Any thoughts on this?
Has anyone done testing on our device for performance vs battery life?
I know that Pandora does NOT work on ART for sure, that is one big drawback.
Supposedly art is faster
Not sure about battery life though.
On the nexus 5 art really boosted my batter and definitely made opening apps faster.. Opening apps is the only area you will notice a speed increase though. I personally liked the benefits of art, but some apps are still incompatible.. It is easy to return to dalvik if you run into app issues though.
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I switched to ART today and it feels faster.
I am getting some weird skipping on the music app though. It seems to randomly skip to the next song sometimes.
I switched to ART last night. So far I've only found one app that I downloaded that was incompatible. If there is a performance gain it's very minimal and not really noticeable in daily use.
ART was definitely better on Nexus, but on this phone it caused wakelocks and a bit of lag. Switched back to Dalvik and those all went away.
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I think the phone is fast enough the way it is
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I been running cm7 for about two months. And idk y the battery life has gotten a lot worse the past week or two! At first it was good I'm trying to figure out y its gotten so bad now. I checked the battery stats and nothing really sticks out as a battery hog (nothing not normal) . Any suggestions of what I can do?
Mine seems to be the same. Have you added any new mods or apps?
I've only added one new app. Draw something.
I've been thinking about trying the mash up mod to see if it helps.
Yeah. New thread old topic. Lol. Battery saver, juice defender....
Cyanogenmod
Thanx. I've tried some stuff like that b4. Don't really like em. and not really the answer I was looking for. Maybe I worded it wrong. But what I was trying to ask is y is the battery life suddenly so much worse. For the first month and a half battery life was great now its sux!
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I been running cm7 for about two months. And idk y the battery life has gotten a lot worse the past week or two! At first it was good I'm trying to figure out y its gotten so bad now. I checked the battery stats and nothing really sticks out as a battery hog (nothing not normal) . Any suggestions of what I can do?
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Are you doing anything different with the phone as far as using an app a lot more than before? Definitely playing games will chew up battery life.
Have you left something on, like Blue-Tooth, etc? I know GPS doesn't really eat up battery life as it only is used when an app uses it.
Have you investigated the new app to see what it does? Is that when you saw the battery life start to go down?
Nothing out of the normal. I am a heavy user. And I don't play games that often. But I found out last nite in spare parts that Facebook is not letting my phone sleep like it should when not in use. I definitely think this is the prob. Imma turn off the refresh completely see if it helps. Thanx
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It that isn't the problem idk what it is. Cause nothing has changed. The app draw something isn't running all the time either.
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I am not currently running Cyanogenmod but I did for a long while. When I was I got great battery life with it constantly. My advice to you would be to wipe and reflash CM7 making sure you wipe dalvik and cache. If that doesn't do you justice, personally I'd SBF and have a super clean redo. And one quick thing, I would never use a "Battery Saving" app, they really aren't the greatest. Each phone is different and I don't believe a single app is capable of saving your battery without some drawbacks. Good luck!
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did you happen to update Google maps?
for some reason the newest version keeps holding a wake lock for network location, I uninstall updates on it AMD turn off vzw location and now it doesn't run constantly
I used the app, better battery stats to see what was causing the phone to wake so often from sleep, when idle
it didn't show in the stock battery stats tho
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I don't play draw something, but doesn't that refresh in background also or does it only connect when you open it?
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The draw something app doesn't have notifications or anything. I don't think it runs in the background. It shows nothing of it in the battery stats.
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Do you have 'Allow Purging of Assets' enabled?
Settings/ Cm settings / Performance Settings
Then check the box. It functions kind of like (and im being loose) an app killer and really does make a difference.
Just recently, I got rid of my battery saver and task killer and I swear to god my battery life has doubled; it's been fantastic.
Ive also got the Mash Up mod going, which if I might add, really clears up data problems and makes it noticeably faster.
I'm running omega v27 and for a while now I feel I'm getting really less battery on my S3. I took a few screen shots to show you guys. Is it my fault (by running too many apps etc.) or a genuine issue? I've formatted fully including formating the system partition. I'm running insecure stock kernel and using intsd2ext if that makes any difference. Thanks for the help!
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Can you show the screen time? 'Cause i'm runing omega 27 too, with phenomenal kernel...and i had almost the same battery life but, with 4hours 36minutes screen on...o i guess that's good for me...
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If your screen on time is around 3 and a half to 4 hours than the batterylife is still considerable but from the pics I can see that your phone doesnt go to deepsleep much, may be thats why your batterylife might be less... Please show the screen on time so we can say something precisely...
Start CWM > advanced > reset battery stat > reboot
Hope this ll help you as it does quite often
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You have a media scanner wakelock. Reboot your phone and force close media scanner. If this does not fix it then you may have a corrupt media file somewhere.
Your main wakelock is audio out. This is not an issue if you are actually listening to music on your headphones. If you have not been listening to music then you will need to track down the cause of the wakelock. (Probably an errant application)
Other than that your battery life will depend very much how you use your phone. There are lots of good guides. The main areas you can take control of are screen brightness, data use and syncing, WiFi and Bluetooth, and network (ie use either wcdma only or gsm only as opposed to the auto setting.
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You can always change the kernel to another, sometimes it makes a big difference!
My screen on time was quite high, approximately 3 and a half hours
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Hi all. Long-time lurker, first-time caller.
I'm digging this phone, but I've noticed that it gets uncomfortably warm (screen and back) during most any usage. It's fine on standby. I'll notice it after less than a minute of web-browsing, when streaming from subsonic, during calls sometimes, almost anytime its on. Is that normal? I'm coming from an iphone 4, and the last android I had was as the original Incredible. Is this just how new high performance phones run? FYI: I've got a TPU case that eliminates the problem, but I prefer going naked.
It's unlocked and rooted, running nova launcher. Happens regardless whether I'm using data/wifi 3g/4g.
EDIT: I should note that it's not "hot" exactly. Warm enough to make your palms feel like they need to breathe after 30 seconds or so though.
I don't have mine yet, but I've read here that using launchers other than Sense can cause performance issues. Perhaps the phone is pulling double duty trying to run Nova while still having elements of Sense going too.
You could troubleshoot this pretty easily. Try using just stock Sense, and see if you still have the temp issue.
I ran go launcher ex for a little bit and I noticed the same.. Not saying it was for sure the cause... But I did notice the phone getting hot more often
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I've only noticed it getting hot if I'm playing games. Otherwise it runs pretty cool.
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I am running Nova and have absolutely no issues with the phone getting warm. A warm temperature means the battery is being discharged at a high clip. A launcher, unless absolutely borked, should not cause this on a regular basis.
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as a stock phone mine has only gotten warm during game play. after i unlocked and rooted i tried factory rom which had apex launcher and had the same issue along with all broken google apps but i switched to ukb and all issues disappeared also i noticed all three custom kernels out at the moment keep my phone abnormally hot so it just depends i suppose
The Rez I'm using now is an Asurion replacement. Before, this thing was saving battery like a champ. Used to get a full 24 hours or more plus 2 hours screen on time.
Now it's just terrible. I'm 34% on battery after less than 5 hours off the charger with far less than an hour of screen on time.
I'm running Snuzzo's 2.2 funky kernel and Newt's One XxX 6.0.2 rom, S-OFF. CPU is tweaked, running dancedance governor and SIO. 386 MHz to 1 GHz (or whatever they exactly are) when in use. Various profiles are set to run lower, as ive always done.
I'd appreciatw the help, guys. Thanks.
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check with gsam what drain the battery
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Yes, what he said. I'm running Newt's with ExtraFunky 2c and don't have any problems. In the past when my battery life suddenly nose dived, it turned out to be some app that decided to keep wakelock for some unknown reason. Check recently updated apps.
Yeah probably an app or service running in the background.
Turn off GPS and blue tooth when not in use
Use WiFi when you can
Turn off Google Now
Turn off location history and location reporting in Google maps settings
Make sure you have no widgets constantly refreshing
Increase the times between sync for Gmail, Facebook et al
Try running a more conservative cpu governor supported by your kernel, such as Wheatley or Intellidemand.
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I don't really use Bluetooth that often and keep it off, and gps is always off. And got rid of Google now for the regular Google search. Only the clock widget is running. Though, I should spacing sync times.
Uninstalling some apps seems to have helped for the most part (which makes sense, as I just recently restored a nand backup). But, it's still not as good as it was. I guess it's best to just keep tinkering at this point.
Thanks
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Well for example, I use fancy widgets for my clock/weather. If you use a program like better battery stats (search xda for the free version), you will see fancy widgets causing the device to wake up more than almost anything else.
That's when you can do stuff like spacing out weather sync to 3 hours, prefer sync over wifi, and maybe even setting a default fixed location for your weather.
But with the kind of battery loss you described, something more than a widget is grabbing power. Make sure you are on auto brightness, btw.
I also use a program called system panel to see what all background services are running. For example, you would be surprised to see services for Google Talk, social apps, even some games running in the background. Then you can use titanium backup to freeze them or un install.
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I've been using Gsam, but what I see use up more resources than anything is the kernel I typically uninstall anything I do not use. Stuff sitting higher up are things like the Kernel, Android System, Camera, Wallpaper Lockscreen and Android Core Apps. That's everything that goes 1% or higher. Everything is under 10%.
And, surprisingly, wake times aren't that high. Typically, screen on time is about equal to the awake time, so all seems well on that end.
I think removing and re-installing apps that were using excessive amounts of energy has probably done the trick, though.
What tuner app do you use?
You might just try running Intellidemand with no underclocking and see how that works for you.
The problem with underclocking is, if you don't give an app enough juice it will take longer to complete a task and the cpu will run longer.
Look closely at your deep sleep times. I barely lose any battery overnight bc I run Wheatley underclocked to 1242 for screen off only.
Glad removing the apps helped some, those buggers.
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I think I'm in a better area now.
I'm using setCPU (always has been reliable for me in the past). I'm running 385-1512 with dancedance and noop. I think this is where I need to be. It's kind I'd feeling like it used to again.
I'm going to try Funky 2.3 now.
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Screen On time is not that great for 8 pct battery left. But it could have been bc you were listening to music for part of that time. Otherwise your screen shot looks normal, good total life.
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I'm getting pretty crazy battery reports using the newest funky kernel for cm10. I could have the phone off charger for hours and it still reports 100% battery. Granted I wasn't using the phone that much, if at all,but to still see 100% battery after that long even idling is weird. Using dancrdance governer with deadline scheduler. It doesn't take much tho to get my battery draining. After about 4-6 hours of use (playing music, games, looking on forums and such) I'm down to about 25% or less. Any suggestions?
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Oooooh, yes. I listen to a lot of music during the day. That day, though, was while listening to less than usual. My deal is going screen on and watching the battery drain 2-4 percent in a 2-5 minute time frame. I understand that the screen is heavy on the battery, but it's never really been like this before. I'm sure I'll have this figured out sometime soon.
What kernel are you on? You might look into undervolting. For example, funky kernel is undervolted by 50 by default. Ermahgerd isn't undervolted by default but supports it. You can safely go down as many as 75-100 without stability issues. It does dramatically reduce battery drain.
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I'm using the Tonked world edition with the kernel that came with it and I get great battery life. About 34 hours with 6+ hours of talk time and just under 4 hours of screen time with Bluetooth wifi and mobile data (4g turned off) always on. And almost 3 days with light use. Does help to have the HTC extended battery.
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I'm using the Tonked world edition with the kernel that came with it and I get great battery life.
Does help to have the HTC extended battery.
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It's been a while since I last used 3.6, but why not. And yeah, I bet it does. They're just getting harder to find and more expensive.
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I'm on funky 2.3. I understand that underclocking can help a lot, though.
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What do you guys think about this battery stat pic? Is this good? I've been running Bluetooth while streaming Pandora almost non stop at work. Stats are from about 11:30am to now, at 4:15pm here. Phone on time is different because I was also messing with settings that required me to reboot a few times.
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I am quoting Neo, but here are extreme settings for maximum battery life.
A little something I suggested to someone earlier on the fly:
*Don't use auto brightness and keep your screen brightness low but not too low that causes you to strain.
*Undervolt all frequencies by -50mv using kernel tuner.
*Underclock the rom to 1,080mhz
*Change I/O scheduler to noop
*Change governor to Lionheart (if you have it) or DanceDance.
*Disable all haptic feedback including soft keys and keyboard
*Disable data or account sync overnight (unless you plug your phone into a charger over night)
*Enable 16-bit transparency
*Disable dithering
*Disable HW overlays
*Disable all animations
*Ensure GPS, WiFi, and Bluetooth are turned off when not in use
*Use WiFi where available instead of 4G
*Disable weather refreshing and leave it to manual refresh
*Disable wallpaper scrolling and animations if possible in the launcher
That's all I can think of at the moment.
-Neo
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Again, all the credit goes to Neo here, I have used these settings and they seem to help quite a bit
Since you have tested these settings provided by Neo, what is your battery life like? Better then what I have shown above?
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Drop your screen off profiles. They will hurt more than help. I already have max screen off cpu clock in place set to 432mhz.
After doing a complete wipe install of mean bean, my battery is still draining about 2%/minute. Now, I realize there is more than likely some other issue, that installing mean bean uncovered or removed the block before.
Questions;
1) is it normal for the screen to be using 60% of the battery power?
2) Is there actually an app that controls the battery usage, and truly kills apps?
- I have tested several, with no noticeable difference in power usage.
Thanks for any advice, for a somewhat novice rooter.
yup
The 60 normal if screens been on a lot. The 2% deal sounds whacked. Have u gone into settings/apps/running to see whats running?
Fixed, I think
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The 60 normal if screens been on a lot. The 2% deal sounds whacked. Have u gone into settings/apps/running to see whats running?
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I'm not sure what I changed, I limited the processes to only 4 running, that might have helped. The battery still drains faster than before when the screen is on, but not as it was before. I am giving "Easy Battery Saver" a try see if that tells me anything useful, it at least keeps the settings that are applied. With any luck it will keep working until I break it again, lol.
Greenify and juice defender
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Seems like you get bad signal
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I was having bad drain issues and read some post about location tracking with Google maps. I disabled that and my battery life on MB 3.09 is back to normal which is great.
Funny thing is this happened seemly out of no where but I think there was a recent update to maps. My location tracking has always been on and never seemed to affect battery life before. Go figure.
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