[Q] Help! Galaxy S II getting hot and battery draining really fast - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

hi guys!
i have a problem! lol =p
my battery is crazy, or my phone is crazy and is draining all my battery
it starded some days ago ... i'm using the Internet Browser and (sometimes) it starts to get really hot on the superior part of the phone ... and my battery starts to drain really fast... if i reboot sometimes it gets back to normal, but there are times that the battery goes crazy and happens like the picture below... after that i turned the "battery save" mode of the phone, and the battery percentage increased by 1% even without charging ...
It started to happen even before i updated to ICS, and still happens with the ICS ... any tips??

Use set cpu and check on which frequencies the phone is running
And use BadAssBattery monitor app to see which app is sucking your battery
The huge battery drop is normal and happens on our phone as fuel gauge goes crazy

dedligno said:
hi guys!
i have a problem! lol =p
my battery is crazy, or my phone is crazy and is draining all my battery
it starded some days ago ... i'm using the Internet Browser and (sometimes) it starts to get really hot on the superior part of the phone ... and my battery starts to drain really fast... if i reboot sometimes it gets back to normal, but there are times that the battery goes crazy and happens like the picture below... after that i turned the "battery save" mode of the phone, and the battery percentage increased by 1% even without charging ...
It started to happen even before i updated to ICS, and still happens with the ICS ... any tips??
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Try the following:
1. Wipe cache partition (and Dalvik cache) in recovery mode.
2. If that does not help, do a factory reset.
3. If that does not help, flash another ICS ROM. I made good experiences with XWLPD.
4. If that does not help either, examine with BetterBatteryStats (BBS) app what apps are preventing your phone from going into deep sleep.
Partial wakelocks is what you should look at.
Good luck !

I have the same issue with my phone. I tried factory reset and cache reset but my S2 is still running hot and drains battery in 4 hours after charging
I installed go power master and battery are being drained by the following apps
Bluetooth Test
Android System
Google Backup Transport
Keyboard.
I'm running ICS via Samsung Kies.
I9100DXLP7
Kernel 3.0.15
Build IML74K.DXLP7

dedligno said:
hi guys!
i have a problem! lol =p
my battery is crazy, or my phone is crazy and is draining all my battery
it starded some days ago ... i'm using the Internet Browser and (sometimes) it starts to get really hot on the superior part of the phone ... and my battery starts to drain really fast... if i reboot sometimes it gets back to normal, but there are times that the battery goes crazy and happens like the picture below... after that i turned the "battery save" mode of the phone, and the battery percentage increased by 1% even without charging ...
It started to happen even before i updated to ICS, and still happens with the ICS ... any tips??
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check the radio, which version do u have?

junwuu said:
check the radio, which version do u have?
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I have recently flashed 4.1.2 Stock UK non brand and battery Life is horrendous, can you please share with me your mod? These are my details:
Like today, phone on at about 07.00am, now is 10.29 and im down at 35% which is ridiculous with Screen on 1h 29m > 74% as the biggest hog..."always scan for open wifi" was on and i recently disabled it..also, i keep wifi on all the time when i am at work. signal is 100% so shouldnt consume much??
recently tried to disable auto brightness, removed bloatware and few other things...is it the modem sucking too much or what??
4.1.2
Baseband : I9100XXKH3
Kernel : 3.0.31-Siyah-s2-v6.0b4+ [email protected] #57 SMP PREEMPT Wed Dec 26 06:52:48 PST 2012
Build Number : ZJ054K.I9100XWLSW

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Q Battery usage questions, maybe bad phone?

hi iguys,
i have some questions about the sgs 2
i got it since a few weeks and everything was fine,great battery life up to 17 hours zith light/ normal use.
i tried to flash cwm isecure kernel to flash roms, all went fine
then i found out rom manager is not yet fully compatible with sgs2
so i flashed back to stock firmware,now my battery life really sucks
with little use i can hardly get 6 or 7 hours out of it
and most of the time its just standby
i have everything off bluetooth,gps,wifi, display set to 10 percent, background sync
the only thing i have on is 3g connection..
i have better battery stats installed
and i see these 2 things always 100 percent full.
suspend/events
no matter what, theres no app draining because when i wipe everything to factory settings or through recovery, the drain remains, even with 3g off
also when i check my normal battery history,
i see 2 times android system in the stats, doesnt one need to say android os ? instead of two times system?
sorry if this is a double post, but i searched and couldnt find something similar then this.
hope you can help
gr
dennis
You have BBS installed, good. Don't see under Processes but see under Partial Wakelocks, check which apps and processes are taking the max time. Something on background is definitely going on.
Regards.
ithehappy said:
You have BBS installed, good. Don't see under Processes but see under Partial Wakelocks, check which apps and processes are taking the max time. Something on background is definitely going on.
Regards.
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thanks for the reply, i checked and only facebookservice,rilj,mailserver,activitymanager have a smal redd line
and all are under 2/3 percent
the rest dont even have a red line going, today i swapped my battery at the store, but i dont see any difference, yet, just draining
Nobody else here to help me ?
better battery stats shows me nothing like an app or process
thats really going crazy..
i really have no clue what i did wrong to get this terrible battery life
hmm i really don't get why though, coz I have an awesome battery life with my S2, i got at least 2 days, with alot of calls n txts in between. I use it for my music player in the car as well, n i travel quite alot.
tried recalibrating the batter?
kruznix said:
hmm i really don't get why though, coz I have an awesome battery life with my S2, i got at least 2 days, with alot of calls n txts in between. I use it for my music player in the car as well, n i travel quite alot.
tried recalibrating the batter?
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yes i tried, i also tried to wipe battery bin file through cwm, also with no succes,
my phone is charging now, so i am going to check how the battery life is with CM7 or another rom.
do you have 3g on all the time ?
i also have a question about the connections options, do you have an option to only use 2g ? in stock rom, i dont, i remember having it on my galaxy mini
Update, the new battery i got yesterday seem to have no change in my dramatic battery life,
i flashed CM7 build 38 last night,
and still the same, it drains like hell!
Start at the beginning .
Wipe phone install stock rom wipe battery stats install
better battery stats .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
Dont mess around installing roms that cannot cure a problem .
With a 100% charged phone and GPS Blutooth and Wifi OFF test overnight and look at what's waking the phone , ideal twelve hour sleep should be a 2% battery drop .
jje
JJEgan said:
Start at the beginning .
Wipe phone install stock rom wipe battery stats install
better battery stats .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
Dont mess around installing roms that cannot cure a problem .
With a 100% charged phone and GPS Blutooth and Wifi OFF test overnight and look at what's waking the phone , ideal twelve hour sleep should be a 2% battery drop .
jje
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ok i will try that, turn everything off, also the 3g connectivity ?
JJEgan said:
Start at the beginning .
Wipe phone install stock rom wipe battery stats install
better battery stats .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
Dont mess around installing roms that cannot cure a problem .
With a 100% charged phone and GPS Blutooth and Wifi OFF test overnight and look at what's waking the phone , ideal twelve hour sleep should be a 2% battery drop .
jje
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and for wiping the battery stats i have to flash cwm kernel on top of the stock rom yes ?
Freeze wifi sharing services and flash Litening rom.
ricerfuel said:
Freeze wifi sharing services and flash Litening rom.
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wifi sharing is not using any power on my phone
also with better battery stats, i dont see nothing unusual in the stats,
also on top of that i have watchdog task manager installed, i never get any notification from any app going crazy
i almost never use wifi because i have 3g and unlimited internet every month,
sometimes i use the gps, when im done with it turn it off
i cannot get a normal 8-9 hours with normal use,
mostly doing some facebook checking, sending some texts, a little bit of ping, checking the weather..

Temple run abnormal battery drain

my phone was sleeping when i unplugged from the charger.. didnt do much thing.. just a call and a text..
then i check my battery stat.. somehow temple is there.. but i didnt even play.. anyone has this too?
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/111506057354038389466/albums/5724603562432508305/5724603574685604098
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/111506057354038389466/albums/5724603562432508305/5724603565602885810
I didnt get that. It's better battery that Zenonia 4. That kills my battery.
Plaggy22 said:
I didnt get that. It's better battery that Zenonia 4. That kills my battery.
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i didnt even play.. i didnt launch the game... and it shows up on my battery stats
Ive been playing since I downloaded it and it only used up 4%. Maybe it's your rom.
Getting exact same issue battery drain from temple run only played it twice when it came out running stock 4.0.2
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I noticed that today too, and its because it uses the ''magnetic sensor'' every minute, since unplugged, lame as app.
Solution: use autostarts app, disable all its processes, and reboot. problem fixed.
Same issue here. Running stock 4.0.4.
Even if I don't open the app for days, I see it near the top of the list of apps using the battery, although there's no information regarding how long the app was active in the background and doing what. Sometimes the % goes as high as 15%! Immediately uninstalled and reported it to Imangi. Hopefully, they'll get it fixed asap.
Everyday it is using about 2-3% of my battery even though I haven't played it for a week and have charged my battery all the way, thus resetting the stats.
If anyone has any resolution, let me know. I am going to reboot and hope that makes it go away.
Figured out the same this morning.
everything was normal with my HoX from the beginning of the night, it slept well etc.
Then in the morning I jumped into my car with %95 battery and drove about an hour to work.. It wass all the time in my pocket.. and it drained to %91..
"Temple Run 2" (com.imangi.templerun2) using 15% of my battery
Xperia S (latest stock firmware). Same problem.
Battery stats always displaying "Temple Run 2" (com.imangi.templerun2) using 15% of my battery.
Restarting changes nothing.
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Maybe I don't understand how battery stats work?
Once you unplug the charger, and drain your battery, what will battery stats display? Apps that were running and had used certain percentage of power? Or Apps that are CURRENTLY using?
Sometimes i will get force close also,all high score gone.
SENT FROM MONSTER ! ! !
HIT THANX OR I WILL JUST
CRY...
Boymother said:
Xperia S (latest stock firmware). Same problem.
Battery stats always displaying "Temple Run 2" (com.imangi.templerun2) using 15% of my battery.
Restarting changes nothing.
Edit:
Maybe I don't understand how battery stats work?
Once you unplug the charger, and drain your battery, what will battery stats display? Apps that were running and had used certain percentage of power? Or Apps that are CURRENTLY using?
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It shows the usage during time, not the usage at the moment.
Sent from my MIUI powered Optimus L5.

[Q] Battery issue? Possibly the Costum Kernel?

Well recently I bought the Beast S3.
Now I installed this first Kernel - CF-Root-SGS3-v6.4
And CM9 rom, was working great though there's one problem the damn battery drain is like being raped evey 5-10 mins if not less I loose 1-2% battery.
Now I though it might be the Kernel so I switched to Siyah-s3-v1.5.3-CWM, no go still the same result.
I changed my Rom to CM10, same result.
Here's a Screenie of my device (In Attachments)
Could you help out a little? I've checked and not sure where is the issue, and I understand that super huge screen consumes allot of power but even if I set brightness to 0-25% I get the same result...
Most battery issues are caused by installed user apps. Install Cpu Spy for cpu deep sleep issues and Better Battery Statts for locating apps that show unusual activity`s and drain the battery.
UD3R said:
the damn battery drain is like being raped evey 5-10 mins if not less I loose 1-2% battery.
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This battery drain percentage looks normal to me.
Sometimes I lose 5% without doing anything, even if I have a perfectly cleaned rom.

[Q] Battery Draining No Matter What I Shut Off... Why?

Hello,
I wanted to get your guys opinion as I believe my phone may have turned defective and I really don't want to go down the Warranty Route as I'll loose the phone for weeks. And willing to try anything suggested.
So here's the problem:
Battery Draining at very high rates. On stock battery, I am draining about 12% an hour, after 6 or so hours my 15% battery capacity left warning turns on. I figured it was the battery, so bought a double capacity 4200mAh Hyperion Battery. Now my battery drain is at 6% an hour (which is equivalent to the factory battery considering the double capacity).
I am currently on XXELKC 4.1.2 Stock ROM. When I first noticed the problem, I was on 4.1.1. Figured I would ODIN, Wipe all cache's, and start clean. This has made no affect on battery life.
Here's what I've tried:
- 4.1.1, 4.1.2 Stock ROMs from Wipe - High Drain
- Airplane Mode with Location Services Disabled - High Drain, but 4.5% an Hour instead of 6% an Hour.
- Disabled all Samsung Apps - seemed to have little impact
- Disabling Google Now has made zero impact on battery life.
- 4.1.1 BBS revealed nothing - may need to try again on 4.1.2
Any ideas? Or is this sounding like the phone? Is it possible after a wipe the phone, when I re-enter my Google Credentials it is restoring some data which is defunct and causing high drain?
Note: Screen shots are with the double capacity battery taken right after a clean Odin upgrade to 4.1.2. Only ran Android Activation and thats it.
It looks like your phone isnt going to sleep properly. Try a custom rom/kernel.
Have you done a full whipe ?? If not, do so, and don't forget to make a back up first. It worked for me !
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium
I had similar issues, I factory reset worked, and I also download rescan media root app to disable the media scanner which was my main battery killer.
WHen you do the factory reset make sure your phone is connected to the internet, so it will prompt google to store the apps you have and remote install when you sign back into the phone.
I have performed a full wipe but that had minor impact on battery life but I wounder if the Google Restore possibly restored an invalid setting. I will try this again without entering my credentials and see if there is a link with a restored setting. I will have to give the rescan media app a try as well.
5kops said:
It looks like your phone isnt going to sleep properly. Try a custom rom/kernel.
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Any specific kernel in mind. From what I've been reading no kernel seemed to stand up to magically solve battery issues without voltage drop or cutting services like Google now from the rom.
use better battery stats app to determine what is causing those wake locks.
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beaver2233 said:
use better battery stats app to determine what is causing those wake locks.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 2
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I have attached a run with BBS for 1 hour. Nothing is really standing out. The phone was in deep sleep for all but 2 minutes. I did have Google Now and Location Services Disabled as that was eating away an impressive 10 minutes / hour from deep sleep. But my battery life only increased from 6% an hour to 4.5% an hour. An improvement but weak IMO considering the larger battery.
Results from BBS is attached.
I once had that kinda issue too
What I did was Factory Reset and that did the trick for me
How about trying the app CPU sleeper?
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium
I've had this issue before on the i9100 Galaxy S II, where it didn't seem to matter what I did, it chewed battery just as soon as I put my Google account back onto the handset. I believed it was caused by the Samsung calendar bug. So absolutely; try it without putting your Google account onto the device.
Also, your WiFi signal looks low, although this has less of a difference compared to having low mobile coverage...
DaRacerz said:
I have attached a run with BBS for 1 hour. Nothing is really standing out. The phone was in deep sleep for all but 2 minutes. I did have Google Now and Location Services Disabled as that was eating away an impressive 10 minutes / hour from deep sleep. But my battery life only increased from 6% an hour to 4.5% an hour. An improvement but weak IMO considering the larger battery.
Results from BBS is attached.
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your first post has a huge amount of wakeocks that arent going to be reflected with an hours run on BBS. If i were you id charge it to 100%, unplug just before going to bed and then show us the BBS log in the morning so people can see whats happening over an 7-8 hour peroid
DaRacerz said:
Hello,
I wanted to get your guys opinion as I believe my phone may have turned defective and I really don't want to go down the Warranty Route as I'll loose the phone for weeks. And willing to try anything suggested.
...
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Have you tried flashing a custom ROM?
DaRacerz said:
I have attached a run with BBS for 1 hour. Nothing is really standing out. The phone was in deep sleep for all but 2 minutes. I did have Google Now and Location Services Disabled as that was eating away an impressive 10 minutes / hour from deep sleep. But my battery life only increased from 6% an hour to 4.5% an hour. An improvement but weak IMO considering the larger battery.
Results from BBS is attached.
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It looks like the same problem I was having. Your WIFI is always on.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35813539
Also leaving your Bluetooth On all the time is going to drain the battery pretty quickly.
pinguy1982 said:
It looks like the same problem I was having. Your WIFI is always on.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35813539
Also leaving your Bluetooth On all the time is going to drain the battery pretty quickly.
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its not wifi always on, my wifi is always on too and i lose 2% over an 8 hour standby period.
Its more what apps are using the wifi connection and waking the phone up, thats what the op needs to look into
I have to say ive had pretty bad battery lately aswell. If op doesnt mind I might post my bbs log tomorrow sometime
tapp'd on my S3
MRDOCA said:
I have to say ive had pretty bad battery lately aswell. If op doesnt mind I might post my bbs log tomorrow sometime
tapp'd on my S3
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More information can't hurt. Post in and Maybee there is a correlation.
OK. So I went ahead with your suggestions and did the following
Factory Wipe again from Settings Menu
Went back to factory Samsung battery for consistency in reports to other users
Took out both my sim and sdcard to eliminate those possibilities
Put into airplane mode
Disabled a bunch of apps (ss on next post)
Still bismal results but better than before. 7 percent an hour drain. Attached all the files. Ideas? Google says phone is awake but bbs doesn't seem to shed any clues for me...
And here are the disabled and installed apps
your phone isnt going to sleep at all....something is keeping it awake..try a stock rom ( any will do) with full wipe. Dont restore anything with titanium backup. Disable auto sync on everything. Set wifi sleep policy to always. See if the problem persists.
5kops said:
your phone isnt going to sleep at all....something is keeping it awake..try a stock rom ( any will do) with full wipe. Dont restore anything with titanium backup. Disable auto sync on everything. Set wifi sleep policy to always. See if the problem persists.
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That last run posted was stock 4.1.2 XXELKC firmware and Factory Wipe from Settings Menu. I also performed Wipe and Cache Wipe in the Bootloader (Power Up + Center + Power). All I did was install bbs and never put in Google or Samsung credentials and disabled some stock apps from running.
If your not referring to factory Wipe, can you please explain further? Thanks.

[Q] Huge battery drain on use has started last week. [Kinda Solved]

Hello everyone, I'm using Motorola Atrix with Epinter CM10 4.1 ROM for last 2 months, I was very happy with battery life. Phone wasn't getting hot and with normal usage, even with 3G on (in my country only options are 2G and 3G), I could get %40 of battery end of the day. But for no reason, phone has started to get hot (only 2G on) and drains battery really quickly for last 1 week. I can't even get %5 battery left from morning to evening now. I didn't change anything, only installed Adobe Flash 11.1, then I deleted it but nothing has changed. Phone gets into deep sleep no problem with that, no background apps. I did a virus scan both on phone and from computer, both came out clean. I reinstalled rom. Nothing. I'm gonna crash my phone against wall it's really annoying. I think I'm gonna do factory wipe and reinstall rom again.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Do you leave wifi switched on at all times?
I use MIUI on my Atrix (partially based on epinter's work, I believe? Correct me if I'm wrong), but I have found that the phone suddenly starts staying awake for no apparent reason a while (often a couple of days) after I've left wifi switched on. This obviously causes bad battery drain. I can usually get the phone to sleep again by rebooting with wifi switched off (I think) and a battery pull is invariably required.
I now just switch on wifi when I have large files to download then turn it off straight afterwards.
Not sure if it is the same issue or not, but Better Battery Stats (which can be downloaded on xda) indicated the Rilj process was stopping the phone from sleeping when this problem occurred. It is worth trying this app to see if it gives any indication what is causing your battery drain.
Maringer said:
Do you leave wifi switched on at all times?
I use MIUI on my Atrix (partially based on epinter's work, I believe? Correct me if I'm wrong), but I have found that the phone suddenly starts staying awake for no apparent reason a while (often a couple of days) after I've left wifi switched on. This obviously causes bad battery drain. I can usually get the phone to sleep again by rebooting with wifi switched off (I think) and a battery pull is invariably required.
I now just switch on wifi when I have large files to download then turn it off straight afterwards.
Not sure if it is the same issue or not, but Better Battery Stats (which can be downloaded on xda) indicated the Rilj process was stopping the phone from sleeping when this problem occurred. It is worth trying this app to see if it gives any indication what is causing your battery drain.
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No I switch between mobile data and wifi. Thank you for your suggestions and opinions but I really don't think my problem is about sleep. It started to get hot and drain when I actually use the phone. For example, I was checking Twitter for 10 min. with 3G and battery was dropping %1. Now it drops %5 with 2G on and gets really hot like 35-37 Celsius degree. I'm using Watchdog to oversee processes and nothing is working without my knowledge on background.
Hi,
I have the same problem on the nottachtrix roms since the last 2 weeks, I tried switching to epinter cm10 with no luck. Ordered a new battery to check if the battery is dead or if the atrix is faulty
if you find a fix, please post it here
ogeday said:
Hello everyone, I'm using Motorola Atrix with Epinter CM10 4.1 ROM for last 2 months, I was very happy with battery life. Phone wasn't getting hot and with normal usage, even with 3G on (in my country only options are 2G and 3G), I could get %40 of battery end of the day. But for no reason, phone has started to get hot (only 2G on) and drains battery really quickly for last 1 week. I can't even get %5 battery left from morning to evening now. I didn't change anything, only installed Adobe Flash 11.1, then I deleted it but nothing has changed. Phone gets into deep sleep no problem with that, no background apps. I did a virus scan both on phone and from computer, both came out clean. I reinstalled rom. Nothing. I'm gonna crash my phone against wall it's really annoying. I think I'm gonna do factory wipe and reinstall rom again.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
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install gsam battery monitor to see your phone's awake time. this drain happens to me also when i listen to music or take a photo. something with mediaserver keeps the phone awake and then only thing to do is kill mediaserver or a reboot.
Regardless of which other apps you are using to monitor app and process usage, I'd recommend trying Better Battery Stats as this is much more detailed and low-level than other apps I've encountered.
It's a free download for xda members:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
Little update.
I turned back to factory settings, then did a full wipe, cache wipe, dalvik wipe. I was so annoyed I even did system wipe manually from advanced options in recovery. I reinstalled Epinter CM10 rom, got my apps back thanks to Titanium Backup. Installed GSAM (thanks to saldirai), downloaded SetCpu and chose Nvidia Tegra 2 T20/AP20H, underclocked to 912 mhz. Couldn't done any undervolting sadly, says something about governor.
Now I'm checking battery stats and temperature by GSAM, so far no complaints and better from yesterday BUT I haven't use my phone heavily yet. Temperature changes between 26-31 Celsius degrees, battery drops %1-2 percent on use -also it needs calibration- with only wifi use which is always on. I'll update this post if anything changes.
Update: I think I've found the problem. When I choose The Weather Channel widget to "use my location" phone immediately starts to get warm. Weird point is, this wasn't an issue before. Apart from that I'm playing New Star Soccer and Carmageddon for 3-4 hours with wi-fi full time on and battery drops to %30. I'm really happy about that. Normal battery temperature is about 25-32 during the day and different from before it quickly gets cold after I stop playing games. Just like before.

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