I have been looking through forum after forum about the battery life on this rom, it has been dropping 1 percent every 2 minutes or so and is about to be dead. Does this sound like a battery problem or should i just recondition it. I just wanna know whether to buy a new battery, get a new rom or what?
Ive been having the same problem, ive already tryed the reconditioning process but i still lose battery very fast. But the only time i dont lose alot is when its on standby.
my battery is outstanding on v3. Id reset and and try again, or check your apps, something has to be up. :u
What do you mean reset? Like back to stock
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What do you mean reset? Like back to stock
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I think he means go into recovery and clean cache and dalvik cache. Maybe even do a factory reset (however that will clear out your applications). Just make sure you have good backups before doing a factory reset.
That never hurts to odin back to stock just to rule out the ghosts and goblins. to me, it sounds like an app issue. How many widgets are you using that need to refresh? How many programs are open and active when you first start your phone? Are you using a task killer? Are you actually using the phone actively, or is it on "standby"? Answer a few of these to give us a better picture of your usage.
My battery life has been stellar.
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My battery life has been stellar.
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thanks for the wonderful help and awesome insight..
Mine has been pretty good... I would recommend what swehes said.
I got pretty good standby time, but when I use the phone (such as calling, browsing web), battery drains super fast. I can have it last more than 4 days with light usage, but less than 10 hours with normal usage (no games, only texting, calling and browsing web).
Either do the process people are calling "recondition your battery" (charge fully, drain fully, charge fully, then immediately wipe your battery stats), or charge your battery fully once on an external stand-alone charger, then wipe your battery stats.
The battery profile in the stats file with the ROM just doesn't match your real battery's performance characteristics -- low charge point, high charge point, usage curves, etc. ... so it thinks it has juice when it doesn't, or it may shut down when you should still have juice left, etc.
My battery life has improved with every day. At first, when I cleared the battery stats in CWR, the phone lasted me around 36 hours. However, the day after it could not hold for more than 16 hours, but it has been increasing and now stays around 26 hours with my moderate to heavy use.
EDIT: Freezing Media Hub and the device management service in TB has definitely contributed to the prolonged battery life, I should probably remove it all together.
MV10 said:
Either do the process people are calling "recondition your battery" (charge fully, drain fully, charge fully, then immediately wipe your battery stats), or charge your battery fully once on an external stand-alone charger, then wipe your battery stats.
The battery profile in the stats file with the ROM just doesn't match your real battery's performance characteristics -- low charge point, high charge point, usage curves, etc. ... so it thinks it has juice when it doesn't, or it may shut down when you should still have juice left, etc.
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what do you mean by a extrenal stand-alone charger? Like the charger that came with it right? sorry noobie question
lqaddict said:
My battery life has improved with every day. At first, when I cleared the battery stats in CWR, the phone lasted me around 36 hours. However, the day after it could not hold for more than 16 hours, but it has been increasing and now stays around 26 hours with my moderate to heavy use.
EDIT: Freezing Media Hub and the device management service in TB has definitely contributed to the prolonged battery life, I should probably remove it all together.
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Can you mind telling me how to freeze media hub and device management service?
aaronhiep said:
what do you mean by a extrenal stand-alone charger? Like the charger that came with it right? sorry noobie question
Can you mind telling me how to freeze media hub and device management service?
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If you use Titanium Backup (I highly recommend spending ~$5.00 for a full Pro version) you can freeze the apps via the Batch operation.
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If you use Titanium Backup (I highly recommend spending ~$5.00 for a full Pro version) you can freeze the apps via the Batch operation.
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Is this safe to freeze both media hub and device management?
Well i just conditioned my battery and that didnt help. So i'll try wiping the caches and then if that doesnt work then i will odin back to stock and fresh install it.
And i only have weather, the messaging widget that tells me how many messages i have and thats about it
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Ive also set my email never to refresh because i dont really use it that much anyway
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treyvaporizer said:
I have been looking through forum after forum about the battery life on this rom, it has been dropping 1 percent every 2 minutes or so and is about to be dead. Does this sound like a battery problem or should i just recondition it. I just wanna know whether to buy a new battery, get a new rom or what?
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Gotta be an app problem, I can leave WiFi on all night and only drop 10% or so.
treyvaporizer said:
Well i just conditioned my battery and that didnt help. So i'll try wiping the caches and then if that doesnt work then i will odin back to stock and fresh install it.
And i only have weather, the messaging widget that tells me how many messages i have and thats about it
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reconditioning the battery is good to do but only gives a minor difference in how long it takes to drain. I already know it's an app problem. Open you're settings, go to applications, and select running services. What do you see?
Could it be device management?
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Nero, is great, but I just, lost 4% of battery being on xda for like 15 minutes.
Why is this happening, with gingerclone I lost like 1% every 30 minutes with, light use...
How can I get the battery of gingerclone but the look and feel of nero?
I highly recommend getting rid off or freezing Device Management and MediaHub if you are not using it.
O k.
I already froze tons including media hub, but I thought we'd need DM, guess not froze that too.
Any more suggestions
I have NeroV3 as well, and I was getting stellar battery life and then one day, it started dropping like a rock. I have read on here many times about charging through a wall charger instead of USB which I didn't think would make a difference. Without any changes to my phone as far as freezing apps or using ATK, I let the phone drain until shut off, recharged on a wall charger (the one the phone came with) and then restarted and wiped battery stats and dalvik cache as well as the other internal cache stored. I am now on day two with about 20% remaining with light use (mainly internet and 3-5 phone calls). I still love Nerov3 and wouldn't change just yet. Try the battery reconditioning and you might be surprised what happens......
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I have NeroV3 as well, and I was getting stellar battery life and then one day, it started dropping like a rock. I have read on here many times about charging through a wall charger instead of USB which I didn't think would make a difference. Without any changes to my phone as far as freezing apps or using ATK, I let the phone drain until shut off, recharged on a wall charger (the one the phone came with) and then restarted and wiped battery stats and dalvik cache as well as the other internal cache stored. I am now on day two with about 20% remaining with light use (mainly internet and 3-5 phone calls). I still love Nerov3 and wouldn't change just yet. Try the battery reconditioning and you might be surprised what happens......
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K I'll try that later today
How can I drain battery fast?
Radio streaming
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Nero's battery does not suck, Blame your device and whatever state it was in prior to flashing Nero. Like gtiryan said, RECONDITION YOUR BATTERY. (caps for emphasis) IMHO I would do as follows: Download superpower, disable transition animations,lower screen brightness, lower your haptic feedback, use widgets sparingly, use only a few homescreens, dont use a task killer...I could go on, BUT, all of these things will also have an impact of saving you battery life. Most importantly is recondition the battery though. Drain the battery until it shuts off, Do not turn it back on. Just charge it with the phone off. When it is fully charged again, Boot directly into recovery and wipe the battery stats. Simple as that! Good luck.
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Nero's battery does not suck, Blame your device and whatever state it was in prior to flashing Nero. Like gtiryan said, RECONDITION YOUR BATTERY. (caps for emphasis) IMHO I would do as follows: Download superpower, disable transition animations,lower screen brightness, lower your haptic feedback, use widgets sparingly, use only a few homescreens, dont use a task killer...I could go on, BUT, all of these things will also have an impact of saving you battery life. Most importantly is recondition the battery though. Drain the battery until it shuts off, Do not turn it back on. Just charge it with the phone off. When it is fully charged again, Boot directly into recovery and wipe the battery stats. Simple as that! Good luck.
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thanks for the suggestions, but i wouldn't try that.
I have a smartphone, i dont want to make it look like a bullcrap phone.
transitions, im keeping my brightness is always at low since im home alot haptic feedback is always off, widgets, power control and battery life, 7 homescreens, i use the stock task killer if i need to.
i'm draining my battery right now to recondition it.
Saying that transitions make your smart phone smart is like saying when I put stickers on my car it adds more horsepower.
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Saying that transitions make your smart phone smart is like saying when I put stickers on my car it adds more horsepower.
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if a high-end-smartphone look dull, meaning no transitions, makes no use at all of it being a smartphone, a smartphone, looks, feels, and is good.
I never said a transition makes it smart, i said a transition makes it look good.
Nero's battery is noticeably worse than Eclair ROMs (especially those with undervolting kernels).
Gallery3D is a battery-vampire. There should be a fixed version of it in the Slightly Better Gingerbread thread (in Themes & Apps).
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Nero's battery is noticeably worse than Eclair ROMs (especially those with undervolting kernels).
Gallery3D is a battery-vampire. There should be a fixed version of it in the Slightly Better Gingerbread thread (in Themes & Apps).
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i just reconditioned and so far its been 40 minutes and not lost a single percent with heavy text and about 3 phone calls.
the Gallery3D has already been replaced with the other one that is said to stitch the memory leak from the old one.
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I highly recommend getting rid off or freezing Device Management and MediaHub if you are not using it.
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What does DM actually do?
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What does DM actually do?
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it checks the Tmobile servers to see if theres a update OTA, but if there IS a OTA XDA would have like 50 downloads by the time it gets finished installing, so i just froze that.
What's the simplest way to get rid of Media Hub and DM?
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What's the simplest way to get rid of Media Hub and DM?
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Do not get "rid" of them.
They are connected to other apps so freezing is your best bet. Specially those 2
Nero3 has had the BEST battery life for me so far.
Extras Ive done:
Downloaded Superpower and clicked 'Root Features > 2G/3G Enable'
Titanium Backup I froze:
All Share
com.logmein.rescue
com.logmein.rescuesecurity
Daily Briefing
Device Management
DRM Protected Content
DRM Content Launcher
Media Hub
News and Weather
Visual Voicemail
wssyncmlnps
Been running that way for a few weeks now with no issues.
For the install I did a ODIN to JFD. Personally when I Odin to JFD I always click repartition (only to JFD). Then installed Nero3 and started a battery recondition.
I found a nice clean new install really does make a world of difference.
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Do not get "rid" of them.
They are connected to other apps so freezing is your best bet. Specially those 2
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Do you have another method on freezing apps instead of paying for titanium backup?
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Do you have another method on freezing apps instead of paying for titanium backup?
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There are a few apps IMO you just need to buy. Titanium, and Root Explorer come to mind.
Oh and ADW EX rocks !!!
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I cant think of any other program that can 'freeze' and app.
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There are a few apps IMO you just need to buy. Titanium, and Root Explorer come to mind.
Oh and ADW EX rocks !!!
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Ah well i have root explorer, so how would i freeze it there?
***NOTICE***
The ROM Manager version of CWM does NOT wipe battery stats properly, as with many other things. What you need is jt1134's version of CWM that is all happy and works and stuff.
You can find his happy CWM here. And here. And also here.
And here.
Big thanks to LegionTHEFecalExcretion for the heads up on that.
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NOTE: On current DL30 and EB01 ROMs, you will not see battery life like you did on DL09 with undervolted kernels. There are NO undervolted kernels as of yet, everything kernel wise with Froyo ROMs in very much stock. These steps will improve your battery life in comparison to when you flashed Froyo, but you are not going to see spectacular changes in battery life up to what you were getting with undervolted DL09, etc. It's just not possible until we get undervolted kernels and Froyo matures for our device, development wise.
Hi everyone, I've been seeing a lot of threads about bad battery life, whether switching to Kaoscinate, Vanilla, or DL30. Stop it! Just kidding. There is a simple process everyone should follow when switching between different enough ROMs, like AOSP, CM6 and TW Eclair and Froyo. This is how you retrain your battery.
1. Charge your battery to 100% (when it gets there, let it SIT there, your phone is NOT reporting correctly).
2. Reboot to Recovery and Advanced -> Wipe Battery Stats.
3. Reboot, and use your phone until it is VERY low (5-10%, you can let it die if you want).
4. Charge your phone back to 100%
5. (Optional) Power down, then power on phone. (Thanks goes to BrwnSuperman for this suggestion, give it a try!)
Your battery issues should be solved. This needs to be done every once in a while, especially when switching between different ROMs and OS versions.
User dalrym05 posted this alternate method for retraining the battery on page 4 as well, so I thought I would share it here in the OP. I'm posting this as a USE AT YOUR OWN RISK method, as I have not tested it, and am not quite sure what the *228 steps for it actually accomplish and have to do with retraining the OS battery reporting, so I'm leaving it quoted to dalrym05 for the time being.
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Here were my steps to better battery.
1.*228 option 1
2.*228 option 2
3. Run battery completely dead to 0%
4. Plug in and boot immediately into cwm
5. Wipe battery stats and dalvik cache
6. Reboot and let charge fully before unplugging
7. Completely discharge again and fully charge again.
After this you should notice a very nice increase in battery as I did. My battery life is back up to par with eclair.
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NOTE: I did edit his post to make it a little more clear. I'm slightly anal retentive that way.
HybridByNature had an excellent suggestion on page 4. If people have good tips and tricks for maintaining good battery life, and they are easily reproducible, then I will gladly add them to the OP here. What works for you?
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This might also be a good place to add tips & tricks to extending battery life.
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-Close programs that you aren't using.
-Don't leave your camera or navigation running in the background.
-Turn off WiFi & GPS etc when you aren't using them.
-Don't run your screen at full brightness if you can help it.
-Figure out what uses more battery life than other things:
Pandora, internet browsing, downloading, camera/camcorder, Angry Birds etc.
If you are rooted, try and narrow it down to the best kernel/theme for your situation. I've found that I have better battery with a non-voodoo kernel but the performance increase is worth it so that's a trade-off that I make.
Let's hear from our readers: What is working for you?
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Would not surprise me if this is all it is. I have turned my phone off at 5% for an hour and turned it back on without charging and then it showed 45%. I know when batteries are low letting them sit a little bit can help, but not that much.
It is just being reported inaccurately by the OS.
This how to has been reposted like 9001 times. But yes, this is one day to do it.
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This how to has been reposted like 9001 times. But yes, this is one day to do it.
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Yes, but not as a thread, it gets posted in everyone else's "Why does my battery life suck ass" threads, so I made this so maybe people would see it and try it before posting another useless question thread in Development.
Definitely works though. Did it yesterday. Good post. It has been posted in other threads ... but I think we all know people don't read through everything very often.
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I have the battery charger and 3 batteries, I always run my battery low and leave it in the charger for a day.
I did this last night and it didn't work too well for me.
Also, when I go to wipe battery stats in the recovery, it doesn't tell me if it wiped or not, just goes back to the advanced menu.
And also, should I be concerned that when I cold boot into the recovery, it doesn't appear to be CWM? It says Android recovery...I know I have CWM recovery installed.
Samerhing happens to me... and I just took it off the charger and I'm on 96 percent in less than 1 min
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Samerhing happens to me... and I just took it off the charger and I'm on 96 percent in less than 1 min
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Wow same here..I just took mine off the charger bout 10 minutes ago and it's at 95% now. I guess I'm gonna let the battery run completely dead and charge it and see what happens.
I did something similar. I charged to 100% while it was on, removed from charger then powered off. When phone was off I plugged charger back in and waited til it was at 100% then unplugged again and powered on. Waited until phone was completely on then unplugged again and connected to charger. Waited til it was at 100% and while still plugged in at 100% booted into recovery and wiped battery stats. Then rebooted phone into OS and unplugged. I had tried this previously with DL09 and it helped a little. Last night I wanted to see how my battery would drain after doing this. With WiFi on and I got about 10 emails during the night, from 8:30pm to 6:00am I lost only 13%!!! Previously I would have lost from 35 to 40%. ymmv
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my phone doesnt sleep even though my screen is off... how can i fix that
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my phone doesnt sleep even though my screen is off... how can i fix that
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Spare Parts says "Time spent without sleeping: 53m 15s (100%)
Wow.
If I go to Battery History and change the top dropdown to Partial Wake Usage, it says Android System at the top with a bar that's at least 75% full.
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Spare Parts says "Time spent without sleeping: 53m 15s (100%)
Wow.
If I go to Battery History and change the top dropdown to Partial Wake Usage, it says Android System at the top with a bar that's at least 75% full.
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Looks like Samsung has to make an update or patch to this LEAKED version LOL. I'm so fed up with people failing from Samsung and Verizon for this device.
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Looks like Samsung has to make an update or patch to this LEAKED version LOL. I'm so fed up with people failing from Samsung and Verizon for this device.
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Yeah looks like I'll be going back to DL09.
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Spare Parts says "Time spent without sleeping: 53m 15s (100%)
Wow.
If I go to Battery History and change the top dropdown to Partial Wake Usage, it says Android System at the top with a bar that's at least 75% full.
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Give it some time. I was showing that as well but after about half a day I rechecked and it showed the correct percentage for Running time.
jv
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Give it some time. I was showing that as well but after about half a day I rechecked and it showed the correct percentage for Running time.
jv
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yours was also telling you it spent 100% of it's time without sleeping? Mine's been doing it for 2h 9m 25s...the same amount of time my phone's been on.
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yours was also telling you it spent 100% of it's time without sleeping? Mine's been doing it for 2h 9m 25s...the same amount of time my phone's been on.
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I was pulling my hair out trying to figure this out too. It seems to have solved itself. Right now it is showing 47% usage. Sorry I couldn't help.
Jv
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This is a proven technique, and it takes patience. Seeing the battery drop from 100% down to 95 or 96% after unplugging is normal behavior. I've done this already. Left my phone unplugged overnight and lost 1% battery. If you're too impatient to take the time to do this, that's your loss. You'll see the battery life "improve" over the course of a few days as the reporting gets more and more accurate.
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I agree with supplysidejesus. This is a standard practice and should be done with each major rom or kernel install. This leak hasn't been put long enough for most of us to know what our expected battery life will be yet. Give it a few days for your phones to adjust.
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yours was also telling you it spent 100% of it's time without sleeping? Mine's been doing it for 2h 9m 25s...the same amount of time my phone's been on.
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try disabling gps in the notifications, that worked for me, but once i turn gps on again, it will drive up to a high percentage.
Ok so im quite new to android so im not 100% on the ins and outs on how what uses what battery and when.
Im running skyrom v9 and my battery was crap. To be honest its never been good. So i tried speedmod kernel and still got the same results.
Now iv disabled lockscreen widget and seems my battery is much better so iv put it down to that been the killer.
Iv read some people are using this app with no issues. My friend tried it with the same rom and kernel as me and it was fine.
Question is are these phones like performance independent? Like will each device act and behave differently to different thing or shud one sgs2 be the same as another sgs2 that is set up the same?
Long winded but i got there
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They're mass produced, they should be exactly the same. There may be really really slight performance differences. And tiny differences in screen quality. But this may depend on the batch.
What would be the case most likely would be the fact that you have a faulty battery. But it seems you were able to fix most of your problems by getting rid of an app.
There's a lot of things influencing battery life, dude! Every little thing you do and use can get the juice sucked dry in a couple of hours.
I thought as much. Just seemed odd. And although getting rid of that app seemed to work, its now gone back to its useual gonna die soon self. Gonna try another battery i think.
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In a way they are all different .
Different users with different apps and settings plus a different and varied level of user intelligence . That means phone A can be poor for user ZZ but give it to user YY and its working well .
jje
Well only thing i have left to try is battery. Im just waiting for my other to charge then i will swap and test it. Best i have had my battery is loosing 10% an hour. Which imo is a bad crack.
When i go to my battery stats it says cirtain apps are using x%. Some of the apps iv never ran. And some like maps for example is using battery. I stop the maps app and still its using battery. Why?
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Well only thing i have left to try is battery. Im just waiting for my other to charge then i will swap and test it. Best i have had my battery is loosing 10% an hour. Which imo is a bad crack.
When i go to my battery stats it says cirtain apps are using x%. Some of the apps iv never ran. And some like maps for example is using battery. I stop the maps app and still its using battery. Why?
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If your battery is cracked get it replaced under warranty as battery have a much shorter warranty .
better battery stats .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
jje
djmaz said:
Well only thing i have left to try is battery. Im just waiting for my other to charge then i will swap and test it. Best i have had my battery is loosing 10% an hour. Which imo is a bad crack.
When i go to my battery stats it says cirtain apps are using x%. Some of the apps iv never ran. And some like maps for example is using battery. I stop the maps app and still its using battery. Why?
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A good test is to stick it in flight mode and shut down as many apps as you possibly can. Then just leave it in standby for a couple of hours. You should really only lose 1-2% of your battery. If you do then you know something on the phone is responsible and you can start looking for and freezing the suspects.
I've had mine in standby for about 9 hours now (since I unplugged it) and it's at 91%, after only a few texts and emails. That's with data on most of the time and a little wifi earlier. I'm on 2.3.5 and KH3.
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A good test is to stick it in flight mode and shut down as many apps as you possibly can. Then just leave it in standby for a couple of hours. You should really only lose 1-2% of your battery. If you do then you know something on the phone is responsible and you can start looking for and freezing the suspects.
I've had mine in standby for about 9 hours now (since I unplugged it) and it's at 91%, after only a few texts and emails. That's with data on most of the time and a little wifi earlier. I'm on 2.3.5 and KH3.
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Thats some spot on advice there. Ill give it ago and see what happens. Cheerz bud
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The phone is the same, it really is all in the user settings and usage styles. If you want to prove this, just reflash any ROM and kernel (they are not that different) and do a full wipe of the phone. Don't set up a Google account or any email accounts or install any launchers/apps/widgets. Use a plain black background/lockscreen. Just use the phone, SMS and other stock apps for a while. You should be getting around 3 days or more of battery life with moderate usage.
I've gotten 3+ days of battery life before, but nowadays I get less than 1 day. So when I read that other people are getting great battery life, it's not because their phone is different than mine. It's because I need to use Exchange for my office email, or because I want to run a certain widget, or have some extra notifications, etc. So all you can do is keep experimenting, updating, etc. until you find a combination that works well for you.
I was running bionix from before I decided to switch. I flashed back to stock via Odin and flashed to ICS Passion v11. It's an excellent ROM but my battery life is abysmal. Just texting for 5 mins drains it about 8%. I have to charge my phone 3x a day in order to keep it alive. Really like this rom so does anyone have suggestions on what to tweak or disable to fix this?
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I was running bionix from before I decided to switch. I flashed back to stock via Odin and flashed to ICS Passion v11. It's an excellent ROM but my battery life is abysmal. Just texting for 5 mins drains it about 8%. I have to charge my phone 3x a day in order to keep it alive. Really like this rom so does anyone have suggestions on what to tweak or disable to fix this?
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Yeah same for me.. I had to buy the Samsung Galaxy Epic 4g 1800mAh battery.. It solved my problem. You can get one on amazon for like 20 bucks. It's totally worth it. For some reason the 1500mAh battery gets random drains on this ROM
It's not just this ROM. I have noticed it on all the ICS Roms. Some of the apps are not configured properly for ICS yet, thus the battery drain. When you re-install your apps using Titanium Backup try not restoring data.
Bump for possible solutions. The new battery is a good idea. I hear so many people claiming battery life is superb and mine is far from it. I never restored apps with titanium backup either. Everything was clean slate
When I was running ics, i had a few times where my phone would not deep sleep. I just reinstalled and it seemed to correct it.
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When I first installed Passion V11 my first full charge only got me about 8 hours of use. I installed BetterbatteryStats and CPU Spy, and Battery Monitor Widget. I looked at the logs and saw that Beautiful Widgets was causing alarms and kernel wakelocks almost non-stop. After identifying the problem app and uninstalling it, my phone still has 70% battery with 24 hours of use.
You guys just need an 1800 mAH battery. The thing can last me a day and a half with no charge (assuming I put it in airplane mode at night). You can find it for $10-20 on Amazon or eBay.
To get best battery life all you need to do is "Charge Cycles"
For ICS Passion v8,
Charge Cycle means completely charging your phone too 100%, reboot and LET IT DRAIN UPTO 0%
Now charge it to 100% again without interuption and then reboot.
This is one/first charge cycle. Also get unused toggles off and remove unused widgets.
I would add that you need to go into Clockwork Mod manager by rebooting your phone, selecting advanced, wipe battery stats, repeat after drain to 0 and recharge to 100%
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I installed BetterbatteryStats and CPU Spy, and Battery Monitor Widget. I looked at the logs and saw that Beautiful Widgets was causing alarms and kernel wakelocks almost non-stop. After identifying the problem app and uninstalling it,
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All this is in my guide stickied in the Q&A section.
jpatt said:
Charge Cycle means completely charging your phone too 100%, reboot and LET IT DRAIN UPTO 0%
Now charge it to 100% again without interuption and then reboot.
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Best way to get the most out of your battery, hands down (although I never let it fully discharge. Got pegged once on another phone and it never held a charge again. My own superstitiion though b/c it was an entirely different manufacturer).
Also get unused toggles off and remove unused widgets.
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Also in my guide
I would add that you need to go into Clockwork Mod manager by rebooting your phone, selecting advanced, wipe battery stats, repeat after drain to 0 and recharge to 100%
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This has been debunked but I still believe in it and what I have seen from my own personal experience.
My phone is experienceing severe battery drain whenever i use an app.
i tried switching between the leedroid v5.4 and nonsense 3.1 roms but both had the same problem anyone know a fix.
BTW i did not overclock
What wasted the battery
WHen i check to see what used teh battery is shows
CELL STANDBY 54%
sgaheer said:
WHen i check to see what used teh battery is shows
CELL STANDBY 54%
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I noticed that my phone does that when I am in a weak service area. The radios use a lot of juice trying to get/keep a signal. You could try Better Battery Stats or Bad Ass Battery Monitor to see in more detail what is using your battery.
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sgaheer said:
My phone is experienceing severe battery drain whenever i use an app.
i tried switching between the leedroid v5.4 and nonsense 3.1 roms but both had the same problem anyone know a fix.
BTW i did not overclock
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you can also try to calibrate your battery with serval apps! type in play store : battery calibration ! they all do the same job and preaty good i must say..
i recommend you to try : Battery Calibration free . thats for rooted users and does great job!
Alright Thanks
I sorta realised it was due to my connection as my school has a really bad reception and thats where teh majority ofteh drain occurred will download that app
My personal experience!!!!! Flame me not!!!!!!
Ok here goes:
I don't use any battery calibration apps or system tuner or task killer any more. I test my battery like I test my gas mileage: ALL THE FRIGGIN' TIME!
I've found I get better battery life without these extra apps. However, I also completely strip all ROM's I use of completely unnecessary apps and their respective widgets (HTC News, HTC News and Weather, Jetset Printer, Stocks, Twitter, Picasa, Google +, etc.)
Now, the only app I would recommend and have heard from multiple sources and threads is Better Battery Stats. It has a nominal fee, however, is worth it. I will show you what is draining your battery.
You could also have wake lock problems. Who knows? Get some diagnostic info to post to better help those trying to help you. Help me, to help you! LOL!
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My personal experience!!!!! Flame me not!!!!!!
Ok here goes:
I don't use any battery calibration apps or system tuner or task killer any more.
Now, the only app I would recommend and have heard from multiple sources and threads is Better Battery Stats. It has a nominal fee, however, is worth it. I will show you what is draining your battery.
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Flame on! Just kidding. I also have never calibrated my battery as it is useless according to the Android engineers at Google.
The reason I also recommend Bad Ass Battery Monitor is because it is a little more user friendly.
Also, there is an xda version of Better Battery Stats that is available in these forums for free, although the Market version is cheap and supports the dev.
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i have some problem, when my screen active, i put it to my pocket, then my body touch the screen and do random process abaout 45minutes.. done with 40% battery gone x_X.. i think u must tell us how long u use app
You can use battery calibration. you can find it in the android market
Have you tried reset battery stats then full charge, use it for a couple of minutes then full charge again? Don't know why it works but I have used this method on a couple of Roms and it seems to help
try clearing your battery stats full charge ur battery n then let it discharge fully then full charge once more n recalibrate it..should work
The main factor for preventing battery drains is to have a good modem that doesn't overheats the phone, using a ROM with deep sleep and a battery friendly kennel like Siyah or Fluxxi. Try to get those three things fixed and you should not have any more battery drains
Turn auto brightness off also make sure none of your apps are using your GPS all the time. I think the problem may be app related I would roll to a stock kernel and only use apps that are must need and see if that helps. Also your battery could be shot . How old is it ?
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Downloaded badass battery monitor and it showed mediaserver was wasting my battery, so I got rid of any possible corrupted media, problem solved for now
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