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Hey guys,
what rom have the best battery life?
any fav?
and
are there any tricks or tipps to improve the battery life?
Greetz
Jonas
I think its the firmware 1.5, sensehero / modaco!
arjuunz said:
I think its the firmware 1.5, sensehero / modaco!
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Yes... none of the 2.1 ROMs currently provide long battery life times. I believe that one of the chefs said it was because of the kernel and that it won't be fixed until HTC releases or leaks an official Hero kernel for Android 2.1.
However it also depends on what you think would be a good/adequate battery life.
Personally I charge every night so as long as the phone lasts circa 24 hours it is fine with me.
All 1.5 based roms should give you battery life over 24 hours even with everything turned on.
as for tips:
-turn of wifi when not using it
-turn of mobile internet when not using it
-turn of gps
-always put phone in sleep mode (end button) when not using it
- screen time out turned low
- backlight on low
- kill tasks that run in background
- don't have a bright wallpaper
Just depends how extreme you want to go
I have a decent battery life on the rom I am on (see sig) and I use a brightish wallpaper and auto backlight but always turn wifi off when out of the house.
Flashing a new radio file can also help battery life.
Edit: with a bit of use I have lost 5% in the last 8 hours on my phone today
Mhm too bad i like to use 2.1
Does 2.1 Roms drain the battery so much more?
Battery life is very important for me...
I am running the original Rom and i had to charge my hero every night, too.
But one day is okay...
Thank you for your tipps (bright wallpapers *lol*, but it make sense^^)
So what are you fav. 1.5 roms?
Greetz
Jonas
P.s. Does HTC want to upgrade the hero to 2.1 ??? Would be awesome...any dates?
JonasBom said:
Mhm too bad i like to use 2.1
Does 2.1 Roms drain the battery so much more?
Battery life is very important for me...
I am running the original Rom and i had to charge my hero every night, too.
But one day is okay...
Thank you for your tipps (bright wallpapers *lol*, but it make sense^^)
So what are you fav. 1.5 roms?
Greetz
Jonas
P.s. Does HTC want to upgrade the hero to 2.1 ??? Would be awesome...any dates?
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indication is yes they are updating to 2.1 however they have not released any official confirmation of when.
rumors are March and/or April, but don't hold your breath
SenseHero 1.6 is awesome 1.5 ROM
Also it uses a nice theme, and can last for more than a day
Lennyuk said:
indication is yes they are updating to 2.1 however they have not released any official confirmation of when.
rumors are March and/or April, but don't hold your breath
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Latest rumour says end of April
To me BeHero has the best battery life of the 2.1 roms and Villain had the worst (the life would literally go from 100% to 50% in 4hrs and I barely touched the phone).
HomerSp said:
To me BeHero has the best battery life of the 2.1 roms and Villain had the worst (the life would literally go from 100% to 50% in 4hrs and I barely touched the phone).
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See I am on Villain and have been on every version of it and never had battery life that bad, and VillainRom 3.4 is very good battery life.
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See I am on Villain and have been on every version of it and never had battery life that bad, and VillainRom 3.4 is very good battery life.
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Yeah, must be something else, though I'm not sure what.
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Yeah, must be something else, though I'm not sure what.
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I put on 3.4 yesterday and ya my battery life was terrible. The only thing is that I hadn't ever updated my radio. Now instead of it being dead within 4-5 hours I've gone over a dozen and my battery is down to 45%, which is pretty good for me. I'm a pretty data intensive with my phone.
if you want to test the battery life, test it 2 days or more!, because the first day every rom(almost..) is draining fast, because then it needs to set up everything etc(idk excactly why)
incomer said:
if you want to test the battery life, test it 2 days or more!, because the first day every rom(almost..) is draining fast, because then it needs to set up everything etc(idk excactly why)
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i agree...using 3.4...i feel the battery is not all that bad..(yes not as good as 1.5) but just about manageble..
if anyone has any more tips please let us know
Lennyuk said:
However it also depends on what you think would be a good/adequate battery life.
Personally I charge every night so as long as the phone lasts circa 24 hours it is fine with me.
All 1.5 based roms should give you battery life over 24 hours even with everything turned on.
as for tips:
-turn of wifi when not using it
-turn of mobile internet when not using it
-turn of gps
-always put phone in sleep mode (end button) when not using it
- screen time out turned low
- backlight on low
- kill tasks that run in background
- don't have a bright wallpaper
Just depends how extreme you want to go
I have a decent battery life on the rom I am on (see sig) and I use a brightish wallpaper and auto backlight but always turn wifi off when out of the house.
Flashing a new radio file can also help battery life.
Edit: with a bit of use I have lost 5% in the last 8 hours on my phone today
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Wow I find it very hard to believe that you only lost 5% battery in the last 8 hours with little use...do you have mobile data on or off?
Even with no use at all I can never get 5% decrease in 8 hours, regardless of whether its a 1.5 or 2.1 ROM. I keep my mobile data on all day and night and with no use at all i lose like 20% battery life in 4 hours.
If you want 2.1 firmware with good battery life, go foe BeHero_v1.3.2, I am using it without any trouble!
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Wow I find it very hard to believe that you only lost 5% battery in the last 8 hours with little use...do you have mobile data on or off?
Even with no use at all I can never get 5% decrease in 8 hours, regardless of whether its a 1.5 or 2.1 ROM. I keep my mobile data on all day and night and with no use at all i lose like 20% battery life in 4 hours.
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Trust me I was not lying I have no reason too.
Will report on what it does today.
Yesterday I had mobile internet mainly off but turned it off at certain times of the day.
So far today (3 hours since fully charged)
-wifi for about an hour
-use wifi things during that time (seesmic and News Rob mainly)
- bluetooth for 45 mins (journey to work)
- mobile internet for about 40 mins
- downloaded an app and tested it (used barcode scanner to scan a barcode (twice) and go to the download link)
- synced emails
- sent a text
- mobile internet now off and back asleep
And a reboot as my connection was lost for some strange reason
lost 2%
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So far today (3 hours since fully charged)
-wifi for about an hour
-use wifi things during that time (seesmic and News Rob mainly)
- bluetooth for 45 mins (journey to work)
- mobile internet for about 40 mins
- downloaded an app and tested it
- synced emails
- sent a text
- mobile internet now off and back asleep
And a reboot as my connection was lost for some strange reason
lost 2%
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i can only say that perhaps ur battery is a special one..
i cant even get half of that with 1.5 rom (with the same usage)..i will surely lost like 10% with that kinda usage on phone..
no offense..but..unbelievable...
my current setting :
GPS , WIFI & Bluetooth off..
brightness around 15%
dark wallpaper..
mobile internet on when browsing needed
@aziz831
Lennyuk´s battery consumption is real. My battery would last 216 hours just in idle. But that would mean just asleep and waiting for a call.
I use WiFi 18/7, I have in that time mobile data enabled, I have a brown wallpaper and my backlight is on lowest level (but I can still see everything). My average loss is 1-1,5 % a hour if I´m in idle with all this enabled. Over night I do disable WiFi and auto sync, that saves a lot of power.
My average time of usage with one load is about 80-96 hours.
Hate to post anything about battery life, but I must. I would post this in the dev thread but not enough posts yet.
First off battery life was not that bad on froyo and understand GB has issues but this seems a bit extreme. I am running Full version of Gingetitis and other state battery life is great but not for me. I did full drain and battery wipe and calibration last night but seems even worse now . Phone has been on for 37 minutes and battery is down to 80%. brightness is turned all the way down, screen off in 1 minute, I have run speedtweak and set to battery saver, no gps, no blue tooth. I love gingeritis and the sense 3.0 so any assistance would be great.
Nope battery life is terrible on chingys GB rom. I was running it not good.
I'm using dasBAMF REMIX V6 amazing battery !
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which kernel you are using?
i use the mr2 radio and 3.0.1 kernel. The batterylife is worse than froyo i agree, but it shouldnt be too bad to not last for a day.
Also, i think 4G drains a lot. My area switched form 3G to 4G and its gone worse.
I am running the default kernel, haven't flashed anything else. Unfortunately I do not live in an area with 4G so I just get 3g, I do run WiFi when at home.
I have the same issue.
I just tweak the speedtweak into option 5)
I went out taday. tb lost 10% battery per hr. Is this normal?
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I am running the default kernel, haven't flashed anything else. Unfortunately I do not live in an area with 4G so I just get 3g, I do run WiFi when at home.
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Did you turn off 3g in the settings?
I have turned off 3g lately, when I can get wifi, to see if it will help but haven't noticed much difference.
This is interesting because I'm on gingeritis with the included kernel and my battery life has been very good.
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If everyone post their usage and battery drain condition. That will be more help us to realize our TB. Cause we might have different phone before, and we might compare TB with our privious phone. So I think this is the different replies on this thread.
ex. my previous phone is droid 2 global, and it has terrible battery drain as well.
Now I got TB for a couple days, and I feel TB get more battery drain problems. (of course, it is the first 4G LTE phone )
kernel: imoseyon 3.01
baseband: 1.39.00.0430
rom: Gingeritis v1.0
and I set speedtweak.sh as battsaver 5) and battery tip on rom's op.
that's I do to my phone now.
And I lost 10% battery life per hour (use 4G to surf on net)
Is my battery drain case terrible?
(I think only comparsion can help us to know where is the problem )
flashed a kernel a zip file,and 2 fonts.
Rebooted 4 time I total.
MONKY_1 said:
Nope battery life is terrible on chingys GB rom. I was running it not good.
I'm using dasBAMF REMIX V6 amazing battery !
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I had that rom!!! And I was losing 30 percent an hour with almost no usage on that Rom...face it the Tbolt for as bad ass as it is the battery sucks....many devs claim their battery is great but for the average user noob or not the battery is terrible HTC really should have thought about this a bit more before trying to have the latest greatest the extended battery on my blackberry gets almost 3 days on a full charge with moderate to heavy usage, this piece of android crap gets almost 3 hours on a full charge with little to no usage, seems senseless(no pun intended) to pay this kind of money for a device that is useless after an hour or 2 off the charger not all of us have cushy jobs where we can keep our phones at our desks on the charger!!
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Hate to post anything about battery life, but I must. I would post this in the dev thread but not enough post yet.
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This isn't a post you would put in Dev thread. Unless its directly in gingeritis' thread.
^_^_^
Thanks, I did not know if it was Rom, GB, or just my phone specific.
studiorat said:
I had that rom!!! And I was losing 30 percent an hour with almost no usage on that Rom...face it the Tbolt for as bad ass as it is the battery sucks....many devs claim their battery is great but for the average user noob or not the battery is terrible HTC really should have thought about this a bit more before trying to have the latest greatest the extended battery on my blackberry gets almost 3 days on a full charge with moderate to heavy usage, this piece of android crap gets almost 3 hours on a full charge with little to no usage, seems senseless(no pun intended) to pay this kind of money for a device that is useless after an hour or 2 off the charger not all of us have cushy jobs where we can keep our phones at our desks on the charger!!
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well...I think most android phone will face this problem in recent period.
I have nexus 1, droid 2, and TB. Only nexus 1 has better battery life.
It seems that delay battery drain is a big task for later android pone.
Try dream kernel. Using Gingeritis with it has given me superb battery life.
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I'm running 1.0 with kernel that comes with it with rapist and battery life was alright. Got extended battery this weekend. It takes away from the tbolts sleekness but man its worth it. Good 9 hours of web YouTube facebook phone and texting and its at 51% and still strong. Love it.
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Hate to post anything about battery life, but I must. I would post this in the dev thread but not enough posts yet.
First off battery life was not that bad on froyo and understand GB has issues but this seems a bit extreme. I am running Full version of Gingetitis and other state battery life is great but not for me. I did full drain and battery wipe and calibration last night but seems even worse now . Phone has been on for 37 minutes and battery is down to 80%. brightness is turned all the way down, screen off in 1 minute, I have run speedtweak and set to battery saver, no gps, no blue tooth. I love gingeritis and the sense 3.0 so any assistance would be great.
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I agree! I was running BAMF froyo remix with outstanding battery life. Made the switch to gingeritis and the battery life was so-so, tried the dream kernel and for a few days the battery life was as good as froyo. Then random reboots forced me back to stock kernel with gingeritis with normal on speedtweak and it is slightly better than before.
There should be a new dream kernel out soon, I plan to try that one when it drops, dream kernel was great when it worked.
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I agree! I was running BAMF froyo remix with outstanding battery life. Made the switch to gingeritis and the battery life was so-so, tried the dream kernel and for a few days the battery life was as good as froyo. Then random reboots forced me back to stock kernel with gingeritis with normal on speedtweak and it is slightly better than before.
There should be a new dream kernel out soon, I plan to try that one when it drops, dream kernel was great when it worked.
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your stock kernel version is?
I am running gingeritis and a full charge last me about 7 hours, on a good day. Mind you, I am over clocked to 1.4 and have a bad habit of checking my phone even when I haven't felt it vibrate or heard it ring. Because of this, I started to notice that when I would pull my phone out of my pocket, the screen would be on. I'm assuming that my constant movement at work is causing my volume button to be pressed, resulting in my display eating up 50% of my battery.
I've been running BAMF Remix Beta 6 for almost a week now. I just got the extended battery a few days. It's lasted anywhere from 12-16 hours on a full charge with 4G always on. Earlier today I had it on 3G only and lost 25% in about 4 hr and 40 min. I am using batterysaver in speedtweak.sh with the kernel that came with the ROM.
Hello all,
I bought the Atrix around 6 months ago and I have always had the same problem I'm about to describe. First I should mention that I used to have a stock rom and stock radio (77.15) until a couple of weeks ago when I flashed Cyanogenmod and radio 77.30p, yet the problem is present in both configurations.
My problem is as follows: my battery life is mediocre. Without using the phone very heavly, I get around 7-8 hours until it shuts off. Since day one I've tried many different fixes to see if the battery improved without success. Now here's the fishy part: for whatever reason, every time I make a full wipe (when I was using stock I did it from the "reset to factory defaults" option, now I do a full wipe on recovery) the battery lasts an insanely amount of time, something like 24 hours or more.
Here's how it usually works for me: I do the wipe, I boot my phone and configure my accounts, the phone syncs and installs the apps I usually use. Like I said, that day the battery will last forever, last time I've tried this I reached around 31 hours before I plugged the phone back on, and it was around 17% still. Now, the next day, without installing any new app or using the phone for nothing different, I go right back to the mediocre battery life. For example, it just went from full charge to 88% for just 10 minutes of browsing the net on wifi, not even using 3G.
Like I said, this happened with stock ROM and now with Cyanogenmod regardless of the radio I'm using. I have calibrated the battery a million times, I've tried with Watchdog which didn't show nothing, the same with Better Battery Stats. I really need some suggestions on what to try because it irritates me that the battery is dropping so much with such a light use.
Thanks!
I'm getting also quite short battery life with CM7. I'm wondering what the reason could be. It gets down with 15% for just 5 hours without any phone calls. I have just whatsapp and email checking every hour. No other resource hungry applications. With the stock ROM and the same usage I'm getting around three days ~ 72 hours.
Well in my case it's the same but with both stock and others roms. I suspect it's a software problem because I get normal battery life when I do a full wipe.
Did you try to revert back to unlocked bootloader.
What I found strange is that somehow the indicator doesn't show the ratio mAhercentage. On 85% battery the calibration battery shows charge 4030 mAh which is not 15% less than the full charge of 4200 mAh.
Well actually this problem has existed from before I unlocked the bootloader so I don't think that's the problem. And in my case the mah percentage is correct. It's like if somethings draining the battery that I can't find. Maybe is a problem with my carrier?
If the coverage is poor where you live then it is possible to get lower battery life than expected. Another solution is to revisit the application you use, try also to do a full wipe including formatting the internal memory card.
Go through this process: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1198333
You'll be good to go after that. Check also BetterBatteryStats here in xda, will show you what processes eat the battery.
Thanks but I've tried that when using the stock rom and it didn't help me. I think that solution is for a different problem as it's mainly to display the correct mah percentage, which is not exactly my problem. Also, CM7 already includes juggernaut fix.
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Thanks but I've tried that when using the stock rom and it didn't help me. I think that solution is for a different problem as it's mainly to display the correct mah percentage, which is not exactly my problem. Also, CM7 already includes juggernaut fix.
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Have you tried a different radio?
Yeah, like I said I had 77.15 at first and now I'm using 77.30
There's more radio's, check in General.
Ok, I flashed 77.36p and there was an improvement, I've unplugged the phone around 13 hours ago and I'm at 25%. Would you consider a good battery life for a light use? It's getting better but I saw many people crossing the 24 hour mark on their phones. Are there any other radio to try other than 77.15, .30 and .36 that would be worth it?
Do a full wipe in Fastboot & install Nottach's DarkSide and leave it with the stock kernel. I'm at 77% with 1hr 40 minutes screen time & 17,5 hrs standby..
P. S. I'm using the N_01.100.00R radio. Am in Germany, though on an at&t phone. Best radio so far.
Anywhere from 13-20 hours is fine but keep in mind it's all dependent on what's on your phone. If u have a bunch of apps pulling data from the internet or something ....I mean its all dependent on your phone setup.
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Vangelis13 said:
Do a full wipe in Fastboot & install Nottach's DarkSide and leave it with the stock kernel. I'm at 77% with 1hr 40 minutes screen time & 17,5 hrs standby..
P. S. I'm using the N_01.100.00R radio. Am in Germany, though on an at&t phone. Best radio so far.
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Well, for now I'll stick with Cyanogenmod for a while because I really like it, but I have flashed the radio you've mentioned, we'll see how it behaves. Thanks!
Hi,
I have been reading that the beta's have a memory leak issue. Also this causes a battery drain. I have had the CM9 beta installed for 22hrs and my battery has dropped to 86% from 100%. Did I get lucky?
Or maybe the battery drain hasn't set in yet. I am unable to figure out which, I will monitor the battery progress for the next few days.
In the meantime I was wondering whether anyone in the forum could help explain what I am observing (extrememly good battery life).
As always Thanks joker and the devs for such an amazing ROM.
- Harakiri
I'm on awesome club beta of jokers cm9, and my battery, dare I say, is pretty awesome too. My theory however is that like atrix builds, Bluetooth causes the memory leak. So heavy bt users suffer worst from this problem. But I do know that the more often cache is cleared the less of a problem memory leak is.
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I'm on awesome club beta of jokers cm9, and my battery, dare I say, is pretty awesome too. My theory however is that like atrix builds, Bluetooth causes the memory leak. So heavy bt users suffer worst from this problem. But I do know that the more often cache is cleared the less of a problem memory leak is.
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So as long as we don't use Bluetooth, the battery life should be fine? Ive only had CM9 beta 0.1.0 installed for a day and 6 hours with low data usage and I am still at 49%.
ericdabbs said:
So as long as we don't use Bluetooth, the battery life should be fine? Ive only had CM9 beta 0.1.0 installed for a day and 6 hours with low data usage and I am still at 49%.
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I do not know what you mean by low but when I ran few speedtests on 3G I found my battery drain rapidly. I think your battery life seems alright. Try calibrating your battery. It might help.
- Harakiri
the memory leak is not a battery drain
jokersax11 said:
the memory leak is not a battery drain
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Now it makes sense. I find my photon having very good battery life. I was wondering if I had turned on a magical switch. Apparently I havent. Thanks for the reply. Wanted someone to confirm.
- Harakiri
I had that same problem when I first flash cm9 v2, my battery would drain in like 4 hours. What I did is wipe, formatted everything factory reset back to factory ROM. Then I flashed cm9 v0.1.0 2d, then flashed cm9 v2, gapps v10, flashed keyboard &sdcard fix, then Oleg-petr-cm9-v2-1.3GHz. Now I get great battery life and everything that's is supposed to work is no problem at all. And I use my phone all threw the day, calling data and txing. Hope that helps..
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I never use bluetooth and I'm getting horrible battery life with cm9... It drains about 30% overnight. (6 hours) and with juice defender activated about 20&%.... I've calibrated over and over again my battery but it doesn't doesn't get any better, I've even installed watchdog and betterbatterystatts to find out what is causing this... Both reported heavy battery drain from phone idle and suspend respectively.
Any thoughts on how may I solve this??? I love ICS and i don't wanna go back to gb. HELP ME PLEASE
I am having noticeably much worse battery life on Jokersax CM9 Beta 0.6.1, and I likewise hate to go back to stock, but the battery life on stock was tremendously better.
just hold off patiently till ICS drivers are released. They built with what they had, and magic outta the air. once they have the ICS drivers for the photon, you will see a whole new CM9 beast.
This thread it's kinda old, it was an issue with one of the alpha builds if I remember correctly. Just an fyi.
After flashing it usually takes a couple of charges for the battery to "settle in." Are you flashing on a full (90+%) battery? I have never wiped battery stats and always get 10 to 16 hours on a charge.
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Just wondering if anyone else has very poor battery life with the new ICS. Any fixes?
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wollitaj said:
Just wondering if anyone else has very poor battery life with the new ICS. Any fixes?
just sharpening my RAZR
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My battery life has definitely suffered.
I've also noticed under the battery section of my settings that it says that media is taking up most of it. I've never seen that before I upgraded. Any ideas?
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wollitaj said:
Just wondering if anyone else has very poor battery life with the new ICS. Any fixes?
just sharpening my RAZR
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ethan.r.besbris said:
My battery life has definitely suffered.
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I've also noticed under the battery section of my settings that it says that media is taking up most of it. I've never seen that before I upgraded. Any ideas?
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Guys, it's because you've probably spent every millisecond that your eye lids were parted from each other playing around with new features, thus using the phone more often now than you probably were prior to the ICS update........ Oh wait, sorry that was an evaluation of my own battery issue.
Strange hearing this. I was more than a month on ICS china leak and battery was great. Now i went back to oficial 2.36 due to waiting for genuine ICS and bat life is terrible. Clean system, no apps installed, no play, just couple of calls and emails, phone didnt last 14 hours. Where is this ics!
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Guys, it's because you've probably spent every millisecond that your eye lids were parted from each other playing around with new features, thus using the phone more often now than you probably were prior to the ICS update........ Oh wait, sorry that was an evaluation of my own battery issue.
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You're probably for the most part right, but I still think my battery life on ICS is less than GB. I managed to use up the entire battery in less than a day, on my first day with ICS. This is something that never happened with GB, even on the first day I got my Maxx. My battery usage doesn't show anything unusual. 60% of it was used by the screen (auto brightness).
NOt sure what builds we are talking about but here are my stats using the baddass battery monitor.
OTA GB (.181) = 2days average battery life
.79 Moto leak = 1 day average battery life
So in reality my battery lif is half what it used to be, with the Android OS using about 20%.
Here's to hoping the ICS OTA update is better than the 4.0.3 .79 build.
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NOt sure what builds we are talking about but here are my stats using the baddass battery monitor.
OTA GB (.181) = 2days average battery life
.79 Moto leak = 1 day average battery life
So in reality my battery lif is half what it used to be, with the Android OS using about 20%.
Here's to hoping the ICS OTA update is better than the 4.0.3 .79 build.
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I'm on the OTA, and the Android OS is using 10%.
I'm rooted on the .211 leak and noticed a considerable drop in battery life when I first flashed. I did some digging using the 'badass battery' app and found that winamp had been draining my battery for some reason. After uninstalling winamp my battery life immediately returned to normal. I highly suggest getting that app and looking at the 'app sucker' breakdown to see which apps are using the most battery as opposed to androids stock usage breakdown.
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It says my screen is taking up 74 percent of my battery and my battery life is significantly less after the ICS update
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Questions belong in Q&A. Moved
Cheers
For me, it's working really good I'm in the latest ota retail Brazil update!
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refuse2bstopped said:
Guys, it's because you've probably spent every millisecond that your eye lids were parted from each other playing around with new features, thus using the phone more often now than you probably were prior to the ICS update........ Oh wait, sorry that was an evaluation of my own battery issue.
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You're probably for the most part right, but I still think my battery life on ICS is less than GB. I managed to use up the entire battery in less than a day, on my first day with ICS. This is something that never happened with GB, even on the first day I got my Maxx. My battery usage doesn't show anything unusual. 60% of it was used by the screen (auto brightness).
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Well actually, this is kind of scary. I got off work at 6 am this morning, came up and went to sleep somewhere between 7:30 and 8 am. I woke up around 3 pm and my batter was left charging via usb from the computer with about 80% battery THEN. So I woke up at 3 pm and my battery was COMPLETELY DEAD. I had to plug it up to a power outlet. I understand that, but what I DON'T understand is how in the heck did the battery die in the FIRST place when all it was doing while I slept is being charged from my computer (which I ALWAYS do) and was already at 80% when it was plugged up?
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Well actually, this is kind of scary. I got off work at 6 am this morning, came up and went to sleep somewhere between 7:30 and 8 am. I woke up around 3 pm and my batter was left charging via usb from the computer with about 80% battery THEN. So I woke up at 3 pm and my battery was COMPLETELY DEAD. I had to plug it up to a power outlet. I understand that, but what I DON'T understand is how in the heck did the battery die in the FIRST place when all it was doing while I slept is being charged from my computer (which I ALWAYS do) and was already at 80% when it was plugged up?
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Sounds like your maxx was charging your computer...
my2cents said:
refuse2bstopped said:
Well actually, this is kind of scary. I got off work at 6 am this morning, came up and went to sleep somewhere between 7:30 and 8 am. I woke up around 3 pm and my batter was left charging via usb from the computer with about 80% battery THEN. So I woke up at 3 pm and my battery was COMPLETELY DEAD. I had to plug it up to a power outlet. I understand that, but what I DON'T understand is how in the heck did the battery die in the FIRST place when all it was doing while I slept is being charged from my computer (which I ALWAYS do) and was already at 80% when it was plugged up?
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Sounds like your maxx was charging your computer...
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:laugh: IKR lol
They took out task manager. In developer options there is a choice " destroy app as soon as you leave it" interferes with go launcher tho
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It says my screen is taking up 74 percent of my battery and my battery life is significantly less after the ICS update
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I have the same issue. I fully charge my phone every night. I drive a truck for UPS so I don't look at my phone too often throughout the day. By end of day, I have about 30% battery left and over 70% of it has been consumed by the screen!?
Also, I have noticed the battery takes MUCH longer to charge. Usually, when I had GB, I would get home from work, usually with about 60% battery left. I would plug it in and go take a shower. When I got out, it would be fully charged. About 30 minutes. NOW, I get home with a 30% battery and 30 minutes of charging gets me up to about 45% battery. I don't get it. Is there anyway to go back to GB?
My issue was, I was rooted on GB and I could NOT update to 4.0.4. It would download, get about 1/4 way installed and fail. I unrooted the phone and got the same results. Used rootkeeper etc. So I had to sideload the OEM ICS from Verizon. Nothing but horrible battery life ever since.
Some people are having battery issues, but it's not a universal thing. I'm getting great battery life. I was about a day and a half with moderate use on my Maxx and was down to 60%.
People having these issues, I'd look at all your installed apps and maybe you guys can find a commonality. It's a known issue that Facebook's apps is a battery killer, maybe others are under ICS.
Try epsilon V2.
My battery life is pretty bad. It was bad on stock and still not any better with eclipse. It dies after about 6 hours and I only use it for 5 minutes every hour in that time. I even exit apps before putting it in my pocket. Badass battery and stock battery app both give similar info. The screen accounts for 70% or more even though its only on for a total of 30 minutes in those 6 hours. Charging is also incredibly slow. With gingerbread it would last for 8+ hours and usually only be at 30-40% by then.