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I'm running Gingervitis, just flashed it a couple days ago. So far I really like it but I'm noticeing some battery issues. Not sure if it's due to the ROM itself, gingerbread, or my phone.
First, it seems like the battery drain is a lot quicker that when I was running Froyo. Doesn't bother me as much I guess.
Last night I plugged my phone in at about 2:00 AM. It was at about 20%. It is now 9:30 and it is at 8:00 is was at 85% and now at 9:40 it's at 96%. Over 7 hours and not fully charged???
That seems crazy to me. The phone sat idle all night so I don't think there was any load eating up any additional power.
What is causing this?
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I'm running Gingervitis, just flashed it a couple days ago. So far I really like it but I'm noticeing some battery issues. Not sure if it's due to the ROM itself, gingerbread, or my phone.
First, it seems like the battery drain is a lot quicker that when I was running Froyo. Doesn't bother me as much I guess.
Last night I plugged my phone in at about 2:00 AM. It was at about 20%. It is now 9:30 and it is at 8:00 is was at 85% and now at 9:40 it's at 96%. Over 7 hours and not fully charged???
That seems crazy to me. The phone sat idle all night so I don't think there was any load eating up any additional power.
What is causing this?
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Known issue, unknown fix afaik.
Try flashing imos latest kernal--did not do well with my phone but the charging seemed to be a lot faster IMHO.
schmaltzy said:
I'm running Gingervitis, just flashed it a couple days ago. So far I really like it but I'm noticeing some battery issues. Not sure if it's due to the ROM itself, gingerbread, or my phone.
First, it seems like the battery drain is a lot quicker that when I was running Froyo. Doesn't bother me as much I guess.
Last night I plugged my phone in at about 2:00 AM. It was at about 20%. It is now 9:30 and it is at 8:00 is was at 85% and now at 9:40 it's at 96%. Over 7 hours and not fully charged???
That seems crazy to me. The phone sat idle all night so I don't think there was any load eating up any additional power.
What is causing this?
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Read my new post. Thanks n good luck! (Check your kernel)
4Geezy ON DopeDiculous's ROOTED TBeezy!
Charging speed seems fine until it gets into the upper 90s. I've been waiting for 20 mins for it to go from 98-99 to 100 so I can finally do my battery calibration.
(Imo's latest and DasBamf GingerRemix)
Gotta love the Thunderbolt's ability to destroy a fully charged battery and take forever to recharge. I was using rooted stock and now I'm on Cyanogenmod and I haven't seen too much of a change in charge/discharge behavior.
I know this may not be the answer you are looking for but if you could go without your phone being on for an hour or so than just power it off to charge, it goes a lot quicker n.n
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Charging
To address the OP and your comment......
Yes try a different kernel, Dream's new one is based off IMO's with some nice tweaks. As for charging to 90%.... thats standard for any device that utilizes quick charging. You can NOT charge a battery on fast charge all the way to 100% with out ruining the battery. Some kernels have issues with quick charging, so they disable it, others quick charge to 60% and then trickle charge.
Apple and HP were one of the first companies to throw in the quick charge method 80/20 80% quick charge @ ~1% per 1min and then trickle for the last 20%.
Hope that helps....
jschecter said:
Charging speed seems fine until it gets into the upper 90s. I've been waiting for 20 mins for it to go from 98-99 to 100 so I can finally do my battery calibration.
(Imo's latest and DasBamf GingerRemix)
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ready5 said:
To address the OP and your comment......
Yes try a different kernel, Dream's new one is based off IMO's with some nice tweaks. As for charging to 90%.... thats standard for any device that utilizes quick charging. You can NOT charge a battery on fast charge all the way to 100% with out ruining the battery. Some kernels have issues with quick charging, so they disable it, others quick charge to 60% and then trickle charge.
Apple and HP were one of the first companies to throw in the quick charge method 80/20 80% quick charge @ ~1% per 1min and then trickle for the last 20%.
Hope that helps....
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Thanks for the suggestion. I think I'll give it a try.
Might as well ask another question right away.... I have not been having good luck with the battery life on these new GB ROMS. I've been running Das BAMF 2.0.5 for a couple days now and it seems to not be so great on the battery. With pretty much NO usage today, my battery is already at %80.
My battery usage shows it off the charger for a little over 5 hours, and normally I'd say 5 hours and %80 isn't bad, but like I stated above, I haven't used it at all today. No texts, phone calls, or games.
Any battery improvement with Dream's kernal?
I don't know about the battery life but after you plug your phone in to charge just reboot it and it should charge fine. I read that somewhere on here and just did it this morning. Worked great for me.
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schmaltzy said:
Thanks for the suggestion. I think I'll give it a try.
Might as well ask another question right away.... I have not been having good luck with the battery life on these new GB ROMS. I've been running Das BAMF 2.0.5 for a couple days now and it seems to not be so great on the battery. With pretty much NO usage today, my battery is already at %80.
My battery usage shows it off the charger for a little over 5 hours, and normally I'd say 5 hours and %80 isn't bad, but like I stated above, I haven't used it at all today. No texts, phone calls, or games.
Any battery improvement with Dream's kernal?
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I dont like recommending one ROM over another.. but there is alot of buzz over Th3oryofGinger, its got some.. but not alot to do with the ROM. Try that if you like none other. The kernel is key. Try dreams with Th3oryofGinger and see how that works. Remember to run speedtweak.sh in terminal and use the extreme setting (extremely undervolted, overclocked to 1400mhz) and then select the setting to remove limits for governor. I use interactiveX with setCPu and get decent results.
No ROM, MOD or Kernel will give you enough battery allday with normal intended use be it gaming or business. Fact is it was a crappy hardware design in that respect. With the Tbolt you should expect 1hour per 10% of battery for decent use... 10 text messages, 4 emails, and a few pages of internet searches on 3g per hour is what I consider decent use. Realistically it should last an 8 hour work day... with some to spare before you charge on the ride home. Dont expect much more.
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I dont like recommending one ROM over another.. but there is alot of buzz over Th3oryofGinger, its got some.. but not alot to do with the ROM. Try that if you like none other. The kernel is key. Try dreams with Th3oryofGinger and see how that works. Remember to run speedtweak.sh in terminal and use the extreme setting (extremely undervolted, overclocked to 1400mhz) and then select the setting to remove limits for governor. I use interactiveX with setCPu and get decent results.
No ROM, MOD or Kernel will give you enough battery allday with normal intended use be it gaming or business. Fact is it was a crappy hardware design in that respect. With the Tbolt you should expect 1hour per 10% of battery for decent use... 10 text messages, 4 emails, and a few pages of internet searches on 3g per hour is what I consider decent use. Realistically it should last an 8 hour work day... with some to spare before you charge on the ride home. Dont expect much more.
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Thanks for the suggestion! I may give Th3ory a try. I download the newest Dream kernel but before I flashed it I jumped on Imoseyon's page and found out that I was running an OLDER version on his kernel with Das BAMF. So I flashed his newest (3.0.1 test 1) and am going to try that out for a couple days and see how it is.
I do disagree with you on the fact that a phone should last a little more than an 8 hour work day. On some Froyo ROMs and kernels I was getting a least 15+ hours with minimal/medium usage.
Mine charges very slow, running liquid ginger 1.1 battery goes down faster too.
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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
sweetnsour said:
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....
arnab321 said:
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?
arnab321 said:
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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metacircle said:
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.
I have (finally) just made the jump to CM7 and have been absolutely loving it (MAJOR props to the Devs for it).
Anyways, one thing I have noticed is that the battery drain when the screen is on 'feels' like it is faster than it used to be on deblurred roms.
I am running Faux's 1.3 ghz overclock kernel (.2.1) and have it moderately undervolted (as I am still getting a feel for undervolting in CM7).
On my previous rom, Alen v4, I was running the same version of Faux's kernel (obviously not the cm-specific one), and was undervolting as well (though to a lesser degree, as it seems that CM7 is better for undervolting). I never timed the drain on this rom, but I could have sworn that I got an hour of screen time for every 10-12% of the battery.
Anyways, the battery seems to be draining at about 1% for every 3-4 minutes (average time over a 10% period was 3 minutes, 40 seconds per percent) of screen-on time when I am only using it lightly (I was reading the news and browsing Facebook a bit during this time).
My drain when idle seems very reasonable.
Does this seem abnormal, or am I just being overly paranoid about battery life?
In practice, I think this is still going to be fine, as I never have the screen on for more than two or three hours in any given day...I am just curious as to how the drain I am experiencing relates to anyone else's.
Thanks!
(and yes, my battery is fairly well calibrated. Was 'fully charged' this morning at 99% at 4169 mv...not perfect, but still solid).
Edit: And yes, I know I am breaking xploited's fifth rule of battery life...
The only thing I can think of is that you are overclocked all the time.. or have something running in the back ground all the time.
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Just curious what everyone's overnight battery drain was using CM7. The lowest mine will go is 10% over about 8-10 hours of non use, only one gmail account syncing, nothing else. This is using every variation of CM7 (stable, nightlies, and weekly's)
Using the new 2.3.5 fruitcake I am get a consistent overnight drain of only 3%.
I have tried everything possible to match that, but I'm beginning to think it's not possible.
i only have facebook but log out when i go to bed yet my phone still drains at least 10 percent every hour haha
I'm loosing also between 8 and 10% of battery overnight. I tried to optimize it in anyway including reducing brightness, deactivate services etc but still the same result. This is something which I hate with CM7 previously I used SGS and I had the same problem there. I don't know if it is a general CM problem or just these two phones.
Strange
matematic said:
I'm loosing also between 8 and 10% of battery overnight. I tried to optimize it in anyway including reducing brightness, deactivate services etc but still the same result. This is something which I hate with CM7 previously I used SGS and I had the same problem there. I don't know if it is a general CM problem or just these two phones.
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That's really weird. Ever since I've started using different versions of CM7 I've averaged 2-3% drain overnight. This was both on the stock kernel and faux's enhanced stock. Only thing I would do before bed is turn airplane mode on.
Lately, it's been 3-4% drain overnight but that's probably because I've been installing a lot of apps (Can't pass up those $0.10 deals). Even after switching to Clemsyn's 1.0GHz kernel I'm getting the same amount of drain. Have you guys tried flashing a new radio or setting up SetCPU profiles?
Attached pic is with a little over 2 hours screen time.
ghost_og said:
That's really weird. Ever since I've started using different versions of CM7 I've averaged 2-3% drain overnight. This was both on the stock kernel and faux's enhanced stock. Only thing I would do before bed is turn airplane mode on.
Lately, it's been 3-4% drain overnight but that's probably because I've been installing a lot of apps (Can't pass up those $0.10 deals). Even after switching to Clemsyn's 1.0GHz kernel I'm getting the same amount of drain. Have you guys tried flashing a new radio or setting up SetCPU profiles?
Attached pic is with a little over 2 hours screen time.
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I imagine the op is not refering to stand-by in flight mode. Personally, if the phone is in flight mode sat at my side while I sleep then I might as well switch it off.
My battery drain is probably around 15% over 10 hours on Ba2tF, Faux enhanced stock. That is with 3G on and background data, including syncing gmail/contacts etc. It is certainly higher drain than I would like and was getting on stock Froyo.
However, I think ~2 days standby is not ridiculous - 1% per hour will get you over 4 days which I think sounds reasonable. We all fall foul of spending hours of our time trying to squeeze a bit more life out of our phones but most people reviewing them these days are quite understanding: "the battery life was OK - it got us through a day's use"...
Yes I agree but we have a great large battery and still can't get better life. Is it the CPU draining the battery so much? When I'm on 3G and using the phone actively during the day the battery last for no more than 10 hours. There should be a reason why the CM7 is draining the battery faster and this is what wir are trying to realize. If it was 10-15% more than ok but it is almost 50% more than a Stock ROM
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I imagine the op is not refering to stand-by in flight mode. Personally, if the phone is in flight mode sat at my side while I sleep then I might as well switch it off.
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I'd agree except I use my phone as my alarm clock , but point taken. Without airplane mode it would be 5% tops.
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My battery drain is probably around 15% over 10 hours on Ba2tF, Faux enhanced stock. That is with 3G on and background data, including syncing gmail/contacts etc.
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I'm in the same ballpark on Weekly#2 and both custom kernels. I usually get 1.5-2 days with moderate use, wifi, syncing, etc.
GuyIncognito721 said:
Using the new 2.3.5 fruitcake I am get a consistent overnight drain of only 3%.
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It seems that new build of GB gets pretty awesome battery life compared to most older builds or custom roms. I believe Nottach pointed this out when he initially started playing around with it for Darkside. If you haven't tried re-flashing your radio, I would definitely give that a shot. (should be in the OP of the CM7 thread)
I don't think that flashing new Radio will solve the problem. CM7 doesn't come with Radio anyway. Initially I though that the problem is in RIL but after suspending all the data transfer for a night without any change I'm not so convinced that this is the problem. Unfortunately the CM7 mail client is also not perfect and after removing it I'm getting slightly better battery life.
Just for the information.
I loose 3-4% per night (7-8h) in airplane mode.
Weekly 3, Clemsys 1.4 Elite version with a more aggressive memory timings, set at 1GHz and UV with SetCPU .
Good for me.
3-4% in Airplain mode is not an option. We are trying to figure out where is the leakage. I'm pretty sure that it is a common for all CM7 branches.
I lose 1 percent overnight with everything off. No wifi or data is on and nothing syncing in the background. I have never had a phone with such amazing battery life. Not even the old Nokia 3310 or Sony Ericsson K800i compare to this. I am pleasantly surprised.
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What radio are you using Jibraldor?
Jibraldor said:
I lose 1 percent overnight with everything off. No wifi or data is on and nothing syncing in the background. I have never had a phone with such amazing battery life. Not even the old Nokia 3310 or Sony Ericsson K800i compare to this. I am pleasantly surprised.
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Yeee right and mine is getting 100000 years on standby with Nuclear Battery from StarTrec
My wife's galaxy loose only about 3 or 4% after 9 hours sleeping at night with 3g, data, sync and facebook on. The romantic is Insanity which is based on cm7.
I'm not devs so I can not figure out what's different to my atrix which always lose 10% over 8hour at night with same setting.
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I am losing like ~30% battery overnight (7-8 hrs) with CM7, faux's kernel v022. I have WiFi on, data on with syncing.
Losing 4-5% overnight, no airplane mode.
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Losing 4-5% overnight, no airplane mode.
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+1. This is where I'm at after leaving wi-fi and sync on the last couple of nights.
I've been using the latest gingerbread builds and I'm having great battery life, But I notice when I use AOKP or any kind of ICS rom my battery life isnt so great..
Is there a specific kernel you people are using? and What kernel settings are working the best for you?
Thanks!
xamadeix said:
I've been using the latest gingerbread builds and I'm having great battery life, But I notice when I use AOKP or any kind of ICS rom my battery life isnt so great..
Is there a specific kernel you people are using? and What kernel settings are working the best for you?
Thanks!
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This turned into a vs thread which is no bueno
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xamadeix said:
I've been using the latest gingerbread builds and I'm having great battery life, But I notice when I use AOKP or any kind of ICS rom my battery life isnt so great..
Is there a specific kernel you people are using? and What kernel settings are working the best for you?
Thanks!
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Good news that you are not alone. Based on my premature calculation, only 10 out of 100 (that's 10% ) ICS ROM users have good - great battery life, meaning the rest is having worse. Mine is falling into that group. I never have great battery, only so-so and below average.
Also as Nick has mentioned, asking for which best is a NO NO here.
One might be good for me, doesn't mean it will be good for you and vice versa.
Try them all and pick one that best suite for you.
My 2 cents......I know you have read this several times - but battery life is really dependent on a lot of factors - your AT&T signal, rogue apps, data sync frequency, CPU governor etc. etc.
read Entropy's excelled thread on battery drain on this forum.
i tried out a few GB roms over the last few weeks and really did not notice any battery improvement over ICS.
Currently running cMIUI with xxkernel and it is really working out great as in the battery easily lasts for the whole day.
I remember when I was on stock GB I could go upto 2 days on single charge - but that may be due to the battery being brand new. I have read that the battery in SGS2 really degrades fast
I have 2% drain per hour when doing absolutely nothing, screen off, wifi off, gps off during 8 hours overnite.
While someone has reported having only 2% or 3% drain over 8 hours overnite.
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I have 2% drain per hour when doing absolutely nothing, screen off, wifi off, gps off during 8 hours overnite.
While someone has reported having only 2% or 3% drain over 8 hours overnite.
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Have you tried using "Better Batter Stats" to see what is causing the drain?
I have been using AOKP since Task brought it to us and I average 1% every two hours over nite.
Do you use the Facebook app? That sucker is hungry for your juice.
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Have you tried using "Better Batter Stats" to see what is causing the drain?
I have been using AOKP since Task brought it to us and I average 1% every two hours over nite.
Do you use the Facebook app? That sucker is hungry for your juice.
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I got BBS v1.7 for a while, that was absolutely no help.
I installed BBS 1.8 for about a week. Based on their info, I got the "multipdp" along with some other things (such wake-lock) cranked up big time.
I read the Entropy thread, not much help.
Note: Wifi is off.
Maybe 3G/H+ keep toggling for sync process?
I do use facebook! haha. and I havent used better battery stats
dschreiber69 said:
Have you tried using "Better Batter Stats" to see what is causing the drain?
I have been using AOKP since Task brought it to us and I average 1% every two hours over nite.
Do you use the Facebook app? That sucker is hungry for your juice.
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I'd also recommend using CPU Spy in conjunction with Better Battery Stats to see if the phone is able to enter deep sleep.
I don't get as good as you. . .I average about 1% or less per hour overnight. But that's with wifi on, periodic syncing of 7 accounts, scheduled backups and cache cleaning going on.
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I got BBS v1.7 for a while, that was absolutely no help.
I installed BBS 1.8 for about a week. Based on their info, I got the "multipdp" along with some other things (such wake-lock) cranked up big time.
I read the Entropy thread, not much help.
Note: Wifi is off.
Maybe 3G/H+ keep toggling for sync process?
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My understanding is multipdp will show when apps are waking the radio to use cell data - each wake instance results in a minimum of 6 seconds of wakelock. Switching to wifi when you are idle "should" eliminate this wakelock.
I could be wrong here...dig into the known battery drainers thread from around the time the first ICS roms were being tried on the i777. There was some discussion of it...it is a renamed version of some other wakelock in GB.
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That's what I said, "maybe 3G/H+ toggling".
I believed that if I left wifi on overnite, do nothing, I still had 2% drain per hour.
Let me completely turn off data tonite and see how thing goes.
errrrr I have a huge problem with my battery. I've been testing various ICS roms and kernels(aokp, foxhound, serendipidity, fluxxi Kernel, siyah 3.4.3.,Neak) and all of them with the exception of serendipity w/siyah kernel, drain my battery real fast.
Not really sure what the problem is but when I look at what's been using the battery its most of the time either screen (which is understandable) and android os? I went to bed last night leaving my phone at 100% and woke up to find it at 52%. When I looked at what was using the battery it displayed, 93% android os and only 3% cell standby??(btw Foxhound ICS, Siyah Kernel) Maybe I have to many things updating/syncing?
When I first got my phone, 2-3% battery drain overnight was one of the things that amazed me about stock gingerbread on the i777.
I've flashed alot of roms since then, and so far, no ROM can even touch that stat.