Hey guys.
I hate to make yet another thread on a topic that seems to have been beaten to death, but I can't take this anymore. My battery life has been really ****ty lately, like extra ****ty. With poop on top. It's gotten to the point where after 5 hours its under 30%, and this is with very minimal use. I don't know why this is, maybe because I sbfd last Thursday, and the battery calibration stuff is screwed up... Or maybe its because I started using widgetlocker recently, idk.
Anyways, attached us the battery use monitor thing. The first screenshot is from this morning, showing how I lost 10 percent battery doing NOTHING for 45 minutes. The next shows my battery being dead after 5 hours of very light use.
In both screenshots the top waster of battery is the phone idle. Is there anything I can do to minimize this battery drain from the phone doing nothing? I have eclipse v6 blurless (v7 seemed more unstable and i'm not into the cyan theme) and I am not using any special scripts.
Any advice/thoughts/sympathy would be appreciated. Thanks guys.
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Go to the market and find an app called "battery calibration". It will have instructions in the app on how to use it, and it should help you out.
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Watch out about using replacement words for excrement, sir caps a lot will report you to the clown.
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Oh this cracked me up.
And he will. I'm proof
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I've had the best success by doing this: Download battery calibration from the market (free). Charge your phone to 100% and run battery calibration, but DO NOT remove your charge cable! Leaving the cable plugged in will prevent the phone from creating a new batterystats.bin, I believe. Ok, now reboot your phone and unplug the charge cable allowing the batterystats.bin to be created at the 'M' logo. **Before proceeding, be sure recovery mode is set in System Recovery.** Discharge your phone till it shuts off. Proceed to charge to 100% uninterrupted. After fully charged then pull the cable and simply reboot your phone..
There are many ways to calibrate your battery, but I found doing it this way has proven the best (2.5 - 3% /hr drop) given my varying use of the phone.
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I've had the best success by doing this: Download battery calibration from the market (free). Charge your phone to 100% and run battery calibration, but DO NOT remove your charge cable! Leaving the cable plugged in will prevent the phone from creating a new batterystats.bin, I believe. Ok, now reboot your phone and unplug the charge cable allowing the batterystats.bin to be created at the 'M' logo. **Before proceeding, be sure recovery mode is set in System Recovery.** Discharge your phone till it shuts off. Proceed to charge to 100% uninterrupted. After fully charged then pull the cable and simply reboot your phone..
There are many ways to calibrate your battery, but I found doing it this way has proven the best (2.5 - 3% /hr drop) given my varying use of the phone.
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Im sad I never thought of that
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Ok, now reboot your phone and unplug the charge cable allowing the batterystats.bin to be created at the 'M' logo. **Before proceeding, be sure recovery mode is set in System Recovery.** Discharge your phone till it shuts off. Proceed to charge to 100% uninterrupted.
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I'm going to try this... But why do I need recovery mode set, and when you say discharge your phone does that mean I can wipe battery stats this morning, follow all the steps up to the moto logo and then just go out and around my daily business until my phones battery completely dies?
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I'm going to try this... But why do I need recovery mode set, and when you say discharge your phone does that mean I can wipe battery stats this morning, follow all the steps up to the moto logo and then just go out and around my daily business until my phones battery completely dies?
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I'd hope lol or you'd be waiting around for it to die for a couple days.
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I'm going to try this... But why do I need recovery mode set, and when you say discharge your phone does that mean I can wipe battery stats this morning, follow all the steps up to the moto logo and then just go out and around my daily business until my phones battery completely dies?
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I only say to have recovery mode enabled b/c if you don't have either charge or recovery set (new flashed ROM) then your phone will sit at the moto logo after discharge. My attempt to avoid you thinking it's bricked. And yes, go about your daily business after recreating the .bin file
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I'm going to try this... But why do I need recovery mode set, and when you say discharge your phone does that mean I can wipe battery stats this morning, follow all the steps up to the moto logo and then just go out and around my daily business until my phones battery completely dies?
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U DO NOT want recover mode set if u plan on letting your phone battery run ALL THE WAY DOWN. Recovery mode will hijack your charge only mode.
U will want CHARGE mode to be set so u can CHARGE instead of going into recovery like your.phone will do when u power off and plug in.
I also just want to say to google lithium ion battery. U should find that these batteries will actually lose life if u let it completely discharge to much. They are designed to get low(5-15%) and be charged not to be complete dead. Not letting it die can improve battery life. Just saying. I don't ever try to let it die 100%. I always get it on a charger before it shuts down.
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U DO NOT want recover mode set if u plan on letting your phone battery run ALL THE WAY DOWN. Recovery mode will hijack your charge only mode.
U will want CHARGE mode to be set so u can CHARGE instead of going into recovery like your.phone will do when u power off and plug in.
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Sigh. It'll charge while in recovery.. I do it every night.
EDIT: I charge it in recovery mode every night. And believe me, as little as I let battery die it's fine.
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Sigh. It'll charge while in recovery.. I do it every night.
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I understand that but u have no way of seeing how much it is charged. If ur just gonna leave it charge overnight go for it otherwise if u want to see how much it has charged u want charge mode on..
Edit::: sorry I didn't read al the posts to see your explanation of why recovery mode ...duh ash lol. That's what I get...sorry
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I understand that but u have no way of seeing how much it is charged. If ur just gonna leave it charge overnight go for it otherwise if u want to see how much it has charged u want charge mode on..
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You make something so simple too complicated. lol
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Sigh. It'll charge while in recovery.. I do it every night.
EDIT: I charge it in recovery mode every night. And believe me, as little as I let battery die it's fine.
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Hahaha. Yes I have been known to do that on occasion. But that's what I get for not having my coffee today. I just cracked a red bull after realizing how much I need it lol need to vitalize my mind hahaha...
I just wish I had drank a redbull last night before I flashed the new eclipse. I wanted to make a android of the stock in case I wanted to go back to stock at any point but silly old me just flashed while half asleep without even wiping data even. I woke up this morning to see my phone still in recovery with install complete but no wipes or backups before it. I was like www damn. Phone bootlooped till I went and wiped. Im an idiot. Now to get a android of stock im gonna have to sbf and start all over again. But I don't have a computer to do with. O well. Lol
Sorry...that wasn't even close to on subject haha
Recalibrate your battery.. and install the Speedy Scripts... IDK how your current setup is, but if you flash a new rom, its always in best interest to recalibrate your battery. CHARGE OVER NIGHT>RUN RECALIBRATION TOOL AS STATED WITH PLUGGED IN>WAIT FOR 15 MINS>UNPLUG>DRAIN BATTERY TILL FULLY DEPLETED>INSERT AC POWER CABLE AND CHARGE FULLY>BETTER BATTERY LIFE
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Install the Speedy Scripts in the x2 Dev section or Get a The SuperCharger scripts and fix OOM grouping to bulletproof and set to big memory device.
Enjoy 14+Hours of Battery Life.
Also, If you are in a bad service area, put in Airplane mode while you are not using your phone or in a bad area.
Hope this helps.
You guys seem to know what you're talking about so let me ask you this: what do you think about Juice Defender? Does it help, do nothing, or actually make your phone worse? Lots of different opinions out there.
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You guys seem to know what you're talking about so let me ask you this: what do you think about Juice Defender? Does it help, do nothing, or actually make your phone worse? Lots of different opinions out there.
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I noticed an improvement in battery life when using Eclipse v5. I was getting the life the OP mentioned and juice defender helped with that. I suggest to try it and compare your results w/out it..
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You guys seem to know what you're talking about so let me ask you this: what do you think about Juice Defender? Does it help, do nothing, or actually make your phone worse? Lots of different opinions out there.
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I have had inconsistent results using it. I have juice defender plus.
The main thing it does is it kills/manages ur data connection as that is the main things that drain battery running in background
I have had a few days where it worked and gave me an extra couple hours battery and some days where I didn't notice a difference.
I just wish I could set my phones own battery and data manager to shut data off whenever I turn screen off instead of 15mins of inactivity.
If wiping battery stats doesn't do it for you, you could always go with an extremely minimal setup..
I'm talking 0% brightness, BT/GPS/Wi-Fi Off, a data managing program that turns off data and restores it at set intervals, SetCPU to make a screenoff profile, NO SYNCING of anything (FB off) email set to 1hr (or whatever the minimum is). 1 Home Screen, minimal widgets.
If you really want to get extreme you could use Titanium to freeze FB/Google Maps and unfreeze when you need them. I don't use FB on my phone and I rarely use G Maps so it doesn't bother me to have them frozen.
With all that I get an easy day out of my phone with light use (< 30 text messages, < 15 minutes call time, an hour of browsing on Wi-Fi, and a couple hours of music) probably a full day of Moderate use, and 8 hours of heavy use.
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If wiping battery stats doesn't do it for you, you could always go with an extremely minimal setup..
I'm talking 0% brightness, BT/GPS/Wi-Fi Off, a data managing program that turns off data and restores it at set intervals, SetCPU to make a screenoff profile, NO SYNCING of anything (FB off) email set to 1hr (or whatever the minimum is). 1 Home Screen, minimal widgets.
If you really want to get extreme you could use Titanium to freeze FB/Google Maps and unfreeze when you need them. I don't use FB on my phone and I rarely use G Maps so it doesn't bother me to have them frozen.
With all that I get an easy day out of my phone with light use (< 30 text messages, < 15 minutes call time, an hour of browsing on Wi-Fi, and a couple hours of music) probably a full day of Moderate use, and 8 hours of heavy use.
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I USED to freeze a LOT of app giving me GREAT battery but now that bloat freezer is suddenly off.market(screw u google bring it back!!!) I can't. And im not gonna get titanium I never wanted it . I just want bloat freezer back. This is.bullcrap. seriously
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I recently flashed Froshedyo to my eris and my fiances eris. I set up setcpu and auto killer its now on aggressive. Today uninstalled setcpu thinking that it was affecting battery life since my fiance mentioned that his battery went from 90 something to 54 in 30 mins. Mine went from fully charged to 61 in less than 3 hours. We dont use our phones heavily. I do use the internet most days but not for long periods of time. I did wipe the battery stats on both phones and still havent seen much of a difference.
My question is, is there anything else I can do to get really good battery life. Do I have to do the collins battery tweak because I was going to try that next or would I have to end up switching roms which I really dont want to have to do but will if it will mean improvement. Id like the phone to not be dead after less than 24 hrs of use. Thank you for any help.
When you flashed and wiped battery stats was the phone fully charged then did you completely drain the battery and then charge to 100%? Do you have wi-fi and or blue tooth on all the time? Just trying to start with the easy things... I've heard of no issues of bad battery life with sheds roms. In fact quite the opposite. But I think his includes cpuboost in which case you don't need set cpu as they will conflict each other.
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I charged the phone to 100% wiped them this morning and then went about using the phone as I usually would. Sounds like I missed a step. So I have to charge to 100% then let it die then charge again then wipe? I
I never have wi-fi or blue tooth on.
Yes the rom did come with cpu boost. I believe I have that set 710/245. Should I change that as well?
i found this very useful on the desire forums
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After much googling this is the way that seems to be best when recalibrating battery. I just see so many people with poor battery life and it's likely because you've flashed new kernels and roms 50 times a week =p
Minor update! I recalibrate my phone today and realized something, this is reflected in a few new steps.
Step 1: Charge phone to 100%
Step 2: Wipe battery stats and shut phone off.
Step 3: UNPLUG PHONE and power on
Step 4: Leave phone on until it it shuts itself off. Do not plug it in.
Step 5: Turn phone back on, still unplugged. If it can't turn on that's fine. If it can turn on let it fully drain again.
Step 6: LEAVE PHONE OFF. Plug the phone in and let it FULLY charge without interruption. I let my phone hit the green light and then wait an hour before step 7.
Step 7: After it's hit green and you've waiting a while unplug your phone. Do not turn it on. Wait a minute and then plug it back in. If the light stays amber for more than a few seconds (like 10 tops) leave it charging again until it's green.
Step 8: Repeat step 7 until the light turns green very soon after you plug it back in.
Step 9: Unplug and turn your phone on. Enjoy your (hopefully) extended battery.
I also suggest using "Juiceplotter" widget. It "records" your phones battery usage and uses it to predict future battery life. It won't work perfectly for the first day or so but after it gets used to your habits it's very good at predicting.
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I am going to have to try that. Thank you. =D I hope it helps.
Charred the phone to 100% then wipe battery stats. Let the battery drain till the phone shuts off then charge it again. Wait untill its fully charged to unplug it and power phone on. You shouldn't need to wipe everything and flash again. You also dont want to use cpuboost and setcpu together. That will cause conflictions. I can't say on the settings because I don't use either of these. Im also not sure about task killer.
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Thank you again. I only installed the auto killer due to I read a few places that it helped a lot I personally haven't seen much a a difference. How long does your battery last just out of curiosity.
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Thank you again. I only installed the auto killer due to I read a few places that it helped a lot I personally haven't seen much a a difference. How long does your battery last just out of curiosity.
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I would probably get about 30 hours is my estimate but I plug it in every night. I use mine alot... some would almost say heavily. Lol. I would probably say moderate though. I don't use any cpu o/c apparently or task killers myself either.
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Wow thats awesome that it lasts so long for you. Sounds like your doing something right.
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Wow thats awesome that it lasts so long for you. Sounds like your doing something right.
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I'd say Tazz is doing something right lol. He made the rom.
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very true.
Good luck. Hope everything works out for you. Shed makes great roms too and his should also get excellent battery life. If I can help anymore feel free to pm me.
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I use advanced task killer set to clear every 30 minutes. Cpuboost and setcpu are disabled and the battery is just fine. Stays charged even if I leave wifi on (but apparently are closed)
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Obviously it all depends on what you've done while the screen was turned on but it'd be an interesting statistic.
Overall battery:
26hrs on stock rom 1.8.3
16hrs on gingerblur 3.1
Both with more than 3:30hrs of display on
About 24hrs on battery with 4hr15min with the display on. I think I have a screenshot on FB, lol.
I might be on to something here then..
Am using GladiAtrix 3 b0.2, before I installed it I did a battery stats reset through CWM
(advise from KennethPenn, dev of Gingerblur):
"""- Reset battery in CWM (under Advanced)
- Drain your battery to 0 percent and let it turn the phone off, then charge it back up to 100%."""
On my phone are more than 120 apps installed. Battery Manager is on "Maximum ".
The result is fairly amazing; the display time of almost 7 hrs is under heavy use; wlan & sync constantly on, Xscope & XDA app non-stop checking, market downloads, etc!! I have never had such good battery!
I advise everyone to do the above, it really helps.
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I might be on to something here then..
Am using GladiAtrix 3 b0.2, before I installed it I did a battery stats reset through CWM
(advise from KennethPenn, dev of Gingerblur):
"""- Reset battery in CWM (under Advanced)
- Drain your battery to 0 percent and let it turn the phone off, then charge it back up to 100%."""
On my phone are more than 120 apps installed. Battery Manager is on "Maximum ".
The result is fairly amazing; the display time of almost 7 hrs is under heavy use; wlan & sync constantly on, Xscope & XDA app non-stop checking, market downloads, etc!! I have never had such good battery!
I advise everyone to do the above, it really helps.
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are u using only GSM/EDGE?
about the battery mannager on maximum... if i leave my phone for more than 15 mins on the table... that means i wont get notifications or recive my Whatsapp and Facebook Messages??
are u using any task mannager?
Budske said:
are u using only GSM/EDGE?
about the battery mannager on maximum... if i leave my phone for more than 15 mins on the table... that means i wont get notifications or recive my Whatsapp and Facebook Messages??
are u using any task mannager?
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That's right, only 2g unless I need 3g for data. I'm always around a wifi though.
No task manager, android 2.2 does all that automatically.
Not sure battery manager is so aggressive, I think it takes a bit longer than 15 minutes.
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nice.. ill do the same....
u use *#*#4636#*#* to change the data connection to 2G??
How do u change 2g-3g ext?
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nice.. ill do the same....
u use *#*#4636#*#* to change the data connection to 2G??
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Download Any Cut in the market. Put a shortcut to the above on your home screen.
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6hrs is my personal best, straight stock phone.
I've just put mine on charge, prob got about 40-50 hours, mostly standby. Seems a lot but I just unpacked my charger from going away for the weekend.
Prob about 4 hours talk time, prob 3 hours web. No GPS, no wifi.
Strange thing is, the battery thing said '5 hours since unplugged' which is definately not the case, is this a known issue? 5 hours since I rebooted it maybe.
when you reboot - the time since unplugged counter is reset.
Is there a way to do the battery stats reset without CWM?
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Is there a way to do the battery stats reset without CWM?
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That one worked 100% for me.
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Here is mine
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a little off topic but howd you get that 1% battery mod and not the ugly circle, this looks kinda nice sitting at 33%, can one get that without gingerblur , stock plus root would do?
on topic, i get about 2 days on a medium usage on my battery , 1.5 days on heavy, i dont think i could use another phone after getting this much battery life, i just wonder what gingerbread would do to this phone
5 1/2 hours, with 3G turned on. Although the last 45 minutes of that it was just sitting at the launcher, I was waiting for the battery to die on it. I usually average 2-3 hours, but when I charge my phone I usually still have about 50% left.
Seeing as I rarely use data, I may have to try that 2G trick. Maybe I could charge it every other day instead of each night.
My best "Screen On" time is close to 4.5 hrs running Greyblur. For those just posting "time since unplugged"..screen on time is a much better indicator for battery life imo because it means actual use. The phone sitting idle in your pocket or on your table for 48 hrs is misleading to some people because then they wonder why they're only getting 12hrs with 5hrs of actual "useage" (screen on time).
For my style of use..battery saver modes and apps don't do me any favors because then I miss out on my IM's which I rely on for most of my communication. And unfortunately 2G isn't an option any more for most of us Canadian users..as 2G has been pretty much phased out.
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My best "Screen On" time is close to 4.5 hrs running Greyblur. For those just posting "time since unplugged"..screen on time is a much better indicator for battery life imo because it means actual use. The phone sitting idle in your pocket or on your table for 48 hrs is misleading to some people because then they wonder why they're only getting 12hrs with 5hrs of actual "useage" (screen on time).
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With you on that, I keep asking people to post screen usage time (also in other threads); anything else is fairly misleading on how long the battery lasts.
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At the moment screen time 2hrs 50mins battery stands at 55%
That's with wifi or 3g when screen is on
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Ok so I've been searching and searching for something to fix this suck ass battery life. I've removed home from my apps. I've done everything.. I see that idle is at 80%, idk what else to do..
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Have you tried fresh install. Sbf back to stock then rooting again. I keep my battery settings on performance, didnt remove much bloat, just the crap games and kindle. Also get poor service which kills battery little but I only have a 20% idle and 5% cell standby. Also I calibrated my battery to help a little with the app and by charging all the way and wiping battery stats in recovery. If none pf that help dont know what else will but someone might.
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There's a couple threads on this same forum with the same issue. You might look at some of the suggestions there. When you upgraded, did you use the pre-root, sbf, factory reset, do it at full battery, etc.?
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No solution yet. I've found this issue in threads for a lot of other phones that received 2.3.3 update.
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battery calibration as well as bloat freezing took my 24 hours or less lasting gingerbread and made it go about 4 days now on a full charge with no worries on moderate use (not playing youtube videos for 3 hours straight)
Is 38% an acceptable percentage for Phone Idle after 18 hours? It's the #1 battery user on the list.
Well I had horrible battery with 2.2.2 so its the same crap for me. I might as well do ANOTHER battery calibration or just keep killing the battery and charging for a bit. I just did that for the first time since getting GB today so lets see how that goes. It doesn't seem to die from standbye that fast like others say but just simple things like texting.
What all did you freeze?
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I must have a very good battery. Running OTA GB. I unplug it from the charger at 0600 and don't plug in until 2230 at night. Charge is only down between 60% & 70%. Wi-fi is off most of the time but I do run BT all day. I get 4-7 phone calls that can last up to 10-20 minutes at a time, average number of apps running including the usual bloat.
How did u do it?
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And what is BT?
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How did u do it?
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After I got the phone, I used it stock for a bit. then rooted it with Gingerbreak. Ran Titanium *Root and backed up most of the items on the bloat list posted elsewhere. I uninstalled a couple but then decided I needed to get it back to stock as Gingerbread was rumored to be just around the corner. I SBF'd the phone per instructions in these forums. The SBF restored the APKs I had uninstalled. I took the OTA when it came out and my battery life is good. No scripts, nothing special installed. Two apps I recommend are Advanced Task Killer and Superbox - both from Market. I see roughly 125-140mb free memory with caches emptied.
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Ok so I've been searching and searching for something to fix this suck ass battery life. I've removed home from my apps. I've done everything.. I see that idle is at 80%, idk what else to do..
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idle at 80% is a good thing. The idle statistic means your phone is using the least amount of energy possible. 80% idle in the battery manager means 80% of the time your phone is turned on it's using only the minimum amount of power required to stay powered up.
Those percentages don't mean it's using 80%, it's a "time in state" percentage.
If android system or a user app is 80% then you have a problem.
As stated in previous posts, if you truly have battery drain (less than 15 hours on a standard battery) check out the main thread on battery issues in gingerbread.
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Ive been using 1800s lately..2 of them that i charge with an external charger that came with them. Usually getting around 18 hrs at normal/heavy use. Considering i was lucky if i ever made it 12 hrs on the stock 1500, it was a good deal.
So both 1800s were dead and the plug in charger wasnt charging for some reason...phone kept restarting.. so i popped in the stock as a last resort and it made it 1 day 13 hrs and might have kept going if i hadnt taken it out at 4%. Really??
What changed it? I had charged it on the external charger and itd been sitting unused for a few weeks. Or does the phone adjust to longer cycle times when using extended batteries?
Ill have repeat the experiment and see if i get the same results.
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Good for you.
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Good for you.
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This comment was unnecessary. He's just asking a question.
Anyway, it may be a calibration issue but regardless how are you getting your battery to last so long? Do you not use your phone heavily?
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Ive been using 1800s lately..2 of them that i charge with an external charger that came with them. Usually getting around 18 hrs at normal/heavy use. Considering i was lucky if i ever made it 12 hrs on the stock 1500, it was a good deal.
So both 1800s were dead and the plug in charger wasnt charging for some reason...phone kept restarting.. so i popped in the stock as a last resort and it made it 1 day 13 hrs and might have kept going if i hadnt taken it out at 4%. Really??
What changed it? I had charged it on the external charger and itd been sitting unused for a few weeks. Or does the phone adjust to longer cycle times when using extended batteries?
Ill have repeat the experiment and see if i get the same results.
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Some higher power decided you deserved an ungodly amount of battery life considering two 1800's broke on you
I've no idea as to why this would happen. You got quite lucky my freind!
Just to clarify for future reference, battery calibration has never been and never will be relevant in accurate battery readings. It tracks what hardware and software on the phone have used the battery, nothing more.
Anyway, I don't have an answer for you. The fact that you got significantly less battery from your 1800's as opposed to your recent stock battery experience simply doesn't make sense. Could you have been using one of your 1800's and not realized it? I know that sounds silly, but that drastic improvement from a considerably weaker battery is illogical. I think you're missing something.
I could be wrong though, and for your sake I hope I am. I hate the stock battery. It's horrendous. Trident 3800mah ftw!
I am a heavy user most days. I turn the data off most nights and mostly just use wifi at home. I didnt play as many vids or any games that day but none of that matters most of the time. Light or heavy use and i usually get crappy battery life. The 1800s being the exception. Not broke...i just hadnt had time to charge them..the external charger is very slow..im talking 6 or more hrs for a full charge. So honestly no idea how my stock battery outlasted my 1800s... im going to put it on the external charger and try it again next battery change. Couldve been a fluke.
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Good for you.
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Obvious lack of a read is obvious. Please, do read the entire original post before making a response. It comes across as rude, and is simply not productive. It isn't necessary.
Thanks!
It was definitely the 1500... the batteries look different and the 1500 actually counts down accurately...was nice having that again for a change. The 1800s i have seem more for the atrix than the x2 or theyr from a batch that just dont report accurately. It goes from 99 down to 1% within the first few hrs and then just stays at 1% for the majority of the charge. So i never know when its going to shut off on me.
The 1500 is charging..so ill give it another go whenever the 1800 thats in now dies.
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metaphysicalgx2 said:
It was definitely the 1500... the batteries look different and the 1500 actually counts down accurately...was nice having that again for a change. The 1800s i have seem more for the atrix than the x2 or theyr from a batch that just dont report accurately. It goes from 99 down to 1% within the first few hrs and then just stays at 1% for the majority of the charge. So i never know when its going to shut off on me.
The 1500 is charging..so ill give it another go whenever the 1800 thats in now dies.
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Mine has done that also, more than once. Doesn't seem to effect anything though. Seems to go away after a battery pull. Weird.
It mustve been a fluke. Used the 1500 again and got maybe 16 hrs. Thats still longer than what i usually got out of it when it was my daily. Letting it die completely and then using the external charger does seem to extend the charge cycle a bit..but thats nothing new.
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Anyone else ever have battery stats like this? The lines look weird going through it toward the end.
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theredvendetta said:
Just to clarify for future reference, battery calibration has never been and never will be relevant in accurate battery readings. It tracks what hardware and software on the phone have used the battery, nothing more.
Anyway, I don't have an answer for you. The fact that you got significantly less battery from your 1800's as opposed to your recent stock battery experience simply doesn't make sense. Could you have been using one of your 1800's and not realized it? I know that sounds silly, but that drastic improvement from a considerably weaker battery is illogical. I think you're missing something.
I could be wrong though, and for your sake I hope I am. I hate the stock battery. It's horrendous. Trident 3800mah ftw!
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I agree with you. I find it amazing to get that much battery life. I am using a knockoff 3800mah and would not trade it for the world. Especially since I got it for 15$ including shipping!
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Anyone else ever have battery stats like this? The lines look weird going through it toward the end.
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That big drop off at the end always happens to me when I upload a big video to dropbox or I sync my T-backup to dropbox.
I don't have Wifi at home.
I have seen it mentioned in here a couple times now about "letting the battery die completely" don't you all realize how HORRIBLE that is for the life of a Li-on battery?! these batteries were DESIGNED to last longer and stay "healthier" when you plug in when it gets down low on charge (say 15-5% with 5% pushing it cuz its gonna shut off real soon) tho I do understand it's difficult to gauge when to plug in using a 1800mah(aka Bh6x battery) due to inaccurate readings by the system (it's best to use a widget that will show in real time the voltage left and when it gets low throw it in charger).
ALL these battery "calibration" apps& techniques have been lieing, they almost all day to drain battery completely when that's just a bad idea (not to mention "calibration" isn't actually necessary IMO anyways)
sorry, didn't mean to get off topic...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=871051
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Anyone else ever have battery stats like this? The lines look weird going through it toward the end.
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I see those "empty spaces" sometimes as well, usually happens if I have rebooted, pulled battery, gone into BSR , time got screwed up somehow (I set time manually most of time cuz i found using automatic setting seems to make my phone wake up for no apparent reason..if I need to reset time I just check the automatic box for a minute and the time/date goes to what it should be then I uncheck it)
but I haven't exactly pinned down what causes those lines, if I figure it out I'll let ya know
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I see those "empty spaces" sometimes as well, usually happens if I have rebooted, pulled battery, gone into BSR , time got screwed up somehow (I set time manually most of time cuz i found using automatic setting seems to make my phone wake up for no apparent reason..if I need to reset time I just check the automatic box for a minute and the time/date goes to what it should be then I uncheck it)
but I haven't exactly pinned down what causes those lines, if I figure it out I'll let ya know
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Thank you, please do. Yes I notice they go away after a full charge and reboot. So not to much of an issue. Have had a question mark in my battery before too. Was strange but it went away. Oh well, to hell with it! CM7 all day!
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Can somebody help. My sgs3 battery seem to drain like a loose drain. I charge 100% at 12.30am and go to sleep but by 5am battery is completely drained and phone is dead off. This is not the same during the day. Are there processes running when the phone is Idle that brings about this massive drain. Please I need help asap.
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Do you leave many programs running, alot of frequent sync going on? Did you leave Bluetooth on or something that you don't need during night? Just guessing...
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Search battery drain on Google for this device....lots of results,b but it generally comes down to learning how to use your phone and it's features, and when and what stuff to turn off etc etc
I don't leave anything on. I ensure I disable prefetch on my YouTube, disable auto updated on dropbox, I don't use SNS, and off course screen time out after 10 sec.
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Ibroe said:
I don't leave anything on. I ensure I disable prefetch on my YouTube, disable auto updated on dropbox, I don't use SNS, and off course screen time out after 10 sec.
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mine drop 1% per hr ... is that normal?
"multipdp" (): 12 m 26 s (746 s) Cntc/wc/ec)68/0/68 3.6%
how can i fix the multipdp problem?
Thankz for help^^
There is obviously a problem if it's dying in <5 hrs.
Did you recently connect to Kies because I was having probs with my SGS2 getting really hot and losing power as a result of Kies/a dodgy USB lead?
A factory reset solved it however ( remember to back up ) but sometimes just removing your battery for 90 seconds to reset the values works.
Good luck.
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The last thing I remember dong was hotspot and I made sure I switched off everything. From the posts above I tried the cell_standby fix and it still did not fix.
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The last thing I remember dong was hotspot and I made sure I switched off everything. From the posts above I tried the cell_standby fix and it still did not fix.
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Turn off Google backup, face awake, try that for starters
First of all, switch off your phone for a while to see if there is problem in battery or its the apps you are running. If you think it is a stupid step,
Then try using some software like JuiceDefender or something.
In app manager, kill apps that are useless.
Also turn off features like bluetooth, gps etc. if on.
Reduce phone's brightness, recommended to set it to "auto".
Turn off useless vibrations and LED notifications.
You should now see significant improvemance in battery life.
Hope this helps
I have taken all these steps gone ahead to remove live wall paper, auto sync disabled, brightness is set at auto. And its still the same. I don't want to tow the line of hard reset because am not sure that would solve the problem coupled with the time it would take to get my sgs3 to suite me
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I use juice defender which manages everything for me, an overnight schedule ensures the battery only drops by 1 or 2%
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okay so i thought i had a battery problem before i tried putting my phone aside (meaning no games, no internet browsing and no video streaming nothing, just using whatsapp and leaving facebook connected. I also have lots of apps and games installed over 15 or something)
If you decreasing screen time you will notice a HUGE difference (24hrs in my case), its basically down to usage, I have tried over 10 different roms and kernels as well as the v6 supercharger script, i dont ever notice the difference, EVER. unless of course i use a minimalistic rom with almost nothing to play around with, but if thats how u like it then go for that. Id say following all the fundamental steps will take you a long way
my final advice:
less screen time
when on the screen use the least brightness available
decrease stock brightness even more if you can
less app usage
if your not one to constantly play with your phone and customize stuff on it try installing a minimal rom like
|ROM|XXBLG8| IOIDroid Super Slim Edition | Buttery Smooth | V1.0.0 LIVE !! |
or
[ROM][4.0.4] Slim ICS (SGS3) - Clean, Simple & Fast (63MB)
i dont know if this is a placebo of not, but sometimes i notice improvements when i undervolt, underclock and limit to only dual core. believe it or not sometimes it has little or the adverse effect of saving battery
good luck man
And another question, which can be solved through the search function or Google -.-
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=937080
So here is my experience. Have been using android for years, have had an hd2 so I know how to get good battery life results. For some reason I easily lost 15-20% overnight with just the gsm 2g radio on. No matter what I did it drained fast even though deep sleep was fine, all extras sync and etc were off. 3hrs screen on time in 14 hours and it was dead.
I kept waiting for an update to solve this and it never came even though I was force checking it.
I ended up factory resetting the phone and as soon as it booted up an ota update popped up. Since then I am having nearly 6hrs screen on time in 40hrs,which is amazing.
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I will try the juice defender route and hope that it solves my problem or else I will be forced to tow the hard reset route.
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Greetings, I have seen a similar problem back in our hox forums. I have come here in peace to help, though. Recently, someone suggested bump charging, it's like a natural way of making your battery recalibrate itself without wiping battery stats or stuff like that.
First off, charge the battery until it says 100% while the device is on.
Then remove the charger, turn off the power, and charge again.
Remove the charger again when it says full while the device is off.
Turn it on again, then when it's properly booted, charge again, but don't use the device until it says it's fully charged already.
Mind you, we're not sure if it's just a placebo or not. Some claims to have had better battery life after doing this for once a month. I haven't tried it yet, but I thought I could share it here too.
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wtfshouldidonow said:
Greetings, I have seen a similar problem back in our hox forums. I have come here in peace to help, though. Recently, someone suggested bump charging, it's like a natural way of making your battery recalibrate itself without wiping battery stats or stuff like that.
First off, charge the battery until it says 100% while the device is on.
Then remove the charger, turn off the power, and charge again.
Remove the charger again when it says full while the device is off.
Turn it on again, then when it's properly booted, charge again, but don't use the device until it says it's fully charged already.
Mind you, we're not sure if it's just a placebo or not. Some claims to have had better battery life after doing this for once a month. I haven't tried it yet, but I thought I could share it here too.
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I saw this method being used with good results (reportedly) on my SGS2 so it's definitely worth a bash if you can't be arsed to reset.
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Just to offer two cents from my experience with this phone.
I recently got a replacement for my s3.. the details of that are for another post, but this relates to battery:
when I first got the phone i started using it right away. I did not charge the battery until I got to the office and charged the phone while using it the first day.
when I got the second replacement phone I already had a second battery.
This battery was fully charged and immediately used that in the new phone. fully charged the samsung battery before I used it.
I noticed significantly better performance with the second phone. I think it was because of the way i treated the battery strait out of the box.
any one agree, or have a similar experience?
Ibroe said:
Can somebody help. My sgs3 battery seem to drain like a loose drain. I charge 100% at 12.30am and go to sleep but by 5am battery is completely drained and phone is dead off. This is not the same during the day. Are there processes running when the phone is Idle that brings about this massive drain. Please I need help asap.
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Do you have an Exchange account set up?
After the newest update i also notice that it has a high % drain even if i turn 3g off, gps and everything nothing unusual runs in the background that can explain high drain yet it does.. and i didnt notice that before the latest update and i havent installed any weird apps. I also have all my weather and news on manual update so i dont get what can drain the battery with internet off overnight.. its frustrating a bit.