I’m writing because I read many posts from people that seems to have a problem similar to mine, and many posts on the canadian base thread that are experiencing a huge battery improvement with this rom. I suspect that the problem is much bigger than I thought.
I have an AT&T “instance” of this phone and I have high power drain on any ICS/JB base when phone is idle. I measured less than 1% drain every hour on the canadian base with every sort of sync active (2 GMAIL, G+, G CURRENT, INSTANT UPLOAD, CONTACTS, CALENDAR) but as soon as I put any other ICS/JB base this jump to at lest 5% every hours. Also the original stock GB rom from AT&T also seems to be battery friendly.
Test were made with a number of roms (UCLF6, Unofficial Liquid Jelly Bean 2.0, CM 10, Paranoid). I just installed google apps when applicable and logged in to gmail and play to install Battery Monitor Widget. I discover too that power drain is ok when I’m connected to WIFI or when I switch to 2G mode. Radio is the same I717UCLF6 on every test (but I tested every other radio, and nothing changes).
I suspect it is something related to the way the 2/3/4 G radio is used.
Anyone have this issue?
Anyone know how to start to debug/trace this problem?
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just looking for opinions and why you like it better than the others
MIUI.
Positives:
1) Doesn't require messing with bootloaders (the only way to hard brick your phone and kill it permanently)
2) It's built from the ground up. MIUI is the only ROM I've flashed that doesn't feel like an incremental upgrade. So many new features have been added, both big (instantly downloadable and apply-able themes without the need for flashing or cache clearing) and small (long pressing notification icons takes you to their respective settings). There are many, many, many, MANY more features. There's a list on the stock MIUI thread over in Vibrant Development.
3) Smoothness. Any and all 2.2 roms have some measure of lag in certain situations. MIUI has none. My personal example is Aqua Pets. Under 2.2, even when OC'd, the casting line would jolt just a touch every so often, and sometimes very often. Under MIUI, it hasn't occurred even once.
Negatives.
1) GPS issues (shared by all 2.3 ROMs). It isn't as easy to use as on Froyo. Remedied by running Angry GPS or GPS Test or a similar program a few minutes before you need navigation. Takes a while to get the initial lock, but once you're locked on, it works perfectly, even indoors.
2) Battery life (again, shared by all 2.3 ROMs). Now that I've let my particular version of MIUI settle in, the battery life is lasting longer (30+ hours as of this writing, at 18%) However, Froyo lasts longer than Gingerbread, pretty much across the board.
CM7.101
CM 7.101 = ROCK SOLID STABLE
Close to AOSP, no bloatware no Touchwiz to slow you down.
GPS works if you do hardware fix and flash gpsfix.zip However Vibrant's GPS still sucks compared to HTC hw.
No 911 dialing is a problem
Unfortunately like all ROMs that run Linux 2.6.4.13+ kernel we get a weird intermittent Android OS battery drain bug. Sometimes it's there and drains battery sometimes it's not and works fine....
Hello all,
I have a question for you all:
I have flashed a new rom today and have decided to NOT activate Google Now, and (after a few hours only), I seem to see a much better battery use?
Is it possible that this app, being monitoring so much all the time hoggs the battery quite a lot?
So, placebo effect or not?
Certainly possible I suppose, but I haven't noticed it drawing a significant amount of juice on my S3 or my Note 2.
I've had Now running in the background on my Note 2 for over 9 hours and the battery is still at 92% (minimal usage, just on WiFi), and while I'm getting tired of being notified about the ManU match, it doesn't seem to be drawing an inordinate about of power to run.
Is the new ROM you flashed using a different kernel or a newer revision of your previous kernel? In my experience, that's been the biggest factor in terms of power consumption.
devonck said:
Certainly possible I suppose, but I haven't noticed it drawing a significant amount of juice on my S3 or my Note 2.
I've had Now running in the background on my Note 2 for over 9 hours and the battery is still at 92% (minimal usage, just on WiFi), and while I'm getting tired of being notified about the ManU match, it doesn't seem to be drawing an inordinate about of power to run.
Is the new ROM you flashed using a different kernel or a newer revision of your previous kernel? In my experience, that's been the biggest factor in terms of power consumption.
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Well, I am using temasek's CM10 Kang (70 I believe, latest anyway)
and with the kernel that came with it.
I ve tried other AOSP kernel, but no boot at all, so...
What I think is that XXDLIB modem does has a noticeable effect on good reception over here, so maybe that s the factor here?
I've enjoyed my XT910 for a couple of years, but quit using it about 3-4 years ago. Now I want to use it with a secondary SIM, perhaps as a WiFi hotspot while roaming, but I find the speed appalling. Every operation takes seconds to show a result. Even unlocking to an SMS notification takes ~4 seconds.
Using MoKee 5.1 on a secondary ROM slot, I think. It's always on charge (as battery is slowly dying) and the only active app is PushBullet, used to see check my SMSs on other devices.
Does it make sense to invest in a new battery and keep this phone as my secondary? Or should I just get a cheap Chinese one, like Ulefone U007?
I don't expect miracles, just maybe using it as a light travel phone, mobile hotspot, speedcam notifier and occasional (once every two months) browsing. Should I maybe switch to a stock-based ROM that lives on the main slot? Get rid of slots altogether?
The phone lived some nice times, travelled around the world, edited and uploaded DSLR pictures with OTG, provided navigation to rickshaw drivers, was a portable desktop for a while, then a retro-gaming machine. Maybe it just wants to be retired...
Motomizer can help overclock it so it doesn't seem as slow. I haven't maxed mine out, just ramped it up about midway.
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I've bought a new battery and installed Mokee 5.1, upgraded later to 6.0. Battery life is ok-ish, but not much of a difference. I've measured the old battery to still have 1400-1500Ah, the new one is ~1700mAh. I suspect the poor battery life was due to some hanging processes.
Anyway, with Mookee 6.0, the phone is unbearably slow. I have whatsapp, viber, google maps and nothing else. LMK has been set to very aggressive.
When I receive an SMS, it takes 5-15 seconds for it to load, if it doesn't FC. When I unlock the phone (after it sat for a while) it takes at least 10s to come to life.
My suspicion is that there is high memory usage (Android reports 30-70MB remaining) which causes everything to be evicted from RAM. Not sure what can be done, except install an older android version. I thought the newer ones had better memory and battery management.
Android OS - 285MB
Android System - 99MB
Google Play services - 75MB
System UI - 54MB
Phone - 36MB
Viber - 35MB
Messaging service - 35MB
Whatsapp - 33MB
.......
Free memory 28MB
Not sure what I should do: switch to an older Android version? if so, which ROM would be more responsive but still frugal? Do not update apps as newer ones eat more memory? Give up?
I've already half-given up and ordered a cheap Blackview A7, but I really liked the Moto as a travel/backup phone.
I still have Galaxy SII and completely working. I am looking to make it as GPS system.
I am looking a ROM with literately no functionality except the APK I will install.
A identical ROM would allow me use Google Maps navigation and does nothing more.
Why? So that I can save battery from Google services and other apps eating battery in background.
Appreciate the help,
Thanks.
Chameleon ROM (4.1.2) or 2.3 based roms
Thanks, I went for slimbean 4.4.4 ROM. Seems quite fast.
use the default samsung rom. it will give good battery life without heating
My SGS II is working almost 2 WEEKS (!) after battery charging. Of course most of the time on standby and with high signal level and wifi/3g offline.
I use it as third phone - when selling on olx or eBay.
I love S2!! It is small, handy and battery lives like on ancient times Nokia 6310
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One important note:
I use fully functional AICP (7.1.2) and Greenify
Hey guys.
Just for the record I am testing the Xperia 1 iv battery drain in standby.
The phone seems to drain over night by 20% that's alot for juice compared to the Google pixel 6 pro or over phones like the oneplus 10 pro etc.
I have started this discussion to see if anyone else here , having drain issues maybe due to the overheating issue to drain battery down but that's only if the phone is using apps that are demand CPU etc.
I will keep testing this ,my thoughts are, thats alot of battery drain for standby mode.
I think Sony my need to do more future firmware updates to address this issue
mine uses some 5-6 % overnight, generally veeeeery happy with battery life.
Maybe you have something running in the background that is killing it. Something that pings the network all the time. What does batt status tells you?
2nd time charging the device is a little better working out 2 percent per hour at present.
Thanks for the reply
Update , latest firmware release August 2022
Has sorted out issues camera overheating issues also standby time 2% p/hr drain.
steelmm said:
Update , latest firmware release August 2022
Has sorted out issues camera overheating issues also standby time 2% p/hr drain.
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Hi could you please give us your build number ? We have 64.0.A.8.25 in Europe, released the 1st of August, thanks .
in that thread* we 've been said , the 64.0.A.8.25 is only a safety one
* https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/xperia-overheating-problem.4467263/
I am on 64.0.A.5.71 Running a dual SIM mode with a digital SIM. I am also rooted with Magisk 25.2. All my Google apps are removed, so my phone runs without Google support. No Facebook or social media apps, also no games. No battery drain happening. It mainly depends on the apps you have pre-installed. Some apps are capable to use mic, or gps in the background even when they are not active. Any unrooted device is a potential privacy, and security risk, specially when you have facebook and google apps installed.
steelmm said:
Update , latest firmware release August 2022
Has sorted out issues camera overheating issues also standby time 2% p/hr drain.
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build number please!!!
The august build
I am getting over eight hours sot. Now also a tip is to calibrate the gaming app to battery prefer and then select samina mode on on all your games
Theae settings on you get no overheating issues also if you play retro games or name it's not too demanding on your CPU.
Also I have social media apps installed over 330 apps including games etc and utils.
No need to root the device at all. Thanks guys
There is a new firmware available. 64.0.A.8.25 I am not going to try it, i don't want to root and reinstall my device from scratch. Mine only have 40 apps installed, mostly root related. Nothing allowed to run on the background, except call recorder. All my apps only have internet access if they are in the foreground, except my banking app and skype , icq . The device does overheat when the camera is active for a while, however I only have it about a week.