I'm a long time lurker, first time poster, so please...go easy on me as I'm still trying to figure out the lingo and what not!
Anyhow, I just recently installed V6 and everything is absolutely great - except my battery goes down faster than <insert whatever reference you want here..hockey goalie, boxing, sexual>
I initially tried flashing over V5 and that's when the issue started - V5 was fine the way it was, but was starting to eat up the battery a little quicker - maybe due to a couple of new apps installed? did a full wipe and reinstalled v6 and am experiencing the same issue
I don't know if it's a problem with my actual battery or what...anyone have any suggestions?
Fully charge the battery until the green charged light goes off then reboot into XRecovery and wipe your battery stats.
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Alternatively, there's the battery calibration app.
Alternatively, build your own stock ROM. Wolfs ROM has IMHO too many uneccesary tweaks that drain the battery... although his performance ROM has awesome battery (I'm using it right now)... lol I dunno why..
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Well its tough to explain u, but use set cpu and reduce the maximum processing speed to 384. The battery will be consumed to the lowest. I have done the same. And my x10 works for min 1.5 day.
GreatBigDog said:
Fully charge the battery until the green charged light goes off then reboot into XRecovery and wipe your battery stats.
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I installed the ROM with a full battery and after the first thing I did was use the battery calibration app
Ogbert_theNerd said:
Alternatively, there's the battery calibration app.
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did that
Prodigy said:
Alternatively, build your own stock ROM. Wolfs ROM has IMHO too many uneccesary tweaks that drain the battery... although his performance ROM has awesome battery (I'm using it right now)... lol I dunno why..
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You know, I just might do that...I just gotta find a guide or how-to to do this...I'll let you know my progress...in a few years
ynkamat said:
Well its tough to explain u, but use set cpu and reduce the maximum processing speed to 384. The battery will be consumed to the lowest. I have done the same. And my x10 works for min 1.5 day.
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um..I have no-frills cpu - figure it's the same, or is set cpu a better app?
max clock freq is at 998Mhz; min at 245; governor is at ondemand (gotta read up on this..) and i/o scheduler is on deadline..should I change any of the other stuff?
thanks!
I use juce defender plus and if needed I could go a couple of days without charging.
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Not sure if my problem is the same but my phone WB v6 (even on v5) will turn off when used heavily i guess (less than 5min video games seem to be ok but other apps will do it randomly). but the battery will say like 65% whatever it should be from the use so far after a reboot most of the time i have then same % as before the umm crash but sometimes it shows 25% and turns off then if i leave it for a bet i get back to the higher % but will still crash with a little app use. Frustrating as i LOVE the ROM!
So far no crash during phone calls. But the crashes are no rhyme or reason. I have tried calibrating and full flash but it came back.
(would have posted in the ROM thread but i have too few postes and this seemed a better place)
Hung Wei Lo: which version are you using? Try lowering min frequency, adjust settings (like brightness). I'm on v6 with Freekernel and I get 2-3 days on a full charge. Maybe an app is preventing your phone from entering deep sleep.
Rabbit Stew: are you overclocking? Try a full wipe including battery stats, then installing v6s. The stock version should be the most stable.
Here's two methods that work for me.
To me the battery calibration app, is USELESS, no offence to the developer.
1. Wiping battery stats: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=943626
or
2. Optimizing battery with just a charger and phone: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1071885
Don't go anymore then 5 tries.
I figured I'd give an update on this..
Things had magically sorted themselves out - battery life got better and better each day, though not to the point most of you are getting (I'm talking MAYBE 14 hours of minimal usage - the odd facebook check, random text message etc)
As suggested, I've set the min. frequency to the lowest possible, screen timeout is at like 30 seconds
As of the past couple of days, I've been getting half that...no new apps installed all the same settings...wifi is off, brightness is set to 25%, no gps usage all I have on is data. As an example, I charged her up and unplugged it with an hour to go before I was done at work. an hour ride on the subway doing nothing but listening to some tunes, and I'm down to 60%...in two hours
I'm at wits end here...according to cpu spy here are my most recent stats:
998 - 0:01:49 - 35%
576 - 0:00:-4 - 1%
384 - 0:00:03 - 3%
245 - 0:00:52 - 17%
deep sleep - 0:02:11 - 42%
thoughts (related to this issue)? suggestions? ideas?
is calibrating the battery will solve the phone randomly restart??
In my infinite wisdom, I'd have to seriously doubt it...did you do a fresh install?
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So I just installed BAMF remix 1.7 on my newly rooted TB and it seemed slow with bad battery life. This seems to be atypical so I was wondering if anyone could help me out figuring out my problem.
I downloaded the rom and flashed it from rom manager, selecting to clear the cache and dalvic cache. The install went fine and I restored my user apps from titanium backup. While it was going through and installing all of these apps, super user force closed a couple of times. Then there were some applications that kept force closing like handcent, flexT9, and Swift keyboard X, but uninstalling and reinstalling them seemed to fix the problems. I then reset the battery statistics from cwm.
I set up the accounts and sync like I had before and in fact had less accounts syncing since I was only syncing facebook and not facebook and the htc sense facebook both. I didn't change the kernal but set the governor to power save after I started noticing the battery running out quick.
When I was on stock running adw or go launcher, I would get about 15 hours from a full charge on 4G. Today after a full charge I got about 6.5 hours on a full charge.
Should I have done a factory reset in there? Is there a different kernal I should try? Should I try to flash the rom again without using rom manager?
You should definitely wipe all data before flashing any custom ROM. Many people have also had a lot of issues flashing with Rom Manager, including myself. DL the ROM from the developers page, place it on the root of your SD card (not in a folder), rename it to "update.zip" with a file manager, then use ROM Manager to boot into recovery. Wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache and dalvic then apply update from SD card. If you don't have a file manager on your phone, rename it on your PC then move to the card. You should be good after that.
You need to wipe data when coming from a different rom.
Have you tried use Imoseyon battery saver or extreme kernel? It does gives great battery life if you find sweet spot on your TB.
PS. You must wipe everything if you are coming from another ROM.
I have the same issue as OP. I have wiped dalvik/cache/data. I did factory reset and I am running the BAMF 1.7 remix with Adrenalyn's Kernel and the new radio that's provided in the rom. I've read that this rom and kernel are good with battery life but mine drains at a very fast rate 1% about 3 mins. I don't have any data sucking apps. GPS is always off and Im on 3G using AUTO(PRL).
Any suggestions?
bumping the thread
i had slow and no responsive with the screen it was pissing me off so i updated to gingerbread and it works like it should now. No 4 second lag and no anger
you should def do a full wipe before installating a new rom.
Battery life on 1.7 sucked for me too until I did a battery calibration, which I'd recommend doing after flashing a new rom.
- charge to 100% (turn phone off, wait till light turns green)
- boot into recovery, wipe battery stats
- reboot phone, unplug, wait till battery totally drains before plugging in again
I also went into the bamf toolkit and set the min to 245 and max to 1.024 w governor 'smartass'.
Since I did that the batt life has been much better, good luck.
XViCi0uSX said:
you should def do a full wipe before installating a new rom.
Battery life on 1.7 sucked for me too until I did a battery calibration, which I'd recommend doing after flashing a new rom.
- charge to 100% (turn phone off, wait till light turns green)
- boot into recovery, wipe battery stats
- reboot phone, unplug, wait till battery totally drains before plugging in again
I also went into the bamf toolkit and set the min to 245 and max to 1.024 w governor 'smartass'.
Since I did that the batt life has been much better, good luck.
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thanks, I'm going to try redoing the install and this battery calibration. I'm actually trying to decide on whether to keep 1.7 remix or go stripped.
So I think my slowness was from putting the governor to power saver. It runs much better with smartass. I basically understand what the other governor settings do, but what does smartass do?
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thanks, I'm going to try redoing the install and this battery calibration. I'm actually trying to decide on whether to keep 1.7 remix or go stripped.
So I think my slowness was from putting the governor to power saver. It runs much better with smartass. I basically understand what the other governor settings do, but what does smartass do?
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Basically, it sets the min and max as needed... like when its sleeping, it'll set the min at 245 mhz. At least that's what I understand lol
Here's some more info...
(Copy n paste, it won't let me post a link)
droidforums.net/forum/droid-incredible-tech-issues/109934-smart-governor-setcpu.html
Also, there's a free app on the market called battery calibration by NeMo.. it'll let u kno when its charged to 100% and then it'll wipe it batt stats for ya.
Hope this helps
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question about kernals, I installed bamf stripped so I don't have sense anymore. Can I still install the Adrynalyne kernals in kernal manager labeled "Sense" or do I need to find stock versions?
XViCi0uSX said:
Basically, it sets the min and max as needed... like when its sleeping, it'll set the min at 245 mhz. At least that's what I understand lol
Here's some more info...
(Copy n paste, it won't let me post a link)
droidforums.net/forum/droid-incredible-tech-issues/109934-smart-governor-setcpu.html
Also, there's a free app on the market called battery calibration by NeMo.. it'll let u kno when its charged to 100% and then it'll wipe it batt stats for ya.
Hope this helps
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just tried this and after wiping the stats and charging fully I'm at 16% after 3h 40mins. Will see if it gets better on subsequent recharges
Viper Daimao said:
question about kernals, I installed bamf stripped so I don't have sense anymore. Can I still install the Adrynalyne kernals in kernal manager labeled "Sense" or do I need to find stock versions?
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Yes, even tho you used the stripped rom it still has sense elements.
Viper Daimao said:
just tried this and after wiping the stats and charging fully I'm at 16% after 3h 40mins. Will see if it gets better on subsequent recharges
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charged it to full last night, and with very light use it's at 27% after 4 and a half hours. I think I'd get to almost 6 hours if I let it run down.
That's some improvement but I think it may have more to do with not playing plants vs zombies any this time. The battery now gets fairly hot when playing PvZ when it didn't before.
I'm not sure what the problem is but I cannot live with only getting 4-6 hours of life out of a phone. I think I'm going to have to try a non-bamf rom.
I got around 14-16 hours on that ROM. What kernel/radio are u running? I also kept WiFi and Gps off when I wasn't using it. I also had min/max at 245/1.402.
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Look at your Battery Stats. What does it say is using the majority of your battery?
ktech11 said:
I got around 14-16 hours on that ROM. What kernel/radio are u running? I also kept WiFi and Gps off when I wasn't using it. I also had min/max at 245/1.402.
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I'm running 4G and keep wifi and gps off too along with the brightness being around 20. when I was non-rooted I got about 14-16 also (counting 7 hours of idle at night) I have my settings set to the same as before I was rooted. I'm running whatever kernal/radio came with sripped bamf 1.7. I had applied the MR1 update OTA unrooted when it came out but otherwise haven't changed anything regarding kernal or radio.
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Look at your Battery Stats. What does it say is using the majority of your battery?
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it shows the display at about 40-50%, 20 for car home screen (I have it on and streaming music during my 25 minute right to work, seems high but it's not on any more than that and the drain is still pretty constant). For instance, I charged it up to about 29% and it drained to zero and shut down while I was at lunch over about an hour an a half.
Looking at my currant widget log. I started at 29% at 11:43 then dropped 1% of battery every 2-3 minutes or so (while idle in my pocket) then it hit 8% at 1:03pm and stayed there till 1:08 at which point it shut down.
Just to add my $.02 ... I'm running BAMF 1.7. I don't mess with kernel settings or anything like that, just whatever comes with the non-remix 1.7 ROM.
Prior to last week, I was getting a good 15 hours on my stock battery (light - moderate usage), but something changed last week and I am getting pretty poor battery life now, like 6 - 8 hours.
I posted a reply over on a forum at Android Central but I haven't seen any definitive cause yet. Our theory is that an application update might be causing an issue. I was searching over here to see if anyone was having similar issues.
I'm getting much better battery life now. Got about 24 hours on 4G the whole time. I think it might have been because I was signed on to trillian but I still need to test. It's odd because before rooting I got 14-15 hours of 4G and I'm pretty sure I was signed on trillian then too.
Hi xda members
Since I didn't get a reply in issue's in GB thread I will make one my own.
it happens to be that my battery life has greatly discreased with the GB update.
Let me tell you what I did
I had a rooted FW of 2.1 because I have read that the update doesn't update with CFW i repaired trough SEUS to stock. I wiped all caches + battery stats and updated this friday to 2.3.3
Now I think my battery still needs time to calibrate again since I wiped stats but here is the strange part.
whenever the phone is on idle the phone only uses about 34mA ( using battery monitor widget ) which is as before noting big . But whenever I go to youtube/ watch mp4 vids it skyrockets to 900mA!? This makes my battery last for 2 hours. The brightness is at it's lowest though and still it consumes so much. before my mA was around 300mA with that kind of usage now it's freaking 900mA !?
Should I relfash wait for the battery to be calibrated again ?
Thanks for you time
bump no one !?
I think this problem is due to original sonyericsson kernel in 2.3.3 that causes the problems, and I think it can be fix it with custom kernel, because the processor is always operating at 998Mhz and 245Mhz little.
look it in cpuspy
julio_ton said:
I think this problem is due to original sonyericsson kernel in 2.3.3 that causes the problems, and I think it can be fix it with custom kernel, because the processor is always operating at 998Mhz and 245Mhz little.
look it in cpuspy
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Yup downloaded cpuspy and indeed it's always clocked at max speed even when just browsing and stuff going to look to root this device and underclock thanks for the input !
Has this issue been fixed somehow, or addressed? Is it even possible? I'm on WB TW 2.3.3, lovin' it, but battery running down crazy when screen is on. CPUspy does show, though, that when in an application (e.g. Drag Race), the middle CPU frequencies are indeed used.... At the moment I have
1h34 @ 998MHz,
8min @ 768MHz,
6min @ 576MHz,
2min @ 384MHz,
12min @ 245MHz,
30min deep sleep.
So they are not inaccessible... any ideas on how we can get back to normal battery use? CPU profiles etc. of any use?
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Has this issue been fixed somehow, or addressed? Is it even possible? I'm on WB TW 2.3.3, lovin' it, but battery running down crazy when screen is on. CPUspy does show, though, that when in an application (e.g. Drag Race), the middle CPU frequencies are indeed used.... At the moment I have
1h34 @ 998MHz,
8min @ 768MHz,
6min @ 576MHz,
2min @ 384MHz,
12min @ 245MHz,
30min deep sleep.
So they are not inaccessible... any ideas on how we can get back to normal battery use? CPU profiles etc. of any use?
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I am on wolfs rom aswell and calibrating battery as we speak I hope it works
I will keep you posted! Going to stress my x10 for a while and see how the battery goes and post some screenhots when done.
I hope I can fix this with wolfs rom and by underclocking some
ok seems I can get more battery life out of this old sucker
but whenever screen is on it still goes pretty down fast
even on a low brightness I think it's kernel related
do one thing .... charge ur phone to 100% and then reboot in xrec and wipe ur battery stats...then unplug ur charger , remove battery and plug in ur charger and wait 5 seconds, put ur battery and turn on see if the battery is below 5 % ..if its then do full charge until 100%..after that check ur battery how it works ..
i did this thing 2 hrs back my battery ran in 100% for more than and hour with 50% brightness !!
hope it works for u too
Thank me if it worked for u!!
I'm afraid you may still have problems with battery time. I had the same prob. and got the free market app "set cpu", battery time doubled as soon as I set up the app.
Install the app and on the main page set the scaling to "ondemand", then click "set on boot". Set sliders to 245 min. 998 max.
hope this works for you as it did for me.
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I'm afraid you may still have problems with battery time. I had the same prob. and got the free market app "set cpu", battery time doubled as soon as I set up the app.
Install the app and on the main page set the scaling to "ondemand", then click "set on boot". Set sliders to 245 min. 998 max.
hope this works for you as it did for me.
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Ok thank you going to test that out mate !
sorry double posted thought I didn't post
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I'm afraid you may still have problems with battery time. I had the same prob. and got the free market app "set cpu", battery time doubled as soon as I set up the app.
Install the app and on the main page set the scaling to "ondemand", then click "set on boot". Set sliders to 245 min. 998 max.
hope this works for you as it did for me.
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Installing SetCPU didnt help me out...battery life still dismal as before.
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Installing SetCPU didnt help me out...battery life still dismal as before.
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Have you tried battery calibration app, free the market? It helped me also.
I forgot to mention this in my first post. Also, what update to wolfs rom are you using
Hi all, I'm new to this part of the xda forums as I had a nexus before, just got the upgrade to the Atrix, rooting,unlocking of bootloader everything went well but I just flashed Aura's from with feux kernel and im getting really really bad battery life, like I'm talking 4-5 hours. There is one process thats really confusing me, its just called "x" and its sitting there taking about 35% battery, my screen is taking 55% battery.
It's getting really annoying as my nexus used to give me about 12 hours and the only reason I moved to the atrix was to get the better battery life that I saw with all my atrix touting friends (they all had 1-2 days battery life) I'm about to flash homebase and see if that fixes it but I don't know whats going on. I have a UK MB860 and I used http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1196747&highlight=t-mobile+root to root. Pleaseee can someone help!
X is the webtop and there is a fix somewhere for that (doesn't completely work). Just flash CM7 beta. Its much better than any other ROM and has the best battery life. Everything except the finger print scanner and webtop work.
Also I had really good battery on the Ying Yang ROM.
Speedily sent from CM7 Beta
I think I might give CM7 a go you know, I loved CM on the nexus, even after it killed the memory chips it was still good! Im going to try it, is it really stable?
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since updating to CM7 and Wiping my battery stats I have some how gained 39% battery!
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I think I might give CM7 a go you know, I loved CM on the nexus, even after it killed the memory chips it was still good! Im going to try it, is it really stable?
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since updating to CM7 and Wiping my battery stats I have some how gained 39% battery!
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I haven't had any issues with it. And the gain is very odd.
Speedily sent from CM7 Beta
Try alien, i had some battery issues with some other roms and kernels and tried alien and all is good.This phone comes with an 1930Mah battery one of the largest i've ever seen and it lasts me 12 hrs on heavy use.
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I've had great battery life on the atrix, now I'm getting a good look at the atrix on the 4800mah battery. I'm a heavy user and I could not get over 24 hours. And now I have 59 hours and I have yet to actually see how far I can take it. Cm7 beta. Juicey....
I find that all gingerbread roms have horrible battery life compared to froyo on the atrix. Cm7 battery is worse but the phone is smoother. Faux 1.3ghz kernel has even worse battery.
Regardless of the radio or magical method of resetting the battery state you use.
1:25 screen time and at 47% battery. Been off the charger for 6:15. It will make it through my 10hr shift with about 20% remaining if I'm lucky, usually I just toss it on the charger.
Background data is off, email and social apps are manual sync and wifi is off.
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one weird thing I am seeing is the display which is at 0% brightness is using 91% battery
Also the better battery stats app says my actual battery is 91% but the phone is reporting 66% I wiped thenbattery stats but nothing!
please help!
If you haven't taken a look at it, give this a shot:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1198333
Starting to mess around with your phone opens up a world of things that can go wrong. Learn to calm down, search the forums, and try a variety of fixes before giving up on something.
...and use nandroid.
ian426 said:
If you haven't taken a look at it, give this a shot:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1198333
Starting to mess around with your phone opens up a world of things that can go wrong. Learn to calm down, search the forums, and try a variety of fixes before giving up on something.
...and use nandroid.
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I was just about to post that lol. Also make sure every time you flash a new rom you are at 100% if not that is a sure fire way to cheat yourself out of battery life. I don't know if I'm just one of "the lucky ones" but I easily get over 16+ hours with moderate usage. I'm running CM7 beta with quite a few things frozen.
Ok so I followed the guide to perfection and it didn't improve the battery life one bit! I'm trying hard to find a t-mobile radio I can flash as I have read around it could be my radio that is the culprit and I am also getting rubbish HSDPA readings, I should be getting full bars but since switching to homebase Im only getting one bar.
Using watchdog I have noticed that the Xorg process is using over 50% cpu which does not seem right to be and I believe that because its a linux process Watchdog can't kill it. Is there anyway of fixing this?
1) Uninstall Tango, Facebook and Handcent SMS if any of the three are installed. They are huge battery drainers and you can find less battery hogging substitutes
2) Freeze any unnecessary apps, I believe there is a thread somewhere in the General section that has a pretty decent freeze list (if you flash CM7, you will have very little to freeze but that's good!)
3) Keep brightness down to a minimum when you can, I've noticed kicking the brightness up rather high can be pretty demanding on your battery
4) Set SetCPU Profiles to something like this...
Screen Off 216/216
Charging 1100/216
In Call 456/216
Battery <20% 456/216
Battery <10% 216/216
5) If you have the proper kernel set the CPU govner to power saver.
6) Undervolt, test yours and never apply set on boot unless you are positive it's stable, mine are something like this...
1100 MHz -50mV
1000 MHz -50mV
912 MHz -50mV
750 MHz -50mV
608 MHz -100mV
456 MHz -150mV
216 MHz -200mV
This way when you're phone is idling with the screen off, in a call or low on battery it is undervolting heavily to save maximum amounts of battery
With this setup I can get 30+ hours pretty regularly with moderate-to-heavy usage (weekdays/non-work days), 22-25 hours with more heavy usage (work days) and close to 48 hours with little usage (weekends).
It all depends on your usage and your phone but I have found this setup here to work fairly well.
I am currently on CM7 Beta, stock CM7 radio and stock CM7 kernel, running at 1100/216 when above profile conditions aren't met. 32% been running since 9 am this morning, it is now 3:15 am, today was a long workday.
I can almost guarantee (almost) that its your rom/kernel combination. Had same problem til I changed.
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fastboot erase osh
That will nuke your webtop & fix your problem.
I'm now using faux kernel for CM7 and that hasn't improved anything, in fact I think it it has made it worse. It's getting really irretating because using the watch dog app it always says there is one linux process on every rom I use that is clocking at over 50% cpu usage and It won't let me kill it (probably because it's a linux process), its really annoying me because all I want is my phone to work properly but to enjoy the full rooting experience. I know countless amounts of people with atrix's and they get a full day and a bit out of their phone with heavy usage i can't even manage 10 hours!
amzter said:
I'm now using faux kernel for CM7 and that hasn't improved anything, in fact I think it it has made it worse. It's getting really irretating because using the watch dog app it always says there is one linux process on every rom I use that is clocking at over 50% cpu usage and It won't let me kill it (probably because it's a linux process), its really annoying me because all I want is my phone to work properly but to enjoy the full rooting experience. I know countless amounts of people with atrix's and they get a full day and a bit out of their phone with heavy usage i can't even manage 10 hours!
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Watchdog eats battery like a mthrfckr, get away from that. Install BetterBatterStats instead & look for wakelocks. Which linux process are you noticing with that high cpu usage?
How many hours of screen time do you get in those 10 hrs?
Have you tried with a fastboot wipe & internal storage format prior to installing a new rom? Are you using the latest recommended radio for your phone?
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please help!
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Turn background syncing off if you are using that, and get in the habit of doing manual updates.
Too many times (with ANY Android device) people leave background syncing on and it tries sending/receiving data in a weak signal spot when you don't realize it. That's like a hot knife through butter on a battery.
Leave syncing off permanently if possible! That's a huge improvement right there for anyone...
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ccrows said:
Turn background syncing off if you are using that, and get in the habit of doing manual updates.
Too many times (with ANY Android device) people leave background syncing on and it tries sending/receiving data in a weak signal spot when you don't realize it. That's like a hot knife through butter on a battery.
Leave syncing off permanently if possible! That's a huge improvement right there for anyone...
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That's a bit radical, no?
I'd say use Green Power so the phone can update every half hour or hour. It's a smartphone at the end of the day..
So, over the past few days I've been noticing a few problems with my phone, all of which have to do with the battery. After installing fauxes OC 1.3ghz kernel I noticed a drop in usages before the phone died, that's a given. So i flashed his enhanced 1ghz kernel instead, but still notice bad battery drops when im using it. It doesn't drop 40% over night or anything, only about 6%. But, if i turn the phone off and back on the % jumps up. Sometimes 20%. Is there anything wrong with the battery, or the phone?
Try calibrating the battery.
i haven't doe that since my first phone. How would i go about doing that.
chaous2000 said:
i haven't doe that since my first phone. How would i go about doing that.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1198333&highlight=BATTERY+CALIBRATION
Also, with faux's kernels check your CPU clocking with setCPU, or something similar. Somtimes it will lock at the max clock speed which will contribute to quick battery drain. I'm on his stock enhanced and getting close to 2 days with moderate use.
How do you get two days of battery?! Thar's intense! I haven't been able to get past the 15 or 16 hours with the stock kernel, neither with faux's stock enhanced! Do you usually drop your cpu speed while it's in your pocket or something? Or do I have a bad battery? Because I've been really concerned about this battery not lasting the monster time it is supposed to last...
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1198333&highlight=BATTERY+CALIBRATION
Also, with faux's kernels check your CPU clocking with setCPU, or something similar. Somtimes it will lock at the max clock speed which will contribute to quick battery drain. I'm on his stock enhanced and getting close to 2 days with moderate use.
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jeffmena93 said:
How do you get two days of battery?! Thar's intense! I haven't been able to get past the 15 or 16 hours with the stock kernel, neither with faux's stock enhanced! Do you usually drop your cpu speed while it's in your pocket or something? Or do I have a bad battery? Because I've been really concerned about this battery not lasting the monster time it is supposed to last...
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I have uv and profiles set up in setCPU. I'm actually a little amazed by how good it's been since re-installing all of my mods (went back to stock recovery due to some issues).
If you're experience battery jumps then install the fix noted in the calibration instructions. Most likely you're battery isn't charging to full capacity, so that coupled with the improperly reported stats make it seem much worse than it is. The process is a bit time consuming, but it did work for me.
Little confused with my battery and SetCPU sitll
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I have uv and profiles set up in setCPU. I'm actually a little amazed by how good it's been since re-installing all of my mods (went back to stock recovery due to some issues).
If you're experience battery jumps then install the fix noted in the calibration instructions. Most likely you're battery isn't charging to full capacity, so that coupled with the improperly reported stats make it seem much worse than it is. The process is a bit time consuming, but it did work for me.
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Well I have Alien #4 custom rom and it actually has the battery fix so it shows the 1% increase/decrease and I recently did a battery calibration by waiting til it got to 100% with an app that deletes the battery stats as if you would do with recovery mode. I also have CWM recovery and everything doing fine there, my kernel is now Faux's 1.3GHz but limited with SetCPU to 1GHz, and I don't know if it'll get me a better battery life just that kernel. What do you mean by uv? And I have profiles set for when the screen is off and when its charging but nothing else apart from the 1GHz setting. Is it normal that I only have 2 scaling options? Powersave and performace?
Thank you. I will be trying this tomorrow when I have the huge amount of time needed to complete this. And uv means under volt.
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Thanks to you! I really appreciate it. I will be waiting for your response and maybe you could tell me if it lasts longer with the 1.3GHz ir the 1GHz. Thanks!!
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Thank you. I will be trying this tomorrow when I have the huge amount of time needed to complete this. And uv means under volt.
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Have battery drain in all roms minicm7 :/ even when i make a full wipe :/ gues is ultra brightness but if i unselect it d automatic brightness doesnt worck n if i put at the top the brightness without ultra it gets to darck ,srry bad eng. The pic say 9 hr.but i used ust 1 hour
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Hi,
as you say it is with all ROMs and even after full wipe my only guess is that your battery is weak.
I would perhaps just try a new battery, they're quite cheap at ebay.
I have CM7 (nightly build) on my mini pro and no problems with battery drain. But I'm no heavy user, just a few sms or short calls per day, no games, no online apps. Most of the time my phone sleeps in standby with screen off. My battery shows 70-80% at the end of the day. I think that's quite ok for a little phone with a small battery. I heard the facebook app sucks battery like hell. But I don't use it, so I can't prove.
My settings are:
Clockspeed: 768 max / 122 min
Undervolt: on
Governor: smartass v2
Ultrabrightness: on
Wfi: off (only "on" when I really need it)
Bluetooth: off (I don't use it)
GPS: off (only "on" if really needed)
GSM/UMTS Data: off (only "on" when I really need it)
Maybe I could help.
Personally, I do a "wipe battery stats" from CWM now and then (let's say... every 2 weeks) and I have more than 48 hours (up to 72) usage with normal conditions.
Definitely works. Give it a try...
Thanks guees is d battery
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Have battery drain in all roms minicm7 :/ even when i make a full wipe :/ gues is ultra brightness but if i unselect it d automatic brightness doesnt worck n if i put at the top the brightness without ultra it gets to darck ,srry bad eng. The pic say 9 hr.but i used ust 1 hour
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Go back to stock kernel for a couple of weeks, that might solve your battery drain.
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Go back to stock kernel for a couple of weeks, that might solve your battery drain.
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u have to use InteractiveX as governor and 600MHz as max cpu frequency.. turn off ultra brightness and under voltage options and set brightness to %25-35 and try to off the screen when not in use then u will see ur battery drains over 40-50 hours...
There is no battery drain, your phone sleep when screen is off. Nothing is draining there. I have a x10mini, constant watsapp, won't last me a day. No games no browsing.
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Duno in eclair doesnt happend dat :/
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Me too
adragonta said:
Have battery drain in all roms minicm7 :/ even when i make a full wipe :/ gues is ultra brightness but if i unselect it d automatic brightness doesnt worck n if i put at the top the brightness without ultra it gets to darck ,srry bad eng. The pic say 9 hr.but i used ust 1 hour
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Me too have the same problem...
I had been fighting my battery for months, as it was getting worse and worse. It got to the point where using data would use 1-2% per minute, and at some point my phone would last 4 hours with minimal to no use.
Things that helped:
1- Finding what apps could be draining battery made the phone last up to 20h with little use. (In my case, Go Locker).
2- When I started using wifi only (like an ipod touch, let's say) without SIM, battery went up to ~24h with medium wifi use.
3- Flashed nAa's latest kernel and installed MiniCM7-2.2.1, and the first charge lasted ~40h. Then I found out I hadn't even enabled airplane mode yet.
4- Charged to 100%, removed battery stats, airplane mode on and gave it a bigger wifi use. 46h and it's down to 13%. When not using it, drains nearly no battery. This night it stayed at 14% for 10 hours.
Overall I'm very pleased with where it is going. I know I'm a new member do this may not even me worth $0,02, but I do belive the wipe + new kernel and ROM made a world of diference.
in all custom roms, is the same