I've been on Bionix 1.2.1 for about 2 weeks and had relatively good battery life.
Suddenly, my battery life is going down really quickly. About 10% every half hour. I didn't update any apps, or install any new apps during that time. I've checked all my apps to make sure they're not downloading data too often.
As a last resort, I've reinstalled Bionix and the Ka7 stock kernel again as well. Now it seems intermittent. Battery life will be good for 2-3 hours, then rapidly drain, then OK for a 1 hour, then rapid drain.
I haven't been using my phone at all, just turning it on to see the battery life meter. I've checked the Android "whats using your battery" and it's only listing "display93%" "standby 3%".
Any Ideas?
well if you have wifi calling installed on your phone that might be what is draining your battery
that app is a a battery drainer even when not in use
Thanks for your reply Dgameros, I couldn't manually uninstall it so I re-flashed Bionix without wifi calling. Battery life seems to be better now!
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i've been running Nero 4.1 since it was posted and battery life was fine, suddenly last week it has been cut in half. I didn't load any new apps or change any of my settings or usage habits. I was getting 25+ hours and now I get 16 tops with very light usage. My battery stats say display is using 73% but the phone is idle most of the day. What could have caused this? Also I have tried conditioning the battery, it didn't seem to make a difference ,and, I flashed the rom with 100% charge.
did you condition it right?
My brother did the OTA update last night, his phone has never been rooted.
After about 5 hours today his battery has about 20% life left! Battery stats says 74% of the power was used by the display which was on for 40 minutes.
Cell standby is about 4% of battery use and he was without signal for 25% of the time, if I recall correctly.
Anyone else observing something similar?
My battery life on 2.9.2 has been less than desirable and I was considering going back to stock in hopes the battery would be better after the OTA. This is not encouraging.
Also, does he need to go through a couple battery cycles, drain fully then fully charge, before he gets a clear picture of what the battery life would be?
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Yes true battery life will be clearer after a few days of use. The phone learns your usage and gives a better idea of how much charge is left.
best way is to fully charge battery and then wipe battery stats and then drain battery and then charge battery to full one charge. Then use phone normally for s couple of days. Then you will hadn't good sense of what kind of battery life you are getting.
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Thanks for the response.
Am I correct that he would need to root to be able to run the battery stats script or is there another way?
wscaddie56 said:
My brother did the OTA update last night, his phone has never been rooted.
After about 5 hours today his battery has about 20% life left! Battery stats says 74% of the power was used by the display which was on for 40 minutes.
Cell standby is about 4% of battery use and he was without signal for 25% of the time, if I recall correctly.
Anyone else observing something similar?
My battery life on 2.9.2 has been less than desirable and I was considering going back to stock in hopes the battery would be better after the OTA. This is not encouraging.
Also, does he need to go through a couple battery cycles, drain fully then fully charge, before he gets a clear picture of what the battery life would be?
TIA
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I update OTA last week on Verizon to Froyo 2.2. My battery was overheating and draining like crazy from my CPU usage being at a constant 99%..
I found the source of the problem. An app I use for facebook called "FLOW". The CPU usage was cut to 20% when I killed it with "Advanced Task Killer".
I resolved the issue by: Opening Flow.. going to Preferences.. Notification Settings.. Refresh Type.. Checked Periodic Polling (I was using Gmail Experimental previously)
Hope this helps...
I agree, the OTA froyo ED01 is worse for battery life. I get 5-8% per hour idle drain, which is way too high. I've been try to track down the issue with spare parts, system pannel, and battery details. So far I can't see any specific issue.
There are so many hoops to jump through just to get this phone working normally. It's really insanity that we should have to bust our butts on software bugs. And this isn't even mentioning the totally slow choppy ass browser in 2.2. (Vibrant browser on 2.2 SO much better)
Overall my urge to flush this POS down the toilet is growing every day.
My battery has horrible life. I'm rooted running evil fascination and have done all the things that typically help with battery life such as disabling gps and wifi, and lowering brightness. In fact my brightness is currently as low as it gets and my battery use shows my display as 99% of my current usage. Even though I just took my phone off the charger 15 minutes ago and it's already at 85%. I know my screen can't possibly have taken that much battery so fast. It also takes about 4 hours to charge from zero to 100 because it's draining so fast. Can anyone give me some advice? I downloaded an app that shows my current mah or whatever but I don't know what that means. I notice when it's at 270mah my battery drains fast which is most of the time but a few times it has been at 2 mah and it doesn't drain fast then.
sounds like a rogue app keeping your phone/screen running when off.. I had the same problem a while ago, 96% screen usage and taking 6 hours to charge then draining to zero in an hour and a half.. unfortunately the only thing that fixed it for me was a complete data/cache wipe and reflash of the rom, I think I was on superclean 2.9.2 at the time.. could be the battery being wonky also, you might wanna look into the battery calibration app on the market or wiping batt stats in CWR
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Just took the update and battery life dropped significantly. I was running stock rom, rooted, and kernel with CWM. I could use the phone quite a lot and it would last all day and still have 25%-30% left after being off the charger for 17 hours. I flashed the stock kernel and performed the update yesterday. I charged the phone all night. I was off work today so I didn't use the phone at all. After 15.5 hours, the low battery notification sounded. The battery meter showed I only had 11% remaining. The main culprit was the "Android OS" at 77%. Display, which is normally the main power drain, was only 6%. This shows how little the phone was used.
I believe its Entropy who has a thread that has really helped me. Could be a rouge app. Do you have better battery stats?
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Hi guys. I'm running on CheckROM revoHD4 and while sometimes I lose 10% of battery overnight today I dropped 30% in 3.5 hours doing absolutely nothing with screen off and not a huge ammount of apps running on the background. And its not the first time I notice inconsistent discharge. When I installed this ROM battery would last for 20h/3h screen/3h voicecalls. now sometimed it doesn't even last half of that. Any ideas?
You should check the battery info via Settings > About Phone > Battery Stats to see if you find a proccess that is huging the battery.
Also you could download Better Battery Stats from the Market and find which proccess are the ones doing the more Wake Locks and how much time they have done it. You could find for example an app thats been doing that for hours and that could be the cause of the battery drain.