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Is this what everyone else is getting? I am running DCD's latest Rom and Radio.
I used to get two days, now i may get one. This is with no GPS running or any programs. Or making any calls.
Any advice?
Rephrase then.
How much battery life is everyone getting on the new Rom?
Are you sure your wi-fi switch is OFF?
quimbola said:
Is this what everyone else is getting? I am running DCD's latest Rom and Radio.
I used to get two days, now i may get one. This is with no GPS running or any programs. Or making any calls.
Any advice?
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"These are some factors that could cause your battery to drain fast"
The brightness of the screen is a factor. Try lowering it if possible.
Disable active sync, bluetooth, wifi, and beam when not needed.
Using the GPS drains the battery quick. ( results vary )
Push email also assists with battery drain.
Put your phone on standby when not in use.
Also the extensive use of PIE and Windows Media Player also assists with the drain of battery.
Last if you have poor signal strength this can also be a factor for battery drainage.
There are others out there but these are some that I encountered and learned live with.
There is a battery hack out there that can help you with your battery life. I don't know from the top of my head but search for a registry battery hack.
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"These are some factors that could cause your battery to drain fast"
The brightness of the screen is a factor. Try lowering it if possible.
Disable active sync, bluetooth, wifi, and beam when not needed.
Using the GPS drains the battery quick. ( results vary )
Push email also assists with battery drain.
Put your phone on standby when not in use.
Also the extensive use of PIE and Windows Media Player also assists with the drain of battery.
Last if you have poor signal strength this can also be a factor for battery drainage.
There are others out there but these are some that I encountered and learned live with.
There is a battery hack out there that can help you with your battery life. I don't know from the top of my head but search for a registry battery hack.
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all those are try but when you first got your phone did you charge it all the way before using it cuz messes up the battery i know it did for me
Follow up.
On my original Rom I could get 48 hours on a charge.
Today I got 8 hours. I did not use GPS, I am not using vibrate for calls. I only got two calls. And two emails.
Basically I am using the same settings as I had on the original Rom and getting about 24 hours less battery life.
I guess I'll switch back and report then.
Perhaps this might be it?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=371734
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Perhaps this might be it?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=371734
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DAMN.. that would explain alot.. I have a feeling its the same bug with the titans..
I dunno... I've been through the progression from 2.0.0 to 2.1.0 to 2.2.0 to 2.3.2 and I haven't seen anything like this.
I use the phone for about 10 minutes a day, so not much call time, but I have it checking 4 IMAP accounts every 15 minutes, do about an hour of web browsing, and use the GPS two to three times a day (basically any time I drive anywhere cuz it's fun!) and the most my battery has drained is down to 70% after about 16 hours.
Just to give an alternate view... battery life has been very good for me.
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all those are try but when you first got your phone did you charge it all the way before using it cuz messes up the battery i know it did for me
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No. When I first got my phone I installed on the apps I researched before buying the phone, configured my WiFi, and imported my playlists from Windows Media and then I charged my phone with the AC adapter.
I use alot of WiFi through out the day along with Stereo Bluetooth Headphones to listen to music one Windows Media Player and I have a very good battery life.
Follow up.
My email server locked up this morning and my activesync wouldn't sync.
BUT my battery life was back to it's old self, used 6% in 4 hours. Very Happy!
Email server is now working and Active synce is syncing.
When I check the activesync program it always says connected now. Is that normal? It doesn't seem like it used to say connected all of the time.
It does look like activesynce may be the problem. The setting are the same as they were before the flash.
Any info would be appreciated.
Update: In case anybody is following this.
I went back to stock ROM and Radio.
Battery behavior is back to Normal. I am going to reflash to GPS Rom and see if that was the problem.
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Perhaps this might be it?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=371734
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I an confirm this too. A few days ago I noticed excessive battery drain and reset my phone, and put it out of my mind. The only later ROM that I'd retained for days at a time has been 2.3.1 and today my battery level feel down by 50% in ~6 hours of standby. With the power on, with 46% remaining, the OS estimation for usage was 26 minutes. In 1% increments I could see it counting down....
I checked all running processes and nothing was out of the ordinary and nothing except that running task manager was bothering the CPU.
On a reset it appears fine.. Disconcerting. My phone didn't demonstrate this behaviour with the DCD 2.1 and previous ROMs. I don't know if to go back to 2.1 or 1.6.10. I'll see if this issue shows up again over the next few days.
That was the same problem I had.
Hopefully I'll dp some more testing this weekend.
After a reset the draining was repeating for me.. I decided to revert back to a working DCD 2.1 set-up and all appears fine again.
2.3.1 ROM was a kitchen build including the transcriber and no2chem's nueLED v1.5. That's all that I can think of being out of the ordinary.
I thought I am the only way with this problem. I thought it just a bad battery. Using DCD 2.31. Before 2.31, battery is about 90% on casual used when I left work. With 2.31, it becomes 95% after it pull from the power plug. Browser the web for like 10 minutes, it goes down to like 92%. By the time I finished work, and get back home around 7, it left with like 30%. That's on casual use.
Anyone tried reflashing to see if that helps the battery consumption?
It seems like this is not common, but effects a few of us.
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It seems like this is not common, but effects a few of us.
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I am also noticing the same effects, i was thinking bout reflashing my rom, i am currently running dcd's 2.3.2
Flashed back to stock and then back to 2.3.2
It looks like I am seeing the same battery drain again!! ARGH!!!
My battery is dropping like crazy too since the latest kitchen. When I first went to DCD's first WM 6.1 ROM I was blown away by the battery life. Same settings , same apps, different ROM and the battery life blows.
I decided to wait it out for a week and see if the new ROM comes out, if not I'm going back to the WM6.1 ROM that I first tried.
Hello everyone! I would have posted this in the actual GSB thread but I don't seem to have the correct privileges yet so I am posting here instead.
First off, I just want to thank workshed for his awesome work. I really do love the ROM and everything about it. However, I have a few small issues with it that I can't seem to figure out.
First off, my battery life is terrible. Take yesterday for example. I used my phone probably twice to send some texts in the morning and to check the time. Charged it throughout the night and pulled it off the charger when I woke up and began my day. Within two hours, my phones battery was down to 75%. Five hours later, it was completely dead and I hadn't even used it.
My second issue is with settings. For some reason, when I reboot, some of my setting don't get saved. The one thing that really bothers me is the keyboard. I have Swype installed and every time the phone shuts off, I have to go into settings and re-enable Swype as my keyboard. It is just a hassle and is kind of frustrating, especially when I forget to do and then go to send a message.
Other than those two issues, I absolutely love the ROM and wouldn't change it for anything else. Anyone have any suggestions for what I can do about my few issues?
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First off, my battery life is terrible. Take yesterday for example. I used my phone probably twice to send some texts in the morning and to check the time. Charged it throughout the night and pulled it off the charger when I woke up and began my day. Within two hours, my phones battery was down to 75%. Five hours later, it was completely dead and I hadn't even used it.
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Recharge it until you get a green light. Restart the phone in Recovery, go to the Wipe menu, and wipe the battery stats (I'd keep the phone on power for this.) Restart the phone, pull the power and use as you normally would. Ignore anybody who tells you that you must run the battery down until the phone shuts itself off - this is really not great for the battery (though once a month or so isn't bad), and really isn't necessary for the battery calculations to reset themselves with new usage stats. The longer you can go the better, but it's not necessary to change your phone usage habits so that you have a completely discharged phone.
They covered this very topic in Lifehacker today! http://lifehacker.com/#!5786717/get...ted-android-phone-by-wiping-its-battery-stats
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Recharge it until you get a green light. Restart the phone in Recovery, go to the Wipe menu, and wipe the battery stats (I'd keep the phone on power for this.) Restart the phone, pull the power and use as you normally would. Ignore anybody who tells you that you must run the battery down until the phone shuts itself off - this is really not great for the battery (though once a month or so isn't bad), and really isn't necessary for the battery calculations to reset themselves with new usage stats. The longer you can go the better, but it's not necessary to change your phone usage habits so that you have a completely discharged phone.
They covered this very topic in Lifehacker today! http://lifehacker.com/#!5786717/get...ted-android-phone-by-wiping-its-battery-stats
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Thank you for that information, I shall try it out and see if it helps!
I also forget to mention one more error. Whenever I boot up the phone, my Facebook account sets itself to not sync and I lose all my contact pictures. I then have to open the Facebook application and set it to sync again.
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Sorry, didn't realize it was a double post!
My battery life is similar to the OP's. I can make it through the day, but since I am ususally down to about 60% by one or two pm (from 6 or 7 am) I prefer a mid-day charge just to make sure I can last through the evening.
I just flashed [ROM][3/22/2011] GSB v2.2 | GingerBread 2.3.3 [CM7.0.0 RC2 NIGHTLY] a few days ago and it has been running great, but I noticed that my green light (battery fully charged) now comes on @ 90%.
Before it would not turn from amber to green till 100%. Should I wipe battery stats?
Under battery use (sry no screenies) there is nothing unusual:
Display @57%, everything else under 10%.
But when I checked Spare Parts I noticed that my little Eris won't sleep!
It looks like Android system is the culprit, keeping a partial wake lock.
Battery History in Spare Parts:
Other Usage - Since last unplugged
Running 100%
Screen on 13.2%
Wifi on 100%
Wifi running 91.6%
Partial wake usage - Since last unplugged
Android System almost a full blue bar, all other apps minimal bars
The phone has more or less been sitting at my desk at work in wifi with light usage.
Anyone have any idea why Android System is trying to eat my battery?
i had battery problems on gsb its a great rom. i switch to ginger tazz. with tazz's rom i get more then 20hrs b4 it says to connect charger thats with the display on about 4 hours and wifi on and running facebook tapatalk calls texts and whatever i think of doing.
I'm running GSB 2.5 CM RC 4 and I now have been able to get 25 hours with 70% of battery left. I used to be able to get maybe 24 hours before it died. Now your mileage may vary but this is what I do. I removed Task Killer which was eating a bunch or the battery and after a visit to Amazon's app market their little app was running all the time along with Weather Bug so both of them are now gone. and finally I turned off auto sync ( I can check my email when ever I want and it takes a lot less battery). By turning off auto sync that was what really made the difference for me. Of course there are many things you can do but running WiFi will kill your battery faster than 3g (or at least it does on mine) and I have the screen brightness set at 18. Just a note I leave BT and GPS on all the time when they are not being used an are in standby their usage is quit small.
What works for you would depend on if you want your email pushed to you all the time and if you have to have your WiFi on instead of 3g.
Again it's just my observations for my phone.
Really you should just do the first suggestion and recalibrate your battery.
Also if you read closely in workshed's log, he specifically said to a full wipe not only formatting external memory but also doing a dalvik/cache wipe. You may as well also wipe the battery stats while you're at it.
Personally I'm running GSB 2.5 and it's simply amazing. 60% of the battery gets me from wake-up alarm to nighttime charge.
Hope you figure it out!
After I installed GSB 2.5, my battery also seems to be rapidly discharging. Takes less than an hour of no use, wifi-on to drop from 100% to ~80%. I did a full discharge calibration on my battery as soon as I flashed to this GSB 2.5
I will attempt the simple batt stat wipe at 100% and see if that helps at all. I'll let you guys know.
So I just installed BAMF remix 1.7 on my newly rooted TB and it seemed slow with bad battery life. This seems to be atypical so I was wondering if anyone could help me out figuring out my problem.
I downloaded the rom and flashed it from rom manager, selecting to clear the cache and dalvic cache. The install went fine and I restored my user apps from titanium backup. While it was going through and installing all of these apps, super user force closed a couple of times. Then there were some applications that kept force closing like handcent, flexT9, and Swift keyboard X, but uninstalling and reinstalling them seemed to fix the problems. I then reset the battery statistics from cwm.
I set up the accounts and sync like I had before and in fact had less accounts syncing since I was only syncing facebook and not facebook and the htc sense facebook both. I didn't change the kernal but set the governor to power save after I started noticing the battery running out quick.
When I was on stock running adw or go launcher, I would get about 15 hours from a full charge on 4G. Today after a full charge I got about 6.5 hours on a full charge.
Should I have done a factory reset in there? Is there a different kernal I should try? Should I try to flash the rom again without using rom manager?
You should definitely wipe all data before flashing any custom ROM. Many people have also had a lot of issues flashing with Rom Manager, including myself. DL the ROM from the developers page, place it on the root of your SD card (not in a folder), rename it to "update.zip" with a file manager, then use ROM Manager to boot into recovery. Wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache and dalvic then apply update from SD card. If you don't have a file manager on your phone, rename it on your PC then move to the card. You should be good after that.
You need to wipe data when coming from a different rom.
Have you tried use Imoseyon battery saver or extreme kernel? It does gives great battery life if you find sweet spot on your TB.
PS. You must wipe everything if you are coming from another ROM.
I have the same issue as OP. I have wiped dalvik/cache/data. I did factory reset and I am running the BAMF 1.7 remix with Adrenalyn's Kernel and the new radio that's provided in the rom. I've read that this rom and kernel are good with battery life but mine drains at a very fast rate 1% about 3 mins. I don't have any data sucking apps. GPS is always off and Im on 3G using AUTO(PRL).
Any suggestions?
bumping the thread
i had slow and no responsive with the screen it was pissing me off so i updated to gingerbread and it works like it should now. No 4 second lag and no anger
you should def do a full wipe before installating a new rom.
Battery life on 1.7 sucked for me too until I did a battery calibration, which I'd recommend doing after flashing a new rom.
- charge to 100% (turn phone off, wait till light turns green)
- boot into recovery, wipe battery stats
- reboot phone, unplug, wait till battery totally drains before plugging in again
I also went into the bamf toolkit and set the min to 245 and max to 1.024 w governor 'smartass'.
Since I did that the batt life has been much better, good luck.
XViCi0uSX said:
you should def do a full wipe before installating a new rom.
Battery life on 1.7 sucked for me too until I did a battery calibration, which I'd recommend doing after flashing a new rom.
- charge to 100% (turn phone off, wait till light turns green)
- boot into recovery, wipe battery stats
- reboot phone, unplug, wait till battery totally drains before plugging in again
I also went into the bamf toolkit and set the min to 245 and max to 1.024 w governor 'smartass'.
Since I did that the batt life has been much better, good luck.
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thanks, I'm going to try redoing the install and this battery calibration. I'm actually trying to decide on whether to keep 1.7 remix or go stripped.
So I think my slowness was from putting the governor to power saver. It runs much better with smartass. I basically understand what the other governor settings do, but what does smartass do?
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thanks, I'm going to try redoing the install and this battery calibration. I'm actually trying to decide on whether to keep 1.7 remix or go stripped.
So I think my slowness was from putting the governor to power saver. It runs much better with smartass. I basically understand what the other governor settings do, but what does smartass do?
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Basically, it sets the min and max as needed... like when its sleeping, it'll set the min at 245 mhz. At least that's what I understand lol
Here's some more info...
(Copy n paste, it won't let me post a link)
droidforums.net/forum/droid-incredible-tech-issues/109934-smart-governor-setcpu.html
Also, there's a free app on the market called battery calibration by NeMo.. it'll let u kno when its charged to 100% and then it'll wipe it batt stats for ya.
Hope this helps
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question about kernals, I installed bamf stripped so I don't have sense anymore. Can I still install the Adrynalyne kernals in kernal manager labeled "Sense" or do I need to find stock versions?
XViCi0uSX said:
Basically, it sets the min and max as needed... like when its sleeping, it'll set the min at 245 mhz. At least that's what I understand lol
Here's some more info...
(Copy n paste, it won't let me post a link)
droidforums.net/forum/droid-incredible-tech-issues/109934-smart-governor-setcpu.html
Also, there's a free app on the market called battery calibration by NeMo.. it'll let u kno when its charged to 100% and then it'll wipe it batt stats for ya.
Hope this helps
Sent from my rooted Thunderbolt
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just tried this and after wiping the stats and charging fully I'm at 16% after 3h 40mins. Will see if it gets better on subsequent recharges
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question about kernals, I installed bamf stripped so I don't have sense anymore. Can I still install the Adrynalyne kernals in kernal manager labeled "Sense" or do I need to find stock versions?
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Yes, even tho you used the stripped rom it still has sense elements.
Viper Daimao said:
just tried this and after wiping the stats and charging fully I'm at 16% after 3h 40mins. Will see if it gets better on subsequent recharges
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charged it to full last night, and with very light use it's at 27% after 4 and a half hours. I think I'd get to almost 6 hours if I let it run down.
That's some improvement but I think it may have more to do with not playing plants vs zombies any this time. The battery now gets fairly hot when playing PvZ when it didn't before.
I'm not sure what the problem is but I cannot live with only getting 4-6 hours of life out of a phone. I think I'm going to have to try a non-bamf rom.
I got around 14-16 hours on that ROM. What kernel/radio are u running? I also kept WiFi and Gps off when I wasn't using it. I also had min/max at 245/1.402.
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Look at your Battery Stats. What does it say is using the majority of your battery?
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I got around 14-16 hours on that ROM. What kernel/radio are u running? I also kept WiFi and Gps off when I wasn't using it. I also had min/max at 245/1.402.
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I'm running 4G and keep wifi and gps off too along with the brightness being around 20. when I was non-rooted I got about 14-16 also (counting 7 hours of idle at night) I have my settings set to the same as before I was rooted. I'm running whatever kernal/radio came with sripped bamf 1.7. I had applied the MR1 update OTA unrooted when it came out but otherwise haven't changed anything regarding kernal or radio.
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Look at your Battery Stats. What does it say is using the majority of your battery?
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it shows the display at about 40-50%, 20 for car home screen (I have it on and streaming music during my 25 minute right to work, seems high but it's not on any more than that and the drain is still pretty constant). For instance, I charged it up to about 29% and it drained to zero and shut down while I was at lunch over about an hour an a half.
Looking at my currant widget log. I started at 29% at 11:43 then dropped 1% of battery every 2-3 minutes or so (while idle in my pocket) then it hit 8% at 1:03pm and stayed there till 1:08 at which point it shut down.
Just to add my $.02 ... I'm running BAMF 1.7. I don't mess with kernel settings or anything like that, just whatever comes with the non-remix 1.7 ROM.
Prior to last week, I was getting a good 15 hours on my stock battery (light - moderate usage), but something changed last week and I am getting pretty poor battery life now, like 6 - 8 hours.
I posted a reply over on a forum at Android Central but I haven't seen any definitive cause yet. Our theory is that an application update might be causing an issue. I was searching over here to see if anyone was having similar issues.
I'm getting much better battery life now. Got about 24 hours on 4G the whole time. I think it might have been because I was signed on to trillian but I still need to test. It's odd because before rooting I got 14-15 hours of 4G and I'm pretty sure I was signed on trillian then too.
Hello all,
I bought the Atrix around 6 months ago and I have always had the same problem I'm about to describe. First I should mention that I used to have a stock rom and stock radio (77.15) until a couple of weeks ago when I flashed Cyanogenmod and radio 77.30p, yet the problem is present in both configurations.
My problem is as follows: my battery life is mediocre. Without using the phone very heavly, I get around 7-8 hours until it shuts off. Since day one I've tried many different fixes to see if the battery improved without success. Now here's the fishy part: for whatever reason, every time I make a full wipe (when I was using stock I did it from the "reset to factory defaults" option, now I do a full wipe on recovery) the battery lasts an insanely amount of time, something like 24 hours or more.
Here's how it usually works for me: I do the wipe, I boot my phone and configure my accounts, the phone syncs and installs the apps I usually use. Like I said, that day the battery will last forever, last time I've tried this I reached around 31 hours before I plugged the phone back on, and it was around 17% still. Now, the next day, without installing any new app or using the phone for nothing different, I go right back to the mediocre battery life. For example, it just went from full charge to 88% for just 10 minutes of browsing the net on wifi, not even using 3G.
Like I said, this happened with stock ROM and now with Cyanogenmod regardless of the radio I'm using. I have calibrated the battery a million times, I've tried with Watchdog which didn't show nothing, the same with Better Battery Stats. I really need some suggestions on what to try because it irritates me that the battery is dropping so much with such a light use.
Thanks!
I'm getting also quite short battery life with CM7. I'm wondering what the reason could be. It gets down with 15% for just 5 hours without any phone calls. I have just whatsapp and email checking every hour. No other resource hungry applications. With the stock ROM and the same usage I'm getting around three days ~ 72 hours.
Well in my case it's the same but with both stock and others roms. I suspect it's a software problem because I get normal battery life when I do a full wipe.
Did you try to revert back to unlocked bootloader.
What I found strange is that somehow the indicator doesn't show the ratio mAhercentage. On 85% battery the calibration battery shows charge 4030 mAh which is not 15% less than the full charge of 4200 mAh.
Well actually this problem has existed from before I unlocked the bootloader so I don't think that's the problem. And in my case the mah percentage is correct. It's like if somethings draining the battery that I can't find. Maybe is a problem with my carrier?
If the coverage is poor where you live then it is possible to get lower battery life than expected. Another solution is to revisit the application you use, try also to do a full wipe including formatting the internal memory card.
Go through this process: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1198333
You'll be good to go after that. Check also BetterBatteryStats here in xda, will show you what processes eat the battery.
Thanks but I've tried that when using the stock rom and it didn't help me. I think that solution is for a different problem as it's mainly to display the correct mah percentage, which is not exactly my problem. Also, CM7 already includes juggernaut fix.
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Thanks but I've tried that when using the stock rom and it didn't help me. I think that solution is for a different problem as it's mainly to display the correct mah percentage, which is not exactly my problem. Also, CM7 already includes juggernaut fix.
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Have you tried a different radio?
Yeah, like I said I had 77.15 at first and now I'm using 77.30
There's more radio's, check in General.
Ok, I flashed 77.36p and there was an improvement, I've unplugged the phone around 13 hours ago and I'm at 25%. Would you consider a good battery life for a light use? It's getting better but I saw many people crossing the 24 hour mark on their phones. Are there any other radio to try other than 77.15, .30 and .36 that would be worth it?
Do a full wipe in Fastboot & install Nottach's DarkSide and leave it with the stock kernel. I'm at 77% with 1hr 40 minutes screen time & 17,5 hrs standby..
P. S. I'm using the N_01.100.00R radio. Am in Germany, though on an at&t phone. Best radio so far.
Anywhere from 13-20 hours is fine but keep in mind it's all dependent on what's on your phone. If u have a bunch of apps pulling data from the internet or something ....I mean its all dependent on your phone setup.
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Do a full wipe in Fastboot & install Nottach's DarkSide and leave it with the stock kernel. I'm at 77% with 1hr 40 minutes screen time & 17,5 hrs standby..
P. S. I'm using the N_01.100.00R radio. Am in Germany, though on an at&t phone. Best radio so far.
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Well, for now I'll stick with Cyanogenmod for a while because I really like it, but I have flashed the radio you've mentioned, we'll see how it behaves. Thanks!
I was running bionix from before I decided to switch. I flashed back to stock via Odin and flashed to ICS Passion v11. It's an excellent ROM but my battery life is abysmal. Just texting for 5 mins drains it about 8%. I have to charge my phone 3x a day in order to keep it alive. Really like this rom so does anyone have suggestions on what to tweak or disable to fix this?
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I was running bionix from before I decided to switch. I flashed back to stock via Odin and flashed to ICS Passion v11. It's an excellent ROM but my battery life is abysmal. Just texting for 5 mins drains it about 8%. I have to charge my phone 3x a day in order to keep it alive. Really like this rom so does anyone have suggestions on what to tweak or disable to fix this?
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Yeah same for me.. I had to buy the Samsung Galaxy Epic 4g 1800mAh battery.. It solved my problem. You can get one on amazon for like 20 bucks. It's totally worth it. For some reason the 1500mAh battery gets random drains on this ROM
It's not just this ROM. I have noticed it on all the ICS Roms. Some of the apps are not configured properly for ICS yet, thus the battery drain. When you re-install your apps using Titanium Backup try not restoring data.
Bump for possible solutions. The new battery is a good idea. I hear so many people claiming battery life is superb and mine is far from it. I never restored apps with titanium backup either. Everything was clean slate
When I was running ics, i had a few times where my phone would not deep sleep. I just reinstalled and it seemed to correct it.
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When I first installed Passion V11 my first full charge only got me about 8 hours of use. I installed BetterbatteryStats and CPU Spy, and Battery Monitor Widget. I looked at the logs and saw that Beautiful Widgets was causing alarms and kernel wakelocks almost non-stop. After identifying the problem app and uninstalling it, my phone still has 70% battery with 24 hours of use.
You guys just need an 1800 mAH battery. The thing can last me a day and a half with no charge (assuming I put it in airplane mode at night). You can find it for $10-20 on Amazon or eBay.
To get best battery life all you need to do is "Charge Cycles"
For ICS Passion v8,
Charge Cycle means completely charging your phone too 100%, reboot and LET IT DRAIN UPTO 0%
Now charge it to 100% again without interuption and then reboot.
This is one/first charge cycle. Also get unused toggles off and remove unused widgets.
I would add that you need to go into Clockwork Mod manager by rebooting your phone, selecting advanced, wipe battery stats, repeat after drain to 0 and recharge to 100%
closedcircuit said:
I installed BetterbatteryStats and CPU Spy, and Battery Monitor Widget. I looked at the logs and saw that Beautiful Widgets was causing alarms and kernel wakelocks almost non-stop. After identifying the problem app and uninstalling it,
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All this is in my guide stickied in the Q&A section.
jpatt said:
Charge Cycle means completely charging your phone too 100%, reboot and LET IT DRAIN UPTO 0%
Now charge it to 100% again without interuption and then reboot.
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Best way to get the most out of your battery, hands down (although I never let it fully discharge. Got pegged once on another phone and it never held a charge again. My own superstitiion though b/c it was an entirely different manufacturer).
Also get unused toggles off and remove unused widgets.
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Also in my guide
I would add that you need to go into Clockwork Mod manager by rebooting your phone, selecting advanced, wipe battery stats, repeat after drain to 0 and recharge to 100%
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This has been debunked but I still believe in it and what I have seen from my own personal experience.