Not sure if it's me but figured I'd ask the community. Has anyone been getting worse battery life after flashing ICS? I came from UnNamed rom with Entropys daily driver and had about 40% after 17 hours on a daily basis (2 and a half hours screen time texting, web, XDA, etc)
Switched first to shostock 2, and ended up knocking down to 50% under 8 hours with the same amount of usage, flashed on over to phonebricker with siyah and same thing. Anyone else having similar drainage?
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ChocolateSnow said:
Not sure if it's me but figured I'd ask the community. Has anyone been getting worse battery life after flashing ICS? I came from UnNamed rom with Entropys daily driver and had about 40% after 17 hours on a daily basis (2 and a half hours screen time texting, web, XDA, etc)
Switched first to shostock 2, and ended up knocking down to 50% under 8 hours with the same amount of usage, flashed on over to phonebricker with siyah and same thing. Anyone else having similar drainage?
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Currently running SHO2 V3. Battery lifes been great for me.
No more wakelocks. I can go to bed at 100% and wake up 8-10hrs later and be at 97%
I'm not getting any Wakelocks either. Battery's amazing when the phones locked. But it's the drain when the screens on that baffles me
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Someone reported having superior battery life with ICS on Shostock, Bricker or AOKP.
I, in the other hand, never have a great life on it. Considering light usage, getting 20 hrs max (where I used to get close to 48 hrs) including roughly 2 hrs screen on and 2 hrs talk time. Not great at all, but not bad, I can survive.
votinh said:
Someone reported having superior battery life with ICS on Shostock, Bricker or AOKP.
I, in the other hand, never have a great life on it. Considering light usage, getting 20 hrs max (where I used to get close to 48 hrs) including roughly 2 hrs screen on and 2 hrs talk time. Not great at all, but not bad, I can survive.
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Exactly! I know others who all have these amazing battery stats yet for some reason I just don't. Couldn't figure it out for the life of me when I haven't been doing anything different. Was beginning to think maybe I'm just enjoying ICS a little too much and need to put the phone down..
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ChocolateSnow said:
I'm not getting any Wakelocks either. Battery's amazing when the phones locked. But it's the drain when the screens on that baffles me
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Probably has a lot to do with the oled screen. It has to suck more juice than the standard lcd
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Exactly! I know others who all have these amazing battery stats yet for some reason I just don't. Couldn't figure it out for the life of me when I haven't been doing anything different. Was beginning to think maybe I'm just enjoying ICS a little too much and need to put the phone down..
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I was getting 30+ hours a charge easily on GB if I sidestepped a few battery killers. I get nowhere near that on any of the ICS roms but it's worth every juice sucking second. I love it.
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Probably has a lot to do with the oled screen. It has to suck more juice than the standard lcd
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So an i777 running Gingerbread has an LDC screen and an i777 running ICS has an OLED screen?
What you're saying is true, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with this thread.
mattdm said:
So an i777 running Gingerbread has an LDC screen and an i777 running ICS has an OLED screen?
What you're saying is true, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with this thread.
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Lol. You're right. Sorry, just one of those random thoughts that unfortunately made print.
Sorry for the blonde moment.
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Currently running SHO2 V3. Battery lifes been great for me.
No more wakelocks. I can go to bed at 100% and wake up 8-10hrs later and be at 97%
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I second that, try shostock v3, I am getting similar battery life with shostock. V2 I used to get 15 hours now it gone up to 25-30 hours.
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I second that, try shostock v3, I am getting similar battery life with shostock. V2 I used to get 15 hours now it gone up to 25-30 hours.
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Thank you very much for your input. I was running on shostock v2 and was unhappy with the battery life. I'll have to look into V3 since I haven't tried it. I'm currently on phonebricker and Its gonna be hard leaving the kitchen app...tough decision
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Thank you very much for your input. I was running on shostock v2 and was unhappy with the battery life. I'll have to look into V3 since I haven't tried it. I'm currently on phonebricker and Its gonna be hard leaving the kitchen app...tough decision
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I use phone bricker 2.7 as a daily driver and the battery life is pretty decent. The MIUI port seems to do even better (I uninstalled it because somehow it was unpredictably laggy). Might as well try those too.
I started running AOKP about a week ago and my battery life improved quite a bit over the rooted stock rom. But I never have had very good battery life out of the stock rom anyways, except for maybe day or two after a factory reset, I would have OK run times until that dreaded wakelock kept sneaking back in the picture. AOKP has been much more consistent for me and I have easily been lasting 16-18 hrs with light/medium use and atleast 40% remaining. I'm running Siyah kernel. I haven't tried any other roms.
I think I'm gonna be going back to gingerbread for about a solid week to see if it really is ICS. Used to get amazing life on GB, then switched to ICS and my battery went to hell.so I got an extended battery and all that did was basically give me close to what I got on gingerbread, so the inconsistencies are starting to bother me a bit. Maybe I'll return to ics sometime in the future to see if anything changes. It's been fun though, and there's a lot of things that I'm going to miss....Oh well
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I think I'm gonna be going back to gingerbread for about a solid week to see if it really is ICS. Used to get amazing life on GB, then switched to ICS and my battery went to hell.so I got an extended battery and all that did was basically give me close to what I got on gingerbread, so the inconsistencies are starting to bother me a bit. Maybe I'll return to ics sometime in the future to see if anything changes. It's been fun though, and there's a lot of things that I'm going to miss....Oh well
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I did this too but ended up realizing that battery life was actually better on ics. I've had the best results with aokp and phone bricker (not w/siyah).
i've found that using gingerbread roms gave me better battery life
unnamed and unoriginal are good choices
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i've found that using gingerbread roms gave me better battery life
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Yeah I've Been back on unnamed today and so far so good. Battery life seems to be an improvement than it was on ics
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ChocolateSnow said:
Yeah I've Been back on unnamed today and so far so good. Battery life seems to be an improvement than it was on ics
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Definitely. Are you using unnamed 1.3.2 or 2.2.1?
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Definitely. Are you using unnamed 1.3.2 or 2.2.1?
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I'm on 2.2.1, that was my daily driver when I first rooted. Never let me down
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ICS VS GB
I thought Gingerbread had much better battery life so i switched to shostock 1. However, the battery life there was about the same as shostock 2. My recommendation is to severely underclock it (200 mhz) when the screen is locked. i can go for hours and only use 1 or 2 percent and the battery will be left for you when the screen is on which is when you need it. AOKP + Fluxi= awesome
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After a week of having ginger clone yesterday I got 16 hours of battery with moderate use.
Does this mean sticking to a rom helps battery or no?
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I think it all depends on kernels and appear left in the rom. I would like to give u a personal example but I bought my vibrant new off of craigslist and rooted it an hour after receiving it. I don't know how stock run except for my friend's vibrant which gets about 12 hours of batt life running completely stock. I usually get 20 hours running axura 2.2 jk6 modem and super io kernel
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Your battery life is not affected by how many ROMs you flash, only on the ROM and kernel and maybe modem you're running.
The question, as I understand it, was regarding whether staying with one particular ROM might improve battery life. I don't have much experience with Android to date, but this is definitely true in Windows Mobile. The first days after a flash, the ROM seems to settle in and the battery life improves and stays steady. Constant flashing tended to wreak havoc on battery life, from my experience.
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The question, as I understand it, was regarding whether staying with one particular ROM might improve battery life. I don't have much experience with Android to date, but this is definitely true in Windows Mobile. The first days after a flash, the ROM seems to settle in and the battery life improves and stays steady. Constant flashing tended to wreak havoc on battery life, from my experience.
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yeah i think thats what happene with me..
on ginger clone the first 2 days bleh got 5 hours of battery life, amazingly the days after that, total of 17 hours... i was shocked.
Just rooted today...
My main issue is to extend the battery life.
Do I need to install a ROM to do that
If so what ROM do you suggest, but prefer something that is fast, barebones, great battery life, I am prolly going to be running go launcher...
How long have you been with the phone? I just got it a few days ago and waiting to "break-in" the battery...
I know for my t989 it was the same deal.
There are a few kernels that really help, go to the dev section and read up on them (and roms too!).
Install a custom rom and kernal.
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try fourth bar
you might want to try fourth bar rom. it's default launcher is go launcher and says it has amazing battery life. here's the link to it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1421811
I just got the phone on the weekend and installed xboarders BulletProof ROM day before yesterday and the SetCPU app. My battery life has improved dramatically. Now I can get 14-16 hours of moderate use out of the phone on 4g. This gets me through my day and has made this phone the PERFECT device for me. I love it!!
On Wifi and with more careful power management the battery could definitely last up to 24 hr.
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On Wifi and with more careful power management the battery could definitely last up to 24 hr.
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I believe WiFi actually takes more juice than on 4G.
Search JuiceDefender in the Market. It's helped significantly with my battery life.
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I believe WiFi actually takes more juice than on 4G.
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Leaving WiFi on and scanning while not connected to a network will drain your battery, but in a head-to-head wifi vs 4g connection battle WiFi comes out on top.
Flash Faux's Kernel located here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1359951
Otherwise use Xboarder56's Sense 3.5 Rom. I've been on it for about a week with amazing battery life (40 hours-ish)
darkphantom said:
How long have you been with the phone? I just got it a few days ago and waiting to "break-in" the battery...
I know for my t989 it was the same deal.
There are a few kernels that really help, go to the dev section and read up on them (and roms too!).
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I had if for a few months... you are 100 percent right about the break in period, when I first got this phone I could almost watch this phone drain to nothing..
I also purchased a couple of anker batteries and a wall chargers... I noticed that if I complete charge and drain the battery the life would even get better I did this about 12 times for each battery.
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Search JuiceDefender in the Market. It's helped significantly with my battery life.
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Tried it and did nothing for me... well it did make my phone super glitchy..
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daeboe said:
Flash Faux's Kernel located here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1359951
Otherwise use Xboarder56's Sense 3.5 Rom. I've been on it for about a week with amazing battery life (40 hours-ish)
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should I do both... I will admit I not sure what the difference between rom and a kernal...
try the fourth bar sense. my batter has improved a lot
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should I do both... I will admit I not sure what the difference between rom and a kernal...
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Yes you need to do both. Most, if not all, ROMs come with their own kernel that must be installed so that everything in the ROM works correctly. You flash a rom through recovery and then use fastboot to install the kernel. A lot of the current ROMs come with a script that flashes the kernel for you though, so it's not a big deal. (Other devices that have S-OFF can flash the kernel directly when you flash the rom, which is one reason why we want S-OFF so much, so possibly think about donating to the cause).
Awesome... installed the 4th sense rom... I am very happy with it so far!
I also flashed kernel by faux.. but I am not sure if took, how can I tell?
Any suggestions for overclocking my cpu... or does the kernel do that?
thanks a bunch guys I will let you know how the battery life issue goes!
Donations... Yes I will send some juice to these folks!
Preaak said:
Awesome... installed the 4th sense rom... I am very happy with it so far!
I also flashed kernel by faux.. but I am not sure if took, how can I tell?
Any suggestions for overclocking my cpu... or does the kernel do that?
thanks a bunch guys I will let you know how the battery life issue goes!
Donations... Yes I will send some juice to these folks!
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You'll know it works by not having any problems. I believe the kernel overclocks it for you, but OCing lowers battery life, so it kind of goes against what you originally wanted.
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You'll know it works by not having any problems. I believe the kernel overclocks it for you, but OCing lowers battery life, so it kind of goes against what you originally wanted.
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No problems so for.. battery life looks really good so far.. I just popped in a fresh battery so I will see how it goes.
It is overclocked for sure... I ran a couple of benchmark tests. We will see how it goes... I would like to get through a day... finally..
I am even thinking of underclocking... thanks again!
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No problems so for.. battery life looks really good so far.. I just popped in a fresh battery so I will see how it goes.
It is overclocked for sure... I ran a couple of benchmark tests. We will see how it goes... I would like to get through a day... finally..
I am even thinking of underclocking... thanks again!
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I've tried almost all of the roms here (except bulletproof) in combination with stock and faux kernels. The best combos I came up with for battery was BeastMod and 4th Bar with stock kernel from BeastMod. No matter what I did with faux kernels (OC, UC, Undervolt) I could never beat the battery life of stock kernel. Good luck and keep us updated.
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I've tried almost all of the roms here (except bulletproof) in combination with stock and faux kernels. The best combos I came up with for battery was BeastMod and 4th Bar with stock kernel from BeastMod. No matter what I did with faux kernels (OC, UC, Undervolt) I could never beat the battery life of stock kernel. Good luck and keep us updated.
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For the limited time I have been on kernel and Rom there is been no significant change in battery life.
The phone is faster that is for sure.. that will drain battery
faster but I a running less widgets and no live wallpaper that I normally rock.
The deal breaker for me is that the sound remains on when you close apps/games... and stays on even when the screen is off.
I will give beat mod a try with a stock kernel.
Just throwing this out there, I have played around with a few of the ICS roms, using safestrap installs, to retain the back to GB option. I have found that I get about 50% less battery life on the ICS roms. On an average day I use my phone moderately, past two day, back on GB, at around this time of day I am at about 60% battery. While on ICS leaks, I was at about 30% with similar use throughout the day. Anyone else have such a stark difference with ICS?
You have to give it at least a day to settle in. I get better on ics.
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You have to give it at least a day to settle in. I get better on ics.
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I have stayed on the Roms for several days(a week on first round of trying them out) and still much worse battery life. You are on the GSM Razr? I am on CDMA, you know of any difference with radios that would cause the difference? Generally have LTE off both GB and ICS.
try to calibrate the battery with "Battery Calibration" https://play.google.com/store/apps/...xLDEsImNvbS5uZW1hLmJhdHRlcnljYWxpYnJhdGlvbiJd
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try to calibrate the battery with "Battery Calibration" https://play.google.com/store/apps/...xLDEsImNvbS5uZW1hLmJhdHRlcnljYWxpYnJhdGlvbiJd
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Doesn't this just adjust the vsel levels like the froyo over/underclock programs?
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My battery is slightly less on ICS, but not dramatically different. I can confirm it's not my usage or imagination either. Battery stats show "Android OS" is using 5-10% more than it did with GB.
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Doesn't this just adjust the vsel levels like the froyo over/underclock programs?
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No idea mate but it help me a lot with my Xoom when I had battery issues, you could try it, it doesn't hurt
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Just throwing this out there, I have played around with a few of the ICS roms, using safestrap installs, to retain the back to GB option. I have found that I get about 50% less battery life on the ICS roms. On an average day I use my phone moderately, past two day, back on GB, at around this time of day I am at about 60% battery. While on ICS leaks, I was at about 30% with similar use throughout the day. Anyone else have such a stark difference with ICS?
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if you go into your battery usage youll see that your screen is using 50% or more of the battery. there are battery issues and moto knows about them, im hoping they will fix this, ive read articles that they are gonna fix this bug before releasing the ics to the public.
my battery is the exact same way on ics, i hate it, but since i got a maxx now i could care less. i accidentally deleted my screen shot of the battery usage. and if you look at the ontime of your screen youll see that it is a 5th of the ontime of phone, (at least for me it was)
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if you go into your battery usage youll see that your screen is using 50% or more of the battery. there are battery issues and moto knows about them, im hoping they will fix this, ive read articles that they are gonna fix this bug before releasing the ics to the public.
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ICS OTA has been going out in stages all day today in the U.S. ...But yes I agree. There is some kind of battery issue.
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ICS OTA has been going out in stages all day today in the U.S. ...But yes I agree. There is some kind of battery issue.
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I was a bit hesitant to agree about there being a battery issue, until i was satisfied that id had enough time with the ROM.
But the truth is in the pudding so to say... I am able to make it through the day but i am getting at best 2/3 the amount i was on gingerbread.
9.5 hours of battery, 80% of which was taken up by screen time of 4hrs.
Yesterday i was convinced battery was fine, today i know there's something's amiss
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I have found the exact opposite. My office gets horrible cell reception and my phone was constantly trying to connect on gingerbread. It would always show the kernel as using the majority of the battery. Since ICS my phone rarely drops connection and my kernel now barely consumes any battery. I'm making it until five everyday with 50% battery left while with gingerbread my phone was always dead by five.
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I was a bit hesitant to agree about there being a battery issue, until i was satisfied that id had enough time with the ROM.
But the truth is in the pudding so to say... I am able to make it through the day but i am getting at best 2/3 the amount i was on gingerbread.
9.5 hours of battery, 80% of which was taken up by screen time of 4hrs.
Yesterday i was convinced battery was fine, today i know there's something's amiss
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At first, I thought maybe I was just using the phone a lot more than usual after I installed ICS. But after 5 days now, I know it isn't my usage.
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if you go into your battery usage youll see that your screen is using 50% or more of the battery. there are battery issues and moto knows about them, im hoping they will fix this, ive read articles that they are gonna fix this bug before releasing the ics to the public.
my battery is the exact same way on ics, i hate it, but since i got a maxx now i could care less. i accidentally deleted my screen shot of the battery usage. and if you look at the ontime of your screen youll see that it is a 5th of the ontime of phone, (at least for me it was)
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I was in the soak test, 1st I got the standard email getting everyone's opinions of the soak. Then yesterday I got a 2nd email from the MFN for a 2nd survey. This 2nd survey was all about the battery life. So, yeah, Moto knows that there are some issues with decreased battery life. I've noticed a decrease in battery life. Even so, I'm still happy with ICS. Most of the issues I've noticed have more to do with apps than ICS itself. Some apps, when I want to go back a screen, it instead takes me all the way out. Even the XDA app does this. Anyone else notice this issue?
I'm not 100% sure what the cause of the battery issue is.
In my case, on GB I would could typically go from about 6AM to 4PM before I would need to charge it again on a normal Droid RAZR. On ICS, at first I could only go for only about 2-3 hours before experiencing a 50% drop in power - meaning only about 5 hours before needing to hit the charger. For this reason, and other issues, I opted to perform a Factory Reset. It solved the problems I experienced, including my battery issue. On ICS, I can now go from 6AM to 6PM with a battery meter reading of 50%. Translation - for the first time with this phone and normal use (for me) I can go all day without having to worry about a charger. So, this is a huge improvement. But it did require a Factory Reset for me to get this level of performance.
I would like to be able to say the same but.... I did a factory reset before and after loading ics.
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I would like to be able to say the same but.... I did a factory reset before and after loading ics.
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Just curious, when you installed, how did you go about installing/reinstalling your apps? When I did the reset, I just let Google Play do it automagically for me. It got me about 90% there. There were a few things I needed to add and configure. Also, I stopped using another launcher and just went with ICS. I don't know if those are differences that might make a different or not.
I actually did not let google restore anything. I wanted a fresh base to work off of. Installed from market one at a time.
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Actually the first china leak (120) gave my battery a lot more usage time,significantly.
But when i switched to MIUI rom my battery life significantly dropped down,every minute of usage=1% of battery .
Try to use the stock rom for a couple of days,at least the stock leaked china rom has very good battery life for GSM devices .
I've had ICS for a week now. At first my battery didn't lady add long. But after a few days and a FDR it its lasting longer than it did on gb.
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My battery is slightly less on ICS, but not dramatically different. I can confirm it's not my usage or imagination either. Battery stats show "Android OS" is using 5-10% more than it did with GB.
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Values 5-10% for "Android OS" are the values of my dreams as I am used to +/-25% on the GB...
So i bought me the SIII about two weeks ago and was excited to use the 2200mah battery. The first day i hit about 18 hours.
Since then i have:
Rooted
Installed CWM
and flashed this Kernel:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1741684
Could running this ROM be the reason why i am having such horrible battery life?
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I'm also aware of the Cell Standby issue which gives the wrong reading on the battery life status screen.
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Possibly. I have Stock unrooted for now as i don't have any reason to root and flash other ROMs yet. I consistently get 22 hours wih about the same screen On time you have. I have Auto Brightness, GPS On all the time, Sync On all the time and widgets running on every page.
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So i bought me the SIII about two weeks ago and was excited to use the 2200mah battery. The first day i hit about 18 hours.
Since then i have:
Rooted
Installed CWM
and flashed this ROM:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1741684
Could running this ROM be the reason why i am having such horrible battery life?
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I'm also aware of the Cell Standby issue which gives the wrong reading on the battery life status screen.
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Run Bettery Battery Stats and see what's eating your battery up.
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Possibly. I have Stock unrooted for now as i don't have any reason to root and flash other ROMs yet. I consistently get 22 hours wih about the same screen On time you have. I have Auto Brightness, GPS On all the time, Sync On all the time and widgets running on every page.
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i am incredibly jealous of your battery life lol
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never heard of that, but will definitely be doing that right now. The kernel i used overclocks the cpu so that might be a big reason
When i had my HTC Amaze 4G, i get around 12-14 hour battery life. I was even running Energy ROM at the time. I am thinking i might keep it 100% stock for now lol.
Okay, found a screenshot from the first battery cycle. I had Power Save On at the time. I had since been running without it on and of course using the phone more.
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I forgot to mention that I've been running Juice Defender Ultimate since day 1.
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Okay, found a screenshot from the first battery cycle. I had Power Save On at the time. I had since been running without it on and of course using the phone more.
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jesus lawwwwwwd look at that battery life
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never heard of that, but will definitely be doing that right now. The kernel i used overclocks the cpu so that might be a big reason
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What are you OC to?
I tried OC a couple times and my battery would get hot. I quit when I read that some good Dev's say not to do it.
oc will definitely drain your battery faster.
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Im running blazers Rom on the Sprint variant of the S3. On my evo 4g lte i had b4 switching to the s3 i would get like 40-50 hours with light/medium usage. With the same amount of usage im getting half of that with the s3. Much less then half if i actually do something with my s3. No widgets- no mobile data turned on- no syncing-no gps. Only wifi is turned on while Im home. 24 hours without a charge seems to be the cap for these phones. and thats with very minimal usage.
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What are you OC to?
I tried OC a couple times and my battery would get hot. I quit when I read that some good Dev's say not to do it.
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I'm running about 1.8ghz right now
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I'm running about 1.8ghz right now
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Man just from reading a lot I would trying to not oc. You can actually read where a lot of the experienced phone guys stay away from OC and a few actually uc to trade off for battery. More power needs more power
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Man just from reading a lot I would trying to not oc. You can actually read where a lot of the experienced phone guys stay away from OC and a few actually uc to trade off for battery. More power needs more power
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I think thats where im at right now, the phone is plenty fast as it is. So i just recently (about an hour ago) flashed back to the stock rom and am going to re-root and then run the clock down a little bit. OC is a little overrated for my usage!
Okay. So I am currently running shostock3 on my sgs2 with siyah kernal. I read the article from zedomax on galaxys2root.com that it has very good battery life and very stable but when i am running it, I have terrible battery life and i am currently underclocked or whatever the word is. Is there anyway to fix this?
My advice, run SHOstock3 as it was released. It runs great as shoman94 dev'd it.
...and stay away from that web site u mentioned.
Stick to XDA. Period!
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Yes. I'm running shostock3 with the included kernel and get good battery life.
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Getting great battery life on Shostock3 V3.0. Flashed the AJK 1.52s kernel. Checkout Better battery stats...see if you have wakelocks killing your battery. And..I agree that website is no good..stick to XDA.
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Okay. So I am currently running shostock3 on my sgs2 with siyah kernal. I read the article from zedomax on galaxys2root.com that it has very good battery life and very stable but when i am running it, I have terrible battery life and i am currently underclocked or whatever the word is. Is there anyway to fix this?
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which siyah kernel u r using. as far as i know theres no siyah kernel to run with shostock 3 except for ajk's (ktoonsez stopped working on siyah kernel for jb i777 after release of 4.3.3).
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Getting great battery life on Shostock3 V3.0. Flashed the AJK 1.52s kernel. Checkout Better battery stats...see if you have wakelocks killing your battery. And..I agree that website is no good..stick to XDA.
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Most people get really good battery life on SHOstock3. Just search the SHOstock3 thread for the word battery to see what I mean. If you're not getting good battery life, you need to find out what in your configuration is causing the problem, and fix it. There is a thread in the general section started by Entropy512 that you should study to help you identify where the problem is.
I was on GB ShoStock for a long time thinking ICS and JB would never leave me satisfied on battery life.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1353513
Finally came to my senses and tried out ShoStock 3 and have never looked back. To make it short the best Rom Ive ever flashed for any device I have had in the present and past.
You definitely have a rogue app killing your battery, find out which one it is and uninstall.
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Okay. So I am currently running shostock3 on my sgs2 with siyah kernal. I read the article from zedomax on galaxys2root.com that it has very good battery life and very stable but when i am running it, I have terrible battery life and i am currently underclocked or whatever the word is. Is there anyway to fix this?
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Sorry you have battery life problems.
I have been running Shostock3 since it came out (it's version 3.02 today!), but I also been on and off at least five (wow can it be that many?) JB roms on my SGH-i777 (won't even mention the # GB roms here!). After trying many, I must agree with the other posters who state that this rom delivers very good battery life when compared to stock and when compared with other custom roms.
Lately, it has delivered the best battery life I have ever had on this phone using any rom (although SlimBean JB provided very very good battery life for me recently as well! Also UnNamed was great for battery life in the old GB days )
I followed the recommendations made by creepyncrawly to read Entropy's (& others) battery notes/faqs. They provide some really good background, some with that typical "XDA flavor" (read technical!. That material, plus some more plain old simple user adjustments to how and what I use on the phone have improved my phone's battery time; and it might help you as well.
It really boils down to the fact that each phone user loads different apps and our usage patterns vary.
Assume that you've flashed it and let it settle for a few days and several recharge cycles. After doing this you can see what YOUR "norms" are. They may be good or bad, but that's the baseline for you with this rom and with the apps and usage pattern you have.
(You can tweak voltage and speed (well, not speed on SS3!), but my experience has been that the more noticeable changes will be by adjusting your pattern of use, or doing the "hunt for the app" (or apps) that are burning down your run times when not in use.
Not many here seem to like or do this, but I would also try one of those "help-you-with-battery-use" apps --like juice defender (Ok, I get that many here seem to think it a waste, but it really did help me --a little-- when I used it); or get DS Battery saver (a bit more aggressive and noticeable, but you also notice the lag while you wait for things to turn on when you want them).
Actually, these may not be precision solutions, and don't focus on your specific phone app use, but they do work in a macro way to slow battery use and simply working with them for a few days or weeks will provide you with a better a sense of what the heck is going on under the plastic; they will cause you to look at what you have/run and when.
Oh, this includes using Better Battery Stats, which is fine for reporting out exactly which the apps behave --or don't-- and by how much and when. I'm not slow (well, that slow but it frankly, it took me quite a while to figure out what I was reading in the BBS readouts and what they meant! (Now, after a year+ or so of using it, I don't even have it loaded, since I've done the fiddling I need --and BBS, plus those other battery apps, helped me to figure out what apps worked well, what apps I was willing to sacrifice battery on and what apps were useless and should be tossed.)
Finally, some roms just don't work for people! So it's not worth the frustration chasing something you may not be able to achieve with this or another rom. (You probably read how individuals have problems that you don't -yet, you run the same rom and the same phone! That is our world. So, too, you will read about some who make amazing claims on how long they continue on one charge. Some are pretty amazing, and some may even be real
My final five cents would be:
#1 run the rom a couple of days, get a baseline. Then switch from Jeboo kernel to AJK's latest for TW (I think it is 1.25ss, but I really also had great results from 1.48s) and run it a few more days. They were pretty much even for me, but others find one or the other kernel makes a real difference!). Compare after doing the same activities through a charge or two.
#2 If your battery life remains "poor," note what poor really is (ex. how much screen time? and how much total run time prior to getting to zero or 10-15%? ...something like that).
#3. Then get BBS and one of the "automatic" battery-saver programs and work with it for about 4-5 days and that many recharge cycles. See what your norms are but do it for the same type of usage!!! If better while using the battery fixers, then you can work at picking off the app or apps that are sucking your battery more than you want. Not as tedious as it sounds. Of course, staying with a rom for three weeks might be a challenge :laugh:, but this is a nice rom to work with.
#4. I don't think you will need to under-volt to get good BL. I wonder if your phone is stable in doing that? Or, does it induce additional lag? That might be a high price to pay for more run time. (You could compare the UV results with your "norm" as well!)
#5. Finally, we are on Galaxy S2 Sgh-i777 -and can change batteries all day long for not so much per battery! It is not elegant, but it works. (Done it myself several times -even with good battery life).
Good Luck!
Best ROM, Good battery life... been with Shoman's ROM since shostock2 never have a problem with the battery life...
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