Does anyone know if Current Widget or Battery Monitor Widget is compatible with this phone? I am getting readings of -100mA ~ -400mA on standby. Charging readings seem to be accurate though. I get high amperes at lower percentages then as it reaches 100% it lowers to about 5mA, but it never hits 0mA.
I'm just wondering if it might have the same issue as the Sensation when it first came out. Is anyone else using Current Widget or Battery Monitor Widget with this phone? What readings are you getting?
Edit: Oh I forgot to add that I have calibrated the battery
idaggerpwn said:
Does anyone know if Current Widget or Battery Monitor Widget is compatible with this phone? I am getting readings of -150mA ~ -400mA on standby. Charging readings seem to be accurate though. I get high amperes at lower percentages then as it reaches 100% it lowers to about 5mA, but it never hits 0mA.
I'm just wondering if it might have the same issue as the Sensation when it first came out. Is anyone else using Current Widget or Battery Monitor Widget with this phone? What readings are you getting?
Edit: Oh I forgot to add that I have calibrated the battery
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I am on the same boat. I have current widget on my amaze and i have never seen it go to 0ma.
I don't know why because my nexus 1 will always show 0ma when fully charged. Am guessing the amaze battery is never fully charged and is always drawing power from the charger..
What are your current readings like? Is it in the -100mA ~ -500mA?
Charging -- btw 750ma and 900ma
Fully charged-- btw 10ma and 200ma... It depends on what am doing with the phone... When at idle it is usually around 10ma and 40ma
For some reason the lowest I can get while it's idle is around -120mA... Any idea why? I have syncing off, data off when screen off, wifi off, bluetooth off. Pretty much everything is off but the cell radio...
Even with the cell radio off, the lowest it gets is about -100mA. That is why I started the thread in the first place. I assumed the readings were incorrect. I attached a copy of my log for anyone who may be interested.
just because I didn't want to create a new thread
keywords: Battery Monitor Widget, Battery Current Monitoring mAh mA, latest version as of 8/5/2012 (can't find a way to get the version number)
For Battery Monitor Widget, I went to settings -> Monitoring -> mA Retrieal Method -> HTC Sensation
I DID NOT check the "mA Corrections"
Idle current usage says -48 mA (~ 2%/hour, which is somewhat ideal) ... turning the screen on makes it go to -150 mA
Will test the other options(that listed other devices later)... i've Tried "Some HTC devices" option before, didn't help, still reported -100 at idle..
could use some help from other people testing the various options: EDIT: testing a couple of the other options, seems like the Sensation option is the best one
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Anybody know of an app that can monitor the current Drain Rate of my battery so that I have something concrete? So I won't have to wait n watch every time after flashing diff. kernels n ROMs
I personally don't use it (Others on here do, though) but the one I see most used is Current Widget - free on the market.
i use battery monitor widget by 3c06. it doesn't display continuous battery drain per se, but it shows the current draw in the status bar, which will give you an idea of battery drain with different roms & kernels. i believe 30-40mA is typical for the Tbolt at resting state
Cool thnx. I'll try em out.
K mine is 252mA resting. Could I be reading it wrong. Coarse I already knew my batt life was abysmal!
Now its 708
CleveRuse said:
K mine is 252mA resting. Could I be reading it wrong. Coarse I already knew my batt life was abysmal!
Now its 708
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the current file only updates once per minute because of the driver, so you have to let it sit idle for at least more than that to truly get the idle power reading. the 252mA reading is not idle but a screen on reading, and the 700mA is with something transmitting or cpu crunching.
just let the phone sit idle for a good while with screen off, then check the current widget logs. TB sees around 40mA for some reason, while most other android phones see about 5mA during idle. kinda stinks but just the way the TB is right now.
[explained better by post above me]
sublimaze said:
i use battery monitor widget by 3c06. it doesn't display continuous battery drain per se, but it shows the current draw in the status bar, which will give you an idea of battery drain with different roms & kernels. i believe 30-40mA is typical for the Tbolt at resting state
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This is what I use as well. With a 5 minute update rate for the history. It also can create a nice text file for you if you want to export the history to PC.
Works great.
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K mine is 252mA resting. Could I be reading it wrong. Coarse I already knew my batt life was abysmal! Now its 708
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mine was doing that too. i flashed perfect storm v1.4 + imoseyon's v1.11 kernel and now i'm getting a steady 40mA at idle
Why can't I just shorten the update rate or punch "update now" to check current status. Anyway that's wat I've been doing n my ratings gen. stay awful. Plus no matter wat state its in, should it ever be as high as 700+?
Nvr mind. I get it: turn off screen, wait n check log.
I'm checkn now. Have feeln its still terrible. It was amazing when I 1st flashed virusROM. I can't figure wats changed. Now I'm bak to getting bout 3hrs (like b4 I rooted) vs. 12hrs+
Anyway, wat does an idle reading tell me? I have 'setCPU', I know its remarkable w the screen off (when I'm not using it) wat should I get or is good for screen on and during usage?
I guess I'll just in-apply setCPU profile to check n compare kernels n ROMs but isn't the screen off parameter built in to most kernels? Doesn't seem like idle reading tells me much.
K I modified the update interval to every 30 sec's, disabled the "setCPU" 'screen-off' profile n then idled (turned the screen off) n found this:
First reading: 590 mA
Sec. reading:556
Third:596
Fourth: 648....
It goes in like this, a couple times going above 800.
WTF!?
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K I modified the update interval to every 30 sec's, disabled the "setCPU" 'screen-off' profile n then idled (turned the screen off) n found this:
First reading: 590 mA
Sec. reading:556
Third:596
Fourth: 648....
WTF!?
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Looks like it's charging. Unless you changed the default settings, positive current is charging, negative current is draining (in the usage chart, and in the history).
The current utilities show battery current, not phone current.
Nope. I wish. Those r all - #'s
Also w CPU set relatively low; around 1240 MHz. I've also tried lower.
I Noticed that it is MORE efficient w WiFi turned ON. Actually much more so. Between 2-300mA vs 7-800mA using CDMA auto(PRL)
Seems reversed right? N when I remove the setCPU widget it spikes 100mA more. (setCPU only runs in the background if u use the widget) so when I remove if, battery usage should go down (or least not change) not go up.
Confused
I am getting lower #s w diff kernels. The above #s are w the new kernel. They were much higher b4. Now idle (w setCPU profile off) is between 2-300 mA (setCPU profile on I get 44mA). If I turn off WiFi (yes I mean off) then it spikes btween 5-800 mA idle (screen off)
I'm using:
-ROM; virusROM RC1B3.1,
-Kernel;bamf 4.3 (currently- I've tried plenty others)
I think its the ROM but I'm not willing to switch) I love everything else n it wasn't always like this.
Hi all. I'm running cognition 1.15 on my gs2. I'm really happy with performance and battery life (I can get 2 days light to moderate use out of a charge), but when I check my battery stats using apps such as battery monitor widget I get reports that the phone is drawing 19 -45 mA of power in sleep state. Juice plotter is saying that the phone is losing very little % charge (usually less than 1% power hour) during this time. I'm having trouble Reconciling this as I understood the gold standard is about 2-5 mA . My last phone (desire hd) was registering as drawing 2mA using current widget, but had significantly less battery time. I'm not able to use current widget with the gs2. Is the discrepancy in voltage use just because the 2 apps use different polling times, or is there an error on the battery reporting process?
Thanks for any advice you can give,
Mike.
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I'm very surprised that you can read out your current drain!? battery monitor widget is always telling me "1mA" no matter what I'm doing. Current widget, as you said, can't also read out data.
So how did you manage to read out the current drain?
Not sure., I guess that is what I'm worried about, is the data I'm seeing real? The monitor widget just seemed to work.
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fabsen said:
I'm very surprised that you can read out your current drain!? battery monitor widget is always telling me "1mA" no matter what I'm doing. Current widget, as you said, can't also read out data.
So how did you manage to read out the current drain?
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same here dude, 1mA.
THIS THREAD IS FOR ALL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WHICH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH DEVELOPEMENT!!!
I think about 50% of the Post´s in Lees Developement Thread are irrelevant vor him. A Developement Thread is for bugreport, for things which doesnt work, ....
And not for: "When is the next release?" "Can you please include this and this ..." "A third parts app is not working" ...... and so on and so on!
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Can someone confirm, that without the dual core scripts the 2nd core never kicks in? The normal behaviour should be that the 2nd core kicks in when the first core is stressed, e.g. setcpu stress test ore playing a 3D game.
Lee confirmed, that he configured the second core to be not so sensible..and said that he will have a look at the config again.
I think the behaviour of the second core is controlled in the system/bin/mpdecision file...I changed it with one of a Evo 3D cdma rom,after that i saw the first time that my second core kicks in in system tuner, it turned on/off several times - altough it shouldn't be needed.
i think the standard config is too sensible, so it was a good move from lee to lower it - but I think now with the current config it seems that the second core is completly turned off =D
Yep i can confirm! My second score never kicks in! Ive flashed the ondemand patch from first post and undervolted -100 and love the battery life now!
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Yep i can confirm! My second score never kicks in! Ive flashed the ondemand patch from first post and undervolted -100 and love the battery life now!
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...I don't like the behaviour, that the second core is always on - not very battery friendly
Hope Lee will fix this issue in the next release - hopefully he will use the new base which is flaoting around the gsm forums.
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...I don't like the behaviour, that the second core is always on - not very battery friendly
Hope Lee will fix this issue in the next release - hopefully he will use the new base which is flaoting around the gsm forums.
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Yeah i know but battery life for my usage is ok! But i know dat right. I really miss 3 days of battery life with my Nexus S! But i know the kernels getting better and better
what do you guys use to change the volt with lee's kernel ?
I am having huge battery drain and cant figure out what it is!?
getting about 100-300 mA in standby 90% of the time and an everything from 450 - 950 mA while using the phone, some times I don't even use any load on the cpu but it still peaks to 900 mA
I am carefully watching a cpu notification while using the phone and it draws usually 300+ mA with max 10 % cpu load with interactive governor
I tried downclock to 192MHz and disabling second core (since it never enables with lee's new rom) and it still uses the exact same mA. so downclock and disabling doesnt help the powerdrain at all
what to do ? just lost about 10 % by 15 minutes of standby !?
my only thought was that the cpu was giving the same voltage no matter what the frequency is, so if there is any app that could change the volt ?
have any of you had huge power drain ? could anyone try to check how much mA your evo uses in standby with the new kernel and rom ?
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what do you guys use to change the volt with lee's kernel ?
I am having huge battery drain and cant figure out what it is!?
getting about 100-300 mA in standby 90% of the time and an everything from 450 - 950 mA while using the phone, some times I don't even use any load on the cpu but it still peaks to 900 mA
I am carefully watching a cpu notification while using the phone and it draws usually 300+ mA with max 10 % cpu load with interactive governor
I tried downclock to 192MHz and disabling second core (since it never enables with lee's new rom) and it still uses the exact same mA. so downclock and disabling doesnt help the powerdrain at all
what to do ? just lost about 10 % by 15 minutes of standby !?
my only thought was that the cpu was giving the same voltage no matter what the frequency is, so if there is any app that could change the volt ?
have any of you had huge power drain ? could anyone try to check how much mA your evo uses in standby with the new kernel and rom ?
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dont trust the ma values, for me all battery apps are showing 200+ in standby. htc delivers crappy weird ma values and theirs no way to fix that. The dev if battery monitor can confirm that.
...im loosing 1% over night.
Try to reinstall rom without third party app. Are you using htc Mail with exchange - it got a bug which keeps your device awake when in airplane mode.
Theres also an app in the market, where you can check if your phone goes to standby or not..srx dont remember the name - Google it
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well have you tried "battery Monitor widget pro" thats the one I am using, it has an fix for evo 3d to fix mA drain
problem is that I calculated the drain by just simple math and it confirms the mA drain ;/ so the program does really appear to be correct
maybe some one else could try "battery Monitor widget pro" and see if they are experiencing the same mA drain with this program ?
but the strange thing is that it wasnt draining so much before the kernel update and rom, and some times it goes down to normal usage but happens rarely
I do not use mail exchange, going to check for the standby program though and try to reinstall without any apps ! thanks for the suggestion
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well have you tried "battery Monitor widget pro" thats the one I am using, it has an fix for evo 3d to fix mA drain
problem is that I calculated the drain by just simple math and it confirms the mA drain ;/ so the program does really appear to be correct
maybe some one else could try "battery Monitor widget pro" and see if they are experiencing the same mA drain with this program ?
but the strange thing is that it wasnt draining so much before the kernel update and rom, and some times it goes down to normal usage but happens rarely
I do not use mail exchange, going to check for the standby program though and try to reinstall without any apps ! thanks for the suggestion
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Yeah, know this app but its not working for me, still shows >200 during screen off also with the special evo 3d fix.
..searched about 30 min to find that app:
Cpu spy from market.
it shows you how long your device is on which frequencies or in deep sleep.
Reset the values in the menu and turn your device off. After a minute check the values.
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I just tested the cpu spy, and I had the screen off for 5 min, and only deep state was counted, said 90% (5 min)
And 30 second on 192mhz
Seems to be right?
yeah, should be fine. And yourre sure, that you lost 10% of battery in 15min of standby? Try calibrating your battery with battery calibration from market.
charge to 100% and then calibrate.
yes 100 % sure but i wass messing with the the frequency of the cpu , might be what drained the power because today it has been normal standby time
already used battery calibrating, it did get a little better in standby after that.
but i still have huge power drain by just turning on the screen, and typing
i had just sent a couple of messages through "messenger for facebook" throught an hour and it used 20 % battery and I only turned on the screen, unlocked it typed a fast short messages and turned the screen off again a couple of times
I was connected with Edge all the time (gsm) since 3G was turned off to save battery but still huge power drain.
I just feel like every time the screen is on the % start falling fast :s
thats why I wanted to check out undervolting but cant find a app that supports lee's kernel
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yes 100 % sure but i wass messing with the the frequency of the cpu , might be what drained the power because today it has been normal standby time
already used battery calibrating, it did get a little better in standby after that.
but i still have huge power drain by just turning on the screen, and typing
i had just sent a couple of messages through "messenger for facebook" throught an hour and it used 20 % battery and I only turned on the screen, unlocked it typed a fast short messages and turned the screen off again a couple of times
I was connected with Edge all the time (gsm) since 3G was turned off to save battery but still huge power drain.
I just feel like every time the screen is on the % start falling fast :s
thats why I wanted to check out undervolting but cant find a app that supports lee's kernel
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Use System Tuner from 3c (same dev as battery monitor) to undervolt.
Easy as hell
Haha thanks, lol I had an old version of system tuner that's why I didn't have any voltage control
Seems like my battery life is a bit more normal now, thanks for all the help and time you spent!
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Haha thanks, lol I had an old version of system tuner that's why I didn't have any voltage control
Seems like my battery life is a bit more normal now, thanks for all the help and time you spent!
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thunstop said:
yes 100 % sure but i wass messing with the the frequency of the cpu , might be what drained the power because today it has been normal standby time
already used battery calibrating, it did get a little better in standby after that.
but i still have huge power drain by just turning on the screen, and typing
i had just sent a couple of messages through "messenger for facebook" throught an hour and it used 20 % battery and I only turned on the screen, unlocked it typed a fast short messages and turned the screen off again a couple of times
I was connected with Edge all the time (gsm) since 3G was turned off to save battery but still huge power drain.
I just feel like every time the screen is on the % start falling fast :s
thats why I wanted to check out undervolting but cant find a app that supports lee's kernel
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Maybe Edge is the problem for your battery-drain! When my Evo is on Edge it needs way more battery as with 3g!
And try to disable "automatic display light" (no plan how it is called in english). I always use the second stage from 4... i hope you know what i mean!
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Maybe Edge is the problem for your battery-drain! When my Evo is on Edge it needs way more battery as with 3g!
And try to disable "automatic display light" (no plan how it is called in english). I always use the second stage from 4... i hope you know what i mean!
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Well I did notice that edge drain at least as much as 3g so no point at disabling 3g, I got my battery a little more stable but still use Huge power drain sometimes
But going to reinstall everything, do a clean wipe and stuff and install only the apps I use not all the cap I got now.
Maybe that will help a bit on the battery
still questioning the LeeDrOiD rom for battery life.
I love the rom but miss battery life, sense 3.5 and the new Android version 4(i know the new android version isn't released for htc evo 3d yet though) but really looking forward to it!
I just got my extended battery and charged it full right away. I let it die down then recharged it.
I've only text sense, no internet out anything. I did send wrote a few texts and within an hour and 45 mins my battery was down to 80-85%. I was wondering if this is normal.
I have Facebook and weather synching every hour. News and email are set to manual and stocks every 4 hours.
My brightness is set a little past half way with auto brightness off.
I'm using incredikernel beta 2 ondemand at 1512 max and 384 min.
I have the HTC clock widget with animations on on the home screen. I also have friend stream, calendar, shazam, and power widgets on other screens.
I have battery monitor, 3g watchdog, and data counter running.
Does this battery consumption seem normal?
P.s. I know it's bad to use task killers like advanced task killer. Is it the same for apps like Rom toolbox and system panel?
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This was a problem on my droid bionic. I would regularly swap the standard battery with the extended battery. I think the problem is that the phone still thinks the extended battery has the same amount of juice as the standard battery because once my battery gets to 1% it will still last a few hours before it completely dies.
I think after a day or two the phone will adapt to the new battery and the percentage will be more accurate.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
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This was a problem on my droid bionic. I would regularly swap the standard battery with the extended battery. I think the problem is that the phone still thinks the extended battery has the same amount of juice as the standard battery because once my battery gets to 1% it will still last a few hours before it completely dies.
I think after a day or two the phone will adapt to the new battery and the percentage will be more accurate.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
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Thanks for the reply
Should my battery use be better even with all those widgets and 1 hour syncs?
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Im looking for an app that will do the following:
log the battery percentage at set intervals.
(for instace, every 10 mins it would take note of the percentage of battery left.)
Im having problems with the battery in my epic 4g and I think that an app like this would help me diagnose the problem.
The default battery monitor app kind of does this, however it doesnt record the actual times (to my knowlege) it just shows a line graph.
The battery is draining at about 15% over the course of an hour.
UPDATE: A big thanks to user: JR67 for suggesting "Battery Monitor Widget" This does exactly what I was looking for.
EDIT/UPDATE:
So, im making some progress trying to find out whats wrong. I put my phone on airplane mode for over an hour and when I checked it again the battery had not dropped a single percent, as opposed to non-airplane mode, which was taking about 10-15% in that same time period. I suspect that there is an app or two that are contancting a server a little too often. Im going to keep an eye on my data use to find out what could be using it. I dont think that I have any third-party apps that could be doing this so I think it is something default in CM9. I'm going to keep updating this with more info as I figure it out. When I get to the bottom of this I might start a new info thread with the details of whats going on (in the EVO 4G forum)
Take a look at Battery Monitor Widget. It will log battery stats at set intervals. You could also take a look at Battery Monitor. It keeps track of how long your battery remained at a certain percent.
Cool I just flashed cm9 and it seems to help a bit, I'll try the widget and see what up. The sprint store said the battery was fine. I also underclocked the cpu to .8 and that seems to help. Im also thinking it might not be sleeping properly.
If you think that your phone might be having sleep issues then you should use BetterBatteryStats.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
I would use Battery Monitor Widget as a diagnostic tool and would only enable the monitoring/logging when I'm having battery issues. It'll cause wakelocks when it reads the battery stats.
I think I have the problem 'solved'. As soon as I turn off all mobile(3G) data the battery is fine. loosing 1-3% per hr. I wonder why the data is taking so much...