Anyone that's rooted, have you noticed significantly better battery life? Pics would be cool
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Check out viperRom the cpu daemon is amazing which just kills in battery life.
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OC Daemon​
The OC daemon was created by rmk40 of Team Unity. I take no credit for the daemon, only the script I made to make it easier to work with. More information can be found here, but I will sum it up and explain the script below...
This daemon, written in C, completely eliminates the need for SetCPU and other CPU controlling apps. The daemon handles min/max frequencies for both screen on and screen off but it has one more trick up its sleeve... It can change the governor INSTANTLY depending on the screen state. I have tested it and I can tell you that it really does work instantly and I think this is going to be a great battery saver! I have set default values within the ROM as follows: Screen Off - conservative @ 192min/486max and Screen On - ondemand @ 192min/1188max. Using these settings, I get NO lag. Battery life is amazing, over 19+ hours for me with moderate usage! See for yourself...
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Im on shooter rewind, ADW EX launcher, all sense disabled, set cpu set similar to vipers ROM: 486/192 conservative display off & 1512/192 on demand when the display is on....very stable, no lag. I keep thinking my battery widget froze cause it barley moves lol
I dont think Ill need an extended battery for this phone, which is a first in like 5 or 6 years.
I bet the bank a bare bones ASOP ROM will OWN in battery life.
phatmanxxl said:
Im on shooter rewind, ADW EX launcher, all sense disabled, set cpu set similar to vipers ROM: 486/192 conservative display off & 1512/192 on demand when the display is on....very stable, no lag. I keep thinking my battery widget froze cause it barley moves lol
I dont think Ill need an extended battery for this phone, which is a first in like 5 or 6 years.
I bet the bank a bare bones ASOP ROM will OWN in battery life.
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Just as long as you dont bet US banks
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Anyone that's rooted, have you noticed significantly better battery life? Pics would be cool
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Just rooting wont affect you battery life. installing apps, and flashing kernels or roms can though
Try the SBC kernel that's floating around in the general section, it will improve your battery life.
cruise350 said:
Try the SBC kernel that's floating around in the general section, it will improve your battery life.
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SBC? Where?
::goes to General section::
ChrisAC84 said:
SBC? Where?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1197877
My battery life hasn't been better, but my data speeds have been way better since obtaining S-OFF. Probably has nothing to do with that, and everything to do with the phone completely re-syncing with Sprint's network afterwards. Regardless, I couldn't be happier. Now if Flipz will get Fresh Evo out....
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I have seen a lot of people talking about horrible battery life and have to simple pointers to get great battery life
#1 underclock to just around 1ghz; I have mine underclocked to 1.08 GHz and am at 7hrs on battery and still around 70% with mild usage a vast improvement from before where I would have 5 hrs and then be at 10%
#2 facebook live stream sync seems to never fully sync I had it set to sync once a day but it would sync for hours and then 30 mins later start syncing again for hours I thought it just was an initial sync thing but it has done it for about 2 weeks now I have been on the same Rom for this time only thing I do is wipe cache and reboot every other day which is sad but whatever cus I really like the friend widget with facebook statuses.
Just wanted to give you guys some advice also in the ics/sense3.6 roms I have noticed V6 supercharger to be a vast improvement on the stock kernel just because of how it regroups app and level the oom at a reasonable level.
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sent from my Rezound running BAMF v2.1 and loving it
ive done all the tweaks and i still get shady battery life when using the device.
Thanks for the tips dude.
I did notice that a lot of the facebook syncing would take forever to complete. I'll try your tip
mighty_markus12 said:
ive done all the tweaks and i still get shady battery life when using the device.
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I suspect the screen to be a little to good. The density and size our against us I think cus my friends wife has a huge Samsung note and she gets like 9hrs from a full charge so something isn't right.
You have tried what I'm talking about though huh? Cus I noticed a huge improvement by underclocking to 1.08 and 128mhz on the low side also the conservative govner will lag a little at such a low CPU rate but helps to but with on-demand and underclocked I have no noticeable lag
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Get juice defender from the market and set up a customized profile. This will turn off your radios when not in use and if you want there is still an option to have it turn on and sync every so often. Works great for me. Today I had 16
hours unplugged with screen on for almost 3 hours and I was still at 49%. This is on an extended battery so take it for what its worth.
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I'm loosing my mind! Almost every ROM/Kernel i've tried so far is seeing some serious battery drain due to the Android OS service @ 50%+.
Is this normal?!?! I don't use my phone much but I keep having to charge it twice daily. I've also calibrated the battery using the unlimited amount of guides and apps, but no go.
So far i'm trying all the AOKP ROMs and they all do the same thing, even with different kernels, different CPU scaling governor like ondemand, smartassv2 and hydra.
I think i'm going crazy,
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Your help is greatly appreciated!
Same for me..clean blank rom with default kernel..
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xoltrix2000 said:
I'm loosing my mind! Almost every ROM/Kernel i've tried so far is seeing some serious battery drain due to the Android OS service @ 50%+.
Is this normal?!?! I don't use my phone much but I keep having to charge it twice daily. I've also calibrated the battery using the unlimited amount of guides and apps, but no go.
So far i'm trying all the AOKP ROMs and they all do the same thing, even with different kernels, different CPU scaling governor like ondemand, smartassv2 and hydra.
I think i'm going crazy,
Your help is greatly appreciated!
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Use BetterBatteryStats to find out.
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Your phone isnt going into deep sleep. You see it on the blue line under the discharging graph.
Are you using live wallpaper?
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I bought batterystats and just not sure how to read it. I've created a dump file from it and attached here.
I'm not using any live wallpapers, and have downloaded very few programs such as doubletwist, chrome beta, battery calibration, dropbox, fasterfix, go launcher, team viewer and titanium backup. But even without those apps I was still seeing battery drain.
Delete all contents on usb storage except for music and videos.Wipe cache and dalvik.Restart phone.Let it settle for a couple of minutes.Should be ok.
I did that and now I wait. I'll report back tomorrow hopefully with good news.
I noticed that with CPU Spy shows that one of the Unused CPU states is Deep Sleep before so I'll check that out after this.
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I did that and now I wait. I'll report back tomorrow hopefully with good news.
I noticed that with CPU Spy shows that one of the Unused CPU states is Deep Sleep before so I'll check that out after this.
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You have got same crazy apps running in the background. If your not hitting deep sleep you have a serious problem. Another thing to clear is media storage .
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After running the kernel cleaner script, wiping data/cache/dalvik etc, I installed Wanam's newest ROM JHLP9, and now no more Android OS keeping the phone up from deep sleep.
It seems to me that all of the AOKP ROMs have some serious battery drain issues, or just bad luck.
Im using SiyahKernal and I'm curious about undervolting.
I want a safe/ok combo that will be smoothish and fastish but good for battery.
I'm currently running the cpu at 900mhz using extweaks.
Any suggestions? what're your settings?
Undervolting takes time and patience.
Start with -25 first and test if it is stable for a day or two.
If it is, move on to the next step.
Personally I didn't undervolt yet because it seemed to lower my average benchmark scores. Overclocked to 1704 and get 63k average in quadrant!!! (Not that it really matters in daily use...)
Yes do it in steps. The only danger is too low a voltage will cause a reboot when idle if theres not enough power to keep going.
I got mine to -100 for every step, stable. This means Samsung were generous with their voltages IMHO, but OEM's generally are. HTC are the same.
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Yes do it in steps. The only danger is too low a voltage will cause a reboot when idle if theres not enough power to keep going.
I got mine to -100 for every step, stable. This means Samsung were generous with their voltages IMHO, but OEM's generally are. HTC are the same.
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Thats amazing! how was your battery?
So the only danger is a reboot? no damage? apart from the obvious loss of work unsaved or game etc.
Not really bothered about benchmarking. just battery life with at least an 'ok' performance. i can easily set it up later when i need performance.
Just really love this phone and am mosty working all day.
Not really for undervolting. Its over volting that causes damage. Battery is ok. Not amazingly better. Cell Standby is killing me.
rootSU said:
Not really for undervolting. Its over volting that causes damage. Battery is ok. Not amazingly better. Cell Standby is killing me.
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yeah cell standby is a big hog. it drains more than 45% of my battery every charge
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How to undervolt Samsung Galaxy S3?
http://www.jayceooi.com/2012/06/20/how-to-undervolt-samsung-galaxy-s3/
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i m using cm7 stable rom on my p500........with overclocking min 480/max729 ,governor-performance,scheduler-cfg.....
is there any effect of overclocking on battery life or performance on mobile?
more performance but lower battery life.
Mmm ok I have some questions, what is a normal overclock to improve battery life but without sacrificing a lot of performance.
And the other way around, an overclock that improves some performance without sacrificing too much battery.
What are the "optimal" values of an overclock (Without making the phone unstable)
I would just overclock until you get phone instability or you go as far as you can for the current kernel (I'm on AOKP 4.0.4 and it's 787 max which is what I'm at).
Battery life doesn't get affected that much because it's mostly drain when playing games where it ramps up to the max clock speed, at which point you're draining a lot of battery anyways.
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I would just overclock until you get phone instability or you go as far as you can for the current kernel (I'm on AOKP 4.0.4 and it's 787 max which is what I'm at).
Battery life doesn't get affected that much because it's mostly drain when playing games where it ramps up to the max clock speed, at which point you're draining a lot of battery anyways.
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Thanks, I also have AOKP so I'm going to work around it a bit, how can I test stability?
Go to Rom Control.. Performance.
Remember to UNCHECK " Set at boot" option.. so that if anything happens.. it can return to default value after a reboot.
If random reboots or white screen appears or phone hangs.. its not stable.
I'll rephrase my question, what type of test can I do to ensure I have a stable overclock. I don't want to find my phone turned off out of the blue and maybe missed an alarm or what not. Thanks anyhow for the tips
Just do general usage. If it works fine for 2 weeks at a specific clock, it's likely to be okay.
kibaruk said:
I'll rephrase my question, what type of test can I do to ensure I have a stable overclock. I don't want to find my phone turned off out of the blue and maybe missed an alarm or what not. Thanks anyhow for the tips
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You will only know by using. The CPU manufacturers label a chip ancertain speed because it fails a test at the next level. That means that some chips can handle faster than others. They are guaranteed to be stable at the rated speed.
There is no formula
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Thank you everyone who helped me in here
Overclocking kills lifespan of processor...
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Overclocking kills lifespan of processor...
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Not necessarily. Voltage and heat are usually what kills electrical components. Since our device can't change voltage for the CPU, that point is irrelevant. However, heat is a factor but AFAIK the heat from overclocking doesn't increase that much for this device, unlike something like PC CPUs so that's fine as well.
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Not necessarily. Voltage and heat are usually what kills electrical components. Since our device can't change voltage for the CPU, that point is irrelevant. However, heat is a factor but AFAIK the heat from overclocking doesn't increase that much for this device, unlike something like PC CPUs so that's fine as well.
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No, you can damage it. If it heats up, then:
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So I open an app like the play store or chrome in the screenshots and get 100% load for 10 seconds or more. I noticed this behavior on different roms and kernels/governors.
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That's only 51% maxed out would be BOTH CPUs at 100% so really your concern is?
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Because it's a waste of energy.
reborn90, sorry for the off topic question but what are those system widgets (CPU, Disk I/O .. etc)?
Perfmon its the app
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Because it's a waste of energy.
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Without accounting for exactly what the CPU is doing you really can't make this assertion.
Me neither, that's why I ask. It just looks buggy when the cpu starts scaling to max frequency (for a long time) because a new app is started.
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Me neither, that's why I ask. It just looks buggy when the cpu starts scaling to max frequency (for a long time) because a new app is started.
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Try a different governor, or maybe increase/decrease the refresh rate of your resource monitor? (BTW, scaling to max speed on load is actually better for battery life in some cases, as the task energy required can be sometimes be lower when you burn more juice but complete a given task in a shorter period of time).
The cpu (core) load shoud be independent from the governor, apart from the current frequency of course. I still have the feeling that it is some kind of "phantom load" but actually I have no idea. I switched from an ASOP rom to CM10.1 and I haven't seen the problem yet. :fingers-crossed:
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The cpu (core) load shoud be independent from the governor, apart from the current frequency of course.
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Its true that load wouldnt be caused by the governor, but the governor you run does affect how load is handled and whether there averages more or less load on the system. By running at a higher speed the system load is decreased because the processor is going through its tasks much faster. If the governor is keeping the speed lower while doing a task then the system load will be much higher because the CPU cant complete things as fast. So load and governor are linked together, but it is the tasks being run that cause any of the load in the first place.
Since the problem hasnt come back since switching to CM10.1 it was probably something in the system that got bugged and caused this behavior.
Yes I agree, but in this particular case I have maximal frequency and core load. It's much better now with cm10.1. :good: