My Battery was draining so dang fast.. 6 hours and it was dead... I looked in the usage and noticed that it was 40% Screen.. A quick look reveled that the rom defaults to full brightness with auto brightness off.. I turned it on.. put in my extra battery and it seems to be doing much much better with the screen only using about 15% now..
Just wanted to throw that out there for those that are having issues with their battery drain.
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I will fully test it today when I am at school. What I noticed so far was when I was at 20%, the low battery message popped up and said there was 14% or less battery.
battery life is awful. reporting says over 90% of my battery use is from the screen which is set to ~25% and im getting ~8 hours on a charge. i have noticed the backlight appears to be alot brighter as the typical light bleed looks a lot worse than when i was on gb
I've just switched over to the Amaze and have noticed a precipitous battery drain as well, the main culprit being the screen according to the "battery use" stats. Suffice it to day, I'm quite disappointed.
I'm rooted, S-off, super ID, running Energy ROM.
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I've just switched over to the Amaze and have noticed a precipitous battery drain as well, the main culprit being the screen according to the "battery use" stats. Suffice it to day, I'm quite disappointed.
I'm rooted, S-off, super ID, running Energy ROM.
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If you're running Energy Rom, it's based on the first leak (The old one). Many people were reporting bad battery life and phone overheating on the first leak.
My battery life is much better on any of the 2nd leak/official based roms.
based on this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1625871&page=2
battery life is awful if u didnt wipe battery stats or instlld leak without being fully charge
oh and there are 2 leaks the first one has horrible battery life ... the 2nd leak
i have it and it works the same as gb if not better by a tiny bit
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If you're running Energy Rom, it's based on the first leak (The old one). Many people were reporting bad battery life and phone overheating on the first leak.
My battery life is much better on any of the 2nd leak/official based roms.
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Which ROM are you currently using? I'll give that a shot and hopefully that was the issue because the drain's pretty bad.
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based on this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1625871&page=2
battery life is awful if u didnt wipe battery stats or instlld leak without being fully charge
oh and there are 2 leaks the first one has horrible battery life ... the 2nd leak
i have it and it works the same as gb if not better by a tiny bit
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I'll check that out after work. Thanks!
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Which ROM are you currently using? I'll give that a shot and hopefully that was the issue because the drain's pretty bad.
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I've been testing for RMS all day, I was running Iced bullet. Over on Android-dev.
If you want the stock feel, try fastamaze v2.1 It's based on the latest.
Miked (arhd) is rebasing his rom also, not sure when he's going to be done, I heard he was having some problems.
According to Google engineer battery stats hold only statistics about apps and parts that use battery and system resets these once phone is charged.
For me completely discharging, power up again until battery was 0 and then charging overnight helped a bit.
Screens below, the display is mostly browser. I just left screen on for 10min and the battery didn't drain at all. You need to be doing something, the screen on itself does not cause much drain, just a side note.
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xxquicksh0txx said:
I've been testing for RMS all day, I was running Iced bullet. Over on Android-dev.
If you want the stock feel, try fastamaze v2.1 It's based on the latest.
Miked (arhd) is rebasing his rom also, not sure when he's going to be done, I heard he was having some problems.
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Sweet, I'll try them all and report back. Thanks a lot!
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jjdeveau said:
My Battery was draining so dang fast.. 6 hours and it was dead... I looked in the usage and noticed that it was 40% Screen.. A quick look reveled that the rom defaults to full brightness with auto brightness off.. I turned it on.. put in my extra battery and it seems to be doing much much better with the screen only using about 15% now..
Just wanted to throw that out there for those that are having issues with their battery drain.
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6 hours....lucky bastard
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My battery life has improved sooooo much since flashing the official ICS. I disabled a crap ton of apps, and now I get 10-12 hours of normal use, when I used to get about 6 when I was rooted stock with no bloat.
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So this is what I've done so far, I'm still on Energy Rom, but I've done what calmtea & Hasoon2000 suggested:
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I fully charged it to 100%, booted into recovery (via 4ext Touch Recovery), and wiped the battery stats.
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Then flashed Sysctl.conf as instructed in this thread:
2) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1621808
Remember to do a nandroid backup before trying. Initially I thought I was in a bootloop, but eventually my phone did load up with no problems.
And finally, I tried this as well: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1628457
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...go to settings>developer settings>and change the background process limit to 4 or less..
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Thus far, I have not really noticed an appreciable decrease in battery drainage, but I have noticed the standby has dramatically improved. I went to bed at 22% and woke up with the battery at 19% after 6.5 hrs.
So I've also tested out other roms (FastAmaze, Iced Bullet, SpeedRom) and the drain rate seems to be the same as Energy Rom. CapRomCE may have performed slightly better than Energy, but not enough to make me switch.
I haz a sad now.
Is there any better way 4 long lasting battery?
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Maybe its not the Rom..maybe its your battery.
Batteries have came from the factory defective. It sucks but it does happen. I have no complaints about up time with this phone.
I'm running stock official ics .3 debloated.. no other tweaks except a theme. Getting a good 10-16hrs depending on use. Data on all the time unless the system shuts it off. I don't use a CPU tuner...just try to re-condition your battery and you should get better results....unless you're a heavy user.
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Double0EK said:
Maybe its not the Rom..maybe its your battery.
Batteries have came from the factory defective. It sucks but it does happen. I have no complaints about up time with this phone.
I'm running stock official ics .3 debloated.. no other tweaks except a theme. Getting a good 10-16hrs depending on use. Data on all the time unless the system shuts it off. I don't use a CPU tuner...just try to re-condition your battery and you should get better results....unless you're a heavy user.
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I've already ordered the Anker battery and am hoping that's the case because this is a quality phone and I love it!
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Anker batteries finally arrived today, gonna test them out and see if I experience better life. In the meantime, I've changed my usage habits to make due with the stock battery and am hoping the Anker batteries will give an extra boost.
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So after a day of using the battery, it has been noticeably better. However, the discharge rate is all wonky. I don't really care about that as long as the battery life lasts.
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trying to troubleshoot S2 right now, if you want to help me go to my other thread:
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Been debating for a month or so whether i should buy the SGS2 with a contract for free, or import the Galaxy nexus and sell whatever phone i can make the most profit on to offset the price of the Nexus.
Well i finally decided that the SGS2 would be a better choice, and was also cheaper, so i bought it about a week ago.
I love the phone except for these two huge deal breakers:
the first is battery life when im on a AOSP rom.
Im on CM7 KANG from 11-29. Battery life is pretty awful. When im home its decent about 3% standby drain per hour. I was at school where the service isnt that great and this is what happened:
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I dont see how anyone is getting decent battery life from this ROM.
Personally, one of my favorite things about android is being able to run different kinds of roms, particularly CM and MIUI. I really feel that if thats what you like then this is the wrong phone for it.
I have no doubt that i wouldnt be having these issues with a nexus phone. So im starting to come to the conclusion that maybe i should sell it, and import the SGS2, or try to get the nexus S for cheap, and then wait until the price drops a bit.
Do whatever you feel is right for you.
It took me about a week to identify and tune my gs2. I wasn't getting more than 14 to 16 hours before. I'm getting 24+ now.
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rhost said:
It took me about a week to identify and tune my gs2. I wasn't getting more than 14 to 16 hours before. I'm getting 24+ now.
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what rom/setup are you using?
I'm getting fantastic battery life with Siyah and KJ4. Easily 20+.....
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K Rich said:
I'm getting fantastic battery life with Siyah and KJ4. Easily 20+.....
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Should i try out that kernel with cm7?
i have no doubts that other roms will have good battery life, (the ones designed for i777) but i get awful life when using cm7 and other aosp roms. This is my biggest problem.
And I'm getting better battery today than the other day. I'm down to 75% after 7 hours. But this is with minimal use and full service, and connected to wifi.
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I get 20+ hours easily with MIUI. When I first got the phone I was getting about 12 hours. Took me a while to tune it.
21cdb said:
I get 20+ hours easily with MIUI. When I first got the phone I was getting about 12 hours. Took me a while to tune it.
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Please explain your "tuning"
Are you changing voltages? Apps? Breaking the battery in? Etc? This would help
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What the hell is Dogg Catcher...seems to be taking a lot of your battery away xD
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What the hell is Dogg Catcher...seems to be taking a lot of your battery away xD
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Podcast player. And 8% is negligible. Non-issue.
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Please explain your "tuning"
Are you changing voltages? Apps? Breaking the battery in? Etc? This would help
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No voltage changes. Removed widgets that were causing some battery strain, switched email from push to poll, prevented some stuff from auto starting, froze some system stuff with Titanium Backup. I tested the drain last night, went to bed with 100%, woke up 6 hours later with 99%.
As far as 'tuning' to stop apps from starting I give a huge +1 for autostarts! Can't remember who recommended it first on this forum but noticeably added to my battery. I have at least 150 apps on my phone and there was a good number set to start 'after boot'.
Not too often does one change make a difference you can feel. I can't really give a number as I've just set it up yesterday and usually go through a full charge with an extended battery, 9+ screen on hours in one day, kinda sad when I think about it. It'll take a few more days before I can really tell the difference it's making. But it 'seemed' like it added a full hour more of screen on time yesterday. It'll blow me away if that's true. Hope the numbers repeat.
As a note I tried stopping 'camera' from auto starting and it did a hard reboot of the phone. Guess that was it's way of saying don't touch.
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Similar to everyone else I had to play with my settings and apps. I would also recommend checking out the thread on known apps that are battery hogs. I'm using CM7 with the latest Kang build and the battery life is MUCH improved. Running siyah 2.3 kernal oc'd 200-1600 ondemand. Try turning down the screen brightness some or put it on auto if you haven't. Also, I may be wrong but I bet the battery does get conditioned after a few drain/charge cycles and improves.
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Similar to everyone else I had to play with my settings and apps. I would also recommend checking out the thread on known apps that are battery hogs. I'm using CM7 with the latest Kang build and the battery life is MUCH improved. Running siyah 2.3 kernal oc'd 200-1600 ondemand. Try turning down the screen brightness some or put it on auto if you haven't. Also, I may be wrong but I bet the battery does get conditioned after a few drain/charge cycles and improves.
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Im coming from a captivate with a similar steup, so ive got everything almost down to a science.
Brightness has been another gripe ive had with this device. Auto brightness is way too low, and is also unresponsive. Auto on both my phones side by side shows the flaws (IMO) of the SGS2. When its dark, both are the same, when i shine light on it, the captivate reacts accordingly. As a result, I keep the phone at half brightness.
Ive had battery problems with both phones when running AOSP roms. My captivate would last for 36-48hours with minimal use on a captivate based rom, and then 10-14 hours on CM.
15 hrs. mostly in standby with some light web surfing and constant txt messaging. running at 200mhz-1200mhz on conservative with entropy's DD 12/01/11 release battery is at 72%
Not to mention you cant possibly believe you are going to get a brand new phone that already has similar battery life or maybe a little worse to this phone and flash brand new roms on it and get better battery life. I dont believe the cards are going to fall in your favor. Although the Nexus is a nice phone and would be pretty sweet to own...if battery issues like this are your reason for jumping ship....it may be a long swim to shore.
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Not to mention you cant possibly believe you are going to get a brand new phone that already has similar battery life or maybe a little worse to this phone and flash brand new roms on it and get better battery life. I dont believe the cards are going to fall in your favor. Although the Nexus is a nice phone and would be pretty sweet to own...if battery issues like this are your reason for jumping ship....it may be a long swim to shore.
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Lol ^^ very well said
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tylerdurdin said:
Not to mention you cant possibly believe you are going to get a brand new phone that already has similar battery life or maybe a little worse to this phone and flash brand new roms on it and get better battery life. I dont believe the cards are going to fall in your favor. Although the Nexus is a nice phone and would be pretty sweet to own...if battery issues like this are your reason for jumping ship....it may be a long swim to shore.
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sorry i read this a few times. I dont get it lol.
I'm not sure if this will help u, but try check ur google maps's setting and sign out of google latitude. My gs2 has been draining battery so fast lately, n now it seems back to 17+ hrs average.
just get another battery or keep more chargers around
Hey everyone,
I've been playing around with some ICS roms (Energy and revolution roms) amd noticed that the battery life is AMAZING on idle/standby, but when using the phone, the battery drains VERY fast.
Are all the ics roms like this atm? Are you guys getting similar drains? I'm going to try another rom and see what happens in the meantime.
Here's a screen cap of my battery life.
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i completely agree.i'd like to post in development but can't as yet(forum rules).i'm running arhd 2.2.1.s-off.my battery drains out approximately 6 and a half hours on moderate use(music etc.)i wonder if it's due to the stock kernel or as u said if ics is like this.apart from that the rom is solid and very ice.
Same here, the only problem im having with the ics leak is the battery drains extremely quick. And I have my brightness all the way down.
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sherman8or said:
Same here, the only problem im having with the ics leak is the battery drains extremely quick. And I have my brightness all the way down.
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I'm on the Leak ICS and I haven't seen that problem... I think it's improved my battery since I've updated.. before I would have to swap batteries half way through the day.. now I just charge when I get home.. and I work 12 hours a day.. Monday to Saturday.
After resetting battery stats this is what I saw and was impressed with. I have email set to auto sync from 7am to 6pm for work along with my gmail account, facebook set to sync once a day as I don't really care to be notified every time someone posts. Screen brightness set to auto, however this phone did not see sunlight on this day so I'm sure the screen was never maxed out.
iGoOsE76 said:
I'm on the Leak ICS and I haven't seen that problem... I think it's improved my battery since I've updated..
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Ditto. The first day I was on the ROM I noticed a huge increase in battery life.
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After resetting battery stats this is what I saw and was impressed with. I have email set to auto sync from 7am to 6pm for work along with my gmail account, facebook set to sync once a day as I don't really care to be notified every time someone posts. Screen brightness set to auto, however this phone did not see sunlight on this day so I'm sure the screen was never maxed out.
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How did you reset the battery stats? I've got 4EXT installed as my recovery, and DID notice a "Wipe battery stats" option. Is that the same thing?
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How did you reset the battery stats? I've got 4EXT installed as my recovery, and DID notice a "Wipe battery stats" option. Is that the same thing?
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it is
Ill try wiping my battery stats, but i been getting really bad battery life since upgrading. down from 2-3 days to 6-12 hours.
edit: forgot to mention, i can't charge via USB anymore, as it says it does not provide enough power. It used to work just fine with same cable, same usb port on my computer at work. Now it can't charge, have to bring wall charger to work.
auiotour said:
Ill try wiping my battery stats, but i been getting really bad battery life since upgrading. down from 2-3 days to 6-12 hours.
edit: forgot to mention, i can't charge via USB anymore, as it says it does not provide enough power. It used to work just fine with same cable, same usb port on my computer at work. Now it can't charge, have to bring wall charger to work.
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wow, that sucks. Personally I would wipe / reflash the ruu. then slowly add applications back. Not sure what apps you have running, I have about 150 installed, however I limit what can sync. there is a paid app called better battery stats that can help identify rouge apps too.
auiotour said:
Ill try wiping my battery stats, but i been getting really bad battery life since upgrading. down from 2-3 days to 6-12 hours.
edit: forgot to mention, i can't charge via USB anymore, as it says it does not provide enough power. It used to work just fine with same cable, same usb port on my computer at work. Now it can't charge, have to bring wall charger to work.
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Wow, with stock GB on TMO I got maybe 7 hours max. With stock ICS I got over 12 hours and was very pleased. I just flashed a yesterday, so I'm not sure what I'll get now, but from the drain it looks like about 20 hours or so with moderate usage. I suspect my normal day will be OK (about 16 hours).
I'm not having any problems with charging on the leak or NRG.
What does wiping batter stats do? Is it more like just resetting a timer or does it do something more like recalibrate your battery so the phone doesn't shut down your phone prematurely due to a perceived lack of juice? (when there is actually still more juice remaining)
Edit myself: according to other posts, a Google engineer said it's a myth that this does anything useful.
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What does wiping batter stats do? Is it more like just resetting a timer or does it do something more like recalibrate your battery so the phone doesn't shut down your phone prematurely due to a perceived lack of juice? (when there is actually still more juice remaining)
Edit myself: according to other posts, a Google engineer said it's a myth that this does anything useful.
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It is supposed to delete the battery statistics so that the device builds up an accurate battery stats file. If the stats file had statistics for a smaller battery (or poorer battery), it could be telling the OS that it was out of power when in fact power was still available. I can't speak to how well it works, but I do it whenever I flash a new ROM.
lamenramen said:
What does wiping batter stats do? Is it more like just resetting a timer or does it do something more like recalibrate your battery so the phone doesn't shut down your phone prematurely due to a perceived lack of juice? (when there is actually still more juice remaining)
Edit myself: according to other posts, a Google engineer said it's a myth that this does anything useful.
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Actually, I am not sure about that myth anymore. I had CWM installed and I flashed 4EXT. My battery died within 4 hours and I barely used it. I was at 55% and I had everything turned off as well as the screen, 5 minutes later, I was at 40%. The next day, I fully charged it to 100%, booted into recovery, and wiped the battery stats. My phone lasted for 17 hours without even charging it in the day.
I guess wiping the battery stats does work?
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Actually, I am not sure about that myth anymore. I had CWM installed and I flashed 4EXT. My battery died within 4 hours and I barely used it. I was at 55% and I had everything turned off as well as the screen, 5 minutes later, I was at 40%. The next day, I fully charged it to 100%, booted into recovery, and wiped the battery stats. My phone lasted for 17 hours without even charging it in the day.
I guess wiping the battery stats does work?
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Thank you! MrMako debated this with me... I called it the BEST DAMN PLACEBO EFFECT EVER... cuz it works
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Thank you! MrMako debated this with me... I called it the BEST DAMN PLACEBO EFFECT EVER... cuz it works
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haha. Well I can confirm that it works. Oddly, it happened when I flashed the new recovery, but overall, the battery is ALOT better than ever!
You know It's weird. Battery life hasn't been great on the custom ROMS the stock RUU seems to have the best battery life.
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You know It's weird. Battery life hasn't been great on the custom ROMS the stock RUU seems to have the best battery life.
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Ditto--stock has the best battery life for me as well. Cache wiped, super wipe, dalvick wiped. everything wiped.
Left my phone charger in the car last night. Before I went to bed my phone was at 3%. I expected for it to turn off at any min so I just laid it next to my bed. Woke up 7 hours later to my phone at 3%.... I received 4 text during that time, but was not read until morning.
Stock amaze no root or s-off with ics
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You know It's weird. Battery life hasn't been great on the custom ROMS the stock RUU seems to have the best battery life.
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Tell the rom developer - I have gotten surprisingly little feedback on mine.. I tried flashing a few roms before I chose a base to work with, and the only one that didn't have any errors in the logcat, didn't have any wakelock issues, was Android Revolution HD. I've picked out every htc app I could constantly checking both logcat for errors and wakelock issues from rogue htc apps looking to keep the phone from deep sleep- and all is well.
But amazingly today someone using my rom(pdcrzylazy) posted this article on an easy flash that is supposed to "ten fold" battery life- I researched it, I made sure it flashed well.. and have had immediate big differences, even under heavy use.
There is specifically one process on how it handles memory that I think makes the biggest difference- but it HAS made a big difference! It flashes perfectly and I was able to confirm the settings took effect..
If anyone tries it you can run this command in terminal on the phone before and again after and you'll see the settings took.
Code:
sysctl -a| grep vm
The output is crazy long, so if you wanted to you can run it as an adb command - "adb shell sysctil -a > /whereeveryouwantit/name.txt"
We should generate our own thread with battery stats for the AT&T version of The HTC One X+ because we have the LTE version. I expect that our batteries will drain faster. I will post my stats as soon as I am through my 3rd charging cycle. +/- power saver will be interesting as well as overnight in sleep mode. I normally don't optimize a lot to keep my battery drain low. My GNex made it without a problem through a day and night.
I'm on my second cycle and the battery has been exceptional! 1.5 days on a single charge so far.
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We should generate our own thread with battery stats for the AT&T version of The HTC One X+ because we have the LTE version. I expect that our batteries will drain faster. I will post my stats as soon as I am through my 3rd charging cycle. +/- power saver will be interesting as well as overnight in sleep mode. I normally don't optimize a lot to keep my battery drain low. My GNex made it without a problem through a day and night.
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I'm on my second cycle and the battery has been exceptional! 1.5 days on a single charge so far.
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Really? I barely make it through 13-14 hours. Do you use the battery saver function? I will post some screen shots later.
I can't give you any good battery data yet, as I just got home from the store with it and I've been busy setting everything up the way I want it and installing apps. I was, however, very surprised after installing CPU Spy to see how low the processor will slow down...
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6 hours with slight/medium use and I am down to 50%: No battery optimizations. Screen is on auto-brightness. I will use better battery stats to get a better idea what drains the battery. I burn 10% of battery/hour with light/medium use that's too much.
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I can't give you any good battery data yet, as I just got home from the store with it and I've been busy setting everything up the way I want it and installing apps. I was, however, very surprised after installing CPU Spy to see how low the processor will slow down...
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Interesting. If I look at better battery stats CPU states the lowest my phone is going to is 475 even though it could go low as 50. Have to run the stats for an entire battery charge to get some useful information.
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This was hours after getting home with my new phone, just after installing tons of apps. So CPUspy didn't have much data to work with. Now that I unlocked my bootloader, I'm going to have to start all over again!
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6 hours with slight/medium use and I am down to 50%: No battery optimizations. Screen is on auto-brightness. I will use better battery stats to get a better idea what drains the battery. I burn 10% of battery/hour with light/medium use that's too much.
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So I tested again today and my battery performance is still bad I would say. Do you guys get similar result otherwise I will try to exchange my device. I didn't do anything special. I played 5 minutes riptide. Took some photos without flash and posted some stuff on facebook and XDA. Screen on time is low 1.5 hours. and I have only 28% left. Do you get similar result or much better battery performance?
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So I tested again today and my battery performance is still bad I would say. Do you guys get similar result otherwise I will try to exchange my device. I didn't do anything special. I played 5 minutes riptide. Took some photos without flash and posted some stuff on facebook and XDA. Screen on time is low 1.5 hours. and I have only 28% left. Do you get similar result or much better battery performance?
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First thing I notice when looking at your screen shots is the weak signal. That will eat into your battery.
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So I tested again today and my battery performance is still bad I would say. Do you guys get similar result otherwise I will try to exchange my device. I didn't do anything special. I played 5 minutes riptide. Took some photos without flash and posted some stuff on facebook and XDA. Screen on time is low 1.5 hours. and I have only 28% left. Do you get similar result or much better battery performance?
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How do you get that first screen shot that shows all the data? I can't figure it out in the Better Battery app. Do I need to be rooted for that one?
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First thing I notice when looking at your screen shots is the weak signal. That will eat into your battery.
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How do you get that first screen shot that shows all the data? I can't figure it out in the Better Battery app. Do I need to be rooted for that one?
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If I open better battery stats the overview is on the first screen I see. You only see it when the phone is not charging. You have to wait a while until it populates with data. No root necessary. Try to switch the view from since unplugged to since charged and back. That might help.
Interesting. I got my replacement device yesterday and I ran better battery stats: My battery drains now only 5%/hour instead of 10% and the CPU clocks down to 50Mhz while not in use. My first HOX+ never went below 500Mhz. Looks like not the battery was kaputt but the CPU had some issues I would say.
It's seems as if I'm now getting a average of 20 hours so. Constantly on wifi, a couple calls, some email and light gaming. I have to say coming from the vivid I'm highly dissapointed. I was expecting not to constantly feel like I'm tethered to wall but that doesn't seem to have changed.
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It's seems as if I'm now getting a average of 20 hours so. Constantly on wifi, a couple calls, some email and light gaming. I have to say coming from the vivid I'm highly dissapointed. I was expecting not to constantly feel like I'm tethered to wall but that doesn't seem to have changed.
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Is that on battery saver mode? 20 hours is pretty good.
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It's seems as if I'm now getting a average of 20 hours so. Constantly on wifi, a couple calls, some email and light gaming. I have to say coming from the vivid I'm highly dissapointed. I was expecting not to constantly feel like I'm tethered to wall but that doesn't seem to have changed.
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20 hours on battery power makes you constantly feel tethered to the wall? I think your expectations are a bit unrealistic. You're on a quad-core device with a huge high-def screen. 20 hours seems very reasonable to me. Charging once a day is pretty standard for most modern portable devices. I think 16 hours is about the target I look for, that way it can be plugged in when I sleep and run unplugged the rest of the day.
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20 hours on battery power makes you constantly feel tethered to the wall? I think your expectations are a bit unrealistic. You're on a quad-core device with a huge high-def screen. 20 hours seems very reasonable to me. Charging once a day is pretty standard for most modern portable devices. I think 16 hours is about the target I look for, that way it can be plugged in when I sleep and run unplugged the rest of the day.
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I agree. Sixteen gets me through what I need for the day. But, I haven't gotten that yet. How's it shaping up for you?
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I agree. Sixteen gets me through what I need for the day. But, I haven't gotten that yet. How's it shaping up for you?
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I haven't had to use it for an extended day away from home, but after my 8 hour shift at work and commute to/from work, I still had 65%. Seems great so far!
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I haven't had to use it for an extended day away from home, but after my 8 hour shift at work and commute to/from work, I still had 65%. Seems great so far!
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Yes, that's pretty good. I am satisfied at the moment too. I get 15 hours with medium use (texting, facebook, music streaming via BT and internet) and 2 hours screen on time.I am just on my 2nd. charge cycle so I hope it improves a bit.
Great article I just found on Reddit...
How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries
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Great article I just found on Reddit...
How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries
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Nice find.
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Where is everyone getting that the DNA has bad battery. From my heavy usage I'm getting well over a days worth (20hrs) with moderate usage (1.5 hours calls, 2 hours screen time, 1 hour music and Pandora ) and screen on auto brightness always 4g. I'm stuck unrooted on the OTA and I've disabled a lot of apps so that may be why. This is way better then any stock device I've owned? Granted its not note 2 or razr max numbers but I can tell you working with people that have other Verizon phones in the hospital I work at get far less with just light to moderate usage. Has anyone whose rooted attested to better battery life (bc that's one of my primary reasons to root)?
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in my opinion it is a good battery...screen takes up a bunch of battery...maybe try lowering your brightness when you aren't outside if you want more...auto isn't always perfect.. and a new kernel would probably improve only some battery life because the screen takes the same amount of juice on any kernel and thats a big factor in battery life. a new kernel could solve wake lock issues, extending you batter life when your phone isn't being used. the cpu usage and governor could change improving the battery a bit. the cpu could also get less stress when the kernel is optimized. i'm going to make a guess and say with your usage it won't be a major improvement to battery with new kernel, maybe 1-3 hours? (just a guess)
i'm rooting to get CM 10.1 and a good kernel for s2w and battery/performance improvement... i'd suggest rooting and installing a rom and kernel even if its just another sense rom just for smoothness's sake. stock lags a bit...especially with keyboard.
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in my opinion it is a good battery...screen takes up a bunch of battery...maybe try lowering your brightness when you aren't outside if you want more...auto isn't always perfect.. and a new kernel would probably improve only some battery life because the screen takes the same amount of juice on any kernel and thats a big factor in battery life. a new kernel could solve wake lock issues, extending you batter life when your phone isn't being used. the cpu usage and governor could change improving the battery a bit. the cpu could also get less stress when the kernel is optimized. i'm going to make a guess and say with your usage it won't be a major improvement to battery with new kernel, maybe 1-3 hours? (just a guess)
i'm rooting to get CM 10.1 and a good kernel for s2w and battery/performance improvement... i'd suggest rooting and installing a rom and kernel even if its just another sense rom just for smoothness's sake. stock lags a bit...especially with keyboard.
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Unfortunately I got a DNA shipped with 2.04. But yea, way better life than my gnex or rezound.
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Battery life on my DNA is great. No complaints. I don't see where the complaints come from either. Definitely has better battery life than a 4S or any other phone I've owned previously.
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i think the complains came from some wake locks which basically stopped your phone from going to deep sleep. thus, instead of using 1% over hour of no screen time, it might use something like 3 or 5%...this can drain the battery quickly...you can go to your battery and look at whats taking up battery and it won't say anything like msm_wake_lock_blah_blah...so the whole battery issue seems to have been somewhat resolved? (the wake lock issue has been resolved)
I just got my second line with a DNA two days ago, and after charging it all night on my wireless charger, this is where my battery stats currently sit. I can't complain, I've been using it all day and its done wonderfully. Compared to my Note II it's not there yet in the battery department, but nothing much really is. But for a damn nice smart phone, the DNA is a great choice.
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in my opinion it is a good battery...screen takes up a bunch of battery...maybe try lowering your brightness when you aren't outside if you want more...auto isn't always perfect.. and a new kernel would probably improve only some battery life because the screen takes the same amount of juice on any kernel and thats a big factor in battery life. a new kernel could solve wake lock issues, extending you batter life when your phone isn't being used. the cpu usage and governor could change improving the battery a bit. the cpu could also get less stress when the kernel is optimized. i'm going to make a guess and say with your usage it won't be a major improvement to battery with new kernel, maybe 1-3 hours? (just a guess)
i'm rooting to get CM 10.1 and a good kernel for s2w and battery/performance improvement... i'd suggest rooting and installing a rom and kernel even if its just another sense rom just for smoothness's sake. stock lags a bit...especially with keyboard.
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Cm10 is not yet stable/working enough and that uses its own kernel anyway. Better off with viper 1.13 and custom kernel because 2.04 roms can't have custom kernel s.
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Cm10 is not yet stable/working enough and that uses its own kernel anyway. Better off with viper 1.13 and custom kernel because 2.04 roms can't have custom kernel s.
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i know it isn't stable yet but it will be soonish...i'm looking forward to it. and the kernel that is default with cm 10.1 is fine but we'll see how it works..i hope someone makes variant with s2w
Low usage w power saving On
That looks pretty damn good to me
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I hope on my next phone i don't have to toggle anything to save battery cause there will be enough for a long time... i wish a company understood that there are a lot of people looking for not a thinner phone but one that is powerful and has a long battery...droid razr maxx hd has giant battery but lacks power...dna is powerful but lacks big battery...lets just hope the nexus come back to verizon and all the geeks can be happy haha
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I hope on my next phone i don't have to toggle anything to save battery cause there will be enough for a long time... i wish a company understood that there are a lot of people looking for not a thinner phone but one that is powerful and has a long battery...droid razr maxx hd has giant battery but lacks power...dna is powerful but lacks big battery...lets just hope the nexus come back to verizon and all the geeks can be happy haha
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There is a very small percentage of users who need a battery bigger than what's in the DNA to last them a day. It's easier to sell a phone on how thin it is than on the fact that the battery will last a day and a half.
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There is a very small percentage of users who need a battery bigger than what's in the DNA to last them a day. It's easier to sell a phone on how thin it is than on the fact that the battery will last a day and a half.
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hmm...i see but i mean there is still a big market for a powerful phone with long lasting battery...like a bunch of people i know, like my parents, don't really care much more on having a battery that last them all day cause they are on the phone a lot...like at work and such... i know i'd buy a phone like that... ah well, i'll be fine for now but batteries need to improve... and soon... i think it'll be fine... new phones like S4 has a long lasting battery and the S3, which sold a lot, had a longer battery than the DNA and iPhone...
I was surprised by the DNA's battery for everything all the review people said so the other phones probably have an even better battery...but thank you. good point
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hmm...i see but i mean there is still a big market for a powerful phone with long lasting battery...like a bunch of people i know, like my parents, don't really care much more on having a battery that last them all day cause they are on the phone a lot...like at work and such... i know i'd buy a phone like that... ah well, i'll be fine for now but batteries need to improve... and soon... i think it'll be fine... new phones like S4 has a long lasting battery and the S3, which sold a lot, had a longer battery than the DNA and iPhone...
I was surprised by the DNA's battery for everything all the review people said so the other phones probably have an even better battery...but thank you. good point
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The general consensous is that the DNA has slightly better battery life than the s3. The DNA gets 4-5 hours of screen on time for mist users. And easily lasts a day.
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The general consensous is that the DNA has slightly better battery life than the s3. The DNA gets 4-5 hours of screen on time for mist users. And easily lasts a day.
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better battery? what do you mean? source?
as far as i know the s3 has a better battery life because of the bigger battery compared to small screen. for example, this video http://goo.gl/Gvh6i
Look the DNA will last a full day with heavy use especially for the lucky ****s that got a 1.** device and are rooted. Try that with a GNex
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better battery? what do you mean? source?
as far as i know the s3 has a better battery life because of the bigger battery compared to small screen. for example, this video http://goo.gl/Gvh6i
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Most comparison reviews state that the DNA gets better battery life, and mist posts on here say the same. And yes, the DNA has a marginally smaller battery and bigger screen, but has a far more efficient processor and screen, which saves battery.
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Battery last me from 8-5ish everyday. That's with light to moderate usage. Heavy usage is laughable but I didn't expect much.
Running the m7 custom Rom.
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I use this phone just like I use any other phone. But the battery life is terrible. It loses battery faster than you can read this sentence. My phone was at 10% when I started typing this and it's already at 7... The performance is also terrible. It lags at every turn. It even gets caught up on typing. Oh hey look. Now we're at 6. What the heck is the deal? Am I doing anything wrong? I'm on unadulterated stock. 5% now. Like seriously. The standby time is so much worse. Help me please
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I use this phone just like I use any other phone. But the battery life is terrible. It loses battery faster than you can read this sentence. My phone was at 10% when I started typing this and it's already at 7... The performance is also terrible. It lags at every turn. It even gets caught up on typing. Oh hey look. Now we're at 6. What the heck is the deal? Am I doing anything wrong? I'm on unadulterated stock. 5% now. Like seriously. The standby time is so much worse. Help me please
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What's your screen on time for a full discharge? The stock software has a lot to be desired. I see in your sig that you flashed roms on your g2, I'd consider going that route again. Expect about 4-5 hours screen on time with jasmine rom, eclipse, or skydragon stock based roms with nearly no lag except in settings and the stock lg messenger app (both horrendous use textra etc). Or choose an AOSP lollipop rom and deal with some minor bugs, but they're smooth as butter.
Really trying not to go that route. I need my phone to be fully functional. I have gotten about 4.5 hrs sot on this one but the stand by discharge is terrible
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Really trying not to go that route. I need my phone to be fully functional. I have gotten about 4.5 hrs sot on this one but the stand by discharge is terrible
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Try rooting & installing recovery(you need to roll back to 10b to do it) and flashing a stock based ROM. Install xposed, amplify wakelock blocker to help your standby time, and greenify to shut apps down from running in the background. If you dont like xposed greenify can run without it but amplify cannot. Also, there is a stock based kernel from skydragon you can flash which will make your phone fast & lag free, the over sharpening is corrected, and the battery life will be much better.
My stock based backup is Jasmine 4.0 to keep all the lg features + the latest skydragon kernel and battery life/performance is vastly better than when I bought it.
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Really trying not to go that route. I need my phone to be fully functional. I have gotten about 4.5 hrs sot on this one but the stand by discharge is terrible
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Really? I can have my phone fully charged before I go to bed at night and I wake up 5+ hours later, and it's still at 100%.
I was using Greenify and such, but I've since removed those just to test out a theory and wow, I do not need it what-so-ever.
I'm also now running on Eclipse ROM and I'm getting the same if not better performance.
Not sure what is going on. Are you syncing everything (Google+, Gmail, contacts, pictures, etc)? I basically backup photos, sync contacts and that's about it. I don't automatically sync Facebook, Google+, Google Music, Google Books, etc.
Battery life is great for me. I can get through an entire day and still not charge it until almost a day later.
As other have commented. I recommend a custom ROM. Sky dragon ROM+Kernel was a pretty killer combo.
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Jasmine and Skydragon are both very good. Also use the latest Skydragon Kernel (2.9.4). I can get 6 hours of screen time and standby is fantastic as well. I would also install Greenify, Amplify (requires Xposed), and if you are in an area where 4G doesn't have a good signal Leandroid or Juice Defender. I don't do any heavy gaming, but I use the phone a good amount. After unplugging in the morning I can usually get a couple hours of screen time and have 70% left when I get home from work. maybe 11 hours later.
I see you are worried about the phone not working well with a custom ROM. These stock based ROMs work fine. There are no issues with the ROMs not working just as well as stock. Lag is gone as well.
The biggest issue I was having is that lg has been incredible about great battery life. I did come from a nexus 6 and even though there is the memory leak in the official software, the battery life puts this phone to shame. I'm now running cm12 and loving it. Power consumption isn't terrible but still better than stock
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Using Jasmine and I have amazing battery life. Better than anything I've ever had on a phone (smartphone at least). I take it off the charger in the morning and stream music in my car for over an hour, surfing the net at lights, and when I get in I'm at 98 percent.
Maps/constant GPS is the only thing that gets my battery to move. This phone is amazing for me.
Use something like Gsam Battery monitor to look for wakelocks. Other than that, if you want to stay stock, consider a factory reset and then reload apps slowly to see which one is causing the problem.
Had my G3 about a month now, and I find the battery life to be glorious - currently full stock ROM, but I've rooted and frozen a bunch of stuff with Titanium (virtually of the VZW bloat and other crap). I don't have any other power-saving apps going, screen brightness is set to auto/~90%, and right now my phone is at 68% after taking it off charge this morning around 08:00 (right now it's 23:00). I work in a call center so I don't do what I'd call heavy usage, but I do send a bunch of texts, make calls, take pictures (mostly Snapchat when I'm bored out of my skull), and spend a good amount of time looking at the internet. It *is* possible to get great battery life on stock, and in my experience the answer has been root + freeze all the crapware. My phone uses virtually no power when it's sitting idle in deep sleep, probably something like 1-2% per hour if that - often I'm still at 90% by lunchtime.
I hesitated on installing a custom ROM for this very reason - the stock ROM I find works great, and I've warmed up to its color scheme. I do like the look and some of the features of CM12 more, but I know my phone is rock-solid and everything works. My advice would be root, look up the safe-to-freeze-bloatware thread, fire up Titanium and go to town.
I have managed to drain the battery though, but only through using power-heavy stuff like lots of Google Maps + music streaming over 4G (in places where the signal is crap, such as the lower NYC subways). It's not invincible, but with a little tweaking I'll be you can extend your battery life significantly :good:
Ive been running Skydragon and the battery life has been incredible, way better than my gfs S5
I definitely use my phone quite a bit during the day and it's usually still at 40-50% by the time I got to bed.
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I use this phone just like I use any other phone. But the battery life is terrible. It loses battery faster than you can read this sentence. My phone was at 10% when I started typing this and it's already at 7... The performance is also terrible. It lags at every turn. It even gets caught up on typing. Oh hey look. Now we're at 6. What the heck is the deal? Am I doing anything wrong? I'm on unadulterated stock. 5% now. Like seriously. The standby time is so much worse. Help me please
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I don't know what is going on with your phone, the battery life on mine is fantastic! I'm running Jasmine 4.0 and I can't complain.
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That's not normal, I know someone who has a completely stock G3 and his battery life is amazing. My guess is something is preventing your phone from entering deep sleep. Post a screenshot of your battery stats, otherwise we are clueless.
You might want to try Snapdragon Battery Guru app. It has given me two days on one charge.
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Here's my battery results. I didn't really used it much when i took the screen shots. This weekend will be a true test. Running LP/Liquidsmooth
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