Any Draw Something users having the same problem as myself?
Currently on Hydrog3n rom but I have tried others. Usually charge my phone via laptop but when playing Draw Something phone still discharges faster than its charging.
I haven't noticed any battery drain while playing that on my sgs2 running cm9
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Doesn't affect my battery whatsoever. Must be your phone buddy.
welshman010 said:
Any Draw Something users having the same problem as myself?
Currently on Hydrog3n rom but I have tried others. Usually charge my phone via laptop but when playing Draw Something phone still discharges faster than its charging.
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On CM9 it cause a huge battery drain here too. If I use it I loose close to 1% per minute
Using sensation rom no batt drain at all
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change kernel.
speedmod look the best
htc hd2, hyperdroid (fikret) - i'm also experiencing a huge battery drain when playing draw something :/
Am also on CM9 with Nexus One (BCM ICS). Draw something is indeed drawing lots of battery power. Phone gets immensely hot. Running the Tiamat kernel from March 14
No battery drain on neat ROM
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How fast does your drain I play draw something alot, I don't seem to notice it to drain that fast.
I have the same issue here with a LG optimus 2x, draw something consumes all the battery in 2 hours or less. (with stock rom)
Try Different Kernel
Speedmod, Siya or NEAK
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hello
I'm currently using miui rom 1.9.16 with siyah kernel v.2. 6.1+
with low usage and juice defender the battery is quite good but if i use some apps and 3g data it can go to 10% in 6-10 hours
I'm playing a game called age of legends that seems to take most battery (about 50%) .. with my carrier rom i think battery was better but still quite bad
maybe I'm not using siyah good enough idk
any help will be appreciated
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The SGS2 screen takes a lot of battery, so if you play a game for long, it could affect the battery duration.
yeh but that will be on display usage and i have it on 10% and i usually set my brightness very low so it should save some as well
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I believe Miui is the problem. Miui is a battery drainer.
Your screen uses batterie. This has nothing to do with your rom or kernel.
Avoid white screens/backgrounds as this will use more batterie then dark ones.
I know the screen takes battery .. but the system shows battery usage percentage and screen is maybe at 10%.. i think the game is the problem but it wasn't so bad with other rom so there's probably some problem with miui/siyah competabilty with the game.. the game is over 50% according to the battery usage
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Don't separate game from screen, unless you're able to play that game with the screen off...
The total consumption is 60% during the time you're playing the game.
I don't know if the fault is the game itself, but when playing games for a couple of hours, it drains battery a lot. That is a fact.
If you use your phone to play like 2+ hours, you probably will be charging it at night since you will be out of battery. It's not a phone or battery problem, games always tend to drain battery.
I need to charge 1-2 times a day for it to last until the night... well i guess I'll just need to try some more roms and kernels to see if it's getting better
thanks for the help everyone
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So, I made a switch from HD2 running android to Amaze hoping it will have a better battery life coz of its juicy more 1730mAh battery, more power efficient s-lcd screen and the fact its an native android device (which the hd2 wasn't) but its been barely 2 days and I'm seriously disappointed with it.
I'm have a moderate usage which includes calls, pandora, youtube and net surfing but it barely lasts till evening and the usage is actually less than what i did on HD2 coz I don't have put any games on Amaze yet. I had lots on HD2. With HD2 I could easily pass through the day and still have about 10-20% battery left at night and this was on its anemic 1230mAh battery
I do realize the HD2 was rooted and was running CM7 and had all kinds of custom kernels and stuff. So is stock Sense and HTC kernel the culprit here ?
I've already ticked in the setting for Power efficiency under power settings which turns off auto sync (I have google and facebook sync same as I had on HD2) and using auto brightness with the least setting, but neither of them are helping
One thing I noticed in current widget log and current widget display, is the power drain in standby hardly goes below 100mA anytime ? According to me, this seems to be the issue hogging the battery as on HD2 it used to be <10mA most of the times with occasional spikes...but in Amaze every value is like more than 100mA. Does the faux kernel and custom ROMS helps with this, a lot ?
Ideally I should try it myself and see, but don't want to unlock the bootloader and stuff just yet as if the things are going to be like this, I may as well sell it and put in some more money and switch to other side (sgs2)
The other theory I have is the CPU on HD2 is single core 1GHZ while Amaze is dual core 1.5ghz. Gingerbread doesn't have proper dual core support so things will improve when ICS comes ?
Also on a side note, is there a problem with earphones having L shaped jack on Amaze ? My primary headphones monster turbine pro which have L shaped jack don't have a very good fit in it and small amount of force seems to disconnect the headset from phone. Its really annoying, although my other earphones which have a straight pin don't have this issue. But its not the earphone problem either as I don't have this issue with turbine's in my mp3 player and HD2 ?
The stock battery was horrific for me so I bought the Anker 1900mah battery from ebay and It's far better than stock...I'm at 15 hours with 47% left...Tasker is helping a lil also.
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Hmmm didn't think i would have to upgrade the battery just after buying it, although seems something wrong is with the battery though...maybe HTC just bloated its spec to 1730
Yea, I have advanced task manager with auto-kill, but its really the same with it or without..
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Hmmm didn't think i would have to upgrade the battery just after buying it, although seems something wrong is with the battery though...maybe HTC just bloated its spec to 1730
Yea, I have advanced task manager with auto-kill, but its really the same with it or without..
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Try letting the battery discharge completely until phone turns off, and then plug it up and let it charge to 100% without unplugging it.
My stock battery last 12-16hrs depending on use. I also have an Anker 1900mAH last a good 18-20 if I charge it inside the phone. If I charge it with the Anker charger it last about 8hrs.
Guys what about the current widget numbers ? Have anyone of you got it or can get it to see how is the drain like for you guys?
No matter how strong the battery, if its going to [email protected], it won't last very long. 18-19 hrs on after market 1900mAh battery isn't very impressive figure either
I'm not quite sure of this drain, is the fast 4g on Amaze the culprit just like LTE
Also let me know if you guys have stock or custom ROM ?
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One thing I noticed in current widget log and current widget display, is the power drain in standby hardly goes below 100mA anytime ? According to me, this seems to be the issue hogging the battery as on HD2 it used to be <10mA most of the times with occasional spikes...but in Amaze every value is like more than 100mA. Does the faux kernel and custom ROMS helps with this, a lot ?
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i assume youre talking about cell standby? you WANT this number to be high on the list
You should use a battery saving app like juice defender or battery fu.
Personally, I use battery fu and I have gotten more than 20 hours of battery, on stock battery, running on stock phone, unrooted.
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I havent had any battery life issues with mine. Before rooting I could go the whole day on a charge but it would be close to dead around 10PM. I'm still getting used to the new ROM I flashed but battery life has definitely improved.
I would recommend opening the task manager and killing off some unneeded apps.
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I havent had any battery life issues with mine. Before rooting I could go the whole day on a charge but it would be close to dead around 10PM. I'm still getting used to the new ROM I flashed but battery life has definitely improved.
I would recommend opening the task manager and killing off some unneeded apps.
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Task managers kill battery life even more
Is it bad if I use the HTC task manager, I only use it to kill the browser which stays open even if you hit back
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Using task managers to kill an app that you don't want running isn't bad, I think its the continuely killing all apps every 30 minutes that makes it worse.
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i assume youre talking about cell standby? you WANT this number to be high on the list
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I'm not sure why this should be high
It should be low ? A high number would mean its losing more power during standby...
Guys, There are 2 school of thoughts about task manager...I agree task manager may consume more battery if you look into the theory how android works...but I've tried with and without task manager it doesn't make much of a difference from what I observed
Also what about L shaped jack earphone issue? Is it fine for everyone else?
I have the same issue my battery lasts 6-8 hours MAX with intermediate use....juice defender, tried every rom and different kernels.
My brother Easily gets 16-18 hours with intermediate use (galaxy s2) same processor. I know his battery is a little bigger but I didn't think his battery life would triple mine -__-
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Is it galaxy s2 tmo version?
I checked out there forum too and things are not looking very good there also with many people reporting horrible battery life
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Task managers kill battery life even more
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I use the HTC one that came with the phone and kill apps that consume a lot of resources in the background.
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Is it galaxy s2 tmo version?
I checked out there forum too and things are not looking very good there also with many people reporting horrible battery life
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Yeah the tmo version. My brother gets amazing battery life. I've seen him pull about 30 hours with super low useage.
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This phone is anything but a battery hog. Energy 3.10.12 release has these results to boast.
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What kernel?
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This phone is anything but a battery hog. Energy 3.10.12 release has these results to boast.
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Hi Glacier,
Thanks for the update That seems reassuring...
I've been researching on Amaze battery quite a lot, I think current widget numbers are misleading because even in Airport mode it shows more than 100mAh drain, which is not possible..
I've found out another app...My battery drain analyzer written by a fellow member here at XDA
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.WazaBe.android.BatteryDrain
It basically calculates the drain rate in %/hr, basically measures how much time does it take for battery to take 1% dip...
I've found for my amaze its close to 1.6-3%/Hr when in standby, when phone is not woken up during the period...I think its on a higher side but acceptable still...Can any member with a custom ROM/kernel also report his/her number..
BTW I've seen the numbers on TMO SGSII in their forum, this number is roughly the same there too ~ 2%/per hour for most users...
Hi,
I've been flashing roms onto my phone for months now and what I've realised is that the battery life is always awful. I hardly ever get past 10 hours, with just 1 hour of screen on time as my battery drains in stand by. I've tried cm7, cm9, perfect galaxy, miui, stock and many more, but my battery life always seems to be the same. Currently I'm running cmiui (latest version) and still battery is draining very fast. I read about people having amazing battery life on a daily basis.
My current battery life drains by 1% every 2-3 minutes of screen on time and about 5% of drain when in deep sleep or stand by an hour, sometimes even more. I use betterbatterystats, cpuspy and gsapp to monitor my battery but nothing suspicious occurs. Usually my 'awake' time tends to be 50% higher than my screen on time according to betterbatterystats, however all the wake locks tend to be kernel related. Changing kernel doesn't change this either. I've literally tried everything, installing several kernels, modems and calibrating my battery every time I flash a new rom.
Also what I realised is that my phone frequently overheats near the camera and even sometimes reaches 50°c.
I would appreciate it if anyone could help me on this topic. It is really frustrating that I cannot get through a day of even light use of my phone, which makes it almost unusable as I'm always concerned about my battery. I've also tried several batteries, so the problem doesn't lie with the battery.
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MikeIliescu said:
Hi,
I've been flashing roms onto my phone for months now and what I've realised is that the battery life is always awful. I hardly ever get past 10 hours, with just 1 hour of screen on time as my battery drains in stand by. I've tried cm7, cm9, perfect galaxy, miui, stock and many more, but my battery life always seems to be the same. Currently I'm running cmiui (latest version) and still battery is draining very fast. I read about people having amazing battery life on a daily basis.
My current battery life drains by 1% every 2-3 minutes of screen on time and about 5% of drain when in deep sleep or stand by an hour, sometimes even more. I use betterbatterystats, cpuspy and gsapp to monitor my battery but nothing suspicious occurs. Usually my 'awake' time tends to be 50% higher than my screen on time according to betterbatterystats, however all the wake locks tend to be kernel related. Changing kernel doesn't change this either. I've literally tried everything, installing several kernels, modems and calibrating my battery every time I flash a new rom.
Also what I realised is that my phone frequently overheats near the camera and even sometimes reaches 50°c.
I would appreciate it if anyone could help me on this topic. It is really frustrating that I cannot get through a day of even light use of my phone, which makes it almost unusable as I'm always concerned about my battery. I've also tried several batteries, so the problem doesn't lie with the battery.
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Everytime you install a new Rom/Kernel you have to wait for it to settle down (About 2 Charging cycles). If I flash a new Rom to my device Batterydrain is very high too at the beginning. What you can do is install a Rom and a kernel which supports undervolting and underclocking.
I use Resurrection Remix ICS 2.6.1 with the Siyah 3.5.2 Kernel with this Voltage/Clock settings (LESS AGGRESSIVE UV VALUES with -50mv and not -75mv undervolting):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26755476&postcount=850
With this settings I get 16 - 18 hours easily and with about 2 1/2 -3 1/2 hours of screentime and also about over 4 hours of listening music and doing other stuff of course.
Everytime you undervolt/underclock make a Nandroid backup!
Thanks, I've heard about the battery charging cycle before, I'm new to cmiui, flashed it yesterday but I've had cm9 on for about two months and the battery life was horrendous. I will try the undervolting and see how that goes
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Strange, I am on stock and can make almost whole day with 3-4h screen time. Sounds like some issue either with battery or with the phone.
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get a 2000 mha battery over ebay
I have been used 2000mah battery, miui 2.8.3 + siyah 4.0.1 kernel, no serious battery life issue :good:
I have a 1800mah battery, its actually not that much better than the stock battery, but doesn't the 2000mah add extra thickness?
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Yes it does.
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MikeIliescu said:
I have a 1800mah battery, its actually not that much better than the stock battery, but doesn't the 2000mah add extra thickness?
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Yes but it`s no thicker than your speaker part of the phone.
I'll have a look at it, I've re calibrated my battery this morning and ismt half bad so far. Its 9 o clock now and sill have 38% left with about 1.5h of screen on time, phones been unplugged for about 10 hours. I've used the undervolt setting as suggested but still loose about 4% of battery in stand by each hour. On comparison my mums iPhone 3gs looses about 1% every 3 hours. Surely the android battery isn't that much worse
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If it occurs with every rom you have could it be app related, wiggets or syncing too frequently?
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That's what I thought but I've analysed my apps with betterbatterystats and gsapp, nothing suspicious came up and wakelocks are always kernel related. I've tried several kernels as well
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That's what I thought but I've analysed my apps with betterbatterystats and gsapp, nothing suspicious came up and wakelocks are always kernel related. I've tried several kernels as well
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Get cpu spy from the play store to see if your device is deep sleeping. Also, you can try 1900mah anker battery. I got two and a charger off eBay for $25 can. Definitely a good deal
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Mysterious indeed, all I can suggest is what I would try which is to give a custom rom call slim rom a go after full wipes and format system. Its a stripped down rom and always gives good battery life as it's so lean. Hope you find a fix soon all the best.
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maybe your battery is bad i bought a great 2500mah battery on ebay http://www.ebay.com/itm/2500mAh-Ext...ccessories&hash=item4ab6494de0#ht_2481wt_1163
that combined with the rom OLLO MONSTER gives me awesome battery life
I might have to invest in a new battery. As I said before I've upgraded to a 1800mah battery and using that but the difference is minimal. Also I have CPU spy and it goes into deep sleep quite a bit, awake time however according to betterbatteystats tends to be about 30-40% higher than screen on time. And i'll try the suggested rom after I've given this one a few more days on the undervolting
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MikeIliescu said:
I might have to invest in a new battery. As I said before I've upgraded to a 1800mah battery and using that but the difference is minimal. Also I have CPU spy and it goes into deep sleep quite a bit, awake time however according to betterbatteystats tends to be about 30-40% higher than screen on time. And i'll try the suggested rom after I've given this one a few more days on the undervolting
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For BBS, anything over 1% is something that needs to be fixed. Keep in mind you need a good sample time (like over 5hrs)
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MikeIliescu said:
I might have to invest in a new battery. As I said before I've upgraded to a 1800mah battery and using that but the difference is minimal. Also I have CPU spy and it goes into deep sleep quite a bit, awake time however according to betterbatteystats tends to be about 30-40% higher than screen on time. And i'll try the suggested rom after I've given this one a few more days on the undervolting
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Hmm looks normal, I would get the 2000 mah Samsung Original Battery because 10 hours and already on 38% battery is not so good in my opinion.
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For BBS, anything over 1% is something that needs to be fixed. Keep in mind you need a good sample time (like over 5hrs)
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I've taken a few screenshots of bbs, somehow the kernel wake lock is completely empty which is odd
Also I only need the battery to last about 15h with 3-4h of screen on time to get me through the day!
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I've taken a few screenshots of bbs, somehow the kernel wake lock is completely empty which is odd
Also I only need the battery to last about 15h with 3-4h of screen on time to get me through the day!
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Well that looks decent. Do you have key press sounds and lock screen sounds off? that could cause audioout_1 wakelocks
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just noticed that my battery still drains when im playing a game while the phone is charging(plugged into an outlet). i'm using siyah's kernel. should i increase the charging mah? it's currently at stock setting 1000mah.
im on ARHD 2.3.0 (ics). i never noticed this problem before while browsing the net etc. just recently, i installed a few games and started playing on my phone.
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swift2fly said:
just noticed that my battery still drains when im playing a game while the phone is charging(plugged into an outlet). i'm using siyah's kernel. should i increase the charging mah? it's currently at stock setting 1000mah.
im on ARHD 2.3.0 (ics). i never noticed this problem before while browsing the net etc. just recently, i installed a few games and started playing on my phone.
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the same problem happened to me too what worked for me was that i took out the battery and reinserted it and i also change the charging mah to 1200 (i'm also using siyah kernel)
This is not a problem just for you. This is normal..
Just don't play heavy CPU and GPU usage games while you charging.
Changing mah is risky a bit. You warned..
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This is not a problem just for you. This is normal..
Just don't play heavy CPU and GPU usage games while you charging.
Changing mah is risky a bit. You warned..
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Definitely agreeing with oulouloul on this one ay, Changing your mah can result in over heating your battery and damaging your phone,
Is there a option in the game to turn down graphics maybe?
i normally look for that just to save some battery anyway
interesting. it never happened on my sensation when playing GTA3. i guess the quadcore is too powerful
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Hey,
I'm using my S2 with CM10.1, and sometimes I have redraws when sweeping through pages in Trebuchet, and when I play games like Zombie Highway I have FPS drops sometimes. I never have used my device with overclocking or undervolting. Just one time used Siyah kernel with higher GPU freqs. Is there a chance that my CPU is damaged or bad? Btw I'm experiencing huge battery drain, but I'm using extended Samsung's battery with 2000mAh. I have taken that battery back to shop, because thought it was wrong, they replaced it to brand new, and the problem is the same. I'm surfing in internet with my S2 switched to 2G network and after 10minutes of surfing I see 5% battery came down... Usualy I charge it two times per day, which is very annoying. My screen brightness is 40%. What's the problem? If this problem will be in future I will probably switch to iPhone.
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battery use stats?
Here it is.
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Are you on the latest nightly? If you are and you do face the problem, make a backup and return to stock ROM to check if the problem persists. There have been a few complaints regarding games in the official discussion thread, but should be fixed soon.
Let us know
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