Best ROM for battery life? Please help - Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

As you can tell from the topic but I'm looking for the best battery life for my thunderbolt. I don't use it as often as my Evo3D, but i can't even get a day even if i let it idle all day. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
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Currently using liquid 3.2 but i just can't get it to last... I've underclocked it to 800mhz max
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The kernal will likely mean the most for battery life. Well, besides your personal usage habits and if your location has a strong signal (or just keep on 3g for normal use, as LTE currently is a battery hog).
Imo's or BAMF's Test 3++ I've tried and get 18+ hours on my Tbolt. ASOP roms seem to have the absolute longest possible battery life from what I've read, but I'm a Sense guy.
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Oh & get the Rezound battery. The above Kernals & that battery FTW.
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X2 on what Collije has said. If your running IMO's kernel, have you tried switching to battery saver mode? I'm on Rezound battery (bumped n calibrated) 12hours @ 30% with med use.
Tapatalkn with my Thunderbolt

Just sits in my locker at work in airplane mode and its just about dead after 8 hours
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Hmm, airplane mode & dies in 8 hours. Yup sounds about right. Although if it sits all day in the locker in airplane mode might as well shut it off imo.
That said, root (if not already) and just give a ROM a try. If you like Sense, give Team BAMF's BAMF Forever specifically I recommend 1.11 version (this has BAMF's Test 3++ kernal already baked in) which you can get directly in the original post on their own website (no linking here). Once installed, I recommend a couple of extra steps within "BAMF settings":
CPU governor: Try OnDemand vs SmoothAss
I/O Scheduler: Try Noop.
Be sure to battery condition & wipe battery stats(yeah yeah, some folks will debunk. Whateva). On BAMF's site has the most comprehensive method imo. It takes about 2 - 3 full cycles to fully charge then fully empty, but many folks are at least doubling what you currently have.

I've been running Skyraider Zeus rom on bamf's site and its been amazing as far as battery life goes, running stock kernel. Oh and get the rezound battery the difference is amazing!

I like Skyraider as well, amazing customization choices. I'd love to see a refresh (cough...hint...cough).
And something to be said for the Rezound battery. It really does exceed expectations for not a huge extended battery.
Actually, give the battery a try 1st. Spend a twenty methinks you'll like it once calibrated & you've gone through a few full charge/empty cycles to build new battery stats.

Two roms I had the best life on are Skyraider and Gingeritis 3D
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Thanks everybody for your advise I'll try those roms out, i leave it on to test standby time is all.
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You only need an apk like set cpu and you can reduce the speed of you thuderbolt and with that you cpu dont use so many battery
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14hrs, 40mins stock battery and sitting at 34% with low-medium usage on workshed's thundershed. i only have 2 widgets running tho, not much going on at all and im running freqs of 184/768 and interactivex gov with his native kernal. i never notice any lag or slowdown and love the smaller form factor of the phone again (used to extended battery for a while and couldnt take the huge/heavy phone anymore, kinda feel like i wasted my money on it lol).
yesterday with heavy usage for me it died after something like 12-13 hours with at least 30 minutes of navigation and 4g all day long. and again same stock battery with same settings. only rom ive been able to do that with stock rom. and actually i havent even calibrated or bumped yet, been meaning to but i get lazy by end of day
BUT for the record, i have heard that people have been getting some great life with eternity rom. try to convince myself to try it again but im stuck on worksheds stuff right now with all its ics themeing (i was a long time eris user -_- i love his work )
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o ya, and the 14hrs 40mins was with like 11hrs on 4g the rest on wifi

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14hrs, 40mins stock battery and sitting at 34% with low-medium usage on workshed's thundershed. i only have 2 widgets running tho, not much going on at all and im running freqs of 184/768 and interactivex gov with his native kernal. i never notice any lag or slowdown and love the smaller form factor of the phone again (used to extended battery for a while and couldnt take the huge/heavy phone anymore, kinda feel like i wasted my money on it lol).
yesterday with heavy usage for me it died after something like 12-13 hours with at least 30 minutes of navigation and 4g all day long. and again same stock battery with same settings. only rom ive been able to do that with stock rom. and actually i havent even calibrated or bumped yet, been meaning to but i get lazy by end of day
BUT for the record, i have heard that people have been getting some great life with eternity rom. try to convince myself to try it again but im stuck on worksheds stuff right now with all its ics themeing (i was a long time eris user -_- i love his work )
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o ya, and the 14hrs 40mins was with like 11hrs on 4g the rest on wifi
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I think the best thing to do is use some kind of AOSP ROM -- liquid v3.2 works well for me, feel free to use whichever one you want -- but I think that a slim AOSP will work wonders.
Also, like the above user said, get SetCPU for $2 from market to work with the (probable) IMO kernel of your custom rom, and use the profiles option to run something like:
1024/245 -- main OR
768/245 -- main
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battery < n% -- 768/245
screen off -- 384/245
this way, when your screen is off, listening to music or idle, it wont ever go above 384 mHz, and if you just want to underclock, you could run 768 max / 245 min all of the time and not really see a performance drop.
these lower profiles should really help extend battery life

I have that and it is underclocked running liquid 3.2. My evo3d is getting 50+ hours running meanrom 2.0 without Modding CPU in any way.
Got a new battery and its the same life. Wiped everything even formatted system before any new rom
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I have that and it is underclocked running liquid 3.2. My evo3d is getting 50+ hours running meanrom 2.0 without Modding CPU in any way.
Got a new battery and its the same life. Wiped everything even formatted system before any new rom
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i don't think the thunderbolt will ever get 50 hrs on a stock battery, especially with 4g running . . . you might be able to get into the second day with the oem extended and 3g

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[Q] Battery life

Heres the deal, im not a complete noob to rooting and installing kernals, roms and such however I am not the fore most expert either. I need help with my battery life on my TB! I had my phone off last night and charged it when I got up this morning around 5:30am I turned it on. I have not made any phone calls and only had it on to check my calander and use the calculator twice. I am running Lighting Rom. 3.3.1 and have blue emidemic theme flashed over that. I use launcher pro plus as my launcher and have facebook and twitter widgets open. Since this morning I have deleted the facebook and twitter widets hoping to stop the constant syncing is the background. I have Advanced task kill running as well trying to extend my battery. I have a list of every app i have on my phone typed up as a check list for when I wipe my phone going from rom to rom if you need to see that then PM me your email address and ill send it to you.
Please help I Love my phone but i dont what to have to buy that ugly extended battery. I am open for suggestions however when you send your suggestions please tell me how to do it or where I can get detailed instructions.Thank you in advance.
A lot of us are experiencing phenomenal results with the new RUU running das bamf. I haven't been charging since 8:00 this morning and have only used 10% battery on 3G. Try this Rom out. I could go all day before I need a recharge now.
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Turd Furguson said:
A lot of us are experiencing phenomenal results with the new RUU running das bamf. I haven't been charging since 8:00 this morning and have only used 10% battery on 3G. Try this Rom out. I could go all day before I need a recharge now.
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same here i use my phone alot and only charge it once a day
johnsonsteven1986 said:
same here i use my phone alot and only charge it once a day
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is it the das bamf 1.5 remix rom? do you have a link
Mine was on 1.6. I am on 1.6.1 now.
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Mine was on 1.6. I am on 1.6.1 now.
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How is that rom? does everything work with it? I was reading alittle bit about it yesterday but I havent had time to really disect it.
Try another kernel, there are lots to choose from. And see my comments in the imoseyon kernel thread for more battery saving options
About that..does anyone know if their battery is 1400 or 1350 maH? Mine is 1350 and I don't have 1400 and don't know if it is abnormal
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I've been using lightning rom 3.3.1. Along with Adrynalyne 4.4.3. I only had one day so far that was killer on my battery life. I downloaded current widget and watch now for any
Anomolies.
I've posted what my battery was like being on airplane mode below.
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Here's a good chart of my current showing a transition from wifi to 4g. Battery temperature went to 100 degrees Fahrenheit. All I've been doing is cruising the xda forum.
EDIT....
I also maxed out screen brightness during this time because I was outside. I'll post another chart soon when I go back into wifi mode. I'll also maintain the same screen brightness.
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Sorry for the back to back post but it's not letting me upload images on edit mode.
These pictures are being back in wifi from 4g and maintaining the same screen brightness. I think what I should do is reduced my oc from 1.5mhz to 1000 mhz while on 4g to reduce such a large current draw. Any ideas?
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I use the LTE OnOff app to switch back and fourth between 3G and 4G to save battery.
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Turd Furguson said:
A lot of us are experiencing phenomenal results with the new RUU running das bamf. I haven't been charging since 8:00 this morning and have only used 10% battery on 3G. Try this Rom out. I could go all day before I need a recharge now.
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Hey I'm running Bamf Remix 1.6 and I'm not getting really good battery life... what kernel are you using?? Are you using using any power managers on it???
Does anyone know if anyone checked their battery 1400mah lion that came with the thunderbolt? Mine is 1350, but I don't know if that is normal. When I check the battery widget it says that, But I thought it was 1400.
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The Thunderbolt battery life just flat out sucks. I don't know if it's a hardware issue or a software issue related to Sense but it seems strange that the Droid Charge is getting over 2 days on a 1600 mAh battery on a single charge AND it's a 4g-LTE phone. So I don't know what's going on at HTC but that's ridiculous to hear Samsung's numbers.
I have two 1700 mah extended (slim) batteries and an external charger on order from ebay. I'll let everyone know if it helps or not.
I'm going through about 3 full charges a day so maybe at least I wont have to leave it plugged in all day.
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I had excellent Battery Life with Frytech's Gingerbread Clone. However, I prefer The Perfect Rom.
I'm getting great battery with bamf
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Heres the deal, im not a complete noob to rooting and installing kernals, roms and such however I am not the fore most expert either. I need help with my battery life on my TB! I had my phone off last night and charged it when I got up this morning around 5:30am I turned it on. I have not made any phone calls and only had it on to check my calander and use the calculator twice. I am running Lighting Rom. 3.3.1 and have blue emidemic theme flashed over that. I use launcher pro plus as my launcher and have facebook and twitter widgets open. Since this morning I have deleted the facebook and twitter widets hoping to stop the constant syncing is the background. I have Advanced task kill running as well trying to extend my battery. I have a list of every app i have on my phone typed up as a check list for when I wipe my phone going from rom to rom if you need to see that then PM me your email address and ill send it to you.
Please help I Love my phone but i dont what to have to buy that ugly extended battery. I am open for suggestions however when you send your suggestions please tell me how to do it or where I can get detailed instructions.Thank you in advance.
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Opinions will vary but do your self a favor and install this rom = Bamf Remix 1.6.2
I use the lightning rom series (all versions) with the blue epedemic theme. Very stable amd I tried just about every kernel with them. However nothing and i mena nothing comes close to the Bamf Roms / kernels.
You also have to consider that its not just the rom or kernel it is also what you leave on or turn off, what you sync, apps that you use and a ton of over things. I am always willing to help out a Noob. So if you neeed some tips on what to do after you flash yuor rom of choice, hit me up on a PM.
Take a look at my screenshot (attached) heavy use all day on 3g only and I got 18hours out of it. Its normally about 24 to 26, but I realy used my phone today (Texts, emails, facebook, browserand of course XDA)

battery is what i need!

Ok guys, Lately i haven't cared about battery because its summer and im home all the time so if battery's low, i charge... but now its different.
School starts in a few weeks over here in Texas. More importantly, my Football camp starts TOMORROW. I won't need a 48 hour lasting battery, but i do want one that will last me no problem to maximum 16 hours, i dont need anything more.
I currently have CM7 glitch kernel kb5.
My phone is usually on standby. If CM7 had a great standby battery i'd stick, but it doesn't...
The most i use my phone is..
A couple calls, no more than 5 a day, 100 texts maybe more a day, and games but you guys dont have to count the games, I play games at home, I don't play games while algebra is going
So just a good ROM, with amazing battery life specifically on standby.
Obviously most of the choices i have will be Froyo based roms, but I guess thats okay for now, im not looking for anything "spontaneous" just a good rom, battery life, i dont want some funky theme on it either. just a simple one.
got any suggestions? Name away
Also if you're using or have experienced the rom your suggesting, try to give me more info on what kernel you used if it was different than stock, what modem etc.
Install bionix. 1.3.1 i believe it has views over 900k and then flash Bali 1.8.8uv kernel....I saw a pic of a battery status...he went 63 hours w/o charging...assuming that wasn't photoshoped...
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Install bionix. 1.3.1 i believe it has views over 900k and then flash Bali 1.8.8uv kernel....I saw a pic of a battery status...he went 63 hours w/o charging...assuming that wasn't photoshoped...
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I will wait for more suggestions. Thanks for yours.
Also don't trust pictures like those, unreliable.
Without using my phone besides checking battery every 3hours I'm sure I can last 48hours too
bi winning 3.0 is great with bali an uv 24hrs easy hopefully cm7 battery can fixed I'm also gonna have to switch once school starts
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I suggest Project V. It runs smooth and snappy. I've never had any issues (at least nothing I haven't caused myself), have gotten great battery life and since installing Bali my battery life has been f***ing awesome.
I think you have at least a partial answer to your question: three different posters recommending three different roms but we all agree that you should be using the Bali kernel.
It's all in my signature. I've used all of the ROMs listed so far, and Toxic's has been my favorite by far. Love the near endless stream of themes that come from the group besides all the great tweaks.
I've easily gotten 48hrs with light use, or 5hrs of nonstop gaming.
I was just about to ask this. Im on Revolution rom and ill get about 6-7 hours with moderate usage. Not the best but ehh its entertaining. But back on track i too would like to know what rom has good battery life
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Just run any 2.2 rom with overstock. Have a sleep profile of 400/100 and use superpower (free) from the market and have it not turn on the mobile network for 2 hours and let it run for 1 min. Use startup manager to kill all the unnecessary apps that want to run and be done with it. It requires some work on your part but well worth it. Do note you can really cause problems for yourself by doing what I suggest by one mistep, you might not have any cellular signal at all. But I can tell you the battery savings are great. I work at a factory 12 hours a day and I leave there with 50%. This is also in an area that just barely gets edge. Every ones phones are constantly trying to grab a signal and dying.... but mine I'm working on the new Simply honey JVR right now and after a few days once it gets settled ill post a little picture in the battery thread.
I'm going to suggest bi-winning V3. I'm running it with the kernel that came with and get great battery life. I turned my phone at 10 am with 100% battery at 10 pm with several phone calls, some texts, checked the market for updates I was at 80%. I've read that some people have used Bali kernel undervolted and are getting even better. But honestly dude, bi winning runs so good and is so smooth that I just can't bring myself to change anything about it.
Bi-winning V3
if you don't care about the thickness/weight of your vibrant, could get a bigger battery..
mobimega makes one that works
on the vibrant.
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Bi winning seems to be in the lead and I shall try that out! With Bali
Thanks guys really helped me
Going to football practice now. Cya
Excellent choice my good man!! You shall not be disappointed!!
I'm currently on CM7 Trigger Redux and I can tell you that battery life only lasts around 15 hrs depending on usage. I usually just check my email, check the time every now and then, put in a few texts, and some randoms. I can tell you that Bionix 1.3.1 was a lot better but you couldn't really do much with the Bionix. On average, I would get 18+ hours. I have been told that any GB or Froyo bootloader ROMs would usually always have better battery life than CM7 just because of the system files CM7 uses.
So you dont have to stop using ur phone like its meant to be, buy a couple of cheap $4 batteries and a cheap $3.50. battery charger from ebay like that u have a fresh battery when ur about to go dead. That's what I do cuz I got tired of killing this, freeze that, install this, uninstall that, lower this. ....u get my point. I use my phone like its meant to be. I listen to music all day at work with my bluetooth earbuds and on my breaks I play a game, browse the web, watch something on netflix, etc. without having to worry about battery life cuz I'll just pop in a fresh charged one when needed. I keep a battery at work, home, and car. No matter what ROM ur using with whatever kernel or tweak applied ur still gonna kill ur battery fast watching a video or playing a HD game. If I have to limit myself doing those things than whats the point of having a phone that could do all that if ur gonna be worrying about battery life all the time. Don't get those extended ones that will make your phone fatter in your pocket and hard to get a case for, just to add about 50%-70% more life for about $20-$30 when you could get 3 regular $4 batteries that will hold as much charge as ur OEM battery. No matter what brand name they have, they all come from the same place (i.e. China) anyways so who cares if that's where they come from. They worked fine for me.
Get the extra batteries. Trust me.
.....aaaand NO! My theme is not just funky....its Blutiful.
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i have tried many roms on mine and i find team whiskeys nero 5/voodoo to be the best with battery life. no wifi calling support though but excellent rom.
I can confirm that Bi-Winning 3.0 does an incredible job in battery life. Bionix also does a good job but I feel the battery lasts longer with Bi-Winning. I'm probably going to be testing Toxic battery life soon just because theres more things to customize.

[Q] horrible battery life

hey guys. after installing juggernauts battery fix v2 2 days ago I have been getting horrible
battery life I'm on cm7 bell attic with faux 1.45 kernel here's a screenshot of my usage I did everything I should have when I flashed this Tom and the fix and calibrated it and stuff
And why exactly did you need to apply this fix? Was anything broken before this? Not trolling, just want more info on your problem. This screenshot really looks horrible.
Dude, are you oc'd min/max at 1,45 GHz, playing a game at full screen brightness while you're downloading something in an area with low hspa signal as your maps where calculating a route..?!
Can't think of any other way a battery can die like that. Hell, I don't even think all the above would deplete it like you did..
brightness is turned all the way down and my phone is id's at 800 :/ I applied this fix cause my battery life was only 10 hours but now it's like 5
You're doing all the above minus the brightness..?
Go through this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1198333 process, that will sort it out.
Also get betterbatterystats and look for whatever is eating battery.
P. S. What do you do in those 5 hrs that it lasts..?
It's the wake locks! I have the same issue but my battery still goes about a max.. probably 10 hours right now.....
all I do is text and play games for an hour at the most :/ and my brightness is all the way Down. it started doing this only after I applied the battery fix. which is very odd but I'll try calibrating it tonight
why haven't you charged your battery completely in 2 days?
I have the same issue .. battery is draining like hell .. !
I haven't had time to charge it but I did last night and its not draining that much anymore. ill try deleting the Facebook app and see what happens. I text quite alot though. probably send /receive 400 a day in total and go on Facebook all the tiem..kinda hard not to when you have al 6 gigs a month
also it says error when I try to turn on wifi and my phone shuts off randomly alot and it gets super hot..not sure if that's normal cause its underclocl when I use it :/
juggernaut fix only resolves the issue with the battery percentage jumping when you reboot phone. It doesn't resolve any battery draining problems.
The only thing I have to say to contribute here is that I'm on CM7, stock CM7 kernel, and my battery life has never been better. Many many users have reported the same.
some users report having like 20+ hours on their Phone..how is this possible? I'd be happy with even 16 hours. and ohh. yeah I was hoping that my battery percentage was just off and yeah haha. what do you mean. like your battery life got better since then or it never got better then any other rom?
Thought id post this cuz its been a while since I've had this kind of battery life.
Using cm7 nov23 weekly with Clem's 1.4Ghz kernel. =]
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Jugs battery fix is for battery jumping its a fix for that. Cm7 doesn't have battery jumping issues. Why would u apply it in the first place.
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Thought id post this cuz its been a while since I've had this kind of battery life.
Using cm7 nov23 weekly with Clem's 1.4Ghz kernel. =]
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What app is that?
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Jugs battery fix is for battery jumping its a fix for that. Cm7 doesn't have battery jumping issues. Why would u apply it in the first place.
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If that question was for me.. I didn't apply it. Just sharing stats.
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What app is that?
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Its the built-in battery-use info in about phone for cm7
7 hours later and its only dropped 10%.
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Ive always found the default CM7 kernel as having the best battery life. Faux kernel is more responsive but even with the enhanced 1ghz with/without undervolting, my battery drain is a lot worse.
Ive created a CWM zip just with the default kernel from weekly 3, its newer than the nightly ones and works great for me with the miui alpha as well
Heres the link for anyone that wants it
www.multiupload.com/FRRMWITO3X
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Ive always found the default CM7 kernel as having the best battery life. Faux kernel is more responsive but even with the enhanced 1ghz with/without undervolting, my battery drain is a lot worse.
Ive created a CWM zip just with the default kernel from weekly 3, its newer than the nightly ones and works great for me with the miui alpha as well
Heres the link for anyone that wants it
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Thanks. perfect.
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Phalanx7621 said:
Jugs battery fix is for battery jumping its a fix for that. Cm7 doesn't have battery jumping issues. Why would u apply it in the first place.
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This is just not true. There are times when CM7 has battery jumping when I use it and the fix fixes it for me. He clearly has jumping issues from his attached img.
There are many settings to fix it.
Greatings

Problems with phone since I rooted

Hello been having some annoying problems with the phone since i rooted it a while back. I used HTC unlock method and followed the tutorial for hboot 1.5 immediately I got horrible battery life. I had twrp if that matters, aside from the horrible battery life. I'd get a lot of random reboots. I replaced battery battery still sucked. I did the hboot downgrade battery still sucks now, and random reboots started bad now. I've used miui rom a couple of senses ice cream they all ear my battery I'm full charge at 630am and by ten I'm getting the low battery notification, I have tried almost every from and non have worked. Is it time to bash this phone against a wall? Its the only android phone I've had that has done this. I'm a Android user since the g1 btw. Which had horrible battery life but in comparison it beats this phone. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
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are you still using twrp and also will need some more details like are you running a custom rom and kernal and what rom and kernal are you using this info needed
I'm on clockwork now. I've never flashed a kernel so I pretty much use the kernel the rom comes with. I'm currently using digitalhigh's miui build and never flashed a kernel have never flashed one might this be the problem? If so where do I search?
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Kernel on it right now is 2.6.35.14-AngryDragon-1.0 its digital highs kernel.
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battery at 28% now I was at 70 when I posted this, loaded up two pages Max I wonder if the phone is just going out
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Sounds like the kernal your using is the cause of the battery drain I wonder is it clocked above 1.5 if it is there's your problem
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And get rid of cwm and use 4ext recovery instead
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Sorry for the newb comment I'm about to make ext4? Sorry again lol
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Do you know what clock speed you are running at?
This may seem like a silly question but what kind of case is your phone in, have you left your phone in a location that may have heat damaged your battery. Have you tried another battery and experienced the same rapid discharge?
Its a freaking meeting of the half minds in here OP excluded! Recovery is not the Culprit of the battery drain!
The culprit of the battery drain has to do with the Kernel for instance Anthrax Kernel is awesome but will drain your battery quicker then ****!
@OP I suggest you try meanrom it has a very good battery life and Mikeyxda is constantly trying to make it better and you have your choice between four different Kernels to choose from You have the new one (I dont remember the name) Ziggy's, Anthrax's and stock. I prefer Ziggy's and I get good battery life with it.
From what I have seen most if not all ICS roms are using Anthrax! As I stated before Anthrax Kernel in sleep mode drains your battery at 2% an hour so you can imagine how much it uses when its awake.
Dont get me wrong anthrax is blazing fast!
I assumed recovery had nothing to do it. Will try meanrom and report back.
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Flashes ex4 recovery. It's sweet. And latest meanrom. It has dodava kernel. Battery still sucks. But ill give it a day to settle in.
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Classic
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Batt life the same
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Give up :'(
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How much screen on time? Do you have good signal? Are you leaving 4g on all the time? With constant use, it is normal to only get a few hours, especially with low signal or 4g.
Could be a rogue app. I like better battery monitor (available on xda) and bad ass battery monitor (in market) to see what is draining my battery.
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Batt life the same
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I'm running MeanRom w/ dodava and it is BY FAR the best batt life i've had on this phone to date. On light usage days I can go all day (12+ hours) and still have >75% left. I also use Juice Defender Ultimate to auto-disable data/gps/etc on screen-off but from what you're saying it sounds like your batt life is freakishly bad. I don't think it's even a wakelock issue, you must have a runaway application eating 100% cpu all the time or something severely broken in your OS.
I'm guessing you didn't do a full wipe of the phone before flashing MeanRom?
Also, after flashing a new kernel/rom your battery stats may be messed up and you may need to recalibrate before it's accurate again:
I use the app "BatteryCalibration" by NeMa (free in Market).
Just follow the instructions in the app.
So... You need to flash it again but this time:
1.) Do a full wipe by flashing one of those Wipe utils first. There's a link to one on the MeanRom page as MikeyXDA mentions it. DO NOT Reboot after doing the wipe but proceed immediately to install the MeanROM zip. This will wipe out any data that doesn't sync to google. Your SD card will not be erased but everythign else will.
2.) Do be extremely selective about re-installing your applications. The Android system may have gotten FUBAR'd from flashing of different ROMs on top of each other and that may be the cause and would be fixed by #1 above but it's just as likely you've installed some very bad application(s). When you open Google Market for the first time after a clean wipe and flash it will start re-downloading everything you had installed before. STOP it from doing that. Even if you have to pull the batt out or whatever. Next time you open it, it won't automatically start installing everything but will let you choose them one at a time. Install only the bare minimum apps at first and check an App Killer and CPU monitor like SystemPanel Lite to look for high CPU usage and kill any stuck apps. Each day maybe you can add a few more apps and this way you'll know when your batt life goes to hell again which app it was that sent it there.
Anytime you switch from one ROM to another you should do a full wipe. The only exception is when maybe flashing a newer version of the same ROM on top of an older one. (i.e. Flashing MeanRom 4.3 on top of 4.1 or something.) I've noticed that after kernel upgrades even though my battery often needs to be recalibrated.
I unplugged my phone 3+ hrs ago, lightly checked it a couple of times this morning and glanced at it a few times while writing this and I'm still at 96%. I'm running MeanRom 4.1 at the moment but will upgrade to 4.3 tonight maybe.

What effect do you think firmware has on battery life?

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

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