I have a serious love/hate relationship with my new Amaze. Yes, it's fast and the resolution is beautiful but at what cost? What good is the phone if it's constantly tethered to the power outlet?
I have read a lot of this forum and I know battery life is not one of the Amaze's best attributes, but I feel like mine is extraordinarily atrocious.
So any and all suggestions would be much appreciated as to what I can do to stop the drain.
I am running Speed Rom 6.0 JellyBean with faux's kernel.
I have all syncing turned off except for my gmail and WeatherBug every 4 hours. I don't play Angry Birds or any other games. I don't watch Netflix or YouTube. I don't even really make calls on the phone. Just SMS, light web surfing, email, and some audio streaming but always with the screen off. My network is T-Mobile and my bars are typically 3 or higher in a 4G zone so I don't think it's straining to find the signal.
I always use the phone at the lowest brightness level. I have the Save Power option turned on in my Quick Settings. In System Tuner I have the governor set to on-demand and the off screen mode to power save.
I don't run any widgets, live wallpapers, and my desktop is all black. I also purchased a larger 2450 mAh battery to replace the smaller OEM. I feel like I'm doing everything I possibly can to save on power but it's infuriating to be on the phone and actually watch my power level increment down.
What am I missing? Is there a better rom to run that'll save power? Is there a setting I've overlooked? Please help. I don't want to throw this phone in the river because I paid a lot of money for it.
Any help is appreciated.
Thank You,
-golgiapp
weatherbug always drained my battery really fast on all my phones even with the refresh settings set to 4 hours. try your phone without that app for a few days. (when you uninstall it reboot the phone so all the phones processes are forced to restart)
and i get at least a full day on OEM battery with the phasebeam live wallpaper and like 5-6 3D htc widgets set to 30min refresh time.
golgiapp said:
I have a serious love/hate relationship with my new Amaze. Yes, it's fast and the resolution is beautiful but at what cost? What good is the phone if it's constantly tethered to the power outlet?
I have read a lot of this forum and I know battery life is not one of the Amaze's best attributes, but I feel like mine is extraordinarily atrocious.
So any and all suggestions would be much appreciated as to what I can do to stop the drain.
I am running Speed Rom 6.0 JellyBean with faux's kernel.
I have all syncing turned off except for my gmail and WeatherBug every 4 hours. I don't play Angry Birds or any other games. I don't watch Netflix or YouTube. I don't even really make calls on the phone. Just SMS, light web surfing, email, and some audio streaming but always with the screen off. My network is T-Mobile and my bars are typically 3 or higher in a 4G zone so I don't think it's straining to find the signal.
I always use the phone at the lowest brightness level. I have the Save Power option turned on in my Quick Settings. In System Tuner I have the governor set to on-demand and the off screen mode to power save.
I don't run any widgets, live wallpapers, and my desktop is all black. I also purchased a larger 2450 mAh battery to replace the smaller OEM. I feel like I'm doing everything I possibly can to save on power but it's infuriating to be on the phone and actually watch my power level increment down.
What am I missing? Is there a better rom to run that'll save power? Is there a setting I've overlooked? Please help. I don't want to throw this phone in the river because I paid a lot of money for it.
Any help is appreciated.
Thank You,
-golgiapp
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All this and you didn't even mention how long your battery lasts (on average). That'd be helpful.
I had the same issue with faux's draining quick. Tried the last two updates but went back to Kozmiks kernel. It gives me great battery life.
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saseekutz said:
I had the same issue with faux's draining quick. Tried the last two updates but went back to Kozmiks kernel. It gives me great battery life.
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I had faux v008 ICS with my Energy Rom 6.21.2012 ICS ROM... bad idle battery life... trying Kozmiks kernel now
Sorry for leaving out that my battery lasts anywhere between 4 to 5 hours with the use I mentioned above.
I have already uninstalled WeatherBug and try the other kernel as well. Thank you for the info.
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Sorry for leaving out that my battery lasts anywhere between 4 to 5 hours with the use I mentioned above.
I have already uninstalled WeatherBug and try the other kernel as well. Thank you for the info.
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Call HTC tech support and very calmly.and.politely tell them.you have a severe battery drain issue. There has been a problem with OEM batteries mentioned before. I got my new battery and can go 12 to 14 hours with usage like you speak of. Be nice and calm though. And you will get better treatment.
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Undervolt ? I have n I last from 8 to 8pm with moderate use a couple videos n n I'm somewhere around 1200 MHz
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Sorry for leaving out that my battery lasts anywhere between 4 to 5 hours with the use I mentioned above.
I have already uninstalled WeatherBug and try the other kernel as well. Thank you for the info.
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I have the same amount of battery life with my amaze. Its normal
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Call HTC tech support and very calmly.and.politely tell them.you have a severe battery drain issue. There has been a problem with OEM batteries mentioned before. I got my new battery and can go 12 to 14 hours with usage like you speak of. Be nice and calm though. And you will get better treatment.
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my ankor 1900mhz is just as poor, but I know it's not the battery's fault (idle with data off, phone sips battery at around 1% per 3 hour drain)
@ OP, try turning off the data connection and sync off for a few hours... if the energy is still being used up, then it's the battery's fault... otherwise, it might be a misbehaving app... i'd say reinstall the rom
Undervolt is a good way, effects vary in every phone because not all chips are made equal. Disable background data on apps you don't regularly use, and limit background processes to 4 in dev settings
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Could it be speedrom?
I find my battery is dying faster since I installed it. As soon as the screen is on my battery is going down very very fast.
I'm still with the stock kernel right now so maybe I'll try a new one and see if it helps.
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Could it be speedrom?
I find my battery is dying faster since I installed it. As soon as the screen is on my battery is going down very very fast.
I'm still with the stock kernel right now so maybe I'll try a new one and see if it helps.
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I get much better battery life with nightmares kernel. Tried it on rms7 any nrg stock look. My results with fauxs where not that great, no matter what I tried.
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So I switched over to Kozmiks kernel and I have noticed a significant improvement in my battery life. Thanks for the replies and suggestions.
One more question if I may, how do I disable the double lock screen? The ring pull is redundant with my pattern lock.
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So I switched over to Kozmiks kernel and I have noticed a significant improvement in my battery life. Thanks for the replies and suggestions.
One more question if I may, how do I disable the double lock screen? The ring pull is redundant with my pattern lock.
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What Rom are you using with it? Is the WiFi stable and steady connection?
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What Rom are you using with it? Is the WiFi stable and steady connection?
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I am on Speed Rom 6.0 Jelly Bean. The wifi has never dropped its connection for me.
yeah, reflashing RUU and another ROM (Speed Rom) while battery at 100% solved my battery problem for now
16 hours with 1-2 hours used, now at 15%, data on, autosync on
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I made the switch to nrgz's latest themed Rom with faux's Kernel and its been good for me
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I ordered better batteries.,anker 1800ma batteries
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I'm suprised no one called BS on one fact.. the OP said he has a 2450mah battery.. who has seen one?! Never heard of it, if it truly says that, it is some knock off battery that is mislabeled, and tthat is likely the issue.
Always get 1900mah anker batteries, anything else.. well, we all have good results with anker as far as I've seen.
Otherwise I'd say reflash the ruu properly, at full battery, then flash rom, at full battery.. then report your results.
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Now that we have some huge updates and all these new roms I am curious who is getting the best battery with which rom with the most display time. I am on MIUI getting about the same battery I did with stock 3D. Only about 2 and half hours display time.
I am thinking about going to another rom but, I would like to see what rom could get the best display time.
All the AOSP ROMs for some reason give me terrible battery life. I tried ViperRom and it's battery life is decent. Synergy is okay. Right now, however, I'm using warm twopointthree and it has great battery life. Maybe the best I've seen so far.
Decks sense rom still gives me the best battery life, by far. I used it with the stock kernel and it kicked butt. Very stable overall. I've been getting a solid 19 to 21 hours on CM7 with normal usage, which is good too. I love aosp.
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Steelh rom is decent on battery life but deck is awesome I got like 30 hours of his rom
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What's your guys display time on average
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VirusRom InfectedROM_Eternity battery life and performance is awesome with stock kernel. Don't even use setcpu its works so well. Plus the Beats audio and sexy skins are a great plus. Of course if you're own your phone 24/7 its going to drain but at the rate its suppose too and it should be awesome in standby. Yeah Asop roms seem to drain.
I've tried pretty much all the roms. The most stable rom with the best battery life is hands down Myn's rom warm2point3
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I've tried pretty much all the roms. The most stable rom with the best battery life is hands down Myn's rom warm2point3
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+1...MYN,IS THA SHIZNIT!!!
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Ha I love myns ROM to but its not better than decks battery life. I've killed every app and switched to airplane mode and not better than decks Sry just had to but my opinion no disrespect Mr myns
Throw your official already. Plzzzzz
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I get about 15 hours with about 4 hours awake time with mine with moderate to heavy use (internet browsing, videos, texting, and games). Running SteelRom 2.6.
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I get about 15 hours with about 4 hours awake time with mine with moderate to heavy use (internet browsing, videos, texting, and games). Running SteelRom 2.6.
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This is probably the best answer I've ever heard on the matter of battery life and is on par with mine.
Nobody seems to understand that battery life is determined by your usage patterns. So, the next person won't ever get YOUR battery life unless they use their phone like YOU. People also seem to forget that total battery life and awake time are completely different.
Awake time (actually using your phone) will not give you anywhere NEAR the amount of hours some people claim. If you continuously used your phone from a charge of 100% to 0%, NEVER letting it sleep, I would say anywhere from 3-5 hours.
Standby time (screen off/sleep) will definitely get you close to what some people claim. If you charged your phone to 100%, then let it sit in standby the entire time, I'd say anywhere from 24-36 hours.
Awake/Standby combined will average out anywhere from 8-12 hours depending on usage patterns, but can definitely spike up to 16 hours.
(These estimates are with the stock battery)
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This is probably the best answer I've ever heard on the matter of battery life and is on par with mine.
Nobody seems to understand that battery life is determined by your usage patterns. So, the next person won't ever get YOUR battery life unless they use their phone like YOU. People also seem to forget that total battery life and awake time are completely different.
Awake time (actually using your phone) will not give you anywhere NEAR the amount of hours some people claim. If you continuously used your phone from a charge of 100% to 0%, I would say anywhere from 3-5 hours.
Standby time (screen off/sleep) will definitely get you close to what some people claim. If you charged your phone to 100%, then let it sit in standby the entire time, I'd say anywhere from 24-36 hours.
Awake/Standby combined will average out anywhere from 8-12 hours depending on usage patterns, but can definitely spike up to 16 hours.
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Um feeling like this is coming at me yea freeza I use my phone more than any other person out there. I use gps and phone mms internet fb g+ xda app and still get 30+ hours from decks. I don't charge my phone on my cars chargers I use charge it to 99% then let the phone do its thing.
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Um feeling like this is coming at me yea freeza I use my phone more than any other person out there. I use gps and phone mms internet fb g+ xda app and still get 30+ hours from decks. I don't charge my phone on my cars chargers I use charge it to 99% then let the phone do its thing.
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No no, not directed towards you at all. Just in general.
Kool have a good Friday man let's get chocolate wasted. Shauuuu
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Kool have a good Friday man let's get chocolate wasted. Shauuuu
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ahaha already one step ahead of you bro!
What's you guys battery comsumption in standby in mA?
According to Current widget mine is around 150mA and when in use t ranges from 400-900mA it is much higher than my previous Desire HD where I get 1-5mA in standby and 60-400mA when in use.
Does anybody notice the same?
I have 2 batterys and it is not enough to see me through 12 hours.
On CM7 VAlpha 3, I'm getting the best battery life I've ever had. When I plugged the phone in at 2:30 am this morning, I still had 54%, and that was with me waking up at 10:30 am. I'd been on battery for 14 hours with 7 hours of awake time (Mainly Cut The Rope, Plants vs. Zombies and Zombieville USA, but a couple half hour phone calls and about 70 text messages as well, also on wifi about 75% of the time).
Clean Rom 2.5 is money. Stable and I'm getting around 16 hrs from a full charge with moderate use. I get 1 bar of signal at work and at least 30-40 min of talk time all day with a little FB and Ebaying. Check it out. Also has a Rom updater app that'll let you download custom fonts, icons, colors, etc.
viperrom
I've been loving viperrom. I have a clean install, no battery saver apps. I just used the viper mod to adjust my cpu settings to be powersave when screen is off. And I'm getting the best battery life i've ever gotten.
Running at 30 hours uptime, i'm still at 37% battery with moderate use.
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Oh, and that is with Bluetooth enabled as well.
So my extended battery and case arrived. I bought the only one on EBay advertised for the AT&T version. Today is my first day of use. When it arrived it was charged to 67%. One thing I will say is the phone feels 3 times as heavy as it used to but the case fits snugly. The battery reads for the I9100 Samsung galaxy s2. I will upload a pic as soon as I figure out how to do it from my phone.
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nice, keep us posted...
Oh wow! How much was it? What does the outside of the back cover look like? Does it have the same texture/feel as the standard cover?
Definitely interested in how this turns out
Hello guys well so far so good. I am at 54% and the last time the battery was connected was exactly 8 he's ago. I have sent and recieved 74 data messages using group me. I have read a 102 page ebook today. And streamed 4 utube videos each about 10 min in length. I also streamed about 10 movie previews using flixster. I am almost certain that if I were using the oem battery the phone would be close to dead right about now. I am very very pleased with the battery life that I got today. I probably did more today with my phone then I have since I purchased it and to still have over 50 percent of battery life after 8 hours pleases me. What I did notice though is that the phone off of the charger it dropped down to 93 percent within an hour. And the reason why I noticed it is because I took it off of the charger to go to a meeting and when I came back I was like whoa. I have to wonder if it was truly charged to 100 percent because it has taken me some time to write this post and my screen has been on the entire time 10 min and I have only lost 1%. The case itself is plastic but it does not have the same texture as the original it is smooth but it is not slippery I am currently holding the phone with 2 fingers tilted at almost a 90 degree handle and its sticking. In any case it's easier to hold the phone now probably due to the added bulk. Once my Captivate charges I will take better pics of the case itself. I will also post a link to the item on ebay shortly. I believe I paid $24 or $26. Now of course my test is not scientific but again I consider myself am a heavy user and I am happy!!
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I left the screen on for a little over 30 min to see how much battery drain would occur. I was also typing the previous comment I made earlier then switched over to FB and Google+ not bad for having screen on at about 50% of its brightness.
The pictures were taken with the samsung captivate
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Here is the link.
http://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/e1140...tem=320761063292&ssPageName=ADME:L:OU:US:1123
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There was one other I found on Ebay advertised as compatible with the I777. However, it was removed shortly after I sent a question asking if the battery was NFC capable and not cause the phone to boot loop with the USB cable plugged in. I guess it wasn't compatible after all...
So your new battery charges as normal? No issues with the cable plugged in?
I will do some research later to see if this battery has the nfc chip not sure how to detect that. I have not experienced any problems using my phone while plugged into the charger. Actually I play tank hero last night for about 15 minutes and the phone did run warm not extremely hot but it was definitely noticeable.
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One thing that I failed to mention last night because I just realized it this morning. I am running Juice Defender Plus but I have been using it from day one with this one because I used it with the Captivate. My excitement got the better of me but again I used this app and the exact same settings when the OEM was installed in the my phone. My settings are for it to check the network every 5 minutes and stay awake for 2 minutes after checking then cut data network again for 5 minutes. Not that comfortable with playing with the rest of the settings because there are a lot more things you can do but that is probably helping me achieve greater than normal battery life. Right now it says that JD has increased my battery life by 1.53 times since it has been running. Over the weekend I will have to test the battery without JD so that those that don't use any of these kind of apps will get a true idea of what battery performance you should expect.
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My settings are for it to check the network every 5 minutes and stay awake for 2 minutes after checking then cut data network again for 5 minutes.
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What setting do you use for this? I've turned off "Background Data" and have seen a huge increase in battery life so far. If I could get JD+ to automate this process on some kind of schedule, it would be great!
Wow the extended battery doubles the thickness of the phone... i've been getting good battery life after putting in CM7 and re-calibrating the battery..
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Are regular cases compatible with the extended battery?
Nevermind.
Love the idea of a bigger battery but I can't justify the bulk when I went 15 hour and only lost 40%... Granted it was light use, like checking XDA texting and small internet usage, but then again, that's with no jd with 1.4 mhz oc and full sync and everything. Cyanogen mod gave me the battery life I want without the bulk
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Wow I wish I had the guts to install Cyanogen on my phone. I will try it on my captivate first. And you are right it nearly triples
the weight of the phone.
JD Plus actually gives u the ability to change how often your phone turns off the data. 5,15,30,60 minute increments. Today I have not used my phone much at all. Unplugged 5 hours and 14 minutes ago and it has 94% remaining.
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I was all set to buy an extended battery but no need now. 36 hours off charger with light use and 76% battery life remaining. JD+ and bloatware frozen did the trick. This is with background data on and syncing..
Does Cm7 really improve battery life by that much? I've been using UnNamed
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NFC?
the next question would be, does the battery have the NFC "antenna"?
Because the OE battery has the antenna beneath the samsung sticker.
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Does Cm7 really improve battery life by that much? I've been using UnNamed
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Yes it does. There are no att apps and processes running in the background.. CM7 plus setCPU will dramatically increase your batt life
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Over the course of the past month I've appeared to have a drastic decrease in battery life. Just wanted some opinions. I've switched between AOKP, Neo-AOKP, and Rage (which I am currently on), and there seems to be little difference (or at least, nothing is making it significantly better). I always do full wipes before installs. All GPS features turned off, brightness around the 30% mark, no task killer, JuiceDefender running on default balanced settings. See screenshots below for additional information. From 100% to the time of these screenshots I've done about 15-20 texts, 2 phone calls that were both less than 60 seconds, 5 times or so on Facebook (just scrolling through feed mostly), and a total of 5-10 minutes on the internet. I guess what I'm wondering is: Is it possible that my battery has somehow degraded over the past month? And, should i be getting better battery life than this? I am on the stock/standard Rezound battery. Thanks!
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I dont think 3:15 screen on over 7 hrs and being at 20% is bad...
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Try a vanilla cm9 build.
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I dont think 3:15 screen on over 7 hrs and being at 20% is bad...
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That's 3min 5sec.
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My battery has also become worse. Screen time uses about 1.5% per minute. Abysmal.
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Try a vanilla cm9 build.
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which cm9 roms out right now would be considered vanilla?
Yeah whether its sense or aosp my battery life is beyond atrocious. Like I'm ALWAYS charging my phone.
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which cm9 roms out right now would be considered vanilla?
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Gray The Wolf's build or my own build from the megathread. They are as close to vanilla as you can get.
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Gray The Wolf's build or my own build from the megathread. They are as close to vanilla as you can get.
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thanks! i might have to give one of those two a try as there jsut doesn't seem to be a culprit for why my battery life has been so bad on aosp regardless of what kernel/gov setup i've tried using. maybe the apps/setup i have doesn't work well with rage and all it's tweaks.
looks ur phone reseting it self every time
cos the 3% used in gsam
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thanks! i might have to give one of those two a try as there jsut doesn't seem to be a culprit for why my battery life has been so bad on aosp regardless of what kernel/gov setup i've tried using. maybe the apps/setup i have doesn't work well with rage and all it's tweaks.
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I used to run juice defender. It doesn't seem to play well with AOSP, causes lots of wakeups. Try uninstalling/disabling and seeing if it helps, particularly overnight. I don't have any proof but my battery seems to be lasting longer without. (About 5.6 pct per hour during the day, 1-2 pct per hour overnight)
Personally, I use setcpu to make profiles for screen on and off. Screen On, I use Intellidemand tho Neo swears by Lazy. For Screen Off, I set max clock speed to 700 ish mhz and put governor on Wheatley. I can say one thing for sure, Wheatley makes the phone deep sleep very well, assuming you don't have a sync issue or frequently updating widget interfering.
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There seems to be a discrepancy between your battery usage monitor and your GSam monitor. Your battery monitor is showing 7 hours plus while the GSam is showing 3 minutes plus since charged.
For the 69% on screen, how long was the screen actually on? Touch the screen percentage to see how long your screen was on. Right now, I am at 13 hours plus with 50% left. My screen is at 65% and has been on 1 hr 53 min. Indoors, I also keep my brightness at 20%.
It seems that some folks have also said they find juice defender to use more battery than it saves. Try uninstalling it and see what happens.
I am using Nils' Business ICS4.0.3, Sense 3.6 ROM and having great battery life with the standard battery.
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I used to run juice defender. It doesn't seem to play well with AOSP, causes lots of wakeups. Try uninstalling/disabling and seeing if it helps, particularly overnight. I don't have any proof but my battery seems to be lasting longer without. (About 5.6 pct per hour during the day, 1-2 pct per hour overnight)
Personally, I use setcpu to make profiles for screen on and off. Screen On, I use Intellidemand tho Neo swears by Lazy. For Screen Off, I set max clock speed to 700 ish mhz and put governor on Wheatley. I can say one thing for sure, Wheatley makes the phone deep sleep very well, assuming you don't have a sync issue or frequently updating widget interfering.
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umm.. i don't use jiuce defender. it's terrible and usually ends up causing worse battery drain than without
Snuzzo - it seems, for now, that your recommendation to go with a vanilla CM9 seems to be the trick. I'll have to monitor over the next few days to be sure, but with the same setup i was running on rage, where i would lose about 3-4%/hour with the phone just sitting and going to sleep, i've only lost 1% in the past 2 hours while on your most updated (10/16) build with your 1.5 kernel..
would i be able to run more recent versions of your kernel on you 10/16 build?
I haven't done 1.8 and 1.7 has the minimum frequency voltage fixed plus a couple extras. Don't try running 1.6 as it was very experimental.
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Im new to this forum thing so sorry if i do/type something wrong. Anyway, i got my gs3 few months ago, and the battery life lasts a day, when i had iphone 3g it lasted like 3 days without charging, so i wanna know if this is normal with everyone or i have to fix it. Yes its rooted with a costume rom.
How often do you use it? Which CPU governor are you using? Make sure it can deep sleep, because if it doesn't it will drain very quickly.
Deep sleep? First I'm hearing about that. Could I set that myself in the paranoid kangdroid ROM
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Deep sleep is a built-in feature that reduces power consumption when you're not using the phone. There are some applications that will keep your phone awake (known as a a wakelock) even when the phone's screen is off. To find out more, get CPU Spy and Wakelock Detector. The former will show you how long your CPU is in each frequency and deep sleep, if at all. The latter will scan for apps that are keeping your phone awake when it should be sleeping.
How much screen on time and other use does it get?
I get 3-4 hours of screen on time before I charge and that's a typical day for me. The newer and more powerful hardware is going to use more battery in general, too - compared to an older phone with much weaker hardware.
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thank you, ive noticed my battery lasting longer. and also, do launchers like atom launcher reduce battery as well? i really like it but if i have to delete it
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I experiencing the same with my new S3.
The same usage with my S2 lasted 2 days and now it's only one. I think it's maybe because the Omega rom I'm using.
May be Custom Rom isn't good. I think S3's battery must be better than I Phone
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thank you, ive noticed my battery lasting longer. and also, do launchers like atom launcher reduce battery as well? i really like it but if i have to delete it
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I don't think the launcher will make much difference. How long/much do you use the launcher?
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so you think launcher or holo lock wont make a difference? if thats so it must be the costum rom installed on the phone i dont see anything else.. ill just take it to someone to change it hopefully it will work. not only that thw battery drains fast, it takes 7 hours ro charge..
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If your phone lasts a full day, that's a miracle by today's standards. My S3 i9300 lasts about a full day also, with ~2 hours of screen time at most. Unless you have a Motorola Razr Maxx (3300 mAh battery) or a Note 2, you're probably not going to get over a day of battery life on any phone with anything over minimal usage. Also, don't let your battery die completely; don't go lower than around 20-25%. If you repeatedly do, your battery will overall hold less of a charge.
I suggest also that you turn on Power Saver if you're not gaming. Go into Settings -> Power Saver and disable the screen power savings (it limits the frame rate). This basically keeps the phone from going above 1 GHz (barely noticeable in terms of speed, but big battery savings).
Since you use a custom ROM, try messing with the min/max frequencies of your phone. My Samsung Galaxy SII has pretty good battery life; in this screenshot it's about 2 hours of screen time - 30 minutes of internet data, 30 minutes of music and the rest is miscellaneous gaming, videos, arranging apps etc. Oh yes, and a few phone calls, of course.
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this is my battery. I tried full day with power saving on
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this is my battery. I tried full day with power saving on
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Click "Screen" to show for how long the screen was actually on. Overall that's good battery life though. Do you actually notice an improvement?
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screen is on 2 hours and 27 mins. if i didnt use power saving the battery would probably be 15%.
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screen is on 2 hours and 27 mins. if i didnt use power saving the battery would probably be 15%.
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That's amazing. Seriously. 2.5 hrs and 54% left. That's nuts!
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Battery life heavily depends on the brightness. Mine is at about 60% fixed brightness, and in the screenshot it was at 1 hour 52 minutes of screen time.
lol i thought that battery life was bad.. thx
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Don't expect too much from today's fancy smartphones. They are mostly form over function, and would rather have a slim body and unnecessarily fast internals rather than good battery life.
Hig guys my battery life isnt very good , it drains in day with almost no use. Brightness on 25 , Data is Off and also the service location is off .
Anyone knows how to fix this.
I bought the phone because of the battery
And also i bought is last saturday.
Can you post your battery stats?
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U should reset ur phone. G2 battery is very awesome. I turn on everything 3g, WiFi, sync, Facebook, viber, ... And I use my phone to read news whenever I have time, so my screen time on of my phone one day is usually 4 hours. Everyday I get home with approx 40% of battery. But one thing I recommend u is u should buy the app lux auto brightness replace for stock auto brightness. I was really surprise after I installed that app, it save for my about one hour screen time.
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Download "Better Battery Stats" https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.asksven.betterbatterystats&hl=en
Take a look at the wakelocks, alarms and see what is keeping your phone awake.
Also , posting a screenshot of your battery life graph would be beneficial.
Cheers !
Edit: Agree with quachhanthanh about Lux Auto Brightness. Totally worth the money , even though the free app does its job admirably.
Ah good idea with lux auto brightness.
I will test this too.
The stock auto brightness never works good on my phone.
Bad batteryaybe
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Bad batteryaybe
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What?
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What?
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he sad bad battery maybe.
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Ah ok thank you , could have known that myself
It really helps to know the stats to start. A rogue app or service can cause a lot of issues. I had a contact sync issue that drained my battery quickly. Found and fixed.
I use greenify(really good for battery life) and also under google settings, I mean the app you have called google settings, uncheck all those things you dont need including under Android Device Manager -> Remotely locate this device. I disabled alot of things in there. If you need to leave wifi on you can also change your wifi scan intervals to like 360 in the build.prop. Thats just for starters.
Great battery here!
As has been said, a battery graph will help out a great deal. If you have a rogue app, it will show a higher percentage of usage than other similar apps. If services really high, you might want to take a look at exactly which services are running. Be sure to always disable any you don't actually use. Also make sure your screen is set to turn off quickly, or use that nifty knock off feature. One last thing, if you are in a spotty coverage area, your radio will broadcast at maximum power trying to find a tower. That searching will kill any battery.
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I'm getting horrible battery life.. About 2.5 hours screen time with 45% left. Screen has only used 20% of the battery.. its mostly being used up by Android System (33%) and Android OS(13%). I've got wakelock detector installed and its saying most of the time my phone is in deep sleep... God know's what's the issue.
P.S: I'm even using DS Battery Saver to force deep sleep... I really don't know why the OS and system are using so much battery!
P.S: Using better battery stats, it seems I'm having the activity manager causing wakelocks and the alarm rtc and powermanager service causing wakelocks... anyone has any idea how to stop this?
Almost 40hr with 4.35hr of screen time and still 38% left.
What can i say. I am happy
in two days and im with 20% , is that good or bad?
with normal use
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in two days and im with 20% , is that good or bad?
with normal use
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Depends on what you do with the phone. I can drop 20% in like 3hrs easily using spotify alone.
At the moment im at 37h 12m with 3h 8m screen on. Im at 40%.
Here are my stats. I wonder why there's such a variance between different phones. Do LG source batteries from many different manufacturers? Maybe they don't do enough QA on the batteries? Battery life for me isn't terrible compared to other Android phones I've used (many won't even last a day), but I definitely need to charge it every night.
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Here are my stats. I wonder why there's such a variance between different phones. Do LG source batteries from many different manufacturers? Maybe they don't do enough QA on the batteries? Battery life for me isn't terrible compared to other Android phones I've used (many won't even last a day), but I definitely need to charge it every night.
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Useless, can't see your app usage.
I recommend posting in the comparative battery analysis thread.
Make sure you post all screen shots otherwise OP will be on your case.
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Almost 40hr with 4.35hr of screen time and still 38% left.
What can i say. I am happy
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Wow, how did you manage that?
Hehehehehehehehe with moderate usage, kernel tweaks and a bunch of other battery saving stuff, i get insane battery life... this is my record
edit: in the screenshot, you can see thats in charging, thats because to get the screenies, i need to plug my phone to the charger to boot it up haha