So, was tired of my original battery dying on me halfway through my work day on a full charge and after several calls with Verizon got sent the extended battery which I do like. Problem I'm now running into is the dang thing is always taking forever to charge.
Last night I plugged it in to charge. It was at 26%. I woke up after 5 hours charging and it's at 60%. So I bring my charger to work and after another 6 hours it's barely up to 85%. I mean wtf?!?! That's nearing 11 hours just to charge 60% of the dang battery! Anyone got any ideas how to resolve this? I'm. Currently running das bamf 2.1 with urban theme and the imoseyon3.01 kernal. I've cut back on any and every battery eating service like wifi, GPS, animations, static wallpaper etc... Would really appreciate any ideas anyone has on this! Thanks
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So, was tired of my original battery dying on me halfway through my work day on a full charge and after several calls with Verizon got sent the extended battery which I do like. Problem I'm now running into is the dang thing is always taking forever to charge.
Last night I plugged it in to charge. It was at 26%. I woke up after 5 hours charging and it's at 60%. So I bring my charger to work and after another 6 hours it's barely up to 85%. I mean wtf?!?! That's nearing 11 hours just to charge 60% of the dang battery! Anyone got any ideas how to resolve this? I'm. Currently running das bamf 2.1 with urban theme and the imoseyon3.01 kernal. I've cut back on any and every battery eating service like wifi, GPS, animations, static wallpaper etc... Would really appreciate any ideas anyone has on this! Thanks
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Das bamf 2.1 is gb right? Gb roms charge slow unfortunately :/
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I'm running BAMF Sense 3.0 and getting exceptional battery life. You should not be having issues like that.
Have you tried different chargers? My stepsister had this exact problem but she kept insisting it wasn't the charger. After wiping her phone and buying her a new battery, she says "oh you were right it was the charger." She changed the charger and it went away.
Your situation sounds exactly like hers although it's likely it could be another cause. I'll let the experts help you but I wanted to share that little tidbit, I spent a day changing settings and uninstalling programs and such, and bought her a brand new battery only to finally have her admit she must have been confused about which chargers were doing it.
With the correct kernels, the BAMF Sense 3.0 rom is charging faster than mine was doing stock. The statement above was correct in earlier kernels but has since been corrected. I don't know about 2.1, but since you're running a custom rom already I highly recommend the MR2 radio and BAMF with sense 3.0. I'm using RC3 but RC4 is rumored to be getting close, although I have no concrete information.
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.. it might just be the charger because I'm using the one that came with the phone but I noticed faster charge when I was at my brother's place and borrowing his micro USB charger for his rechargable universal remote. I also think I may have a problem with a program because I dunno if it's normal or not but watching Netflix on my lunch break the phone went from 87% to 80% in like 20 min. 7% in 30 min seems a bit much. I like bamf alot but if the other Rom's work so much better I may try it out., update.. it went down 1% just makign this post.. so not only does it charge slow as heck, something is causing a slow power loss beyond the norm I think.
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Streaming anything is going to chew up your battery.
But like others have posted, you could have a problem either with your usb cable or the actual charger plug itself.
I think I'm going to try the Bamf with 3.0 sense tonight,. Trying a different charger right now,. one with a Kyocera name brand on the side but it's still a micro usb charger to see if there's much difference. when I originally got the extended battery it seemed to run great at first and then I upgraded my ROM and at 2.1 bamf remix GB alot of bugs were cleared up but it also seems to be drainign my battery faster and charging slower so we'll see...
How does the 2.1 GB remix with imoyseon's kernel compare to the Bamf 3.0 sense with the dream kernel?
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So, was tired of my original battery dying on me halfway through my work day on a full charge and after several calls with Verizon got sent the extended battery which I do like. Problem I'm now running into is the dang thing is always taking forever to charge.
Last night I plugged it in to charge. It was at 26%. I woke up after 5 hours charging and it's at 60%. So I bring my charger to work and after another 6 hours it's barely up to 85%. I mean wtf?!?! That's nearing 11 hours just to charge 60% of the dang battery! Anyone got any ideas how to resolve this? I'm. Currently running das bamf 2.1 with urban theme and the imoseyon3.01 kernal. I've cut back on any and every battery eating service like wifi, GPS, animations, static wallpaper etc... Would really appreciate any ideas anyone has on this! Thanks
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I had the same prob with das bamf 2.1 remix until i opted for imoseyon 3.3.8 lean test kernel.
Now i'm back to normal charging with stock battery and extended.
problem was with the kernel, but i you download the imos.. 3.3.2 or higher kernel you will have the charging issue fixed.
well too late now lol I flashed to the BAMF 3.0 RC3 and am going to give it a go. How does the Dream Kernel work ? any good?
GB charge issue. Some people have to reboot after a phone call to get charging to work correctly again. Ide try DBAMF 1.8.6 with mr2 radio support if I was you
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After I updated to Nordic 2.1 and used v002 optimizer, I noticed I was getting awesome battery life. For the past few days I've used my phone minimally with sim card in, GV on, etc, but with minimal use to see just how good the battery life is now. Before, with 1.6, I was getting 2 days absolute maximum, even with minimal usage. Now I've gotten this: http://imgur.com/xNjaz.jpg (with 10% battery remaining).
Anyone else gotten better or comparable results? Personally, I think this is excellent, especially compared to having to charge nightly with 1.6 when I actually put it to some use. I think I could do some browsing, texting, calling, and stuff and not have to worry that if I forget to charge one night, it would die early on the next day now.
Wat did u do to get this amazing result
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Wat did u do to get this amazing result
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Flashed the Nordic 2.1 rom and ran optimizer v002 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=829660).
Ive noticed my battery is better too, I use mine quite heavily, take it off charge about 8am and would top up the charge about 2pm. This last week ive not needed to top up the charge, the other day I got home from work with 71% left, which for me was amazing!
It seems they changed the standby power consumption.
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I am currently running Das_Bamf 1.3.2 but I have heard that the problem also exists on the stock rom/hernel.
My battery percentage does not drop over time. Only after I reboot the phone does it show any change. Does anyone know how to fix it?
Try installing battery left widget. Gibes you an accurate picture of what's going on. You will have to start with a full batteryband run it all thebwaybdown to calibrate.
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I don't really want to be forced to install a widget on one of my home screens just to know what percent my battery is at. I would like to figure out why the status bar indication isn't updating. It was working when I first got the phone.
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I don't really want to be forced to install a widget on one of my home screens just to know what percent my battery is at. I would like to figure out why the status bar indication isn't updating. It was working when I first got the phone.
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I agree. I had the same problem with Das Bamf. I don't see anyone else really complaining about it and my post was basically overlooked when I asked about it in the thread for the ROM. I ended up just switching to the new version of thunder and lightning and all is well. I'll give Das Bamf a try again when it's working.
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I agree. I had the same problem with Das Bamf. I don't see anyone else really complaining about it and my post was basically overlooked when I asked about it in the thread for the ROM. I ended up just switching to the new version of thunder and lightning and all is well. I'll give Das Bamf a try again when it's working.
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are you using the extended battery? I am and I am seeing the same problems but I have flashed back to my original root stock rom with the htc kernel and still seem to have the problem. I may have to try thunder rom if the battery does work
Stock battery. I have tried a wipe and that didn't fix anything. So far I have no real idea what might be causing it since it seems to be happening on different roms including stock as well as kernels.
I was having this issue with VirusROM for the first week or more that I ran it because I didn't flash on a full charge (stupid me)... It also dropped from 100% to 90% in about 10 minutes when it did drop without rebooting - not sure if you have that problem. I resolved all of this by bump charging. There's a workaround for the CWM issue that I followed in another thread found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1016508 ... ie. charge with your phone booted; reboot, charge, reboot, charge, etc. until you are at about 99% when you reboot. Then just wipe your battery stats and use like normal. I didn't think that it had worked permanently until a couple days later when my battery was recalibrated. I'm running the same kernel as those of you on Das BAMF if you didn't change it so I hope this helps you as well. Basically after I did this it only dropped 2-3% on reboots when not fully charged but I believe that is normal since it takes a lot of power to boot the phone up completely. Hope this helps.
Edit: Wanted to point out that after I wiped my battery stats I didn't reboot all the time to see if it was dropping since I figured that would affect calibration. Ran it until it died on normal use and got a lot longer battery life than stock, which makes me question as to how "accurate" it actually is after rebooting. Just a thought.
could you also just re flash on a full charge?
I don't think so, because your battery may not be at 100% if it says it is, which is why you would have to bump charge.
Ah, I see.
Well I think it worked. Thanks a ton!
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FWIW, I'm on the extended battery and stock ROM and there's no issue that I can observe in terms of the percentage not dropping/reporting properly.
Most of this stuff seems like urban legend and placebo effect to me.
Does anyone have any documented (by Google) evidence that any of this "battery calibration", "batterystats.bin wiping", "only flash roms on 100% charge" stuff is legit? If not some documentation on the OS, then some actual controlled testing with data that supports these concepts as legitimate?
I mean something that documents how batterystats.bin operates and what it controls and doesn't.
My understanding is that the batteries themselves have integrated circuits that control the battery's charge. Surely this can be communicated to the phone (how else does the phone know the voltage being supplied as it diminishes?).
Seems that an intelligently designed OS would take advantage of the battery's own reporting and just go by its charge status rather than come up with some silly scheme that involves the phone using batterystats.bin to control it; especially when, if the urban legends are actually true, that file is so easily confused and needs to be wiped so often. Gr
I see where you are coming from and agree that testing needs to be done but bump charging and deleting battery stats got my battery notification to start indicating again
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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.
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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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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....
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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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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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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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Hate to post anything about battery life, but I must. I would post this in the dev thread but not enough posts yet.
First off battery life was not that bad on froyo and understand GB has issues but this seems a bit extreme. I am running Full version of Gingetitis and other state battery life is great but not for me. I did full drain and battery wipe and calibration last night but seems even worse now . Phone has been on for 37 minutes and battery is down to 80%. brightness is turned all the way down, screen off in 1 minute, I have run speedtweak and set to battery saver, no gps, no blue tooth. I love gingeritis and the sense 3.0 so any assistance would be great.
Nope battery life is terrible on chingys GB rom. I was running it not good.
I'm using dasBAMF REMIX V6 amazing battery !
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which kernel you are using?
i use the mr2 radio and 3.0.1 kernel. The batterylife is worse than froyo i agree, but it shouldnt be too bad to not last for a day.
Also, i think 4G drains a lot. My area switched form 3G to 4G and its gone worse.
I am running the default kernel, haven't flashed anything else. Unfortunately I do not live in an area with 4G so I just get 3g, I do run WiFi when at home.
I have the same issue.
I just tweak the speedtweak into option 5)
I went out taday. tb lost 10% battery per hr. Is this normal?
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I am running the default kernel, haven't flashed anything else. Unfortunately I do not live in an area with 4G so I just get 3g, I do run WiFi when at home.
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Did you turn off 3g in the settings?
I have turned off 3g lately, when I can get wifi, to see if it will help but haven't noticed much difference.
This is interesting because I'm on gingeritis with the included kernel and my battery life has been very good.
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If everyone post their usage and battery drain condition. That will be more help us to realize our TB. Cause we might have different phone before, and we might compare TB with our privious phone. So I think this is the different replies on this thread.
ex. my previous phone is droid 2 global, and it has terrible battery drain as well.
Now I got TB for a couple days, and I feel TB get more battery drain problems. (of course, it is the first 4G LTE phone )
kernel: imoseyon 3.01
baseband: 1.39.00.0430
rom: Gingeritis v1.0
and I set speedtweak.sh as battsaver 5) and battery tip on rom's op.
that's I do to my phone now.
And I lost 10% battery life per hour (use 4G to surf on net)
Is my battery drain case terrible?
(I think only comparsion can help us to know where is the problem )
flashed a kernel a zip file,and 2 fonts.
Rebooted 4 time I total.
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Nope battery life is terrible on chingys GB rom. I was running it not good.
I'm using dasBAMF REMIX V6 amazing battery !
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I had that rom!!! And I was losing 30 percent an hour with almost no usage on that Rom...face it the Tbolt for as bad ass as it is the battery sucks....many devs claim their battery is great but for the average user noob or not the battery is terrible HTC really should have thought about this a bit more before trying to have the latest greatest the extended battery on my blackberry gets almost 3 days on a full charge with moderate to heavy usage, this piece of android crap gets almost 3 hours on a full charge with little to no usage, seems senseless(no pun intended) to pay this kind of money for a device that is useless after an hour or 2 off the charger not all of us have cushy jobs where we can keep our phones at our desks on the charger!!
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Hate to post anything about battery life, but I must. I would post this in the dev thread but not enough post yet.
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This isn't a post you would put in Dev thread. Unless its directly in gingeritis' thread.
^_^_^
Thanks, I did not know if it was Rom, GB, or just my phone specific.
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I had that rom!!! And I was losing 30 percent an hour with almost no usage on that Rom...face it the Tbolt for as bad ass as it is the battery sucks....many devs claim their battery is great but for the average user noob or not the battery is terrible HTC really should have thought about this a bit more before trying to have the latest greatest the extended battery on my blackberry gets almost 3 days on a full charge with moderate to heavy usage, this piece of android crap gets almost 3 hours on a full charge with little to no usage, seems senseless(no pun intended) to pay this kind of money for a device that is useless after an hour or 2 off the charger not all of us have cushy jobs where we can keep our phones at our desks on the charger!!
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well...I think most android phone will face this problem in recent period.
I have nexus 1, droid 2, and TB. Only nexus 1 has better battery life.
It seems that delay battery drain is a big task for later android pone.
Try dream kernel. Using Gingeritis with it has given me superb battery life.
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I'm running 1.0 with kernel that comes with it with rapist and battery life was alright. Got extended battery this weekend. It takes away from the tbolts sleekness but man its worth it. Good 9 hours of web YouTube facebook phone and texting and its at 51% and still strong. Love it.
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Hate to post anything about battery life, but I must. I would post this in the dev thread but not enough posts yet.
First off battery life was not that bad on froyo and understand GB has issues but this seems a bit extreme. I am running Full version of Gingetitis and other state battery life is great but not for me. I did full drain and battery wipe and calibration last night but seems even worse now . Phone has been on for 37 minutes and battery is down to 80%. brightness is turned all the way down, screen off in 1 minute, I have run speedtweak and set to battery saver, no gps, no blue tooth. I love gingeritis and the sense 3.0 so any assistance would be great.
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I agree! I was running BAMF froyo remix with outstanding battery life. Made the switch to gingeritis and the battery life was so-so, tried the dream kernel and for a few days the battery life was as good as froyo. Then random reboots forced me back to stock kernel with gingeritis with normal on speedtweak and it is slightly better than before.
There should be a new dream kernel out soon, I plan to try that one when it drops, dream kernel was great when it worked.
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I agree! I was running BAMF froyo remix with outstanding battery life. Made the switch to gingeritis and the battery life was so-so, tried the dream kernel and for a few days the battery life was as good as froyo. Then random reboots forced me back to stock kernel with gingeritis with normal on speedtweak and it is slightly better than before.
There should be a new dream kernel out soon, I plan to try that one when it drops, dream kernel was great when it worked.
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your stock kernel version is?
I am running gingeritis and a full charge last me about 7 hours, on a good day. Mind you, I am over clocked to 1.4 and have a bad habit of checking my phone even when I haven't felt it vibrate or heard it ring. Because of this, I started to notice that when I would pull my phone out of my pocket, the screen would be on. I'm assuming that my constant movement at work is causing my volume button to be pressed, resulting in my display eating up 50% of my battery.
I've been running BAMF Remix Beta 6 for almost a week now. I just got the extended battery a few days. It's lasted anywhere from 12-16 hours on a full charge with 4G always on. Earlier today I had it on 3G only and lost 25% in about 4 hr and 40 min. I am using batterysaver in speedtweak.sh with the kernel that came with the ROM.
In the CleanROM ICS thread, Marine6680 posed an observation that I think bears looking into.
Please vote only if you are using an ICS ROM.
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Also please vote based on how your phone behaves while it is turned on. If you experience different behavior when the phone is off, please post that as a response.
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I have both the stock and the extended battery. My stock battery has stopped charging fully, only to 92%, my extended charges normally. My fiance's battery will not charge fully either. It is stock as well.
So it could be that these new 3.8v batteries (which are tweaked chemistry versions that have a slightly higher voltage than standard 3.7v) are not supported by the new kernel's charging controls. (which seems odd that it wouldn't) That is, if that is even controlled by the kernel and not hard wired into the mainboard.
So it may be an issue with the batteries... or not. If it only happens with the stock batteries then it will be harder to say for sure.
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I've posed the question in both the CleanROM and Ineffabilis ICS threads, but figured I'd post here to try to get all ICS ROM users to see it.
So far, all responses in those 2 threads have been that people with charging issues all had 3.8v batteries and that people with no charging issues (myself included) had 3.7v batteries.
Please respond here with your findings. Just pull out your battery and look on the back, top line of text.
I'm not sure what can be done about it, but at least it would answer a question that seems to be annoying a lot of people across ALL ICS ROMs.
Great idea for the poll, but still wrong section. Should be posted in General.
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Great idea for the poll, but still wrong section. Should be posted in General.
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Sorry. Can a mod please move?
I have the 3.7 battery and have had no issues with charging at all.
I have a 3.8 for about another 3 hours. I'm stopping by Verizon and getting a 3.7. I dare them to try to tell me no.
I have a 3.7 with no charging issues.
Well, my battery lasts like 2 hours since I put ICS on there but I can't tell if thats the usual terrible Rezound battery life or something wrong with my rom.
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I have a 3.7 with no charging issues.
Well, my battery lasts like 2 hours since I put ICS on there but I can't tell if thats the usual terrible Rezound battery life or something wrong with my rom.
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If I charge too 100% while it's turned off (since I have the 3.8v battery), I get great battery life on ICS. Yesterday I got around 16 hours with 4g on all day under normal use. On stock GB and the two GB roms I tested out, I was getting between 14 and 15 hours on average with 4g turned off.
If I try to charge with it turned on and experience the 87% ceiling, I get horrible battery life. 10 hours max, and the battery seems to discharge very quickly when I'm actually using it.
on my De-Sensed ICS Rom it doesn't charge up to 100% pretty much stops at around 98%~.. I have pretty amazing Battery life Could go an entire day with out hitting 20%, but then again I don;t have alot of apps
I have a 3.8v battery, running ICS, no charging problems, no battery life issues.... no nothing.
The ONLY strange issue I have, and I've had it since day one on GB, is that when i unplug my phone from the charger it will say either 99 or 100% on my battery widget, however if you wait a bit and then look at the battery stats chart later in the day, it shows that it began discharging from 93-94% rather than 99-100%. I simply assumed the battery scaling in software was slightly off from what the battery itself is reporting, but since it doesn't seem to be a problem at all I have just ignored it. The battery easily lasts all day with plenty of juice to spare for me.
a.mcdear said:
I have a 3.8v battery, running ICS, no charging problems, no battery life issues.... no nothing.
The ONLY strange issue I have, and I've had it since day one on GB, is that when i unplug my phone from the charger it will say either 99 or 100% on my battery widget, however if you wait a bit and then look at the battery stats chart later in the day, it shows that it began discharging from 93-94% rather than 99-100%. I simply assumed the battery scaling in software was slightly off from what the battery itself is reporting, but since it doesn't seem to be a problem at all I have just ignored it. The battery easily lasts all day with plenty of juice to spare for me.
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That's normal if you're not bump-charging.
jrsmith said:
If I charge too 100% while it's turned off (since I have the 3.8v battery), I get great battery life on ICS. Yesterday I got around 16 hours with 4g on all day under normal use. On stock GB and the two GB roms I tested out, I was getting between 14 and 15 hours on average with 4g turned off.
If I try to charge with it turned on and experience the 87% ceiling, I get horrible battery life. 10 hours max, and the battery seems to discharge very quickly when I'm actually using it.
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wow, 10 hours is bad battery life on a lte phone?
If you aren't in a LTE area, make sure to set the phone to CDMA only instead of CDMA/LTE since it will forever search for an LTE signal... Thought I'll share that little tib bit.
Oh and In my situation I'm always connected to Wifi, Home,School, Work so I go into *#*#4636#*#* and under Phone Info I switch to CDMA only (1x) instead of CDMA Auto (3G) since in my commute I'm not stream/downloading anything... So keeping the Phone at 2G all the time makes for an even better battery life
But To each their own
** Since the issue is more ICS centered, I (among others) would blame this on the Leaked (unstable) battery/power drivers... So only until the official release we can't blame ICS as a whole (for now)
Tachi91 said:
on my De-Sensed ICS Rom it doesn't charge up to 100% pretty much stops at around 98%~.. I have pretty amazing Battery life Could go an entire day with out hitting 20%, but then again I don;t have alot of apps
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Got 1 day 4 hours with 40 percent left on your rom everything left as is. My issues with the music player was the only reason I went back to GB. That issue was across all ICS roms.
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nrfitchett4 said:
wow, 10 hours is bad battery life on a lte phone?
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Maybe "horrible" was an overstatement, but it's certainly worse than what I was getting on GB or when I'm actually able to charge fully. That's also with 4g disabled, which I should have mentioned.
I have 2 different rezound batteries and both are 3.7v and had zero charging issues with any of the ICS roms I've been running.
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So... do you want a 3.7v or a 3.8? Whats the difference?
davidetkin511 said:
So... do you want a 3.7v or a 3.8? Whats the difference?
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0.1 volts
Sorry, had to do it.
I have a 3.8v and my battery only charges to %90 max. Running Scotts ICS 2.1 ROM
a.mcdear said:
I have a 3.8v battery, running ICS, no charging problems, no battery life issues.... no nothing.
The ONLY strange issue I have, and I've had it since day one on GB, is that when i unplug my phone from the charger it will say either 99 or 100% on my battery widget, however if you wait a bit and then look at the battery stats chart later in the day, it shows that it began discharging from 93-94% rather than 99-100%. I simply assumed the battery scaling in software was slightly off from what the battery itself is reporting, but since it doesn't seem to be a problem at all I have just ignored it. The battery easily lasts all day with plenty of juice to spare for me.
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Which rom are you on?
Posted this in another thread but:
Just got off the phone with Verizon, they said they are pushing an OTA that addresses battery issues. Take that with a grain of salt
He texted me the info: 2.01.605.00: Baseband:0.95.00.1118r