.
duncare said:
Running 6MB -
W/ O2 plus 2.3 - 14 hrs usage 80%
w/o O2 plus 2.3 - 12 hrs usage ard 80%
W/o O2 plus 2.3 days 2 - 3 hrs usage ard 30%
dun seem to be alot of changes seems aft. i upgraded it to 0.7
previous wm6 0.3 ard 20 hrs to left 20%
previous wm5 3.3 can last over 1 day w/o additional charge.
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what do u mean by percentage 80%. pls elaborate more, im trying to understand ur info.
Guys, are you sure it's not a failing battery or software that's causing the problem? I'm still having only 4-5% at night, which is my normal drain... and I have HTC Home and WBA3 running...
Ultimate Chicken said:
Guys, are you sure it's not a failing battery or software that's causing the problem? I'm still having only 4-5% at night, which is my normal drain... and I have HTC Home and WBA3 running...
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i just want to know where can i buy online , a cheaper but higher capacity batt.
which one ur using @ultimate? mAH?
I'm using a local brand Worcell, 1530Mah, Japan Cells. Tested to perform slightly better than the O2 supplied Taiwan battery of the same rating by me (difference of 1% drain overnight). I switched it because the battery randomly looses its charge, and had no problems since.
4-5% drain overnight, ~40% whole day use, inclusive of RSS reading and 2 35-minute bus journeys of A2DP goodness. ^_^
Without A2DP I get ~29% whole day use.
wm6 atom rom 0.3 or 0.7 = 25% overnight (without any software)
wm5 atom exec rom = 4% overnight (with WA2, HTC Home, pocket brease...)
ATOM WM6 AKU 0.7 8MB pagepool with HTC Home plugin & Touch Cube
ATOM WM6 AKU 0.7 8MB pagepool with HTC Home plugin & Touch Cube
15hours (9am-12midnite) usage and my battery is down to 60-70% of battery power left. I think thats pretty good battery life ( I switch off bluetooth though) - just normal PDA usage, SMS and some short phone calls.
Before, when I was at WM5 (with Xda-Atom-ENG-20060426-MOT0822), I didnt get such a good performance from my battery - battery would drain until 30% battery power left at end of day - but thats when I also left my bluetooth on all day.
I'm still using the original battery that came with my ATOM.
Did anyone replace original battery? where´s buy?
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I'm using a local brand Worcell, 1530Mah, Japan Cells. Tested to perform slightly better than the O2 supplied Taiwan battery of the same rating by me (difference of 1% drain overnight). I switched it because the battery randomly looses its charge, and had no problems since.
4-5% drain overnight, ~40% whole day use, inclusive of RSS reading and 2 35-minute bus journeys of A2DP goodness. ^_^
Without A2DP I get ~29% whole day use.
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so ur battery last for 2-3 days?
please post also for how many days ur battery last? which batt ur using? and the normal calls duration u have in a day.
exactly what i was shouting about
wm6 8pp
if once fully charged it can work for 1 day + 6 hr
and earlier it was 3 days
I am again getting 25% loss after i hard reset and did not install Phone Alarm.
I can get good battery life.. i will revert back to WM5 AKU 3.3F to see any difference. Let me sync my data first
I am using the 4 meg pool.... anyone using different meg pool like 6 or 8.. What pool did you use to get 4-5 % loss
so ur battery last for 2-3 days?
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~2 days at the most with my normal usage. 12 hours if I accidentially leave a game running in the background.
I get pretty much the same results for 3.3F, so no difference there.
Guys, please remember that you have to redo the standard power saving tips (e.g turn off Recieve Incoming Beams) every time you hard reset or reflash your device. Make it a habit.
Ultimate Chicken said:
~2 days at the most with my normal usage. 12 hours if I accidentially leave a game running in the background.
I get pretty much the same results for 3.3F, so no difference there.
Guys, please remember that you have to redo the standard power saving tips (e.g turn off Recieve Incoming Beams) every time you hard reset or reflash your device. Make it a habit.
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what are the standard power saving tips? pls post here all for the benefits of the newbies.
*Turn off "receiving all incoming beams"
*Turn off all wireless/bluetooth applications if not in use.
*Reduce the brightness of the backlight
hows everyones battery?
i will monitor again my battery for the upcoming release of new ROM. Hope jiggs can finish that soon.
as of now maximum 2 days i can use my atom with normal duration and numbers of calls i have. Im in Bank Sales, thats the reason my phone is quite busy yet i manage to have the battery life for 2days. that's better for me.
Ok strange thing here
I have 2 prophets with same set up
IPL 2.20.0001
SPL 2.20.0001
Radio rom 2.20.21
flashed with the same WM5 the prophet touch IX
dow to the strange thing
prophet 1 26.8Mb Memory ideal at 103mA after soft reset
prophet 2 25.8Mb Memory ideal at 86mA after soft reset
so battery drain is not only related to rom but also hardware and why does one have 1 mb more free memory?
this is just a strange opservation I made
both have the same cell operator ?
If not ... maybe GPRS or EDGE is available for one of them.
Or the date of manufacturing is different.
when you look at their battery consumption ,did both batteries had the same amount of charge ? charge both of them to 100% then soft reset, then wait for os dll to get unloaded .. ( wait for 1 min) then look at their battery consumption
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when you look at their battery consumption ,did both batteries had the same amount of charge ? charge both of them to 100% then soft reset, then wait for os dll to get unloaded .. ( wait for 1 min) then look at their battery consumption
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Hi Gullum,
I think it is because of the hardware itself since the manufacture cannot make 100% hardware similiarity.
New hardware will better than old hardware, the operational time will effected to the performance. Just like you have 2 cars with the same manufacture but different production year, the new one will better than old one.
Even they produced in the same time, the hardware not 100% the same. may be only 95% similar.
Twins person not the same also but looks alike.
Because of this hardware, so everyone who is using the prophet will have different problem.
Cheers
Well this is good news for me but bad news for some
now I know that some problems are not software related always.
and then there is no way that I can make rom that has the same power useage on all phones.
the bad news is that if the battery useage is good for some and not for you there isn't much you can do about it
gullum said:
Well this is good news for me but bad news for some
now I know that some problems are not software related always.
and then there is no way that I can make rom that has the same power useage on all phones.
the bad news is that if the battery useage is good for some and not for you there isn't much you can do about it
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Just additional information for electronic hardware.
Every electronic part has own MTBF - Mean Time Before Failure, so if you use bluetooth frequently, the bluetooth hardware will fail faster than others part.
If you charge your electronic frequently, the battery will be broken sooner.
As i know PDA battery will last after you charge around 500-1000 times depend on the manufacture. Let say you charge the battery every 2 days, so the battery will last between 1000 - 2000 days.
So everybody will get different problem with their electronics because it depend on what they have done to their things.
Cheers
Did you test both after hard reset with SIM card off ? You should give it a try
But consumption differences can easily be explained by different mainboard & components revisions & firmwares..
gullum said:
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Well, this is not really a problem. The problem is when the battery drains an additional 50/100mA over another prophet or other ROMs..
That is for sure a driver problem.
The really strange thing for me is that 1mo !!!
Where's it gone ?
For battery drain, i always get more than 1% per hour. Until one day, i removed all my today items(in fact only device lock) and left only home plugin. After a full charge, I experienced only 5% drop over the next 10hours. I was using Crystal V3 and radio rom 2.19.21. The battery drain is slightly more when tested with 2.69.21. I am quite sure it works since I have tested this method on both G3 (mine and my buddy's).
Another thing. While it is achievable, you must ensure Activesync is not running in the background. There was once instance the battery drained 14% within half an hour and I realised it was Activesync that run in the background. Strange it does not terminate itself when i pulled out the USB cable???
Anyway the above is based on my observation so you may give it a try. Hope it helps.
lastnikita said:
Did you test both after hard reset with SIM card off ? You should give it a try
But consumption differences can easily be explained by different mainboard & components revisions & firmwares..
Well, this is not really a problem. The problem is when the battery drains an additional 50/100mA over another prophet or other ROMs..
That is for sure a driver problem.
The really strange thing for me is that 1mo !!!
Where's it gone ?
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Yes it's a realy strange thing I tried to swap battery and checked then change sim cards but made no differance there is still the same battery and mb differance.
Hey would you test both of them in same config (same rom, HR, sim off & suspend timeout off) with spb benchmark or any other ? Could be interesting..
It's about 1h job (disable built-in applications tests, because they often fail) for main test, the best would be to test battery too but I suppose it will be too long for you.
How long does your battery last?
I pluged my phone into the charger to charge and took it out only this morning.
After about 10+ hrs, my battery has only 33% left!!
I know abt the problems with atom life's battery but it seems to drain too much power...
I'm using Medkid's PDAVIET Rom and installed only HTC Home plug in and HHC.
Sorry 4got to mention.
There was minimal usage and did not use phone. Less than 5 minutes ( juz switch on to see time etc).
check your cpu profile though,
also if u set to best for performance the battery drain real fast, plus any wi-fi and bluetooth will just kill it quick.
i think mine last longer than ya, last time i remember i went away for a night my battery still 40% the next morning.
but yep despite the powerful atom life, its baterry sux. hope other manufacturer could provide the same size battery with better power management.
Woah 60% drain for a whole day is way better den mine...
I got the power consumption think and the drain is about 220mA or so w/o doing anything
issit normal?
if you use xcpuscalar that could be reason... although you underclock your cpu, it has much bigger battery consumption so don't use it!
Don't keep your screen brightness on a high level.
I am running the OEM W6 ROM with the HTC Home Plug and my battery life is fine, and I am using 3G about 95% of the day.
Sometimes I need to charge it at night, sometimes I don't.
Original (supplied) battery can last for 18 to 20 hrs with less usage, meaning only call and sms. Have bought extended battery that can last for 2 days. Oh ya, my atom life have htc plugin and hhc, plus spb shell, pointui and touchcommander installed. I used clean WM6, download from O2 site, as I am uncomfortable with cooked rom.
Here's my today screen:
hmm.. can i found home plugin look like HTC ?? i want to download
win6 have high battery using or win 5 ?
not shure because I havn't had WM5 on my Prophet for 1 year. But the rom I'm running now Throttle III test rom witch is WM6.1 has gone from 100% to 70% in 24 hours (not heavy usage).
and also not all roms have the same apps inside so there is realy no way to tell if it's more heavy then wm5.
the answer would be yes and no to that question.
Hey guys,
what rom have the best battery life?
any fav?
and
are there any tricks or tipps to improve the battery life?
Greetz
Jonas
I think its the firmware 1.5, sensehero / modaco!
arjuunz said:
I think its the firmware 1.5, sensehero / modaco!
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Yes... none of the 2.1 ROMs currently provide long battery life times. I believe that one of the chefs said it was because of the kernel and that it won't be fixed until HTC releases or leaks an official Hero kernel for Android 2.1.
However it also depends on what you think would be a good/adequate battery life.
Personally I charge every night so as long as the phone lasts circa 24 hours it is fine with me.
All 1.5 based roms should give you battery life over 24 hours even with everything turned on.
as for tips:
-turn of wifi when not using it
-turn of mobile internet when not using it
-turn of gps
-always put phone in sleep mode (end button) when not using it
- screen time out turned low
- backlight on low
- kill tasks that run in background
- don't have a bright wallpaper
Just depends how extreme you want to go
I have a decent battery life on the rom I am on (see sig) and I use a brightish wallpaper and auto backlight but always turn wifi off when out of the house.
Flashing a new radio file can also help battery life.
Edit: with a bit of use I have lost 5% in the last 8 hours on my phone today
Mhm too bad i like to use 2.1
Does 2.1 Roms drain the battery so much more?
Battery life is very important for me...
I am running the original Rom and i had to charge my hero every night, too.
But one day is okay...
Thank you for your tipps (bright wallpapers *lol*, but it make sense^^)
So what are you fav. 1.5 roms?
Greetz
Jonas
P.s. Does HTC want to upgrade the hero to 2.1 ??? Would be awesome...any dates?
JonasBom said:
Mhm too bad i like to use 2.1
Does 2.1 Roms drain the battery so much more?
Battery life is very important for me...
I am running the original Rom and i had to charge my hero every night, too.
But one day is okay...
Thank you for your tipps (bright wallpapers *lol*, but it make sense^^)
So what are you fav. 1.5 roms?
Greetz
Jonas
P.s. Does HTC want to upgrade the hero to 2.1 ??? Would be awesome...any dates?
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indication is yes they are updating to 2.1 however they have not released any official confirmation of when.
rumors are March and/or April, but don't hold your breath
SenseHero 1.6 is awesome 1.5 ROM
Also it uses a nice theme, and can last for more than a day
Lennyuk said:
indication is yes they are updating to 2.1 however they have not released any official confirmation of when.
rumors are March and/or April, but don't hold your breath
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Latest rumour says end of April
To me BeHero has the best battery life of the 2.1 roms and Villain had the worst (the life would literally go from 100% to 50% in 4hrs and I barely touched the phone).
HomerSp said:
To me BeHero has the best battery life of the 2.1 roms and Villain had the worst (the life would literally go from 100% to 50% in 4hrs and I barely touched the phone).
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See I am on Villain and have been on every version of it and never had battery life that bad, and VillainRom 3.4 is very good battery life.
Lennyuk said:
See I am on Villain and have been on every version of it and never had battery life that bad, and VillainRom 3.4 is very good battery life.
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Yeah, must be something else, though I'm not sure what.
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Yeah, must be something else, though I'm not sure what.
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I put on 3.4 yesterday and ya my battery life was terrible. The only thing is that I hadn't ever updated my radio. Now instead of it being dead within 4-5 hours I've gone over a dozen and my battery is down to 45%, which is pretty good for me. I'm a pretty data intensive with my phone.
if you want to test the battery life, test it 2 days or more!, because the first day every rom(almost..) is draining fast, because then it needs to set up everything etc(idk excactly why)
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if you want to test the battery life, test it 2 days or more!, because the first day every rom(almost..) is draining fast, because then it needs to set up everything etc(idk excactly why)
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i agree...using 3.4...i feel the battery is not all that bad..(yes not as good as 1.5) but just about manageble..
if anyone has any more tips please let us know
Lennyuk said:
However it also depends on what you think would be a good/adequate battery life.
Personally I charge every night so as long as the phone lasts circa 24 hours it is fine with me.
All 1.5 based roms should give you battery life over 24 hours even with everything turned on.
as for tips:
-turn of wifi when not using it
-turn of mobile internet when not using it
-turn of gps
-always put phone in sleep mode (end button) when not using it
- screen time out turned low
- backlight on low
- kill tasks that run in background
- don't have a bright wallpaper
Just depends how extreme you want to go
I have a decent battery life on the rom I am on (see sig) and I use a brightish wallpaper and auto backlight but always turn wifi off when out of the house.
Flashing a new radio file can also help battery life.
Edit: with a bit of use I have lost 5% in the last 8 hours on my phone today
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Wow I find it very hard to believe that you only lost 5% battery in the last 8 hours with little use...do you have mobile data on or off?
Even with no use at all I can never get 5% decrease in 8 hours, regardless of whether its a 1.5 or 2.1 ROM. I keep my mobile data on all day and night and with no use at all i lose like 20% battery life in 4 hours.
If you want 2.1 firmware with good battery life, go foe BeHero_v1.3.2, I am using it without any trouble!
aziz831 said:
Wow I find it very hard to believe that you only lost 5% battery in the last 8 hours with little use...do you have mobile data on or off?
Even with no use at all I can never get 5% decrease in 8 hours, regardless of whether its a 1.5 or 2.1 ROM. I keep my mobile data on all day and night and with no use at all i lose like 20% battery life in 4 hours.
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Trust me I was not lying I have no reason too.
Will report on what it does today.
Yesterday I had mobile internet mainly off but turned it off at certain times of the day.
So far today (3 hours since fully charged)
-wifi for about an hour
-use wifi things during that time (seesmic and News Rob mainly)
- bluetooth for 45 mins (journey to work)
- mobile internet for about 40 mins
- downloaded an app and tested it (used barcode scanner to scan a barcode (twice) and go to the download link)
- synced emails
- sent a text
- mobile internet now off and back asleep
And a reboot as my connection was lost for some strange reason
lost 2%
Lennyuk said:
So far today (3 hours since fully charged)
-wifi for about an hour
-use wifi things during that time (seesmic and News Rob mainly)
- bluetooth for 45 mins (journey to work)
- mobile internet for about 40 mins
- downloaded an app and tested it
- synced emails
- sent a text
- mobile internet now off and back asleep
And a reboot as my connection was lost for some strange reason
lost 2%
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i can only say that perhaps ur battery is a special one..
i cant even get half of that with 1.5 rom (with the same usage)..i will surely lost like 10% with that kinda usage on phone..
no offense..but..unbelievable...
my current setting :
GPS , WIFI & Bluetooth off..
brightness around 15%
dark wallpaper..
mobile internet on when browsing needed
@aziz831
Lennyuk´s battery consumption is real. My battery would last 216 hours just in idle. But that would mean just asleep and waiting for a call.
I use WiFi 18/7, I have in that time mobile data enabled, I have a brown wallpaper and my backlight is on lowest level (but I can still see everything). My average loss is 1-1,5 % a hour if I´m in idle with all this enabled. Over night I do disable WiFi and auto sync, that saves a lot of power.
My average time of usage with one load is about 80-96 hours.