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So I've been alternating between multiple ICS roms and Bamf gb and I just can't stay with Ics. I absolutely love all the ICS roms, but my battery life won't get me through a work day. Even with data off and only sending a few text messages it lasts about 6 hours. I first used the ics firmware and one of the older ics leaks and had horrible battery life. I just tried the newest leak with gb fw and still its horrible. Am I doing something wrong? Why is my battery half of what it was on gb?
In short why can't I have good battery life on ICS?
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So I've been alternating between multiple ICS roms and Bamf gb and I just can't stay with Ics. I absolutely love all the ICS roms, but my battery life won't get me through a work day. Even with data off and only sending a few text messages it lasts about 6 hours. I first used the ics firmware and one of the older ics leaks and had horrible battery life. I just tried the newest leak with gb fw and still its horrible. Am I doing something wrong? Why is my battery half of what it was on gb?
In short why can't I have good battery life on ICS?
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In short: because its not done yet, which is why they haven't released it yet.
Why do so many people claim they get the same or equal battery life? With so much fairly polished in it I wish battery life was better.
DrGlitchyPhD said:
Why do so many people claim they get the same or equal battery life? With so much fairly polished in it I wish battery life was better.
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My battery life is just fine on ICS and I have no heat problems either.... but its definitely been very hit or miss.
There are probably a few different hardware revisions out by now, and the various issues are probably affecting only certain phones and not others because of slight differences between them.
If you are one of those people who are having problems, best thing you can do is wait until HTC releases the final ICS build..
any idea why text messages would cause reboots on ICS ROM's?
it shouldn't period. never had that happen. sounds like a bad flash,dirty flash
nsd combination of radios/firmware or a mix. I'd backup, run the latest ruu,clear/reset through bootloader,flash newest amon recovery,wipe everything,flash rom/kernel and firmware patch depending on which you chose. if using new firmware use the 5/2 radios to reduce heat. hopefully you're s-off to do all that
So i got a used rezound, and it is on Stock GB, and thinking about keeping it that way. This is because last phone i updated to ICS, battery got like 1/2 as much time as on GB, and not sure if same will occur with rezound. If i go ics, will for sure flash to NEOMAX, but idk, what are your opinions?
Thanks, let me know
In general with theirs a few initial concerns
1) is it auto-sync disabled
2) is any app causing the phone to wake up when not in use? ( betterbatterystats can check )
3) do you have a strong cellular signal -> if not you would use wifi
4) is google auto-backup disabled?
5) do typically use auto-brightness/low levels for the display?
Had stock GB for like 2 days as I learned the Rezound, upgraded, ICS defidently got better battery life. But that might be because the second I got ICS I went to a rom.
ICS rom pretty much doubled GB battery life. RezRom was amazing with the battery life, and now Neo's Adrenaline is doing almost twice as good with the screen on time now that I use wifi more often.
So yeah, I recommend upgrading, you can always revert if you're REALLY intent on gingerbread
We'll get ICS kernel at some point ( hopefully soon ) and see an even greater boost i'm sure
what rom are u using?
Somehow, it seems over time battery life on ICS has consistently diminished. May try some things but this is stock rom, and really not a lot of apps widgets. Is everyone having this?
Example, Sunday I unplug it at noon, and by 7 its at 4%, made a few calls, say 3 under 5 min. Used navigation some, texted some, and a bit of fantasy football app. But that seems below reasonable expectations.
Widgets: 1 weather, Tim Hutt ICS calendar, SiMi Clock, battery & Weather(lockscreen), Widget Locker, Google Music. Launcher: Apex pro.
Did a bit of surfing and didn't see much around stock ICS (could have missed it)
Mez-Jr said:
Somehow, it seems over time battery life on ICS has consistently diminished. May try some things but this is stock rom, and really not a lot of apps widgets. Is everyone having this?
Example, Sunday I unplug it at noon, and by 7 its at 4%, made a few calls, say 3 under 5 min. Used navigation some, texted some, and a bit of fantasy football app. But that seems below reasonable expectations.
Widgets: 1 weather, Tim Hutt ICS calendar, SiMi Clock, battery & Weather(lockscreen), Widget Locker, Google Music. Launcher: Apex pro.
Did a bit of surfing and didn't see much around stock ICS (could have missed it)
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I have the same problem too. The battery life is so horrible :crying:
I need to charge 2 - 3 times per day. I am thinking of downgrading to ginger bread if this continues.
did you tried the Canadian base?
mimmus said:
did you tried the Canadian base?
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I'm on the US AT&T stock ICS. Have not tried any roms.
If you upgraded via kies or OTA...the chance of a corrupted flash is high.
I'm not saying that it is, but we have had several reports of failed OTA or kies upgrades to ICS...
The only good fix is a re-install of the build...
I would go to samfirmware.com, and push the rom to the device again, and then test the battery life.
this would not be the first bad rom image we have seen from the upgrade.....g
And remember, it takes 3-5 days of normal usage after a fresh install, for the dalvik cache to build, and for the device to "settle" before any accuracy can be measured...g
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If you upgraded via kies or OTA...the chance of a corrupted flash is high.
I'm not saying that it is, but we have had several reports of failed OTA or kies upgrades to ICS...
The only good fix is a re-install of the build...
I would go to samfirmware.com, and push the rom to the device again, and then test the battery life.
this would not be the first bad rom image we have seen from the upgrade.....g
And remember, it takes 3-5 days of normal usage after a fresh install, for the dalvik cache to build, and for the device to "settle" before any accuracy can be measured...g
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If this is the case, should I try something like a factory reset then reinstall? I initially updated via Keis.
What is typical battery life on ICS? I recall I got the note right before going to SXSW and it would run from 8am to 11pm with solid use and maybe a 10-20% top off somewhere in the day. This has given me serious cell phone "range anxiety", even bought a external battery to address it.
Mez-Jr said:
If this is the case, should I try something like a factory reset then reinstall? I initially updated via Keis.
What is typical battery life on ICS? I recall I got the note right before going to SXSW and it would run from 8am to 11pm with solid use and maybe a 10-20% top off somewhere in the day. This has given me serious cell phone "range anxiety", even bought a external battery to address it.
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Best screen on times I've seen are ranging from 3-4 hours, and overall battery times are going 18-24 hours...
Now mileage varies greatly between users, and i'm running ICS as well, and since 6 a.m. today, I've used 14% battery in 7 hours...
I've made 2 phone calls, sent 3 texts, and messed around with settings for about 30 minutes...
It does sound like you may have gotten a dirty flash image...but it's so hard to tell, unless you get random freezes, boot loops etc.
But the stock ICS battery life was horrible for me........g
gregsarg said:
Best screen on times I've seen are ranging from 3-4 hours, and overall battery times are going 18-24 hours...
Now mileage varies greatly between users, and i'm running ICS as well, and since 6 a.m. today, I've used 14% battery in 7 hours...
I've made 2 phone calls, sent 3 texts, and messed around with settings for about 30 minutes...
It does sound like you may have gotten a dirty flash image...but it's so hard to tell, unless you get random freezes, boot loops etc.
But the stock ICS battery life was horrible for me........g
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It boots and actually runs fine. Occasionally cell standby chews the battery out of nowhere, andriod os and phone idle too.
I pulled it off the charger today at 9am and as of 2:00 I was at 68%. Checked email, messed on flipboard while making coffee, updated a few apps. Checked traffic. Mostly just sat on my desk.
Mez-Jr said:
It boots and actually runs fine. Occasionally cell standby chews the battery out of nowhere, andriod os and phone idle too.
I pulled it off the charger today at 9am and as of 2:00 I was at 68%. Checked email, messed on flipboard while making coffee, updated a few apps. Checked traffic. Mostly just sat on my desk.
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Yeh...thats nearly double the battery drain i'm seeing.....
I really think you should either re-flash the stock build using samfirmware.com, or flash up a custom rom you can adjust to get this battery issue under control...g
gregsarg said:
Yeh...thats nearly double the battery drain i'm seeing.....
I really think you should either re-flash the stock build using samfirmware.com, or flash up a custom rom you can adjust to get this battery issue under control...g
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Agh, yeah I'll have to give that a shot... Been looking at CM10 or something, I had a jailbroken iPhone4 previously so I'm not ADVERSE to doing this... was hoping to stay stock a little bit longer... I know the samfirmware thing is the stock firmware but still, playing with the OS DOES cause a bit of anxiety...
Mez-Jr said:
Agh, yeah I'll have to give that a shot... Been looking at CM10 or something, I had a jailbroken iPhone4 previously so I'm not ADVERSE to doing this... was hoping to stay stock a little bit longer... I know the samfirmware thing is the stock firmware but still, playing with the OS DOES cause a bit of anxiety...
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Though, would a factory reset take it back to GB and allow me to do the upgrade again?
Mez-Jr said:
Though, would a factory reset take it back to GB and allow me to do the upgrade again?
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Possibly .....
But you can push the factory roms to the device any time you wish ....it's endless really ....g
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Mez-Jr said:
Agh, yeah I'll have to give that a shot... Been looking at CM10 or something, I had a jailbroken iPhone4 previously so I'm not ADVERSE to doing this... was hoping to stay stock a little bit longer... I know the samfirmware thing is the stock firmware but still, playing with the OS DOES cause a bit of anxiety...
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Understood ...
Fortunately, the note is painless to use on custom roms ...
With the ATT version, you simply push a custom recovery to the device via Odin, then download and flash the rom.
No root needed. And if you don't like it, you restore the stock nandroid backup and presto...no more rom.
Root is very nice though, as it allows sooo much more control ....g
Extra Batteries, their cheap and totally worth it just make sure you get a wall charger too
I've pretty much given up on eking out more battery life since it seems universally bad.
A bit more than 4 hours screen-on time seems to be the limit without setting the screen to ultra dim.
Standby seems entire dependent on my signal strength and whether I have LTE enabled or not. If it's strong, 24+ hours isn't unreasonable.
ChronoReverse said:
I've pretty much given up on eking out more battery life since it seems universally bad.
A bit more than 4 hours screen-on time seems to be the limit without setting the screen to ultra dim.
Standby seems entire dependent on my signal strength and whether I have LTE enabled or not. If it's strong, 24+ hours isn't unreasonable.
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Well, yeah screen destroys the battery. After ICS it seems as though they cranked up the brightness and contrast. Or is that just me?
- So I had some issues with my screen and ended up sending my rezound back to verizon
- they sent me a refurbished phone
- leaving the phone stock, I took the over the air update
- I noticed the battery life was really good
- right now, I am at 21h 54m 22s with 19% battery remaining ( according to the Battery Use )
- has anybody else noticed good battery life on the rezound?
- I am not rooting this phone ( again ) and loading a custom rom with battery life like this
- my friend however, has a rezound, and is running a custom rom, and had to get that HUGE battery, because he can barely make it 8 hours.
- How do I restore his phone to stock?
- the xda post I found was REALLY old, over a year.... Do we have a confirmed method to return to stock?
- his phone is.... s-on, rooted, custom rom, gingerbread+patch firmware
If you want to make sure he's going to be on the same firmware as you you should check your phone for that.
Settings > About > Software info > More
If the build number is 3.14.605.12 or 3.14.605.13 then have him run the RUU for 3.14.605.12 then take the OTA to get him to .13. Since you are stock the kernel and basebands should be what you have if the build number matches.
Here's a link to the RUU for him to download to his pc:
http://androidfiles.org/ruu/?dir=Vigor
Relock the phone:
fastboot oem lock
Double click on the RUU exe file and it will run. Let it run through a while to make sure it is finished, it should run through for a while.
Then if you are on .13 he can just check for update via settings to try to get the OTA.
FYI, I've read where people are getting that kind of battery life on custom ROMs and different people report different battery life even on same ROM with same kernel settings so YMMV, but no harm in trying it out.
feralicious said:
If you want to make sure he's going to be on the same firmware as you you should check your phone for that.
Settings > About > Software info > More
If the build number is 3.14.605.12 or 3.14.605.13 then have him run the RUU for 3.14.605.12 then take the OTA to get him to .13. Since you are stock the kernel and basebands should be what you have if the build number matches.
Here's a link to the RUU for him to download to his pc:
http://androidfiles.org/ruu/?dir=Vigor
Relock the phone:
fastboot oem lock
Double click on the RUU exe file and it will run. Let it run through a while to make sure it is finished, it should run through for a while.
Then if you are on .13 he can just check for update via settings to try to get the OTA.
FYI, I've read where people are getting that kind of battery life on custom ROMs and different people report different battery life even on same ROM with same kernel settings so YMMV, but no harm in trying it out.
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Since my phone had it's issues and I relocked and reran the Global RUU, I can't do this can I? I am S-on with absolutely no way to S-off as a Mac user. Once on the Global RUU, you can't go backwards can you?
My other option is to swap my wife's phone with mine, set mine up like hers, swap SIM cards and try it out. I think she might notice though
slash79 said:
- So I had some issues with my screen and ended up sending my rezound back to verizon
- they sent me a refurbished phone
- leaving the phone stock, I took the over the air update
- I noticed the battery life was really good
- right now, I am at 21h 54m 22s with 19% battery remaining ( according to the Battery Use )
- has anybody else noticed good battery life on the rezound?
- I am not rooting this phone ( again ) and loading a custom rom with battery life like this
- my friend however, has a rezound, and is running a custom rom, and had to get that HUGE battery, because he can barely make it 8 hours.
- How do I restore his phone to stock?
- the xda post I found was REALLY old, over a year.... Do we have a confirmed method to return to stock?
- his phone is.... s-on, rooted, custom rom, gingerbread+patch firmware
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The bigger question is how much time has your screen actually been on. While I haven't looked at this in a while, I seem to remember something in the range of 2 1/2 - 3 hours of screen time. If your screen time is much greater than that, then you do have great battery time, if not, then you are pretty much status quo. For example, I am currently at 75% for 14 hours but only 15 minutes of screen time. That is with active bluetooth, wifi, etc. I am s-off and using a custom ROM. And when I went to Nils ROM, my battery life inproved. Check your screen time in Battery Use.
slash79 said:
- So I had some issues with my screen and ended up sending my rezound back to verizon
- they sent me a refurbished phone
- leaving the phone stock, I took the over the air update
- I noticed the battery life was really good
- right now, I am at 21h 54m 22s with 19% battery remaining ( according to the Battery Use )
- has anybody else noticed good battery life on the rezound?
- I am not rooting this phone ( again ) and loading a custom rom with battery life like this
- my friend however, has a rezound, and is running a custom rom, and had to get that HUGE battery, because he can barely make it 8 hours.
- How do I restore his phone to stock?
- the xda post I found was REALLY old, over a year.... Do we have a confirmed method to return to stock?
- his phone is.... s-on, rooted, custom rom, gingerbread+patch firmware
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Stock nonrooted has always had the best battery life
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I'm running hawknest's ecliptic 7.1 and I've gotten over 24 hours total battery life with over 3 1/2 hours screen on time on standard battery (that was on v7 but am on pace for that on v7.1). So it depends on usage and screen brightness etc.
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Lately my battery usage in battery monitor widget has been going over 1000ma multiple times a day. In fact this has been the case both at the beginning of my Rezound's life on the first firmware, and again now.
At one time in between I used to never see it go over at most 700ma, and experienced reasonable battery life too. Usually I saw about 70ma to 300ma usage. This was with several different roms on the same firmware. I think it was the first or second ICS firmware but I don't remember for sure.
I'm starting to think the firmware a few versions ago was better on battery life. What do you guys think?
I was running GB with the old firmware up until just last week. I was averaging about 20 hours on a full charge with 1-2 hours of screen on time. The rom ran great and the only issue I really had was my 4G would cut out completely whenever I tried to play Youtube videos....
Last week I updated to the latest official ICS global rom with the new radios and firmware, and my battery life has gone in the toilet. I'm averaging about 15 hours on a full charge with the same 1-2 hours of screen on time. My phone gets MUCH hotter when just doing simple things like browsing the web, often getting above 100* F. On GB firmware I was usually in the mid 90's unless I was gaming. This is with the stock kernel. For the past couple days I've been trying FunkyKernel with some under clocking and undervolting which has helped the heat but not so much the battery life.
I'm kinda pissed and strongly considering finally going S-OFF just so I can roll back to the old firmware.
I actually think I had the best battery life on the first ics firmware, but like I said it might have been the second one. I don't remember how many there have been, but I have done all of them.
This latest one just seems to suck down power.
Anybody else have some input?
I just recently updated to the official global firmware and am running Rezone Redux with Funky 3.7. I'm not doing any undervolting and the only change I made to the frequencies was setting the min to 96 and the max to the stock 1512. With my extended battery, I'm averaging around 4.5 hours of screen on time, which is actually about 30 minutes more than I've ever gotten out of this battery. Then again, I keep my data, WiFi, and GPS off at all times unless they're needed, screen brightness at 13%, I'm using an app called Greenify to hibernate certain apps (not freeze, there's a difference), and I'm using the Wheatley governor. I'm very happy with this setup.
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So maybe it isn't affecting your as much because you keep your radios turned off. I also use greenify and it has definitely helped.
I might go a day with my mobile data enabled all day and see what happens. I got into the habit it of toggling my data off about a year ago. The only reasons for me to keep it on would be weather updates and Facebook notifications, neither of which is really important enough to me to have them refresh automatically. I don't use push email or anything like that, either. I suppose it would make a difference for someone who needed instant email notifications and such.
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I also keep data off most of the time unless the phone is plugged in, but still, battery just hasn't been the same since the latest firmware update...
I want to update you guys on my battery issue I thought was related to the new firmware. Every rom I had used since the newest firmware release was horrible on battery life. Using battery monitor widget to monitor power usage, I was often seeing over 1000ma usage many times per day.
I recently installed neo's infection 2.9.1 which uses a stock kernel based off Flahalf's work. My extreme battery drain is gone! The highest usage I have seen in 2 days is around 500ma, and normally it is 100ma or less! Not only that but this Rom is smokin fast. It feels like a new phone!
And it fixed wireless tethering! I'm so happy and thankful for the awesome work or devs have been doing. Thanks guys!
Unfortunately for peeps like me who enjoy gaming on their phone, the JB roms aren't all that great. Graphics performance is generally poor....
Maybe you should give it another try. I just played some shadow gun and the performance was fine.
echolocator said:
I want to update you guys on my battery issue I thought was related to the new firmware. Every rom I had used since the newest firmware release was horrible on battery life. Using battery monitor widget to monitor power usage, I was often seeing over 1000ma usage many times per day.
I recently installed neo's infection 2.9.1 which uses a stock kernel based off Flahalf's work. My extreme battery drain is gone! The highest usage I have seen in 2 days is around 500ma, and normally it is 100ma or less! Not only that but this Rom is smokin fast. It feels like a new phone!
And it fixed wireless tethering! I'm so happy and thankful for the awesome work or devs have been doing. Thanks guys!
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I have looked for neo's infection 2.9.1 and find it nowhere. Its getting late so maybe im just tired. But i need a fix for battery also.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
splatoid said:
I have looked for neo's infection 2.9.1 and find it nowhere. Its getting late so maybe im just tired. But i need a fix for battery also.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
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Then you must not have looked very hard, it is here on XDA in the Rezound Original Development forum, along with other amazing ROMs like Tron, Beanstock, Liquid Smooth, PAC-Man, etc.
[ROM][GPL][CDMA/GSM][Jb-4.2.2]☣INFECTION-2.9.1☣[07/20/13][CM-10.1.2][LINARO-4.8] will take you right to the Infection thread!
Well I thank you for the post and help I keep forgetting there are two separate forms for DEV now which i really never understood why they made two.
Thanks