Hey all has anyone notice sense the jb update that they getting better performance in eco mode. I get 17500 in antutu out of eco mode and 20600 in eco mode. Does anyone else notice this. I am hating this jb update things just dont work properly
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I've noticed that my battery lasts alot longer now than it did before the JB update. I keep it on Eco Mode also. One problem, although rather small, I've been having since the update is when I press the Home button while in an app or when I first turn my phone on, the screen hesitates to load all my folders and icons. It takes about 2 seconds to load all of it and I can't do anything until the screen fully loads. Anyone else having this problem?
Mine got better too. I don't even remember the last time that I didn't have to charge the battery in 24hrs. Yesterday was a mild/moderate usage day,and still. there's a nice 65% left.
Very happy indeed,one more thing that I have noticed is that Android OS is running at lower numbers, and when in idle it is using less battery.
Never thought that this phone was gonna be better than the Galaxy S3,that I have just sold.
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First of all, let me say thanks to Scott for all of his work on CleanRom. I know there has been a lot of discussion lately in his thread about battery usage. Some people are getting outstanding battery life and some people can't make it more than a few hours. I have been one of the people that can't make it more than a few hours no matter what I do. I did a clean wipe of everything before installing the ROM and have even tried to reinstall. The odd thing is my wife's phone does fantastic with this ROM. I finally decided to test things side by side lastnight. My phone should have had the clear advantage because I turned off all syncing options and froze any apps that had been downloaded just to make sure there was nothing running. Meanwhile, her phone syncs like crazy to facebook, email, etc and also has various apps running like weatherbug. I let them both sit overnight and after ~9hrs here are the stats I measured:
Battery % left : 79% (mine) vs 88% (hers)
Data used overnight: 75kb (mine) vs 744kb (hers)
Time awake: 3min 32sec (mine) vs 9 min 42sec (hers)
Time in Deep Sleep: 9hr 19mins (mine) vs 9hr 6min (hers)
Everything points to the fact that I should easily have more life left than hers. I am also attaching a couple of screenshots and the betterbatterystats files to this post. Maybe we can track down why everyone's battery life is so different. Tonight I plan to swap batterys between the phones to try to determine if my battery is the problem.
wow that's pretty good on your wife's phone but horrible for yours especially considering you turned off syncing.
I agree. I have no doubt that her phone could easily still be at 95% or more if I made all of the same adjustments to hers as I did to mine. That is why I am hoping someone on here with more knowledge about this stuff can help to determine what is going on.
It honestly might just be a faulty battery, I was having similar results with mine and my friend's phone, too. I tried multiple ROMs, Kernels, etc. But it slowly got worse and worse to the point that I would go down from 100% to 60% in little over an hour, doing nothing but listening to music with the screen off and auto-sync etc off. I bought a replacement battery, though. And this one is working just fine. You might just be having bad battery luck, or it might be your device, I know some people have returned their Rezounds because of battery life/heat problems, and the replacement generally fixes their woes.
so what did your betterybattery stats report?
Thanks for running this test. It would be very helpful to everyone if you could pinpoint this to a battery difference and I'm waiting to hear your results after the battery swap.
What helped my battery life most was to uncheck the box under "settings -> applications -> start automatically" It has something to do with a task manager. It probably wouldn't explain why your wife's phone does better but it could help both of you get better battery life.
bik- The betterbatterystats file is attached. I see a lot of activity on her phone but very little for mine. The only thing that stands out to me is I have alarmmanager waking my phone for 10 mins and she had it waking hers for only 5 mins. I am not sure exactly what alarmmanager is though.
HTGaming- Thank you for the suggestion but I have already done that as well. I think I have literally turned off everything possible on this phone because it is driving me nuts to burn through battery like this. My OG droid used to us 30% in a day max and now I burn through that in an hour if I am using the phone for anything at all. Pretty much the only thing I had running on the phone lastnight was 4g service which her phone also had.
Another thing you can do to compare the two phones is to install battery monitor widget to see what the drain is on the phones. I used to have decent battery life but ever since the update, it's been worse. The one thing I noticed is that now my phone draws more current when sleeping than it used to. The drain is consistently close to 300ma, whereas before it would be less than 200ma when sleeping.
You have to have the widget on for the monitoring to be active unless you change the preferences.
I swapped the battery's lastnight and here's the results. Hers is still clearly better than mine even though betterbatterystats shows way more activity on her phone again.
Battery % left : 84% (mine) vs 90% (hers)
Data used overnight: 279kb (mine) vs 498kb (hers)
Time awake: 5min 32sec (mine) vs 12 min 8sec (hers)
Time in Deep Sleep: 7hr 58mins (mine) vs 7hr 59min (hers)
Someone posted that they saw different PRIs on phones even after the OTA. Do your two phones have the same PRIs?
damnn thats just weird
Im starting to think that some Rezound batches are differently tweaked than others. My first Rezound had great battery, I would stream music for 5-6 hours on 4G and would still be above 60%. My last two however were completely horrible, on 4-5 hours standby it losses closed to 20% with lil to no use. Same settings/apps as my first Rez. I regret returning my first Rezound, it truly was the perfect phone.
There really has to be a reason why some come with a 3.8 V bat. opposed to a 3.7 V. HTC wouldn't just send out two different types of battery for no reason.
You are missing 1 key info in your analysis, which people always seem to leave out when talking about battery life. The screen on time. I see in in the graphs but it's hard to tell the exact number. Because of the 720p screen on our phones, that makes a big difference. When my screen is on, the phone uses up at least 600 ma/hr. That is conservative, usually it is more like 700-800. We'll assume 600 for now. That's 10 ma/minute. Based on the stock battery, that is 0.6% per minute. So having a difference in screen on time of 10 minutes will give you 6% difference in battery life.
i am also unable to go for even most of a day on one battery charge - and i have 3 extra batteries that were from ebay that dont work even that long...
i do notice it when the screen is on the most - yest i used the gps for an hour and a hlaf without plugging the phone in and my battery lasted about 3 hours after that and died....
very bad....
very interested to see if its the phone or not - great work...
I'll try to answer a couple of questions in here. I got very frustrated yesterday so I flashed an ICS rom to see how my phone did with it. It is equally as bad. This morning, I got into work with 97% life, checked my email for about 2 mins and was already down to 90%. I have the screen display set to 30% brightness too. I am amazed that people can used 2-3 hours of display and still have 70% battery after 10 hours. My screen at 30% brightness probably drains 2% per minute. I think tonight I am going to try to install one of the stock RUU's just to check and see if the OTA upgrade possibly didn't install itself correctly.
HTGaming - I will check the PRI's tonight.
Bluesnake - Both phones were purchased the same day so I would guess they are from similar if not the same batch. Both have 3.7 batteries. Infact when I first got my phone, I could have display on auto, sync everything every half hour, use the screen for random browsing throughout the day and still go home with over 70% left. Somewhere along the line my phone has developed some sort of draining problem though and no amounts of clean installs seem to fix it.
b5fan - Both phones were off the entire night. I think screen usage was maybe 10 seconds for both of them. They literally just sat there on the nightstand while we slept and mine drained 2x faster with nothing running while hers ran facebook, email etc.
I checked the PRI on both phones and they are the same. I re-ran the stock RUU tonight so I will see if that makes any difference. I highly doubt it will but I am running out of ideas.
I guess I was thrown by the screen shots. They both show some noticeable screen time.
the only other thing I could think to check is the email type, push versus pull, and the frequency.
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I guess I was thrown by the screen shots. They both show some noticeable screen time.
the only other thing I could think to check is the email type, push versus pull, and the frequency.
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The screen time was probably just from me getting all of the data off in the morning like the screenshots and battery stats. Her email was on push and my email was set to not sync at all. Basically she had a fully functional phone and mine was set to do nothing which is why the battery drain is so hard to explain.
I did run the stock RUU image lastnight for my phone. I put it in airplane mode overnight and it was at 97% when I got up which is a huge improvement. I took it off airplane mode at 6am today and when I got to work at 7am, it was down to 90% so I guess I am in wait and see mode now. I have no email accounts/facebook accounts/ or anything else setup right now. It is only the stock image so there should be nothing draining battery today.
I can confirm the phone is no better now after the clean RUU install. Let it sit overnight and it was down to 80% this morning. I did not even setup any email accounts or download any apps yet. This is just the stock image from verizon.
I just decided to upgrade to the new firmware 6.1.A.2.45 and then realized that the amount of RAM usage stays really high 520 mb all the time. Before the update, it would usually hover around 400. I decided to leave the phone uncharged over the night and the phone had drained down to 10% over the night (7 hours), whereas before it would drain about 30% over the night. I checked the battery usage and noticed a ridiculously high amount on the android system and OS and was wondering if anyone knew what sorts of things the phone might be doing and how I would get around them?
Thanks.
This is a well known problem. Main solution at the moment is to always leave Wifi enabled, even when not connected to any Wifi networks. This will help the phone sleep and will prevent android system from awaking it up as often.
It can also take a day or two for the battery to settle back to normal after a flash.
thanks!
i was considering restoring to default settings because i've noticed some of my apps lagging a whole ton, such as music player taking forever to turn on. is there anything that can fix this?
So last week I upgraded my Samsung Galaxy S2 from GB 2.3.3 to ICS 4.0.3 via kies. My battery life was pretty terrible after that so I did a factory reset by going into settings and doing it from there. The battery life improved a bit. Its good when I'm not using it, but as soon as I start using it the battery goes down about 1-2% per minute, which drains the battery really fast. I've already re-calibrated the battery but I dont know if I did it right. It was at about 40%, I turned it off, plugged it in until 100%, then unplugged it and took the battery out for 3 mins and put it back in, which I dont think really did anything. Was I supposed to let the battery drain completely? I've seen some people say thats bad and some people say it's okay so I'm kind of confused. I've also been trying to wipe the cache but I havent figured out how to do it. I've done the whole vol up + home + power but it takes me into a downloading screen that stays there until I have to take the battery out to reset it. I have all the stock equipment on my phone (I've seen people mention rooting/roms/kernels but I have no clue what those are). My screen is at the lowest brightness setting but still seems to eat about 45% of my battery with a black background, with android OS around 30-40%., everything is set to unsync, all emails are set to get mail manually, and data and wifi are off unless being used.
Is there anything else I can do to improve the battery?
Look, we already have a million battery topics so dont really need any more. Use search and go read some of them for advice and solutions, you're not special and your issue is not unique.
So I've had my phone for about 2 weeks now. One of the first things I did was turn on eco mode since I rarely need extra performance.
Now, this is not my first Android device, but it is my first Android phone, so I started out not realizing all the battery suckers I had on there by default. Over the next several days I went about disabling things and installing tools to try to make things better. I thought I had things pretty well in hand with over 24 hours, but the last few days I wasn't even making it to 20.
One of the tools I had installed was "One Power Guard" and shortly after I installed it, it seemed that if I enabled eco mode AFTER One Power Guard started, I seemed to get better battery life. Kind of weird but I wondered at the time if One Power Guard's AI mode settings somehow overrode eco mode.
So today I was inspired to do a quick comparison. I disabled One Power Guard and rebooted (with eco mode on). It's been 1.5 hours since I rebooted and my remaining time estimation (given by battery monitor widget) is 7.5 hours using its all-time average, 23 hours using the average since I rebooted. That's quite a difference. It's too early to really draw any conclusions yet but it seems at least possible that One Power Guard was undoing eco mode.
Anyone else have any experience around this?
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So I've had my phone for about 2 weeks now. One of the first things I did was turn on eco mode since I rarely need extra performance.
Now, this is not my first Android device, but it is my first Android phone, so I started out not realizing all the battery suckers I had on there by default. Over the next several days I went about disabling things and installing tools to try to make things better. I thought I had things pretty well in hand with over 24 hours, but the last few days I wasn't even making it to 20.
One of the tools I had installed was "One Power Guard" and shortly after I installed it, it seemed that if I enabled eco mode AFTER One Power Guard started, I seemed to get better battery life. Kind of weird but I wondered at the time if One Power Guard's AI mode settings somehow overrode eco mode.
So today I was inspired to do a quick comparison. I disabled One Power Guard and rebooted (with eco mode on). It's been 1.5 hours since I rebooted and my remaining time estimation (given by battery monitor widget) is 7.5 hours using its all-time average, 23 hours using the average since I rebooted. That's quite a difference. It's too early to really draw any conclusions yet but it seems at least possible that One Power Guard was undoing eco mode.
Anyone else have any experience around this?
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You need to restart your device that it will restore the original values.
Can anyone with an HTC one tell me about how the battery life is on yours and what helps make it go longer? Because I would call the battery on mine awful.
I would recommend that you install an application from the Play Store called "BetterBatteryStats". This will enable you to closely check what application uses the most battery, how long your phone is in deep sleep for and much more.
Charge the phone fully and after about a day, or until it almost dies, export a text file using the share button and upload it onto here and we can have a look at what is using your battery.
Just out of curiosity, how long does your battery usually last? Mine lasts 2 days on light usage and 1 day on heavy usage.
It's awesome. I'm running arhd with greenify hibernating all my apps. I get like a day and a half of battery time.
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I'm seeing a significant burn on mine as well. My device gets to where you could cook on it. Bugguh gets hot!
Does this look typical?
Thank you gents
Getting great battery life on CM 10.1 and now GE ROM
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I'm seeing a significant burn on mine as well. My device gets to where you could cook on it. Bugguh gets hot!
Does this look typical?
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thats bad...it should not get hot like that...any device lol...even on standby, for a device to get unbearably hot is bad ... do you have a lot of chat apps and background apps running? like apps that require push data services and etc?
Nothing. I run a lean system. I close all apps and I'm using the stock messaging app with the stock keyboard. I've concluded it's just that this phone is a piece of ship board.
With respect...
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My guys are getting upwards of 30+ hrs and 3hrs screentime with 4.2.2....usage may vary....
You could put your phone in power saver mode. I haven't bothered with it much, but those who have say that it doesn't impact performance in any noticeable way. I tend to have 1-3 hours of screen on time, depending on the day. I've never had any issue getting that with this phone, at least not yet.
As someone else mentioned, it does get quite warm to the touch, however. Never to the point where it's uncomfortable to hold, but enough so that it bothers me. I think it's just because in the back of my mind I know that, in general, electronics getting hot = bad. Yesterday my One got warm in the car while I was using GPS to navigate with it and the sun was just pounding the interior of my car. So I held my One up to the vent and blasted it with the air conditioner from time to time (i.e. not while driving, so spare me the lecture). Seemed to cool it off pretty well
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I have been using the RayGlobe Rom 6.0 and the battery is more than adequate for me and runs cold. Lots of mods and themes also. Might give it a try.
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My battery usage just before I connected to charger , I'm a heavy user browsing and texting , social networks
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With stock sense, my battery was pretty bad, to the point where I was pretty worried about having to get a different phone as it wouldn't last a day. But I put CM 10.1 on here last night, and it has been pretty amazing today.
I actually just picked my One up this last week and have been running battery tests with moderate use throughout the day and it can easily last 20+ hours (I didn't have time to let it go for a full 24). Maybe i'll do some heavy use tests and see how it goes.
I too am having battery issues... One day the battery last forever, the next day it drains quickly. I recently installed cpuz to see the max speed of the cpu when power saver mode was on. The max speed I observed was 1134 ghz, however I again checked the cpu speed after I rebooted my phone (with power saver still enabled) and cpuz now was indicating the cpu was running at full speed 1728 ghz. I turned off power saver and then re enable power saver mode and then cpuz showed the cpu to be throttled again at 1134 ghz. It appears (at least on my phone) that power saver mode does not automatically start after a reboot even though the powersaving mode was left on prior to reboot and the the phone shows the power saving symbol as active after reboot. Would someone test this scenario on there phone to verify the problem exist on other phones?
I converted the AT&T HTC One to full Google Edition and my battery life is solid. After 10 hours of usuage (BT on & connected, Wifi on & connected, Exchange email on push, 2h of screen on time, 2h talk time ...) I get to about 20-30% left of battery.
Good enough for what I need compared to my retired GS2