Just wondering because right now I'm using GSB v2.6 and I'm getting max 6 hours of battery life through normal use like checking email, sms, casual browsing, and listening to music.
tylerch said:
Just wondering because right now I'm using GSB v2.6 and I'm getting max 6 hours of battery life through normal use like checking email, sms, casual browsing, and listening to music.
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Have you tried re-calibrating your battery? Made a huge difference for me; it's good to do especially with a lot of ROM flashing, but even with just one it can throw your battery calculations off.
FYI follow the instructions to the letter, otherwise you might as well not do it at all IMHO.
I had the same issue using GSB 2.X. Switched to OMGB 1.1.1 and i now get 15 hours with moderate usage and no tweaks.
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I had the same issue using GSB 2.X. Switched to OMGB 1.1.1 and i now get 15 hours with moderate usage and no tweaks.
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I've gotten over 30 hours before with GSB, immediately after a recalibration.
Your best bet for battery life is setcpu settings. As long as you're using froyo and gingerbread you'll get a boost.
I suggest Tazz as his ROM's have always worked for me. My setcpu sleep profile is:
min 19mhz
max: 480mhz
governer: smartass
and in advanced settings I have:
polling interval: default
Whatever the next one is: 98
Ignore smart or hwatever the third one is: 1
bias: 4
edit: With this I can get a good day or two of moderate use.
I found on GSB that that 19mhz is too low and the phone does not always wake from sleep. I followed workshed's suggestion of min 480 mhz with max 710 using CM7's CPU settings and all worked very well...that is until 2.0 when battery life went to hell. I recalibrated but i think the problem was my exchange mail app.
Oh, and with smartass you shouldn't have to set sleep profiles. Supposedly it's "smart" enough to figure that out
You can also try collins battery tweak, I use it on tazz gingerbread and it works awesome my phone used to die pretty fast before I tried it and now that I put it back on my phone I am very glad I did.
Im running GSB 2.8 but for me, all seems to be going well.
In one day, off a single charge, I've gone 12-14 hours at a time!
Make sure you always charge correctly, and don't abuse the phone's battery all the time!
Been trying out various ROMs and lately, I've settled on FroShedYo's Final V11 with CM6.1 as my everyday workhorse, stability over speed, and with a bit of battery calibration - getting an average of easily 20 to 30 hours off a full charge on OEM 1500 maH battery originally for the HTC Ozone (so it's about 15% higher capacity than stock's 1300 maH, which I keep as a spare/backup.)
With a bit of tweaking on CPU clocking (Ondemand), turning off vibrate & alert sounds/LED's, and email checks every 60 minutes (1 account only + Gmail pushed) and minimal widgets open, etc. - I can leave the house at the beginning of a long day, go about daily business, voice calls, check email checks, quick news & weather update, etc. and still have 25% to 50% battery life after an extended 12 to 15 hours day on the move, depending on how the device is used. I get a poor 3G signal at the house flipping to 1X often & back, and wifi OFF on the road (BlueTooth ON for driving but no Maps/NAV (ON at home.) In short, plenty of variables on how the battery is getting drained - in standby mode, clock speed is lowered so I could still be over 90 to 95% battery after 2 years but it will slide downward with active usage. After wiping/flashing & reinstalling all the APPS & fine-tuning the settings, I do a NAND backup and then do the battery calibration - and after 1 full cycle, I've been consistently getting these standby & usage time - which I can live with (C2C flashed and extra goodies on a 16GB SD card.) Yesterday, it was showing over 50% after 15 hours of light/moderate usage.
I've tried the latest nearly finalized GSB/GB Roms & variants, they are faster & fancier, but FC's, GPS issues & other minor bugs plus "not as good" battery life had pushed it back to 2.2 OS on the Eris. OMGB 1.1.1.1 and the Condemned CM7 just out this week are pretty cool - but battery life really slide quickly - unlikely to see more than 10 to 15 hours of usage out of a standard/non-extended battery.
The other one that I like is the Nonsensikal 2.2.1 ROM, troublefree, stable & reliable - the edge on battery yielding to FroShedYo's version ( keep that on another 8GB card along with the newest GB releases for "playing")
Otherwise, the xtrSENSES 5.x and xtrROM 5.x are fine as well for everyday use - performance & battery life-wise over the latest stock 2.1 ROM.
Those are my two cents for what it's worth, great work being done here and it's giving new life to the Eris, not quite EOL for some of us - played with the TB in the store, nice big screen & fast, but I'm not about to wear a "brick" phone going out on the job with an extended/bulky battery just for bragging about 4G/LTE. Mobile devices have come a long way, I still got my original analog MicroTac XLT with a 2200 maH tipping the scale at 10 oz in my bottom storage drawer.
On the sideline for a "polished" GB/GSB ROM with the bugs resolved and better battery life, and I'm off to flashing it on my spare SD to test it out. for the "adoption" usage.
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Just wondering because right now I'm using GSB v2.6 and I'm getting max 6 hours of battery life through normal use like checking email, sms, casual browsing, and listening to music.
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6 hours wow thats bad man. i get 30+ running gingertazz
i leave 3g off till i need it and usally just use wifi if around wifi spot
do a recal. like people suggested
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I figured I'd make this its own thread after speaking with several people with the same problems using a CMOD 5.0.5.3+ rom. This wasn't a problem in lower editions from what I can remember in testing.
Idk but I believe it is something in the kernel affecting this problem with the display hogging my battery. Even after flashing an undervolted kernel I still can only last 24 hours with an extended life battery, vs a weeks time before. And the display problem has been like this in all CMODS test .6 Roms as well so idk if it is in the process of getting fixed or simply overlooked. And other Rome work well but are slower it seams.
The display settings doesn't matter auto or manual its about the same. So devs what can we do to find the change or what can I do to help?
-charlie
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I figured I'd make this its own thread after speaking with several people with the same problems using a CMOD 5.0.5.3+ rom. This wasn't a problem in lower editions from what I can remember in testing.
Idk but I believe it is something in the kernel affecting this problem with the display hogging my battery. Even after flashing an undervolted kernel I still can only last 24 hours with an extended life battery, vs a weeks time before. And the display problem has been like this in all CMODS test .6 Roms as well so idk if it is in the process of getting fixed or simply overlooked. And other Rome work well but are slower it seams.
The display settings doesn't matter auto or manual its about the same. So devs what can we do to find the change or what can I do to help?
-charlie
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I'm running test 3 of 5.0.6. Today i read a book with fbreader for around 2hrs on it whilst on the train, had 2 30 minute phone conversations, around 20 texts, a dozen gtalk messages, and played blackjack for about 20 mins. i'm also using pershoots OCUV kernal, and after 11hrs without being plugged in I am at 75% battery. I'm happy with that.
I think it is a work in progress, as each new build comes out it's better. His testing builds are just that - testing. None of his release builds I have ever had an issue with either, although maybe my phone ue is a lot less than others I dunno. All i can say is i've never been tempted with another rom since early days on my magic phone Cyanogen rocks!
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I'm running test 3 of 5.0.6. Today i read a book with fbreader for around 2hrs on it whilst on the train, had 2 30 minute phone conversations, around 20 texts, a dozen gtalk messages, and played blackjack for about 20 mins. i'm also using pershoots OCUV kernal, and after 11hrs without being plugged in I am at 75% battery. I'm happy with that.
I think it is a work in progress, as each new build comes out it's better. His testing builds are just that - testing. None of his release builds I have ever had an issue with either, although maybe my phone ue is a lot less than others I dunno. All i can say is i've never been tempted with another rom since early days on my magic phone Cyanogen rocks!
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That's awesome. Are you turning the LCD light all the way down?
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That's awesome. Are you turning the LCD light all the way down?
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A week? My Nexus couldn't get more than two days or so brand new... Also, what LCD?
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That's awesome. Are you turning the LCD light all the way down?
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Nope, I have it on auto-detect, so quite bright when on the train and outdoors. I have setCPU (market, paid) running and set battery profiles - although I haven't hit them yet. I have it set to max 1.1ghz 100% to 50%, 998mhz from 50% to 40%, 776mhz from 40% to 30%, and under 30% to 500 and something.
I do use an app called autostarts (market, paid) and have set everything but system services/apps to not run on any kind of state change or startup. I use Advanced Task Killer to kill apps as soon as I finish with them.
But i've had all these for ages, I just think a big improvement on the last release test 3
Nandroid your existing and try out test3.
I've been experiencing the same symptoms with my battery usage generally dominated by the display. I'm using a UV kernel currently (intersectravens) so we will see if the same happens.
KingKlicks's DESIRE rom doesnt have the same problem it seems and the battery usage is much better.
Wondering if there is a underlying issue.
after .6 test 3 the battery has improved decently, still the display is hogging battery life more so than in the sense rom
Same thing here... Display totally kills the battery with CM5.0.5.3 and OC/UV kernel. Phone rarely lasts over a day with moderate to low usage...
Without usage I can barely get a days use :s
I get the impression that its not the display. I can have 50% display usage, sleep my phone while playing a MP3 and then have more than 50% usage... suggesting that its either he display+something in one category , or there is a bug.
The stock ROM always showed display at the highest usage also. I'm not saying that there isn't an issue, but remember that those numbers are all relative.
I'll say this: I charge nightly to prevent my battery "deep cycling"....That being said I un-plug at 8am and plug-in at about 11p-12a, I use my phone a TON.....usually when I plug in I have about 45-55%.....Not bad at all.....
I originally thought display being the main battery hog was a bad thing.....Then I thought about it a bit......
Would you rather the "system" use more batt? Cell Stand by?
Display (by all rights) should use most battery. More usage=Less time with a fully charged battery.....
Im using CM 5.0.5.3 and I switched Roms after using the stock for 3 months. As soon as I moved to CM I immediatly noticed the battery life was lower than before. I hope you find an issue to this problem ASAP.......I love your ROMs CM, but I love my battery life even more
Good luck with this !!
"display" = gpu acceleration and actual amoled power
Something else i just noticed, very odd. I had 41% display and 23% spotify.... i had been playing for music for a while (offline only). When i quit the spotify app... the entry from the battery usage vanished and display took a spike to 65% ish... really odd. Almost display is showing usage for a group of things.
What? How ? I get 6 hours maybe 7 if I'm lucky out of my battery.... even b4 my nexus was rooted ... how r u guys gettin 24
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What? How ? I get 6 hours maybe 7 if I'm lucky out of my battery.... even b4 my nexus was rooted ... how r u guys gettin 24
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Ignore any figures people quote - battery life is always relative. One persons 'usual' usage is different than yours. A friend of mine brings his N1 to works and it sits on his desk syncing email - he gets 1 full day.
I bring mine, sync 2 accounts, play a lot of podcasts, have a RSS syncer going and use twitter and FB loads, i get a LOT less.
Dont worry to much, your usage figures are pretty normal depending on your usage patterns.
They say your mileage may vary for a reason
Battery Life
My Battery life has always sucked. Maybe I should buy a new Battery?
If I take my phone off the charger at 7:30, and don't plug it in all day, then I will be at about 30% or less by the time I get home at around 5:30. Unless I don't use it. But I use my phone to play stream music pretty much all day. Or at least 4 hours. One day I forgot my USB cable and I was below 20% by 3:00.
It is still better than iSuck, I mean iPhone, and worse than a BlackBerry. I have electricity everywhere though, a car charger, and an extra battery is like 25$?
So what is the big deal? You have the equivalent of a desktop computer from like 2002 in your pocked running off of a batter the size of a credit card, how long do you really want the thing to last anyway?
SetVSel vs. juice defender ?
What you recommend?
I've only used setVsel and i find it very easy and functional.
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SetVSel vs. juice defender ?
What you recommend?
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with setVSel I was able to extend the battery time to almost 60 hours !
with juice defender I got less battery time than without it (around 48 hours without and not more than 46 hours with juice defender)
So my choice is clear !
offermanager said:
with setVSel I was able to extend the battery time to almost 60 hours !
with juice defender I got less battery time than without it (around 48 hours without and not more than 46 hours with juice defender)
So my choice is clear !
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What are your settings and what is your usage?
Setvsel installed i noticed little hangs between clock speed changes.
I've made stability tests but testing at 300mhz sometimes the clock speed icon goes to orange (full speed) during the test even at default voltage.
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What are your settings and what is your usage?
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default settings, only changed value [email protected] to 1000 MHz and run stability test for 30 Minutes -> without a problem and only 34°C
How can you people do 60hrs, with my moto defy, set vsel on 1. 18-300 2. 25-500 3. 40-800, i can do near 30hrs with single charge. I am online on GTalk all the time, and that is all, 10mins call, 30min browser and 1hr Gtalk chat.
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Setvsel installed i noticed little hangs between clock speed changes.
I've made stability tests but testing at 300mhz sometimes the clock speed icon goes to orange (full speed) during the test even at default voltage.
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Yes I notice the same and prefer performance mode to default on demand mode. Unfortunately performance mode is not remembered at the moment and has to be set every time after restart.
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How can you people do 60hrs, with my moto defy, set vsel on 1. 18-300 2. 25-500 3. 40-800, i can do near 30hrs with single charge. I am online on GTalk all the time, and that is all, 10mins call, 30min browser and 1hr Gtalk chat.
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There is a lot of factors, too many to list. But, I'd say the biggest is the rom. I have two defy's, the wife's is running stock tmous 2.2 and mine is running Pays v4 which is blurless. Both are overclocked using setvsel at 30/300, 54/700, 70/1200 with 86% threshold.
I just got 55 hours with heavy use (wifi, mp3, games, talking/text, gps, etc)...had 34% remaining 48 hours in last I checked, but a few hours later killed it off with the mp3 player while running (and using a gps running app) the last couple hours. The wife's phone gets a a little more use from ereading and she is averaging in between 32-36 hours, which is about the same that I was getting before Pays rom.
In short, the more apps and services running in the background even when not in use...the more consumption. But like I said, there are a lot more factors at play.
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In short, the more apps and services running in the background even when not in use...the more consumption. But like I said, there are a lot more factors at play.
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True. Having SetVsel + Uninstalling useless or unneeded system services give me 2 days of battery under normal use, and turning off the wirelesss is making now a big difference, 2 days and 4 hours runnning on the same charge at still 55%. (i have to remark i am having almost no use of the phone this 2 days)
I have juice defender and setvsel together they work great i have no problems and my battery doesnt drains fast
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Juicedefender is a really beutifull program. The problem is that it spends as many juice as it saves. Its pointless having it. I have 3 days of battery since i manually turn off-on wifi.
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Juicedefender is a really beutifull program. The problem is that it spends as many juice as it saves. Its pointless having it. I have 3 days of battery since i manually turn off-on wifi.
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I have no evidence, but I kinda think the same...running another app to kill another app might be like robbing Peter to pay Paul. Since my last post, I've decided to go more minimal, got rid of task killer and setvsel and only using milestone (milestone is probably not needed either but can't go completely naked just yet)
The phone is still zippy and I notice it doesn't overheat as much. As for battery consumption, I haven't given it enough time to compare. But given that I'm not overheating as much is a big plus.
i have 3-4 days of battery under light-moderate use. i ussually dont have a chance to deplete it completely because i move pictures between laptop phone, or use adb to do stuff , so it always get some charge from USB.
Omg reading older posts i noticed some people don't realize the advantage of setvsel over everything else including milestone overclock.
First it can work as an overclocker like milestone OC but more important as an undervolter.
Stock values are 33 - 300 Mhz 48 - 600 mhz and 58 - 800 mhz
I go with 18-300mhz 30-600mhz 40-800mhz less volts longer battery life.
And imagine feed the cpu with less volts and at the same time overclock it for faster speed. Yeah. some people do that,
18-300 40-800 55-1000. At max speed you feed same power and get extra 200mhz.
If you use a task killer once, ok, but if the task killer is automatic and kill for you at intervals it worsen performance because android likes to ressurrect apps, it kills 12 apps, and in 60 sec bang, android revive them, so you enter an endless cicle of kill - resurrect.
And juice defender its a heavy app. eats too much cicles.
Oh and Turning Wifi OFF, or "Always ON". increased 20% battery life.
i have 3-4 days of battery under light-moderate use. i ussually dont have a chance to deplete it completely because i move pictures between laptop phone, or use adb to do stuff , so it always get some charge from USB.
Omg reading older posts i noticed some people don't realize the advantage of setvsel over everything else including milestone overclock.
First it can work as an overclocker like milestone OC but more important as an undervolter. and speeds (like in mileston oc) are switched ondemand so nothing is wasted.
Stock values are 33 - 300 Mhz 48 - 600 mhz and 58 - 800 mhz
I go with 18-300mhz 30-600mhz 40-800mhz less volts longer battery life same speed.
And imagine feed the cpu with less volts and at the same time overclock it for faster speed. Yeah. some people do that,
18-300 40-800 55-1000. At max speed you feed same power and get extra 200mhz.
And about task killers, if its a one time use its ok, but if the task killer is automatic and kill automatically at time intervals it worsen performance because android likes to ressurrect apps, it kills 12 apps, and in 60 sec bang, android revive them, so you enter an endless cicle of kill - resurrect.
And juice defender its a heavy app. i see 5% total consumption in battery stats and i think that's a bit high for a program who claims to save battery.
Oh and Turning Wifi completely OFF and/or setting "wifi sleep policy never" . increased 15%-20% battery life. (wierd might seem but wifi sleep policy when screen is off is worse for battery)
Hi everyone, this is my first ever post on the forums so don't be too harsh on me lol anyways, my question is what is the best ROM + radio + kernel combination to get the longest battery life out of my stock thunderbolt battery? Currently I am running DasBAMF 2.0-5 the MR2.5 radio and the dream kernel. I haven't really noticed a huge improvement in my battery life since I flashed this rom a few days ago. I have seen people who claim to be getting 10-15 hrs on one charge. I don't think I need that much because I charge overnight every night, but it would be nice to know how people do that. also, what are your thoughts on juice defender? thanks!
I am currently using CM7 R1.2 w/ the MR2 radio and I get very good battery life. 10 hrs plus with minimal use on the regular battery.
I've been running Gingeritis 1.0 with JuiceDefender Ultimate and I've been getting anywhere from 16-20 hours on the standard battery with regular use (facebook, email, words with friends, browsing, etc.). What I find most helpful with this rom is the brightness slider in the dropdown quick settings. Unless you're outside on a bright day or it's absolutely necessary, keep the brightness as low as you can comfortably use. I've found this to be huggee in the ongoing battle to get better battery life.
And if you can tolerate life without 4G, use an LTE toggle app to keep your phone on 3G. This also helps a lot.
i like the Inj3ctTh3ory rom so far.
It looks to me that all MR2 radios use more battery. The best battery performance for me was on BAMF 1.7 and MR1 radio. I would use 2 to 3% battery on standby overnight, with the phone on 3G. I am on BAMF 1.8.6 now with the OTA radio and the overnight battery usage is up to 10%. I will keep testing, but I think stripped MR1 ROMs have the best battery performance.
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BAMF 3.0 RC4, imo 3.4.0, OTA MR2 Radio... constant 40-45 hours on the extended battery.
How I maximized my battery
In terms of my battery I just wanted decent battery life without using a tone of extra apps to do it. I'm using the CM7 RC 1.2 with the MR2 Radio getting about 20+ hours of battery with standard use. I am not using Juice defender or any battery saver apps. I am just using Tasker to turn on and off my Wi-Fi when I'm not at home, because I hate doing manually
One thing I did do to maximize my battery life is after I flashed my new ROM I did the following after searching multiple forums for battery optimization methods
1. Charged my Battery to 100%
2. Did a Bump Charge Cycle 4 times, and then turned on phone
3. This step is probably key. Downloaded the Battery Calibration App. You can find the app in the Android Market.
4. Plugged in the charger until the Battery Calibration App read 100% and 4200+ mV. I found that even after bump charging my BW battery widget would say 100% and the led would be green. However when I go into the Battery Calibration App it would say 99% and the mV would be about 4160. I just plugged it in and waited about 30 - 45 minutes and it would finally be fully charged at 100% ~4200 mV.
5. Press the Battery Calibration button in the App to clear the batterstats.bin and unplug the phone. Do not shutdown or reboot.
6. Let battery drain completely without plugging it in (USB and AC)
7. After it completely dies Charged battery straight until 100% with no interruptions.
I'm getting good battery life without having to use juice defender or anything, and that's also with streaming bluetooth music everyday driving to and from work for a total of 1 hour. I also keep the radio at 3G the entire day unless I really need high speed data. And unless I'm in the car, Bluetooth is turned off. I'm pretty sure these steps should work on any rooted phone regardless of ROM.
I tried many different rom and kernel across the forum... I dun see any differences in term of battery life, just go with the one you love.........weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
My bolt gets better life running Ziggy's kernels for some reason. Not sure why, but it does. I've tried every sense ROM out there. +1 on the post above. Go with what works best for you and the way you use your phone.
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I've found cm7 (cm7 kernel) to have the best battery life for me, getting up to 28 hours with light use and no 4g. I find the auto-brightness on cm7 to work much better than on any other ROM I've tried, and for some reason all other ROMs drained the battery around 50x faster while idling. I can leave my phone unplugged overnight and expect to lose maybe 2-3%.
There certainly is no universal solution though. That is the only certainty
Whatever rom/s you test with...make sure you try various kernel versions (lean kernels mostly) to find what works the best.
I've tried them all,
GINGERTH3ORY V5.0 DreamKernel is my favorite one. it's super fast and very responsive.
Battery life is best on this one .
I use speedtweak batt saver ondemandx.
I'm on Bamf 1.8.6 remix right now with the OTA MR2 radio and getting about 14 hours on 3g all day and 8.5 hours if on 4g all day. Still looking for something better.
I have had a lot of luck with Inj3ctTh3ory. I have only had it now for two days but I'm already impressed with how long the battery has lasted. I have not experimented with any Kernel/CPU combo's yet but it's performing so well now I might not mess with it.
ROM and kernel linked in my sig. I'm using the 1.4GHz extreme UV with interactivex speedtweak, I love it. Bulletproof stability and with mild/moderate use I can make it through a 9hr work day with 50% left on the stock battery. 4G left on, everything syncs every hour. I don't get 4G coverage at work, I don't know if that helps or hurts, but I do leave it on.
this is the only reason i hate CM7. it drains battery like hell. yes, im already using "conservative" cpu governor and have JuiceDefender installed.
when i was on the stock LG rom, battery life used to be about 3-3.5 days on normal usage. after flashing with CM7 (the latest stable version), i need to charge it every night. if i do a lot of net surfing, battery will last for only 15 hrs.
is there some other gingerbread rom with which i can get back the normal battery life?
ive never tried this rom but ive read that rjtchn's cm7 has good battery life. the last time i checked his rom isnt on xda but u can google his rom
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ive never tried this rom but ive read that rjtchn's cm7 has good battery life. the last time i checked his rom isnt on xda but u can google his rom
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thnx, ill try it and post updates.
btw looking at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1137142&page=4 , one says he got 25 hrs of battery.... are CM roms so battery hungry? i really used to get 3 days of battery using the stock LG rom....... but its froyo and i cant go back to froyo....
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thnx, ill try it and post updates.
btw looking at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1137142&page=4 , one says he got 25 hrs of battery.... are CM roms so battery hungry? i really used to get 3 days of battery using the stock LG rom....... but its froyo and i cant go back to froyo....
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First, you can go back to Froyo by flashing the stock ROM through KDZ. But all your data would be wiped out. Take backups.
And regarding battery backup, I think 25 hours of battery backup on moderate-heavy usage is fine. I'm not sure whether we can get 3 days on froyo with the same usage. I didnt use froyo much as I immediately rooted my phone and flashed CM7 based ROMs.
On Andy's ROM with Andy's kernel, I can get 25 to 30 hours with heavy usage, with 6 hours of sleeping period in between. So it is 20-24 hrs of almost constant heavy usage.
void. #forever
I'm using void. #forever with Franco's v18 BFS kernel.
I had 2 days & 20 hours with moderate calls, SMS & browsing. I think I could have reached 3 days until an exercise app surprisingly kept my phone awake & drained the remaining battery.
Using GB 2.3.3 - at the moment for testing purposes GingerCriccoROM 1.2 and latest Franco GB kernel. 3G data always on, sync on, (fb, twitter, gmail, email etc. autom. check every 30min.) Calls, sms, browsing, pretty heavy use and i got after first full charge and battery stats wipe 1d 14h - still 6% left. OC 480/729 smoothass. Still testing - at the moment i have 30% battery left after 1d and 7h.
i run void #forever and franco kernel
it usually last about 2 days on average (48+hr), i dont use the phone functions that much, mostly just browsing the news and sometimes GPS when i get lost out there, but i keep wifi/background/sync always on since i rely on gmail/gtalk/gvoice heavily
horrible battery life
flashed rjtchn's cm7 just now. And havent even restored backups yet. And as I surf on xda now on my wifi, battery is decreasing by 1% every 2 mins in front of my eyes.... it was 100% at 5.35pm and its 89 at 6.04pm now..... WTH is happening? Also to mention, I had bought my phone only a month ago with incredible battery till I started flashing Roms...
I'm using. Rover theme. Does that have. Anything to do with battery?
I had wiped battery Stat when my phone was in 100%, then I flashed the rom, rebooted, and then connected to USB mass storage for 20 mins to do transfers. ( it got charged again). Anything wrong in this process?
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flashed rjtchn's cm7 just now. And havent even restored backups yet. And as I surf on xda now on my wifi, battery is decreasing by 1% every 2 mins in front of my eyes.... it was 100% at 5.35pm and its 89 at 6.04pm now..... WTH is happening? Also to mention, I had bought my phone only a month ago with incredible battery till I started flashing Roms...
I'm using. Rover theme. Does that have. Anything to do with battery?
I had wiped battery Stat when my phone was in 100%, then I flashed the rom, rebooted, and then connected to USB mass storage for 20 mins to do transfers. ( it got charged again). Anything wrong in this process?
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go to settings>about phone>battery use
check to see what's eating up your battery. it might be an app that's causing it (especially Google maps)
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I am wrestling with battery life. Not being able to run 24hrs on one charge seems silly to me.
To use some round numbers, from best to worst given my standard usage patterns: {0}
48 hrs (2% per hr drain) -- stock LG 2.2 ROM rooted, crapware removed, SetCPU onDemand 122-600. Consistently runs 48hrs on a full charge.
24 hrs (4% per hr drain) -- stock ROM as it came out of the box.
18 hrs (5-6% per hr) -- CM7 RC1 unchanged. It seems closer to 5% per hour when I set onDemand in CM perf settings to 122-600 and tore out the launcher (using the delightful Zeam instead)
I can go to sleep with my OptT on the bedstand and wake up 8 hrs later and it's dropped from 100% to 60%.
I did do a brief test of Void forever and like the cleanliness of it. But development appears to be ended so no hope of BT working well or battery optimization. If I had an extra T500/509 I'd send it to the dev so he could continue testing. I did run it for a few hours but after I tested BT I didn't have the heart to go install all my crap on it for extensive testing. {EDIT: going to try it out today and see if I can hit 48hrs with it}
I am a big CM fanboi so I would love to hang in there with Mik until BT and battery are better. I mentioned battery drain in a (pre-CM7RC1) thread once and it was not well received, so I haven't mentioned it again until this thread.
If BT and battery don't eventually get improved (and I assume they will) I'll stick with the stock, rooted ROM.
frater mus
{0} no phone calls, few if any texts, lots of wifi, bluetooth, and mp3/ogg playback.
sweetnsour said:
go to settings>about phone>battery use
check to see what's eating up your battery. it might be an app that's causing it (especially Google maps)
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i checked. the only "app" having max. usage is android system . and it is a fresh flash. i had formatted the sd card also. and i dont use mobile data or gps, i use only wifi. and im not on a 3g network (because my operator hasnt even launched 3g ).
now the time here is 9:22pm and batt. is 63%. the only thing i did was surfing and mail checking on wifi.
fratermus said:
I am wrestling with battery life. Not being able to run 24hrs on one charge seems silly to me.
To use some round numbers, from best to worst given my standard usage patterns: {0}
48 hrs (2% per hr drain) -- stock LG 2.2 ROM rooted, crapware removed, SetCPU onDemand 122-600. Consistently runs 48hrs on a full charge.
24 hrs (4% per hr drain) -- stock ROM as it came out of the box.
18 hrs (5-6% per hr) -- CM7 RC1 unchanged. It seems closer to 5% per hour when I set onDemand in CM perf settings to 122-600 and tore out the launcher (using the delightful Zeam instead)
I can go to sleep with my OptT on the bedstand and wake up 8 hrs later and it's dropped from 100% to 60%.
I did do a brief test of Void forever and like the cleanliness of it. But development appears to be ended so no hope of BT working well or battery optimization. If I had an extra T500/509 I'd send it to the dev so he could continue testing. I did run it for a few hours but after I tested BT I didn't have the heart to go install all my crap on it for extensive testing. {EDIT: going to try it out today and see if I can hit 48hrs with it}
I am a big CM fanboi so I would love to hang in there with Mik until BT and battery are better. I mentioned battery drain in a (pre-CM7RC1) thread once and it was not well received, so I haven't mentioned it again until this thread.
If BT and battery don't eventually get improved (and I assume they will) I'll stick with the stock, rooted ROM.
frater mus
{0} no phone calls, few if any texts, lots of wifi, bluetooth, and mp3/ogg playback.
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i second u.... rooted stock rom is the best rom, only if there was a way to get CM settings menu in it
i played angry birds rio for 30-40 mins and its 11:40pm here with 34% batt. ugh. will try void rom
I'm on gingerlol with paolos kernel. I use my phone for a few messages a day and about 1 call per day. Playing around with the phone depends, somedays more somedays less. Battery lasts 2 to 3 days. Can't remember having more juice on stock froyo.
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I'm on gingerlol with paolos kernel. I use my phone for a few messages a day and about 1 call per day. Playing around with the phone depends, somedays more somedays less. Battery lasts 2 to 3 days. Can't remember having more juice on stock froyo.
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Same here! Just remember to change the governer to sth like on-demand or conservative!
Well... reading you guys talking about 2-3 days of battery life makes me think that I'm either doing something wrong, or my battery is a bit damaged, 'cause the only way I could think my Optimus One would last for 2-3 days would be with no use at all.
I got this phone from a friend who had owned for only 2 months and the phone was already rooted and with a custom ROM already installed (Light 2.2.2 which is fairly close to stock). With that ROM the battery would last for a day max.
Shortly after I started installing other custom ROMs and testing them:
- Devoid Froyo Final: The most responsive ROM I've tried, but I had horrible battery life with it, with only around 18 hours of bat with moderate use and 3G on.
- OpenOptimus: Seems a bit laggy to me, and battery life was not even better than Devoid's
- LOL 1.4.2: I finally settled with this one. The ROM is pretty responsive (although not as snappy as Devoid) and at least with this one I can have a full day of battery life (sometimes a bit more).
I must say that I always keep an eye on apps running in the background and stop those I know I don't need always running. I also use Titanium Backup to "Freeze" apps that I know I won't use on a daily basis (like Google Maps and Navitel GPS).
The other thing I'd like to mention is that I keep GPS off (unless I specifically need it), but I always have data ON, either via Wifi when I'm at home, or 3G when I'm out of home. My Wifi Sleep Setting is set to "Never".
The only two apps that I know are working regularly on my phone are:
K9 Mail: Receiving mails for 5 Gmail accounts (all configured as PUSH so that shouldn't drain much battery)
Whatsapp: Receiving messages from friends and family, but that app is also PUSH so battery drain should be minimal also.
Overnight drain with Wifi On is about 5%
What do you guys think?
BTW... probably during this week I'll flash one of the 2.3.3 based ROMS (GingerLOL). I hope that being a "LOL" Rom it would be as stable as my current one.
Not a long test, but I did put all my apps back onto void #forever for an apples to apples test.
Set it on my nightstand and we both slept for 6 hrs. 100% down to 66% in 6hrs, for a drain rate of 5.7% per hour. Gack.
I suspect the real killer is the broken CM7 bluetooth stack in our devices at the moment, but since I use my phone gets used as a wireless mp3 player most of the time I really need it. When CM7 for OptT gets a fix for BT I think It will be nearly perfect for my needs.
fratermus said:
I am wrestling with battery life. Not being able to run 24hrs on one charge seems silly to me.
To use some round numbers, from best to worst given my standard usage patterns: {0}
48 hrs (2% per hr drain) -- stock LG 2.2 ROM rooted, crapware removed, SetCPU onDemand 122-600. Consistently runs 48hrs on a full charge.
24 hrs (4% per hr drain) -- stock ROM as it came out of the box.
18 hrs (5-6% per hr) -- CM7 RC1 unchanged. It seems closer to 5% per hour when I set onDemand in CM perf settings to 122-600 and tore out the launcher (using the delightful Zeam instead)
I can go to sleep with my OptT on the bedstand and wake up 8 hrs later and it's dropped from 100% to 60%.
I did do a brief test of Void forever and like the cleanliness of it. But development appears to be ended so no hope of BT working well or battery optimization. If I had an extra T500/509 I'd send it to the dev so he could continue testing. I did run it for a few hours but after I tested BT I didn't have the heart to go install all my crap on it for extensive testing. {EDIT: going to try it out today and see if I can hit 48hrs with it}
I am a big CM fanboi so I would love to hang in there with Mik until BT and battery are better. I mentioned battery drain in a (pre-CM7RC1) thread once and it was not well received, so I haven't mentioned it again until this thread.
If BT and battery don't eventually get improved (and I assume they will) I'll stick with the stock, rooted ROM.
frater mus
{0} no phone calls, few if any texts, lots of wifi, bluetooth, and mp3/ogg playback.
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my battery life isnt that good either. but then again more performance=less battery life
Void #forever is truly the best rom I have ever tried.... The best thing on it is that its "void" and u can choose which stock aps to install. Thnx a lot guys for recommending me this rom.
Rjtchn's rom had better performance. Quadrant score was 1005 without overclocking(i don't remember the exact). Void's score is 840. But it has incredible battery.
Its the first rom I have ever seen with cell standby having the max bat. usage on 2g network. (all others had android system). That means just by putting on flight mode, things would go even better
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It's a balance issue, I guess.
I was researching another issue and so set my phone (as described below) down for 20hrs 23mins and it is now at 84% battery. 23.3hrs / 16% battery usage = ~0.75% per hour.
Compare that with 5-6% an hour I was getting with CM7 on the bedstand. I suggest that CM7RC1 is , despite it's general wonderfulness, not providing 6x the performance for 6x the battery drain.
I am a CM faboi and have done the "buy Cyanogen a beer" thing on his site. I eagerly await CM7 going gold for our devices, and I hope the battery/performance balance is on parity.
Hi all, I'm new to this part of the xda forums as I had a nexus before, just got the upgrade to the Atrix, rooting,unlocking of bootloader everything went well but I just flashed Aura's from with feux kernel and im getting really really bad battery life, like I'm talking 4-5 hours. There is one process thats really confusing me, its just called "x" and its sitting there taking about 35% battery, my screen is taking 55% battery.
It's getting really annoying as my nexus used to give me about 12 hours and the only reason I moved to the atrix was to get the better battery life that I saw with all my atrix touting friends (they all had 1-2 days battery life) I'm about to flash homebase and see if that fixes it but I don't know whats going on. I have a UK MB860 and I used http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1196747&highlight=t-mobile+root to root. Pleaseee can someone help!
X is the webtop and there is a fix somewhere for that (doesn't completely work). Just flash CM7 beta. Its much better than any other ROM and has the best battery life. Everything except the finger print scanner and webtop work.
Also I had really good battery on the Ying Yang ROM.
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I think I might give CM7 a go you know, I loved CM on the nexus, even after it killed the memory chips it was still good! Im going to try it, is it really stable?
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since updating to CM7 and Wiping my battery stats I have some how gained 39% battery!
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I think I might give CM7 a go you know, I loved CM on the nexus, even after it killed the memory chips it was still good! Im going to try it, is it really stable?
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since updating to CM7 and Wiping my battery stats I have some how gained 39% battery!
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I haven't had any issues with it. And the gain is very odd.
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Try alien, i had some battery issues with some other roms and kernels and tried alien and all is good.This phone comes with an 1930Mah battery one of the largest i've ever seen and it lasts me 12 hrs on heavy use.
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I've had great battery life on the atrix, now I'm getting a good look at the atrix on the 4800mah battery. I'm a heavy user and I could not get over 24 hours. And now I have 59 hours and I have yet to actually see how far I can take it. Cm7 beta. Juicey....
I find that all gingerbread roms have horrible battery life compared to froyo on the atrix. Cm7 battery is worse but the phone is smoother. Faux 1.3ghz kernel has even worse battery.
Regardless of the radio or magical method of resetting the battery state you use.
1:25 screen time and at 47% battery. Been off the charger for 6:15. It will make it through my 10hr shift with about 20% remaining if I'm lucky, usually I just toss it on the charger.
Background data is off, email and social apps are manual sync and wifi is off.
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one weird thing I am seeing is the display which is at 0% brightness is using 91% battery
Also the better battery stats app says my actual battery is 91% but the phone is reporting 66% I wiped thenbattery stats but nothing!
please help!
If you haven't taken a look at it, give this a shot:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1198333
Starting to mess around with your phone opens up a world of things that can go wrong. Learn to calm down, search the forums, and try a variety of fixes before giving up on something.
...and use nandroid.
ian426 said:
If you haven't taken a look at it, give this a shot:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1198333
Starting to mess around with your phone opens up a world of things that can go wrong. Learn to calm down, search the forums, and try a variety of fixes before giving up on something.
...and use nandroid.
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I was just about to post that lol. Also make sure every time you flash a new rom you are at 100% if not that is a sure fire way to cheat yourself out of battery life. I don't know if I'm just one of "the lucky ones" but I easily get over 16+ hours with moderate usage. I'm running CM7 beta with quite a few things frozen.
Ok so I followed the guide to perfection and it didn't improve the battery life one bit! I'm trying hard to find a t-mobile radio I can flash as I have read around it could be my radio that is the culprit and I am also getting rubbish HSDPA readings, I should be getting full bars but since switching to homebase Im only getting one bar.
Using watchdog I have noticed that the Xorg process is using over 50% cpu which does not seem right to be and I believe that because its a linux process Watchdog can't kill it. Is there anyway of fixing this?
1) Uninstall Tango, Facebook and Handcent SMS if any of the three are installed. They are huge battery drainers and you can find less battery hogging substitutes
2) Freeze any unnecessary apps, I believe there is a thread somewhere in the General section that has a pretty decent freeze list (if you flash CM7, you will have very little to freeze but that's good!)
3) Keep brightness down to a minimum when you can, I've noticed kicking the brightness up rather high can be pretty demanding on your battery
4) Set SetCPU Profiles to something like this...
Screen Off 216/216
Charging 1100/216
In Call 456/216
Battery <20% 456/216
Battery <10% 216/216
5) If you have the proper kernel set the CPU govner to power saver.
6) Undervolt, test yours and never apply set on boot unless you are positive it's stable, mine are something like this...
1100 MHz -50mV
1000 MHz -50mV
912 MHz -50mV
750 MHz -50mV
608 MHz -100mV
456 MHz -150mV
216 MHz -200mV
This way when you're phone is idling with the screen off, in a call or low on battery it is undervolting heavily to save maximum amounts of battery
With this setup I can get 30+ hours pretty regularly with moderate-to-heavy usage (weekdays/non-work days), 22-25 hours with more heavy usage (work days) and close to 48 hours with little usage (weekends).
It all depends on your usage and your phone but I have found this setup here to work fairly well.
I am currently on CM7 Beta, stock CM7 radio and stock CM7 kernel, running at 1100/216 when above profile conditions aren't met. 32% been running since 9 am this morning, it is now 3:15 am, today was a long workday.
I can almost guarantee (almost) that its your rom/kernel combination. Had same problem til I changed.
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fastboot erase osh
That will nuke your webtop & fix your problem.
I'm now using faux kernel for CM7 and that hasn't improved anything, in fact I think it it has made it worse. It's getting really irretating because using the watch dog app it always says there is one linux process on every rom I use that is clocking at over 50% cpu usage and It won't let me kill it (probably because it's a linux process), its really annoying me because all I want is my phone to work properly but to enjoy the full rooting experience. I know countless amounts of people with atrix's and they get a full day and a bit out of their phone with heavy usage i can't even manage 10 hours!
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I'm now using faux kernel for CM7 and that hasn't improved anything, in fact I think it it has made it worse. It's getting really irretating because using the watch dog app it always says there is one linux process on every rom I use that is clocking at over 50% cpu usage and It won't let me kill it (probably because it's a linux process), its really annoying me because all I want is my phone to work properly but to enjoy the full rooting experience. I know countless amounts of people with atrix's and they get a full day and a bit out of their phone with heavy usage i can't even manage 10 hours!
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Watchdog eats battery like a mthrfckr, get away from that. Install BetterBatterStats instead & look for wakelocks. Which linux process are you noticing with that high cpu usage?
How many hours of screen time do you get in those 10 hrs?
Have you tried with a fastboot wipe & internal storage format prior to installing a new rom? Are you using the latest recommended radio for your phone?
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Turn background syncing off if you are using that, and get in the habit of doing manual updates.
Too many times (with ANY Android device) people leave background syncing on and it tries sending/receiving data in a weak signal spot when you don't realize it. That's like a hot knife through butter on a battery.
Leave syncing off permanently if possible! That's a huge improvement right there for anyone...
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Turn background syncing off if you are using that, and get in the habit of doing manual updates.
Too many times (with ANY Android device) people leave background syncing on and it tries sending/receiving data in a weak signal spot when you don't realize it. That's like a hot knife through butter on a battery.
Leave syncing off permanently if possible! That's a huge improvement right there for anyone...
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That's a bit radical, no?
I'd say use Green Power so the phone can update every half hour or hour. It's a smartphone at the end of the day..