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This looks interesting i am going to give it a go and would be interesting to see what Results others get
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1024867
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This looks interesting i am going to give it a go and would be interesting to see what Results others get
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1024867
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Did it work ?
Not 100% sure yet just want to give it a couple more days then will let you know
So if the system is miscalibrated and doesn't charge all the way, how do you know when you have the battery 100% charged so you can run the program?
Edit: Never mind. I figured that out.
New question: If you do the complete discharge approach, do you leave the app on through the whole cycle or just turn it back on when the battery is just about dead and let it charge again?
Isn't this already an option in clockwork recovery?
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Isn't this already an option in clockwork recovery?
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Yes it is so i have been told, Must say after running it for a week it did not show any improvement for me so got rid of it, Might work for others, I will do it through clockwork next time and see how that goes
Ok I have had my photon for a few months now and I am coming from a evo and a hero before that. Those phones needed to be rooted to get the best out of them. I was looking around the development section and while I know there isn't a lot of roms, I just wanted to get everyone's opinion on rooting. I really have no need for wireless tether, and while I would like to remove some of the bloat, I just don't know if its worth it on this phone.
Just throwing it out there to get some input from other photon users.
Thanks guys
For me, it was worth it just to run an adblocker. That's all I use it for.
It's a very fast and easy process.
The photon runs great as it is, but like willysp said just the ability to use adfree makes it worth it.. and of course if you like modifying little things here and there to make the device more yours
And to me was actually the easiest device I have rooted thanks to the one click root script.
There's a couple of other ways to root it but that was the first I found.
I came from Hero and EVO as well. This phone is great as it is. No need to do anything else. I have to said beside Nokia, Motorola is the best phone in term of reception.
Which method did you use? Did you flash a rom after rooting or did you just keep it stock and just use ad blocker?
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The photon runs great as it is, but like willysp said just the ability to use adfree makes it worth it.. and of course if you like modifying little things here and there to make the device more yours
And to me was actually the easiest device I have rooted thanks to the one click root script.
There's a couple of other ways to root it but that was the first I found.
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I root for adfree and LED's hack mainly but also quite a few other that I can't think of. Editing the build.prop is also a huge plus gotta have my GAMELOFT fix lol
You can use the one click method which takes 5 minutes.
One good reason to root is to use SetCPU, which easily doubles your battery life by letting the CPU slow down when not in use.
So what is the process? Root and then flash a custom recovery? I just need a step by step of what to do.completely forgot about setcpu. But don't you have to have a custom kernel in order to use setcpu?
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You can use the one click method which takes 5 minutes.
One good reason to root is to use SetCPU, which easily doubles your battery life by letting the CPU slow down when not in use.
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ronnienyc said:
.....One good reason to root is to use SetCPU, which easily doubles your battery life by letting the CPU slow down when not in use.
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That's incorrect.
SetCPU requires more than root. Needs a custom kernel, which requires unlocking. And we don't have a fully functioning unlocker.
ronnienyc said:
One good reason to root is to use SetCPU, which easily doubles your battery life by letting the CPU slow down when not in use.
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Slowing down your CPU (underclocking) doesn't save any battery life, undervolting however does.
And yes a custom kernel is required to undervolt and to flash one we need to unlock the bootloader.
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So what is the process? Root and then flash a custom recovery? I just need a step by step of what to do.completely forgot about setcpu. But don't you have to have a custom kernel in order to use setcpu?
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qbking77 has made video tutorials, subscribe him on youtube.
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Isn't the bootloader unlocked, but 4G is borked?
The bootloader is perfectly fine, the 4g issue is because sprints security keys for wimax look at the bootloader state. Not even the official test phones have 4g.
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Isn't the bootloader unlocked, but 4G is borked?
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moonzbabysh said:
I root for adfree and LED's hack mainly but also quite a few other that I can't think of. Editing the build.prop is also a huge plus gotta have my GAMELOFT fix lol
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What led hack?
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LexLuger82 said:
What led hack?
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An old app that was removed from the Market a year ago
The one that turns the green led into kryptonite, sorry i had to.
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What led hack?
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if i rooted than i factory reset, does it make unroot again ?
Or it can cause error ?
willysp said:
An old app that was removed from the Market a year ago
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Could u provide a link to this app
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if i rooted than i factory reset, does it make unroot again ?
Or it can cause error ?
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No factory reset won't make it unroot or cause any error.
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No factory reset won't make it unroot or cause any error.
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Thanks. Now i can try factory reset.
I just upgraded my SGS2 to ICS, since that the battery of my phone draining hell lot quicker than earlier. Earlier it use to go down by 1-2 % in the night (when m sleeping) but after update it go down by 11-12%
actually the battery performance should be better, right?
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Hi,
I have same feeling. After a week on Slim Ics I can say that with GB my battery life was better. By 10pm everyday I was having left about 40-45% with GB , but with ICS the best I can get is :confuse 30% , mostly about 25% left and I'm having same kind of usage. It's true that with ICS it seems smoother and more responsive .
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.... It's true that with ICS it seems smoother and more responsive .
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A fair price to pay.
There are a lot of threads on thus subject if you have a search of the forums.
I had the same issue on upgrading from GB but after following advice and doing some investigation and troubleshooting of rogue apps I now have much better battery life on ics than I ever got on GB.
Read the forums and follow the advice, track down the culprits and you too will reap the benefits
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There are a lot of threads on thus subject if you have a search of the forums.
I had the same issue on upgrading from GB but after following advice and doing some investigation and troubleshooting of rogue apps I now have much better battery life on ics than I ever got on GB.
Read the forums and follow the advice, track down the culprits and you too will reap the benefits
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Throw us a friggin bone here...
gottagetalife said:
There are a lot of threads on thus subject if you have a search of the forums.
I had the same issue on upgrading from GB but after following advice and doing some investigation and troubleshooting of rogue apps I now have much better battery life on ics than I ever got on GB.
Read the forums and follow the advice, track down the culprits and you too will reap the benefits
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Can u plz post a link here of that thread?
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shantanuparadkar said:
Can u plz post a link here of that thread?
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There are LOTS of threads on the subject. Use the search box at the top of the page to look for "battery ics sgs2" or similar and you will turn up pages of information.
The sad thing is the best piece of advice I found was that no two people will have exactly the same solution. You need to identify what is eating your battery using a tool like "Better Battery Stats" or "Go Power Manager". You then need to decide how important the culprits are and remove them or look for updates.
Titanium Backup is useful as it allows you to freeze apps so you can see if they make a difference. It helps if you are rooted as I found several stock apps at the core of my issues. You can't freeze them unless you are rooted.
Siyah Kernel is also very useful, it seems to manage power better than stock. I also found that a factory reset, clearing user data and clearing all of my caches (including Dalvik) helped enormously. It is time consuming to re-install all of your apps from scratch but it does seem to make a huge difference. It looks like some apps retain data from GB that caused issues in ICS.
I found that exchange services were using a huge amount of juice before I cleared all data and caches. That seems to stop completely after the big clear out!
The main thing is no two people seem to have exactly the same problem. It is important therefore that you take a problem solving approach, change one thing at a time and wait long enough to see if it works.
There's your bone, go chew!
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There are LOTS of threads on the subject. Use the search box at the top of the page to look for "battery ics sgs2" or similar and you will turn up pages of information.
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Same old, same old.... These are the same tricks that work with EVERY ROM upgrade.... If u get a better battery life outta ICS than u did with GB, u really screwed up installing GB...
shantanuparadkar said:
I just upgraded my SGS2 to ICS, since that the battery of my phone draining hell lot quicker than earlier. Earlier it use to go down by 1-2 % in the night (when m sleeping) but after update it go down by 11-12%
actually the battery performance should be better, right?
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i usually get 2 days of battery life on ics 4.0.3....
First of all, you need to be clear whether you upgraded from stock GB to Stock ICS, or a Custom GB ROM to a Custom ICS ROM, since the Custom ROMs do offer better battery life over the stock version.
People here are giving great advice regarding the use of Titanium to freeze any apps that you are not using, e.g. Google+, Samsung bloatware, etc... - this will save the average RAM, hence the battery life. Also, do use Task Manager often (especially before going to sleep) to kill all the background apps.
I installed many Custom ROMs and now running Resurrection v2.1 and very happy with battery life. You must be realistic with expectations - read this http://blog.gsmarena.com/our-samsun...e-test-is-complete-check-out-how-it-did-test/
Overall, if you will do a clean install (format everything - internal/external/MMC and clear cache/Dalvik/battery stats) of Resurrection ICS v2.1 or Litening v3.2, then you should see even an increase in battery life!
Hope it helps and happy flashing ;]]
gottagetalife said:
There are LOTS of threads on the subject. Use the search box at the top of the page to look for "battery ics sgs2" or similar and you will turn up pages of information.
The sad thing is the best piece of advice I found was that no two people will have exactly the same solution. You need to identify what is eating your battery using a tool like "Better Battery Stats" or "Go Power Manager". You then need to decide how important the culprits are and remove them or look for updates.
Titanium Backup is useful as it allows you to freeze apps so you can see if they make a difference. It helps if you are rooted as I found several stock apps at the core of my issues. You can't freeze them unless you are rooted.
Siyah Kernel is also very useful, it seems to manage power better than stock. I also found that a factory reset, clearing user data and clearing all of my caches (including Dalvik) helped enormously. It is time consuming to re-install all of your apps from scratch but it does seem to make a huge difference. It looks like some apps retain data from GB that caused issues in ICS.
I found that exchange services were using a huge amount of juice before I cleared all data and caches. That seems to stop completely after the big clear out!
The main thing is no two people seem to have exactly the same problem. It is important therefore that you take a problem solving approach, change one thing at a time and wait long enough to see if it works.
There's your bone, go chew!
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I have better battery stats but I don't know how to use it, and my phone is not rooted, so some of the things I won't b able to do. Now tell me what's should I do? Which software is useful for unrooted phone
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shantanuparadkar said:
I have better battery stats but I don't know how to use it, and my phone is not rooted, so some of the things I won't b able to do. Now tell me what's should I do? Which software is useful for unrooted phone
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Why don't you root your device?
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Originally Posted by shantanuparadkar
I have better battery stats but I don't know how to use it, and my phone is not rooted, so some of the things I won't b able to do. Now tell me what's should I do? Which software is useful for unrooted phone
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Why don't you root your device?
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I don't want to, Coz it will void my guarantee. May b I'll do it after July after the guarantee period finishes
But till then suggest me something
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shantanuparadkar said:
I don't want to, Coz it will void my guarantee. May b I'll do it after July after the guarantee period finishes
But till then suggest me something
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All you would have to do is flash a stock firmware through odin and it's factory reset.
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kilometers4 said:
All you would have to do is flash a stock firmware through odin and it's factory reset.
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Sorry my knowledge about these things are zero. I am not getting what u want to say
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shantanuparadkar said:
Sorry my knowledge about these things are zero. I am not getting what u want to say
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All you would have to do to put your phone back to factory settings is to download a stock firmware from www.sammobile.com and flash it through odin. I believe the site has flash steps. There's many guides on how to use odin on Google.
Hope it helps
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But will it make my guarantee void?
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shantanuparadkar said:
But will it make my guarantee void?
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Your warranty would still be good
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kilometers4 said:
Your warranty would still be good
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Ok thanks. I'll do that
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Had a prob with phone, service centre done the hard formatting and reinstalling of the software, now the battery performance is way to better
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I was wondering If i could trouble anyone for a batterystat.bin from your evo 4g LTE.. I deleted mine and i am un happy with the results and I need a good stock.. thank you
kriverv again
YoFayce said:
I was wondering If i could trouble anyone for a batterystat.bin from your evo 4g LTE.. I deleted mine and i am un happy with the results and I need a good stock.. thank you
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have you tried any battery calibration apps in the market? i believe you have to fully charge, then wipe your batterystats.bin (using an app from the market), then let it drain all the way. however, there are some posts out there saying battery calibration is a myth, but to each its own.
YoFayce said:
I was wondering If i could trouble anyone for a batterystat.bin from your evo 4g LTE.. I deleted mine and i am un happy with the results and I need a good stock.. thank you
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Every time you unplug/plug in your phone batterystats.bin is created
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Every time you unplug/plug in your phone batterystats.bin is greated
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Ooh lol well i did the battery calibration and it seems to be going nutty after that.. I have a fresh oem non tampered rom so lets see how that goes
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So I just rooted my device with towelroot so I don't trip the knox counter.
All went well with the root process.
Let the phone reboot like it needed
Used the APK from chainfires zip to install supersu on the phone.
When I installed that I allowed it to update su and then disabled knox.
rebooted the phone and verified all was able to power up again okay.
Since doing that I notice that the phone is staying pretty warm without any use and screen off and is being held awake by the kernel. (according to gsam battery monitor)
Has anyone else noticed wake-lock or battery drain issues after rooting the phone with this method?
So far, so good for me. It's pretty much the same
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Freeze any tmobile app that you don't really use or system app with titanium backup
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Nyc1231 said:
Freeze any tmobile app that you don't really use or system app with titanium backup
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Okay I will give that a try.
Worst case scenario I will try and master reset it.
Just happy to have full sd card access again and native tethering working in stock software. Plus ad blocking.
TheArtiszan said:
Okay I will give that a try.
Worst case scenario I will try and master reset it.
Just happy to have full sd card access again and native tethering working in stock software. Plus ad blocking.
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i have exactly the same problem. i will unroot and factory reset it.
I don't think you will actually need to unroot it. About how long are you getting with your battery now?
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I don't think you will actually need to unroot it. About how long are you getting with your battery now?
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i plug it out when i wake up at 07:00 in the morning and when i get back from work almost at 18:00 o clock its almost done. only %10 battery remaining. it drains very fast! before towelroot my battary lasts almost 1.5 days
I'm not even rooted and time to time my phone would get hot without me using it.. It's weird. Known issue or could this be a hardware issue?
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krntehknik303 said:
I'm not even rooted and time to time my phone would get hot without me using it.. It's weird. Known issue or could this be a hardware issue?
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That sounds more like there is a app going rogue or something. While there is a possibility it could be hardware, my bet it is more a software issue. When that happens to me I try to master reset and test without the applications for a little like I might with this if the battery issue don't clear up.
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That sounds more like there is a app going rogue or something. While there is a possibility it could be hardware, my bet it is more a software issue. When that happens to me I try to master reset and test without the applications for a little like I might with this if the battery issue don't clear up.
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I actually did a master reset the second day I got my phone because the first time I messed something up with restoring some stuff from my iPhone using Smart Switch (don't know exact name) and my phone was getting hot even before and after the master reset.
Just want to clarify factory reset is the same as master reset right?
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Yes
Same issue here - applied Towelroot on an HTC One M8 (Verizon), root did not work, but battery drains considerably faster now (would estimate about 30% faster drain than before).
There is definitely something going on with the towelroot apk, I have not installed anything else.
master reset works like charm. battery got back to normal
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master reset works like charm. battery got back to normal
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So I have to completely setup my phone again? I guess that's the price for being brave and trying new things
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So I have to completely setup my phone again? I guess that's the price for being brave and trying new things
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Something's running rogue and keeping your CPU running high, which probably accounts for the heat. A hot phone wastes more energy, so you're getting hit twice. Did you try installing wakelock detector to hunt down the issue?
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So I have to completely setup my phone again? I guess that's the price for being brave and trying new things
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lol i guess so. Back up with kies that will help restoring apps and data.
Haven't noticed any lag because of towel root. However installing xposed and xprivacy gave me unbearable lag. I had to Uninstall them and the phone went back to being smooth.
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So I have to completely setup my phone again? I guess that's the price for being brave and trying new things
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Resetting to factory settings after towel root RETAINS root.
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tcourb said:
lol i guess so. Back up with kies that will help restoring apps and data.
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Or, since you are rooted, use an app lie Tibu to backup apps and data, and restore it after reset. Root survives factory reset.
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Resetting to factory settings after towel root RETAINS root.
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Or, since you are rooted, use an app lie Tibu to backup apps and data, and restore it after reset. Root survives factory reset.
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Thanks for the info friend. I already factory resetted and solved the battery drain issue.
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Resetting to factory settings after towel root RETAINS root.
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Or, since you are rooted, use an app lie Tibu to backup apps and data, and restore it after reset. Root survives factory reset.
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I am not rooted - towelroot doesn't seem to work on the HTC One M8 (Verizon).
I did a factory reset, but the battery still drains like a jug of beer on a summer day... down to 15% after 6 hours
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Christopher3712 said:
Something's running rogue and keeping your CPU running high, which probably accounts for the heat. A hot phone wastes more energy, so you're getting hit twice. Did you try installing wakelock detector to hunt down the issue?
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Looked at wakelock detector, but that only runs on rooted KitKat phones. As mentioned before, Towelroot did not work on my HTC One M8...